PySpark Contracts in South Yorkshire

PySpark - Spark Python API
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 45 55 -
Rank change year-on-year +10 - -
Contract jobs citing PySpark 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 0.80% 0.22% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.95% 0.85% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £600 £490 £650
% change year-on-year +22.45% -24.62% +18.18%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 76 118 64
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 20.38% 25.82% 12.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 68 57
10th Percentile £360 £397 £403
25th Percentile £400 £430 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £462 £600
Median % change year-on-year +13.76% -23.08% +33.33%
75th Percentile £641 £588 £700
90th Percentile £709 £645 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £22.50 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £96.85 £22.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +330.42% -67.86% +106.86%

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Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for PySpark in South Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for PySpark in South Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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
Sheffield +7 3 £600 - 1
PySpark
Yorkshire

PySpark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Delta Lake
1 1 (33.33%) Hadoop
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Python Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Anaconda
1 2 (66.67%) Pandas
2 1 (33.33%) LAPP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (33.33%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Unix
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Analytics
1 2 (66.67%) Data Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) Data Extraction
1 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
1 2 (66.67%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 2 (66.67%) Open Source
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Code Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Community of Practice
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
2 1 (33.33%) Puppet