PySpark Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

PySpark - Spark Python API
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring PySpark skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing PySpark 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 0.60% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £555 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -7.50% - +14.29%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 10 8 13
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 6.02% 8.89% 6.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 10
10th Percentile £341 £206 £496
25th Percentile £434 £234 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £338 £550
Median % change year-on-year +53.70% -38.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £622 £491 £597
90th Percentile £638 £541 £703
South East median daily rate £500 £543 £509
% change year-on-year -7.83% +6.63% -7.50%

PySpark
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

PySpark job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

PySpark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Spark SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft