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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 165 176
Rank change year-on-year +19 +11 +48
Contract jobs citing PySpark 23 13 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.69% 0.28% 0.54%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.54% 1.44% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 9 15
10th Percentile £349 £403 £457
25th Percentile £358 £413 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £490 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.51% -18.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £688
90th Percentile £730 £535 £713
England median daily rate £600 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +9.09% -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 649 904 1,098
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 19.61% 19.30% 19.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 472 609 854
10th Percentile £358 £358 £363
25th Percentile £400 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +3.96%
75th Percentile £546 £600 £600
90th Percentile £625 £700 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £557
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.26% -2.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 30 9
10th Percentile - £13.87 £37.79
25th Percentile £70.00 £37.63 £46.18
Median hourly rate £76.25 £46.18 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +65.11% -26.11% -3.85%
75th Percentile £91.20 £70.81 £70.00
90th Percentile £95.61 £72.70 £72.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +31.58% -26.92% +23.81%

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 29 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 29 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 +10 14 £475 - 17
Yorkshire +13 7 £494 +0.77% 8
North East - 2 - - 1
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 4 (17.39%) Apache
1 4 (17.39%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (8.70%) Apache Spark
2 2 (8.70%) Jupyter
2 2 (8.70%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (43.48%) AWS
1 10 (43.48%) Azure
2 4 (17.39%) Amazon S3
2 4 (17.39%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (17.39%) Azure Data Factory
2 4 (17.39%) Serverless
3 2 (8.70%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (8.70%) Amazon EMR
3 2 (8.70%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (8.70%) GCP
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Storage
4 1 (4.35%) GitHub
4 1 (4.35%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (39.13%) Hadoop
2 5 (21.74%) Delta Lake
2 5 (21.74%) MySQL
3 4 (17.39%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (17.39%) Big Data
3 4 (17.39%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (17.39%) Metadata
4 3 (13.04%) Apache Hive
4 3 (13.04%) Data Lake
4 3 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (8.70%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (8.70%) Metadata Repository
5 2 (8.70%) MongoDB
6 1 (4.35%) Parquet
6 1 (4.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (43.48%) Git
2 2 (8.70%) GitLab
3 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (34.78%) Public Sector
2 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Finance
4 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Banking
4 2 (8.70%) Health Technology
4 2 (8.70%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.35%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 11 (47.83%) Data Engineer
2 8 (34.78%) Developer
3 3 (13.04%) Python Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Lead
4 2 (8.70%) Senior
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Data Integration Developer
5 1 (4.35%) ETL Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Integration Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Python Data Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Python Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Software Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Technical Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) Kafka
2 2 (8.70%) ADO
2 2 (8.70%) Anaconda
2 2 (8.70%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (8.70%) Node.js
2 2 (8.70%) Pandas
2 2 (8.70%) React
2 2 (8.70%) Spring
2 2 (8.70%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.35%) LAPP Stack
3 1 (4.35%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (8.70%) NHS
3 1 (4.35%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.35%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Unix
2 1 (4.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) Data Pipeline
2 8 (34.78%) Data Engineering
3 7 (30.43%) ETL
4 6 (26.09%) CI/CD
4 6 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (21.74%) Data Integration
6 4 (17.39%) Data Analysis
6 4 (17.39%) Data Modelling
6 4 (17.39%) Workflow
7 3 (13.04%) Analytics
7 3 (13.04%) Clean Code
7 3 (13.04%) Data Protection
7 3 (13.04%) Data Transformation
7 3 (13.04%) DataOps
7 3 (13.04%) Technical Architecture
8 2 (8.70%) Containerisation
8 2 (8.70%) Data Science
8 2 (8.70%) Decision-Making
8 2 (8.70%) Full-Stack Development
8 2 (8.70%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 19 (82.61%) Python
2 9 (39.13%) SQL
3 2 (8.70%) Java
3 2 (8.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (34.78%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.04%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (17.39%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.70%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (17.39%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) Kubernetes
2 3 (13.04%) Terraform
3 1 (4.35%) Ansible
3 1 (4.35%) Progress Chef
3 1 (4.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (34.78%) Databricks
2 3 (13.04%) Cloudera
3 2 (8.70%) Brio
3 2 (8.70%) Microsoft