PySpark Contract Job Trends in Reading

PySpark - Spark Python API
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring PySpark skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 89 84
Rank change year-on-year +27 -5 -
Contract jobs citing PySpark 3 6 3
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.50% 0.55% 0.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.31% 2.26% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 3
10th Percentile £515 - -
25th Percentile £519 £575 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £613 £625
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £641 £650
90th Percentile £595 £646 £658
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £600 £613
% change year-on-year -8.33% -2.04% +11.36%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 130 265 138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 21.63% 24.31% 12.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 182 100
10th Percentile £362 £387 £350
25th Percentile £476 £491 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £600 £649 £650
90th Percentile £650 £669 £689
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £580 £525
% change year-on-year -13.79% +10.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.84
Median hourly rate - £61.60 £17.34
Median % change year-on-year - +255.25% -77.11%
75th Percentile - £64.92 £17.84
90th Percentile - £70.89 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.31 £61.60 £72.28
% change year-on-year -47.55% -14.78% +5.33%

PySpark
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

PySpark job vacancy trend in Reading

PySpark
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing PySpark

PySpark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (33.33%) Big Data
1 1 (33.33%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Scientist
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Data Scientist
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Data Science
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Databricks
2 1 (33.33%) Virgin Media