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 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 269 383 454
Rank change year-on-year +114 +71 +32
Contract jobs citing PySpark 283 218 272
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.96% 0.51% 0.46%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.24% 2.45% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 169 183
10th Percentile £381 £423 £458
25th Percentile £475 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £838 £626 £709
90th Percentile £875 £763 £880
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £500 £600
% change year-on-year -6.25% -16.67% +7.62%
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 6,670 8,884 13,739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.74% 20.58% 23.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,578 6,170 10,017
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £782 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 238 152
10th Percentile £27.22 £21.25 £31.18
25th Percentile £50.00 £40.08 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.84 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.77% -27.94% +30.65%
75th Percentile £68.56 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.70 £74.61 £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £63.25
% change year-on-year +36.84% -24.90% +28.43%

PySpark
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for PySpark in the UK

PySpark
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 6 May 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

PySpark
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PySpark over the 6 months to 6 May 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 6 May 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 +115 246 £700 +27.27% 137
London +66 178 £775 +40.91% 77
Work from Home +96 124 £775 +55.00% 93
UK excluding London +75 74 £469 -6.25% 82
North of England +34 26 £475 -3.06% 20
South East +48 18 £505 +3.59% 21
Scotland +8 14 £463 -7.50% 12
North West +19 13 £488 +5.41% 11
Midlands +25 9 £475 -20.83% 6
West Midlands +20 8 £495 -17.50% 2
North East - 7 £358 - 3
East of England +32 6 £318 - 2
Yorkshire +21 6 £550 +12.24% 6
Wales +6 3 £675 +104.55% 3
South West +28 1 £250 -47.37% 18
East Midlands - 1 £475 - 4

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 (35.34%) Apache
2 88 (31.10%) Apache Airflow
3 80 (28.27%) Apache Spark
4 9 (3.18%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.71%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 129 (45.58%) AWS
2 111 (39.22%) Azure
3 81 (28.62%) dbt
4 49 (17.31%) Serverless
5 47 (16.61%) AWS Lambda
6 45 (15.90%) Amazon ECS
7 44 (15.55%) Azure Data Factory
7 44 (15.55%) GCP
8 41 (14.49%) Snowflake
9 40 (14.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 31 (10.95%) Power Platform
11 28 (9.89%) OpenShift
12 27 (9.54%) Amazon EC2
13 26 (9.19%) Dagster
14 25 (8.83%) Amazon S3
15 22 (7.77%) Azure DevOps
16 19 (6.71%) GitHub
17 17 (6.01%) Amazon EKS
18 8 (2.83%) Cloud Computing
18 8 (2.83%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.12%) SSH
2 3 (1.06%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (28.62%) Amazon Athena
2 74 (26.15%) Apache Iceberg
3 72 (25.44%) Data Lake
4 70 (24.73%) Dremio
5 61 (21.55%) Apache Arrow
6 45 (15.90%) Apache Ignite
7 40 (14.13%) Data Warehouse
8 31 (10.95%) Power BI
9 28 (9.89%) Big Data
10 25 (8.83%) Apache Hive
10 25 (8.83%) Hadoop
11 19 (6.71%) Delta Lake
12 17 (6.01%) Azure SQL Database
13 16 (5.65%) Amazon Redshift
14 15 (5.30%) Metadata
15 13 (4.59%) Spark SQL
16 11 (3.89%) Relational Database
17 10 (3.53%) SQL Server
18 9 (3.18%) BigQuery
18 9 (3.18%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 29 (10.25%) Artifactory
1 29 (10.25%) Git
2 10 (3.53%) JIRA
3 6 (2.12%) RStudio
4 5 (1.77%) GitLab
5 4 (1.41%) SpecFlow
6 3 (1.06%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.06%) JMeter
7 1 (0.35%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.35%) Postman
7 1 (0.35%) Selenium
7 1 (0.35%) SonarQube
General
1 111 (39.22%) Finance
2 70 (24.73%) Front Office
3 62 (21.91%) Banking
4 44 (15.55%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (15.19%) Investment Banking
6 38 (13.43%) Social Skills
7 24 (8.48%) Public Sector
8 7 (2.47%) Retail
9 6 (2.12%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.77%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.77%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.41%) Electronics
11 4 (1.41%) Marketing
11 4 (1.41%) Retail Banking
12 3 (1.06%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (1.06%) Law
12 3 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.06%) Tech for Good
13 2 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 171 (60.42%) Data Engineer
2 75 (26.50%) AWS Engineer
3 66 (23.32%) Python Engineer
4 43 (15.19%) Developer
5 35 (12.37%) Senior
6 34 (12.01%) Software Engineer
7 33 (11.66%) AWS Software Engineer
8 29 (10.25%) DevOps Engineer
9 28 (9.89%) AWS DevOps
9 28 (9.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 23 (8.13%) Lead
11 22 (7.77%) Python Data Engineer
11 22 (7.77%) Python Developer
11 22 (7.77%) Senior Data Engineer
12 21 (7.42%) Java Engineer
13 19 (6.71%) Azure Engineer
13 19 (6.71%) Java Software Engineer
14 17 (6.01%) Snowflake Engineer
15 16 (5.65%) AWS Developer
15 16 (5.65%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (17.67%) Kafka
2 48 (16.96%) Pandas
3 36 (12.72%) NumPy
4 28 (9.89%) J2EE
4 28 (9.89%) SciPy
5 17 (6.01%) gRPC
5 17 (6.01%) Protocol Buffers
6 13 (4.59%) JSON
7 11 (3.89%) YAML
8 8 (2.83%) pydantic
9 7 (2.47%) TensorFlow
10 6 (2.12%) pytest
11 5 (1.77%) Apache NiFi
11 5 (1.77%) React
12 4 (1.41%) AngularJS
12 4 (1.41%) scikit-learn
13 3 (1.06%) ADO
13 3 (1.06%) Gherkin
13 3 (1.06%) Spring
13 3 (1.06%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 36 (12.72%) Hedge funds
2 35 (12.37%) Derivative
3 33 (11.66%) Equities
3 33 (11.66%) Fixed Income
3 33 (11.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 12 (4.24%) Data Structures
5 9 (3.18%) Algorithms
5 9 (3.18%) Linux Command Line
6 8 (2.83%) Cloud Native
6 8 (2.83%) Distributed Computing
6 8 (2.83%) Reference Data
7 7 (2.47%) Renewable Energy
8 6 (2.12%) Credit Risk
9 5 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.41%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.71%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.71%) Market Risk
11 2 (0.71%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.18%) Linux
2 5 (1.77%) Unix
3 1 (0.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (39.58%) Agile
2 101 (35.69%) Data Pipeline
3 95 (33.57%) Data Engineering
4 87 (30.74%) CI/CD
5 76 (26.86%) ETL
5 76 (26.86%) Software Engineering
6 74 (26.15%) Asset Management
7 69 (24.38%) Analytics
8 66 (23.32%) DevOps
9 46 (16.25%) Data Modelling
9 46 (16.25%) Problem-Solving
10 42 (14.84%) Data Science
11 39 (13.78%) Machine Learning
12 37 (13.07%) Data Transformation
13 35 (12.37%) Data Ingestion
14 34 (12.01%) Open Source
15 29 (10.25%) Migration
16 28 (9.89%) Business Intelligence
16 28 (9.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 26 (9.19%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 234 (82.69%) Python
2 148 (52.30%) SQL
3 86 (30.39%) Java
4 28 (9.89%) Go
5 21 (7.42%) TypeScript
6 20 (7.07%) JavaScript
7 12 (4.24%) Scala
8 9 (3.18%) Bash
9 6 (2.12%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.06%) C++
10 3 (1.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.71%) C#
11 2 (0.71%) Groovy
11 2 (0.71%) Rust
12 1 (0.35%) Perl
12 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 49 (17.31%) Security Cleared
2 43 (15.19%) SC Cleared
3 16 (5.65%) Degree
4 10 (3.53%) Master's Degree
5 9 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.47%) PhD
7 4 (1.41%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.06%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.71%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (12.72%) Data Quality
2 15 (5.30%) GDPR
3 12 (4.24%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.47%) QA
System Software
1 45 (15.90%) Docker
2 2 (0.71%) HDFS
3 1 (0.35%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.35%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 51 (18.02%) Terraform
2 38 (13.43%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.71%) Grafana
3 2 (0.71%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.35%) Ansible
4 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 66 (23.32%) Databricks
2 19 (6.71%) Microsoft
3 9 (3.18%) Palantir
4 8 (2.83%) Foundry
4 8 (2.83%) Google
5 5 (1.77%) Oracle
5 5 (1.77%) SAP
5 5 (1.77%) StreamSets
6 3 (1.06%) Bloomberg
6 3 (1.06%) Cloudera
6 3 (1.06%) Refinitiv
6 3 (1.06%) Reuters
7 2 (0.71%) Confluent
7 2 (0.71%) Informatica
7 2 (0.71%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.35%) Checkmarx
8 1 (0.35%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.35%) IBM
8 1 (0.35%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.35%) Salesforce