Apache Spark Job Trends in the North East

Apache Spark
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Apache Spark skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 64 97
Rank change year-on-year -46 +33 -23
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 22 6 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 0.74% 0.66% 0.20%
As % of the Application Platforms category 17.89% 12.00% 2.34%
Number of salaries quoted 18 5 3
10th Percentile - £43,250 -
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £44,738
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £49,274
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -3.60% -10.41%
75th Percentile £58,750 £93,750 £69,405
90th Percentile £72,125 £94,500 £78,762
England median annual salary £80,000 £72,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.48%

All Application Platform Skills
North East

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 North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 123 50 128
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 4.11% 5.53% 8.63%
Number of salaries quoted 95 41 84
10th Percentile £33,750 £21,250 £26,625
25th Percentile £42,500 £28,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £32,000 £49,274
Median % change year-on-year +71.88% -35.06% +9.50%
75th Percentile £74,992 £43,750 £60,625
90th Percentile £100,750 £55,000 £71,991
England median annual salary £50,588 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.64% -4.55% -4.35%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Apache Spark job vacancy trend in the North East

Apache Spark
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Apache Spark.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Apache Spark

Apache Spark
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Apache Spark in the North East over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Apache Spark in the North East

Apache Spark
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Apache Spark within the North East region over the 6 months to 17 August 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
Tyne and Wear -45 22 £55,000 +15.79% 10
Apache Spark
England

Apache Spark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 14 (63.64%) Apache
2 13 (59.09%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (59.09%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 20 (90.91%) AWS
2 13 (59.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 13 (59.09%) Amazon EC2
2 13 (59.09%) Amazon ECR
2 13 (59.09%) Amazon EMR
2 13 (59.09%) Amazon S3
3 9 (40.91%) Textract
4 2 (9.09%) Azure
4 2 (9.09%) Snowflake
5 1 (4.55%) GCP
5 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (59.09%) Amazon Athena
2 11 (50.00%) DynamoDB
3 5 (22.73%) Big Data
3 5 (22.73%) Flink
4 3 (13.64%) Data Lake
5 2 (9.09%) Hadoop
6 1 (4.55%) BigQuery
6 1 (4.55%) Metadata
6 1 (4.55%) Power BI
6 1 (4.55%) Spark SQL
6 1 (4.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (59.09%) GitLab
2 3 (13.64%) Git
General
1 10 (45.45%) Analytical Skills
1 10 (45.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 9 (40.91%) Public Sector
3 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
4 3 (13.64%) Legal
5 1 (4.55%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Data Engineer
2 7 (31.82%) AWS DevOps
3 5 (22.73%) Lead
4 4 (18.18%) Lead Test Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) Test Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Software Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Data Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Lead Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (59.09%) PySpark
2 5 (22.73%) Kafka
3 1 (4.55%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 9 (40.91%) Data Structures
2 6 (27.27%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (22.73%) Cloud Native
4 3 (13.64%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
6 1 (4.55%) Client/Server
6 1 (4.55%) Hedge funds
6 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
2 20 (90.91%) Data Engineering
3 17 (77.27%) CI/CD
3 17 (77.27%) Data Modelling
3 17 (77.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (72.73%) Agile
4 16 (72.73%) Containerisation
4 16 (72.73%) DevOps
5 14 (63.64%) Mentoring
6 13 (59.09%) Coaching
6 13 (59.09%) Validation
7 12 (54.55%) Technical Leadership
8 11 (50.00%) Test Automation
9 10 (45.45%) Data Analysis
10 9 (40.91%) Workflow
11 8 (36.36%) Customer Requirements
12 7 (31.82%) Dimensional Modelling
12 7 (31.82%) Infrastructure Automation
12 7 (31.82%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 6 (27.27%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 21 (95.45%) Python
2 17 (77.27%) SQL
3 9 (40.91%) Java
4 4 (18.18%) Bash
5 2 (9.09%) Scala
Qualifications
1 20 (90.91%) Security Cleared
2 17 (77.27%) SC Cleared
3 2 (9.09%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.55%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (68.18%) Data Quality
2 4 (18.18%) QA
System Software
1 14 (63.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (63.64%) Terraform
2 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Databricks
2 1 (4.55%) Cloudera
2 1 (4.55%) Splunk