PySpark Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

PySpark - Spark Python API
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring PySpark skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 30 -
Rank change year-on-year -13 - -
Contract jobs citing PySpark 2 9 0
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.62% 4.09% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.99% 16.36% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 0
10th Percentile £534 £353 -
25th Percentile £547 £358 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £390 -
Median % change year-on-year +50.64% - -
75th Percentile £622 £598 -
90th Percentile £631 £661 -
North East median daily rate £588 £374 -
% change year-on-year +57.09% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 67 55 50
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 20.87% 25.00% 26.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 38 37
10th Percentile £388 £335 £340
25th Percentile £409 £369 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £460 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.98% -16.36% -
75th Percentile £575 £590 £625
90th Percentile £600 £650 £720
North East median daily rate £488 £455 £540
% change year-on-year +7.14% -15.74% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £45.85 - -
25th Percentile £47.88 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £54.38 - -
90th Percentile £54.75 - -
North East median hourly rate £52.50 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +13.69% - -5.76%

PySpark
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

PySpark job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

PySpark
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing PySpark.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing PySpark

PySpark
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PySpark within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 2 December 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -18 2 £588 +50.64% 1
PySpark
North East

PySpark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Delta Lake
2 1 (50.00%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Lead
2 1 (50.00%) Lead Data Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (50.00%) Benchmarking
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) CRM
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lineage
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) ERP
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Stress Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Bicep
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks
2 1 (50.00%) Salesforce