PySpark Contracts in the North of England

PySpark - Spark Python API
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 141 176 192
Rank change year-on-year +35 +16 +10
Contract jobs citing PySpark 25 9 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.76% 0.19% 0.48%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.65% 1.00% 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 5 15
10th Percentile £354 - £508
25th Percentile £358 £413 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -24.62% +13.04%
75th Percentile £553 £500 £688
90th Percentile £731 - £713
England median daily rate £660 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +20.00% -8.33% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 685 900 1,118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 20.79% 18.88% 19.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 492 615 875
10th Percentile £358 £350 £363
25th Percentile £400 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £558 £596 £597
90th Percentile £650 £691 £675
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 29 10
10th Percentile £65.25 £13.87 £44.28
25th Percentile £68.81 £21.25 £45.88
Median hourly rate £86.46 £46.18 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +87.22% -26.11% +48.81%
75th Percentile £99.42 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £72.50 £71.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

PySpark
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for PySpark in the North of England

PySpark
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for PySpark in the North of England

PySpark
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PySpark in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PySpark in the North of England

PySpark
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
North West +25 13 £488 +5.41% 8
North East - 7 £358 - 5
Yorkshire +9 5 £600 +22.45% 2
PySpark
England

PySpark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 3 (12.00%) Apache
1 3 (12.00%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (8.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (8.00%) Jupyter
2 2 (8.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 15 (60.00%) Azure
2 9 (36.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 7 (28.00%) AWS
4 5 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (8.00%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (8.00%) Amazon S3
5 2 (8.00%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (8.00%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (8.00%) GCP
5 2 (8.00%) Serverless
6 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Storage
6 1 (4.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (32.00%) Data Lake
1 8 (32.00%) Hadoop
2 4 (16.00%) Delta Lake
2 4 (16.00%) Metadata
3 3 (12.00%) Apache Hive
3 3 (12.00%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (12.00%) MySQL
4 2 (8.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (8.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (8.00%) Big Data
4 2 (8.00%) Metadata Repository
5 1 (4.00%) Parquet
5 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (4.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (28.00%) Git
2 2 (8.00%) GitLab
3 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (16.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Finance
4 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Banking
4 2 (8.00%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.00%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 16 (64.00%) Data Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) Developer
3 2 (8.00%) Lead
3 2 (8.00%) Python Developer
3 2 (8.00%) Senior
3 2 (8.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Architect
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Data Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Data Integration Developer
4 1 (4.00%) ETL Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Integration Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Python Data Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Python Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Technical Architect
4 1 (4.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) Kafka
2 2 (8.00%) ADO
2 2 (8.00%) Anaconda
2 2 (8.00%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (8.00%) Pandas
2 2 (8.00%) Spring
2 2 (8.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.00%) LAPP Stack
3 1 (4.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.00%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.00%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.00%) Unix
2 1 (4.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
2 9 (36.00%) Data Modelling
3 7 (28.00%) Data Transformation
4 6 (24.00%) Data Engineering
4 6 (24.00%) ETL
5 5 (20.00%) Analytics
5 5 (20.00%) API Integration
5 5 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 5 (20.00%) Data Integration
5 5 (20.00%) ERP
5 5 (20.00%) Machine Learning
6 4 (16.00%) Data Science
6 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (12.00%) DataOps
7 3 (12.00%) Technical Architecture
7 3 (12.00%) Workflow
8 2 (8.00%) Data Analysis
8 2 (8.00%) Data Management
8 2 (8.00%) Data Protection
8 2 (8.00%) Quality Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (64.00%) Python
2 13 (52.00%) SQL
3 2 (8.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (28.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (16.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 4 (16.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (12.00%) Terraform
3 1 (4.00%) Ansible
3 1 (4.00%) Progress Chef
3 1 (4.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (32.00%) Databricks
2 3 (12.00%) Cloudera
3 2 (8.00%) Microsoft