PySpark Job Trends in Wakefield

PySpark - Spark Python API
West Yorkshire > Wakefield

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wakefield requiring PySpark skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing PySpark 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Wakefield 0.57% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.14% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 - -
75th Percentile £43,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median annual salary £66,762 £55,233 £49,274
% change year-on-year +20.87% +12.09% -10.41%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Wakefield

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 Wakefield.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 14 3 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wakefield 8.05% 3.66% 12.00%
Number of salaries quoted 14 3 6
10th Percentile - £44,500 £37,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +36.84% +39.71%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,375 £60,000
90th Percentile £69,375 £70,500 £65,625
West Yorkshire median annual salary £70,000 £67,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.32% +23.18% -15.38%

PySpark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wakefield 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 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EMR
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) SAP Data Services
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Appium
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) Ranorex
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Test Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Test Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Reconciliation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Informatica
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) SAP