PySpark Job Trends in Yorkshire

PySpark - Spark Python API
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring PySpark skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 159 174
Rank change year-on-year -5 +15 +14
Permanent jobs citing PySpark 30 5 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.40% 0.15% 0.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.96% 1.44% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 26 1 6
10th Percentile £46,217 - £41,119
25th Percentile £62,343 - £44,738
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £55,233 £49,274
Median % change year-on-year +40.31% +12.09% -6.14%
75th Percentile £83,750 - £53,811
90th Percentile - - £70,655
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £95,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% -28.95% +26.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 605 348 899
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 7.97% 10.48% 18.17%
Number of salaries quoted 475 257 651
10th Percentile £41,250 £33,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%

PySpark
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

PySpark job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

PySpark
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing PySpark.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing PySpark

PySpark
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing PySpark in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 14 September 2026.

Salary histogram for PySpark in Yorkshire

PySpark
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PySpark within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 14 September 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
South Yorkshire - 18 £81,250 - 2
West Yorkshire -21 11 £57,354 +3.84% 8
PySpark
England

PySpark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 5 (16.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.33%) Apache
2 1 (3.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 19 (63.33%) Azure
2 15 (50.00%) Serverless
3 14 (46.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 11 (36.67%) AWS
5 9 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (30.00%) Azure Functions
5 9 (30.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 9 (30.00%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (16.67%) Amazon EMR
6 5 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (13.33%) Azure Databricks
7 4 (13.33%) dbt
8 2 (6.67%) GCP
8 2 (6.67%) Power Platform
9 1 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (66.67%) Spark SQL
2 11 (36.67%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (20.00%) Metadata
4 4 (13.33%) Delta Lake
4 4 (13.33%) Semantic Layer
5 2 (6.67%) Big Data
5 2 (6.67%) Power BI
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (3.33%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
6 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Appium
1 1 (3.33%) JIRA
1 1 (3.33%) JMeter
1 1 (3.33%) Ranorex
1 1 (3.33%) Selenium
General
1 8 (26.67%) Public Sector
2 5 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Finance
5 1 (3.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 27 (90.00%) Data Engineer
2 15 (50.00%) Databricks Engineer
3 14 (46.67%) Databricks Data Engineer
3 14 (46.67%) Lead
3 14 (46.67%) Lead Data Engineer
4 11 (36.67%) Azure Engineer
4 11 (36.67%) Platform Engineer
5 9 (30.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 9 (30.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 8 (26.67%) Senior
7 6 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
8 3 (10.00%) Senior Databricks Data Engineer
9 2 (6.67%) Azure Data Engineer
10 1 (3.33%) Analyst
10 1 (3.33%) Automation Test Analyst
10 1 (3.33%) Data Scientist
10 1 (3.33%) Principal Data Engineer
10 1 (3.33%) Principal Engineer
10 1 (3.33%) Senior Data Scientist
10 1 (3.33%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (33.33%) Terraform
2 9 (30.00%) ARM Templates
2 9 (30.00%) REST
3 5 (16.67%) .NET
4 2 (6.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (86.67%) CI/CD
2 21 (70.00%) Data Engineering
3 19 (63.33%) ETL
4 18 (60.00%) Lakehouse
4 18 (60.00%) Test Automation
5 16 (53.33%) Data Modelling
5 16 (53.33%) DevOps
6 14 (46.67%) Analytics
6 14 (46.67%) Data Governance
6 14 (46.67%) Observability
7 13 (43.33%) Mentoring
8 11 (36.67%) Business Intelligence
8 11 (36.67%) Computer Science
8 11 (36.67%) Data Integration
8 11 (36.67%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (36.67%) Platform Engineering
9 10 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
10 9 (30.00%) Cost Optimisation
10 9 (30.00%) Dashboard Development
10 9 (30.00%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 29 (96.67%) SQL
2 19 (63.33%) Python
3 5 (16.67%) C#
3 5 (16.67%) C++
3 5 (16.67%) Java
3 5 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.33%) R
Qualifications
1 12 (40.00%) Degree
2 11 (36.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (13.33%) Security Cleared
4 2 (6.67%) Master's Degree
4 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (43.33%) Data Quality
2 9 (30.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 19 (63.33%) Databricks
2 3 (10.00%) Informatica
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.33%) SAP