PySpark Jobs in Scotland

PySpark - Spark Python API
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 124 212
Rank change year-on-year -27 +88 +30
Permanent jobs citing PySpark 13 177 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.44% 2.65% 0.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.25% 7.76% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 10 3 7
10th Percentile £69,500 - £52,500
25th Percentile £73,125 - £58,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,303 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% -3.70% +56.81%
75th Percentile £94,912 - £72,500
90th Percentile £106,250 - -
UK median annual salary £110,000 £70,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +57.14% -12.50% +18.52%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 400 2,282 1,402
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 13.56% 34.14% 30.38%
Number of salaries quoted 258 634 727
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £85,000 £70,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £98,556 £80,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +6.30%

PySpark
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for PySpark in Scotland

PySpark
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for PySpark in Scotland

PySpark
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing PySpark in Scotland over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for PySpark in Scotland

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Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PySpark within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 16 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
Edinburgh +31 9 £77,606 +19.39% 6
Glasgow +49 4 £75,000 - 7
PySpark
UK

PySpark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (15.38%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) AWS
2 5 (38.46%) Azure
3 4 (30.77%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (23.08%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (23.08%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (23.08%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (23.08%) AWS Step Functions
4 3 (23.08%) Serverless
5 2 (15.38%) Azure Stack
5 2 (15.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
1 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
1 1 (7.69%) Power BI
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
1 1 (7.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Spinnaker
General
1 4 (30.77%) Finance
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Advertising
4 1 (7.69%) Law
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Architect
2 3 (23.08%) Backend Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Data Architect
2 3 (23.08%) Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Applications Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Credit Risk Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Data Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Engineering Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Python Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Risk Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Data Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Security Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Testing Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Credit Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Analytics
2 5 (38.46%) Data Architecture
3 4 (30.77%) Data Engineering
3 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (23.08%) Data Governance
4 3 (23.08%) Data Modelling
4 3 (23.08%) Event-Driven
4 3 (23.08%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 3 (23.08%) Microservices
5 2 (15.38%) Architectural Design
5 2 (15.38%) Credit Risk Modelling
5 2 (15.38%) Customer Insight
5 2 (15.38%) Data Ingestion
5 2 (15.38%) Decision Science
5 2 (15.38%) Decision-Making
5 2 (15.38%) Design Patterns
5 2 (15.38%) Impact Assessments
5 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
5 2 (15.38%) Model Validation
5 2 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) Python
2 5 (38.46%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) CRD IV
1 2 (15.38%) IFRS
1 2 (15.38%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
1 3 (23.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Databricks
2 4 (30.77%) Microsoft