PySpark Contracts in the East of England

PySpark - Spark Python API
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 76 111 114
Rank change year-on-year +35 +3 +29
Contract jobs citing PySpark 6 1 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.64% 0.052% 0.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.03% 0.35% 3.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £315 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £318 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.59%
75th Percentile £318 - -
90th Percentile £320 - -
England median daily rate £660 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +20.00% -8.33% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 149 288 277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 15.88% 15.09% 13.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 148 165
10th Percentile £336 £325 £327
25th Percentile £425 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £499 £520
Median % change year-on-year +0.25% -4.09% +4.00%
75th Percentile £613 £575 £630
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 57 23
10th Percentile £65.00 - £21.00
25th Percentile £66.25 - £21.75
Median hourly rate £80.68 £43.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +87.62% -33.85% +32.65%
75th Percentile £81.35 £65.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £82.10 £66.25 £74.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

PySpark
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for PySpark in the East of England

PySpark
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for PySpark in the East of England

PySpark
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Essex - 6 £318 -
PySpark
England

PySpark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (66.67%) Apache
1 4 (66.67%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) GCP
2 4 (66.67%) Power Platform
3 3 (50.00%) dbt
3 3 (50.00%) GitHub
3 3 (50.00%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) BigQuery
1 4 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (66.67%) Power BI
1 4 (66.67%) Tableau
2 3 (50.00%) Looker
2 3 (50.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Data Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Senior
2 3 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) GCP Data Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) DBA
4 1 (16.67%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) AngularJS
1 4 (66.67%) React
2 3 (50.00%) Kafka
2 3 (50.00%) NumPy
2 3 (50.00%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 6 (100.00%) Data Security
2 4 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 4 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (66.67%) Data Visualisation
2 4 (66.67%) ETL
2 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (66.67%) Technical Architecture
2 4 (66.67%) Visualisation
3 3 (50.00%) Analytics
3 3 (50.00%) Critical Thinking
3 3 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
3 3 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
3 3 (50.00%) Data Science
3 3 (50.00%) DataOps
3 3 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 3 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 3 (50.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (66.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) GDPR
2 3 (50.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Google
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Checkmarx
2 1 (16.67%) Dynatrace