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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 500 686 746
Rank change year-on-year +186 +60 +71
Permanent jobs citing PySpark 476 264 600
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.44% 0.28% 0.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.18% 0.98% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 221 217 193
10th Percentile £52,500 £49,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £57,500
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 £110,000 £160,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £74,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +13.85% +13.04% -

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 21,837 27,028 70,934
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.14% 29.03% 41.27%
Number of salaries quoted 16,149 17,617 29,960
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,448 £37,750
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 £106,250 £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 9 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 9 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 +67 285 £80,000 - 89
UK excluding London +80 249 £74,000 +13.85% 37
London +107 206 £75,000 -18.92% 51
Work from Home +112 184 £70,000 -17.65% 50
Scotland +76 169 £65,000 -3.70% 3
North of England +50 48 £80,000 +23.08% 17
North West +26 42 £85,000 +9.68% 9
Midlands -23 14 £62,500 +13.64% 8
South West -31 12 £65,000 -20.00% 3
West Midlands -2 10 £62,500 +25.00% 2
Yorkshire +59 6 £80,000 +88.24% 6
East Midlands -33 4 - - 6
Northern Ireland - 3 £60,000 -
South East -39 2 £40,000 -40.74% 6
East of England -13 1 £55,000 - 1

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
1 167 (35.08%) Apache Spark
2 140 (29.41%) Apache Airflow
3 42 (8.82%) Apache
4 4 (0.84%) Confluence
4 4 (0.84%) Luigi
4 4 (0.84%) SAS
5 1 (0.21%) Apache Pig
5 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.84%) Primavera
2 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 246 (51.68%) AWS
2 239 (50.21%) Azure
3 104 (21.85%) GCP
4 62 (13.03%) Azure Data Factory
5 57 (11.97%) Azure DevOps
6 56 (11.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 45 (9.45%) Power Platform
8 31 (6.51%) GitHub
9 28 (5.88%) Snowflake
10 27 (5.67%) dbt
11 22 (4.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 16 (3.36%) Amazon ECS
13 14 (2.94%) Serverless
14 12 (2.52%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (2.52%) Amazon EKS
14 12 (2.52%) Power Automate
14 12 (2.52%) PowerApps
15 11 (2.31%) Amazon S3
15 11 (2.31%) AWS Lambda
16 10 (2.10%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.42%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (29.62%) Data Lake
2 136 (28.57%) Big Data
3 82 (17.23%) Data Warehouse
4 62 (13.03%) SQL Server
5 47 (9.87%) Tableau
6 45 (9.45%) Power BI
7 40 (8.40%) Qlik Sense
8 33 (6.93%) Delta Lake
9 28 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
10 24 (5.04%) Amazon Athena
11 21 (4.41%) Dremio
11 21 (4.41%) NoSQL
12 20 (4.20%) Data Vault
13 19 (3.99%) Spark SQL
14 15 (3.15%) Hadoop
15 12 (2.52%) Apache Arrow
15 12 (2.52%) Apache Ignite
16 11 (2.31%) Data Mining
17 9 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
17 9 (1.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 70 (14.71%) Git
2 26 (5.46%) JIRA
3 16 (3.36%) Jenkins
4 12 (2.52%) MLflow
5 8 (1.68%) CircleCI
6 4 (0.84%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (0.63%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (0.63%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.42%) GitLab
8 2 (0.42%) JMeter
8 2 (0.42%) JUnit
8 2 (0.42%) MSTest
8 2 (0.42%) NUnit
8 2 (0.42%) Postman
8 2 (0.42%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.21%) Selenium
9 1 (0.21%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.21%) Subversion
General
1 246 (51.68%) Finance
2 187 (39.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 174 (36.55%) Law
4 101 (21.22%) Marketing
5 98 (20.59%) Social Skills
6 82 (17.23%) Legal
7 31 (6.51%) Banking
8 26 (5.46%) Analytical Skills
9 21 (4.41%) Front Office
10 12 (2.52%) Investment Banking
10 12 (2.52%) Retail
11 6 (1.26%) Retail Banking
12 5 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.05%) Publishing
13 2 (0.42%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.21%) Automotive
14 1 (0.21%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.21%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.21%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 301 (63.24%) Data Engineer
2 180 (37.82%) Senior
3 177 (37.18%) Software Engineer
4 127 (26.68%) Python Engineer
5 112 (23.53%) Lead
6 100 (21.01%) Python Software Engineer
7 85 (17.86%) Lead Software Engineer
8 80 (16.81%) Senior Data Engineer
9 79 (16.60%) Big Data Engineer
9 79 (16.60%) Big Data Software Engineer
10 57 (11.97%) Data Scientist
10 57 (11.97%) Lead Data Engineer
11 52 (10.92%) Azure Engineer
12 50 (10.50%) Senior Data Scientist
13 44 (9.24%) Azure Data Engineer
14 40 (8.40%) Lead Big Data Engineer
15 28 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
16 27 (5.67%) Python Data Engineer
17 14 (2.94%) Architect
18 9 (1.89%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (17.65%) Pandas
2 56 (11.76%) Kafka
3 47 (9.87%) scikit-learn
4 45 (9.45%) TensorFlow
5 23 (4.83%) NumPy
5 23 (4.83%) SciPy
6 12 (2.52%) gRPC
6 12 (2.52%) Protocol Buffers
7 9 (1.89%) AWS CDK
8 8 (1.68%) JSON
9 6 (1.26%) Apache Avro
9 6 (1.26%) Apache Beam
9 6 (1.26%) Spark Streaming
10 4 (0.84%) SQLAlchemy
11 3 (0.63%) SOAP
12 2 (0.42%) MDX
12 2 (0.42%) Plotly
12 2 (0.42%) PyTorch
13 1 (0.21%) ARM Templates
13 1 (0.21%) React
Miscellaneous
1 90 (18.91%) Algorithms
2 53 (11.13%) Cloud Native
3 39 (8.19%) Onboarding
4 37 (7.77%) Reinsurance
5 30 (6.30%) Data Structures
6 27 (5.67%) Public Cloud
7 15 (3.15%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (2.52%) Derivative
8 12 (2.52%) Equities
8 12 (2.52%) Fixed Income
8 12 (2.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 12 (2.52%) Hedge funds
9 10 (2.10%) Product Ownership
10 6 (1.26%) Distributed Applications
10 6 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.05%) Low-Code
12 4 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (0.84%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 2 (0.42%) Hybrid Cloud
13 2 (0.42%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.42%) Linux
2 1 (0.21%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 286 (60.08%) Agile
2 210 (44.12%) CI/CD
3 204 (42.86%) Software Engineering
4 179 (37.61%) Machine Learning
5 173 (36.34%) SDLC
6 166 (34.87%) Operational Stability
7 148 (31.09%) Data Engineering
8 141 (29.62%) ETL
9 139 (29.20%) Artificial Intelligence
10 129 (27.10%) Community of Practice
11 102 (21.43%) Data Science
12 100 (21.01%) Visualisation
13 97 (20.38%) Decision-Making
14 87 (18.28%) Mentoring
15 84 (17.65%) Data Pipeline
16 83 (17.44%) Analytics
17 81 (17.02%) Data Modelling
18 78 (16.39%) Continuous Improvement
19 73 (15.34%) Risk Management
20 67 (14.08%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 424 (89.08%) Python
2 271 (56.93%) SQL
3 98 (20.59%) Java
4 20 (4.20%) T-SQL
5 14 (2.94%) R
6 12 (2.52%) JavaScript
6 12 (2.52%) Scala
6 12 (2.52%) TypeScript
7 7 (1.47%) C#
7 7 (1.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.42%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.21%) Julia
9 1 (0.21%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 73 (15.34%) Degree
2 49 (10.29%) Master's Degree
3 47 (9.87%) DBS Check
4 16 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (3.15%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (1.89%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.84%) CIMA
7 4 (0.84%) PhD
8 2 (0.42%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.42%) Security Cleared
9 1 (0.21%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (16.60%) Data Quality
2 6 (1.26%) QA
System Software
1 7 (1.47%) Docker
2 6 (1.26%) HDFS
3 1 (0.21%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 66 (13.87%) Kubernetes
2 21 (4.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 223 (46.85%) Databricks
2 39 (8.19%) Alteryx
3 37 (7.77%) Informatica
3 37 (7.77%) Microsoft
4 33 (6.93%) Oracle
5 12 (2.52%) Bloomberg
5 12 (2.52%) Reuters
6 9 (1.89%) Cloudera
6 9 (1.89%) Google
7 5 (1.05%) OpenAI
7 5 (1.05%) SAP
7 5 (1.05%) SnapLogic
8 4 (0.84%) Splunk
9 3 (0.63%) Teradata
10 2 (0.42%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.21%) Facebook
11 1 (0.21%) Foundry
11 1 (0.21%) Marketo
11 1 (0.21%) Palantir
11 1 (0.21%) Twitter