PySpark Contracts in the Thames Valley

PySpark - Spark Python API
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 136 148 161
Rank change year-on-year +12 +13 -
Contract jobs citing PySpark 4 3 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.15% 0.10% 0.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.08% 0.60% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 4
10th Percentile £278 £478 £452
25th Percentile £309 £519 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% - -
75th Percentile £569 £622 £638
90th Percentile £678 £628 -
South East median daily rate £488 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -18.75% -4.00% +8.70%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley 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 370 498 605
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.79% 16.96% 17.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 358 437
10th Percentile £325 £363 £354
25th Percentile £425 £432 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.67%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £588
90th Percentile £675 £700 £638
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 8 5
10th Percentile £56.58 £52.90 £30.50
25th Percentile £56.65 £75.06 £35.00
Median hourly rate £61.60 £78.75 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.78% +20.23% +63.75%
75th Percentile - £80.25 £68.25
90th Percentile £62.00 £80.48 £75.54
South East median hourly rate £61.60 £70.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -12.00% +55.56% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing PySpark as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for PySpark in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for PySpark in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PySpark in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PySpark in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PySpark within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 29 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
Berkshire -5 3 £319 -46.88% 1
Buckinghamshire - 1 £700 -
PySpark
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (25.00%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (25.00%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (25.00%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) MLflow
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Analytics Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Data Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Data Science Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript Developer
1 1 (25.00%) React Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) NumPy
1 2 (50.00%) Pandas
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Biopharmaceutical
1 2 (50.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (50.00%) Data Science
3 2 (50.00%) Data Validation
3 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (50.00%) Use Case
3 2 (50.00%) Validation
3 2 (50.00%) Visualisation
4 1 (25.00%) Business Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Data Interpretation
4 1 (25.00%) Data-Driven Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (25.00%) User Experience
4 1 (25.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks