PySpark Contracts in Yorkshire

PySpark - Spark Python API
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 96 102
Rank change year-on-year +9 +6 +11
Contract jobs citing PySpark 5 4 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.49% 0.24% 1.08%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.65% 1.15% 5.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 12
10th Percentile - - £506
25th Percentile - £485 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £490 £650
Median % change year-on-year +22.45% -24.62% +18.18%
75th Percentile - £495 £703
90th Percentile - - £713
England median daily rate £660 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +20.00% -8.33% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 189 347 418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 18.58% 20.54% 18.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 229 319
10th Percentile £360 £348 £413
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £731 £675 £690
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 6
10th Percentile £84.38 £13.37 £61.25
25th Percentile £84.67 £13.87 £63.44
Median hourly rate £96.85 £22.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +330.42% -67.86% +106.86%
75th Percentile £102.00 £43.75 -
90th Percentile - £63.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

PySpark
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for PySpark in Yorkshire

PySpark
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for PySpark in Yorkshire

PySpark
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PySpark within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
South Yorkshire +10 3 £600 -
West Yorkshire +13 1 - - 2
PySpark
England

PySpark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 2 (40.00%) Apache
1 2 (40.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Python Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Python Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Anaconda
1 2 (40.00%) Pandas
2 1 (20.00%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (20.00%) LAPP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Unix
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (40.00%) Data Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Data Extraction
2 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (40.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (40.00%) Open Source
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Code Optimisation
3 1 (20.00%) Community of Practice
3 1 (20.00%) Data Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (20.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (20.00%) DataOps
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (20.00%) ETL
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (20.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Databricks