PySpark Contracts in the Midlands

PySpark - Spark Python API
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 126 146
Rank change year-on-year -4 +20 +66
Contract jobs citing PySpark 8 5 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.33% 0.19% 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.77% 1.15% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 7
10th Percentile £425 £545 £335
25th Percentile £463 - £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £612 £425
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +44.00% -22.73%
75th Percentile £650 - £500
90th Percentile £665 - £520
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 451 434 525
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 18.33% 16.33% 16.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 325 296 399
10th Percentile £272 £313 £313
25th Percentile £368 £406 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -12.10% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £537 £622 £575
90th Percentile £625 £725 £700
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 13 1
10th Percentile £31.46 £15.75 -
25th Percentile £33.91 £22.50 £41.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £39.92 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.25% -6.07% +97.67%
75th Percentile - £56.25 £43.75
90th Percentile - £59.25 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £56.25 £60.00
% change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% +4.35%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for PySpark in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for PySpark in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PySpark in the Midlands over the 6 months to 4 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PySpark in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PySpark within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 August 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
West Midlands -3 5 £600 -1.96% 4
East Midlands - 3 £538 - 3
PySpark
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 4 (50.00%) Apache
2 3 (37.50%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (12.50%) Flink
2 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (12.50%) Advertising
1 1 (12.50%) Legal
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Data Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Python Data Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Python Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Architect
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Data Architect
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Contracts Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Data Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Data Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Data Science Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Data Scientist
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (12.50%) Kafka
2 1 (12.50%) Keycloak
2 1 (12.50%) Prophet
2 1 (12.50%) scikit-learn
2 1 (12.50%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (25.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Data Integration
1 4 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (37.50%) Analytics
2 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
2 3 (37.50%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 3 (37.50%) Decision-Making
2 3 (37.50%) ETL
2 3 (37.50%) Storage Management
2 3 (37.50%) Workflow
3 2 (25.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
3 2 (25.00%) Data Science
3 2 (25.00%) Data Security
3 2 (25.00%) DataOps
3 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning
4 1 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 1 (12.50%) Event-Driven
4 1 (12.50%) Feature Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
3 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Databricks