PySpark Contract Job Trends in Leeds

PySpark - Spark Python API
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring PySpark skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 - 59
Rank change year-on-year - - +26
Contract jobs citing PySpark 2 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.24% - 0.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.98% - 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £468 - -
25th Percentile £475 - £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £490
Median % change year-on-year - - -24.62%
75th Percentile £525 - £495
90th Percentile £533 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 - £490
% change year-on-year - - -24.62%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 205 107 189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 24.70% 24.94% 22.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 58 135
10th Percentile £360 £382 £325
25th Percentile £413 £427 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £615
90th Percentile £600 £777 £675
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £96.85 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £96.85 -

PySpark
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

PySpark job vacancy trend in Leeds

PySpark
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing PySpark

PySpark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (50.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Pandas
1 1 (50.00%) PyArrow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (50.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Batch Processing
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
1 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks