PySpark Contracts in the North West

PySpark - Spark Python API
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 107 132 155
Rank change year-on-year +25 +23 +17
Contract jobs citing PySpark 13 5 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.66% 0.18% 0.063%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.97% 0.99% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 2
10th Percentile £351 - £521
25th Percentile £408 £413 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £463 £563
Median % change year-on-year +5.41% -17.78% -15.29%
75th Percentile £584 £500 £584
90th Percentile £736 - £594
England median daily rate £660 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +20.00% -8.33% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 437 503 592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 22.21% 18.26% 18.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 330 369 464
10th Percentile £363 £363 £337
25th Percentile £401 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £550 £588 £577
90th Percentile £638 £750 £647
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 18 3
10th Percentile - £37.63 £39.24
25th Percentile £65.25 £45.88 £41.40
Median hourly rate £67.75 £47.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.22% +5.12% +10.80%
75th Percentile £74.69 £71.87 -
90th Percentile £83.13 £75.05 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for PySpark in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for PySpark in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for PySpark in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Cheshire - 7 £529 - 5
Manchester +17 5 £500 +8.11% 3
Merseyside - 1 £475 -
PySpark
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (15.38%) SharePoint
2 1 (7.69%) Apache
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) Azure
2 5 (38.46%) AWS
3 3 (23.08%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (15.38%) GCP
5 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Storage
5 1 (7.69%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (53.85%) Hadoop
2 3 (23.08%) Apache Hive
2 3 (23.08%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (23.08%) Delta Lake
2 3 (23.08%) MySQL
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (15.38%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (15.38%) Big Data
3 2 (15.38%) Metadata
4 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
4 1 (7.69%) Parquet
4 1 (7.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Git
General
1 4 (30.77%) Public Sector
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Banking
2 2 (15.38%) Investment Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Data Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Data Integration Developer
4 1 (7.69%) ETL Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Integration Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Python Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) ADO
2 1 (7.69%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (7.69%) Kafka
2 1 (7.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Data Pipeline
2 6 (46.15%) Data Engineering
3 5 (38.46%) ETL
4 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (23.08%) Technical Architecture
5 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
5 2 (15.38%) Data Ingestion
5 2 (15.38%) Data Integration
5 2 (15.38%) Data Management
5 2 (15.38%) Data Modelling
5 2 (15.38%) Data Science
5 2 (15.38%) Data Transformation
5 2 (15.38%) DataOps
5 2 (15.38%) Quality Management
5 2 (15.38%) Runbook
5 2 (15.38%) Workflow
6 1 (7.69%) Clean Code
6 1 (7.69%) Data Visualisation
6 1 (7.69%) Logistics
6 1 (7.69%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) Python
2 7 (53.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Databricks
2 3 (23.08%) Cloudera
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft