PySpark Contracts in London

PySpark - Spark Python API
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 247 320 407
Rank change year-on-year +73 +87 -57
Contract jobs citing PySpark 144 172 212
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.82% 0.66% 0.54%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.20% 2.46% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 120 151
10th Percentile £425 £462 £475
25th Percentile £500 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £615 £610
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +0.82% +11.93%
75th Percentile £650 £775 £725
90th Percentile £775 £915 £825
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £78.75
England median hourly rate £21.00 - £78.75
% change year-on-year - - +211.88%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
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 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 4,493 7,006 12,089
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.71% 26.93% 31.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,357 5,248 9,379
10th Percentile £375 £413 £425
25th Percentile £463 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £712
90th Percentile £838 £810 £800
England median daily rate £550 £560 £570
% change year-on-year -1.70% -1.84% +14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 36 65
10th Percentile £16.25 £30.38 £31.75
25th Percentile £23.80 £36.89 £35.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £67.25 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.80% +41.58% -4.67%
75th Percentile £62.50 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £71.80 £82.63 £76.54
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +6.10%

PySpark
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for PySpark in London

PySpark
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for PySpark in London

PySpark
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PySpark in London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PySpark in London

PySpark
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 20 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
Central London +28 14 £588 +4.44% 4
PySpark
England

PySpark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 42 (29.17%) Apache Spark
2 20 (13.89%) Apache
3 19 (13.19%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.69%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 102 (70.83%) Azure
2 42 (29.17%) AWS
2 42 (29.17%) Azure Data Factory
3 32 (22.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 27 (18.75%) Power Platform
5 24 (16.67%) Serverless
6 12 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
6 12 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
7 10 (6.94%) Amazon S3
7 10 (6.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 9 (6.25%) Entra ID
8 9 (6.25%) GCP
9 8 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (4.86%) Snowflake
11 6 (4.17%) AWS Step Functions
11 6 (4.17%) Azure Functions
11 6 (4.17%) Azure Key Vault
11 6 (4.17%) Azure Stack
12 5 (3.47%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (33.33%) Data Lake
2 47 (32.64%) Big Data
3 30 (20.83%) Data Warehouse
4 27 (18.75%) Power BI
5 22 (15.28%) Delta Lake
6 17 (11.81%) Azure SQL Database
7 16 (11.11%) Spark SQL
8 12 (8.33%) NoSQL
9 9 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (6.25%) Apache Hive
9 9 (6.25%) Parquet
9 9 (6.25%) Relational Database
9 9 (6.25%) Tableau
10 8 (5.56%) Impala
11 7 (4.86%) SQL Server
12 6 (4.17%) Amazon Athena
13 5 (3.47%) Hadoop
14 4 (2.78%) Data Mart
14 4 (2.78%) Presto
14 4 (2.78%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 17 (11.81%) Git
2 4 (2.78%) Deequ
2 4 (2.78%) GitLab
3 2 (1.39%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.69%) JIRA
4 1 (0.69%) JMeter
4 1 (0.69%) Maven
4 1 (0.69%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.69%) TestCafe
4 1 (0.69%) Travis CI
4 1 (0.69%) Zephyr
General
1 38 (26.39%) Finance
2 31 (21.53%) Social Skills
3 13 (9.03%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (8.33%) Banking
5 8 (5.56%) Marketing
6 6 (4.17%) Retail
7 4 (2.78%) Front Office
7 4 (2.78%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.39%) Back Office
8 2 (1.39%) Czech Language
8 2 (1.39%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 87 (60.42%) Data Engineer
2 43 (29.86%) Azure Engineer
3 38 (26.39%) Azure Data Engineer
4 18 (12.50%) Senior
5 16 (11.11%) Architect
6 15 (10.42%) Python Engineer
7 14 (9.72%) Developer
8 13 (9.03%) Python Data Engineer
9 12 (8.33%) Python Developer
9 12 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
10 11 (7.64%) Lead
11 9 (6.25%) AWS Data Engineer
11 9 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
12 8 (5.56%) Analyst
12 8 (5.56%) Data Analyst
12 8 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
13 7 (4.86%) AWS Architect
13 7 (4.86%) AWS Solution Architect
13 7 (4.86%) Data Architect
13 7 (4.86%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.64%) Kafka
2 10 (6.94%) NumPy
2 10 (6.94%) Pandas
3 8 (5.56%) SAML
4 7 (4.86%) Apache Avro
4 7 (4.86%) ARM Templates
5 5 (3.47%) JSON
5 5 (3.47%) JSON Schema
5 5 (3.47%) REST
6 4 (2.78%) Great Expectations
6 4 (2.78%) pytest
7 3 (2.08%) Django
7 3 (2.08%) Flask
7 3 (2.08%) Spark Streaming
8 2 (1.39%) .NET
8 2 (1.39%) Middleware
8 2 (1.39%) Unity DI Container
8 2 (1.39%) YAML
9 1 (0.69%) Gherkin
9 1 (0.69%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (2.78%) Algorithms
1 4 (2.78%) Distributed Computing
1 4 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (2.08%) Data Structures
3 2 (1.39%) Market Risk
3 2 (1.39%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.69%) Hedge funds
4 1 (0.69%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.69%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.69%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.69%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.47%) Linux
2 4 (2.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (43.75%) ETL
2 54 (37.50%) Data Engineering
3 48 (33.33%) Analytics
3 48 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
4 40 (27.78%) Data Modelling
5 39 (27.08%) Agile
6 36 (25.00%) CI/CD
7 35 (24.31%) DevOps
8 29 (20.14%) Business Intelligence
9 22 (15.28%) Continuous Integration
10 19 (13.19%) Data Science
11 17 (11.81%) Software Engineering
12 13 (9.03%) Data Integration
12 13 (9.03%) Data Transformation
13 12 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
13 12 (8.33%) SDLC
13 12 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
14 11 (7.64%) Kimball Methodology
14 11 (7.64%) Log Analytics
14 11 (7.64%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 124 (86.11%) Python
2 86 (59.72%) SQL
3 31 (21.53%) Scala
4 13 (9.03%) T-SQL
5 11 (7.64%) Java
6 5 (3.47%) Bash
7 4 (2.78%) C#
8 3 (2.08%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.69%) C++
9 1 (0.69%) Gremlin
9 1 (0.69%) Groovy
9 1 (0.69%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.69%) R
9 1 (0.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (6.94%) Security Cleared
2 9 (6.25%) DV Cleared
3 6 (4.17%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.08%) Azure Certification
4 3 (2.08%) Degree
4 3 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.39%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (14.58%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.39%) QA
System Software
1 7 (4.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (6.94%) Terraform
2 8 (5.56%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.78%) Argo
4 1 (0.69%) Ganglia
4 1 (0.69%) Grafana
Vendors
1 88 (61.11%) Databricks
2 26 (18.06%) Microsoft
3 9 (6.25%) Foundry
3 9 (6.25%) Palantir
4 8 (5.56%) Oracle
4 8 (5.56%) Talend
5 6 (4.17%) SAP
6 5 (3.47%) Google
7 3 (2.08%) Cloudera
8 2 (1.39%) Ab Initio
9 1 (0.69%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.69%) Informatica
9 1 (0.69%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.69%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.69%) Sybase
9 1 (0.69%) Workday