PySpark Contract Job Trends in the East of England

PySpark - Spark Python API
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring PySpark skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 82 115
Rank change year-on-year -22 +33 +24
Contract jobs citing PySpark 3 5 1
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.20% 0.39% 0.054%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.06% 2.65% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 1
10th Percentile £414 £312 -
25th Percentile £434 £315 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £318 £775
Median % change year-on-year +53.30% -58.97% +72.22%
75th Percentile £559 £320 -
90th Percentile £591 £326 -
England median daily rate £500 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -4.35%

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 284 189 224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 18.83% 14.77% 12.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 96 136
10th Percentile £363 £290 £300
25th Percentile £425 £309 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £638 £478 £600
90th Percentile £753 £600 £688
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 14 12
10th Percentile £40.75 £26.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £43.00 £62.50 £42.98
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year - +20.37% -16.92%
75th Percentile - - £60.31
90th Percentile £75.25 £67.50 £66.58
England median hourly rate £55.50 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -14.62% +18.18% -15.38%

PySpark
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

PySpark job vacancy trend in the East of England

PySpark
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing PySpark.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing PySpark

PySpark
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PySpark in the East of England over the 6 months to 15 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 15 November 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
Cambridgeshire - 2 £400 -
Essex -3 1 £575 +80.82%
PySpark
England

PySpark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Big Data
1 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (33.33%) Pentaho
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Data Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Next.js
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
1 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Conceptual Models
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Data Discovery
2 1 (33.33%) Data Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Front End Development
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Refactoring
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Usability Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Use Case
2 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Puppet
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Databricks
2 1 (33.33%) Cloudera
2 1 (33.33%) Salesforce
2 1 (33.33%) Vertica