PySpark Contracts in Central London

PySpark - Spark Python API
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 120 145
Rank change year-on-year +13 +25 +32
Contract jobs citing PySpark 22 13 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.10% 0.53% 0.70%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.24% 2.43% 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 20
10th Percentile £517 £525 £438
25th Percentile £620 £581 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £704 £700 £563
Median % change year-on-year +0.54% +24.44% -5.50%
75th Percentile £763 £763 £738
90th Percentile £774 £775 £761
London median daily rate £775 £550 £615
% change year-on-year +40.91% -10.57% +0.41%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Central 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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 519 535 1,081
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 25.99% 21.87% 28.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 345 386 707
10th Percentile £409 £413 £413
25th Percentile £463 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £551 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.45% -11.92% +4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £738
90th Percentile £775 £775 £825
London median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -

PySpark
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for PySpark in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for PySpark in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PySpark in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PySpark in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
City of London +20 22 £704 +0.54% 4
PySpark
London

PySpark
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 12 (54.55%) Apache Spark
2 6 (27.27%) Apache
3 4 (18.18%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 9 (40.91%) Azure
2 7 (31.82%) Power Platform
3 4 (18.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (13.64%) AWS
4 3 (13.64%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (9.09%) GitHub
5 2 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (4.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (18.18%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (45.45%) Apache Hive
2 7 (31.82%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (31.82%) Power BI
3 6 (27.27%) Hadoop
4 5 (22.73%) Delta Lake
4 5 (22.73%) SQL Server
5 4 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (13.64%) Relational Database
7 2 (9.09%) Big Data
7 2 (9.09%) Data Lake
7 2 (9.09%) Metadata
7 2 (9.09%) MySQL
8 1 (4.55%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (4.55%) Crystal Reports
8 1 (4.55%) Impala
8 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
8 1 (4.55%) Parquet
8 1 (4.55%) SAP Data Services
8 1 (4.55%) Spark SQL
8 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Git
1 4 (18.18%) JIRA
1 4 (18.18%) RStudio
2 1 (4.55%) Postman
2 1 (4.55%) Selenium
General
1 15 (68.18%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (50.00%) Banking
2 11 (50.00%) Finance
3 6 (27.27%) Investment Banking
4 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
5 3 (13.64%) Corporate Banking
5 3 (13.64%) Financial Institution
5 3 (13.64%) Retail
5 3 (13.64%) Retail Banking
6 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (54.55%) Data Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Data Modeller
2 4 (18.18%) Python Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) AWS Data Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Gen AI Specialist
3 3 (13.64%) Python Data Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Senior
4 2 (9.09%) Data Scientist
4 2 (9.09%) Lead
4 2 (9.09%) Lead Data Scientist
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Data Scientist
5 1 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Data Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Data Science Developer
5 1 (4.55%) QA Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (27.27%) TensorFlow
2 4 (18.18%) JSON
2 4 (18.18%) pydantic
2 4 (18.18%) YAML
3 2 (9.09%) REST
4 1 (4.55%) Kafka
4 1 (4.55%) Pandas
4 1 (4.55%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Algorithms
1 5 (22.73%) Credit Risk
2 4 (18.18%) Data Structures
2 4 (18.18%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (18.18%) Reference Data
3 3 (13.64%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (63.64%) Data Pipeline
2 9 (40.91%) ETL
3 7 (31.82%) Agile
3 7 (31.82%) Data Science
3 7 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (27.27%) Analytics
4 6 (27.27%) CI/CD
4 6 (27.27%) Data Ingestion
4 6 (27.27%) Generative AI
4 6 (27.27%) LLM
4 6 (27.27%) Machine Learning
4 6 (27.27%) Risk Management
5 5 (22.73%) Analytical Modelling
5 5 (22.73%) Artificial Intelligence
5 5 (22.73%) Computer Science
5 5 (22.73%) Credit Risk Management
5 5 (22.73%) Mathematics
6 4 (18.18%) Decision-Making
6 4 (18.18%) Predictive Modelling
6 4 (18.18%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 21 (95.45%) SQL
2 18 (81.82%) Python
3 4 (18.18%) Bash
3 4 (18.18%) Scala
4 1 (4.55%) C#
4 1 (4.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (27.27%) Degree
2 5 (22.73%) Master's Degree
2 5 (22.73%) PhD
3 3 (13.64%) Security Cleared
4 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (22.73%) GDPR
2 4 (18.18%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (31.82%) Databricks
2 1 (4.55%) Confluent
2 1 (4.55%) Informatica
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.55%) SAP