PySpark Contracts in Berkshire

PySpark - Spark Python API
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring PySpark skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PySpark over the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 108 116
Rank change year-on-year +29 +8 +19
Contract jobs citing PySpark 8 6 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.70% 0.30% 0.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.16% 1.82% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 3
10th Percentile £426 £299 -
25th Percentile £454 £363 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £375 £613
Median % change year-on-year +34.67% -38.78% +4.26%
75th Percentile £554 £388 £647
90th Percentile £582 £478 £656
South East median daily rate £465 £375 £713
% change year-on-year +24.00% -47.37% +14.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Berkshire

PySpark falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 253 329 301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 22.29% 16.69% 16.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 218 216
10th Percentile £350 £336 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £622 £638
90th Percentile £638 £666 £706
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 19 8
10th Percentile £30.87 £56.62 £52.90
25th Percentile £31.80 £56.65 £75.06
Median hourly rate £54.75 £61.60 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year -11.12% -21.78% +125.00%
75th Percentile £81.02 - £80.25
90th Percentile £87.91 £61.68 £80.48
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £61.60 £64.50
% change year-on-year -18.83% -4.50% +43.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for PySpark in Berkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for PySpark in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PySpark in Berkshire over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PySpark in Berkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PySpark within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 25 June 2025. 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
Windsor - 4 £459 -
Maidenhead +6 3 - -
Reading +34 1 £600 - 1
PySpark
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 7 (87.50%) Apache Spark
2 2 (25.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 4 (50.00%) Spark SQL
2 2 (25.00%) Apache Hive
2 2 (25.00%) Big Data
2 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (25.00%) Hadoop
2 2 (25.00%) MySQL
2 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
General
1 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Data Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Big Data Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Hadoop Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Data Scientist
4 1 (12.50%) JavaScript Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Lead
4 1 (12.50%) Lead Data Scientist
4 1 (12.50%) Python Data Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Python Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Kafka
2 2 (25.00%) JDBC
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Data Structures
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Data Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (50.00%) ETL
3 3 (37.50%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (37.50%) Generative AI
3 3 (37.50%) LLM
3 3 (37.50%) Machine Learning
4 2 (25.00%) Data Collection
4 2 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
4 2 (25.00%) Data Integration
4 2 (25.00%) Data Security
4 2 (25.00%) High Availability
4 2 (25.00%) Storage Management
4 2 (25.00%) Test Scripting
5 1 (12.50%) Data Privacy
5 1 (12.50%) Data Science
5 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
5 1 (12.50%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (62.50%) SQL
3 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
3 3 (37.50%) TypeScript
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Foundry
1 3 (37.50%) Palantir
2 1 (12.50%) Databricks
2 1 (12.50%) Virgin Media