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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 178 129
Rank change year-on-year +26 -49 +58
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 4 5 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.097% 0.13% 0.21%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.75% 1.56% 1.92%
Number of salaries quoted 0 4 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £93,750 -
England median annual salary £81,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +4.52% -3.13% -1.23%

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 229 320 208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 5.57% 8.64% 11.03%
Number of salaries quoted 199 199 165
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,200 £26,425
25th Percentile £32,125 £30,000 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.18% +6.25% -15.79%
75th Percentile £62,500 £58,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £84,500
England median annual salary £50,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.17% +4.55% -

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 17 December 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
Hertfordshire +13 1 - - 2
Cambridgeshire +10 1 - -
Suffolk -17 1 - - 1
Essex - 1 - - 4
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
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon ELB
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Snowflake
3 1 (25.00%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Big Data
1 2 (50.00%) Delta Lake
1 2 (50.00%) DynamoDB
1 2 (50.00%) Metadata
1 2 (50.00%) Spark SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (25.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (25.00%) Data Mining
2 1 (25.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) MLflow
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Data Science Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
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%) TensorFlow
2 2 (50.00%) Keras
2 2 (50.00%) Lambda Expressions
2 2 (50.00%) Metaflow
2 2 (50.00%) PySpark
2 2 (50.00%) YAML
3 1 (25.00%) Apache Beam
3 1 (25.00%) Kafka
3 1 (25.00%) Matplotlib
3 1 (25.00%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (25.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 3 (75.00%) AI
2 3 (75.00%) Data Science
2 3 (75.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (50.00%) Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Information Security
3 2 (50.00%) Metadata Management
3 2 (50.00%) MLOps
3 2 (50.00%) OO
3 2 (50.00%) OOP
3 2 (50.00%) OWASP
3 2 (50.00%) Time Management
3 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Data Munging
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) R
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Kubeflow
2 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Databricks