Apache Spark Job Trends in Yorkshire

Apache Spark
England > Yorkshire

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

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 149 207
Rank change year-on-year -34 +58 +35
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 11 15 9
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.16% 0.44% 0.15%
As % of the Application Platforms category 4.70% 6.76% 1.90%
Number of salaries quoted 7 12 8
10th Percentile £62,376 - -
25th Percentile £71,188 £47,000 £44,738
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £57,500 £49,637
Median % change year-on-year +39.13% +15.84% -27.88%
75th Percentile £81,875 £59,063 £58,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £60,000 £76,375
England median annual salary £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% - -5.88%

All Application Platform Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 234 222 473
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 3.39% 6.46% 7.84%
Number of salaries quoted 190 162 360
10th Percentile £26,925 £26,000 £26,450
25th Percentile £31,250 £27,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £43,750 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.14% +2.94% -10.53%
75th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £77,432 £77,500 £75,772
England median annual salary £50,051 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.00% +10.00% -11.50%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Apache Spark job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Apache Spark
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Apache Spark.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Apache Spark

Apache Spark
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Apache Spark in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 12 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Apache Spark in Yorkshire

Apache Spark
Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 12 July 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
West Yorkshire -34 8 £80,000 +39.13% 1
South Yorkshire - 1 £66,805 - 1
Apache Spark
England

Apache Spark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 5 (45.45%) Apache
2 4 (36.36%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) Azure
2 8 (72.73%) AWS
3 5 (45.45%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (45.45%) GCP
3 5 (45.45%) Power Platform
4 4 (36.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 4 (36.36%) dbt
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (9.09%) Serverless
5 1 (9.09%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) Data Lake
1 5 (45.45%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (45.45%) Power BI
2 4 (36.36%) Amazon Redshift
2 4 (36.36%) BigQuery
2 4 (36.36%) Tableau
3 3 (27.27%) Amazon QuickSight
3 3 (27.27%) Big Data
3 3 (27.27%) Spark SQL
4 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (9.09%) Looker
4 1 (9.09%) Metadata
4 1 (9.09%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) MLflow
General
1 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
4 1 (9.09%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (90.91%) Data Engineer
2 5 (45.45%) Senior
3 4 (36.36%) Lead
3 4 (36.36%) Lead Data Engineer
3 4 (36.36%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Azure Data Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Data Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) PySpark
2 3 (27.27%) Kafka
3 1 (9.09%) LangChain
3 1 (9.09%) LlamaIndex
3 1 (9.09%) pgvector
3 1 (9.09%) PyTorch
3 1 (9.09%) scikit-learn
3 1 (9.09%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 1 (9.09%) Clustering
1 1 (9.09%) NHS
1 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Data Engineering
1 9 (81.82%) Data Pipeline
2 8 (72.73%) Analytics
2 8 (72.73%) ETL
3 6 (54.55%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (45.45%) Data Governance
5 4 (36.36%) Data Modelling
5 4 (36.36%) Performance Optimisation
5 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (36.36%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (27.27%) Agile
6 3 (27.27%) Analytical Thinking
6 3 (27.27%) Business Analytics
6 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
6 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (27.27%) Data Science
6 3 (27.27%) Data Visualisation
6 3 (27.27%) DevOps
6 3 (27.27%) Mentoring
6 3 (27.27%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Python
1 11 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (27.27%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (9.09%) Degree
3 1 (9.09%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) Data Quality
2 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 1 (9.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (9.09%) GDPR
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Databricks
2 3 (27.27%) Google
3 2 (18.18%) Informatica
4 1 (9.09%) Cloudera
4 1 (9.09%) Dell