PySpark Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

PySpark - Spark Python API
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring PySpark skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 48 59
Rank change year-on-year +2 +11 -
Contract jobs citing PySpark 5 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 1.12% 0.63% 0.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.26% 5.13% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile - £541 -
25th Percentile £555 £541 £69
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £543 £75
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% +623.33% -
75th Percentile £565 £544 £81
90th Percentile - £545 -
South East median daily rate £560 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -2.61% +4.55% +4.76%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 54 39 89
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 12.08% 12.19% 16.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 31 62
10th Percentile £359 £406 £383
25th Percentile £422 £463 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -10.45% +3.87% +0.86%
75th Percentile £565 £600 £643
90th Percentile £584 £675 £747
South East median daily rate £486 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -24.00% -10.71% +7.69%

PySpark
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

PySpark job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

PySpark
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing PySpark

PySpark
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PySpark within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 12 January 2026. 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
Milton Keynes -4 5 £560 +3.23% 3
PySpark
South East

PySpark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) dbt
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 5 (100.00%) Senior
1 5 (100.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Databricks