PySpark Contract Job Trends in South Wales

PySpark - Spark Python API
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring PySpark skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 28 -
Rank change year-on-year -9 - -
Contract jobs citing PySpark 4 16 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 1.26% 4.27% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.15% 19.51% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £525 - -
25th Percentile £581 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
75th Percentile £725 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median daily rate £700 £550 -
% change year-on-year +27.27% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £20.24 -
Wales median hourly rate - £20.24 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 65 82 78
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 20.50% 21.87% 20.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 43 65
10th Percentile £305 £197 £208
25th Percentile £405 £238 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £488 £388
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +25.81% -28.24%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £538
90th Percentile £713 - £590
Wales median daily rate £475 £500 £406
% change year-on-year -5.00% +23.08% -22.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 0
10th Percentile £78.25 £19.13 -
25th Percentile £79.38 £20.12 -
Median hourly rate £82.50 £22.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +275.00% - -
75th Percentile £84.38 £25.60 -
90th Percentile £84.75 £25.78 -
Wales median hourly rate £80.00 £22.00 -
% change year-on-year +263.64% - -

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Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

PySpark job vacancy trend in South Wales

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Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing PySpark.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing PySpark

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Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PySpark in South Wales over the 6 months to 3 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PySpark in South Wales

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Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing PySpark.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing PySpark

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Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 3 November 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
Cardiff - 4 £700 -
PySpark
Wales

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Pipelines
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (50.00%) BigQuery
2 2 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (50.00%) Metadata
2 2 (50.00%) RDBMS
2 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
1 2 (50.00%) JMeter
1 2 (50.00%) Zephyr
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Quality Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Data Cleansing
2 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Test Management
3 1 (25.00%) BDD
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Databricks
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle