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 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 205 159 201
Rank change year-on-year -46 +42 -25
Permanent jobs citing Apache Spark 27 5 45
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.29% 0.14% 0.56%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.82% 1.58% 7.08%
Number of salaries quoted 8 3 32
10th Percentile - - £57,775
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -37.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £86,000 £57,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,775 £59,000 -
England median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% -5.88%

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 396 317 636
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 4.32% 9.16% 7.89%
Number of salaries quoted 208 235 446
10th Percentile £27,000 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,363 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £58,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,250 £71,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £51,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -4.35%

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 21 August 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 21 August 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 - 14 £120,500 - 6
Bristol -24 9 £68,250 +36.50% 1
Devon -19 3 £55,000 -
Wiltshire - 1 - - 1
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 14 (51.85%) Apache
2 2 (7.41%) Jupyter
Applications
1 5 (18.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 15 (55.56%) AWS
2 12 (44.44%) Azure
3 6 (22.22%) Amazon S3
3 6 (22.22%) GCP
4 5 (18.52%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (18.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 5 (18.52%) Serverless
5 4 (14.81%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (14.81%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (14.81%) OpenShift
6 3 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (7.41%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (7.41%) GitHub
7 2 (7.41%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (3.70%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (3.70%) Cloud Composer
8 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.11%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (77.78%) Big Data
2 15 (55.56%) Hadoop
3 10 (37.04%) Data Lake
4 4 (14.81%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (11.11%) Cloudera CDH
5 3 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (11.11%) Metadata
6 2 (7.41%) Delta Lake
6 2 (7.41%) Flink
6 2 (7.41%) NoSQL
7 1 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (3.70%) BigQuery
7 1 (3.70%) Looker
7 1 (3.70%) Power BI
7 1 (3.70%) RDBMS
7 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
7 1 (3.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (22.22%) Git
2 4 (14.81%) GitLab
3 2 (7.41%) MLflow
3 2 (7.41%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (3.70%) ER Studio
4 1 (3.70%) ERwin
General
1 11 (40.74%) Finance
2 8 (29.63%) Aerospace
3 5 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (14.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (14.81%) Social Skills
5 2 (7.41%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.70%) Military
Job Titles
1 14 (51.85%) Data Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Architect
3 4 (14.81%) Data Architect
3 4 (14.81%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Python Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Software Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Data Scientist
5 2 (7.41%) Junior
5 2 (7.41%) Junior Data Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Principal Data Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Principal Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) GCP Data Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) GCP Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Lead Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Lead Data Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (29.63%) Terraform
2 7 (25.93%) Node.js
3 6 (22.22%) Apache NiFi
4 4 (14.81%) OAuth
4 4 (14.81%) OpenID
5 3 (11.11%) AngularJS
5 3 (11.11%) gRPC
5 3 (11.11%) Material-UI
5 3 (11.11%) OpenAPI
5 3 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (11.11%) React
5 3 (11.11%) REST
5 3 (11.11%) Spring
5 3 (11.11%) Spring Boot
5 3 (11.11%) Swagger
6 2 (7.41%) Kafka
6 2 (7.41%) PySpark
7 1 (3.70%) Apache Beam
7 1 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (3.70%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (37.04%) Cloud Native
2 6 (22.22%) Algorithms
3 4 (14.81%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (7.41%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (7.41%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.11%) CentOS
1 3 (11.11%) Debian
1 3 (11.11%) Linux
1 3 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (11.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (74.07%) CI/CD
1 20 (74.07%) Data Science
2 19 (70.37%) Analytics
3 17 (62.96%) Agile
4 16 (59.26%) AI
5 15 (55.56%) Machine Learning
6 14 (51.85%) Data Pipeline
6 14 (51.85%) ETL
7 12 (44.44%) DevOps
8 11 (40.74%) Infrastructure as Code
9 10 (37.04%) Data Engineering
10 9 (33.33%) Containerisation
10 9 (33.33%) Software Engineering
11 8 (29.63%) Data Ingestion
12 7 (25.93%) Actionable Insight
12 7 (25.93%) Data Modelling
12 7 (25.93%) Deployment Automation
12 7 (25.93%) MLOps
13 6 (22.22%) Data Architecture
13 6 (22.22%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 22 (81.48%) Python
2 14 (51.85%) SQL
3 10 (37.04%) Scala
4 9 (33.33%) Java
5 5 (18.52%) VBA
6 3 (11.11%) JavaScript
7 2 (7.41%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 15 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 9 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 8 (29.63%) DV Cleared
4 4 (14.81%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (14.81%) Degree
5 1 (3.70%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.70%) OCP
5 1 (3.70%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (3.70%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (33.33%) Accessibility
2 8 (29.63%) Data Quality
3 3 (11.11%) GDPR
4 2 (7.41%) IFRS
4 2 (7.41%) IFRS 17
4 2 (7.41%) Solvency II
5 1 (3.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (3.70%) HIPAA
System Software
1 12 (44.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (55.56%) Kubernetes
2 5 (18.52%) Ansible
3 3 (11.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (25.93%) Databricks
2 4 (14.81%) Google
2 4 (14.81%) Red Hat
3 3 (11.11%) SaltStack
4 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.70%) Sparx