PySpark Contracts in England

PySpark - Spark Python API
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring PySpark skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PySpark over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 334 413 492
Rank change year-on-year +79 +79 -39
Contract jobs citing PySpark 221 232 315
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.59% 0.49% 0.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.82% 2.18% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 163 217
10th Percentile £409 £451 £463
25th Percentile £468 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +10.09%
75th Percentile £650 £744 £725
90th Percentile £825 £880 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £20.65 - -
25th Percentile £20.88 - -
Median hourly rate £21.50 - £78.75
75th Percentile £21.88 - -
90th Percentile £21.95 - -
UK median hourly rate £20.74 - £78.75
% change year-on-year - - +202.88%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

PySpark falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,836 10,653 18,688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.89% 22.65% 26.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,490 7,931 14,067
10th Percentile £350 £394 £400
25th Percentile £431 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £800 £798 £775
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 136 204
10th Percentile £22.73 £32.88 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £49.75 £65.00 £53.25
Median % change year-on-year -23.46% +22.07% +17.03%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £76.89
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% +16.67%

PySpark
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for PySpark in England

PySpark
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PySpark in England.

Daily rate trend for PySpark in England

PySpark
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PySpark in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PySpark in England

PySpark
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PySpark in England.

Hourly rate trend for PySpark in England

PySpark
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PySpark within the England region over the 6 months to 12 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +87 167 £550 -11.29% 49
North of England 0 16 £485 -22.40% 16
North West +22 10 £485 -33.10% 7
South East +19 9 £375 -38.78% 5
South West 0 7 £460 -20.00% 3
Yorkshire -8 6 £488 -25.00% 7
West Midlands +18 2 £600 +26.32% 2
Midlands +14 2 £600 +26.32% 8
PySpark
UK

PySpark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 52 (23.53%) Apache Spark
2 37 (16.74%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (14.03%) Apache
4 1 (0.45%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (1.81%) Sketch
2 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.45%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 135 (61.09%) Azure
2 74 (33.48%) AWS
3 45 (20.36%) Azure Data Factory
4 36 (16.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 30 (13.57%) Power Platform
6 25 (11.31%) GCP
6 25 (11.31%) Serverless
7 20 (9.05%) Snowflake
8 18 (8.14%) Amazon S3
9 17 (7.69%) dbt
10 15 (6.79%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (6.33%) Azure Logic Apps
12 12 (5.43%) GitHub
13 11 (4.98%) AWS Lambda
13 11 (4.98%) Azure Monitor
14 10 (4.52%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (4.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 9 (4.07%) Entra ID
16 8 (3.62%) Amazon EKS
16 8 (3.62%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.36%) DAB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (32.13%) Data Lake
2 55 (24.89%) Big Data
3 48 (21.72%) Data Warehouse
4 30 (13.57%) Power BI
5 25 (11.31%) Delta Lake
6 19 (8.60%) Amazon Athena
6 19 (8.60%) Spark SQL
7 16 (7.24%) Azure SQL Database
7 16 (7.24%) NoSQL
8 14 (6.33%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (4.52%) Apache Hive
9 10 (4.52%) Dremio
10 9 (4.07%) Hadoop
10 9 (4.07%) Parquet
10 9 (4.07%) Relational Database
10 9 (4.07%) SQL Server
10 9 (4.07%) Tableau
11 8 (3.62%) Impala
12 6 (2.71%) Apache Arrow
12 6 (2.71%) Apache Ignite
Development Applications
1 22 (9.95%) Git
2 9 (4.07%) JIRA
3 5 (2.26%) GitLab
4 4 (1.81%) Deequ
5 2 (0.90%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.90%) JMeter
5 2 (0.90%) TestCafe
5 2 (0.90%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.45%) Maven
6 1 (0.45%) MLflow
6 1 (0.45%) RStudio
6 1 (0.45%) Subversion
6 1 (0.45%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.45%) Travis CI
General
1 54 (24.43%) Finance
2 39 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 36 (16.29%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (12.67%) Banking
5 14 (6.33%) Front Office
6 13 (5.88%) Public Sector
7 12 (5.43%) Investment Banking
8 10 (4.52%) Marketing
9 9 (4.07%) Retail
10 6 (2.71%) Pharmaceutical
10 6 (2.71%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.90%) Czech Language
11 2 (0.90%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.45%) Law
12 1 (0.45%) Legal
12 1 (0.45%) Multimedia
12 1 (0.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 123 (55.66%) Data Engineer
2 44 (19.91%) Azure Engineer
3 41 (18.55%) Azure Data Engineer
4 31 (14.03%) Developer
5 28 (12.67%) Python Engineer
6 25 (11.31%) Senior
7 23 (10.41%) Python Data Engineer
8 22 (9.95%) Lead
9 20 (9.05%) Architect
10 19 (8.60%) Senior Data Engineer
11 18 (8.14%) Python Developer
12 17 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
13 12 (5.43%) AWS Data Engineer
14 10 (4.52%) Data Scientist
14 10 (4.52%) Solutions Architect
15 9 (4.07%) Analyst
15 9 (4.07%) AWS Architect
15 9 (4.07%) AWS Solution Architect
15 9 (4.07%) Data Analyst
16 8 (3.62%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (10.41%) Pandas
2 22 (9.95%) NumPy
3 12 (5.43%) Kafka
4 10 (4.52%) SciPy
5 8 (3.62%) SAML
6 7 (3.17%) Apache Avro
6 7 (3.17%) pytest
7 6 (2.71%) ARM Templates
7 6 (2.71%) gRPC
7 6 (2.71%) Protocol Buffers
7 6 (2.71%) REST
8 5 (2.26%) JSON
8 5 (2.26%) JSON Schema
9 4 (1.81%) CSS
9 4 (1.81%) Great Expectations
9 4 (1.81%) HTML
9 4 (1.81%) React
10 3 (1.36%) Django
10 3 (1.36%) Flask
10 3 (1.36%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 8 (3.62%) Data Structures
2 7 (3.17%) Hedge funds
3 6 (2.71%) Algorithms
3 6 (2.71%) Derivative
3 6 (2.71%) Equities
3 6 (2.71%) Fixed Income
3 6 (2.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (2.26%) Biopharmaceutical
5 4 (1.81%) Distributed Computing
5 4 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (0.90%) Low-Code
6 2 (0.90%) NHS
6 2 (0.90%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.90%) Product Ownership
6 2 (0.90%) Public Cloud
6 2 (0.90%) Tandem
7 1 (0.45%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.45%) IoT
7 1 (0.45%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.26%) Linux
2 4 (1.81%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (37.56%) ETL
2 75 (33.94%) Data Engineering
3 74 (33.48%) Analytics
4 73 (33.03%) Data Pipeline
5 66 (29.86%) Agile
6 61 (27.60%) Data Modelling
7 51 (23.08%) CI/CD
8 41 (18.55%) DevOps
9 35 (15.84%) Business Intelligence
10 34 (15.38%) Data Science
11 32 (14.48%) Software Engineering
12 23 (10.41%) Problem-Solving
13 22 (9.95%) Continuous Integration
14 20 (9.05%) Data Governance
15 19 (8.60%) Migration
16 18 (8.14%) Data Integration
17 17 (7.69%) Data Transformation
18 16 (7.24%) Visualisation
19 15 (6.79%) SDLC
20 14 (6.33%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 196 (88.69%) Python
2 111 (50.23%) SQL
3 34 (15.38%) Scala
4 22 (9.95%) Java
5 13 (5.88%) JavaScript
6 11 (4.98%) T-SQL
7 8 (3.62%) TypeScript
8 6 (2.71%) Bash
8 6 (2.71%) R
9 4 (1.81%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.90%) Groovy
11 1 (0.45%) C#
11 1 (0.45%) C++
11 1 (0.45%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 23 (10.41%) Security Cleared
2 19 (8.60%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.98%) Degree
4 9 (4.07%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.26%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.81%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.90%) IBM Certification
9 2 (0.90%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.45%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (17.19%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.81%) QA
3 1 (0.45%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (3.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (8.14%) Terraform
2 11 (4.98%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.81%) Argo
3 4 (1.81%) Grafana
4 1 (0.45%) Ganglia
4 1 (0.45%) Kibana
Vendors
1 113 (51.13%) Databricks
2 27 (12.22%) Microsoft
3 10 (4.52%) Foundry
3 10 (4.52%) Palantir
4 9 (4.07%) Oracle
5 8 (3.62%) Talend
6 7 (3.17%) Google
6 7 (3.17%) SAP
7 6 (2.71%) Bloomberg
7 6 (2.71%) Cloudera
7 6 (2.71%) Reuters
8 3 (1.36%) Ab Initio
8 3 (1.36%) Informatica
9 2 (0.90%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.90%) IBM
9 2 (0.90%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.45%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.45%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.45%) Sybase
10 1 (0.45%) Workday