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

6 months to
4 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 478 690 753
Rank change year-on-year +212 +63 +59
Permanent jobs citing PySpark 478 265 590
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.45% 0.28% 0.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.21% 0.97% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 218 219 189
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £48,500
25th Percentile £59,063 £62,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.63% +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 £76,250 £65,000 £55,750
% change year-on-year +17.31% +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 21,619 27,268 70,689
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.43% 29.04% 41.49%
Number of salaries quoted 16,035 17,782 30,057
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,613 £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 £107,500 £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 4 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 4 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 +68 283 £80,000 - 97
UK excluding London +116 252 £76,250 +17.31% 48
London +135 205 £75,000 -18.92% 53
Work from Home +81 181 £70,000 -17.65% 58
Scotland +79 174 £65,000 -3.70% 9
North of England +52 46 £82,500 +26.92% 18
North West +24 40 £85,000 +9.68% 10
Midlands -3 14 £62,500 +13.64% 8
South West -36 12 £65,000 -20.00% 7
West Midlands +5 10 £62,500 +25.00% 2
Yorkshire +62 6 £80,000 +64.10% 6
East Midlands -26 4 - - 6
Northern Ireland - 3 £60,000 -
South East -39 2 £40,000 -38.46% 6
East of England -14 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
1 169 (35.36%) Apache Spark
2 141 (29.50%) Apache Airflow
3 42 (8.79%) Apache
4 4 (0.84%) Luigi
4 4 (0.84%) SAS
5 2 (0.42%) Confluence
6 1 (0.21%) Apache Pig
6 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.84%) Primavera
2 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 252 (52.72%) AWS
2 235 (49.16%) Azure
3 104 (21.76%) GCP
4 59 (12.34%) Azure Data Factory
5 55 (11.51%) Azure DevOps
5 55 (11.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 43 (9.00%) Power Platform
7 29 (6.07%) GitHub
8 28 (5.86%) Snowflake
9 27 (5.65%) dbt
10 21 (4.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 16 (3.35%) Amazon ECS
12 14 (2.93%) Serverless
13 12 (2.51%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (2.51%) Amazon EKS
13 12 (2.51%) Amazon S3
13 12 (2.51%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (2.51%) Power Automate
13 12 (2.51%) PowerApps
14 10 (2.09%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.42%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (28.87%) Data Lake
2 135 (28.24%) Big Data
3 79 (16.53%) Data Warehouse
4 62 (12.97%) SQL Server
5 47 (9.83%) Tableau
6 43 (9.00%) Power BI
7 40 (8.37%) Qlik Sense
8 33 (6.90%) Delta Lake
9 25 (5.23%) Azure SQL Database
10 24 (5.02%) Amazon Athena
11 21 (4.39%) Dremio
12 20 (4.18%) Data Vault
13 19 (3.97%) NoSQL
13 19 (3.97%) Spark SQL
14 15 (3.14%) Hadoop
15 12 (2.51%) Apache Arrow
15 12 (2.51%) Apache Ignite
16 10 (2.09%) Amazon Redshift
17 9 (1.88%) Data Mining
17 9 (1.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 71 (14.85%) Git
2 24 (5.02%) JIRA
3 16 (3.35%) Jenkins
4 11 (2.30%) MLflow
5 8 (1.67%) 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
1 249 (52.09%) Finance
2 191 (39.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 179 (37.45%) Law
4 106 (22.18%) Marketing
5 98 (20.50%) Social Skills
6 82 (17.15%) Legal
7 32 (6.69%) Banking
8 26 (5.44%) Analytical Skills
9 21 (4.39%) Front Office
10 12 (2.51%) Investment Banking
10 12 (2.51%) 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
13 2 (0.42%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.21%) Automotive
14 1 (0.21%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.21%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 297 (62.13%) Data Engineer
2 183 (38.28%) Software Engineer
3 182 (38.08%) Senior
4 128 (26.78%) Python Engineer
5 116 (24.27%) Lead
6 102 (21.34%) Python Software Engineer
7 90 (18.83%) Lead Software Engineer
8 79 (16.53%) Big Data Engineer
8 79 (16.53%) Big Data Software Engineer
9 77 (16.11%) Senior Data Engineer
10 57 (11.92%) Data Scientist
11 56 (11.72%) Lead Data Engineer
12 50 (10.46%) Azure Engineer
12 50 (10.46%) Senior Data Scientist
13 42 (8.79%) Azure Data Engineer
14 40 (8.37%) Lead Big Data Engineer
15 33 (6.90%) Senior Software Engineer
16 26 (5.44%) Python Data Engineer
17 14 (2.93%) Architect
18 9 (1.88%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (17.57%) Pandas
2 56 (11.72%) Kafka
3 47 (9.83%) scikit-learn
4 45 (9.41%) TensorFlow
5 23 (4.81%) NumPy
5 23 (4.81%) SciPy
6 12 (2.51%) gRPC
6 12 (2.51%) Protocol Buffers
7 9 (1.88%) AWS CDK
8 7 (1.46%) 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%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 90 (18.83%) Algorithms
2 54 (11.30%) Cloud Native
3 39 (8.16%) Onboarding
4 37 (7.74%) Reinsurance
5 28 (5.86%) Data Structures
6 27 (5.65%) Public Cloud
7 15 (3.14%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (2.51%) Derivative
8 12 (2.51%) Equities
8 12 (2.51%) Fixed Income
8 12 (2.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 12 (2.51%) Hedge funds
9 10 (2.09%) 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%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.42%) Linux
2 1 (0.21%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 288 (60.25%) Agile
2 210 (43.93%) CI/CD
2 210 (43.93%) Software Engineering
3 180 (37.66%) Machine Learning
4 178 (37.24%) SDLC
5 171 (35.77%) Operational Stability
6 149 (31.17%) Data Engineering
7 144 (30.13%) ETL
8 140 (29.29%) Artificial Intelligence
9 130 (27.20%) Community of Practice
10 101 (21.13%) Data Science
10 101 (21.13%) Decision-Making
11 100 (20.92%) Visualisation
12 87 (18.20%) Mentoring
13 81 (16.95%) Data Pipeline
14 80 (16.74%) Analytics
14 80 (16.74%) Data Modelling
15 77 (16.11%) Continuous Improvement
16 73 (15.27%) Risk Management
17 71 (14.85%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 427 (89.33%) Python
2 267 (55.86%) SQL
3 102 (21.34%) Java
4 19 (3.97%) T-SQL
5 14 (2.93%) R
6 12 (2.51%) JavaScript
6 12 (2.51%) Scala
6 12 (2.51%) TypeScript
7 7 (1.46%) C#
7 7 (1.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.42%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.21%) Julia
9 1 (0.21%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 73 (15.27%) Degree
2 49 (10.25%) Master's Degree
3 47 (9.83%) DBS Check
4 16 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (3.14%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (1.88%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.84%) CIMA
7 4 (0.84%) PhD
8 3 (0.63%) SC Cleared
8 3 (0.63%) Security Cleared
9 1 (0.21%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (16.95%) Data Quality
2 6 (1.26%) QA
System Software
1 7 (1.46%) Docker
2 6 (1.26%) HDFS
3 1 (0.21%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 65 (13.60%) Kubernetes
2 22 (4.60%) Terraform
Vendors
1 219 (45.82%) Databricks
2 39 (8.16%) Alteryx
3 37 (7.74%) Microsoft
4 35 (7.32%) Informatica
5 33 (6.90%) Oracle
6 12 (2.51%) Bloomberg
6 12 (2.51%) Reuters
7 9 (1.88%) Cloudera
7 9 (1.88%) Google
8 5 (1.05%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.05%) SAP
8 5 (1.05%) SnapLogic
9 4 (0.84%) Splunk
10 3 (0.63%) Teradata
11 2 (0.42%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.21%) Facebook
12 1 (0.21%) Foundry
12 1 (0.21%) Marketo
12 1 (0.21%) Palantir
12 1 (0.21%) Twitter