Apache Spark Job Trends in Manchester

Apache Spark
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Apache Spark skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 144 131
Rank change year-on-year +21 -13 +95
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 9 12 20
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.31% 0.45% 0.79%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.09% 4.63% 11.17%
Number of salaries quoted 3 8 19
10th Percentile £51,200 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £52,625 £44,375 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -28.00% +6.84%
75th Percentile £77,125 £58,125 £80,885
90th Percentile £89,350 £70,875 £84,056
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year +10.00% -28.00% +15.75%

All Application Platform Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 127 259 179
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 4.35% 9.71% 7.08%
Number of salaries quoted 99 138 160
10th Percentile £31,200 £31,625 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% -1.89% +6.00%
75th Percentile £69,756 £66,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,750 £76,625 £82,699
North West median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Apache Spark job vacancy trend in Manchester

Apache Spark
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Apache Spark.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Apache Spark

Apache Spark
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Apache Spark in Manchester over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Apache Spark in Manchester

Apache Spark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 (55.56%) Apache
2 1 (11.11%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) AWS
1 7 (77.78%) Azure
2 6 (66.67%) GCP
3 5 (55.56%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (55.56%) Serverless
4 3 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (33.33%) OpenShift
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (11.11%) Collibra
5 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) AMQP
2 1 (11.11%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (77.78%) Big Data
2 6 (66.67%) Hadoop
3 3 (33.33%) Cloudera CDH
4 2 (22.22%) Data Lake
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (11.11%) Data Mining
5 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (11.11%) Metadata
5 1 (11.11%) Power BI
5 1 (11.11%) Tableau
General
1 4 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Aerospace
2 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Software Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Data Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Data Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Data Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) REST
2 3 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 3 (33.33%) gRPC
2 3 (33.33%) Material-UI
2 3 (33.33%) Node.js
2 3 (33.33%) OpenAPI
2 3 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (33.33%) React
2 3 (33.33%) Spring
2 3 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 3 (33.33%) Swagger
3 1 (11.11%) Kafka
3 1 (11.11%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (11.11%) Credit Risk
3 1 (11.11%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (11.11%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) CentOS
1 3 (33.33%) Debian
1 3 (33.33%) Linux
1 3 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (33.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Agile
1 6 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 5 (55.56%) Scrum
3 4 (44.44%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (44.44%) Microservices
4 3 (33.33%) AI
4 3 (33.33%) Analytics
4 3 (33.33%) API Development
4 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 3 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
4 3 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 3 (33.33%) Configuration Management
4 3 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 3 (33.33%) Data Engineering
4 3 (33.33%) ETL
4 3 (33.33%) Kanban
4 3 (33.33%) Open Source
4 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Python
2 6 (66.67%) Java
3 5 (55.56%) SQL
4 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 3 (33.33%) Scala
5 1 (11.11%) MATLAB
5 1 (11.11%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
1 3 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
3 1 (11.11%) MBA
3 1 (11.11%) PhD
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Terraform
2 3 (33.33%) Ansible
2 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (33.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Google
1 3 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 3 (33.33%) SaltStack
2 1 (11.11%) Databricks
2 1 (11.11%) Informatica
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft