Apache Spark Job Trends in the South West

Apache Spark
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Apache Spark skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 151 240
Rank change year-on-year -46 +89 -45
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 20 3 43
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.25% 0.10% 0.41%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.78% 0.95% 4.91%
Number of salaries quoted 11 2 32
10th Percentile £51,250 £46,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £53,125 £48,750 £71,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -31.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £86,000 £58,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £59,500 £149,946
England median annual salary £83,250 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -2.06% +6.25% -8.57%

All Application Platform Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 346 317 876
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 4.38% 11.03% 8.36%
Number of salaries quoted 205 219 685
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,875 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £47,657
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -5.57% +0.33%
75th Percentile £55,000 £58,393 £58,750
90th Percentile £73,250 £70,000 £66,050
England median annual salary £50,588 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.02% +10.00% -12.28%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Apache Spark job vacancy trend in the South West

Apache Spark
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Apache Spark.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Apache Spark

Apache Spark
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Apache Spark in the South West over the 6 months to 22 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Apache Spark in the South West

Apache Spark
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Apache Spark within the South West region over the 6 months to 22 June 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
Gloucestershire - 8 £120,500 - 3
Bristol -26 6 £82,000 +49.09% 1
Devon - 3 £55,000 -
Dorset - 3 £70,000 -
Apache Spark
England

Apache Spark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 6 (30.00%) Apache
2 3 (15.00%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (10.00%) Jupyter
Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 16 (80.00%) Azure
2 11 (55.00%) AWS
3 7 (35.00%) GCP
4 6 (30.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (25.00%) Amazon S3
5 5 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (20.00%) Serverless
7 3 (15.00%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (15.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (15.00%) OpenShift
8 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (10.00%) GitHub
8 2 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (75.00%) Big Data
2 4 (20.00%) Data Lake
2 4 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (15.00%) Cloudera CDH
3 3 (15.00%) Hadoop
4 2 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (10.00%) Delta Lake
4 2 (10.00%) Metadata
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (5.00%) Flink
5 1 (5.00%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Git
2 4 (20.00%) GitLab
3 2 (10.00%) MLflow
3 2 (10.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Finance
3 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Banking
3 3 (15.00%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Aerospace
4 2 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Data Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Architect
3 4 (20.00%) Data Architect
3 4 (20.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Python Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Software Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Data Scientist
5 2 (10.00%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Lead
6 1 (5.00%) Lead Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Lead Data Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Lead Data Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Principal Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Principal Data Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Principal Data Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (35.00%) Node.js
2 4 (20.00%) OAuth
2 4 (20.00%) OpenID
3 3 (15.00%) AngularJS
3 3 (15.00%) gRPC
3 3 (15.00%) Material-UI
3 3 (15.00%) OpenAPI
3 3 (15.00%) PySpark
3 3 (15.00%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (15.00%) React
3 3 (15.00%) REST
3 3 (15.00%) Spring
3 3 (15.00%) Spring Boot
3 3 (15.00%) Swagger
4 1 (5.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Algorithms
2 4 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (20.00%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) CentOS
1 3 (15.00%) Debian
1 3 (15.00%) Linux
1 3 (15.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (15.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (70.00%) Analytics
1 14 (70.00%) Data Science
2 11 (55.00%) CI/CD
3 10 (50.00%) Machine Learning
4 8 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
5 6 (30.00%) Agile
5 6 (30.00%) AI
5 6 (30.00%) Data Modelling
5 6 (30.00%) ETL
5 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (30.00%) MLOps
6 5 (25.00%) Data Integration
6 5 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
6 5 (25.00%) Use Case
7 4 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
7 4 (20.00%) Data Management
7 4 (20.00%) DevOps
7 4 (20.00%) Migration
7 4 (20.00%) SDLC
8 3 (15.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 17 (85.00%) Python
2 9 (45.00%) SQL
3 5 (25.00%) Scala
3 5 (25.00%) VBA
4 3 (15.00%) Java
4 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (10.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (10.00%) GDPR
2 2 (10.00%) IFRS
2 2 (10.00%) IFRS 17
2 2 (10.00%) Solvency II
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (35.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (30.00%) Terraform
3 3 (15.00%) Ansible
3 3 (15.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (50.00%) Databricks
2 3 (15.00%) Google
2 3 (15.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (15.00%) SaltStack
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft