PySpark Contracts in Scotland

PySpark - Spark Python API
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 116 158 164
Rank change year-on-year +42 +6 -17
Contract jobs citing PySpark 15 6 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.68% 0.21% 0.085%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.23% 0.87% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 3 2
10th Percentile - £503 £544
25th Percentile £475 £506 £562
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £608
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -13.58% +21.50%
75th Percentile - £575 £637
90th Percentile - £598 £645
UK median daily rate £529 £600 £595
% change year-on-year -11.88% +0.80% +13.38%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

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 Scotland 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 464 691 721
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 21.02% 24.21% 20.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 301 527 488
10th Percentile £325 £406 £360
25th Percentile £410 £438 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £547 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 10
10th Percentile £33.58 £49.99 £37.73
25th Percentile £44.94 £53.38 £41.89
Median hourly rate £53.75 £59.03 £47.25
Median % change year-on-year -8.94% +24.93% +12.50%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.52 £49.34
90th Percentile - £67.81 £56.75
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

PySpark
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for PySpark in Scotland

PySpark
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for PySpark in Scotland

PySpark
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PySpark within the Scotland 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
Glasgow +15 14 £500 - 3
Edinburgh +38 1 - -
PySpark
UK

PySpark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 6 (40.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) Azure
3 2 (13.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (13.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (13.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (26.67%) Big Data
2 4 (26.67%) Parquet
3 2 (13.33%) Power BI
4 1 (6.67%) Star Schema
General
1 5 (33.33%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) Financial Institution
3 2 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) Developer
2 5 (33.33%) Python Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Lead
4 2 (13.33%) Data Scientist
4 2 (13.33%) Python Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Data Scientist
5 1 (6.67%) Data Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Lead Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Lead Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) Apache Avro
2 2 (13.33%) NumPy
2 2 (13.33%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) Software Engineering
2 8 (53.33%) Agile
3 6 (40.00%) Community of Practice
3 6 (40.00%) Operational Stability
3 6 (40.00%) SDLC
4 5 (33.33%) ETL
5 4 (26.67%) Data Modelling
6 2 (13.33%) Data Science
6 2 (13.33%) Data Visualisation
6 2 (13.33%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (13.33%) Visualisation
7 1 (6.67%) CI/CD
7 1 (6.67%) Coaching
7 1 (6.67%) Data Protection
7 1 (6.67%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (13.33%) Scala
3 1 (6.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Databricks