PySpark Job Trends in West Yorkshire

PySpark - Spark Python API
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring PySpark skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 106 143
Rank change year-on-year -21 +37 +37
Permanent jobs citing PySpark 11 2 6
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 0.30% 0.13% 0.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.63% 0.93% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 8 0 5
10th Percentile £62,008 - £40,395
25th Percentile £62,365 - £44,738
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 - £49,274
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.07%
75th Percentile £82,813 - £82,500
90th Percentile £83,750 - -
Yorkshire median annual salary £82,500 - £49,274
% change year-on-year - - -1.45%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 419 216 551
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 11.28% 14.16% 19.66%
Number of salaries quoted 311 163 467
10th Percentile £42,500 £25,313 £32,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £42,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +18.18% -14.10%
75th Percentile £76,875 £78,125 £69,750
90th Percentile £90,800 £90,000 £79,550
Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -4.35%

PySpark
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PySpark relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

PySpark job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

PySpark
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing PySpark.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing PySpark

PySpark
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing PySpark in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 19 July 2026.

Salary histogram for PySpark in West Yorkshire

PySpark
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PySpark within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 19 July 2026. 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
Leeds -34 11 £73,750 -
PySpark
Yorkshire

PySpark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (36.36%) Apache Spark
2 1 (9.09%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) Azure
2 5 (45.45%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (36.36%) AWS
4 3 (27.27%) Power Platform
5 2 (18.18%) GCP
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
6 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) Spark SQL
2 4 (36.36%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (27.27%) Power BI
4 2 (18.18%) Metadata
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (9.09%) Big Data
5 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
General
1 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (90.91%) Data Engineer
2 5 (45.45%) Lead
2 5 (45.45%) Lead Data Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Data Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Principal Data Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Principal Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Data Scientist
4 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Data Pipeline
2 8 (72.73%) CI/CD
3 6 (54.55%) Data Engineering
4 5 (45.45%) Analytics
4 5 (45.45%) DevOps
4 5 (45.45%) ETL
4 5 (45.45%) Mentoring
5 4 (36.36%) Data Modelling
5 4 (36.36%) Machine Learning
6 3 (27.27%) AI
6 3 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (27.27%) Data Science
6 3 (27.27%) Data Transformation
6 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (27.27%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (27.27%) Test Automation
7 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (18.18%) Data Governance
7 2 (18.18%) Decision-Making
7 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) Python
1 10 (90.91%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) R
2 1 (9.09%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Degree
2 2 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (18.18%) Master's Degree
2 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
3 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Databricks
2 1 (9.09%) Informatica
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft