Apache Spark Job Trends in Watford

Apache Spark
Hertfordshire > Watford

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Watford requiring Apache Spark skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 4 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Watford 1.57% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 19.05% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £70,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 - -
75th Percentile £80,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hertfordshire median annual salary £75,000 - -

All Application Platform Skills
Watford

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 Watford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 21 22 46
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Watford 8.24% 12.64% 17.83%
Number of salaries quoted 16 20 28
10th Percentile £34,750 - £24,706
25th Percentile £45,188 £36,250 £30,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £44,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +27.84% +17.33% -34.78%
75th Percentile £75,625 £54,688 £55,000
90th Percentile £81,875 £63,750 £63,250
Hertfordshire median annual salary £55,000 £48,750 £35,000
% change year-on-year +12.82% +39.29% -36.36%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in Watford

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

Apache Spark job vacancy trend in Watford

Apache Spark
Salary Trend in Watford

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing Apache Spark.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing Apache Spark

Apache Spark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Watford 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 4 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (75.00%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (50.00%) OpenShift
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Composer
4 1 (25.00%) Dagster
4 1 (25.00%) Datadog
4 1 (25.00%) dbt
4 1 (25.00%) GCP
4 1 (25.00%) GitHub
4 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Hive
1 2 (50.00%) Impala
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Database
1 2 (50.00%) Parquet
1 2 (50.00%) Spark SQL
1 2 (50.00%) Tableau
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (25.00%) Big Data
2 1 (25.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (25.00%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (25.00%) Metadata
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) IBM UrbanCode
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Games
3 1 (25.00%) Law
3 1 (25.00%) Legal
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Banking Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Transformation Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Data Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) PySpark
2 1 (25.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Anti-Piracy
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (25.00%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Analytics
1 4 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 4 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 4 (100.00%) ETL
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) AI
3 2 (50.00%) Data Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (50.00%) Data Transformation
3 2 (50.00%) Scrum
3 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (25.00%) Runbook
4 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) C++
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (25.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (25.00%) GDPR
2 1 (25.00%) HIPAA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat