PySpark Jobs in the UK excluding London

PySpark - Spark Python API
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 501 529 665
Rank change year-on-year +28 +136 +116
Permanent jobs citing PySpark 70 249 94
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.34% 0.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.35% 1.72% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 47 64 71
10th Percentile £47,750 £46,075 £47,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,625 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £77,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.35% +19.23% +18.18%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £101,000 £90,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £110,000 £70,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +57.14% -12.50% +14.29%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,169 14,477 15,978
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.29% 19.66% 27.37%
Number of salaries quoted 3,159 10,430 8,894
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £66,254 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.42% -11.11% +3.85%

PySpark
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing PySpark as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for PySpark in the UK excluding London

PySpark
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PySpark in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for PySpark in the UK excluding London

PySpark
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing PySpark in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for PySpark in the UK excluding London

PySpark
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PySpark within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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
South East +106 18 £52,500 +31.25% 117
Midlands +62 16 £65,000 +4.00% 60
North of England +10 11 £72,500 -12.12% 75
Scotland -23 11 £75,000 +15.38% 17
East of England +52 10 £50,000 -9.09% 44
West Midlands +63 9 £62,500 - 26
East Midlands +42 7 £75,000 - 31
North West -31 4 £75,000 -11.76% 37
North East - 4 £62,500 - 8
South West +111 3 £115,000 +109.09% 46
Yorkshire +59 3 £85,000 +6.25% 30
Wales - 1 £55,000 - 12
PySpark
UK

PySpark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 17 (24.29%) Apache Spark
2 9 (12.86%) Apache
3 7 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.43%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 35 (50.00%) Azure
2 27 (38.57%) AWS
3 22 (31.43%) Azure Data Factory
4 12 (17.14%) Power Platform
5 11 (15.71%) Serverless
6 10 (14.29%) GCP
6 10 (14.29%) Power Automate
6 10 (14.29%) Snowflake
7 8 (11.43%) Amazon S3
7 8 (11.43%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (11.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 6 (8.57%) OpenShift
9 5 (7.14%) Amazon Kinesis
9 5 (7.14%) SaaS
10 4 (5.71%) GitHub
11 3 (4.29%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (4.29%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (4.29%) Amazon SageMaker
11 3 (4.29%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (4.29%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.43%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (24.29%) Data Lake
3 12 (17.14%) Big Data
4 10 (14.29%) NoSQL
4 10 (14.29%) Power BI
5 8 (11.43%) Hadoop
6 7 (10.00%) Spark SQL
6 7 (10.00%) Tableau
7 6 (8.57%) Apache Hudi
7 6 (8.57%) Apache Iceberg
7 6 (8.57%) Delta Lake
7 6 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (7.14%) Metadata
9 4 (5.71%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (4.29%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (4.29%) Data Mining
10 3 (4.29%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (4.29%) Metadata Repository
10 3 (4.29%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 6 (8.57%) Bitbucket
2 4 (5.71%) Git
3 3 (4.29%) GitLab
3 3 (4.29%) Spinnaker
General
1 18 (25.71%) Social Skills
2 14 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (15.71%) Finance
3 11 (15.71%) Law
4 8 (11.43%) Retail
5 5 (7.14%) Marketing
6 4 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (4.29%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (4.29%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.86%) Banking
8 2 (2.86%) Games
9 1 (1.43%) Advertising
9 1 (1.43%) Legal
9 1 (1.43%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 36 (51.43%) Data Engineer
2 13 (18.57%) Lead
3 8 (11.43%) Lead Data Engineer
3 8 (11.43%) Senior
3 8 (11.43%) Senior Data Engineer
4 7 (10.00%) Analyst
4 7 (10.00%) Architect
4 7 (10.00%) Python Engineer
5 6 (8.57%) Data Manager
6 5 (7.14%) Data Analyst
6 5 (7.14%) Data Architect
6 5 (7.14%) Python Data Engineer
7 4 (5.71%) Software Engineer
8 3 (4.29%) AWS Data Engineer
8 3 (4.29%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (4.29%) Backend Developer
8 3 (4.29%) Data Science Manager
8 3 (4.29%) Developer
9 2 (2.86%) Big Data Engineer
9 2 (2.86%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (20.00%) Kafka
2 8 (11.43%) Pandas
3 6 (8.57%) PyArrow
4 3 (4.29%) NumPy
4 3 (4.29%) scikit-learn
4 3 (4.29%) XGBoost
5 2 (2.86%) PyTorch
5 2 (2.86%) TensorFlow
6 1 (1.43%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (1.43%) Matplotlib
6 1 (1.43%) Plotly
6 1 (1.43%) Regular Expression
6 1 (1.43%) Shiny
6 1 (1.43%) Spring
6 1 (1.43%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.29%) Reinsurance
2 2 (2.86%) Algorithms
2 2 (2.86%) Cloud Native
2 2 (2.86%) Credit Risk
2 2 (2.86%) Life Science
2 2 (2.86%) Low-Code
3 1 (1.43%) Data Fabric
3 1 (1.43%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.43%) e-Learning
3 1 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (54.29%) Analytics
2 33 (47.14%) Data Engineering
2 33 (47.14%) ETL
3 26 (37.14%) Data Pipeline
4 22 (31.43%) Data Science
5 19 (27.14%) Data Governance
6 18 (25.71%) Data Modelling
6 18 (25.71%) Machine Learning
6 18 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (22.86%) Data Architecture
8 15 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
9 14 (20.00%) Data Transformation
10 12 (17.14%) Data Security
10 12 (17.14%) Mentoring
11 11 (15.71%) Artificial Intelligence
11 11 (15.71%) Data Analysis
11 11 (15.71%) DevOps
11 11 (15.71%) Visualisation
12 9 (12.86%) CI/CD
12 9 (12.86%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 61 (87.14%) Python
2 48 (68.57%) SQL
3 7 (10.00%) Java
4 3 (4.29%) Scala
5 2 (2.86%) R
6 1 (1.43%) Bash
6 1 (1.43%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.43%) PROC SQL
6 1 (1.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (8.57%) Degree
2 4 (5.71%) DBS Check
3 3 (4.29%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.86%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.43%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (31.43%) Data Quality
2 9 (12.86%) GDPR
3 8 (11.43%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.43%) QA
System Software
1 7 (10.00%) HDFS
2 6 (8.57%) Docker
3 2 (2.86%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.43%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 16 (22.86%) Kubernetes
2 9 (12.86%) Terraform
3 2 (2.86%) Ansible
4 1 (1.43%) Kibana
4 1 (1.43%) logstash
4 1 (1.43%) Oozie
Vendors
1 26 (37.14%) Databricks
2 14 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (8.57%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.86%) Google
5 1 (1.43%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.43%) Informatica
5 1 (1.43%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (1.43%) SAP