PySpark - Spark Python API
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for PySpark skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited PySpark over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 502 683 742
Rank change year-on-year +181 +59 +84
Permanent jobs citing PySpark 461 266 589
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.44% 0.28% 0.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.14% 0.96% 0.84%
Number of salaries quoted 200 220 188
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £48,375
25th Percentile £58,438 £62,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £90,000 £105,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £160,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £55,750
% change year-on-year +15.38% +16.59% -3.04%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

PySpark is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 21,566 27,616 70,286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.49% 29.13% 41.57%
Number of salaries quoted 16,031 17,933 29,817
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,834 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,650 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

PySpark
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing PySpark as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for PySpark in the UK

PySpark
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PySpark.

Salary trend for PySpark in the UK

PySpark
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing PySpark over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for PySpark in the UK

PySpark
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PySpark within the UK over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. 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
England +92 266 £70,000 -12.50% 91
UK excluding London +108 251 £75,000 +15.38% 43
London +129 189 £70,000 -24.32% 51
Scotland +72 174 £65,000 -3.70% 7
Work from Home +82 164 £70,000 -17.65% 49
North of England +55 45 £80,000 +23.08% 13
North West +19 39 £85,000 +9.68% 8
Midlands -4 14 £62,500 +13.64% 7
South West -28 12 £65,000 -20.00% 7
West Midlands -2 10 £62,500 +25.00% 1
Yorkshire +56 6 £80,000 +64.10% 4
East Midlands -16 4 - - 6
Northern Ireland - 3 £60,000 -
South East -43 2 £40,000 -38.46% 8
East of England -7 1 £55,000 - 2

PySpark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 170 (36.88%) Apache Spark
2 127 (27.55%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (6.72%) Apache
4 4 (0.87%) Luigi
4 4 (0.87%) SAS
5 2 (0.43%) Confluence
6 1 (0.22%) Apache Pig
6 1 (0.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.87%) Primavera
2 1 (0.22%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 238 (51.63%) AWS
2 230 (49.89%) Azure
3 90 (19.52%) GCP
4 59 (12.80%) Azure Data Factory
5 55 (11.93%) Azure DevOps
6 53 (11.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 42 (9.11%) Power Platform
8 30 (6.51%) GitHub
9 21 (4.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 16 (3.47%) Snowflake
11 14 (3.04%) Serverless
12 12 (2.60%) Amazon S3
12 12 (2.60%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (2.60%) dbt
12 12 (2.60%) Power Automate
12 12 (2.60%) PowerApps
13 11 (2.39%) GitHub Actions
14 10 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
15 8 (1.74%) Amazon Kinesis
15 8 (1.74%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.43%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (29.50%) Big Data
2 122 (26.46%) Data Lake
3 80 (17.35%) Data Warehouse
4 60 (13.02%) SQL Server
5 47 (10.20%) Tableau
6 42 (9.11%) Power BI
7 40 (8.68%) Qlik Sense
8 33 (7.16%) Delta Lake
9 25 (5.42%) Azure SQL Database
10 20 (4.34%) Data Vault
10 20 (4.34%) NoSQL
11 19 (4.12%) Spark SQL
12 16 (3.47%) Hadoop
13 10 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
14 9 (1.95%) Amazon Athena
14 9 (1.95%) Data Mining
14 9 (1.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 8 (1.74%) Apache Hive
15 8 (1.74%) MySQL
16 7 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 72 (15.62%) Git
2 24 (5.21%) JIRA
3 17 (3.69%) Jenkins
4 11 (2.39%) MLflow
5 9 (1.95%) CircleCI
6 4 (0.87%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (0.65%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (0.65%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.43%) GitLab
8 2 (0.43%) JMeter
8 2 (0.43%) JUnit
8 2 (0.43%) MSTest
8 2 (0.43%) NUnit
8 2 (0.43%) Postman
8 2 (0.43%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.22%) Selenium
9 1 (0.22%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.22%) Subversion
General
1 235 (50.98%) Finance
2 191 (41.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 179 (38.83%) Law
4 106 (22.99%) Marketing
5 98 (21.26%) Social Skills
6 82 (17.79%) Legal
7 26 (5.64%) Analytical Skills
8 18 (3.90%) Banking
9 12 (2.60%) Retail
10 7 (1.52%) Retail Banking
11 6 (1.30%) Front Office
12 5 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.08%) Publishing
13 2 (0.43%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.43%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.22%) Automotive
14 1 (0.22%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.22%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 292 (63.34%) Data Engineer
2 183 (39.70%) Senior
3 177 (38.39%) Software Engineer
4 121 (26.25%) Python Engineer
5 108 (23.43%) Lead
6 99 (21.48%) Python Software Engineer
7 84 (18.22%) Lead Software Engineer
8 79 (17.14%) Big Data Engineer
8 79 (17.14%) Big Data Software Engineer
9 78 (16.92%) Senior Data Engineer
10 57 (12.36%) Data Scientist
11 54 (11.71%) Lead Data Engineer
12 50 (10.85%) Senior Data Scientist
13 49 (10.63%) Azure Engineer
14 41 (8.89%) Azure Data Engineer
15 40 (8.68%) Lead Big Data Engineer
16 33 (7.16%) Senior Software Engineer
17 22 (4.77%) Python Data Engineer
18 9 (1.95%) Consultant
18 9 (1.95%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (14.97%) Pandas
2 57 (12.36%) Kafka
3 47 (10.20%) scikit-learn
4 45 (9.76%) TensorFlow
5 9 (1.95%) AWS CDK
6 8 (1.74%) NumPy
6 8 (1.74%) SciPy
7 7 (1.52%) Apache Avro
7 7 (1.52%) Apache Beam
7 7 (1.52%) JSON
7 7 (1.52%) Spark Streaming
8 4 (0.87%) SQLAlchemy
9 3 (0.65%) SOAP
10 2 (0.43%) MDX
10 2 (0.43%) Plotly
10 2 (0.43%) PyTorch
11 1 (0.22%) ARM Templates
11 1 (0.22%) jQuery
11 1 (0.22%) RESTful
11 1 (0.22%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 90 (19.52%) Algorithms
2 54 (11.71%) Cloud Native
3 39 (8.46%) Onboarding
4 36 (7.81%) Reinsurance
5 28 (6.07%) Data Structures
6 26 (5.64%) Public Cloud
7 16 (3.47%) Greenfield Project
8 10 (2.17%) Product Ownership
9 7 (1.52%) Distributed Applications
9 7 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (1.08%) Low-Code
11 4 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.87%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 2 (0.43%) Hybrid Cloud
12 2 (0.43%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.43%) PropTech
13 1 (0.22%) Blockchain
13 1 (0.22%) Distributed Computing
13 1 (0.22%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.43%) Linux
2 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 273 (59.22%) Agile
2 211 (45.77%) CI/CD
3 196 (42.52%) Software Engineering
4 181 (39.26%) Machine Learning
5 179 (38.83%) SDLC
6 171 (37.09%) Operational Stability
7 146 (31.67%) Data Engineering
8 143 (31.02%) ETL
9 140 (30.37%) Artificial Intelligence
10 130 (28.20%) Community of Practice
11 101 (21.91%) Data Science
11 101 (21.91%) Decision-Making
12 100 (21.69%) Visualisation
13 87 (18.87%) Mentoring
14 82 (17.79%) Data Pipeline
15 78 (16.92%) Analytics
15 78 (16.92%) Continuous Improvement
15 78 (16.92%) Data Modelling
16 73 (15.84%) Risk Management
17 71 (15.40%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 410 (88.94%) Python
2 253 (54.88%) SQL
3 88 (19.09%) Java
4 18 (3.90%) T-SQL
5 14 (3.04%) R
6 13 (2.82%) Scala
7 7 (1.52%) C#
7 7 (1.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.43%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.22%) Julia
9 1 (0.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 73 (15.84%) Degree
2 49 (10.63%) Master's Degree
3 47 (10.20%) DBS Check
4 16 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (3.25%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (1.95%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.87%) CIMA
7 4 (0.87%) PhD
8 3 (0.65%) SC Cleared
8 3 (0.65%) Security Cleared
9 1 (0.22%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (17.57%) Data Quality
2 6 (1.30%) QA
System Software
1 7 (1.52%) Docker
1 7 (1.52%) HDFS
2 1 (0.22%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 65 (14.10%) Kubernetes
2 22 (4.77%) Terraform
Vendors
1 219 (47.51%) Databricks
2 39 (8.46%) Alteryx
3 37 (8.03%) Microsoft
4 34 (7.38%) Informatica
5 32 (6.94%) Oracle
6 10 (2.17%) Cloudera
7 9 (1.95%) Google
8 5 (1.08%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.08%) SAP
8 5 (1.08%) SnapLogic
9 4 (0.87%) Splunk
10 3 (0.65%) Teradata
11 2 (0.43%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.22%) Facebook
12 1 (0.22%) Foundry
12 1 (0.22%) Marketo
12 1 (0.22%) Palantir
12 1 (0.22%) Salesforce
12 1 (0.22%) Twitter