PySpark Contracts in the UK excluding London

PySpark - Spark Python API
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 335 380 430
Rank change year-on-year +45 +50 -55
Contract jobs citing PySpark 52 57 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.26% 0.25% 0.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.59% 1.35% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 39 42
10th Percentile £368 £445 £476
25th Percentile £450 £509 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £558
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +7.62% +1.36%
75th Percentile £513 £634 £669
90th Percentile £598 £700 £793
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £15.38 - -
25th Percentile £15.66 - -
Median hourly rate £18.14 - -
75th Percentile £21.29 - -
90th Percentile £22.77 - -
UK median hourly rate £20.47 - £78.75
% change year-on-year - - +215.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London 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 3,263 4,222 6,053
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.10% 18.31% 19.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,136 3,147 4,312
10th Percentile £324 £350 £363
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.64%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £690 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 88 148
10th Percentile £21.81 £22.21 £20.60
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £64.50 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year -26.36% +28.36% +11.67%
75th Percentile £65.31 £73.94 £65.29
90th Percentile £74.95 £79.19 £75.67
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing PySpark as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for PySpark in the UK excluding London

PySpark
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PySpark in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for PySpark in the UK excluding London

PySpark
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PySpark in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PySpark in the UK excluding London

PySpark
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PySpark in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for PySpark in the UK excluding London

PySpark
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 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
Scotland +59 17 £500 -4.76% 5
North of England +3 11 £490 -18.33% 5
North West +25 7 £475 -9.52% 3
South East +23 7 £375 -37.50% 3
South West +14 7 £463 -15.33% 4
Wales - 6 £330 -
Yorkshire -2 4 £490 -24.62% 2
Midlands - 4 £600 - 10
West Midlands - 4 £600 - 6
PySpark
UK

PySpark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 7 (13.46%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (7.69%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.92%) Apache
3 1 (1.92%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 20 (38.46%) Azure
2 12 (23.08%) AWS
3 11 (21.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 10 (19.23%) Azure Data Factory
5 7 (13.46%) Power Platform
6 4 (7.69%) Snowflake
7 2 (3.85%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.85%) Figma
8 1 (1.92%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (1.92%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.92%) Azure Stack
8 1 (1.92%) GCP
8 1 (1.92%) GitHub
8 1 (1.92%) Matillion
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (26.92%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (17.31%) Data Lake
3 8 (15.38%) Big Data
4 7 (13.46%) Power BI
5 4 (7.69%) Parquet
6 3 (5.77%) Data Mining
6 3 (5.77%) Delta Lake
7 2 (3.85%) Metadata
7 2 (3.85%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (3.85%) Spark SQL
7 2 (3.85%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.92%) Apache Hive
8 1 (1.92%) Azkaban
8 1 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.92%) DataStage
8 1 (1.92%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.92%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (7.69%) JIRA
2 1 (1.92%) Git
2 1 (1.92%) MLflow
2 1 (1.92%) RStudio
General
1 11 (21.15%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (17.31%) Public Sector
3 7 (13.46%) Finance
3 7 (13.46%) Social Skills
4 4 (7.69%) Financial Institution
5 3 (5.77%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.92%) Banking
7 1 (1.92%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.92%) Marketing
7 1 (1.92%) Multimedia
7 1 (1.92%) Publishing
7 1 (1.92%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (30.77%) Developer
2 15 (28.85%) Data Engineer
3 7 (13.46%) Data Scientist
3 7 (13.46%) Python Developer
4 4 (7.69%) Azure Data Engineer
4 4 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (7.69%) Python Engineer
5 3 (5.77%) Lead
5 3 (5.77%) Senior
6 2 (3.85%) Analyst
6 2 (3.85%) AWS Data Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Data Analyst
6 2 (3.85%) Data Modeller
6 2 (3.85%) ETL Developer
6 2 (3.85%) JavaScript Developer
6 2 (3.85%) Python Data Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) React Developer
6 2 (3.85%) Senior Data Scientist
6 2 (3.85%) UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.62%) NumPy
1 5 (9.62%) Pandas
2 4 (7.69%) Apache Avro
3 2 (3.85%) CSS
3 2 (3.85%) HTML
3 2 (3.85%) Kafka
3 2 (3.85%) React
4 1 (1.92%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (1.92%) Dask
4 1 (1.92%) Keras
4 1 (1.92%) pytest
4 1 (1.92%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.92%) scikit-learn
4 1 (1.92%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.69%) Distributed Computing
2 3 (5.77%) Biopharmaceutical
2 3 (5.77%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.92%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.92%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.92%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.92%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (40.38%) Agile
2 20 (38.46%) Data Modelling
3 14 (26.92%) Data Science
3 14 (26.92%) ETL
3 14 (26.92%) Software Engineering
4 12 (23.08%) Visualisation
5 11 (21.15%) Analytics
6 9 (17.31%) Data Pipeline
7 8 (15.38%) Data Engineering
7 8 (15.38%) SDLC
8 6 (11.54%) CI/CD
8 6 (11.54%) Community of Practice
8 6 (11.54%) Operational Stability
9 5 (9.62%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (9.62%) Data Analysis
9 5 (9.62%) Data Analytics
9 5 (9.62%) Data Governance
9 5 (9.62%) Data Integration
9 5 (9.62%) Validation
10 4 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 49 (94.23%) Python
2 16 (30.77%) SQL
3 6 (11.54%) Scala
4 3 (5.77%) Java
4 3 (5.77%) R
5 2 (3.85%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.92%) Bash
Qualifications
1 9 (17.31%) SC Cleared
1 9 (17.31%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.77%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (5.77%) Degree
3 2 (3.85%) IBM Certification
3 2 (3.85%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (1.92%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (26.92%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.85%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (1.92%) Grafana
1 1 (1.92%) Kibana
Vendors
1 14 (26.92%) Databricks
2 2 (3.85%) Cloudera
2 2 (3.85%) IBM
2 2 (3.85%) Informatica
2 2 (3.85%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.92%) Oracle