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 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 500 720 772
Rank change year-on-year +220 +52 +24
Permanent jobs citing PySpark 436 278 494
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.44% 0.27% 0.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.07% 0.91% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 175 225 183
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £46,900
25th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +23.08% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £105,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £98,000 £160,000 £84,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +28.00% +13.64% -8.33%

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 21,097 30,626 64,106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.27% 30.16% 40.72%
Number of salaries quoted 15,763 18,846 30,127
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,750
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +7.57% +14.09%
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 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for PySpark in the UK

PySpark
Top 17 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 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
UK excluding London +137 244 £80,000 +28.00% 29
England +63 238 £70,000 -12.50% 69
Scotland +86 177 £65,000 -3.70% 1
London +119 172 £70,000 -22.22% 39
Work from Home +64 137 £67,500 -20.59% 39
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
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
1 172 (39.45%) Apache Spark
2 123 (28.21%) Apache Airflow
3 29 (6.65%) Apache
4 4 (0.92%) SAS
5 2 (0.46%) Luigi
6 1 (0.23%) Apache Pig
6 1 (0.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.92%) Primavera
2 1 (0.23%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 239 (54.82%) AWS
2 210 (48.17%) Azure
3 80 (18.35%) GCP
4 55 (12.61%) Azure DevOps
5 53 (12.16%) Azure Data Factory
6 47 (10.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 39 (8.94%) Power Platform
8 30 (6.88%) GitHub
9 19 (4.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 16 (3.67%) Snowflake
11 14 (3.21%) Serverless
12 12 (2.75%) Amazon S3
12 12 (2.75%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (2.75%) GitHub Actions
12 12 (2.75%) Power Automate
12 12 (2.75%) PowerApps
13 11 (2.52%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (1.83%) Amazon Kinesis
14 8 (1.83%) SaaS
15 7 (1.61%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.46%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (30.96%) Big Data
2 110 (25.23%) Data Lake
3 77 (17.66%) Data Warehouse
4 58 (13.30%) SQL Server
5 42 (9.63%) Tableau
6 39 (8.94%) Power BI
6 39 (8.94%) Qlik Sense
7 34 (7.80%) Delta Lake
8 22 (5.05%) Azure SQL Database
9 21 (4.82%) Data Vault
10 20 (4.59%) NoSQL
11 19 (4.36%) Hadoop
12 18 (4.13%) Spark SQL
13 10 (2.29%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (2.29%) Apache Hive
14 9 (2.06%) MySQL
14 9 (2.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 8 (1.83%) Flink
15 8 (1.83%) Parquet
16 7 (1.61%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 63 (14.45%) Git
2 23 (5.28%) JIRA
3 19 (4.36%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.29%) CircleCI
4 10 (2.29%) MLflow
5 4 (0.92%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (0.69%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (0.69%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.46%) GitLab
7 2 (0.46%) JMeter
7 2 (0.46%) JUnit
7 2 (0.46%) MSTest
7 2 (0.46%) NUnit
7 2 (0.46%) Postman
7 2 (0.46%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.23%) Selenium
8 1 (0.23%) SoapUI
General
1 229 (52.52%) Finance
2 189 (43.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 181 (41.51%) Law
4 108 (24.77%) Marketing
5 85 (19.50%) Social Skills
6 79 (18.12%) Legal
7 23 (5.28%) Analytical Skills
8 13 (2.98%) Banking
9 12 (2.75%) Retail
10 8 (1.83%) Retail Banking
11 5 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.69%) Public Sector
14 2 (0.46%) Publishing
15 1 (0.23%) Automotive
15 1 (0.23%) Financial Institution
15 1 (0.23%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.23%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 274 (62.84%) Data Engineer
2 181 (41.51%) Software Engineer
3 176 (40.37%) Senior
4 110 (25.23%) Python Engineer
5 105 (24.08%) Lead
6 101 (23.17%) Python Software Engineer
7 86 (19.72%) Lead Software Engineer
8 80 (18.35%) Big Data Engineer
8 80 (18.35%) Big Data Software Engineer
9 76 (17.43%) Senior Data Engineer
10 49 (11.24%) Lead Data Engineer
11 48 (11.01%) Data Scientist
12 43 (9.86%) Senior Data Scientist
13 40 (9.17%) Lead Big Data Engineer
14 39 (8.94%) Azure Engineer
15 36 (8.26%) Senior Software Engineer
16 32 (7.34%) Azure Data Engineer
17 9 (2.06%) Consultant
17 9 (2.06%) Data Consultant
17 9 (2.06%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (13.76%) Kafka
2 55 (12.61%) Pandas
3 42 (9.63%) scikit-learn
4 40 (9.17%) TensorFlow
5 10 (2.29%) AWS CDK
6 8 (1.83%) Apache Avro
6 8 (1.83%) Apache Beam
6 8 (1.83%) Spark Streaming
7 6 (1.38%) JSON
8 2 (0.46%) MDX
8 2 (0.46%) NumPy
8 2 (0.46%) Plotly
8 2 (0.46%) PyTorch
8 2 (0.46%) SciPy
8 2 (0.46%) SQLAlchemy
9 1 (0.23%) ARM Templates
9 1 (0.23%) jQuery
9 1 (0.23%) pytest
9 1 (0.23%) React
9 1 (0.23%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 87 (19.95%) Algorithms
2 54 (12.39%) Cloud Native
3 39 (8.94%) Onboarding
4 31 (7.11%) Reinsurance
5 26 (5.96%) Data Structures
5 26 (5.96%) Public Cloud
6 16 (3.67%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (2.06%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (2.06%) Product Ownership
8 8 (1.83%) Distributed Applications
9 5 (1.15%) Low-Code
10 4 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 2 (0.46%) Hybrid Cloud
12 2 (0.46%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.46%) PropTech
13 1 (0.23%) Blockchain
13 1 (0.23%) Data Protection Act
13 1 (0.23%) Distributed Computing
13 1 (0.23%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.46%) Linux
2 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 259 (59.40%) Agile
2 212 (48.62%) CI/CD
3 195 (44.72%) Software Engineering
4 184 (42.20%) SDLC
5 174 (39.91%) Machine Learning
5 174 (39.91%) Operational Stability
6 146 (33.49%) ETL
7 136 (31.19%) Artificial Intelligence
8 131 (30.05%) Community of Practice
9 130 (29.82%) Data Engineering
10 97 (22.25%) Data Science
11 96 (22.02%) Decision-Making
12 94 (21.56%) Visualisation
13 81 (18.58%) Mentoring
14 77 (17.66%) Data Modelling
14 77 (17.66%) Data Pipeline
15 74 (16.97%) Microservices
16 73 (16.74%) Continuous Improvement
17 70 (16.06%) Risk Management
18 69 (15.83%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 394 (90.37%) Python
2 225 (51.61%) SQL
3 86 (19.72%) Java
4 16 (3.67%) Scala
5 15 (3.44%) T-SQL
6 14 (3.21%) R
7 7 (1.61%) C#
7 7 (1.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.46%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.23%) C++
9 1 (0.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 64 (14.68%) Degree
2 44 (10.09%) Master's Degree
3 42 (9.63%) DBS Check
4 15 (3.44%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.06%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.92%) CIMA
7 4 (0.92%) Security Cleared
8 3 (0.69%) PhD
8 3 (0.69%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.23%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (17.43%) Data Quality
2 6 (1.38%) QA
System Software
1 8 (1.83%) HDFS
2 7 (1.61%) Docker
3 1 (0.23%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 65 (14.91%) Kubernetes
2 21 (4.82%) Terraform
Vendors
1 199 (45.64%) Databricks
2 39 (8.94%) Alteryx
3 35 (8.03%) Microsoft
4 30 (6.88%) Informatica
4 30 (6.88%) Oracle
5 11 (2.52%) Cloudera
6 6 (1.38%) Google
7 5 (1.15%) OpenAI
7 5 (1.15%) SAP
7 5 (1.15%) SnapLogic
8 4 (0.92%) Splunk
9 3 (0.69%) Teradata
10 2 (0.46%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.23%) Facebook
11 1 (0.23%) Marketo
11 1 (0.23%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.23%) Twitter