PySpark Contracts in Central London

PySpark - Spark Python API
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 153 188
Rank change year-on-year +32 +35 -39
Contract jobs citing PySpark 13 26 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.53% 0.69% 0.47%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.40% 2.50% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 18 9
10th Percentile £525 £438 £500
25th Percentile £581 £470 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year +24.44% -6.25% +8.11%
75th Percentile £763 £738 £650
90th Percentile £775 £784 £708
London median daily rate £550 £615 £625
% change year-on-year -10.57% -1.60% +19.05%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Central London

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 advertised in Central London 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 542 1,042 1,354
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 22.30% 27.64% 30.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 684 1,097
10th Percentile £413 £425 £425
25th Percentile £456 £500 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £713
90th Percentile £788 £820 £800
London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £49.33
25th Percentile - - £53.94
Median hourly rate - - £62.25
Median % change year-on-year - - +255.71%
75th Percentile - - £69.94
90th Percentile - - £74.18
London median hourly rate £40.00 £67.25 £48.58
% change year-on-year -40.52% +38.43% -2.84%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for PySpark in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for PySpark in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PySpark in Central London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PySpark in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PySpark within the Central London region over the 6 months to 9 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
City of London +32 10 £700 +24.44% 2
West End of London - 2 - - 1
City of Westminster - 1 £650 -
PySpark
London

PySpark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 4 (30.77%) Apache Spark
2 3 (23.08%) Apache
3 2 (15.38%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (76.92%) Azure
2 5 (38.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 5 (38.46%) Power Platform
3 4 (30.77%) AWS
3 4 (30.77%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (23.08%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (15.38%) Amazon EventBridge
5 2 (15.38%) Amazon Kinesis
5 2 (15.38%) GCP
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (76.92%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (38.46%) Delta Lake
2 5 (38.46%) Power BI
3 4 (30.77%) Big Data
3 4 (30.77%) Data Lake
3 4 (30.77%) Data Mart
4 3 (23.08%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (23.08%) NoSQL
4 3 (23.08%) Parquet
5 2 (15.38%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (15.38%) Hadoop
5 2 (15.38%) Presto
5 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
5 2 (15.38%) Star Schema
6 1 (7.69%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Deequ
General
1 2 (15.38%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (69.23%) Data Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Data Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Lead
3 2 (15.38%) Lead Data Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Python Data Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Python Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Apache Spark Developer
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Big Data Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Developer
4 1 (7.69%) ETL Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) Kafka
2 3 (23.08%) Apache Avro
2 3 (23.08%) JSON
2 3 (23.08%) JSON Schema
3 2 (15.38%) ARM Templates
3 2 (15.38%) Great Expectations
3 2 (15.38%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (15.38%) Market Risk
2 1 (7.69%) Hedge funds
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Analytics
2 9 (69.23%) Data Engineering
2 9 (69.23%) Data Modelling
3 7 (53.85%) ETL
4 6 (46.15%) Agile
5 5 (38.46%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
6 4 (30.77%) Migration
6 4 (30.77%) Software Engineering
7 3 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (23.08%) Data Migration
7 3 (23.08%) Data Science
7 3 (23.08%) Log Analytics
7 3 (23.08%) Scrum
7 3 (23.08%) SDLC
8 2 (15.38%) Business Analysis
8 2 (15.38%) Commercialisation
8 2 (15.38%) Data Integration
8 2 (15.38%) Integration Testing
8 2 (15.38%) Kimball Methodology
Programming Languages
1 12 (92.31%) SQL
2 8 (61.54%) Python
3 3 (23.08%) Scala
3 3 (23.08%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (76.92%) Databricks
2 6 (46.15%) Microsoft
3 2 (15.38%) Foundry
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle
3 2 (15.38%) Palantir
3 2 (15.38%) SAP