PySpark Contracts in the East Midlands

PySpark - Spark Python API
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 27 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 - 74
Rank change year-on-year - - +16
Contract jobs citing PySpark 3 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.39% - 0.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.62% - 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £474 - £420
25th Percentile £491 - £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.64%
75th Percentile £591 - £500
90th Percentile £611 - -
England median daily rate £571 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +3.86% -8.33% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 185 131 180
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 24.34% 16.48% 19.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 99 165
10th Percentile £256 £288 £313
25th Percentile £320 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £440 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.58% -2.22% -3.23%
75th Percentile £473 £550 £530
90th Percentile £537 £620 £690
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile £20.39 £22.04 -
25th Percentile £20.60 £22.50 -
Median hourly rate £21.96 £25.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.18% - -
75th Percentile £24.05 £28.75 -
90th Percentile £24.71 £47.50 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £56.25 £62.50
% change year-on-year -2.22% -10.00% +12.61%

PySpark
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing PySpark as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for PySpark in the East Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PySpark in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for PySpark in the East Midlands

PySpark
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PySpark in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 27 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PySpark in the East Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PySpark within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 July 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
Leicestershire - 1 £475 -
Northamptonshire - 1 £600 - 1
Nottinghamshire - 1 - -
PySpark
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (33.33%) Amazon EMR
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Kinesis
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Machine Learning
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
General
1 1 (33.33%) Advertising
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Contracts Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Data Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Data Science Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Data Scientist
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Prophet
1 1 (33.33%) scikit-learn
1 1 (33.33%) XGBoost
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Science
1 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) A/B Testing
2 1 (33.33%) ARIMA
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Experience
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) ETRM
2 1 (33.33%) Feature Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Personalization
2 1 (33.33%) Predictive Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks