PySpark Jobs in the North West

PySpark - Spark Python API
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring PySpark skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited PySpark over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 290 259 292
Rank change year-on-year -31 +33 +34
Permanent jobs citing PySpark 5 36 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.062% 0.36% 0.090%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.41% 1.75% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 5 32 7
10th Percentile £67,250 £54,475 £47,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +6.25% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £90,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £78,250 - £112,500
England median annual salary £110,000 £70,000 £80,294
% change year-on-year +57.14% -12.82% +14.71%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

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 North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 1,215 2,052 2,354
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 15.10% 20.65% 30.42%
Number of salaries quoted 542 1,581 1,127
10th Percentile £33,775 £36,000 £38,500
25th Percentile £48,703 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.65% -0.87% +4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,000 £84,964 £85,000
England median annual salary £66,253 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.42% -11.11% +3.85%

PySpark
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing PySpark as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for PySpark in the North West

PySpark
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for PySpark in the North West

PySpark
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PySpark within the North West region over the 6 months to 17 May 2025. 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
Manchester +42 4 £75,000 +38.89% 14
Lancashire - 1 £67,500 - 5
PySpark
England

PySpark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (20.00%) Big Data
2 1 (20.00%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (20.00%) Power BI
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Legal
2 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Data Engineer
2 4 (80.00%) Lead
2 4 (80.00%) Lead Data Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) Senior
3 2 (40.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Life Science
2 1 (20.00%) Data Fabric
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 5 (100.00%) Mentoring
2 4 (80.00%) Analytics
2 4 (80.00%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (80.00%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (60.00%) Biomedicine
3 3 (60.00%) Data Analysis
3 3 (60.00%) Data Architecture
3 3 (60.00%) Data Protection
3 3 (60.00%) Strategic Planning
4 2 (40.00%) ETL
4 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
5 1 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
5 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
5 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
5 1 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
5 1 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
5 1 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (20.00%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Cloudera
1 1 (20.00%) Databricks
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft