Apache Spark Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Apache Spark
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Apache Spark skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 - 81
Rank change year-on-year - - +10
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 12 0 11
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 0.49% - 1.02%
As % of the Application Platforms category 9.52% - 13.25%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £64,575 - -
25th Percentile £71,438 - £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,750 - £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -47.50%
75th Percentile £118,938 - £56,250
90th Percentile £128,725 - -
South West median annual salary £58,000 £55,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +5.45% -31.25% +3.23%

All Application Platform Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 126 49 83
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 5.13% 8.89% 7.69%
Number of salaries quoted 64 35 52
10th Percentile £30,988 £34,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £47,750 £48,125 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.37% +22.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,688 £71,250 £65,750
90th Percentile £79,250 £76,500 £76,100
South West median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% -

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Apache Spark job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Apache Spark
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Apache Spark.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Apache Spark

Apache Spark
Salary Histogram in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Apache Spark in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 25 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Apache Spark in Gloucestershire

Apache Spark
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Apache Spark within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 25 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
Gloucester - 10 £65,000 - 4
Cheltenham - 1 £120,500 - 7
Apache Spark
South West

Apache Spark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 12 (100.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 11 (91.67%) AWS
2 5 (41.67%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (41.67%) Azure
2 5 (41.67%) GCP
2 5 (41.67%) Serverless
3 4 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (33.33%) OpenShift
4 2 (16.67%) Amazon S3
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (91.67%) Big Data
2 10 (83.33%) Hadoop
3 5 (41.67%) Data Lake
4 4 (33.33%) Cloudera CDH
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (8.33%) Flink
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) GitLab
General
1 6 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (41.67%) Finance
3 4 (33.33%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Data Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Lead
3 1 (8.33%) Lead Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Lead Data Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 4 (33.33%) gRPC
1 4 (33.33%) Material-UI
1 4 (33.33%) Node.js
1 4 (33.33%) OpenAPI
1 4 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (33.33%) React
1 4 (33.33%) REST
1 4 (33.33%) Spring
1 4 (33.33%) Spring Boot
1 4 (33.33%) Swagger
1 4 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (8.33%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 10 (83.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) CentOS
1 4 (33.33%) Debian
1 4 (33.33%) Linux
1 4 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (33.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Agile
1 10 (83.33%) Software Engineering
2 9 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 9 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (58.33%) AI
3 7 (58.33%) Analytics
3 7 (58.33%) CI/CD
3 7 (58.33%) Data Engineering
3 7 (58.33%) DevOps
3 7 (58.33%) ETL
4 6 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
4 6 (50.00%) Data Science
5 5 (41.67%) Actionable Insight
5 5 (41.67%) Data Ingestion
5 5 (41.67%) Deployment Automation
5 5 (41.67%) DevSecOps
5 5 (41.67%) Machine Learning
5 5 (41.67%) Observability
5 5 (41.67%) Situational Awareness
5 5 (41.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 11 (91.67%) Python
2 10 (83.33%) Java
3 7 (58.33%) Scala
4 5 (41.67%) SQL
5 4 (33.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 11 (91.67%) Security Cleared
2 6 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (41.67%) Accessibility
1 5 (41.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (83.33%) Kubernetes
2 4 (33.33%) Ansible
2 4 (33.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Google
1 4 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 4 (33.33%) SaltStack