PySpark Contracts in England

PySpark - Spark Python API
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for PySpark skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PySpark over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 366 430 467
Rank change year-on-year +64 +37 -15
Contract jobs citing PySpark 170 239 335
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.46% 0.47% 0.47%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.28% 2.04% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 168 212
10th Percentile £419 £461 £482
25th Percentile £472 £513 £521
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £714 £695
90th Percentile £775 £880 £775
UK median daily rate £529 £600 £595
% change year-on-year -11.88% +0.80% +13.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £37.50 -
25th Percentile £20.50 £39.75 -
Median hourly rate £21.00 £43.50 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year -51.72% -44.76% +211.88%
75th Percentile £21.50 £43.57 -
90th Percentile - £43.60 -
UK median hourly rate £20.47 £43.50 £78.75
% change year-on-year -52.94% -44.76% +215.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

PySpark is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,454 11,713 19,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.17% 23.17% 27.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,302 8,672 14,430
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £430 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 138 214
10th Percentile £21.63 £28.73 £21.30
25th Percentile £40.31 £48.88 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

PySpark
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for PySpark in England

PySpark
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for PySpark in England

PySpark
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PySpark in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PySpark in England

PySpark
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PySpark in England.

Hourly rate trend for PySpark in England

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Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
London +59 129 £550 -10.57% 33
South West +21 9 £475 -13.04% 4
North of England +14 9 £490 -24.62% 5
South East +26 6 £488 -18.75% 3
North West +19 5 £463 -17.78% 2
Yorkshire -1 4 £490 -24.62% 3
Midlands - 4 £600 - 2
West Midlands - 4 £600 - 2
East of England +9 1 - - 1
PySpark
UK

PySpark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 37 (21.76%) Apache Spark
2 21 (12.35%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (10.59%) Apache
4 1 (0.59%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.59%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.59%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 109 (64.12%) Azure
2 53 (31.18%) AWS
3 44 (25.88%) Azure Data Factory
4 33 (19.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 33 (19.41%) Power Platform
5 24 (14.12%) Serverless
6 13 (7.65%) Amazon S3
7 12 (7.06%) Azure Monitor
7 12 (7.06%) GCP
8 11 (6.47%) Snowflake
9 10 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (5.29%) Amazon Kinesis
11 8 (4.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 8 (4.71%) Entra ID
12 7 (4.12%) AWS Step Functions
12 7 (4.12%) Azure Key Vault
12 7 (4.12%) Azure Logic Apps
13 5 (2.94%) Azure Stack
13 5 (2.94%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (31.18%) Data Lake
2 48 (28.24%) Big Data
3 36 (21.18%) Data Warehouse
4 33 (19.41%) Power BI
5 23 (13.53%) Delta Lake
6 17 (10.00%) Spark SQL
7 12 (7.06%) Azure SQL Database
8 11 (6.47%) NoSQL
9 10 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (5.88%) Apache Hive
10 9 (5.29%) Hadoop
10 9 (5.29%) Relational Database
10 9 (5.29%) SQL Server
10 9 (5.29%) Tableau
11 8 (4.71%) Amazon Athena
11 8 (4.71%) Data Mining
11 8 (4.71%) Impala
12 7 (4.12%) Data Mart
13 6 (3.53%) Star Schema
14 5 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (9.41%) Git
2 3 (1.76%) Deequ
2 3 (1.76%) GitLab
2 3 (1.76%) JIRA
3 2 (1.18%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.59%) Maven
4 1 (0.59%) MLflow
4 1 (0.59%) RStudio
4 1 (0.59%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.59%) Travis CI
General
1 37 (21.76%) Social Skills
2 36 (21.18%) Finance
3 29 (17.06%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (6.47%) Banking
5 10 (5.88%) Marketing
5 10 (5.88%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.12%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.94%) Retail
8 4 (2.35%) Front Office
8 4 (2.35%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.18%) Back Office
9 2 (1.18%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.59%) Law
10 1 (0.59%) Legal
10 1 (0.59%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.59%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 98 (57.65%) Data Engineer
2 44 (25.88%) Azure Engineer
3 37 (21.76%) Azure Data Engineer
4 19 (11.18%) Python Engineer
5 18 (10.59%) Architect
6 16 (9.41%) Python Data Engineer
6 16 (9.41%) Senior
7 15 (8.82%) Developer
8 14 (8.24%) AWS Engineer
9 13 (7.65%) AWS Data Engineer
10 11 (6.47%) Lead
10 11 (6.47%) Python Developer
11 9 (5.29%) Senior Data Engineer
12 8 (4.71%) Data Scientist
12 8 (4.71%) Lead Data Engineer
12 8 (4.71%) Solutions Architect
13 7 (4.12%) AWS Architect
13 7 (4.12%) AWS Solution Architect
13 7 (4.12%) Data Architect
14 6 (3.53%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (9.41%) Kafka
1 16 (9.41%) Pandas
2 15 (8.82%) NumPy
3 8 (4.71%) SAML
4 6 (3.53%) ARM Templates
5 5 (2.94%) Flask
6 4 (2.35%) Apache Avro
6 4 (2.35%) JSON
6 4 (2.35%) JSON Schema
6 4 (2.35%) pytest
6 4 (2.35%) REST
7 3 (1.76%) Django
7 3 (1.76%) Great Expectations
7 3 (1.76%) Lambda Expressions
8 2 (1.18%) .NET
8 2 (1.18%) Middleware
8 2 (1.18%) PyTorch
8 2 (1.18%) scikit-learn
8 2 (1.18%) Unity DI Container
8 2 (1.18%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.12%) Algorithms
2 5 (2.94%) Data Structures
2 5 (2.94%) Market Risk
3 4 (2.35%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.18%) Biopharmaceutical
5 2 (1.18%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.18%) IoT
5 2 (1.18%) NHS
5 2 (1.18%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.59%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.59%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (0.59%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.59%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.59%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.59%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.35%) Linux
2 3 (1.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (37.06%) ETL
2 55 (32.35%) Data Engineering
2 55 (32.35%) Data Modelling
3 53 (31.18%) Analytics
4 47 (27.65%) Data Pipeline
5 42 (24.71%) Agile
6 36 (21.18%) DevOps
7 32 (18.82%) Business Intelligence
7 32 (18.82%) CI/CD
7 32 (18.82%) Data Science
8 18 (10.59%) Data Integration
8 18 (10.59%) Software Engineering
9 16 (9.41%) Continuous Integration
9 16 (9.41%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (7.65%) Data Transformation
11 12 (7.06%) Data Governance
11 12 (7.06%) SDLC
11 12 (7.06%) Visualisation
12 11 (6.47%) Machine Learning
12 11 (6.47%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 146 (85.88%) Python
2 98 (57.65%) SQL
3 26 (15.29%) Scala
4 11 (6.47%) T-SQL
5 10 (5.88%) Java
6 5 (2.94%) R
7 4 (2.35%) Bash
7 4 (2.35%) C#
8 2 (1.18%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.59%) C++
9 1 (0.59%) Gremlin
9 1 (0.59%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 17 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (7.65%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.29%) DV Cleared
4 7 (4.12%) Degree
5 4 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.35%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.18%) IBM Certification
6 2 (1.18%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.59%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.59%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (17.06%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.35%) QA
System Software
1 5 (2.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (6.47%) Terraform
2 7 (4.12%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.35%) Argo
4 1 (0.59%) Ganglia
4 1 (0.59%) Grafana
4 1 (0.59%) Kibana
Vendors
1 92 (54.12%) Databricks
2 26 (15.29%) Microsoft
3 9 (5.29%) Foundry
3 9 (5.29%) Palantir
4 8 (4.71%) Oracle
4 8 (4.71%) Talend
5 6 (3.53%) SAP
6 5 (2.94%) Cloudera
6 5 (2.94%) Google
7 4 (2.35%) Informatica
8 2 (1.18%) IBM
9 1 (0.59%) Brio
9 1 (0.59%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.59%) Sybase