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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 191 176
Rank change year-on-year +33 -15 +132
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 4 45 51
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.12% 0.60% 1.06%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.23% 7.45% 9.70%
Number of salaries quoted 2 33 44
10th Percentile £46,500 £58,050 £47,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £71,250 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.25% +6.67% +17.65%
75th Percentile £58,750 £87,500 £85,542
90th Percentile £59,500 - £96,077
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% - -

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 325 604 526
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 9.35% 8.05% 10.92%
Number of salaries quoted 214 363 447
10th Percentile £28,825 £30,000 £30,900
25th Percentile £30,750 £35,250 £36,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,500 £50,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.88% +1.00% +6.95%
75th Percentile £58,750 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%

Apache Spark
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Apache Spark as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Apache Spark 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 15 September 2025. 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 +17 3 £55,000 -31.25%
Devon - 1 - -
Apache Spark
England

Apache Spark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Apache
2 1 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (25.00%) Apache Superset
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Spark SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Delta Lake
2 2 (50.00%) Metadata
3 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (25.00%) Power BI
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MLflow
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Games
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Principal Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) PySpark
2 2 (50.00%) PyTorch
2 2 (50.00%) TensorFlow
3 1 (25.00%) Hugging Face
3 1 (25.00%) Kafka
3 1 (25.00%) Keras
3 1 (25.00%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (25.00%) Metaflow
3 1 (25.00%) NumPy
3 1 (25.00%) Pandas
3 1 (25.00%) scikit-learn
3 1 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Fabric
1 1 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (50.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 2 (50.00%) Metadata Management
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
2 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Visualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) Information Security
3 1 (25.00%) LLM
3 1 (25.00%) MLOps
3 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) PhD
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Kubeflow
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Databricks
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle