PySpark Contract Job Trends in Wales

PySpark - Spark Python API
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales requiring PySpark skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 30 -
Rank change year-on-year -11 - -
Contract jobs citing PySpark 4 19 0
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.93% 4.16% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.06% 20.65% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile £525 £510 -
25th Percentile £581 £525 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% - -
75th Percentile £725 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -9.09% -1.79% -3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £20.24 -
UK median hourly rate - £20.24 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 79 92 93
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 18.46% 20.13% 19.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 53 76
10th Percentile £323 £197 £210
25th Percentile £406 £270 £272
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £406
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +23.08% -22.62%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £528
90th Percentile £649 £570 £575
UK median daily rate £505 £549 £550
% change year-on-year -7.94% -0.26% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 0
10th Percentile £39.70 £19.13 -
25th Percentile £53.88 £20.12 -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £22.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +263.64% - -
75th Percentile £83.75 £25.60 -
90th Percentile £84.50 £25.78 -
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -16.92% +18.18% -15.38%

PySpark
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

PySpark job vacancy trend in Wales

PySpark
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing PySpark

PySpark
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PySpark in Wales over the 6 months to 3 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PySpark in Wales

PySpark
Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing PySpark.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing PySpark

PySpark
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PySpark within the Wales region over the 6 months to 3 November 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
South Wales -9 4 £700 -
PySpark
UK

PySpark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Pipelines
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (50.00%) BigQuery
2 2 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (50.00%) Metadata
2 2 (50.00%) RDBMS
2 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
1 2 (50.00%) JMeter
1 2 (50.00%) Zephyr
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Quality Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Data Cleansing
2 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Test Management
3 1 (25.00%) BDD
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Databricks
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle