Apache Spark Job Trends in the North of England

Apache Spark
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England 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 303 271 285
Rank change year-on-year -32 +14 -12
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 51 28 37
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.22% 0.30% 0.26%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.10% 5.51% 4.20%
Number of salaries quoted 33 21 26
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 -
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,000 £44,738
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +17.07% -31.67%
75th Percentile £71,235 £77,500 £63,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £68,125
England median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% -

All Application Platform Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 836 508 880
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.56% 5.40% 6.22%
Number of salaries quoted 649 353 526
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,250 £28,498
25th Percentile £34,750 £31,200 £33,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £41,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.85% -13.68% +5.56%
75th Percentile £65,640 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £71,991
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 North of England

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

Apache Spark job vacancy trend in the North of England

Apache Spark
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Apache Spark

Apache Spark
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Apache Spark in the North of England over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Apache Spark in the North of England

Apache Spark
Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England 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
North East -42 23 £55,000 +15.79% 9
North West -3 18 £55,000 -31.25% 23
Yorkshire -50 10 £80,000 +33.33% 5
Apache Spark
England

Apache Spark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 29 (56.86%) Apache
2 16 (31.37%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (25.49%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 43 (84.31%) AWS
2 25 (49.02%) Azure
3 16 (31.37%) Amazon S3
3 16 (31.37%) GCP
4 14 (27.45%) Amazon EMR
5 13 (25.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 13 (25.49%) Amazon EC2
5 13 (25.49%) Amazon ECR
6 9 (17.65%) Textract
7 6 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (11.76%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (11.76%) Power Platform
7 6 (11.76%) Serverless
8 3 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (5.88%) OpenShift
8 3 (5.88%) Snowflake
9 2 (3.92%) Amazon MSK
9 2 (3.92%) GitHub
9 2 (3.92%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.88%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (29.41%) Big Data
2 13 (25.49%) Amazon Athena
3 11 (21.57%) DynamoDB
4 7 (13.73%) Data Lake
4 7 (13.73%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (13.73%) Hadoop
5 6 (11.76%) Flink
5 6 (11.76%) Power BI
6 5 (9.80%) SQL Server
7 4 (7.84%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (7.84%) Spark SQL
8 3 (5.88%) BigQuery
8 3 (5.88%) Cloudera CDH
8 3 (5.88%) Tableau
9 2 (3.92%) Delta Lake
9 2 (3.92%) Metadata
10 1 (1.96%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (1.96%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (1.96%) Looker
10 1 (1.96%) Milvus
Development Applications
1 13 (25.49%) GitLab
2 6 (11.76%) Git
3 1 (1.96%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.96%) MLflow
General
1 14 (27.45%) Analytical Skills
1 14 (27.45%) Public Sector
2 11 (21.57%) Social Skills
3 10 (19.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (17.65%) Law
5 5 (9.80%) Legal
6 3 (5.88%) Aerospace
6 3 (5.88%) Games
6 3 (5.88%) Retail
7 2 (3.92%) Finance
7 2 (3.92%) Local Government
8 1 (1.96%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 29 (56.86%) Data Engineer
2 10 (19.61%) Lead
2 10 (19.61%) Senior
3 9 (17.65%) Databricks Data Engineer
3 9 (17.65%) Databricks Engineer
4 7 (13.73%) AWS DevOps
5 6 (11.76%) Senior Data Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) Lead Data Engineer
7 4 (7.84%) Lead Test Engineer
7 4 (7.84%) Test Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) Software Engineer
9 2 (3.92%) Azure Data Engineer
9 2 (3.92%) Azure Engineer
9 2 (3.92%) Developer
9 2 (3.92%) Software Developer
10 1 (1.96%) Analyst
10 1 (1.96%) Architect
10 1 (1.96%) Solutions Architect
10 1 (1.96%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (39.22%) PySpark
2 18 (35.29%) Terraform
3 14 (27.45%) Kafka
4 3 (5.88%) AngularJS
4 3 (5.88%) gRPC
4 3 (5.88%) Material-UI
4 3 (5.88%) Node.js
4 3 (5.88%) OpenAPI
4 3 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (5.88%) React
4 3 (5.88%) REST
4 3 (5.88%) Spring
4 3 (5.88%) Spring Boot
4 3 (5.88%) Swagger
5 2 (3.92%) JSON
6 1 (1.96%) LangChain
6 1 (1.96%) LlamaIndex
6 1 (1.96%) Pandas
6 1 (1.96%) pgvector
6 1 (1.96%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 13 (25.49%) Data Structures
2 9 (17.65%) Cloud Native
3 7 (13.73%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (7.84%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (5.88%) Public Cloud
6 2 (3.92%) Blog
6 2 (3.92%) NHS
6 2 (3.92%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.96%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.96%) Clustering
7 1 (1.96%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.96%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.88%) CentOS
1 3 (5.88%) Debian
1 3 (5.88%) Linux
1 3 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (5.88%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (84.31%) Data Pipeline
2 37 (72.55%) Data Engineering
3 26 (50.98%) CI/CD
4 25 (49.02%) Analytics
4 25 (49.02%) Infrastructure as Code
5 23 (45.10%) Data Modelling
6 22 (43.14%) Agile
6 22 (43.14%) DevOps
7 21 (41.18%) Validation
8 20 (39.22%) Containerisation
8 20 (39.22%) Mentoring
9 18 (35.29%) Workflow
10 17 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
11 16 (31.37%) Coaching
11 16 (31.37%) Test Automation
12 15 (29.41%) ETL
12 15 (29.41%) Lakehouse
13 13 (25.49%) Decision-Making
14 12 (23.53%) Data Analysis
14 12 (23.53%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 46 (90.20%) Python
2 38 (74.51%) SQL
3 15 (29.41%) Java
4 11 (21.57%) Scala
5 4 (7.84%) Bash
6 3 (5.88%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.96%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 30 (58.82%) Security Cleared
2 25 (49.02%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.88%) DBS Check
3 3 (5.88%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.92%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.92%) Degree
5 1 (1.96%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.96%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (54.90%) Data Quality
2 7 (13.73%) QA
3 1 (1.96%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (1.96%) GDPR
System Software
1 17 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (9.80%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.88%) Ansible
2 3 (5.88%) Puppet
Vendors
1 21 (41.18%) Databricks
2 4 (7.84%) Google
3 3 (5.88%) Informatica
3 3 (5.88%) Red Hat
3 3 (5.88%) SaltStack
4 2 (3.92%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.96%) Dell
5 1 (1.96%) Splunk