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 24 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 148 176
Rank change year-on-year -9 +28 +96
Permanent jobs citing PySpark 14 4 10
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.39% 0.13% 0.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.34% 0.85% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 8 4 5
10th Percentile £68,720 - £70,750
25th Percentile £74,500 £82,500 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,500 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.47% +6.25% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile - - £85,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £107,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -32.56% +53.57% -12.50%

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 419 471 887
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 11.76% 15.42% 22.61%
Number of salaries quoted 307 262 729
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,173
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -0.31% -8.05%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,778 £83,811
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -5.55%

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 24 January 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 24 January 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
West Yorkshire -11 12 £79,500 -6.47% 4
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 2 (14.29%) Confluence
2 1 (7.14%) Apache
2 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 13 (92.86%) Azure
2 7 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 5 (35.71%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (21.43%) AWS
4 3 (21.43%) Azure App Service
4 3 (21.43%) GitHub
4 3 (21.43%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
5 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (50.00%) Metadata
2 3 (21.43%) Spark SQL
3 2 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
4 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 5 (35.71%) Public Sector
2 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Finance
3 3 (21.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (100.00%) Data Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Lead
2 4 (28.57%) Lead Data Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Principal Data Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Principal Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Architect
3 3 (21.43%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Data Architect
3 3 (21.43%) Principal Architect
3 3 (21.43%) Principal Data Architect
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Cloud Native
1 3 (21.43%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Data Engineering
2 12 (85.71%) Analytics
3 11 (78.57%) Data Pipeline
4 7 (50.00%) AI
4 7 (50.00%) Data Security
4 7 (50.00%) Machine Learning
4 7 (50.00%) Mentoring
4 7 (50.00%) Migration
5 6 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (42.86%) DevOps
6 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
6 5 (35.71%) Data Governance
6 5 (35.71%) Decision-Making
6 5 (35.71%) Observability
7 4 (28.57%) Containerisation
7 4 (28.57%) Predictive Analytics
7 4 (28.57%) Roadmaps
7 4 (28.57%) Software Engineering
7 4 (28.57%) TDD
7 4 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 13 (92.86%) Python
1 13 (92.86%) SQL
2 4 (28.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.14%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (92.86%) Databricks
2 8 (57.14%) Microsoft