PySpark Contracts in the Thames Valley

PySpark - Spark Python API
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 126 140
Rank change year-on-year +29 +14 +28
Contract jobs citing PySpark 8 7 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.53% 0.26% 0.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.71% 1.75% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 6
10th Percentile £426 £309 £588
25th Percentile £454 £363 £589
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £375 £713
Median % change year-on-year +34.67% -47.37% +23.91%
75th Percentile £554 £500 £850
90th Percentile £582 £644 -
South East median daily rate £465 £375 £713
% change year-on-year +24.00% -47.37% +14.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 295 399 485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 19.67% 14.96% 16.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 275 354
10th Percentile £325 £343 £350
25th Percentile £409 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £588 £616 £625
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 19 12
10th Percentile £13.25 £56.62 -
25th Percentile £18.95 £56.65 £50.00
Median hourly rate £29.63 £61.60 £74.25
Median % change year-on-year -51.90% -17.04% +112.14%
75th Percentile £43.86 - £79.46
90th Percentile £81.78 £61.68 £80.25
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £61.60 £64.50
% change year-on-year -18.83% -4.50% +43.33%

PySpark
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing PySpark as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for PySpark in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PySpark in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for PySpark in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PySpark in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PySpark in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PySpark within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 25 June 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
Berkshire +29 8 £505 +34.67% 7
PySpark
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 7 (87.50%) Apache Spark
2 2 (25.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 4 (50.00%) Spark SQL
2 2 (25.00%) Apache Hive
2 2 (25.00%) Big Data
2 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (25.00%) Hadoop
2 2 (25.00%) MySQL
2 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
General
1 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Data Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Big Data Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Hadoop Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Data Scientist
4 1 (12.50%) JavaScript Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Lead
4 1 (12.50%) Lead Data Scientist
4 1 (12.50%) Python Data Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Python Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Kafka
2 2 (25.00%) JDBC
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Data Structures
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Data Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (50.00%) ETL
3 3 (37.50%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (37.50%) Generative AI
3 3 (37.50%) LLM
3 3 (37.50%) Machine Learning
4 2 (25.00%) Data Collection
4 2 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
4 2 (25.00%) Data Integration
4 2 (25.00%) Data Security
4 2 (25.00%) High Availability
4 2 (25.00%) Storage Management
4 2 (25.00%) Test Scripting
5 1 (12.50%) Data Privacy
5 1 (12.50%) Data Science
5 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
5 1 (12.50%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (62.50%) SQL
3 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
3 3 (37.50%) TypeScript
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Foundry
1 3 (37.50%) Palantir
2 1 (12.50%) Databricks
2 1 (12.50%) Virgin Media