PySpark Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

PySpark - Spark Python API
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring PySpark skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing PySpark 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.35% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.69% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £354 - -
25th Percentile £378 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £541 - -
90th Percentile £576 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £540 £495 £600
% change year-on-year +9.09% -17.50% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 177 108 129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 20.49% 20.04% 16.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 70 92
10th Percentile £402 £374 £240
25th Percentile £463 £425 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £469
Median % change year-on-year - +12.00% -14.77%
75th Percentile £580 £645 £575
90th Percentile £650 £700 £673
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £525 £456
% change year-on-year -4.76% +15.07% -17.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £25.80 - £21.89
25th Percentile £34.13 - £33.53
Median hourly rate £48.50 - £48.13
75th Percentile £63.13 - £56.25
90th Percentile £71.60 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £27.21 £27.50 £39.92
% change year-on-year -1.05% -31.11% -

PySpark
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PySpark relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

PySpark job vacancy trend in Birmingham

PySpark
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing PySpark.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing PySpark

PySpark
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PySpark in Birmingham over the 6 months to 7 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PySpark in Birmingham

PySpark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (33.33%) Data Vault
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Military
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
1 1 (33.33%) IoT
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (33.33%) Data Collection
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 1 (33.33%) ERP
3 1 (33.33%) Kimball Methodology
3 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 1 (33.33%) MLOps
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Databricks
2 1 (33.33%) Informatica
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft