PySpark Contracts in London

PySpark - Spark Python API
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 266 325 400
Rank change year-on-year +59 +75 -57
Contract jobs citing PySpark 129 171 212
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.73% 0.63% 0.54%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.92% 2.30% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 122 143
10th Percentile £436 £463 £500
25th Percentile £488 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £615 £610
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +0.82% +16.19%
75th Percentile £697 £750 £725
90th Percentile £804 £915 £800
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £43.63 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year - -44.60% -
England median hourly rate £21.00 £43.50 £78.75
% change year-on-year -51.72% -44.76% +211.88%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
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 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 4,425 7,424 12,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.99% 27.42% 31.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,324 5,530 9,406
10th Percentile £375 £413 £425
25th Percentile £457 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £730 £700
90th Percentile £821 £813 £788
England median daily rate £550 £563 £563
% change year-on-year -2.22% - +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 40 68
10th Percentile £16.25 £30.68 £29.75
25th Percentile £23.80 £37.84 £35.00
Median hourly rate £36.84 £66.00 £48.58
Median % change year-on-year -44.18% +35.86% -0.35%
75th Percentile £57.50 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £68.80 £76.63 £79.65
England median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

PySpark
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for PySpark in London

PySpark
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for PySpark in London

PySpark
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PySpark in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PySpark in London

PySpark
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Central London +27 14 £675 +22.73% 2
PySpark
England

PySpark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 31 (24.03%) Apache Spark
2 19 (14.73%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (12.40%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.78%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 88 (68.22%) Azure
2 42 (32.56%) AWS
3 36 (27.91%) Azure Data Factory
4 28 (21.71%) Power Platform
5 26 (20.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 21 (16.28%) Serverless
7 11 (8.53%) Azure Monitor
8 9 (6.98%) GCP
9 8 (6.20%) Amazon S3
9 8 (6.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 8 (6.20%) Entra ID
10 7 (5.43%) Amazon Kinesis
10 7 (5.43%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (5.43%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (5.43%) Azure Logic Apps
10 7 (5.43%) Snowflake
11 6 (4.65%) Azure Key Vault
12 5 (3.88%) AWS Step Functions
12 5 (3.88%) dbt
13 4 (3.10%) Azure Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (31.78%) Big Data
2 39 (30.23%) Data Lake
3 28 (21.71%) Power BI
4 25 (19.38%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (14.73%) Delta Lake
6 14 (10.85%) Spark SQL
7 11 (8.53%) Azure SQL Database
7 11 (8.53%) NoSQL
8 9 (6.98%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (6.98%) Apache Hive
8 9 (6.98%) Relational Database
8 9 (6.98%) Tableau
9 8 (6.20%) Impala
10 7 (5.43%) Data Mart
10 7 (5.43%) SQL Server
11 6 (4.65%) Hadoop
11 6 (4.65%) Star Schema
12 5 (3.88%) Amazon Athena
13 4 (3.10%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (3.10%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 13 (10.08%) Git
2 3 (2.33%) Deequ
2 3 (2.33%) GitLab
3 2 (1.55%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.78%) Maven
4 1 (0.78%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.78%) Travis CI
General
1 33 (25.58%) Finance
2 27 (20.93%) Social Skills
3 13 (10.08%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (8.53%) Banking
5 8 (6.20%) Marketing
6 6 (4.65%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.10%) Front Office
7 4 (3.10%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.10%) Retail
8 2 (1.55%) Back Office
9 1 (0.78%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 77 (59.69%) Data Engineer
2 40 (31.01%) Azure Engineer
3 33 (25.58%) Azure Data Engineer
4 17 (13.18%) Python Engineer
5 16 (12.40%) Architect
6 15 (11.63%) Python Data Engineer
7 13 (10.08%) Senior
8 12 (9.30%) Developer
9 11 (8.53%) Python Developer
10 9 (6.98%) AWS Data Engineer
10 9 (6.98%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (6.98%) Lead
11 8 (6.20%) Solutions Architect
12 7 (5.43%) AWS Architect
12 7 (5.43%) AWS Solution Architect
12 7 (5.43%) Data Architect
12 7 (5.43%) Lead Data Engineer
12 7 (5.43%) Senior Data Engineer
13 5 (3.88%) Analyst
13 5 (3.88%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (10.08%) Kafka
1 13 (10.08%) Pandas
2 12 (9.30%) NumPy
3 8 (6.20%) SAML
4 6 (4.65%) ARM Templates
5 4 (3.10%) Apache Avro
5 4 (3.10%) Flask
5 4 (3.10%) JSON
5 4 (3.10%) JSON Schema
5 4 (3.10%) REST
6 3 (2.33%) Django
6 3 (2.33%) Great Expectations
6 3 (2.33%) Lambda Expressions
6 3 (2.33%) pytest
7 2 (1.55%) .NET
7 2 (1.55%) Middleware
7 2 (1.55%) Unity DI Container
7 2 (1.55%) YAML
8 1 (0.78%) scikit-learn
8 1 (0.78%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.88%) Algorithms
1 5 (3.88%) Market Risk
2 4 (3.10%) Distributed Computing
3 3 (2.33%) Data Structures
3 3 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.55%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.78%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.78%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.78%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.10%) Linux
2 3 (2.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (40.31%) ETL
2 43 (33.33%) Analytics
2 43 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 39 (30.23%) Data Modelling
4 36 (27.91%) Data Pipeline
5 32 (24.81%) Agile
6 29 (22.48%) DevOps
7 27 (20.93%) Business Intelligence
8 25 (19.38%) CI/CD
9 20 (15.50%) Data Science
10 16 (12.40%) Software Engineering
11 15 (11.63%) Continuous Integration
12 12 (9.30%) Data Integration
13 11 (8.53%) Problem-Solving
14 10 (7.75%) Data Transformation
14 10 (7.75%) Log Analytics
14 10 (7.75%) SDLC
15 9 (6.98%) Ontologies
16 8 (6.20%) Kanban
16 8 (6.20%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 109 (84.50%) Python
2 75 (58.14%) SQL
3 23 (17.83%) Scala
4 11 (8.53%) T-SQL
5 7 (5.43%) Java
6 4 (3.10%) C#
7 3 (2.33%) Bash
8 2 (1.55%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.78%) C++
9 1 (0.78%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 9 (6.98%) DV Cleared
1 9 (6.98%) Security Cleared
2 5 (3.88%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.33%) Degree
3 3 (2.33%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.78%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (13.18%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.55%) QA
System Software
1 5 (3.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (6.98%) Terraform
2 7 (5.43%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.10%) Argo
4 1 (0.78%) Ganglia
Vendors
1 76 (58.91%) Databricks
2 25 (19.38%) Microsoft
3 9 (6.98%) Foundry
3 9 (6.98%) Palantir
4 8 (6.20%) Oracle
4 8 (6.20%) Talend
5 6 (4.65%) SAP
6 5 (3.88%) Google
7 3 (2.33%) Cloudera
8 2 (1.55%) Informatica
9 1 (0.78%) Sybase