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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 88 69
Rank change year-on-year +15 -19 +32
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 5 3 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 0.54% 0.21% 0.15%
As % of the Application Platforms category 13.16% 3.19% 1.67%
Number of salaries quoted 4 3 1
10th Percentile £42,750 - -
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,738 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £49,274 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.60% -10.41% -35.29%
75th Percentile £60,313 £69,405 -
90th Percentile £81,125 £78,762 -
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% - -

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 38 94 60
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 4.09% 6.69% 8.90%
Number of salaries quoted 29 56 56
10th Percentile £27,700 £26,875 £32,500
25th Percentile £28,500 £32,938 £37,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,000 £49,274 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -35.06% +3.73% +18.75%
75th Percentile £37,500 £64,063 £60,625
90th Percentile £50,000 £71,991 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Apache Spark 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 15 September 2025.

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 15 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
Tyne and Wear +14 5 £47,500 -3.60%
Apache Spark
England

Apache Spark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 3 (60.00%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (60.00%) SAS
2 1 (20.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) GCP
2 3 (60.00%) GitHub
2 3 (60.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Metadata
1 4 (80.00%) Spark SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (60.00%) Apache Hive
2 3 (60.00%) Big Data
2 3 (60.00%) BigQuery
2 3 (60.00%) BusinessObjects
2 3 (60.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (60.00%) Hadoop
2 3 (60.00%) HBase
2 3 (60.00%) Metadata Repository
2 3 (60.00%) MySQL
2 3 (60.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (60.00%) Power BI
2 3 (60.00%) Qlik Sense
2 3 (60.00%) QlikView
2 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (60.00%) SQLite
2 3 (60.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) MLflow
General
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Advertising
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) PySpark
2 3 (60.00%) Apache NiFi
2 3 (60.00%) Kafka
2 3 (60.00%) Plotly
2 3 (60.00%) Regular Expression
2 3 (60.00%) Shiny
3 1 (20.00%) Keras
3 1 (20.00%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (20.00%) Metaflow
3 1 (20.00%) NumPy
3 1 (20.00%) Pandas
3 1 (20.00%) PyTorch
3 1 (20.00%) scikit-learn
3 1 (20.00%) TensorFlow
3 1 (20.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Data Pipeline
1 4 (80.00%) Data Science
1 4 (80.00%) Machine Learning
1 4 (80.00%) Unit Testing
1 4 (80.00%) Visualisation
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (60.00%) Coaching
2 3 (60.00%) Data Analysis
2 3 (60.00%) Data Development
2 3 (60.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (60.00%) Data Validation
2 3 (60.00%) ETL
2 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (60.00%) Operational Stability
2 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 3 (60.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Bash
2 3 (60.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) PROC SQL
2 3 (60.00%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (60.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (60.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Apache Flume
1 3 (60.00%) HDFS
2 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kibana
1 3 (60.00%) logstash
1 3 (60.00%) Oozie
2 1 (20.00%) Kubeflow
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Databricks
2 3 (60.00%) Informatica
2 3 (60.00%) MicroStrategy
2 3 (60.00%) SAP
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft