PySpark Contract Job Trends in Staffordshire

PySpark - Spark Python API
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring PySpark skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing PySpark 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Staffordshire 6.98% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 42.86% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £389 - -
25th Percentile £400 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 - -
75th Percentile £450 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £493 £495 £600
% change year-on-year -0.51% -17.50% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 14 5 8
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 16.28% 8.06% 7.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 8
10th Percentile £306 £311 £321
25th Percentile £344 £441 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £538 £350
Median % change year-on-year -25.58% +53.57% -2.91%
75th Percentile £450 £556 £375
90th Percentile £482 £568 £390
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%

PySpark
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

PySpark job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

PySpark
Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing PySpark.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing PySpark

PySpark
Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PySpark within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 22 April 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
Uttoxeter - 3 £450 -
Lichfield - 1 - -
Stoke-on-Trent - 1 £388 - 1
PySpark
West Midlands

PySpark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Storage
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Delta Lake
1 4 (66.67%) Spark SQL
1 4 (66.67%) Tableau
2 2 (33.33%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (16.67%) Power BI
3 1 (16.67%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
General
1 2 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Data Engineer
2 4 (66.67%) Data Analytics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Video\Live Streaming
2 1 (16.67%) Data Fabric
2 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Analytics
2 5 (83.33%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
3 4 (66.67%) Change Data Capture
3 4 (66.67%) Data Governance
3 4 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (66.67%) Dimensional Modelling
3 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
4 3 (50.00%) Observability
4 3 (50.00%) Runbook
5 2 (33.33%) Business Analytics
5 2 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (33.33%) Data Engineering
5 2 (33.33%) Data Lineage
5 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
6 1 (16.67%) Data Transformation
6 1 (16.67%) DevOps
6 1 (16.67%) ETL
6 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (16.67%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (16.67%) SLA
2 1 (16.67%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Databricks
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft