PySpark Contracts in Scotland

PySpark - Spark Python API
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 120 94 153
Rank change year-on-year -26 +59 +26
Contract jobs citing PySpark 4 21 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.23% 1.11% 0.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.99% 5.54% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 14 4
10th Percentile £327 £475 £504
25th Percentile £348 £477 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £394 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -21.25% -6.98% -17.31%
75th Percentile £436 - £566
90th Percentile £456 £581 £594
UK median daily rate £550 £530 £600
% change year-on-year +3.77% -11.67% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 405 379 620
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 23.30% 19.99% 23.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 253 265 443
10th Percentile £313 £325 £388
25th Percentile £419 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -6.25% -4.00%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £538
90th Percentile £600 £675 £613
UK median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 5
10th Percentile - £51.50 £18.90
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.88 £27.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £47.73
Median % change year-on-year - +15.23% +0.48%
75th Percentile £57.50 £57.50 £59.03
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £54.94 £53.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year +2.21% -10.42% +6.50%

PySpark
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for PySpark in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for PySpark in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PySpark in Scotland over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PySpark in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PySpark within the Scotland 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
Edinburgh +7 3 £463 +32.14% 2
Glasgow -30 1 £325 -35.00% 4
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (25.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) Snowflake
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EMR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Big Data
1 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (50.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (25.00%) Apache Hive
2 1 (25.00%) DB2
2 1 (25.00%) Delta Lake
2 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Environment Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Open Source Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Python Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Python Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Pandas
2 1 (25.00%) Great Expectations
2 1 (25.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Analytics
1 3 (75.00%) Data Engineering
1 3 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Agile Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Data Extraction
3 1 (25.00%) Data Validation
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Open Source
3 1 (25.00%) Quality Management
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Confluent
1 1 (25.00%) IBM
1 1 (25.00%) Informatica
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) StreamSets