PySpark Contracts in Bristol

PySpark - Spark Python API
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 68 98
Rank change year-on-year +14 +30 +1
Contract jobs citing PySpark 1 6 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 0.19% 0.57% 0.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.88% 2.78% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 3
10th Percentile - £398 £393
25th Percentile £225 £431 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £450 £575
Median % change year-on-year -44.44% -21.74% -
75th Percentile £275 £480 £613
90th Percentile - £533 £628
South West median daily rate £250 £475 £546
% change year-on-year -47.37% -13.04% +8.17%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 113 216 207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 21.04% 20.44% 16.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 124 166
10th Percentile £333 £300 £338
25th Percentile £355 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £450 £455
Median % change year-on-year -0.33% -1.10% -9.00%
75th Percentile £538 £541 £575
90th Percentile £631 £642 £675
South West median daily rate £548 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.38% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 45 8
10th Percentile £61.25 - £48.13
25th Percentile - £43.75 £53.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -22.45% -5.77%
75th Percentile £68.00 £74.44 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £85.00 £66.50
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £54.75 £57.50
% change year-on-year +18.72% -4.78% -9.52%

PySpark
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for PySpark in Bristol

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Daily rate trend for PySpark in Bristol

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks