PySpark - Spark Python API
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 395 461 468
Rank change year-on-year +66 +7 -20
Contract jobs citing PySpark 209 268 440
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.48% 0.45% 0.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.35% 1.92% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 182 268
10th Percentile £425 £463 £475
25th Percentile £475 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £600 £595
Median % change year-on-year -11.88% +0.80% +13.38%
75th Percentile £638 £705 £682
90th Percentile £763 £880 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 1
10th Percentile £15.45 £37.50 -
25th Percentile £15.81 £39.75 -
Median hourly rate £20.47 £43.50 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year -52.94% -44.76% +215.00%
75th Percentile £21.50 £43.57 -
90th Percentile £22.85 £43.60 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.14 £39.75 -
% change year-on-year -54.36% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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 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 8,876 13,931 24,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.50% 23.29% 27.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,162 10,182 17,689
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £660
90th Percentile £767 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 153 242
10th Percentile £20.91 £31.60 £21.10
25th Percentile £39.98 £48.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £64.94
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.85 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +32.65% +8.89%

PySpark
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for PySpark in the UK

PySpark
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for PySpark in the UK

PySpark
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for PySpark in the UK

PySpark
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PySpark.

Hourly rate trend for PySpark in the UK

PySpark
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PySpark within the UK 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
England +64 170 £550 -8.33% 51
London +59 129 £550 -10.57% 33
Work from Home +80 72 £500 -18.53% 30
UK excluding London +56 50 £500 -16.67% 19
Scotland +42 15 £500 -4.76% 3
South West +21 9 £475 -13.04% 4
North of England +14 9 £490 -24.62% 5
South East +26 6 £488 -18.75% 4
Wales - 6 £330 - 1
North West +19 5 £463 -17.78% 2
Yorkshire -1 4 £490 -24.62% 3
Midlands - 4 £600 - 2
West Midlands - 4 £600 - 2
East of England +9 1 - - 2

PySpark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (20.10%) Apache Spark
2 29 (13.88%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (9.09%) Apache
4 1 (0.48%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.48%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.48%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 117 (55.98%) Azure
2 71 (33.97%) AWS
3 48 (22.97%) Azure Data Factory
4 38 (18.18%) Power Platform
5 36 (17.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 33 (15.79%) Serverless
7 18 (8.61%) AWS Lambda
8 17 (8.13%) Amazon Kinesis
8 17 (8.13%) Amazon S3
9 14 (6.70%) GCP
10 13 (6.22%) Azure Monitor
11 12 (5.74%) AWS Step Functions
11 12 (5.74%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (5.74%) dbt
12 11 (5.26%) Snowflake
13 9 (4.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 8 (3.83%) Azure Key Vault
14 8 (3.83%) Entra ID
15 7 (3.35%) Amazon EMR
15 7 (3.35%) Azure Logic Apps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (28.71%) Big Data
1 60 (28.71%) Data Lake
2 48 (22.97%) Data Warehouse
3 38 (18.18%) Power BI
4 25 (11.96%) Delta Lake
5 20 (9.57%) Spark SQL
6 19 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
7 13 (6.22%) Azure SQL Database
8 12 (5.74%) Apache Hive
8 12 (5.74%) NoSQL
9 11 (5.26%) Hadoop
9 11 (5.26%) Tableau
10 9 (4.31%) Relational Database
10 9 (4.31%) SQL Server
11 8 (3.83%) Amazon Athena
11 8 (3.83%) Data Mining
11 8 (3.83%) Impala
11 8 (3.83%) Parquet
12 7 (3.35%) Data Mart
12 7 (3.35%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 22 (10.53%) Git
2 8 (3.83%) JIRA
3 3 (1.44%) Deequ
3 3 (1.44%) GitLab
4 2 (0.96%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.96%) MLflow
5 1 (0.48%) Maven
5 1 (0.48%) RStudio
5 1 (0.48%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.48%) Travis CI
General
1 44 (21.05%) Finance
2 42 (20.10%) Social Skills
3 32 (15.31%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (6.70%) Public Sector
5 12 (5.74%) Banking
6 10 (4.78%) Marketing
7 9 (4.31%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.39%) Retail
9 4 (1.91%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.91%) Front Office
9 4 (1.91%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.96%) Back Office
10 2 (0.96%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.48%) Law
11 1 (0.48%) Legal
11 1 (0.48%) Multimedia
11 1 (0.48%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 117 (55.98%) Data Engineer
2 49 (23.44%) Azure Engineer
3 42 (20.10%) Azure Data Engineer
4 26 (12.44%) Developer
5 24 (11.48%) Python Engineer
6 22 (10.53%) AWS Engineer
7 20 (9.57%) AWS Data Engineer
7 20 (9.57%) Senior
8 18 (8.61%) Architect
8 18 (8.61%) Python Data Engineer
9 17 (8.13%) Python Developer
10 14 (6.70%) Data Scientist
10 14 (6.70%) Lead
11 10 (4.78%) Senior Data Engineer
12 8 (3.83%) Lead Data Engineer
12 8 (3.83%) Solutions Architect
13 7 (3.35%) Analyst
13 7 (3.35%) AWS Architect
13 7 (3.35%) Data Analyst
13 7 (3.35%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (10.53%) Kafka
2 19 (9.09%) Pandas
3 18 (8.61%) NumPy
4 8 (3.83%) Apache Avro
4 8 (3.83%) SAML
5 6 (2.87%) ARM Templates
6 5 (2.39%) Flask
6 5 (2.39%) PyTorch
6 5 (2.39%) REST
7 4 (1.91%) JSON
7 4 (1.91%) JSON Schema
7 4 (1.91%) pytest
8 3 (1.44%) Django
8 3 (1.44%) Great Expectations
8 3 (1.44%) Lambda Expressions
8 3 (1.44%) scikit-learn
8 3 (1.44%) TensorFlow
9 2 (0.96%) Middleware
9 2 (0.96%) Unity DI Container
9 2 (0.96%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.31%) Distributed Computing
2 8 (3.83%) Algorithms
3 5 (2.39%) Data Structures
3 5 (2.39%) Market Risk
4 3 (1.44%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (1.44%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 2 (0.96%) Biopharmaceutical
5 2 (0.96%) IoT
5 2 (0.96%) NHS
5 2 (0.96%) Onboarding
5 2 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.48%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.48%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.48%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.48%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (0.48%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.48%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.48%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.91%) Linux
2 3 (1.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (34.45%) ETL
2 68 (32.54%) Analytics
3 66 (31.58%) Data Modelling
4 65 (31.10%) Data Engineering
5 64 (30.62%) Agile
6 59 (28.23%) Data Pipeline
7 43 (20.57%) DevOps
8 42 (20.10%) Data Science
9 41 (19.62%) Business Intelligence
10 38 (18.18%) CI/CD
11 32 (15.31%) Software Engineering
12 22 (10.53%) Visualisation
13 21 (10.05%) Problem-Solving
14 18 (8.61%) Data Integration
14 18 (8.61%) SDLC
15 17 (8.13%) Continuous Integration
16 16 (7.66%) Machine Learning
17 14 (6.70%) Data Governance
18 13 (6.22%) Data Analytics
18 13 (6.22%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 183 (87.56%) Python
2 106 (50.72%) SQL
3 34 (16.27%) Scala
4 15 (7.18%) Java
5 11 (5.26%) T-SQL
6 7 (3.35%) R
7 4 (1.91%) Bash
7 4 (1.91%) C#
8 2 (0.96%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.48%) C++
9 1 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.48%) Gremlin
9 1 (0.48%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 22 (10.53%) Security Cleared
2 18 (8.61%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.31%) DV Cleared
4 7 (3.35%) Degree
5 4 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.91%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.96%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (0.96%) IBM Certification
6 2 (0.96%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.48%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.48%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (17.22%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.91%) QA
System Software
1 8 (3.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (7.66%) Terraform
2 11 (5.26%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.91%) Argo
4 1 (0.48%) Ganglia
4 1 (0.48%) Grafana
4 1 (0.48%) Kibana
Vendors
1 98 (46.89%) Databricks
2 27 (12.92%) Microsoft
3 9 (4.31%) Foundry
3 9 (4.31%) Palantir
4 8 (3.83%) Oracle
4 8 (3.83%) Talend
5 6 (2.87%) SAP
6 5 (2.39%) Cloudera
6 5 (2.39%) Google
7 4 (1.91%) Informatica
8 2 (0.96%) Bloomberg
8 2 (0.96%) IBM
9 1 (0.48%) Brio
9 1 (0.48%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.48%) Sybase