Apache Spark Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Apache Spark
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Apache Spark skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 70 77
Rank change year-on-year +2 +7 +21
Contract jobs citing Apache Spark 2 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.26% 0.12% 0.39%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.39% 1.79% 9.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £442 - £586
25th Percentile £456 - £603
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £650 £638
Median % change year-on-year -24.23% +1.96% +21.43%
75th Percentile £541 - £694
90th Percentile £561 - £728
South West median daily rate £513 £630 £650
% change year-on-year -18.65% -3.08% +20.93%

All Application Platform Skills
Bristol

Apache Spark falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring application platform skills in Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 59 56 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 7.54% 6.70% 4.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 35 30
10th Percentile £235 £205 £195
25th Percentile £355 £400 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.74% -9.52% +2.34%
75th Percentile £575 £552 £622
90th Percentile £600 £645 £675
South West median daily rate £550 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 2
10th Percentile - - £51.63
25th Percentile £15.60 - £52.19
Median hourly rate £17.98 £74.00 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year -75.70% +37.67% -23.21%
75th Percentile £22.72 £74.11 £54.69
90th Percentile £51.75 £74.31 £54.88
South West median hourly rate £23.00 £74.00 £50.50
% change year-on-year -68.92% +46.53% +146.34%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Apache Spark job vacancy trend in Bristol

Apache Spark
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Apache Spark.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Apache Spark

Apache Spark
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Apache Spark in Bristol over the 6 months to 22 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Apache Spark in Bristol

Apache Spark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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 (100.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
1 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (50.00%) Hadoop
General
1 1 (50.00%) Electronics
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) NumPy
1 1 (50.00%) Pandas
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Development
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Programme Management
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kibana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) logstash
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) SAP