PySpark Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

PySpark - Spark Python API
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring PySpark skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 78 94
Rank change year-on-year -1 +16 +28
Contract jobs citing PySpark 1 9 5
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.096% 0.77% 0.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.71% 7.38% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - £518
25th Percentile - - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £150 £550
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% -72.73% -
75th Percentile - - £575
90th Percentile - - £620
South East median daily rate £560 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +11.63%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 141 122 181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 13.58% 10.38% 13.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 71 92
10th Percentile £375 £400 £438
25th Percentile £418 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £658 £638
90th Percentile £635 £690 £706
South East median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 15 23
10th Percentile £48.88 £62.50 £51.50
25th Percentile - £66.25 £55.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £70.00 £58.59
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +19.47% -9.86%
75th Percentile £51.25 - £70.00
90th Percentile £55.00 - £72.97
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £58.59
% change year-on-year -20.00% +6.67% -9.86%

PySpark
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

PySpark job vacancy trend in Hampshire

PySpark
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing PySpark

PySpark
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing PySpark.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing PySpark

PySpark
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PySpark within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 25 October 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
Basingstoke - 1 £375 -
PySpark
South East

PySpark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Dagster
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Poetry
1 1 (100.00%) Pylint
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Data Capture
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Management
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata Management
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Google