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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 215 266 232
Rank change year-on-year +51 -34 +64
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 17 17 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.30% 0.17% 0.25%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.53% 2.84% 2.66%
Number of salaries quoted 8 9 13
10th Percentile £48,250 £47,000 £53,400
25th Percentile £51,625 £47,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% -7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £70,938 £79,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £83,500 £80,600 -
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -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 481 599 527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 8.58% 5.93% 9.32%
Number of salaries quoted 336 342 433
10th Percentile £26,875 £26,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £49,565
Median % change year-on-year - -14.25% +5.46%
75th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £62,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £68,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £54,285 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.59% - +4.55%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Apache Spark as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Apache Spark 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 10 £75,000 +50.00% 1
West Midlands +47 7 £60,500 -15.38% 2
Apache Spark
England

Apache Spark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.76%) Apache
1 2 (11.76%) SAS
2 1 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 11 (64.71%) AWS
2 7 (41.18%) Amazon S3
3 6 (35.29%) Amazon EKS
3 6 (35.29%) Amazon ELB
3 6 (35.29%) Azure
4 5 (29.41%) Power Platform
5 4 (23.53%) GitHub
6 2 (11.76%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (11.76%) GCP
7 1 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (5.88%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (5.88%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (41.18%) DynamoDB
1 7 (41.18%) Metadata
1 7 (41.18%) Spark SQL
2 6 (35.29%) Delta Lake
3 5 (29.41%) Big Data
3 5 (29.41%) Power BI
4 4 (23.53%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (17.65%) Hadoop
6 2 (11.76%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (11.76%) Tableau
7 1 (5.88%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (5.88%) Apache Hive
7 1 (5.88%) Data Lake
7 1 (5.88%) HBase
7 1 (5.88%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (5.88%) MySQL
7 1 (5.88%) Neo4j
7 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
7 1 (5.88%) Qlik Sense
7 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (35.29%) MLflow
2 1 (5.88%) Git
General
1 11 (64.71%) Social Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Law
4 1 (5.88%) Finance
4 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Machine Learning Engineer
1 6 (35.29%) Operations Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Data Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Data Scientist
4 2 (11.76%) Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Data Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Data Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Data Science Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Senior
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Data Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (64.71%) PySpark
2 8 (47.06%) PyTorch
2 8 (47.06%) TensorFlow
3 7 (41.18%) scikit-learn
4 6 (35.29%) Keras
4 6 (35.29%) Lambda Expressions
4 6 (35.29%) Metaflow
4 6 (35.29%) NumPy
4 6 (35.29%) Pandas
4 6 (35.29%) YAML
5 1 (5.88%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (5.88%) Kafka
5 1 (5.88%) Plotly
5 1 (5.88%) Regular Expression
5 1 (5.88%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (5.88%) e-Learning
2 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (41.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (88.24%) Machine Learning
2 12 (70.59%) Artificial Intelligence
2 12 (70.59%) Data Science
3 11 (64.71%) Visualisation
4 8 (47.06%) Time Management
5 7 (41.18%) CI/CD
5 7 (41.18%) Containerisation
5 7 (41.18%) MLOps
5 7 (41.18%) Unit Testing
6 6 (35.29%) Deployment Automation
6 6 (35.29%) Information Security
6 6 (35.29%) Metadata Management
6 6 (35.29%) OO
6 6 (35.29%) OOP
6 6 (35.29%) OWASP
7 5 (29.41%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (23.53%) Data Analysis
8 4 (23.53%) Data Engineering
8 4 (23.53%) Data Modelling
8 4 (23.53%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 16 (94.12%) Python
1 16 (94.12%) SQL
2 4 (23.53%) R
3 3 (17.65%) Java
4 1 (5.88%) Bash
4 1 (5.88%) PROC SQL
4 1 (5.88%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
1 2 (11.76%) Master's Degree
1 2 (11.76%) PhD
2 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 7 (41.18%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) Apache Flume
2 1 (5.88%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 7 (41.18%) Terraform
2 6 (35.29%) Kubeflow
2 6 (35.29%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.88%) Kibana
3 1 (5.88%) logstash
3 1 (5.88%) Oozie
Vendors
1 11 (64.71%) Databricks
2 2 (11.76%) Informatica
3 1 (5.88%) Google
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.88%) MicroStrategy
3 1 (5.88%) SAP