PySpark Job Trends in the Midlands

PySpark - Spark Python API
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring PySpark skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 216 212 281
Rank change year-on-year -4 +69 +46
Permanent jobs citing PySpark 26 11 6
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.26% 0.21% 0.061%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.76% 1.30% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 22 7 6
10th Percentile £42,000 - £38,125
25th Percentile £52,006 £55,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +35.14% -15.91%
75th Percentile £66,875 £78,500 £58,313
90th Percentile £97,250 £79,700 £69,125
England median annual salary £74,250 £110,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -32.50% +57.14% -12.50%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Midlands

PySpark falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 692 846 1,733
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 6.94% 16.22% 17.73%
Number of salaries quoted 566 601 1,532
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £69,438 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £75,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,296 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -11.11%

PySpark
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PySpark relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

PySpark job vacancy trend in the Midlands

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Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing PySpark.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing PySpark

PySpark
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing PySpark in the Midlands over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Salary histogram for PySpark in the Midlands

PySpark
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PySpark within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 March 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
West Midlands +19 20 £60,000 +2.13% 8
East Midlands -30 6 £100,000 +33.33% 4
PySpark
England

PySpark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.85%) Apache
2 1 (3.85%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.85%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 15 (57.69%) Azure
2 11 (42.31%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (23.08%) Power Platform
4 3 (11.54%) SaaS
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon S3
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon SageMaker
5 2 (7.69%) AWS
6 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.85%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (42.31%) SQL Server
2 7 (26.92%) Delta Lake
3 6 (23.08%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (23.08%) Power BI
4 2 (7.69%) Metadata
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (3.85%) Big Data
5 1 (3.85%) DB2
5 1 (3.85%) Hadoop
5 1 (3.85%) IBM InfoSphere
5 1 (3.85%) Parquet
5 1 (3.85%) Power Query
5 1 (3.85%) Spark SQL
5 1 (3.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Git
1 1 (3.85%) MLflow
General
1 8 (30.77%) Finance
1 8 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 6 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (23.08%) Automotive
2 6 (23.08%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.85%) Advertising
4 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (61.54%) Data Engineer
2 9 (34.62%) Senior
3 7 (26.92%) Senior Data Engineer
4 5 (19.23%) Azure Data Engineer
4 5 (19.23%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Python Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Python Software Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Software Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Analyst
6 2 (7.69%) Data Analyst
6 2 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (7.69%) Senior Data Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) Data Scientist
7 1 (3.85%) Lead
7 1 (3.85%) Lead Data Scientist
7 1 (3.85%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) PyTorch
1 1 (3.85%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (7.69%) Credit Risk
2 2 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.85%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (61.54%) Data Engineering
2 13 (50.00%) ETL
3 12 (46.15%) Analytics
3 12 (46.15%) Data Pipeline
4 10 (38.46%) Visualisation
5 8 (30.77%) CI/CD
6 7 (26.92%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (26.92%) Machine Learning
7 6 (23.08%) Data Analytics
7 6 (23.08%) Data Visualisation
8 5 (19.23%) AI
8 5 (19.23%) Migration
9 4 (15.38%) Analytical Modelling
9 4 (15.38%) B2B
9 4 (15.38%) Competitive Intelligence
9 4 (15.38%) DevOps
9 4 (15.38%) ERP
10 3 (11.54%) Data Science
10 3 (11.54%) Decision-Making
10 3 (11.54%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 26 (100.00%) Python
2 14 (53.85%) SQL
3 2 (7.69%) Scala
4 1 (3.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) Degree
2 2 (7.69%) DBS Check
3 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (15.38%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (7.69%) Terraform
2 1 (3.85%) Control-M
Vendors
1 15 (57.69%) Databricks
2 6 (23.08%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.85%) BMC
3 1 (3.85%) IBM
3 1 (3.85%) Informatica
3 1 (3.85%) Talend