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 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 245 330 394
Rank change year-on-year +85 +64 -56
Contract jobs citing PySpark 158 161 216
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.90% 0.64% 0.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.40% 2.39% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 114 155
10th Percentile £425 £475 £468
25th Percentile £500 £516 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £620 £613
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +1.22% +11.36%
75th Percentile £697 £775 £725
90th Percentile £825 £915 £825
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £78.75
England median hourly rate £21.50 - £78.75
% change year-on-year - - +202.88%

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 4,645 6,737 12,032
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.32% 26.59% 30.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,443 5,070 9,352
10th Percentile £375 £413 £425
25th Percentile £463 £494 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £713
90th Percentile £838 £813 £800
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 40 61
10th Percentile £16.25 £30.68 £31.25
25th Percentile £23.80 £43.94 £35.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £66.00 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.61% +43.48% -12.48%
75th Percentile £62.50 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.70 £75.39
England median hourly rate £48.43 £65.00 £52.75
% change year-on-year -25.49% +23.22% +13.44%

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 6 June 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 6 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
Central London +31 15 £575 -2.13% 8
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 42 (26.58%) Apache Spark
2 27 (17.09%) Apache Airflow
3 24 (15.19%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.63%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 105 (66.46%) Azure
2 52 (32.91%) AWS
3 36 (22.78%) Azure Data Factory
4 29 (18.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 25 (15.82%) Power Platform
6 24 (15.19%) Serverless
7 15 (9.49%) GCP
8 12 (7.59%) Amazon S3
8 12 (7.59%) Azure Logic Apps
8 12 (7.59%) dbt
8 12 (7.59%) Snowflake
9 11 (6.96%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (6.96%) Azure Monitor
10 10 (6.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 9 (5.70%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (5.70%) Entra ID
12 7 (4.43%) AWS Step Functions
12 7 (4.43%) Dagster
13 6 (3.80%) Azure Functions
13 6 (3.80%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (33.54%) Data Lake
2 47 (29.75%) Big Data
3 30 (18.99%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (15.82%) Power BI
5 19 (12.03%) Delta Lake
6 15 (9.49%) Azure SQL Database
6 15 (9.49%) Spark SQL
7 13 (8.23%) Amazon Athena
7 13 (8.23%) NoSQL
8 10 (6.33%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (5.70%) Apache Hive
9 9 (5.70%) Parquet
9 9 (5.70%) Tableau
10 8 (5.06%) Impala
10 8 (5.06%) Relational Database
11 6 (3.80%) Dremio
11 6 (3.80%) SQL Server
12 5 (3.16%) Hadoop
13 4 (2.53%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (2.53%) Presto
Development Applications
1 18 (11.39%) Git
2 5 (3.16%) GitLab
3 4 (2.53%) Deequ
4 2 (1.27%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.27%) JIRA
4 2 (1.27%) JMeter
4 2 (1.27%) TestCafe
4 2 (1.27%) Zephyr
5 1 (0.63%) Maven
5 1 (0.63%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.63%) Travis CI
General
1 46 (29.11%) Finance
2 30 (18.99%) Social Skills
3 23 (14.56%) Banking
4 15 (9.49%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (6.33%) Front Office
6 9 (5.70%) Investment Banking
7 8 (5.06%) Marketing
7 8 (5.06%) Retail
8 4 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.90%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.27%) Czech Language
Job Titles
1 94 (59.49%) Data Engineer
2 39 (24.68%) Azure Engineer
3 36 (22.78%) Azure Data Engineer
4 21 (13.29%) Python Engineer
5 19 (12.03%) Developer
6 18 (11.39%) Python Data Engineer
7 17 (10.76%) Senior
8 16 (10.13%) Architect
8 16 (10.13%) Lead
9 15 (9.49%) Python Developer
10 13 (8.23%) Senior Data Engineer
11 12 (7.59%) AWS Engineer
12 10 (6.33%) AWS Data Engineer
13 9 (5.70%) Solutions Architect
14 8 (5.06%) Analyst
14 8 (5.06%) AWS Architect
14 8 (5.06%) AWS Solution Architect
14 8 (5.06%) Data Analyst
15 7 (4.43%) Lead Data Engineer
16 6 (3.80%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (10.13%) Pandas
2 15 (9.49%) NumPy
3 8 (5.06%) Kafka
3 8 (5.06%) SAML
4 7 (4.43%) Apache Avro
4 7 (4.43%) ARM Templates
5 6 (3.80%) REST
5 6 (3.80%) SciPy
6 5 (3.16%) JSON
6 5 (3.16%) JSON Schema
6 5 (3.16%) pytest
7 4 (2.53%) Great Expectations
8 3 (1.90%) Django
8 3 (1.90%) Flask
8 3 (1.90%) gRPC
8 3 (1.90%) Protocol Buffers
8 3 (1.90%) Spark Streaming
9 2 (1.27%) Middleware
9 2 (1.27%) scikit-learn
9 2 (1.27%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (2.53%) Algorithms
1 4 (2.53%) Distributed Computing
1 4 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
1 4 (2.53%) Hedge funds
2 3 (1.90%) Data Structures
2 3 (1.90%) Derivative
2 3 (1.90%) Equities
2 3 (1.90%) Fixed Income
2 3 (1.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (1.27%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.63%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (0.63%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.63%) Podcast
4 1 (0.63%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.63%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.63%) Reference Data
4 1 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.63%) Smart Meter
4 1 (0.63%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.16%) Linux
2 4 (2.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (39.87%) ETL
2 55 (34.81%) Data Engineering
3 53 (33.54%) Analytics
4 50 (31.65%) Data Pipeline
5 44 (27.85%) Agile
6 39 (24.68%) CI/CD
7 38 (24.05%) Data Modelling
8 36 (22.78%) DevOps
9 27 (17.09%) Business Intelligence
10 24 (15.19%) Software Engineering
11 21 (13.29%) Continuous Integration
12 20 (12.66%) Data Science
13 14 (8.86%) Data Transformation
13 14 (8.86%) Migration
14 12 (7.59%) Problem-Solving
14 12 (7.59%) SDLC
14 12 (7.59%) Stakeholder Management
15 11 (6.96%) Data Analytics
15 11 (6.96%) Kimball Methodology
16 10 (6.33%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 138 (87.34%) Python
2 83 (52.53%) SQL
3 31 (19.62%) Scala
4 15 (9.49%) Java
5 12 (7.59%) T-SQL
6 5 (3.16%) Bash
6 5 (3.16%) JavaScript
6 5 (3.16%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.90%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.27%) Groovy
9 1 (0.63%) C#
9 1 (0.63%) C++
9 1 (0.63%) Gremlin
9 1 (0.63%) R
Qualifications
1 12 (7.59%) Security Cleared
2 9 (5.70%) DV Cleared
3 8 (5.06%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.16%) Degree
5 4 (2.53%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.90%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (14.56%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.27%) QA
System Software
1 7 (4.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (7.59%) Terraform
2 10 (6.33%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.53%) Argo
4 2 (1.27%) Grafana
5 1 (0.63%) Ganglia
Vendors
1 87 (55.06%) Databricks
2 23 (14.56%) Microsoft
3 10 (6.33%) Foundry
3 10 (6.33%) Palantir
4 8 (5.06%) Oracle
4 8 (5.06%) Talend
5 6 (3.80%) SAP
6 5 (3.16%) Google
7 3 (1.90%) Bloomberg
7 3 (1.90%) Cloudera
7 3 (1.90%) Reuters
8 2 (1.27%) Ab Initio
8 2 (1.27%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.63%) Informatica
9 1 (0.63%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.63%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.63%) Sybase
9 1 (0.63%) Workday