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 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 276 208 271
Rank change year-on-year -68 +63 -40
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 5 17 17
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.033% 0.30% 0.17%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.11% 3.54% 2.85%
Number of salaries quoted 3 8 9
10th Percentile £48,450 £48,250 £47,000
25th Percentile £49,875 £51,625 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £64,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.84% -1.54% -7.14%
75th Percentile £63,992 £70,938 £79,500
90th Percentile £68,338 £83,500 £80,600
England median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% -

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 450 480 597
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.95% 8.49% 5.95%
Number of salaries quoted 335 336 357
10th Percentile £30,500 £26,625 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,188 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% - -14.25%
75th Percentile £62,500 £59,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £68,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% -5.26% -0.87%

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 13 September 2026.

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 13 September 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
West Midlands -42 4 £60,653 +0.25% 2
East Midlands -42 1 £50,000 -33.33% 2
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 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon EMR
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (20.00%) Big Data
1 1 (20.00%) Electronic Patient Records
1 1 (20.00%) Spark SQL
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Law
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Databricks Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Databricks Data Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Optimisation Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Databricks Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) PySpark
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Analytics
1 3 (60.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) AI
2 2 (40.00%) Coaching
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (40.00%) ETL
2 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (40.00%) Use Case
2 2 (40.00%) Workflow
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Data Science
3 1 (20.00%) Generative AI
3 1 (20.00%) MLOps
3 1 (20.00%) Observability
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) Informatica