Apache Spark Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Apache Spark
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Apache Spark skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 93 119
Rank change year-on-year -45 +26 +28
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 5 15 3
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 0.12% 1.00% 0.13%
As % of the Application Platforms category 4.95% 14.29% 1.92%
Number of salaries quoted 4 13 2
10th Percentile £67,663 £47,000 -
25th Percentile £75,594 £56,250 £44,738
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,250 £60,000 £49,274
Median % change year-on-year +35.42% +21.77% -38.12%
75th Percentile £83,750 - £53,811
90th Percentile - £74,500 -
Yorkshire median annual salary £80,000 £60,000 £49,274
% change year-on-year +33.33% +21.77% -38.12%

All Application Platform Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 101 105 156
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 2.42% 7.01% 6.80%
Number of salaries quoted 82 85 104
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £36,563 £35,750 £35,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £48,507
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -2.08% -7.61%
75th Percentile £74,996 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £93,875 £79,000 £71,991
Yorkshire median annual salary £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% -11.11% +7.14%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Apache Spark job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Apache Spark
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Apache Spark.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Apache Spark

Apache Spark
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Apache Spark in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 10 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Apache Spark in West Yorkshire

Apache Spark
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 10 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
Leeds -51 5 £81,250 +35.42% 1
Apache Spark
Yorkshire

Apache Spark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 2 (40.00%) Apache
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Databricks
3 2 (40.00%) GCP
3 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Spark SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (40.00%) Power BI
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (20.00%) Big Data
3 1 (20.00%) BigQuery
3 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (20.00%) Metadata
3 1 (20.00%) Tableau
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Data Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Databricks Data Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Databricks Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Lead
2 2 (40.00%) Lead Data Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) PySpark
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Analytics
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (60.00%) Data Engineering
1 3 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
1 3 (60.00%) ETL
1 3 (60.00%) Lakehouse
1 3 (60.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Data Integration
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (20.00%) Business Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Data Science
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) Line Management
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) Informatica