PySpark Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

PySpark - Spark Python API
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring PySpark skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 43 51
Rank change year-on-year -55 +8 -
Contract jobs citing PySpark 3 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.31% 0.36% 0.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.05% 1.92% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £476 - -
25th Percentile £497 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% - -
75th Percentile £572 - -
90th Percentile £589 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -20.83% +14.29% -19.23%

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 287 52 113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 29.65% 18.51% 27.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 41 64
10th Percentile £373 £450 £393
25th Percentile £450 £495 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £550 £445
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% +23.59% -15.23%
75th Percentile £558 £650 £539
90th Percentile £675 £675 £588
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £488
% change year-on-year -4.76% +7.69% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £14.35
25th Percentile - - £16.94
Median hourly rate - - £22.50
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £57.25 £102.00 £24.64
% change year-on-year -43.87% +313.96% -64.80%

PySpark
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

PySpark job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

PySpark
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

PySpark
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PySpark in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 3 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PySpark in South Yorkshire

PySpark
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 3 March 2026. 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 -59 3 £538 -10.42% 2
PySpark
Yorkshire

PySpark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Data Lake
1 2 (66.67%) Hadoop
2 1 (33.33%) Power BI
2 1 (33.33%) Spark SQL
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Cryptography
2 1 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (33.33%) Data Collection
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk
2 1 (33.33%) Databricks