Apache Spark Job Trends in Bristol

Apache Spark
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Apache Spark skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 92 92
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 +52
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 2 15 39
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 0.096% 1.08% 2.20%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.47% 10.87% 17.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1 15 29
10th Percentile - £71,250 -
25th Percentile £45,000 £71,875 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -35.48% +3.33% +22.59%
75th Percentile £55,000 £85,000 £96,539
90th Percentile - - £155,665
South West median annual salary £50,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -35.48% +3.33% +22.59%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring application platform skills in Bristol.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 81 138 227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 3.90% 9.96% 12.78%
Number of salaries quoted 60 72 187
10th Percentile £27,975 £30,000 £32,300
25th Percentile £30,750 £30,750 £37,349
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £49,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -5.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £57,813 £73,886 £75,000
90th Percentile £72,125 £83,750 £84,056
South West median annual salary £38,500 £49,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -22.22% +10.00% -

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Apache Spark job vacancy trend in Bristol

Apache Spark
Salary Trend in Bristol

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Apache Spark.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Apache Spark

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
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Superset
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) Spark SQL
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Electronics
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (50.00%) Marketing
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 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 2 (100.00%) PySpark
2 1 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (50.00%) NumPy
2 1 (50.00%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (50.00%) Data Fabric
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Community of Practice
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Development
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lineage
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata Management
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) SOLID
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) SAP