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 24 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 - 118
Rank change year-on-year - - -27
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 7 0 10
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 0.51% - 0.60%
As % of the Application Platforms category 10.77% - 4.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £47,750
25th Percentile £105,750 - £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £120,500 - £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -26.67%
75th Percentile £135,250 - £60,000
90th Percentile - - £62,250
South West median annual salary £80,000 £50,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +60.00% -37.50% +6.67%

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 65 56 208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 4.73% 13.83% 12.53%
Number of salaries quoted 34 14 191
10th Percentile £38,450 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £29,500 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,209 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.03% +12.02% -5.00%
75th Percentile £69,375 £65,000 £56,250
90th Percentile £77,975 £72,625 £64,750
South West median annual salary £37,500 £44,460 £47,500
% change year-on-year -15.65% -6.40% -

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
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 24 May 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
Cheltenham - 5 £120,500 - 2
Gloucester - 2 - -
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 3 (42.86%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (71.43%) Amazon S3
3 3 (42.86%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (42.86%) Azure
3 3 (42.86%) GCP
3 3 (42.86%) Serverless
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (28.57%) OpenShift
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (42.86%) Big Data
3 2 (28.57%) Cloudera CDH
3 2 (28.57%) Hadoop
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (14.29%) Flink
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) GitLab
General
1 1 (14.29%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Platform Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Python Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Data Architect
3 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) Node.js
2 4 (57.14%) OAuth
2 4 (57.14%) OpenID
3 2 (28.57%) AngularJS
3 2 (28.57%) gRPC
3 2 (28.57%) Material-UI
3 2 (28.57%) OpenAPI
3 2 (28.57%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (28.57%) React
3 2 (28.57%) REST
3 2 (28.57%) Spring
3 2 (28.57%) Spring Boot
3 2 (28.57%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) CentOS
1 2 (28.57%) Debian
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) AI
2 4 (57.14%) Analytics
2 4 (57.14%) Data Management
2 4 (57.14%) Data Science
2 4 (57.14%) Machine Learning
2 4 (57.14%) Migration
2 4 (57.14%) MLOps
2 4 (57.14%) Platform Engineering
2 4 (57.14%) SDLC
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) API Development
3 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (28.57%) Kanban
3 2 (28.57%) Microservices
3 2 (28.57%) Open Source
3 2 (28.57%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 2 (28.57%) Scrum
3 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 5 (71.43%) Scala
3 2 (28.57%) Java
3 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) Puppet
2 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Google
1 2 (28.57%) Red Hat
1 2 (28.57%) SaltStack