PySpark Contracts in Central London

PySpark - Spark Python API
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 113 128 187
Rank change year-on-year +15 +59 -8
Contract jobs citing PySpark 16 22 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.68% 0.73% 0.47%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.86% 3.01% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 18 18
10th Percentile £430 £406 £513
25th Percentile £475 £466 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £544 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.95% -1.14% -12.00%
75th Percentile £621 £638 £628
90th Percentile £638 £788 £665
London median daily rate £607 £581 £600
% change year-on-year +4.43% -3.13% +4.35%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 559 730 1,468
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 23.92% 24.16% 30.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 334 503 966
10th Percentile £413 £400 £425
25th Percentile £500 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.13%
75th Percentile £709 £713 £725
90th Percentile £838 £825 £813
London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile £27.67 £46.93 £42.95
25th Percentile £31.07 £47.94 £45.50
Median hourly rate £38.50 £50.25 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.38% -1.47% +45.71%
75th Percentile £41.00 £51.94 £56.50
90th Percentile £41.45 £52.58 £59.05
London median hourly rate £45.00 £61.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year -26.53% -5.77% +28.83%

PySpark
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for PySpark in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for PySpark in Central London

PySpark
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PySpark in Central London over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PySpark in Central London

PySpark
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PySpark within the Central London region over the 6 months to 31 October 2024. 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
City of London +17 13 £525 -3.40% 4
West End of London - 1 - -
PySpark
London

PySpark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 6 (37.50%) Apache Spark
2 1 (6.25%) Apache
2 1 (6.25%) Confluence
2 1 (6.25%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 11 (68.75%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) AWS
2 3 (18.75%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (18.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (12.50%) Power Platform
3 2 (12.50%) Serverless
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Functions
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Table
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (50.00%) Big Data
2 7 (43.75%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (37.50%) Data Lake
4 4 (25.00%) SQL Server
4 4 (25.00%) Star Schema
5 3 (18.75%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (18.75%) Hadoop
5 3 (18.75%) Spark SQL
6 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 2 (12.50%) MongoDB
6 2 (12.50%) MySQL
6 2 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (12.50%) Power BI
7 1 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (6.25%) Delta Lake
7 1 (6.25%) HDInsight
7 1 (6.25%) Lumira
7 1 (6.25%) SAP BW
7 1 (6.25%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (6.25%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) MLflow
2 1 (6.25%) Subversion
General
1 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (25.00%) Banking
3 4 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (18.75%) Finance
5 2 (12.50%) Investment Banking
6 1 (6.25%) Financial Institution
6 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Data Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Senior
4 2 (12.50%) Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Analytics Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Business Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Technical Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Technical Business Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Big Data Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Data Business Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Python Developer
5 1 (6.25%) SAS Data Integration Studio Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior ETL Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Technical Leader
5 1 (6.25%) Workday Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Workday Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) pytest
2 1 (6.25%) Kafka
2 1 (6.25%) ONNX
2 1 (6.25%) PyTorch
2 1 (6.25%) RESTful
2 1 (6.25%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (12.50%) Freedom of Information
1 2 (12.50%) Freedom of Information Act
2 1 (6.25%) Algorithms
2 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
2 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Analytics
2 8 (50.00%) ETL
3 7 (43.75%) CI/CD
3 7 (43.75%) Data Pipeline
4 5 (31.25%) Agile
4 5 (31.25%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (31.25%) Data Analysis
4 5 (31.25%) Data Modelling
4 5 (31.25%) Kimball Methodology
5 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (25.00%) Scrum
6 3 (18.75%) Business Analysis
6 3 (18.75%) Data Encryption
6 3 (18.75%) Data Engineering
6 3 (18.75%) Data Governance
6 3 (18.75%) Data Security
6 3 (18.75%) Inmon Methodology
6 3 (18.75%) Project Management
7 2 (12.50%) ERP
7 2 (12.50%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 12 (75.00%) Python
2 10 (62.50%) SQL
3 1 (6.25%) Java
3 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Degree
2 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) Master's Degree
3 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Terraform
2 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (62.50%) Databricks
2 1 (6.25%) Alteryx
2 1 (6.25%) Brio
2 1 (6.25%) Foundry
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Palantir
2 1 (6.25%) Salesforce
2 1 (6.25%) SAP
2 1 (6.25%) Workday