PySpark - Spark Python API
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for PySpark skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited PySpark over the 6 months to 4 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 579 736 795
Rank change year-on-year +157 +59 -122
Permanent jobs citing PySpark 162 352 310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.28% 0.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.16% 0.88% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 130 241 165
10th Percentile £50,875 £56,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £62,500 £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £87,500 £88,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £100,000 £108,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,000 £73,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year -22.71% +34.09% -8.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

PySpark is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 14,018 40,128 49,552
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.33% 32.38% 38.64%
Number of salaries quoted 10,969 24,275 32,022
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.31% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £106,258 £105,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +9.52% +5.00%

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 4 December 2023.

Salary histogram for PySpark in the UK

PySpark
Top 14 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 4 December 2023. 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 +176 155 £70,000 -12.50% 63
London +164 100 £75,500 -5.63% 44
UK excluding London +188 57 £57,000 -22.71% 33
Work from Home +153 50 £72,500 -3.33% 45
North of England +123 18 £55,000 -31.25% 7
Yorkshire +84 14 £62,500 -21.88%
West Midlands +124 13 £53,500 -26.21%
Midlands +106 13 £53,500 -26.21%
South West +87 10 £77,500 +8.77% 2
South East +148 9 £75,000 +7.14% 6
Wales - 4 £59,280 - 5
Scotland +51 3 - - 6
North East +44 3 £55,000 -35.29%
North West +92 1 £92,500 +15.63% 7

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 38 (23.46%) Apache Spark
2 27 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (11.11%) Apache
4 5 (3.09%) Ethereum
5 4 (2.47%) Luigi
6 2 (1.23%) Confluence
7 1 (0.62%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 116 (71.60%) Azure
2 84 (51.85%) AWS
3 52 (32.10%) Azure Data Factory
4 41 (25.31%) Power Platform
5 38 (23.46%) GCP
6 32 (19.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 30 (18.52%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (10.49%) Snowflake
9 16 (9.88%) Serverless
10 14 (8.64%) GitHub
11 10 (6.17%) Azure Logic Apps
12 9 (5.56%) Azure Functions
13 7 (4.32%) Amazon S3
13 7 (4.32%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (4.32%) Cloud Computing
14 6 (3.70%) Azure Stack
14 6 (3.70%) dbt
15 4 (2.47%) Amazon EMR
15 4 (2.47%) Azure Key Vault
15 4 (2.47%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.09%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 52 (32.10%) Data Lake
3 41 (25.31%) Power BI
4 34 (20.99%) Big Data
5 28 (17.28%) Delta Lake
6 24 (14.81%) Hadoop
7 21 (12.96%) Tableau
8 17 (10.49%) SQL Server
9 15 (9.26%) NoSQL
9 15 (9.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 14 (8.64%) Apache Hive
10 14 (8.64%) Relational Database
11 12 (7.41%) Parquet
12 11 (6.79%) Presto
13 10 (6.17%) Impala
13 10 (6.17%) Spark SQL
14 9 (5.56%) Neo4j
14 9 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
15 6 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
15 6 (3.70%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 8 (4.94%) Git
2 5 (3.09%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.85%) JIRA
4 2 (1.23%) CircleCI
4 2 (1.23%) GitLab
5 1 (0.62%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.62%) MLflow
General
1 47 (29.01%) Social Skills
2 30 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
2 30 (18.52%) Finance
3 11 (6.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (4.94%) Advertising
4 8 (4.94%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (4.32%) Marketing
6 6 (3.70%) Games
7 4 (2.47%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.47%) Retail
8 3 (1.85%) Banking
8 3 (1.85%) Law
8 3 (1.85%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.23%) Legal
9 2 (1.23%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.62%) Aviation
10 1 (0.62%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.62%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.62%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.62%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 122 (75.31%) Data Engineer
2 54 (33.33%) Senior
3 38 (23.46%) Senior Data Engineer
4 37 (22.84%) Lead
5 30 (18.52%) Lead Data Engineer
6 13 (8.02%) Azure Data Engineer
6 13 (8.02%) Azure Engineer
7 12 (7.41%) Data Scientist
8 8 (4.94%) Python Engineer
8 8 (4.94%) Senior Data Scientist
8 8 (4.94%) Software Engineer
9 7 (4.32%) AWS Data Engineer
9 7 (4.32%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (4.32%) Senior Software Engineer
10 6 (3.70%) Architect
10 6 (3.70%) Customer Engineer
10 6 (3.70%) Data Architect
10 6 (3.70%) Team Leader
11 4 (2.47%) Azure Architect
11 4 (2.47%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (10.49%) Kafka
1 17 (10.49%) Pandas
2 11 (6.79%) NumPy
3 9 (5.56%) Flask
4 5 (3.09%) scikit-learn
5 4 (2.47%) SQLAlchemy
6 3 (1.85%) Apache Avro
7 2 (1.23%) Apache Beam
7 2 (1.23%) Spark Streaming
8 1 (0.62%) ADO
8 1 (0.62%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.62%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.62%) CSS
8 1 (0.62%) HTML
8 1 (0.62%) Lambda Expressions
8 1 (0.62%) Matplotlib
8 1 (0.62%) React
8 1 (0.62%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 30 (18.52%) Algorithms
2 10 (6.17%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (4.94%) Reinsurance
4 7 (4.32%) Data Structures
5 6 (3.70%) IoT
6 5 (3.09%) Bitcoin
6 5 (3.09%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.23%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.23%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (1.23%) Linked Data
7 2 (1.23%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.62%) CSOC
8 1 (0.62%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.62%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.62%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.62%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (59.26%) ETL
2 76 (46.91%) Data Pipeline
3 73 (45.06%) Data Engineering
4 66 (40.74%) Data Science
5 64 (39.51%) Analytics
6 63 (38.89%) CI/CD
6 63 (38.89%) Data Modelling
7 56 (34.57%) Business Intelligence
8 53 (32.72%) Machine Learning
9 50 (30.86%) DevOps
10 29 (17.90%) Computer Science
11 25 (15.43%) Data Ingestion
11 25 (15.43%) Data Visualisation
11 25 (15.43%) Visualisation
12 22 (13.58%) Agile
12 22 (13.58%) Problem-Solving
13 21 (12.96%) Software Engineering
14 18 (11.11%) Data Strategy
15 17 (10.49%) Fintech
16 16 (9.88%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 142 (87.65%) Python
2 116 (71.60%) SQL
3 17 (10.49%) Scala
4 15 (9.26%) Java
5 10 (6.17%) C++
6 9 (5.56%) T-SQL
7 3 (1.85%) C#
7 3 (1.85%) R
7 3 (1.85%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.23%) Bash
8 2 (1.23%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.62%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 32 (19.75%) Degree
2 18 (11.11%) Master's Degree
3 17 (10.49%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (6.17%) Security Cleared
5 8 (4.94%) SC Cleared
6 4 (2.47%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (13.58%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.85%) QA
3 2 (1.23%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (5.56%) Docker
2 2 (1.23%) HDFS
2 2 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (7.41%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.32%) Terraform
3 2 (1.23%) Grafana
Vendors
1 95 (58.64%) Databricks
2 16 (9.88%) Microsoft
3 9 (5.56%) Google
4 6 (3.70%) Cloudera
5 4 (2.47%) Informatica
6 3 (1.85%) Foundry
6 3 (1.85%) Palantir
6 3 (1.85%) Teradata
7 2 (1.23%) Oracle
8 1 (0.62%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.62%) Minitab
8 1 (0.62%) PTC
8 1 (0.62%) SAP
8 1 (0.62%) Splunk