PySpark Contracts in the South West

PySpark - Spark Python API
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for PySpark skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PySpark over the 6 months to 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 146 162 163
Rank change year-on-year +16 +1 -33
Contract jobs citing PySpark 8 10 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.25% 0.27% 0.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.92% 1.75% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 6
10th Percentile £450 £325 £471
25th Percentile £453 £484 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £546 £505
Median % change year-on-year -7.78% +8.17% -8.60%
75th Percentile £564 £625 £587
90th Percentile £572 £700 £669
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South West

PySpark is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 417 573 761
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 13.01% 15.57% 20.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 456 529
10th Percentile £313 £395 £362
25th Percentile £399 £448 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +8.40%
75th Percentile £675 £620 £575
90th Percentile £706 £700 £645
England median daily rate £550 £572 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 18 33
10th Percentile - £49.25 £48.84
25th Percentile £43.75 £50.66 £49.75
Median hourly rate £47.50 £57.50 £63.60
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% -9.59% +27.20%
75th Percentile £74.44 £74.13 £75.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.00 -
England median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

PySpark
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for PySpark in the South West

PySpark
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for PySpark in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 18 April 2024. 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
Bristol +17 5 £450 -21.74% 3
Wiltshire +2 1 £533 +2.90%
Somerset - 1 £475 -
PySpark
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (12.50%) Apache
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
1 4 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (37.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon Kinesis
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (25.00%) AWS CodeCommit
3 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Serverless
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Stack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Power BI
2 3 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (25.00%) Data Mining
3 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (12.50%) Apache Hive
4 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (12.50%) Big Data
4 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
4 1 (12.50%) Delta Lake
4 1 (12.50%) Hadoop
4 1 (12.50%) Metadata
4 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Data Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) AWS Data Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) Azure Data Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) QA Tester
4 1 (12.50%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (12.50%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps
1 4 (50.00%) ETL
2 3 (37.50%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (37.50%) Data Acquisition
2 3 (37.50%) Data Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (25.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) Data Lineage
3 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (25.00%) Requirements Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (12.50%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (12.50%) Kimball Methodology
4 1 (12.50%) Migration
4 1 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Python
2 7 (87.50%) SQL
3 2 (25.00%) Java
3 2 (25.00%) R
3 2 (25.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
1 2 (25.00%) IBM Certification
1 2 (25.00%) Numerate Degree
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (12.50%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Databricks
2 2 (25.00%) IBM
3 1 (12.50%) Cloudera
3 1 (12.50%) Informatica