PySpark - Spark Python API
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for PySpark skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited PySpark over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 498 687 729
Rank change year-on-year +189 +42 +73
Permanent jobs citing PySpark 457 272 578
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.45% 0.28% 0.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.14% 0.93% 0.84%
Number of salaries quoted 193 216 186
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £53,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £90,000 £105,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £160,000 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +23.08% +18.18% -4.35%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

PySpark is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 21,317 29,159 68,887
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.77% 29.95% 41.26%
Number of salaries quoted 15,893 18,093 29,995
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

PySpark
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing PySpark as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for PySpark in the UK

PySpark
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PySpark.

Salary trend for PySpark in the UK

PySpark
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing PySpark over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for PySpark in the UK

PySpark
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PySpark within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. 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
England +76 261 £70,000 -12.82% 67
UK excluding London +125 248 £80,000 +23.08% 36
London +158 189 £70,000 -24.32% 36
Scotland +88 175 £65,000 -3.70% 7
Work from Home +87 159 £70,000 -17.65% 32
North of England +68 43 £85,000 +30.77% 6
North West +36 37 £85,000 +6.25% 4
Midlands +2 14 £62,500 +13.64% 8
West Midlands +18 10 £62,500 +25.00% 3
South West -28 10 £55,000 -32.31% 5
Yorkshire +72 6 £80,000 +64.10% 2
East Midlands -16 4 - - 5
Northern Ireland - 3 £60,000 - 2
South East -30 2 £40,000 -37.25% 8
East of England -6 1 £55,000 - 1

PySpark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 168 (36.76%) Apache Spark
2 128 (28.01%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (6.56%) Apache
4 4 (0.88%) Luigi
4 4 (0.88%) SAS
5 1 (0.22%) Apache Pig
5 1 (0.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.88%) Primavera
2 1 (0.22%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 237 (51.86%) AWS
2 228 (49.89%) Azure
3 88 (19.26%) GCP
4 56 (12.25%) Azure Data Factory
5 53 (11.60%) Azure DevOps
5 53 (11.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 41 (8.97%) Power Platform
7 28 (6.13%) GitHub
8 21 (4.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 16 (3.50%) Snowflake
10 14 (3.06%) Serverless
11 12 (2.63%) Amazon S3
11 12 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (2.63%) dbt
11 12 (2.63%) Power Automate
11 12 (2.63%) PowerApps
12 11 (2.41%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (2.19%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (1.75%) Amazon Kinesis
14 8 (1.75%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.44%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (29.10%) Big Data
2 120 (26.26%) Data Lake
3 79 (17.29%) Data Warehouse
4 61 (13.35%) SQL Server
5 47 (10.28%) Tableau
6 41 (8.97%) Power BI
7 40 (8.75%) Qlik Sense
8 33 (7.22%) Delta Lake
9 23 (5.03%) Azure SQL Database
10 20 (4.38%) Data Vault
11 18 (3.94%) NoSQL
11 18 (3.94%) Spark SQL
12 16 (3.50%) Hadoop
13 10 (2.19%) Amazon Redshift
14 9 (1.97%) Amazon Athena
14 9 (1.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 8 (1.75%) Apache Hive
15 8 (1.75%) MySQL
16 7 (1.53%) Data Mining
16 7 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 71 (15.54%) Git
2 22 (4.81%) JIRA
3 17 (3.72%) Jenkins
4 11 (2.41%) MLflow
5 9 (1.97%) CircleCI
6 4 (0.88%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (0.66%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (0.66%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.44%) GitLab
8 2 (0.44%) JMeter
8 2 (0.44%) JUnit
8 2 (0.44%) MSTest
8 2 (0.44%) NUnit
8 2 (0.44%) Postman
8 2 (0.44%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.22%) Selenium
9 1 (0.22%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.22%) Subversion
General
1 232 (50.77%) Finance
2 191 (41.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 180 (39.39%) Law
4 107 (23.41%) Marketing
5 97 (21.23%) Social Skills
6 82 (17.94%) Legal
7 26 (5.69%) Analytical Skills
8 18 (3.94%) Banking
9 12 (2.63%) Retail
10 7 (1.53%) Retail Banking
11 6 (1.31%) Front Office
12 5 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.09%) Publishing
13 4 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.44%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.44%) Public Sector
15 1 (0.22%) Automotive
15 1 (0.22%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.22%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 289 (63.24%) Data Engineer
2 180 (39.39%) Senior
3 178 (38.95%) Software Engineer
4 120 (26.26%) Python Engineer
5 107 (23.41%) Lead
6 99 (21.66%) Python Software Engineer
7 85 (18.60%) Lead Software Engineer
8 79 (17.29%) Big Data Engineer
8 79 (17.29%) Big Data Software Engineer
9 76 (16.63%) Senior Data Engineer
10 56 (12.25%) Data Scientist
11 52 (11.38%) Lead Data Engineer
12 48 (10.50%) Azure Engineer
12 48 (10.50%) Senior Data Scientist
13 41 (8.97%) Azure Data Engineer
14 40 (8.75%) Lead Big Data Engineer
15 34 (7.44%) Senior Software Engineer
16 21 (4.60%) Python Data Engineer
17 9 (1.97%) Consultant
17 9 (1.97%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (14.88%) Pandas
2 57 (12.47%) Kafka
3 47 (10.28%) scikit-learn
4 45 (9.85%) TensorFlow
5 9 (1.97%) AWS CDK
6 8 (1.75%) NumPy
6 8 (1.75%) SciPy
7 7 (1.53%) Apache Avro
7 7 (1.53%) Apache Beam
7 7 (1.53%) JSON
7 7 (1.53%) Spark Streaming
8 4 (0.88%) SQLAlchemy
9 3 (0.66%) SOAP
10 2 (0.44%) MDX
10 2 (0.44%) Plotly
10 2 (0.44%) PyTorch
11 1 (0.22%) .NET Framework
11 1 (0.22%) ARM Templates
11 1 (0.22%) React
11 1 (0.22%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 91 (19.91%) Algorithms
2 54 (11.82%) Cloud Native
3 39 (8.53%) Onboarding
4 34 (7.44%) Reinsurance
5 26 (5.69%) Data Structures
5 26 (5.69%) Public Cloud
6 16 (3.50%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (1.97%) Product Ownership
8 7 (1.53%) Distributed Applications
8 7 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.09%) Low-Code
10 4 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.66%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 2 (0.44%) Hybrid Cloud
12 2 (0.44%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.44%) PropTech
13 1 (0.22%) Blockchain
13 1 (0.22%) Distributed Computing
13 1 (0.22%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.44%) Linux
2 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 269 (58.86%) Agile
2 208 (45.51%) CI/CD
3 197 (43.11%) Software Engineering
4 181 (39.61%) SDLC
5 179 (39.17%) Machine Learning
6 172 (37.64%) Operational Stability
7 144 (31.51%) ETL
8 143 (31.29%) Data Engineering
9 139 (30.42%) Artificial Intelligence
10 130 (28.45%) Community of Practice
11 101 (22.10%) Decision-Making
12 100 (21.88%) Data Science
12 100 (21.88%) Visualisation
13 87 (19.04%) Mentoring
14 78 (17.07%) Data Modelling
15 77 (16.85%) Continuous Improvement
15 77 (16.85%) Data Pipeline
16 74 (16.19%) Analytics
17 72 (15.75%) Microservices
18 71 (15.54%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 406 (88.84%) Python
2 247 (54.05%) SQL
3 89 (19.47%) Java
4 18 (3.94%) T-SQL
5 14 (3.06%) R
5 14 (3.06%) Scala
6 7 (1.53%) C#
6 7 (1.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.44%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.22%) Julia
8 1 (0.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 71 (15.54%) Degree
2 48 (10.50%) Master's Degree
3 47 (10.28%) DBS Check
4 15 (3.28%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (1.97%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.88%) CIMA
8 3 (0.66%) PhD
9 2 (0.44%) SC Cleared
9 2 (0.44%) Security Cleared
10 1 (0.22%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (17.51%) Data Quality
2 6 (1.31%) QA
System Software
1 7 (1.53%) Docker
1 7 (1.53%) HDFS
2 1 (0.22%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 65 (14.22%) Kubernetes
2 21 (4.60%) Terraform
Vendors
1 217 (47.48%) Databricks
2 39 (8.53%) Alteryx
3 36 (7.88%) Microsoft
4 32 (7.00%) Informatica
4 32 (7.00%) Oracle
5 10 (2.19%) Cloudera
6 8 (1.75%) Google
7 5 (1.09%) OpenAI
7 5 (1.09%) SAP
7 5 (1.09%) SnapLogic
8 4 (0.88%) Splunk
9 3 (0.66%) Teradata
10 2 (0.44%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.22%) Facebook
11 1 (0.22%) Marketo
11 1 (0.22%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.22%) Twitter