PySpark Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

PySpark - Spark Python API
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring PySpark skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing PySpark 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 1.96% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.64% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £491 - -
25th Percentile £497 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £725 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median daily rate £600 - £330
% change year-on-year - - -14.29%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 47 31 72
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 18.43% 17.13% 30.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 23 65
10th Percentile £253 £199 £210
25th Percentile £305 £369 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £520 £425
Median % change year-on-year -19.71% +22.35% -12.82%
75th Percentile £507 £550 £531
90th Percentile £608 £579 £551
South Wales median daily rate £425 £523 £425
% change year-on-year -18.66% +22.94% -19.05%

PySpark
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

PySpark job vacancy trend in Cardiff

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Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing PySpark

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PySpark in Cardiff over the 6 months to 28 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PySpark in Cardiff

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff 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 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Pipelines
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) GCP
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (40.00%) BigQuery
2 2 (40.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (40.00%) Metadata
2 2 (40.00%) RDBMS
2 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (20.00%) Delta Lake
3 1 (20.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
1 2 (40.00%) JMeter
1 2 (40.00%) Zephyr
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) ETL
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Data Cleansing
2 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) Data Transformation
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Test Management
3 1 (20.00%) BDD
3 1 (20.00%) Change Data Capture
3 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (20.00%) Dimensional Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) Kimball Methodology
3 1 (20.00%) Operational Stability
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (80.00%) Python
3 2 (40.00%) Java
3 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (40.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Databricks
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle