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 1 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 161 180 130
Rank change year-on-year +19 -50 +89
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 5 5 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.15% 0.12% 0.14%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.81% 1.56% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile - £70,500 -
25th Percentile £69,750 £86,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £115,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -37.83% - -
75th Percentile £73,250 £128,750 -
90th Percentile - £135,500 -
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 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 277 320 230
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 8.46% 7.60% 10.76%
Number of salaries quoted 239 179 185
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,500 £26,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £30,000 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £58,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £67,750 £84,500
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 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 1 November 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 +16 3 £71,500 -41.63%
Suffolk -15 1 - -
Cambridgeshire - 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 2 (40.00%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (40.00%) Appian
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (80.00%) Amazon S3
3 3 (60.00%) Azure
4 2 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (40.00%) Amazon ELB
4 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (40.00%) MinIO
4 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (20.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Delta Lake
1 2 (40.00%) DynamoDB
1 2 (40.00%) Metadata
1 2 (40.00%) Spark SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Big Data
2 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (20.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) MLflow
1 2 (40.00%) Robot Framework
1 2 (40.00%) Selenium
1 2 (40.00%) Snyk
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Applications Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Science Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) NumPy
1 3 (60.00%) Pandas
1 3 (60.00%) PyTorch
1 3 (60.00%) scikit-learn
1 3 (60.00%) TensorFlow
2 2 (40.00%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (40.00%) Kafka
2 2 (40.00%) Keras
2 2 (40.00%) Lambda Expressions
2 2 (40.00%) Metaflow
2 2 (40.00%) PySpark
2 2 (40.00%) YAML
3 1 (20.00%) Matplotlib
3 1 (20.00%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (40.00%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (40.00%) Low-Code
2 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) OO
2 3 (60.00%) AI
2 3 (60.00%) Data Science
2 3 (60.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (60.00%) Visualisation
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Data Integration
3 2 (40.00%) Data Management
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Information Security
3 2 (40.00%) Metadata Management
3 2 (40.00%) OWASP
3 2 (40.00%) Security Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Time Management
3 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Use Case
3 2 (40.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 2 (40.00%) Ansible
2 2 (40.00%) Kubeflow
2 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) BiZZdesign
1 2 (40.00%) Black Duck
1 2 (40.00%) Databricks
1 2 (40.00%) UiPath
1 2 (40.00%) VMware