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 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 170 168
Rank change year-on-year -30 -2 -18
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 5 5 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.063% 0.15% 0.18%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.24% 1.94% 2.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 6
10th Percentile - - £75,625
25th Percentile - £69,750 £94,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £71,500 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.89% -35.00% +4.76%
75th Percentile - £73,250 £116,875
90th Percentile - - £128,750
England median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% -

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 404 258 324
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 5.10% 7.57% 7.31%
Number of salaries quoted 304 213 221
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +5.56% -5.68%
75th Percentile £55,156 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £75,000 £68,750
England median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% -5.26% -0.87%

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 13 September 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 -20 4 - -
Cambridgeshire -32 1 £80,000 - 5
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 5 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) GCP
2 4 (80.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 4 (80.00%) dbt
2 4 (80.00%) Power Platform
2 4 (80.00%) Snowflake
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (20.00%) Copilot Studio
3 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 4 (80.00%) BigQuery
1 4 (80.00%) Data Lake
1 4 (80.00%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (80.00%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (80.00%) Looker
1 4 (80.00%) Milvus
1 4 (80.00%) Power BI
1 4 (80.00%) Snowflake Schema
1 4 (80.00%) Tableau
2 1 (20.00%) Big Data
2 1 (20.00%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (20.00%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) MLflow
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Senior
1 4 (80.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Kafka
1 4 (80.00%) LangChain
1 4 (80.00%) LlamaIndex
1 4 (80.00%) pgvector
1 4 (80.00%) PyTorch
1 4 (80.00%) scikit-learn
1 4 (80.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (20.00%) PySpark
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Cloud Native
1 4 (80.00%) Clustering
1 4 (80.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) AI
1 5 (100.00%) Analytics
1 5 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 5 (100.00%) Lakehouse
1 5 (100.00%) Use Case
2 4 (80.00%) Data Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (80.00%) Data Science
2 4 (80.00%) Dimensional Modelling
2 4 (80.00%) Feature Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Knowledge Management
2 4 (80.00%) Machine Learning
2 4 (80.00%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (80.00%) Presales
2 4 (80.00%) Prompt Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) RBAC
2 4 (80.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 4 (80.00%) Semantic Search
2 4 (80.00%) Storytelling
2 4 (80.00%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) Scala
2 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 4 (80.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Databricks
2 4 (80.00%) Cloudera
2 4 (80.00%) Dell