PySpark Contracts

PySpark - Spark Python API
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 264 390 450
Rank change year-on-year +126 +60 +17
Contract jobs citing PySpark 289 213 271
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.99% 0.49% 0.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.36% 2.38% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 165 185
10th Percentile £379 £425 £463
25th Percentile £475 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £838 £638 £700
90th Percentile £875 £763 £880
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £600
% change year-on-year -5.00% -16.67% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 3
10th Percentile £20.57 £15.45 £37.50
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.81 £39.75
Median hourly rate £22.00 £20.47 £43.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.47% -52.94% -44.76%
75th Percentile £65.00 £21.50 £43.57
90th Percentile - £22.85 £43.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.12 £18.14 £39.75
% change year-on-year +16.41% -54.36% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,629 8,962 13,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.67% 20.56% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,551 6,219 10,140
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £769 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 231 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £75.00 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

PySpark
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing PySpark as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for PySpark in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for PySpark in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PySpark over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PySpark in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PySpark.

Hourly rate trend for PySpark in the UK

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PySpark over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for PySpark in the UK

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Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PySpark within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +125 251 £650 +18.18% 118
London +80 179 £775 +40.91% 71
Work from Home +100 127 £763 +52.50% 80
UK excluding London +82 78 £475 -5.00% 57
North of England +44 25 £475 -3.06% 14
South East +59 22 £505 +3.59% 11
Scotland +8 14 £463 -7.50% 13
North West +19 13 £488 +5.41% 9
Midlands +29 9 £475 -20.83% 5
West Midlands +20 8 £495 -17.50% 4
North East - 7 £358 - 4
East of England +38 6 £318 - 1
Yorkshire +16 5 £600 +22.45% 1
Wales +3 4 £613 +85.61% 1
South West +37 1 £250 -47.37% 12
East Midlands - 1 £475 - 1

PySpark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 100 (34.60%) Apache
2 88 (30.45%) Apache Airflow
3 81 (28.03%) Apache Spark
4 9 (3.11%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 130 (44.98%) AWS
2 116 (40.14%) Azure
3 80 (27.68%) dbt
4 48 (16.61%) Serverless
5 47 (16.26%) Azure Data Factory
6 46 (15.92%) AWS Lambda
7 45 (15.57%) Amazon ECS
8 43 (14.88%) GCP
9 41 (14.19%) Snowflake
10 39 (13.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 30 (10.38%) Power Platform
12 28 (9.69%) OpenShift
13 26 (9.00%) Amazon EC2
13 26 (9.00%) Dagster
14 24 (8.30%) Amazon S3
15 22 (7.61%) Azure DevOps
16 18 (6.23%) GitHub
17 17 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
18 8 (2.77%) Cloud Computing
18 8 (2.77%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.08%) SSH
2 3 (1.04%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (28.03%) Amazon Athena
2 75 (25.95%) Data Lake
3 74 (25.61%) Apache Iceberg
4 70 (24.22%) Dremio
5 61 (21.11%) Apache Arrow
6 45 (15.57%) Apache Ignite
7 40 (13.84%) Data Warehouse
8 32 (11.07%) Big Data
9 30 (10.38%) Power BI
10 25 (8.65%) Apache Hive
10 25 (8.65%) Hadoop
11 21 (7.27%) Azure SQL Database
12 18 (6.23%) Delta Lake
13 15 (5.19%) Amazon Redshift
13 15 (5.19%) Metadata
14 14 (4.84%) SQL Server
15 11 (3.81%) Relational Database
15 11 (3.81%) Spark SQL
16 8 (2.77%) BigQuery
16 8 (2.77%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 29 (10.03%) Artifactory
2 27 (9.34%) Git
3 10 (3.46%) JIRA
4 6 (2.08%) RStudio
5 5 (1.73%) GitLab
6 4 (1.38%) SpecFlow
7 3 (1.04%) Jenkins
7 3 (1.04%) JMeter
8 1 (0.35%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.35%) Postman
8 1 (0.35%) Selenium
8 1 (0.35%) SonarQube
General
1 111 (38.41%) Finance
2 70 (24.22%) Front Office
3 63 (21.80%) Banking
4 45 (15.57%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (14.88%) Investment Banking
6 36 (12.46%) Social Skills
7 23 (7.96%) Public Sector
8 8 (2.77%) Retail
9 6 (2.08%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.73%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.73%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.38%) Electronics
11 4 (1.38%) Marketing
11 4 (1.38%) Retail Banking
12 3 (1.04%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (1.04%) Law
12 3 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.04%) Tech for Good
13 2 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 173 (59.86%) Data Engineer
2 75 (25.95%) AWS Engineer
3 66 (22.84%) Python Engineer
4 43 (14.88%) Developer
5 38 (13.15%) Senior
6 34 (11.76%) Software Engineer
7 33 (11.42%) AWS Software Engineer
8 29 (10.03%) DevOps Engineer
9 28 (9.69%) AWS DevOps
9 28 (9.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 23 (7.96%) Lead
10 23 (7.96%) Senior Data Engineer
11 22 (7.61%) Python Data Engineer
12 21 (7.27%) Java Engineer
12 21 (7.27%) Python Developer
13 19 (6.57%) Azure Engineer
13 19 (6.57%) Java Software Engineer
14 17 (5.88%) Snowflake Engineer
15 16 (5.54%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 16 (5.54%) Snowflake Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (17.30%) Kafka
2 48 (16.61%) Pandas
3 36 (12.46%) NumPy
4 28 (9.69%) J2EE
4 28 (9.69%) SciPy
5 17 (5.88%) gRPC
5 17 (5.88%) Protocol Buffers
6 13 (4.50%) JSON
7 11 (3.81%) YAML
8 8 (2.77%) pydantic
9 7 (2.42%) TensorFlow
10 6 (2.08%) pytest
11 5 (1.73%) Apache NiFi
12 4 (1.38%) AngularJS
12 4 (1.38%) React
12 4 (1.38%) scikit-learn
13 3 (1.04%) ADO
13 3 (1.04%) Gherkin
13 3 (1.04%) Spring
13 3 (1.04%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 36 (12.46%) Hedge funds
2 35 (12.11%) Derivative
3 33 (11.42%) Equities
3 33 (11.42%) Fixed Income
3 33 (11.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 12 (4.15%) Data Structures
5 9 (3.11%) Algorithms
5 9 (3.11%) Distributed Computing
5 9 (3.11%) Linux Command Line
6 8 (2.77%) Cloud Native
6 8 (2.77%) Reference Data
7 7 (2.42%) Renewable Energy
8 6 (2.08%) Credit Risk
9 5 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.38%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.38%) Product Ownership
11 2 (0.69%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.69%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.77%) Linux
2 4 (1.38%) Unix
3 1 (0.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (38.75%) Agile
2 104 (35.99%) Data Pipeline
3 97 (33.56%) Data Engineering
4 87 (30.10%) CI/CD
5 80 (27.68%) Software Engineering
6 75 (25.95%) ETL
7 74 (25.61%) Asset Management
8 69 (23.88%) Analytics
9 66 (22.84%) DevOps
10 45 (15.57%) Data Modelling
10 45 (15.57%) Problem-Solving
11 42 (14.53%) Data Science
12 41 (14.19%) Machine Learning
13 39 (13.49%) Data Transformation
14 34 (11.76%) Open Source
15 33 (11.42%) Data Ingestion
16 31 (10.73%) Business Intelligence
17 29 (10.03%) Migration
18 28 (9.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 25 (8.65%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 239 (82.70%) Python
2 153 (52.94%) SQL
3 86 (29.76%) Java
4 28 (9.69%) Go
5 20 (6.92%) JavaScript
5 20 (6.92%) TypeScript
6 12 (4.15%) Scala
7 9 (3.11%) Bash
8 6 (2.08%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.38%) C++
10 3 (1.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.69%) C#
11 2 (0.69%) Groovy
11 2 (0.69%) Rust
12 1 (0.35%) Perl
12 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 51 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 45 (15.57%) SC Cleared
3 17 (5.88%) Degree
4 11 (3.81%) Master's Degree
5 10 (3.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.77%) PhD
7 4 (1.38%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.04%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.69%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (12.46%) Data Quality
2 15 (5.19%) GDPR
3 11 (3.81%) Accessibility
4 8 (2.77%) QA
System Software
1 45 (15.57%) Docker
2 2 (0.69%) HDFS
3 1 (0.35%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.35%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 51 (17.65%) Terraform
2 38 (13.15%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.69%) Grafana
3 2 (0.69%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.35%) Ansible
4 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 70 (24.22%) Databricks
2 23 (7.96%) Microsoft
3 9 (3.11%) Palantir
4 8 (2.77%) Foundry
5 7 (2.42%) Google
6 5 (1.73%) Oracle
6 5 (1.73%) SAP
6 5 (1.73%) StreamSets
7 3 (1.04%) Bloomberg
7 3 (1.04%) Cloudera
7 3 (1.04%) Refinitiv
7 3 (1.04%) Reuters
8 2 (0.69%) Confluent
8 2 (0.69%) Informatica
8 2 (0.69%) Virgin Media
9 1 (0.35%) Checkmarx
9 1 (0.35%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.35%) IBM
9 1 (0.35%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.35%) Salesforce