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

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 209 236 210
Rank change year-on-year +27 -26 +82
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 9 9 6
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.12% 0.13% 0.13%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.55% 1.94% 1.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1 7 5
10th Percentile - £47,500 £45,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £50,625 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +12.15% -33.13%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile - £73,800 £73,500
England median annual salary £81,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +4.52% -3.13% -3.03%

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 353 465 436
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.55% 6.85% 9.68%
Number of salaries quoted 259 289 382
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,750 £27,825
25th Percentile £31,500 £32,500 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -15.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £60,000 £58,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £73,750
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 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
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 22 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
East Midlands -3 5 - - 10
West Midlands +36 4 £67,500 +3.85% 10
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 1 (11.11%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 8 (88.89%) AWS
2 7 (77.78%) Amazon S3
3 6 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
3 6 (66.67%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (11.11%) Azure
4 1 (11.11%) GitHub
4 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (77.78%) DynamoDB
2 6 (66.67%) Delta Lake
2 6 (66.67%) Metadata
2 6 (66.67%) Spark SQL
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (11.11%) Big Data
3 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
3 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (11.11%) Hadoop
3 1 (11.11%) Power BI
3 1 (11.11%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) MLflow
General
1 7 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Machine Learning Engineer
1 6 (66.67%) Operations Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Data Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Data Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (77.78%) PySpark
1 7 (77.78%) PyTorch
1 7 (77.78%) TensorFlow
2 6 (66.67%) Keras
2 6 (66.67%) Lambda Expressions
2 6 (66.67%) Metaflow
2 6 (66.67%) NumPy
2 6 (66.67%) Pandas
2 6 (66.67%) scikit-learn
2 6 (66.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 8 (88.89%) CI/CD
3 7 (77.78%) AI
3 7 (77.78%) Containerisation
4 6 (66.67%) Data Science
4 6 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
4 6 (66.67%) Information Security
4 6 (66.67%) Metadata Management
4 6 (66.67%) MLOps
4 6 (66.67%) OO
4 6 (66.67%) OOP
4 6 (66.67%) OWASP
4 6 (66.67%) Time Management
4 6 (66.67%) Unit Testing
4 6 (66.67%) Visualisation
5 2 (22.22%) Data Engineering
5 2 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (22.22%) DevOps
6 1 (11.11%) Data Strategy
6 1 (11.11%) Exploratory Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Python
2 8 (88.89%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (11.11%) Java
3 1 (11.11%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
System Software
1 7 (77.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (77.78%) Terraform
2 6 (66.67%) Kubeflow
2 6 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Databricks
2 1 (11.11%) Informatica
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft