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 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 66 116
Rank change year-on-year -36 +50 -24
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 4 2 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 0.19% 0.33% 0.053%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.27% 5.71% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £55,375 £49,750 -
25th Percentile £55,938 £55,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £67,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £64,063 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £73,625 £89,250 -
England median annual salary £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - +6.25% -8.57%

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 55 35 217
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 2.65% 5.73% 11.52%
Number of salaries quoted 50 29 178
10th Percentile £29,750 £21,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £24,500 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £33,198 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year +61.91% -28.22% +2.78%
75th Percentile £71,250 £55,000 £65,750
90th Percentile £84,788 £85,000 £75,772
England median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -13.04%

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 19 May 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 19 May 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 -34 4 £57,500 -14.81% 16
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 1 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (25.00%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECR
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EMR
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Big Data
1 2 (50.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (25.00%) Metadata
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) Spark SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 4 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (75.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (75.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Lead
1 2 (50.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Data Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Coaching
2 3 (75.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (50.00%) ETL
3 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
3 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (25.00%) Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Functional Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) SFIA
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) Python
3 2 (50.00%) Scala
4 1 (25.00%) Bash
4 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Cloudera
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk