PySpark Job Trends in South Yorkshire

PySpark - Spark Python API
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring PySpark skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing PySpark 7 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in South Yorkshire 0.61% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.75% - -
Number of salaries quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £77,500 - -
25th Percentile £79,375 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 - -
75th Percentile £83,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median annual salary £82,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.53% +6.25% +28.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 80 65 250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 6.93% 18.11% 18.50%
Number of salaries quoted 77 52 219
10th Percentile - £26,375 £31,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £38,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £74,987 £70,313 £65,625
90th Percentile £83,750 £86,250 £75,772
Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +11.61% +1.82% -4.35%

PySpark
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

PySpark job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

PySpark
Salary Trend in South Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing PySpark.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing PySpark

PySpark
Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PySpark within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 17 April 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
Sheffield - 7 £82,500 - 1
PySpark
Yorkshire

PySpark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
1 7 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 5 (71.43%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) Azure Functions
2 5 (71.43%) Azure Logic Apps
2 5 (71.43%) Azure Monitor
2 5 (71.43%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) Spark SQL
2 5 (71.43%) Data Warehouse
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 7 (100.00%) Lead
1 7 (100.00%) Lead Data Engineer
1 7 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
2 5 (71.43%) Azure Engineer
2 5 (71.43%) Azure Platform Engineer
2 5 (71.43%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) ARM Templates
1 5 (71.43%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
1 7 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 7 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (71.43%) Computer Science
2 5 (71.43%) Cost Optimisation
2 5 (71.43%) Dashboard Development
2 5 (71.43%) Data Governance
2 5 (71.43%) Data Integration
2 5 (71.43%) Data Modelling
2 5 (71.43%) Deployment Automation
2 5 (71.43%) ETL
2 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (71.43%) Observability
2 5 (71.43%) Regulatory Compliance
2 5 (71.43%) Release Management
3 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
2 5 (71.43%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (71.43%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Databricks