PySpark - Spark Python API
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for PySpark skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PySpark over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 366 431 481
Rank change year-on-year +65 +50 -58
Contract jobs citing PySpark 226 267 414
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.53% 0.47% 0.47%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.54% 2.02% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 180 262
10th Percentile £413 £456 £463
25th Percentile £475 £513 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £625 £702 £695
90th Percentile £763 £880 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £600 £558
% change year-on-year -16.67% +7.62% +1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £15.45 - -
25th Percentile £15.81 - -
Median hourly rate £20.47 - £78.75
75th Percentile £21.50 - -
90th Percentile £22.85 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.14 - -

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,897 13,217 23,596
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.91% 23.20% 26.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,169 9,648 17,304
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 149 241
10th Percentile £21.25 £29.15 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.76
90th Percentile £74.70 £81.25 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.25
% change year-on-year -26.92% +29.35% +11.67%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for PySpark in the UK

PySpark
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PySpark over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PySpark in the UK

PySpark
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for PySpark in the UK

PySpark
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PySpark within the UK over the 6 months to 16 May 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
England +65 183 £550 -8.33% 62
London +74 140 £550 -10.57% 34
Work from Home +83 82 £500 -17.53% 38
UK excluding London +51 52 £500 -16.67% 33
Scotland +47 17 £500 -4.76% 7
North of England +8 11 £490 -18.33% 4
North West +25 7 £475 -9.52% 2
South East +17 7 £375 -37.50% 3
South West +6 7 £463 -15.33% 6
Wales - 6 £330 -
Yorkshire -8 4 £490 -24.62% 2
West Midlands - 4 £600 - 5
Midlands - 4 £600 - 9

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 50 (22.12%) Apache Spark
2 33 (14.60%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (11.95%) Apache
4 1 (0.44%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.88%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 133 (58.85%) Azure
2 70 (30.97%) AWS
3 55 (24.34%) Azure Data Factory
4 43 (19.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 37 (16.37%) Serverless
6 36 (15.93%) Power Platform
7 20 (8.85%) Amazon S3
7 20 (8.85%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (7.08%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (7.08%) Snowflake
9 15 (6.64%) dbt
10 14 (6.19%) Azure Monitor
11 12 (5.31%) Amazon EMR
11 12 (5.31%) GCP
12 11 (4.87%) Amazon Kinesis
12 11 (4.87%) Azure Logic Apps
13 10 (4.42%) AWS Step Functions
13 10 (4.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 9 (3.98%) Entra ID
15 8 (3.54%) Azure Key Vault
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (29.20%) Big Data
1 66 (29.20%) Data Lake
2 56 (24.78%) Data Warehouse
3 36 (15.93%) Power BI
4 26 (11.50%) Delta Lake
5 21 (9.29%) Amazon Redshift
6 19 (8.41%) Spark SQL
7 18 (7.96%) Azure SQL Database
8 13 (5.75%) Parquet
9 12 (5.31%) Amazon Athena
9 12 (5.31%) NoSQL
10 11 (4.87%) Apache Hive
11 10 (4.42%) Relational Database
11 10 (4.42%) SQL Server
11 10 (4.42%) Tableau
12 8 (3.54%) Hadoop
12 8 (3.54%) Impala
13 6 (2.65%) Data Mining
14 5 (2.21%) Data Mart
14 5 (2.21%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 26 (11.50%) Git
2 9 (3.98%) JIRA
3 4 (1.77%) Deequ
3 4 (1.77%) GitLab
4 2 (0.88%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.88%) MLflow
5 1 (0.44%) JMeter
5 1 (0.44%) Maven
5 1 (0.44%) RStudio
5 1 (0.44%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.44%) TestCafe
5 1 (0.44%) Travis CI
5 1 (0.44%) Zephyr
General
1 48 (21.24%) Finance
2 42 (18.58%) Social Skills
3 32 (14.16%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (6.19%) Banking
4 14 (6.19%) Public Sector
5 10 (4.42%) Marketing
6 7 (3.10%) Retail
7 6 (2.65%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.77%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.77%) Front Office
8 4 (1.77%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.77%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.88%) Back Office
9 2 (0.88%) Czech Language
9 2 (0.88%) Health Technology
9 2 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.44%) Law
10 1 (0.44%) Legal
10 1 (0.44%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.44%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 122 (53.98%) Data Engineer
2 54 (23.89%) Azure Engineer
3 48 (21.24%) Azure Data Engineer
4 30 (13.27%) Developer
5 25 (11.06%) Senior
6 23 (10.18%) Python Engineer
7 19 (8.41%) Architect
7 19 (8.41%) Lead
7 19 (8.41%) Python Developer
8 18 (7.96%) AWS Engineer
8 18 (7.96%) Python Data Engineer
9 16 (7.08%) AWS Data Engineer
9 16 (7.08%) Senior Data Engineer
10 14 (6.19%) Data Scientist
11 9 (3.98%) Analyst
11 9 (3.98%) Data Analyst
12 8 (3.54%) AWS Architect
12 8 (3.54%) Data Architect
12 8 (3.54%) Lead Data Engineer
12 8 (3.54%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (8.41%) Kafka
2 15 (6.64%) NumPy
2 15 (6.64%) Pandas
3 11 (4.87%) Apache Avro
4 8 (3.54%) SAML
5 7 (3.10%) ARM Templates
6 5 (2.21%) JSON
6 5 (2.21%) JSON Schema
6 5 (2.21%) pytest
6 5 (2.21%) PyTorch
6 5 (2.21%) REST
7 4 (1.77%) Great Expectations
8 3 (1.33%) Django
8 3 (1.33%) Flask
8 3 (1.33%) TensorFlow
9 2 (0.88%) .NET
9 2 (0.88%) CSS
9 2 (0.88%) HTML
9 2 (0.88%) Unity DI Container
9 2 (0.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (3.54%) Distributed Computing
2 6 (2.65%) Algorithms
2 6 (2.65%) Data Structures
3 4 (1.77%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (1.33%) Biopharmaceutical
4 3 (1.33%) Market Risk
4 3 (1.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 2 (0.88%) NHS
5 2 (0.88%) Onboarding
5 2 (0.88%) Public Cloud
5 2 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.44%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.44%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.44%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.44%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.44%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.44%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (0.44%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.44%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.44%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.77%) Linux
2 3 (1.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (37.17%) ETL
2 78 (34.51%) Data Engineering
3 73 (32.30%) Analytics
4 72 (31.86%) Agile
5 71 (31.42%) Data Modelling
5 71 (31.42%) Data Pipeline
6 49 (21.68%) CI/CD
6 49 (21.68%) DevOps
7 41 (18.14%) Business Intelligence
8 39 (17.26%) Data Science
9 33 (14.60%) Software Engineering
10 24 (10.62%) Continuous Integration
11 22 (9.73%) Problem-Solving
11 22 (9.73%) Visualisation
12 20 (8.85%) SDLC
13 19 (8.41%) Data Integration
13 19 (8.41%) Data Transformation
14 17 (7.52%) Stakeholder Management
15 16 (7.08%) Machine Learning
16 13 (5.75%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 200 (88.50%) Python
2 112 (49.56%) SQL
3 45 (19.91%) Scala
4 16 (7.08%) Java
5 13 (5.75%) T-SQL
6 7 (3.10%) R
7 6 (2.65%) Bash
8 4 (1.77%) C#
9 3 (1.33%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.88%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.44%) C++
11 1 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.44%) Gremlin
11 1 (0.44%) Groovy
11 1 (0.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (10.18%) Security Cleared
2 19 (8.41%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.98%) DV Cleared
4 5 (2.21%) Degree
5 4 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.88%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.88%) IBM Certification
6 2 (0.88%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.88%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.44%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.44%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (16.37%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.77%) QA
System Software
1 8 (3.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (6.64%) Terraform
2 10 (4.42%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.77%) Argo
4 2 (0.88%) Grafana
5 1 (0.44%) Ganglia
5 1 (0.44%) Kibana
Vendors
1 111 (49.12%) Databricks
2 30 (13.27%) Microsoft
3 10 (4.42%) Oracle
4 9 (3.98%) Foundry
4 9 (3.98%) Palantir
5 8 (3.54%) Talend
6 7 (3.10%) Ab Initio
7 6 (2.65%) SAP
8 5 (2.21%) Cloudera
9 4 (1.77%) Google
10 3 (1.33%) Informatica
11 2 (0.88%) IBM
11 2 (0.88%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.44%) Atlassian
12 1 (0.44%) Bloomberg
12 1 (0.44%) Brio
12 1 (0.44%) Sybase