PySpark Jobs in the UK excluding London

PySpark - Spark Python API
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 522 659 767
Rank change year-on-year +137 +108 -104
Permanent jobs citing PySpark 244 92 84
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.34% 0.15% 0.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.70% 0.56% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 60 73 46
10th Percentile £43,059 £47,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £58,438 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £87,500 £72,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £66,875
UK median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +23.08% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London 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 14,341 16,554 23,241
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 20.21% 27.47% 32.69%
Number of salaries quoted 10,307 9,129 14,506
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £62,750
% change year-on-year -11.11% +7.57% +14.09%

PySpark
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing PySpark as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for PySpark in the UK excluding London

PySpark
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PySpark in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for PySpark in the UK excluding London

PySpark
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing PySpark in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for PySpark in the UK excluding London

PySpark
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PySpark within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
Scotland +86 177 £65,000 -3.70% 1
North of England +63 42 £82,500 +22.22% 5
North West +34 35 £85,000 +6.25% 3
Midlands +7 12 £63,000 +14.55% 11
West Midlands +16 8 £63,000 +14.55% 6
Yorkshire +76 6 £80,000 +28.00% 2
South West -27 6 £72,500 -10.77% 4
East Midlands -14 4 - - 5
Northern Ireland - 3 £60,000 - 2
South East -18 2 £40,000 -37.25% 4
East of England +10 1 £55,000 - 3
Wales +5 1 £46,060 -7.88%
North East -4 1 £55,000 -15.38%
PySpark
UK

PySpark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 134 (54.92%) Apache Spark
2 106 (43.44%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.05%) Apache
4 4 (1.64%) SAS
5 2 (0.82%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 186 (76.23%) AWS
2 90 (36.89%) Azure
3 46 (18.85%) GCP
4 29 (11.89%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (4.92%) Power Platform
6 10 (4.10%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (2.87%) GitHub
8 6 (2.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 6 (2.46%) Snowflake
9 5 (2.05%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (2.05%) Power Automate
9 5 (2.05%) PowerApps
9 5 (2.05%) Serverless
10 4 (1.64%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (1.64%) Amazon Kinesis
10 4 (1.64%) Amazon SageMaker
10 4 (1.64%) AWS CodeBuild
10 4 (1.64%) AWS CodePipeline
10 4 (1.64%) Datadog
10 4 (1.64%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (39.34%) Big Data
2 52 (21.31%) Data Lake
3 39 (15.98%) Qlik Sense
4 28 (11.48%) SQL Server
5 22 (9.02%) Delta Lake
6 20 (8.20%) Data Vault
7 12 (4.92%) Power BI
8 10 (4.10%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (1.64%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.64%) NoSQL
10 3 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (1.23%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.23%) Semantic Layer
11 2 (0.82%) CouchDB
11 2 (0.82%) Data Mart
11 2 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (0.82%) RethinkDB
11 2 (0.82%) Snowflake Schema
11 2 (0.82%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 20 (8.20%) JIRA
2 5 (2.05%) Git
3 3 (1.23%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.41%) Jenkins
General
1 194 (79.51%) Finance
2 174 (71.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 174 (71.31%) Law
3 107 (43.85%) Marketing
4 68 (27.87%) Legal
5 19 (7.79%) Social Skills
6 12 (4.92%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (4.10%) Retail
8 1 (0.41%) Automotive
8 1 (0.41%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 179 (73.36%) Software Engineer
2 172 (70.49%) Data Engineer
3 99 (40.57%) Python Engineer
3 99 (40.57%) Python Software Engineer
4 91 (37.30%) Lead
5 86 (35.25%) Lead Software Engineer
6 80 (32.79%) Big Data Engineer
6 80 (32.79%) Big Data Software Engineer
7 67 (27.46%) Senior
8 45 (18.44%) Lead Data Engineer
9 40 (16.39%) Lead Big Data Engineer
10 34 (13.93%) Senior Software Engineer
11 24 (9.84%) Senior Data Engineer
12 11 (4.51%) Azure Engineer
13 6 (2.46%) Azure Data Engineer
13 6 (2.46%) Data Scientist
14 5 (2.05%) Azure Software Engineer
14 5 (2.05%) Customer Engineer
15 4 (1.64%) Pricing Analyst
15 4 (1.64%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (20.08%) Kafka
2 10 (4.10%) Pandas
3 4 (1.64%) AWS CDK
4 2 (0.82%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 52 (21.31%) Cloud Native
2 39 (15.98%) Algorithms
2 39 (15.98%) Onboarding
3 30 (12.30%) Reinsurance
4 25 (10.25%) Public Cloud
5 20 (8.20%) Data Structures
6 5 (2.05%) Low-Code
6 5 (2.05%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.23%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.41%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.41%) Linux
1 1 (0.41%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (88.52%) Agile
2 180 (73.77%) Software Engineering
3 174 (71.31%) Operational Stability
3 174 (71.31%) SDLC
4 164 (67.21%) CI/CD
5 131 (53.69%) Community of Practice
6 97 (39.75%) Machine Learning
7 82 (33.61%) Artificial Intelligence
8 74 (30.33%) Microservices
9 70 (28.69%) Risk Management
10 66 (27.05%) ETL
11 62 (25.41%) Coaching
11 62 (25.41%) Mentoring
12 52 (21.31%) Decision-Making
13 50 (20.49%) Data Engineering
14 46 (18.85%) Visualisation
15 45 (18.44%) Problem-Solving
16 40 (16.39%) Continuous Improvement
17 39 (15.98%) Client Onboarding
17 39 (15.98%) KYC
Programming Languages
1 233 (95.49%) Python
2 76 (31.15%) Java
3 57 (23.36%) SQL
4 4 (1.64%) C#
4 4 (1.64%) R
Qualifications
1 9 (3.69%) Degree
2 7 (2.87%) Azure Certification
2 7 (2.87%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.23%) Master's Degree
4 3 (1.23%) PhD
5 2 (0.82%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.41%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (24.59%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (1.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 53 (21.72%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.05%) Terraform
Vendors
1 58 (23.77%) Databricks
2 39 (15.98%) Alteryx
3 25 (10.25%) Informatica
3 25 (10.25%) Oracle
4 9 (3.69%) Microsoft
5 5 (2.05%) OpenAI
6 4 (1.64%) Splunk
7 3 (1.23%) SnapLogic
8 2 (0.82%) Google