PySpark Contracts in Manchester

PySpark - Spark Python API
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 74 91 116
Rank change year-on-year +17 +25 +25
Contract jobs citing PySpark 5 5 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.54% 0.33% 0.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.09% 1.39% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 2
10th Percentile £440 - £521
25th Percentile £463 £413 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £563
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -17.78% -15.29%
75th Percentile £513 £500 £584
90th Percentile £528 - £594
North West median daily rate £488 £463 £563
% change year-on-year +5.41% -17.78% -15.29%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 239 361 389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 25.81% 23.80% 20.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 283 310
10th Percentile £400 £375 £336
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £550 £613 £581
90th Percentile £638 £825 £639
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 2
10th Percentile - £67.00 -
25th Percentile £76.25 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £82.50 £71.87 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.79% +59.71% +143.24%
75th Percentile £88.75 £76.75 -
90th Percentile - £81.60 -
North West median hourly rate £67.75 £47.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year +43.22% +5.12% +10.80%

PySpark
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for PySpark in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for PySpark in Manchester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (40.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (20.00%) Apache
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Storage
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Delta Lake
2 2 (40.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (40.00%) Metadata
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (20.00%) Big Data
3 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (20.00%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Git
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Data Integration Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Integration Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) ADO
2 1 (20.00%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) YAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Data Engineering
1 3 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Data Management
2 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) Data Transformation
2 2 (40.00%) DataOps
2 2 (40.00%) Quality Management
2 2 (40.00%) Runbook
3 1 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (20.00%) Data Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Data Science
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) ETL
3 1 (20.00%) Logistics
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Databricks
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft