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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 148 162
Rank change year-on-year -10 +14 +19
Permanent jobs citing PySpark 30 7 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.39% 0.21% 0.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.16% 2.05% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 27 2 6
10th Percentile £44,230 £57,160 £41,119
25th Percentile £54,296 £60,050 £44,738
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,117 £49,274
Median % change year-on-year +11.75% +36.21% -1.45%
75th Percentile £83,750 £76,433 £53,811
90th Percentile - £80,673 £70,655
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,596 £100,000
% change year-on-year -0.84% -29.40% +33.33%

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 581 342 786
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 7.59% 10.14% 16.98%
Number of salaries quoted 459 251 521
10th Percentile £41,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £48,519 £40,625 £44,133
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,114 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.19% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.74%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 - 17 £75,000 - 2
West Yorkshire -24 13 £57,396 -14.48% 14
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 6 (20.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (6.67%) Palantir Foundry
3 1 (3.33%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 16 (53.33%) Azure
2 13 (43.33%) AWS
2 13 (43.33%) Serverless
3 10 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 7 (23.33%) dbt
5 6 (20.00%) Amazon EMR
5 6 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (20.00%) Azure Functions
5 6 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 6 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (13.33%) GCP
8 3 (10.00%) Azure Databricks
9 2 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (6.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (60.00%) Spark SQL
2 11 (36.67%) Metadata
3 8 (26.67%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (26.67%) Semantic Layer
4 7 (23.33%) Delta Lake
5 2 (6.67%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (6.67%) Big Data
5 2 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (6.67%) Power BI
5 2 (6.67%) SAP Data Services
5 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Appium
1 2 (6.67%) Git
1 2 (6.67%) JMeter
1 2 (6.67%) Ranorex
1 2 (6.67%) Selenium
General
1 8 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
1 8 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 7 (23.33%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.67%) Banking
3 2 (6.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 27 (90.00%) Data Engineer
2 15 (50.00%) Databricks Engineer
3 14 (46.67%) Databricks Data Engineer
4 10 (33.33%) Lead
4 10 (33.33%) Lead Data Engineer
5 9 (30.00%) Senior
6 8 (26.67%) Azure Engineer
6 8 (26.67%) Senior Data Engineer
7 7 (23.33%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (20.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 6 (20.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 6 (20.00%) Senior Databricks Data Engineer
9 2 (6.67%) Analyst
9 2 (6.67%) Automation Test Analyst
9 2 (6.67%) Azure Data Engineer
9 2 (6.67%) Palantir Engineer
9 2 (6.67%) Test Analyst
10 1 (3.33%) Principal Data Engineer
10 1 (3.33%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (23.33%) Terraform
2 6 (20.00%) ARM Templates
2 6 (20.00%) 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 20 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 19 (63.33%) ETL
4 18 (60.00%) Analytics
4 18 (60.00%) Data Engineering
5 17 (56.67%) Data Modelling
5 17 (56.67%) Lakehouse
6 15 (50.00%) Data Governance
6 15 (50.00%) Mentoring
7 14 (46.67%) Business Intelligence
7 14 (46.67%) Observability
8 11 (36.67%) DevOps
8 11 (36.67%) Metadata Management
8 11 (36.67%) Technical Leadership
9 10 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
10 9 (30.00%) Computer Science
10 9 (30.00%) Data Integration
10 9 (30.00%) Decision-Making
11 8 (26.67%) Data Science
11 8 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 29 (96.67%) SQL
2 17 (56.67%) Python
3 5 (16.67%) C#
3 5 (16.67%) C++
3 5 (16.67%) Java
3 5 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (30.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (30.00%) Degree
2 3 (10.00%) Master's Degree
2 3 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 6 (20.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (56.67%) Databricks
2 4 (13.33%) Informatica
3 2 (6.67%) Foundry
3 2 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.67%) Palantir
3 2 (6.67%) SAP