PySpark Contracts in Northern Ireland

PySpark - Spark Python API
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing PySpark 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 0.44% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.57% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £506 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - -
75th Percentile £519 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £550 £530 £600
% change year-on-year +3.77% -11.67% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 28 25 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 12.28% 17.36% 19.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 15 17
10th Percentile £325 £450 £208
25th Percentile £400 £488 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £550 £400
Median % change year-on-year -25.45% +37.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £488 £638 -
90th Percentile £518 £675 £513
UK median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -2.22%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing PySpark as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for PySpark in Northern Ireland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PySpark in Northern Ireland.

Daily rate trend for PySpark in Northern Ireland

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Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PySpark within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 3 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
County Antrim - 1 £513 - 4
PySpark
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Acquisition
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality