PySpark Job Trends in the South East

PySpark - Spark Python API
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring PySpark skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 273 294 264
Rank change year-on-year +21 -30 +131
Permanent jobs citing PySpark 3 13 5
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.029% 0.14% 0.065%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.31% 0.63% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £63,375 £46,625 -
25th Percentile £64,688 £50,938 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £61,250 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% -18.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £72,188 £70,938 £77,500
90th Percentile £73,125 £74,875 -
England median annual salary £71,193 £107,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -33.77% +59.26% -15.63%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 958 2,080 1,675
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 9.24% 22.40% 21.67%
Number of salaries quoted 762 1,199 1,346
10th Percentile £33,775 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,700 £83,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

PySpark
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

PySpark job vacancy trend in the South East

PySpark
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing PySpark.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing PySpark

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Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PySpark within the South East region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
Thames Valley +15 2 £72,500 +18.37% 7
Berkshire +5 1 - - 2
Hampshire - 1 £65,000 - 7
Oxfordshire - 1 £72,500 - 2
PySpark
England

PySpark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (66.67%) Data Lake
1 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 1 (33.33%) Metadata
2 1 (33.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Data Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) Architecture Roadmap
3 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Databricks
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft