PySpark Contract Job Trends in Somerset

PySpark - Spark Python API
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring PySpark skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 - 30
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing PySpark 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 0.49% - 0.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.55% - 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £475
75th Percentile £575 - £488
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £550 £325 £463
% change year-on-year +69.23% -29.73% -11.90%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 22 30 49
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 10.68% 18.29% 26.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 16 28
10th Percentile £395 £397 £360
25th Percentile £413 £422 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £563 £525
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +7.14% -8.62%
75th Percentile £555 £638 £650
90th Percentile £578 £643 £735
South West median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - £46.13
25th Percentile £61.50 - £47.78
Median hourly rate £63.00 - £51.89
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.78%
75th Percentile £64.50 - £55.47
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year - +25.26% -20.17%

PySpark
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PySpark within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 27 December 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
Bath - 1 £550 - 1
PySpark
South West

PySpark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Power Query
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft