PySpark Contract Job Trends in Surrey

PySpark - Spark Python API
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring PySpark skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 46 -
Rank change year-on-year -4 - -
Contract jobs citing PySpark 3 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 0.70% 0.52% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.54% 4.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
South East median daily rate £560 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -2.61% +4.55% +4.76%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 118 50 120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 27.57% 13.02% 18.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 26 86
10th Percentile - - £305
25th Percentile £204 £203 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £558 £557 £575
90th Percentile £652 £661 £672
South East median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 9
10th Percentile £27.50 - £41.93
25th Percentile £41.25 - £54.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile £68.75 - £76.53
90th Percentile £82.54 - £76.72
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -24.00% -10.71% +7.69%

PySpark
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

PySpark job vacancy trend in Surrey

PySpark
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing PySpark

PySpark
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PySpark within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 13 January 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
Redhill - 2 £575 - 1
Staines - 1 - -
PySpark
South East

PySpark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Snowflake
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) Data Lake
2 2 (66.67%) Metadata
3 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
3 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (33.33%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Data Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Data Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Business Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 1 (33.33%) Data Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Dimensional Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Logical Data Model
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Metadata Management
3 1 (33.33%) Physical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) PL/SQL
2 2 (66.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Ab Initio
1 2 (66.67%) Informatica
2 1 (33.33%) Databricks
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) RedGate