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 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 140 209
Rank change year-on-year -32 +69 +88
Permanent jobs citing PySpark 23 3 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.41% 0.13% 0.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.07% 0.81% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 17 3 7
10th Percentile £64,683 - £54,750
25th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £71,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.53% +6.25% +28.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £92,500 - £84,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £110,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -31.82% +57.14% -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 565 369 1,075
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 10.05% 16.13% 19.22%
Number of salaries quoted 431 302 910
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,356 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,125 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.61% +0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,840 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,778 £78,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,268 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.91% +10.45% -11.11%

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 16 April 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 16 April 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 -30 13 £80,000 -5.88% 8
South Yorkshire - 7 £82,500 -
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 3 (13.04%) Confluence
2 1 (4.35%) Apache
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 20 (86.96%) Azure
2 11 (47.83%) Azure Data Factory
3 7 (30.43%) Serverless
4 6 (26.09%) Microsoft Purview
5 5 (21.74%) AWS
5 5 (21.74%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (21.74%) Azure Functions
5 5 (21.74%) Azure Logic Apps
5 5 (21.74%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (13.04%) Azure App Service
6 3 (13.04%) GitHub
6 3 (13.04%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (8.70%) Amazon S3
7 2 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (4.35%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (43.48%) Spark SQL
2 7 (30.43%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (21.74%) Metadata
4 3 (13.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (8.70%) Data Lake
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (4.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) JIRA
General
1 4 (17.39%) Finance
2 3 (13.04%) Public Sector
2 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (95.65%) Data Engineer
2 12 (52.17%) Lead
2 12 (52.17%) Lead Data Engineer
3 8 (34.78%) Platform Engineer
4 5 (21.74%) Azure Engineer
4 5 (21.74%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 5 (21.74%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Principal Data Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Principal Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Senior
6 2 (8.70%) Senior Data Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Architect
7 1 (4.35%) AWS Data Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Data Architect
7 1 (4.35%) Data Scientist
7 1 (4.35%) Principal Architect
7 1 (4.35%) Principal Data Architect
7 1 (4.35%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (21.74%) ARM Templates
1 5 (21.74%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Cloud Native
1 3 (13.04%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (4.35%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (91.30%) Data Engineering
2 16 (69.57%) CI/CD
3 15 (65.22%) Data Pipeline
4 14 (60.87%) DevOps
5 11 (47.83%) Analytics
5 11 (47.83%) Data Modelling
6 10 (43.48%) Data Governance
6 10 (43.48%) Observability
7 8 (34.78%) ETL
7 8 (34.78%) Platform Engineering
7 8 (34.78%) Regulatory Compliance
7 8 (34.78%) Test Automation
8 7 (30.43%) AI
8 7 (30.43%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (30.43%) Mentoring
9 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (26.09%) Machine Learning
10 5 (21.74%) Cost Optimisation
10 5 (21.74%) Decision-Making
10 5 (21.74%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 23 (100.00%) SQL
2 20 (86.96%) Python
3 3 (13.04%) T-SQL
4 1 (4.35%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (26.09%) Degree
2 5 (21.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (17.39%) Security Cleared
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (21.74%) Data Quality
1 5 (21.74%) GDPR
2 1 (4.35%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 5 (21.74%) Terraform
2 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 21 (91.30%) Databricks
2 6 (26.09%) Microsoft