PySpark Contracts

PySpark - Spark Python API
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 357 446 491
Rank change year-on-year +89 +45 -37
Contract jobs citing PySpark 253 257 409
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.58% 0.46% 0.47%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.77% 2.02% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 177 273
10th Percentile £413 £450 £463
25th Percentile £475 £513 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £625 £738 £725
90th Percentile £763 £880 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% +5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £15.51 - -
25th Percentile £16.98 - -
Median hourly rate £20.74 - £78.75
75th Percentile £21.88 - -
90th Percentile £22.88 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.14 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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 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 9,136 12,739 23,555
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.09% 22.93% 26.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,305 9,291 17,328
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £670
90th Percentile £775 £775 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 152 226
10th Percentile £22.05 £31.18 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £48.97 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.67% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £67.75 £75.00 £67.27
90th Percentile £74.49 £80.25 £76.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +22.22%

PySpark
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for PySpark in the UK

PySpark
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for PySpark in the UK

PySpark
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PySpark over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PySpark in the UK

PySpark
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for PySpark in the UK

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Top 13 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 9 June 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
England +76 209 £550 -8.33% 91
London +79 158 £550 -12.00% 51
Work from Home +89 94 £500 -18.37% 52
UK excluding London +33 55 £500 -16.67% 37
Scotland +53 18 £500 -6.98% 3
North of England +5 13 £490 -21.60% 17
North West +19 9 £475 -34.48% 9
South East +19 9 £375 -38.78% 6
South West +10 7 £460 -20.00% 3
Wales - 6 £330 -
Yorkshire -12 4 £490 -24.62% 6
Midlands +19 2 £600 +26.32% 8
West Midlands +13 2 £600 +26.32% 2

PySpark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 49 (19.37%) Apache Spark
2 47 (18.58%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (12.65%) Apache
4 1 (0.40%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (1.58%) Sketch
2 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.40%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 139 (54.94%) Azure
2 81 (32.02%) AWS
3 48 (18.97%) Azure Data Factory
4 38 (15.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 35 (13.83%) Serverless
6 31 (12.25%) Power Platform
7 22 (8.70%) Amazon S3
7 22 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (8.70%) GCP
7 22 (8.70%) Snowflake
8 21 (8.30%) dbt
9 20 (7.91%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (5.14%) Azure Logic Apps
10 13 (5.14%) GitHub
11 12 (4.74%) Amazon EMR
11 12 (4.74%) Azure Monitor
12 11 (4.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 10 (3.95%) AWS Step Functions
14 9 (3.56%) Amazon Kinesis
14 9 (3.56%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (26.48%) Data Lake
2 65 (25.69%) Big Data
3 55 (21.74%) Data Warehouse
4 31 (12.25%) Power BI
5 22 (8.70%) Delta Lake
5 22 (8.70%) Spark SQL
6 21 (8.30%) Amazon Redshift
7 20 (7.91%) Amazon Athena
8 16 (6.32%) Azure SQL Database
9 13 (5.14%) NoSQL
9 13 (5.14%) Parquet
10 11 (4.35%) Apache Hive
11 9 (3.56%) Relational Database
11 9 (3.56%) Tableau
12 8 (3.16%) BigQuery
12 8 (3.16%) Hadoop
12 8 (3.16%) Impala
12 8 (3.16%) SQL Server
13 6 (2.37%) Data Mining
13 6 (2.37%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 26 (10.28%) Git
2 15 (5.93%) JIRA
3 5 (1.98%) GitLab
4 4 (1.58%) Deequ
5 2 (0.79%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.79%) JMeter
5 2 (0.79%) MLflow
5 2 (0.79%) TestCafe
5 2 (0.79%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.40%) Maven
6 1 (0.40%) RStudio
6 1 (0.40%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.40%) Travis CI
General
1 55 (21.74%) Finance
2 41 (16.21%) Social Skills
3 35 (13.83%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (9.88%) Banking
5 16 (6.32%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.95%) Front Office
6 10 (3.95%) Marketing
7 9 (3.56%) Investment Banking
7 9 (3.56%) Retail
8 6 (2.37%) Pharmaceutical
8 6 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.58%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.79%) Czech Language
10 2 (0.79%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.40%) Law
11 1 (0.40%) Legal
11 1 (0.40%) Multimedia
11 1 (0.40%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 135 (53.36%) Data Engineer
2 47 (18.58%) Azure Engineer
3 44 (17.39%) Azure Data Engineer
4 42 (16.60%) Developer
5 29 (11.46%) Python Engineer
6 25 (9.88%) Lead
6 25 (9.88%) Python Developer
6 25 (9.88%) Senior
7 23 (9.09%) Python Data Engineer
8 19 (7.51%) Architect
8 19 (7.51%) AWS Engineer
9 18 (7.11%) Senior Data Engineer
10 16 (6.32%) Data Scientist
11 15 (5.93%) AWS Data Engineer
12 10 (3.95%) Analyst
12 10 (3.95%) Data Analyst
13 9 (3.56%) AWS Architect
13 9 (3.56%) Solutions Architect
14 8 (3.16%) AWS Solution Architect
14 8 (3.16%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (8.30%) Pandas
2 20 (7.91%) NumPy
3 16 (6.32%) Kafka
4 11 (4.35%) Apache Avro
5 8 (3.16%) pytest
5 8 (3.16%) SAML
6 7 (2.77%) ARM Templates
7 6 (2.37%) REST
7 6 (2.37%) SciPy
8 5 (1.98%) JSON
8 5 (1.98%) JSON Schema
8 5 (1.98%) PyTorch
9 4 (1.58%) CSS
9 4 (1.58%) Great Expectations
9 4 (1.58%) HTML
9 4 (1.58%) React
10 3 (1.19%) Django
10 3 (1.19%) Flask
10 3 (1.19%) Protocol Buffers
10 3 (1.19%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 8 (3.16%) Data Structures
1 8 (3.16%) Distributed Computing
2 6 (2.37%) Algorithms
3 5 (1.98%) Biopharmaceutical
4 4 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (1.58%) Hedge funds
4 4 (1.58%) Smart Meter
5 3 (1.19%) Derivative
5 3 (1.19%) Equities
5 3 (1.19%) Fixed Income
5 3 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.19%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (0.79%) NHS
6 2 (0.79%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.79%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.40%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.40%) IoT
7 1 (0.40%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.98%) Linux
2 4 (1.58%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (34.39%) ETL
2 84 (33.20%) Agile
3 80 (31.62%) Data Engineering
4 77 (30.43%) Analytics
4 77 (30.43%) Data Pipeline
5 70 (27.67%) Data Modelling
6 55 (21.74%) CI/CD
7 52 (20.55%) DevOps
8 41 (16.21%) Software Engineering
9 40 (15.81%) Data Science
10 35 (13.83%) Business Intelligence
11 23 (9.09%) Data Transformation
11 23 (9.09%) Visualisation
12 22 (8.70%) Continuous Integration
13 21 (8.30%) Problem-Solving
13 21 (8.30%) SDLC
14 18 (7.11%) Stakeholder Management
15 17 (6.72%) Data Analytics
15 17 (6.72%) Machine Learning
16 16 (6.32%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 223 (88.14%) Python
2 112 (44.27%) SQL
3 46 (18.18%) Scala
4 22 (8.70%) Java
5 12 (4.74%) T-SQL
6 9 (3.56%) JavaScript
7 6 (2.37%) Bash
7 6 (2.37%) R
8 5 (1.98%) TypeScript
9 4 (1.58%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.79%) Groovy
11 1 (0.40%) C#
11 1 (0.40%) C++
11 1 (0.40%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 25 (9.88%) Security Cleared
2 21 (8.30%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.56%) DV Cleared
4 8 (3.16%) Degree
5 5 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.58%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.19%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.79%) IBM Certification
8 2 (0.79%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.40%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (15.81%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.58%) QA
System Software
1 7 (2.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (7.11%) Terraform
2 11 (4.35%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.58%) Argo
4 3 (1.19%) Grafana
5 1 (0.40%) Ganglia
5 1 (0.40%) Kibana
Vendors
1 112 (44.27%) Databricks
2 26 (10.28%) Microsoft
3 11 (4.35%) Oracle
4 10 (3.95%) Foundry
4 10 (3.95%) Palantir
5 9 (3.56%) Google
6 8 (3.16%) Ab Initio
6 8 (3.16%) Talend
7 6 (2.37%) SAP
8 5 (1.98%) Cloudera
9 3 (1.19%) Bloomberg
9 3 (1.19%) Informatica
9 3 (1.19%) Reuters
10 2 (0.79%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.79%) IBM
10 2 (0.79%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.40%) Brio
11 1 (0.40%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.40%) Sybase
11 1 (0.40%) Workday