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 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 166 222
Rank change year-on-year +3 +56 -42
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 18 3 5
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.29% 0.10% 0.082%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.38% 1.22% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £70,625 -
25th Percentile £70,000 £73,438 £91,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £81,250 £101,250
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -19.75% +102.50%
75th Percentile £80,000 £88,438 £115,000
90th Percentile - £90,875 -
England median annual salary £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - +6.25% -8.57%

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 282 246 561
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 4.52% 8.25% 9.17%
Number of salaries quoted 202 184 483
10th Percentile £28,775 £27,500 £24,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £27,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,879 £43,750 £37,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.99% +18.24% -27.80%
75th Percentile £63,725 £58,875 £48,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £70,000 £61,250
England median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -12.89%

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 16 May 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 - 14 £75,000 -
Essex - 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 16 (88.89%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (50.00%) Apache
3 1 (5.56%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 3 (16.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 18 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (55.56%) GCP
3 9 (50.00%) Azure
4 8 (44.44%) Amazon S3
5 7 (38.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 7 (38.89%) dbt
5 7 (38.89%) OpenShift
5 7 (38.89%) Power Platform
5 7 (38.89%) Snowflake
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (5.56%) Cloud Composer
6 1 (5.56%) Dagster
6 1 (5.56%) Datadog
6 1 (5.56%) GitHub
6 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (5.56%) Serverless
6 1 (5.56%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (83.33%) Tableau
2 8 (44.44%) Amazon Redshift
2 8 (44.44%) BigQuery
3 7 (38.89%) Apache Hive
3 7 (38.89%) Impala
3 7 (38.89%) Oracle Database
3 7 (38.89%) Parquet
3 7 (38.89%) Power BI
3 7 (38.89%) Spark SQL
4 6 (33.33%) Data Lake
4 6 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (33.33%) Looker
4 6 (33.33%) Snowflake Schema
5 4 (22.22%) Big Data
6 2 (11.11%) Hadoop
7 1 (5.56%) Data Mining
7 1 (5.56%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (5.56%) Metadata
7 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (38.89%) Git
1 7 (38.89%) IBM UrbanCode
2 6 (33.33%) MLflow
3 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
4 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 12 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (44.44%) Finance
3 7 (38.89%) Banking
3 7 (38.89%) Investment Banking
4 4 (22.22%) Legal
5 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
6 1 (5.56%) Games
6 1 (5.56%) Law
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Analyst
1 7 (38.89%) Banking Analyst
1 7 (38.89%) Senior
1 7 (38.89%) Transformation Analyst
2 6 (33.33%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) Systems Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Technical Analyst
4 3 (16.67%) Business Analyst
4 3 (16.67%) Data Business Analyst
4 3 (16.67%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Data Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Data Science Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Data Architect
6 1 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (44.44%) Kafka
1 8 (44.44%) PyTorch
1 8 (44.44%) scikit-learn
1 8 (44.44%) TensorFlow
2 7 (38.89%) PySpark
3 6 (33.33%) LangChain
3 6 (33.33%) LlamaIndex
3 6 (33.33%) pgvector
4 5 (27.78%) Pandas
5 2 (11.11%) Matplotlib
5 2 (11.11%) NumPy
5 2 (11.11%) Seaborn
6 1 (5.56%) Apache Beam
Miscellaneous
1 7 (38.89%) Cloud Native
2 6 (33.33%) Clustering
2 6 (33.33%) Public Cloud
3 2 (11.11%) Algorithms
4 1 (5.56%) Anti-Piracy
4 1 (5.56%) Data Structures
4 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (5.56%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) Analytics
2 16 (88.89%) ETL
3 15 (83.33%) AI
3 15 (83.33%) Data Governance
3 15 (83.33%) Data Pipeline
4 12 (66.67%) Data Engineering
5 9 (50.00%) Data Modelling
5 9 (50.00%) Data Science
5 9 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
6 8 (44.44%) Agile
6 8 (44.44%) CI/CD
6 8 (44.44%) Feature Engineering
6 8 (44.44%) Generative AI
6 8 (44.44%) Machine Learning
7 7 (38.89%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (38.89%) Data Management
7 7 (38.89%) Data Transformation
7 7 (38.89%) Scrum
7 7 (38.89%) User Acceptance Testing
8 6 (33.33%) Knowledge Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (94.44%) Python
2 16 (88.89%) SQL
3 2 (11.11%) R
4 1 (5.56%) C++
4 1 (5.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (5.56%) Java
4 1 (5.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
1 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.56%) Degree
1 1 (5.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (55.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 10 (55.56%) GDPR
2 9 (50.00%) Data Quality
3 4 (22.22%) HIPAA
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Terraform
2 1 (5.56%) Grafana
2 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Databricks
1 7 (38.89%) Oracle
1 7 (38.89%) Red Hat
2 6 (33.33%) Cloudera
2 6 (33.33%) Dell