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Which roles ask for PySpark at tech companies · 32 roles · 90 days to Oct 7, 2026

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32 roles counted that list PySpark, one per company, title and level; 45 postings in the window.

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In short

PySpark: listed in 32 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026. It was required in 25 and preferred in 7. The largest group is data engineer roles: 14 of 32. Each role counts once, however many job boards post it.

Required
25 of 32
Of the roles that list PySpark
Preferred
7 of 32
Of the roles that list PySpark
Largest group
14 of 32
Data engineer

Roles that ask for PySpark

Roles listing PySpark, by title family. Where the role has a page, the count is also out of that role's roles whose requirements we read.

RoleRolesOf the role's roles we read
Data engineer1414 of 99
Data scientist99 of 112
Forward deployed engineer22 of 63
Security engineer22 of 126
Data architect11 of 11
Machine learning engineer11 of 79
Research scientist11 of 39
Software architect11 of 32
Software engineer11 of 719

Companies that ask for it most

Asked alongside

Out of the 32 PySpark roles whose requirements we read: the other skills they ask for. Too few to show shares, so we show counts.

Required
SkillRoles asking
Python
30 of 32
SQL
25 of 32
Spark
13 of 32
Machine Learning
11 of 32
Data Modeling
10 of 32
Statistics
10 of 32
AWS
9 of 32
Azure
9 of 32
ETL
9 of 32
CI/CD
8 of 32
Preferred
SkillRoles asking
Databricks
13 of 32
Data Pipelines
7 of 32
Power BI
7 of 32
Tableau
7 of 32
CI/CD
6 of 32
LLMs
6 of 32
Machine Learning
6 of 32
Azure
5 of 32
Docker
5 of 32
Azure Data Factory
4 of 32

Experience

Of the 14 roles that state years

Each line counts roles asking for at least that many years, so the lines overlap.

1+ year
13 of 14
2+ years
11 of 14
3+ years
10 of 14
5+ years
7 of 14
8+ years
4 of 14
10+ years
4 of 14

Degree

Of the 16 roles we could read for it

Required
1 of 16
Required, or experience instead
6 of 16
Preferred
1 of 16
Not mentioned
8 of 16

Pay and remote work

Of the 32 roles we could read for it. Pay these roles state, not what the skill pays.

Roles stating pay
5 of 32
Remote roles
25 of 32

How we count: 32 roles from 24 employers in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026, each role counted once however many boards post it. Skills are counted out of the roles whose requirements we read. Roles are not filtered by country. Methodology