PySpark Contracts in the South East

PySpark - Spark Python API
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 199 216
Rank change year-on-year +62 +17 +14
Contract jobs citing PySpark 22 6 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.73% 0.11% 0.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.40% 0.82% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 3
10th Percentile £411 £288 £478
25th Percentile £500 £336 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £488 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.59% -18.75% -4.00%
75th Percentile £545 £638 £622
90th Percentile £610 £705 £628
England median daily rate £660 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +20.00% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £36.75
25th Percentile - - £37.88
Median hourly rate - - £39.75
75th Percentile - - £41.63
90th Percentile - - £42.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £21.00 £43.50
% change year-on-year +209.52% -51.72% -44.76%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 500 730 1,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.61% 13.13% 17.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 462 737
10th Percentile £350 £313 £363
25th Percentile £411 £407 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £591 £619 £638
90th Percentile £661 £661 £719
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 36 37
10th Percentile £28.99 £35.00 £40.50
25th Percentile £50.00 £56.13 £55.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £61.60 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.66% -12.00% +55.56%
75th Percentile £62.50 £66.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £69.13 £76.25 £79.61
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing PySpark as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for PySpark in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PySpark in the South East.

Daily rate trend for PySpark in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PySpark in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PySpark in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PySpark in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for PySpark in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PySpark within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Thames Valley +60 21 £523 +39.33% 1
Berkshire +47 19 £503 +57.65% 1
Buckinghamshire +17 2 £543 -22.50%
Surrey - 1 £425 -
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 12 (54.55%) Apache Spark
2 2 (9.09%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 15 (68.18%) Azure
2 11 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (22.73%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (9.09%) Amazon S3
4 2 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (4.55%) AWS
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Functions
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Storage
5 1 (4.55%) GitHub
5 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.55%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (50.00%) Big Data
2 7 (31.82%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (18.18%) Data Lake
3 4 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (18.18%) Hadoop
3 4 (18.18%) MongoDB
3 4 (18.18%) Spark SQL
3 4 (18.18%) SQL Server
4 3 (13.64%) Apache Hive
5 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 2 (9.09%) MySQL
5 2 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (9.09%) Relational Database
5 2 (9.09%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (4.55%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (4.55%) HBase
6 1 (4.55%) HDInsight
6 1 (4.55%) Impala
6 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
6 1 (4.55%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) SpecFlow
2 1 (4.55%) Git
General
1 4 (18.18%) Telecoms
2 3 (13.64%) Electronics
2 3 (13.64%) Finance
2 3 (13.64%) Manufacturing
2 3 (13.64%) Marketing
2 3 (13.64%) Public Sector
2 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Senior
3 3 (13.64%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Test Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Tester
4 2 (9.09%) Automation Tester
4 2 (9.09%) Azure Specialist
4 2 (9.09%) Big Data Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Hadoop Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Python Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Automation Tester
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Test Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Tester
4 2 (9.09%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (22.73%) Kafka
2 3 (13.64%) Gherkin
3 2 (9.09%) JDBC
4 1 (4.55%) ADO
4 1 (4.55%) ARM Templates
4 1 (4.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Product Ownership
2 3 (13.64%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.55%) IoT
3 1 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Linux
1 1 (4.55%) Unix
1 1 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (59.09%) Data Pipeline
2 8 (36.36%) Business Intelligence
2 8 (36.36%) ETL
3 7 (31.82%) Artificial Intelligence
3 7 (31.82%) Data Engineering
3 7 (31.82%) DevOps
4 6 (27.27%) Analytics
5 5 (22.73%) Agile
6 4 (18.18%) Data Integration
6 4 (18.18%) Machine Learning
6 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (18.18%) Software Engineering
7 3 (13.64%) API Management
7 3 (13.64%) Data Ingestion
7 3 (13.64%) Data-Driven Testing
7 3 (13.64%) Digital Marketing
7 3 (13.64%) End-to-End Testing
7 3 (13.64%) Generative AI
7 3 (13.64%) LLM
7 3 (13.64%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 18 (81.82%) SQL
2 17 (77.27%) Python
3 3 (13.64%) JavaScript
3 3 (13.64%) T-SQL
3 3 (13.64%) TypeScript
4 1 (4.55%) Bash
4 1 (4.55%) C#
4 1 (4.55%) Java
4 1 (4.55%) Perl
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) SC Cleared
1 5 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) Data Quality
2 2 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Apache Flume
1 1 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (59.09%) Databricks
2 9 (40.91%) Microsoft
3 3 (13.64%) Foundry
3 3 (13.64%) Palantir
3 3 (13.64%) SAP
4 1 (4.55%) Google
4 1 (4.55%) StreamSets
4 1 (4.55%) Virgin Media