Apache Spark Job Trends in Birmingham

Apache Spark
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Apache Spark skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 129 -
Rank change year-on-year +22 - -
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 1 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.057% 0.055% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.12% 0.86% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £73,000 -
West Midlands median annual salary - £65,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +23.81% -32.26%

All Application Platform Skills
Birmingham

Apache Spark falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring application platform skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 89 116 157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 5.11% 6.43% 11.58%
Number of salaries quoted 57 70 148
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,950 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,500 £42,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £73,750 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £73,750 £77,500
West Midlands median annual salary £46,250 £53,300 £49,565
% change year-on-year -13.23% +7.54% +5.46%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Apache Spark relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Apache Spark job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Apache Spark
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Apache Spark.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Apache Spark

Apache Spark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Power Query
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft