PySpark Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

PySpark - Spark Python API
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

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

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 36 49
Rank change year-on-year -59 +13 -
Contract jobs citing PySpark 3 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.33% 0.41% 0.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.08% 2.08% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £476 - -
25th Percentile £497 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% - -
75th Percentile £572 - -
90th Percentile £589 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £538 £600 -
% change year-on-year -10.42% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 278 48 99
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 30.92% 19.92% 28.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 37 55
10th Percentile £388 £450 £386
25th Percentile £450 £470 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £583 £470
Median % change year-on-year -12.88% +23.94% -10.48%
75th Percentile £560 £650 £547
90th Percentile £675 £685 £588
South Yorkshire median daily rate £508 £550 £445
% change year-on-year -7.73% +23.59% -15.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.25
Median hourly rate - - £22.50
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £22.50

PySpark
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

PySpark job vacancy trend in Sheffield

PySpark
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing PySpark

PySpark
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PySpark in Sheffield over the 6 months to 3 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PySpark in Sheffield

PySpark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Data Lake
1 2 (66.67%) Hadoop
2 1 (33.33%) Power BI
2 1 (33.33%) Spark SQL
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Cryptography
2 1 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (33.33%) Data Collection
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk
2 1 (33.33%) Databricks