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 9 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 166 210
Rank change year-on-year -17 +44 +21
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 5 15 46
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.089% 0.41% 0.69%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.49% 3.94% 6.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1 10 33
10th Percentile - £69,000 £51,744
25th Percentile - £71,250 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +3.33% +8.98%
75th Percentile - £85,000 £96,539
90th Percentile - £85,250 £143,990
England median annual salary £85,000 £92,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year -8.11% +12.12% -

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 335 381 721
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 5.96% 10.38% 10.88%
Number of salaries quoted 187 218 633
10th Percentile £25,500 £30,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% +5.56% -
75th Percentile £52,500 £61,875 £58,000
90th Percentile £68,000 £73,886 £72,433
England median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%

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 9 February 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
Dorset - 3 £70,000 - 4
Bristol +4 1 - - 6
Gloucestershire +1 1 - - 2
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 (60.00%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (40.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Big Data
2 1 (20.00%) Cloudera CDH
2 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Banking
2 3 (60.00%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Electronics
3 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (20.00%) Marketing
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (20.00%) gRPC
1 1 (20.00%) Material-UI
1 1 (20.00%) Node.js
1 1 (20.00%) NumPy
1 1 (20.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (20.00%) Pandas
1 1 (20.00%) PySpark
1 1 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (20.00%) React
1 1 (20.00%) REST
1 1 (20.00%) Spring
1 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (20.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) CentOS
1 1 (20.00%) Debian
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) ETL
1 4 (80.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (60.00%) Actionable Insight
2 3 (60.00%) Analytics
2 3 (60.00%) Cash Management
2 3 (60.00%) Complexity Analysis
2 3 (60.00%) Data Governance
2 3 (60.00%) Data Integration
2 3 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (60.00%) Data Science
2 3 (60.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 3 (60.00%) Predictive Analytics
2 3 (60.00%) Predictive Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Data Development
3 1 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Puppet
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Databricks
1 1 (20.00%) Google
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (20.00%) SaltStack
1 1 (20.00%) SAP