Apache Spark Job Trends in the Midlands

Apache Spark
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Apache Spark skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 201 257 219
Rank change year-on-year +56 -38 +87
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 14 8 12
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.25% 0.090% 0.24%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.78% 1.54% 2.59%
Number of salaries quoted 4 7 11
10th Percentile £44,250 £46,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £55,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -17.86% -6.67%
75th Percentile £75,938 £67,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £88,875 £73,800 -
England median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £79,632
% change year-on-year - +0.46% -0.46%

All Application Platform Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 370 520 463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 6.62% 5.86% 9.19%
Number of salaries quoted 266 290 393
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,675 £26,300
25th Percentile £31,500 £32,500 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £43,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -12.24% +3.70%
75th Percentile £63,175 £57,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £68,150 £74,900
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 Midlands

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

Apache Spark job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Apache Spark
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Apache Spark.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Apache Spark

Apache Spark
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Apache Spark in the Midlands over the 6 months to 6 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Apache Spark in the Midlands

Apache Spark
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Apache Spark within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 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
East Midlands +27 9 £73,750 +47.50% 6
West Midlands +55 5 £55,000 -13.73% 7
Apache Spark
England

Apache Spark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (14.29%) SAS
2 1 (7.14%) Apache
2 1 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 10 (71.43%) AWS
2 7 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 6 (42.86%) Amazon EKS
3 6 (42.86%) Amazon ELB
4 4 (28.57%) Azure
4 4 (28.57%) GitHub
5 3 (21.43%) Power Platform
6 1 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (7.14%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (7.14%) GCP
6 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (50.00%) DynamoDB
1 7 (50.00%) Metadata
1 7 (50.00%) Spark SQL
2 6 (42.86%) Delta Lake
3 4 (28.57%) Big Data
4 3 (21.43%) Power BI
5 2 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (14.29%) Electronic Patient Records
5 2 (14.29%) Hadoop
6 1 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (7.14%) Apache Hive
6 1 (7.14%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (7.14%) HBase
6 1 (7.14%) Impala
6 1 (7.14%) Neo4j
6 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
6 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (7.14%) QlikView
6 1 (7.14%) SQLite
6 1 (7.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) MLflow
2 1 (7.14%) Git
General
1 10 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Law
3 2 (14.29%) Finance
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Machine Learning Engineer
1 6 (42.86%) Operations Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Data Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Data Scientist
4 1 (7.14%) Architect
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Data Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Data Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Data Science Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Data Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (71.43%) PySpark
2 7 (50.00%) PyTorch
2 7 (50.00%) TensorFlow
3 6 (42.86%) Keras
3 6 (42.86%) Lambda Expressions
3 6 (42.86%) Metaflow
3 6 (42.86%) NumPy
3 6 (42.86%) Pandas
3 6 (42.86%) scikit-learn
3 6 (42.86%) YAML
4 1 (7.14%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (7.14%) Kafka
4 1 (7.14%) Plotly
4 1 (7.14%) Regular Expression
4 1 (7.14%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (7.14%) e-Learning
2 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 10 (71.43%) AI
2 10 (71.43%) Data Science
3 9 (64.29%) Visualisation
4 8 (57.14%) CI/CD
5 7 (50.00%) Containerisation
5 7 (50.00%) Time Management
5 7 (50.00%) Unit Testing
6 6 (42.86%) Deployment Automation
6 6 (42.86%) Information Security
6 6 (42.86%) Metadata Management
6 6 (42.86%) MLOps
6 6 (42.86%) OO
6 6 (42.86%) OOP
6 6 (42.86%) OWASP
7 4 (28.57%) Data Analysis
7 4 (28.57%) Data Engineering
8 3 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (21.43%) Computer Science
8 3 (21.43%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (92.86%) Python
1 13 (92.86%) SQL
2 3 (21.43%) R
3 2 (14.29%) Java
4 1 (7.14%) Bash
4 1 (7.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (7.14%) PROC SQL
4 1 (7.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) Master's Degree
2 2 (14.29%) PhD
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
3 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
1 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 7 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (7.14%) Apache Flume
2 1 (7.14%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 7 (50.00%) Terraform
2 6 (42.86%) Kubeflow
2 6 (42.86%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.14%) Kibana
3 1 (7.14%) logstash
3 1 (7.14%) Oozie
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) Databricks
2 2 (14.29%) Informatica
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) MicroStrategy
3 1 (7.14%) SAP