PySpark - Spark Python API
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 430 645 708
Rank change year-on-year +215 +63 +93
Permanent jobs citing PySpark 484 246 650
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.54% 0.30% 0.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.75% 1.10% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 281 201 214
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +14.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £115,000 £105,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £142,500 £160,000 £87,850
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +10.64%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 17,601 22,313 69,061
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.48% 27.65% 39.40%
Number of salaries quoted 12,656 16,103 29,822
10th Percentile £36,750 £41,250 £38,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,875 £83,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £106,289 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

PySpark
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for PySpark in the UK

PySpark
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for PySpark in the UK

PySpark
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing PySpark over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for PySpark in the UK

PySpark
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PySpark within the UK over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
England +132 348 £90,000 +12.50% 39
Work from Home +174 271 £95,000 +11.76% 22
London +179 269 £105,000 +5.00% 11
UK excluding London +70 196 £62,500 -3.85% 39
Scotland +64 118 £91,500 +35.56% 6
North of England +25 42 £60,000 -7.69% 21
North West +19 34 £71,250 -10.94% 8
South West -4 20 £58,750 -26.56% 5
Midlands -14 13 £73,000 +32.73% 4
West Midlands +1 9 £73,000 +36.45% 4
Yorkshire +49 6 £49,274 -6.14% 4
East Midlands -25 4 - -
North East -13 2 £49,274 -24.19% 9
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 3
South East -25 1 £47,500 -24.00%

PySpark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 190 (39.26%) Apache Airflow
2 128 (26.45%) Apache Spark
3 90 (18.60%) Apache
4 7 (1.45%) Confluence
5 5 (1.03%) Luigi
6 1 (0.21%) Apache Pig
6 1 (0.21%) SAS
6 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.41%) Primavera
2 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 280 (57.85%) AWS
2 225 (46.49%) Azure
3 175 (36.16%) GCP
4 109 (22.52%) dbt
5 88 (18.18%) Snowflake
6 76 (15.70%) Amazon ECS
7 73 (15.08%) Amazon EC2
7 73 (15.08%) Amazon EKS
8 58 (11.98%) Azure Data Factory
9 57 (11.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 45 (9.30%) Power Platform
11 39 (8.06%) Azure DevOps
12 34 (7.02%) GitHub
13 30 (6.20%) Dagster
14 21 (4.34%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 20 (4.13%) Amazon S3
16 16 (3.31%) Serverless
17 13 (2.69%) AWS Lambda
18 10 (2.07%) Azure Machine Learning
18 10 (2.07%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 213 (44.01%) Data Lake
2 109 (22.52%) Amazon Athena
3 102 (21.07%) Big Data
3 102 (21.07%) Dremio
4 72 (14.88%) Apache Arrow
4 72 (14.88%) Apache Ignite
4 72 (14.88%) Data Warehouse
5 49 (10.12%) Tableau
6 45 (9.30%) Power BI
7 36 (7.44%) Qlik Sense
7 36 (7.44%) SQL Server
8 30 (6.20%) Azure SQL Database
9 22 (4.55%) Spark SQL
10 18 (3.72%) Delta Lake
11 14 (2.89%) NoSQL
12 12 (2.48%) Data Mining
13 10 (2.07%) Hadoop
13 10 (2.07%) Metadata
14 8 (1.65%) Amazon Redshift
14 8 (1.65%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 71 (14.67%) Git
2 17 (3.51%) JIRA
3 12 (2.48%) MLflow
4 9 (1.86%) Jenkins
5 8 (1.65%) RStudio
6 4 (0.83%) CircleCI
6 4 (0.83%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (0.62%) GitLab
7 3 (0.62%) JMeter
8 2 (0.41%) Postman
8 2 (0.41%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.41%) Subversion
8 2 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.41%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.21%) MSTest
9 1 (0.21%) NUnit
9 1 (0.21%) Selenium
9 1 (0.21%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.21%) TestCafe
9 1 (0.21%) Zephyr
General
1 281 (58.06%) Finance
2 138 (28.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 123 (25.41%) Law
4 115 (23.76%) Banking
5 102 (21.07%) Front Office
6 93 (19.21%) Social Skills
7 72 (14.88%) Investment Banking
8 69 (14.26%) Legal
9 67 (13.84%) Marketing
10 23 (4.75%) Analytical Skills
11 15 (3.10%) Retail
12 8 (1.65%) Publishing
12 8 (1.65%) Wholesale Banking
13 6 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.41%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.41%) Retail Banking
16 1 (0.21%) Automotive
16 1 (0.21%) Dutch Language
16 1 (0.21%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 284 (58.68%) Data Engineer
2 157 (32.44%) Software Engineer
3 143 (29.55%) Python Engineer
4 138 (28.51%) Senior
5 107 (22.11%) Lead
6 89 (18.39%) Python Software Engineer
7 74 (15.29%) Lead Software Engineer
8 69 (14.26%) Senior Data Engineer
9 61 (12.60%) Big Data Engineer
9 61 (12.60%) Big Data Software Engineer
9 61 (12.60%) Data Scientist
10 60 (12.40%) Lead Data Engineer
11 54 (11.16%) Azure Engineer
11 54 (11.16%) Python Data Engineer
12 52 (10.74%) Senior Data Scientist
13 50 (10.33%) Azure Data Engineer
14 40 (8.26%) Architect
15 36 (7.44%) AWS Engineer
16 34 (7.02%) Lead Big Data Engineer
17 32 (6.61%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (34.92%) Pandas
2 105 (21.69%) NumPy
3 104 (21.49%) SciPy
4 72 (14.88%) gRPC
4 72 (14.88%) Protocol Buffers
5 48 (9.92%) Kafka
5 48 (9.92%) scikit-learn
6 45 (9.30%) TensorFlow
7 9 (1.86%) JSON
8 5 (1.03%) AWS CDK
8 5 (1.03%) SQLAlchemy
9 3 (0.62%) SOAP
10 2 (0.41%) Apache Avro
10 2 (0.41%) Apache Beam
10 2 (0.41%) Plotly
10 2 (0.41%) PyTorch
10 2 (0.41%) RESTful
10 2 (0.41%) Spark Streaming
11 1 (0.21%) ARM Templates
11 1 (0.21%) PyArrow
Miscellaneous
1 88 (18.18%) Algorithms
2 72 (14.88%) Derivative
2 72 (14.88%) Equities
2 72 (14.88%) Fixed Income
2 72 (14.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 72 (14.88%) Hedge funds
3 36 (7.44%) Cloud Native
4 35 (7.23%) Onboarding
5 29 (5.99%) Reinsurance
6 20 (4.13%) Data Structures
7 16 (3.31%) Public Cloud
8 9 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
9 8 (1.65%) Credit Risk
10 4 (0.83%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 3 (0.62%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (0.62%) Product Ownership
12 2 (0.41%) Distributed Applications
12 2 (0.41%) Hybrid Cloud
12 2 (0.41%) PropTech
13 1 (0.21%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.21%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 299 (61.78%) Agile
2 230 (47.52%) Software Engineering
3 169 (34.92%) CI/CD
4 157 (32.44%) Machine Learning
5 139 (28.72%) Data Engineering
6 121 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
7 118 (24.38%) SDLC
8 115 (23.76%) Analytics
8 115 (23.76%) Operational Stability
9 108 (22.31%) Asset Management
10 105 (21.69%) ETL
11 103 (21.28%) Migration
12 100 (20.66%) Visualisation
13 97 (20.04%) Data Science
14 96 (19.83%) Community of Practice
15 83 (17.15%) Mentoring
16 72 (14.88%) Continuous Improvement
17 71 (14.67%) Decision-Making
18 69 (14.26%) Data Pipeline
19 66 (13.64%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 436 (90.08%) Python
2 299 (61.78%) SQL
3 151 (31.20%) Java
4 74 (15.29%) JavaScript
5 73 (15.08%) TypeScript
6 24 (4.96%) T-SQL
7 15 (3.10%) R
8 12 (2.48%) Scala
9 8 (1.65%) Bash
10 6 (1.24%) C#
11 4 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.21%) Groovy
12 1 (0.21%) Julia
12 1 (0.21%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 87 (17.98%) Degree
2 51 (10.54%) Master's Degree
3 46 (9.50%) DBS Check
4 21 (4.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.48%) SC Cleared
5 12 (2.48%) Security Cleared
6 5 (1.03%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.03%) PhD
7 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.41%) CIMA
9 1 (0.21%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (12.40%) Data Quality
2 8 (1.65%) IFRS
2 8 (1.65%) IFRS 9
3 5 (1.03%) QA
4 1 (0.21%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 4 (0.83%) Docker
2 2 (0.41%) HDFS
3 1 (0.21%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 51 (10.54%) Kubernetes
2 16 (3.31%) Terraform
Vendors
1 201 (41.53%) Databricks
2 60 (12.40%) Bloomberg
2 60 (12.40%) Reuters
3 36 (7.44%) Alteryx
4 29 (5.99%) Informatica
5 26 (5.37%) Microsoft
6 20 (4.13%) Oracle
7 11 (2.27%) Google
8 6 (1.24%) SnapLogic
9 4 (0.83%) Cloudera
9 4 (0.83%) SAP
9 4 (0.83%) Splunk
10 2 (0.41%) Teradata
11 1 (0.21%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.21%) Foundry
11 1 (0.21%) IBM
11 1 (0.21%) Marketo
11 1 (0.21%) Palantir
11 1 (0.21%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.21%) ServiceNow