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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 343 420 491
Rank change year-on-year +77 +71 -56
Contract jobs citing PySpark 200 228 318
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.54% 0.48% 0.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.61% 2.11% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 161 216
10th Percentile £405 £456 £463
25th Percentile £475 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £650 £738 £725
90th Percentile £763 £880 £800
UK median daily rate £530 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -11.67% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £20.65 - -
25th Percentile £20.88 - -
Median hourly rate £21.50 - £78.75
75th Percentile £21.88 - -
90th Percentile £21.95 - -
UK median hourly rate £20.74 - £78.75
% change year-on-year - - +208.82%

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 7,671 10,826 18,840
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.77% 22.68% 26.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,416 8,064 14,174
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £431 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £800 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 131 200
10th Percentile £22.53 £30.75 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +23.22% +11.94%
75th Percentile £66.94 £75.00 £67.63
90th Percentile £74.95 £80.25 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -26.92% +23.81% +16.67%

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 2 June 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 2 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
London +93 152 £550 -11.29% 49
North of England +11 13 £490 -18.33% 13
North West +24 9 £475 -9.52% 8
South East +14 8 £375 -38.14% 8
South West +9 6 £463 -22.92% 7
Yorkshire -3 4 £490 -24.62% 4
Midlands +22 2 £600 +26.32% 7
West Midlands +15 2 £600 +26.32% 1
PySpark
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 48 (24.00%) Apache Spark
2 27 (13.50%) Apache Airflow
3 24 (12.00%) Apache
4 1 (0.50%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (1.50%) Sketch
2 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.50%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 129 (64.50%) Azure
2 57 (28.50%) AWS
3 48 (24.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 37 (18.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 30 (15.00%) Power Platform
6 26 (13.00%) Serverless
7 15 (7.50%) Amazon S3
7 15 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (7.50%) GCP
8 14 (7.00%) Snowflake
9 13 (6.50%) Azure Logic Apps
9 13 (6.50%) Azure Monitor
10 10 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (5.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 9 (4.50%) dbt
11 9 (4.50%) Entra ID
12 7 (3.50%) Azure Key Vault
12 7 (3.50%) GitHub
13 6 (3.00%) Amazon EMR
13 6 (3.00%) Azure Stack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (31.50%) Data Lake
2 53 (26.50%) Big Data
3 40 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
4 30 (15.00%) Power BI
5 23 (11.50%) Delta Lake
6 19 (9.50%) Spark SQL
7 17 (8.50%) Azure SQL Database
8 12 (6.00%) Amazon Redshift
9 11 (5.50%) NoSQL
10 10 (5.00%) Amazon Athena
10 10 (5.00%) Apache Hive
10 10 (5.00%) Relational Database
11 9 (4.50%) Parquet
11 9 (4.50%) Tableau
12 8 (4.00%) Impala
12 8 (4.00%) SQL Server
13 7 (3.50%) Hadoop
14 6 (3.00%) Data Mining
15 5 (2.50%) BigQuery
15 5 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 21 (10.50%) Git
2 8 (4.00%) JIRA
3 5 (2.50%) GitLab
4 4 (2.00%) Deequ
5 2 (1.00%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.00%) JMeter
5 2 (1.00%) TestCafe
5 2 (1.00%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.50%) Maven
6 1 (0.50%) MLflow
6 1 (0.50%) RStudio
6 1 (0.50%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.50%) Travis CI
General
1 44 (22.00%) Finance
2 36 (18.00%) Social Skills
3 31 (15.50%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (9.00%) Banking
5 11 (5.50%) Public Sector
6 10 (5.00%) Marketing
7 9 (4.50%) Retail
8 6 (3.00%) Front Office
8 6 (3.00%) Investment Banking
9 5 (2.50%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.00%) Czech Language
11 2 (1.00%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.50%) Back Office
12 1 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.50%) Law
12 1 (0.50%) Legal
12 1 (0.50%) Multimedia
12 1 (0.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 117 (58.50%) Data Engineer
2 47 (23.50%) Azure Engineer
3 43 (21.50%) Azure Data Engineer
4 24 (12.00%) Developer
4 24 (12.00%) Python Engineer
5 22 (11.00%) Senior
6 21 (10.50%) Python Data Engineer
7 17 (8.50%) Architect
8 16 (8.00%) Python Developer
8 16 (8.00%) Senior Data Engineer
9 15 (7.50%) Lead
10 12 (6.00%) AWS Engineer
11 11 (5.50%) AWS Data Engineer
12 9 (4.50%) Analyst
12 9 (4.50%) Data Analyst
12 9 (4.50%) Data Scientist
13 8 (4.00%) Lead Data Engineer
13 8 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
14 7 (3.50%) AWS Architect
14 7 (3.50%) AWS Solution Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.00%) NumPy
1 14 (7.00%) Pandas
2 12 (6.00%) Kafka
3 8 (4.00%) SAML
4 7 (3.50%) Apache Avro
4 7 (3.50%) ARM Templates
4 7 (3.50%) pytest
5 6 (3.00%) REST
6 5 (2.50%) JSON
6 5 (2.50%) JSON Schema
7 4 (2.00%) Great Expectations
8 3 (1.50%) CSS
8 3 (1.50%) Django
8 3 (1.50%) Flask
8 3 (1.50%) HTML
8 3 (1.50%) React
8 3 (1.50%) Spark Streaming
9 2 (1.00%) Node.js
9 2 (1.00%) SciPy
9 2 (1.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (3.50%) Data Structures
2 6 (3.00%) Algorithms
3 4 (2.00%) Biopharmaceutical
3 4 (2.00%) Distributed Computing
3 4 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.00%) NHS
4 2 (1.00%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.00%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.50%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.50%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.50%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.50%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.50%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.50%) Market Risk
5 1 (0.50%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (0.50%) Podcast
5 1 (0.50%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.50%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.50%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.50%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.50%) Linux
2 4 (2.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (37.50%) ETL
2 69 (34.50%) Data Engineering
3 63 (31.50%) Analytics
3 63 (31.50%) Data Pipeline
4 55 (27.50%) Data Modelling
5 51 (25.50%) Agile
6 45 (22.50%) CI/CD
7 42 (21.00%) DevOps
8 32 (16.00%) Business Intelligence
8 32 (16.00%) Data Science
9 22 (11.00%) Continuous Integration
9 22 (11.00%) Software Engineering
10 18 (9.00%) Data Transformation
10 18 (9.00%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (8.50%) Data Integration
12 15 (7.50%) Visualisation
13 14 (7.00%) Kimball Methodology
13 14 (7.00%) Validation
14 13 (6.50%) Data Analysis
14 13 (6.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 175 (87.50%) Python
2 102 (51.00%) SQL
3 35 (17.50%) Scala
4 15 (7.50%) Java
5 12 (6.00%) T-SQL
6 6 (3.00%) Bash
6 6 (3.00%) R
7 5 (2.50%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.00%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.00%) C#
9 2 (1.00%) Groovy
9 2 (1.00%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.50%) C++
10 1 (0.50%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 18 (9.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (7.00%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.50%) DV Cleared
4 7 (3.50%) Degree
5 5 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.50%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.00%) IBM Certification
7 2 (1.00%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.00%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.50%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (16.00%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.00%) QA
System Software
1 8 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (6.50%) Terraform
2 10 (5.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.00%) Argo
4 3 (1.50%) Grafana
5 1 (0.50%) Ganglia
5 1 (0.50%) Kibana
Vendors
1 105 (52.50%) Databricks
2 27 (13.50%) Microsoft
3 10 (5.00%) Foundry
3 10 (5.00%) Palantir
4 9 (4.50%) Oracle
5 8 (4.00%) Talend
6 6 (3.00%) Google
6 6 (3.00%) SAP
7 5 (2.50%) Cloudera
8 3 (1.50%) Ab Initio
8 3 (1.50%) Informatica
9 2 (1.00%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.00%) IBM
9 2 (1.00%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.50%) Brio
10 1 (0.50%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.50%) Sybase
10 1 (0.50%) Workday