PySpark Contract Job Trends in Northampton

PySpark - Spark Python API
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northampton requiring PySpark skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 26 -
Rank change year-on-year -17 - -
Contract jobs citing PySpark 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northampton 0.85% 0.87% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.65% 3.57% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £356 -
Median % change year-on-year +12.92% - -
Northamptonshire median daily rate £402 £356 -
% change year-on-year +12.92% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Northampton

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 Northampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 43 28 5
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 18.30% 24.35% 5.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 27 5
10th Percentile £355 £312 £343
25th Percentile £393 £340 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £407 £356 £400
Median % change year-on-year +14.40% -11.00% +18.52%
75th Percentile £447 £364 £406
90th Percentile £475 £412 £504
Northamptonshire median daily rate £407 £356 £438
% change year-on-year +14.40% -18.63% +32.58%

PySpark
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PySpark relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton.

PySpark job vacancy trend in Northampton

PySpark
Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing PySpark.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing PySpark

PySpark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northampton by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Aerospike
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Data Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Backtesting
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 2 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Fraud Detection
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks