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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 505 528 661
Rank change year-on-year +23 +133 +105
Permanent jobs citing PySpark 72 250 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 1.34% 1.71% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 47 67 71
10th Percentile £47,750 £48,400 £47,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £58,125 £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 £78,125 £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 5,357 14,578 15,822
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.60% 19.55% 27.27%
Number of salaries quoted 3,285 10,484 8,797
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 £73,250 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £80,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £66,206 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.34% -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 30 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 30 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 +104 18 £52,500 +31.25% 124
Midlands +88 16 £65,000 +4.00% 74
North of England +20 11 £72,500 -14.71% 82
Scotland -21 11 £86,250 +32.69% 16
East of England +56 10 £50,000 -9.09% 55
West Midlands +57 9 £62,500 - 33
East Midlands +49 7 £75,000 - 37
South West +97 4 £112,500 +73.08% 50
North West -24 4 £75,000 -11.76% 40
North East - 4 £62,500 - 10
Yorkshire +57 3 £85,000 +6.25% 32
Wales - 1 £55,000 - 10
Isle of Man - 1 - - 1
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 18 (25.00%) Apache Spark
2 10 (13.89%) Apache
3 7 (9.72%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.39%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 38 (52.78%) Azure
2 27 (37.50%) AWS
3 23 (31.94%) Azure Data Factory
4 14 (19.44%) Power Platform
5 11 (15.28%) GCP
6 10 (13.89%) Power Automate
6 10 (13.89%) Snowflake
7 9 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 9 (12.50%) Serverless
8 8 (11.11%) Amazon S3
9 6 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (8.33%) OpenShift
10 5 (6.94%) Amazon Kinesis
10 5 (6.94%) SaaS
11 4 (5.56%) GitHub
12 3 (4.17%) Alation
12 3 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (4.17%) Amazon SageMaker
12 3 (4.17%) Azure Functions
12 3 (4.17%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.39%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (44.44%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (23.61%) Data Lake
3 13 (18.06%) Big Data
4 12 (16.67%) Power BI
5 11 (15.28%) NoSQL
6 8 (11.11%) Hadoop
7 7 (9.72%) Spark SQL
7 7 (9.72%) Tableau
8 6 (8.33%) Apache Hudi
8 6 (8.33%) Apache Iceberg
8 6 (8.33%) Delta Lake
8 6 (8.33%) Metadata
8 6 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (6.94%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (5.56%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (4.17%) Data Mining
11 3 (4.17%) Geospatial Data
11 3 (4.17%) Parquet
11 3 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (8.33%) Bitbucket
2 4 (5.56%) Git
3 3 (4.17%) GitLab
4 1 (1.39%) Spinnaker
4 1 (1.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 20 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 15 (20.83%) Finance
3 14 (19.44%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (18.06%) Law
5 8 (11.11%) Retail
6 6 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (8.33%) Marketing
7 3 (4.17%) Banking
7 3 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (4.17%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.78%) Games
9 1 (1.39%) Advertising
9 1 (1.39%) Legal
9 1 (1.39%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 37 (51.39%) Data Engineer
2 14 (19.44%) Lead
3 9 (12.50%) Senior
3 9 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
4 8 (11.11%) Lead Data Engineer
4 8 (11.11%) Python Engineer
5 7 (9.72%) Analyst
5 7 (9.72%) Architect
6 6 (8.33%) Data Manager
6 6 (8.33%) Software Engineer
7 5 (6.94%) Data Analyst
7 5 (6.94%) Data Architect
7 5 (6.94%) Python Data Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) AWS Data Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) Data Science Manager
8 3 (4.17%) Lead Software Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) Python Software Engineer
9 2 (2.78%) Big Data Engineer
9 2 (2.78%) Testing Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (16.67%) Kafka
2 9 (12.50%) Pandas
3 6 (8.33%) PyArrow
4 4 (5.56%) NumPy
4 4 (5.56%) scikit-learn
5 3 (4.17%) XGBoost
6 2 (2.78%) PyTorch
6 2 (2.78%) TensorFlow
7 1 (1.39%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (1.39%) Matplotlib
7 1 (1.39%) Plotly
7 1 (1.39%) Regular Expression
7 1 (1.39%) Shiny
7 1 (1.39%) Spring
7 1 (1.39%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.17%) Algorithms
1 3 (4.17%) Cloud Native
1 3 (4.17%) Reinsurance
2 2 (2.78%) Credit Risk
2 2 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (2.78%) Life Science
2 2 (2.78%) Low-Code
3 1 (1.39%) Data Fabric
3 1 (1.39%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.39%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (55.56%) Analytics
2 35 (48.61%) ETL
3 34 (47.22%) Data Engineering
4 27 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
5 23 (31.94%) Data Science
6 20 (27.78%) Data Governance
7 19 (26.39%) Data Modelling
7 19 (26.39%) Machine Learning
7 19 (26.39%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (23.61%) Business Intelligence
9 16 (22.22%) Data Architecture
10 15 (20.83%) Data Transformation
11 13 (18.06%) Data Security
12 12 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
12 12 (16.67%) Data Analysis
12 12 (16.67%) DevOps
12 12 (16.67%) Mentoring
12 12 (16.67%) Visualisation
13 11 (15.28%) Agile
13 11 (15.28%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 62 (86.11%) Python
2 51 (70.83%) SQL
3 7 (9.72%) Java
4 3 (4.17%) Scala
5 2 (2.78%) R
5 2 (2.78%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.39%) Bash
6 1 (1.39%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.39%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (9.72%) Degree
2 4 (5.56%) DBS Check
3 3 (4.17%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.78%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.39%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 9 (12.50%) GDPR
3 8 (11.11%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.39%) QA
System Software
1 7 (9.72%) Docker
1 7 (9.72%) HDFS
2 2 (2.78%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.39%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 16 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 7 (9.72%) Terraform
3 2 (2.78%) Ansible
4 1 (1.39%) Kibana
4 1 (1.39%) logstash
4 1 (1.39%) Oozie
Vendors
1 25 (34.72%) Databricks
2 16 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 6 (8.33%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.78%) Google
5 1 (1.39%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.39%) Informatica
5 1 (1.39%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (1.39%) SAP