PySpark Contracts in the UK excluding London

PySpark - Spark Python API
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring PySpark skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PySpark over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 343 365 424
Rank change year-on-year +22 +59 -52
Contract jobs citing PySpark 58 65 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.29% 0.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.70% 1.58% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 47 51
10th Percentile £363 £425 £475
25th Percentile £450 £503 £521
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -18.33% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £525 £650 £675
90th Percentile £599 £723 £725
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 £20.74 - £78.75
% change year-on-year - - +202.88%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

PySpark falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,405 4,123 6,037
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.97% 18.17% 19.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,204 3,067 4,324
10th Percentile £325 £350 £362
25th Percentile £410 £418 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £688 £652
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 90 140
10th Percentile £22.75 £22.47 £19.41
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.56 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +22.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £67.36
90th Percentile £74.47 £78.12 £77.03
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% +16.67%

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 12 June 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 12 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
Scotland +62 18 £500 -6.98% 3
North of England 0 16 £485 -22.40% 20
North West +22 10 £485 -33.10% 8
South East +19 9 £375 -38.78% 5
South West 0 7 £460 -20.00% 2
Yorkshire -8 6 £488 -25.00% 10
Wales - 6 £330 - 1
West Midlands +18 2 £600 +26.32% 2
Midlands +14 2 £600 +26.32% 8
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 9 (15.52%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (8.62%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.45%) Apache
4 1 (1.72%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (6.90%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 18 (31.03%) Azure
2 17 (29.31%) AWS
3 9 (15.52%) Azure Data Factory
3 9 (15.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 6 (10.34%) Power Platform
5 5 (8.62%) Amazon S3
5 5 (8.62%) Snowflake
6 4 (6.90%) Figma
7 2 (3.45%) GCP
8 1 (1.72%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.72%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.72%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (1.72%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.72%) dbt
8 1 (1.72%) GitHub
8 1 (1.72%) Matillion
8 1 (1.72%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.45%) DAB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (27.59%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (13.79%) Data Lake
3 6 (10.34%) Big Data
3 6 (10.34%) Power BI
4 4 (6.90%) Delta Lake
4 4 (6.90%) Parquet
5 3 (5.17%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (5.17%) Data Mining
5 3 (5.17%) Snowflake Schema
5 3 (5.17%) Spark SQL
6 2 (3.45%) Metadata
6 2 (3.45%) Star Schema
7 1 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.72%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.72%) Azkaban
7 1 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.72%) DataStage
7 1 (1.72%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.72%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (10.34%) JIRA
2 1 (1.72%) Git
2 1 (1.72%) MLflow
2 1 (1.72%) RStudio
General
1 12 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (15.52%) Public Sector
3 8 (13.79%) Finance
4 6 (10.34%) Social Skills
5 5 (8.62%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (6.90%) Financial Institution
7 3 (5.17%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (3.45%) Banking
8 2 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.72%) Health Technology
9 1 (1.72%) Marketing
9 1 (1.72%) Multimedia
9 1 (1.72%) Publishing
9 1 (1.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (34.48%) Developer
2 16 (27.59%) Data Engineer
3 8 (13.79%) Python Developer
4 7 (12.07%) Data Scientist
5 4 (6.90%) Lead
5 4 (6.90%) Python Engineer
5 4 (6.90%) React Developer
5 4 (6.90%) Senior
5 4 (6.90%) UX Developer
6 3 (5.17%) Azure Data Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) Analyst
7 2 (3.45%) Architect
7 2 (3.45%) AWS Data Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) Data Analyst
7 2 (3.45%) Data Modeller
7 2 (3.45%) JavaScript Developer
7 2 (3.45%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.62%) NumPy
1 5 (8.62%) Pandas
2 4 (6.90%) Apache Avro
2 4 (6.90%) CSS
2 4 (6.90%) HTML
2 4 (6.90%) React
3 3 (5.17%) Kafka
4 2 (3.45%) pytest
4 2 (3.45%) Redux
5 1 (1.72%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (1.72%) Dask
5 1 (1.72%) Keras
5 1 (1.72%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.72%) scikit-learn
5 1 (1.72%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.62%) Biopharmaceutical
1 5 (8.62%) Data Structures
2 4 (6.90%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (3.45%) Low-Code
3 2 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.72%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.72%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.72%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (43.10%) Agile
2 22 (37.93%) Data Modelling
3 16 (27.59%) ETL
4 15 (25.86%) Software Engineering
5 14 (24.14%) Analytics
5 14 (24.14%) Data Pipeline
5 14 (24.14%) Data Science
5 14 (24.14%) Visualisation
6 13 (22.41%) Data Engineering
7 8 (13.79%) SDLC
8 7 (12.07%) Community of Practice
8 7 (12.07%) Data Governance
8 7 (12.07%) Operational Stability
8 7 (12.07%) Validation
9 6 (10.34%) Business Intelligence
9 6 (10.34%) CI/CD
9 6 (10.34%) Data Integration
9 6 (10.34%) Data Validation
10 5 (8.62%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (8.62%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 54 (93.10%) Python
2 18 (31.03%) SQL
3 7 (12.07%) Scala
4 4 (6.90%) JavaScript
5 3 (5.17%) Java
5 3 (5.17%) R
6 1 (1.72%) Bash
6 1 (1.72%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (15.52%) SC Cleared
1 9 (15.52%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (5.17%) Degree
3 2 (3.45%) IBM Certification
3 2 (3.45%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (1.72%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (27.59%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.45%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (3.45%) Grafana
2 1 (1.72%) Kibana
2 1 (1.72%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (24.14%) Databricks
2 3 (5.17%) Cloudera
3 2 (3.45%) IBM
3 2 (3.45%) Informatica
3 2 (3.45%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.45%) Oracle
4 1 (1.72%) Ab Initio