PySpark Contracts in England

PySpark - Spark Python API
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for PySpark skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PySpark over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 362 427 478
Rank change year-on-year +65 +51 -39
Contract jobs citing PySpark 183 237 320
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.50% 0.49% 0.46%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.44% 2.14% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 165 211
10th Percentile £411 £456 £463
25th Percentile £475 £513 £524
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £641 £718 £719
90th Percentile £763 £880 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.50 - -
Median hourly rate £21.00 - £78.75
75th Percentile £21.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £20.47 - £78.75
% change year-on-year - - +215.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

PySpark is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,485 11,072 18,893
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.57% 22.98% 26.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,308 8,225 14,183
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £431 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £568
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -1.32% +13.50%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £788 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 132 215
10th Percentile £22.50 £26.18 £23.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £67.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

PySpark
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for PySpark in England

PySpark
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for PySpark in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PySpark in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PySpark in England

PySpark
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for PySpark in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PySpark within the England region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
London +74 140 £550 -10.57% 34
North of England +8 11 £490 -18.33% 4
North West +25 7 £475 -9.52% 2
South East +17 7 £375 -37.50% 3
South West +6 7 £463 -15.33% 6
Yorkshire -8 4 £490 -24.62% 2
Midlands - 4 £600 - 9
West Midlands - 4 £600 - 5
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UK

PySpark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 47 (25.68%) Apache Spark
2 22 (12.02%) Apache
3 21 (11.48%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.55%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.09%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 124 (67.76%) Azure
2 51 (27.87%) AWS
2 51 (27.87%) Azure Data Factory
3 40 (21.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 32 (17.49%) Power Platform
5 25 (13.66%) Serverless
6 13 (7.10%) Amazon S3
6 13 (7.10%) Azure Monitor
7 12 (6.56%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (6.01%) Azure Logic Apps
8 11 (6.01%) GCP
8 11 (6.01%) Snowflake
9 9 (4.92%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (4.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 9 (4.92%) Entra ID
10 7 (3.83%) Azure Key Vault
10 7 (3.83%) Azure Stack
11 6 (3.28%) AWS Step Functions
11 6 (3.28%) Azure Functions
12 5 (2.73%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (33.33%) Data Lake
2 54 (29.51%) Big Data
3 41 (22.40%) Data Warehouse
4 32 (17.49%) Power BI
5 25 (13.66%) Delta Lake
6 17 (9.29%) Azure SQL Database
6 17 (9.29%) Spark SQL
7 12 (6.56%) NoSQL
8 10 (5.46%) Amazon Redshift
8 10 (5.46%) Apache Hive
8 10 (5.46%) Relational Database
8 10 (5.46%) SQL Server
9 9 (4.92%) Parquet
9 9 (4.92%) Tableau
10 8 (4.37%) Impala
11 7 (3.83%) Amazon Athena
11 7 (3.83%) Hadoop
12 6 (3.28%) Data Mining
13 5 (2.73%) Data Mart
14 4 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (10.38%) Git
2 5 (2.73%) JIRA
3 4 (2.19%) Deequ
3 4 (2.19%) GitLab
4 2 (1.09%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.55%) JMeter
5 1 (0.55%) Maven
5 1 (0.55%) MLflow
5 1 (0.55%) RStudio
5 1 (0.55%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.55%) TestCafe
5 1 (0.55%) Travis CI
5 1 (0.55%) Zephyr
General
1 41 (22.40%) Finance
2 37 (20.22%) Social Skills
3 29 (15.85%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (6.56%) Banking
5 10 (5.46%) Marketing
5 10 (5.46%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.83%) Retail
7 4 (2.19%) Front Office
7 4 (2.19%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.19%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.09%) Back Office
8 2 (1.09%) Czech Language
8 2 (1.09%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.55%) Law
9 1 (0.55%) Legal
9 1 (0.55%) Multimedia
9 1 (0.55%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 105 (57.38%) Data Engineer
2 49 (26.78%) Azure Engineer
3 43 (23.50%) Azure Data Engineer
4 22 (12.02%) Senior
5 19 (10.38%) Python Engineer
6 18 (9.84%) Architect
6 18 (9.84%) Developer
7 16 (8.74%) Python Data Engineer
8 15 (8.20%) Senior Data Engineer
9 13 (7.10%) Lead
10 12 (6.56%) AWS Engineer
10 12 (6.56%) Python Developer
11 11 (6.01%) AWS Data Engineer
12 8 (4.37%) Analyst
12 8 (4.37%) Data Analyst
12 8 (4.37%) Data Scientist
12 8 (4.37%) Lead Data Engineer
12 8 (4.37%) Solutions Architect
13 7 (3.83%) AWS Architect
13 7 (3.83%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.65%) Kafka
2 13 (7.10%) NumPy
2 13 (7.10%) Pandas
3 8 (4.37%) SAML
4 7 (3.83%) Apache Avro
4 7 (3.83%) ARM Templates
5 5 (2.73%) JSON
5 5 (2.73%) JSON Schema
5 5 (2.73%) REST
6 4 (2.19%) Great Expectations
6 4 (2.19%) pytest
7 3 (1.64%) Django
7 3 (1.64%) Flask
8 2 (1.09%) .NET
8 2 (1.09%) CSS
8 2 (1.09%) HTML
8 2 (1.09%) Middleware
8 2 (1.09%) React
8 2 (1.09%) Unity DI Container
8 2 (1.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (3.28%) Algorithms
1 6 (3.28%) Data Structures
2 4 (2.19%) Distributed Computing
2 4 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (1.64%) Biopharmaceutical
3 3 (1.64%) Market Risk
4 2 (1.09%) NHS
4 2 (1.09%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.09%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.55%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.55%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.55%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.55%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.55%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (0.55%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.55%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.55%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.19%) Linux
2 3 (1.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (39.34%) ETL
2 66 (36.07%) Data Engineering
3 59 (32.24%) Analytics
3 59 (32.24%) Data Pipeline
4 56 (30.60%) Data Modelling
5 48 (26.23%) Agile
6 42 (22.95%) CI/CD
7 41 (22.40%) DevOps
8 34 (18.58%) Business Intelligence
9 31 (16.94%) Data Science
10 23 (12.57%) Continuous Integration
11 19 (10.38%) Data Integration
11 19 (10.38%) Software Engineering
12 18 (9.84%) Problem-Solving
13 16 (8.74%) Data Transformation
14 14 (7.65%) SDLC
15 13 (7.10%) Visualisation
16 12 (6.56%) Data Governance
16 12 (6.56%) Machine Learning
16 12 (6.56%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 159 (86.89%) Python
2 104 (56.83%) SQL
3 33 (18.03%) Scala
4 13 (7.10%) T-SQL
5 12 (6.56%) Java
6 6 (3.28%) Bash
6 6 (3.28%) R
7 4 (2.19%) C#
8 3 (1.64%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.09%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.55%) C++
10 1 (0.55%) Gremlin
10 1 (0.55%) Groovy
10 1 (0.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (9.84%) Security Cleared
2 14 (7.65%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.92%) DV Cleared
4 5 (2.73%) Degree
5 4 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.09%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.09%) IBM Certification
6 2 (1.09%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.09%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.55%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (16.39%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.19%) QA
System Software
1 7 (3.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (6.01%) Terraform
2 8 (4.37%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.19%) Argo
4 2 (1.09%) Grafana
5 1 (0.55%) Ganglia
5 1 (0.55%) Kibana
Vendors
1 104 (56.83%) Databricks
2 29 (15.85%) Microsoft
3 9 (4.92%) Foundry
3 9 (4.92%) Oracle
3 9 (4.92%) Palantir
4 8 (4.37%) Talend
5 6 (3.28%) SAP
6 5 (2.73%) Cloudera
7 4 (2.19%) Google
8 3 (1.64%) Informatica
9 2 (1.09%) Ab Initio
9 2 (1.09%) IBM
9 2 (1.09%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.55%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.55%) Brio
10 1 (0.55%) Sybase