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 7 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 145 180
Rank change year-on-year -17 +35 +11
Permanent jobs citing PySpark 33 5 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.44% 0.15% 0.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.28% 1.45% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 29 1 6
10th Percentile £46,217 - £41,119
25th Percentile £62,376 - £44,738
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £55,233 £49,274
Median % change year-on-year +44.84% +12.09% -6.14%
75th Percentile £83,750 - £53,811
90th Percentile - - £70,655
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £92,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% -27.03% +23.33%

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 625 346 926
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 8.26% 10.40% 18.23%
Number of salaries quoted 494 260 693
10th Percentile £37,875 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £41,250 £42,500
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 £90,000 £75,000
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 7 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 7 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 -
West Yorkshire -26 14 £66,805 +20.95% 1
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 (15.15%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.03%) Apache
2 1 (3.03%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 23 (69.70%) Azure
2 17 (51.52%) Azure Data Factory
3 15 (45.45%) Serverless
4 11 (33.33%) AWS
5 9 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (27.27%) Azure Functions
5 9 (27.27%) Azure Logic Apps
5 9 (27.27%) Azure Monitor
6 6 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (18.18%) Azure Databricks
7 5 (15.15%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (15.15%) Amazon EMR
8 3 (9.09%) dbt
8 3 (9.09%) Power Platform
9 2 (6.06%) GCP
10 1 (3.03%) Amazon S3
10 1 (3.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (66.67%) Spark SQL
2 13 (39.39%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (15.15%) Metadata
4 3 (9.09%) Delta Lake
4 3 (9.09%) Power BI
4 3 (9.09%) Semantic Layer
5 2 (6.06%) Big Data
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (3.03%) Data Lake
6 1 (3.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (3.03%) JIRA
General
1 8 (24.24%) Public Sector
2 4 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (12.12%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.03%) Finance
Job Titles
1 31 (93.94%) Data Engineer
2 17 (51.52%) Lead
2 17 (51.52%) Lead Data Engineer
3 14 (42.42%) Databricks Engineer
4 13 (39.39%) Databricks Data Engineer
4 13 (39.39%) Platform Engineer
5 11 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
6 9 (27.27%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 9 (27.27%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 7 (21.21%) Senior
8 5 (15.15%) Senior Data Engineer
9 2 (6.06%) Azure Data Engineer
9 2 (6.06%) Principal Data Engineer
9 2 (6.06%) Principal Engineer
9 2 (6.06%) Senior Databricks Data Engineer
10 1 (3.03%) Data Scientist
10 1 (3.03%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (30.30%) Terraform
2 9 (27.27%) ARM Templates
2 9 (27.27%) REST
3 5 (15.15%) .NET
4 2 (6.06%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (87.88%) CI/CD
2 25 (75.76%) Data Engineering
3 20 (60.61%) ETL
3 20 (60.61%) Lakehouse
4 18 (54.55%) DevOps
4 18 (54.55%) Test Automation
5 17 (51.52%) Data Modelling
6 15 (45.45%) Analytics
7 14 (42.42%) Data Governance
7 14 (42.42%) Data Pipeline
7 14 (42.42%) Mentoring
8 13 (39.39%) Observability
8 13 (39.39%) Platform Engineering
9 12 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
10 11 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
10 11 (33.33%) Computer Science
10 11 (33.33%) Data Integration
11 9 (27.27%) Dashboard Development
11 9 (27.27%) Deployment Automation
11 9 (27.27%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (96.97%) SQL
2 21 (63.64%) Python
3 5 (15.15%) C#
3 5 (15.15%) C++
3 5 (15.15%) Java
3 5 (15.15%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.03%) R
4 1 (3.03%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (36.36%) Degree
2 11 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (12.12%) Security Cleared
4 2 (6.06%) Master's Degree
4 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (39.39%) Data Quality
2 9 (27.27%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (3.03%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 22 (66.67%) Databricks
2 2 (6.06%) Informatica
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft