Apache Spark Job Trends in the East Midlands

Apache Spark
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Apache Spark skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 146 120
Rank change year-on-year +10 -26 +40
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 9 7 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.39% 0.20% 0.18%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.29% 3.45% 2.29%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile £55,375 - £48,500
25th Percentile £61,563 £47,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £50,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +47.50% -23.08% -13.33%
75th Percentile £86,563 £58,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,125 £62,500 £75,500
England median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £79,632
% change year-on-year +6.25% +0.46% -0.46%

All Application Platform Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 170 203 131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 7.37% 5.76% 7.90%
Number of salaries quoted 106 104 100
10th Percentile £25,375 £26,325 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,750 £31,000 £31,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £35,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £48,438 £47,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £68,125 £52,500 £67,625
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Apache Spark job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Apache Spark
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Apache Spark.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Apache Spark

Apache Spark
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Apache Spark in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 23 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Apache Spark in the East Midlands

Apache Spark
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Apache Spark within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 23 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leicestershire +25 5 £73,750 +13.46%
Nottinghamshire +7 1 - - 1
Derbyshire -9 1 - -
Lincolnshire - 1 - -
Northamptonshire - 1 - -
Apache Spark
England

Apache Spark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) Amazon EKS
2 4 (44.44%) Amazon ELB
2 4 (44.44%) Amazon S3
3 2 (22.22%) Azure
3 2 (22.22%) GitHub
4 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) DynamoDB
2 4 (44.44%) Delta Lake
2 4 (44.44%) Metadata
2 4 (44.44%) Spark SQL
3 2 (22.22%) Big Data
3 2 (22.22%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (11.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) MLflow
General
1 7 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Machine Learning Engineer
1 4 (44.44%) Operations Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Data Scientist
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Data Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Data Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Data Science Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) PySpark
2 4 (44.44%) Keras
2 4 (44.44%) Lambda Expressions
2 4 (44.44%) Metaflow
2 4 (44.44%) NumPy
2 4 (44.44%) Pandas
2 4 (44.44%) PyTorch
2 4 (44.44%) scikit-learn
2 4 (44.44%) TensorFlow
2 4 (44.44%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (11.11%) e-Learning
2 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 7 (77.78%) AI
2 7 (77.78%) Data Science
3 6 (66.67%) Visualisation
4 5 (55.56%) Time Management
5 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
5 4 (44.44%) Containerisation
5 4 (44.44%) Deployment Automation
5 4 (44.44%) Information Security
5 4 (44.44%) Metadata Management
5 4 (44.44%) MLOps
5 4 (44.44%) OO
5 4 (44.44%) OOP
5 4 (44.44%) OWASP
5 4 (44.44%) Unit Testing
6 3 (33.33%) Data Analysis
6 3 (33.33%) Data Management
7 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
7 2 (22.22%) Statistical Modelling
7 2 (22.22%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Python
1 8 (88.89%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) R
3 1 (11.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
1 2 (22.22%) Master's Degree
1 2 (22.22%) PhD
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Kubeflow
1 4 (44.44%) Kubernetes
1 4 (44.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Databricks