Apache Spark Job Trends in the East of England

Apache Spark
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Apache Spark skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 171 193
Rank change year-on-year +20 +22 +2
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 4 3 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.085% 0.090% 0.089%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.03% 1.00% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £81,250 -
England median annual salary £85,000 £92,500 £81,250
% change year-on-year -8.11% +13.85% -4.41%

All Application Platform Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 197 299 434
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 4.18% 8.96% 9.69%
Number of salaries quoted 161 170 379
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,475 £24,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £26,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £37,500 £35,640
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +5.22% -24.97%
75th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £63,377
England median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Apache Spark job vacancy trend in the East of England

Apache Spark
Salary Trend in the East of England

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Apache Spark

Apache Spark
Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 15 February 2026. 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
Hertfordshire - 3 - - 1
Essex - 1 - -
Apache Spark
England

Apache Spark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Synapse
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Snowflake
2 1 (25.00%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Big Data
2 3 (75.00%) Hadoop
2 3 (75.00%) Tableau
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (25.00%) BigQuery
3 1 (25.00%) Data Mining
3 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Data Science Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Matplotlib
1 3 (75.00%) NumPy
1 3 (75.00%) Pandas
1 3 (75.00%) PyTorch
1 3 (75.00%) scikit-learn
1 3 (75.00%) Seaborn
1 3 (75.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (25.00%) Apache Beam
2 1 (25.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Analytics
1 4 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 3 (75.00%) AI
2 3 (75.00%) Data Analysis
2 3 (75.00%) Data Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) Data Munging
2 3 (75.00%) Data Science
2 3 (75.00%) Generative AI
2 3 (75.00%) LLM
2 3 (75.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (75.00%) Predictive Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) Statistical Modelling
3 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (50.00%) Feature Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Reinforcement Learning
3 2 (50.00%) Time Series Forecasting
4 1 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
1 3 (75.00%) R
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks