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 19 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 170 183
Rank change year-on-year -9 +13 +59
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 4 18 43
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.077% 0.44% 0.84%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.22% 4.38% 7.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1 13 30
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £45,000 £71,250 £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
England median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% +3.03%

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 329 411 563
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 6.37% 10.08% 10.96%
Number of salaries quoted 189 238 479
10th Percentile £26,050 £30,750 £30,408
25th Percentile £30,750 £35,000 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £48,918 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.30% +8.71% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £51,125 £57,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.31% +8.57% -4.55%

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
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 19 January 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
Bristol 0 2 £50,000 -36.51% 3
Gloucestershire +10 1 - - 4
Dorset - 1 - - 6
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 3 (75.00%) Apache
2 2 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (25.00%) Apache Superset
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Big Data
2 1 (25.00%) Cloudera CDH
2 1 (25.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (25.00%) Metadata
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) Spark SQL
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Electronics
2 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (25.00%) Marketing
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) PySpark
2 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (25.00%) gRPC
2 1 (25.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) Material-UI
2 1 (25.00%) Node.js
2 1 (25.00%) NumPy
2 1 (25.00%) OpenAPI
2 1 (25.00%) Pandas
2 1 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (25.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) Spring
2 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (25.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Data Fabric
2 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) CentOS
1 1 (25.00%) Debian
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) ETL
1 3 (75.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (50.00%) AI
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (25.00%) API Development
3 1 (25.00%) Complexity Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Data Development
3 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (25.00%) Data Lineage
3 1 (25.00%) Metadata Management
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) SOLID
3 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Puppet
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (25.00%) SaltStack
1 1 (25.00%) SAP