Apache Spark Jobs in the West Midlands

Apache Spark
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Apache Spark skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Apache Spark over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 194 245 254
Rank change year-on-year +51 +9 +9
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 6 5 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.13% 0.069% 0.27%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.33% 0.69% 2.48%
Number of salaries quoted 4 5 13
10th Percentile £53,475 £65,600 -
25th Percentile £56,063 £66,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,250 £73,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.47% +4.29% +12.00%
75th Percentile £64,625 £79,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £67,100 £82,800 £91,400
England median annual salary £84,115 £80,000 £88,500
% change year-on-year +5.14% -9.60% +10.63%

All Application Platform Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 258 722 727
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 5.78% 9.97% 10.94%
Number of salaries quoted 187 590 399
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +1.06%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £60,375
90th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £79,200
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £56,125
% change year-on-year +10.00% -10.91% +2.05%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Apache Spark in the West Midlands

Apache Spark
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Apache Spark in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Apache Spark in the West Midlands

Apache Spark
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Apache Spark in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Apache Spark in the West Midlands

Apache Spark
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Apache Spark within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Coventry - 3 £60,000 - 3
Birmingham +37 2 £60,500 -17.12% 7
Apache Spark
England

Apache Spark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (50.00%) Apache
2 2 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) Big Data
1 5 (83.33%) Hadoop
2 4 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (50.00%) Power BI
3 3 (50.00%) Relational Database
4 2 (33.33%) RDBMS
5 1 (16.67%) Tableau
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Data Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Data Scientist
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) .NET
1 2 (33.33%) NumPy
1 2 (33.33%) Pandas
1 2 (33.33%) SciPy
2 1 (16.67%) PySpark
2 1 (16.67%) PyTorch
2 1 (16.67%) scikit-learn
2 1 (16.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (66.67%) ETL
2 4 (66.67%) Visualisation
3 3 (50.00%) Analytics
3 3 (50.00%) Data Science
3 3 (50.00%) Data Security
3 3 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
3 3 (50.00%) Machine Learning
4 2 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (33.33%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) Business Analytics
4 2 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
4 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 2 (33.33%) Data Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) Open Source
4 2 (33.33%) Parallel Computing
4 2 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
5 1 (16.67%) Feature Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (83.33%) SQL
3 4 (66.67%) R
4 3 (50.00%) Java
5 2 (33.33%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Databricks
2 1 (16.67%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft