PySpark Contracts in the City of London

PySpark - Spark Python API
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 97 117 151
Rank change year-on-year +20 +34 +20
Contract jobs citing PySpark 22 10 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.25% 0.46% 0.74%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.59% 2.08% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 10 20
10th Percentile £517 £523 £438
25th Percentile £620 £572 £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
Central London median daily rate £704 £700 £563
% change year-on-year +0.54% +24.44% -5.50%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
City of 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 City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 479 480 1,040
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 27.28% 21.85% 28.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 311 343 676
10th Percentile £413 £401 £425
25th Percentile £463 £463 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £625
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -10.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £738
90th Percentile £775 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £551 £625
% change year-on-year +4.45% -11.92% +4.17%

PySpark
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for PySpark in the City of London

PySpark
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for PySpark in the City of London

PySpark
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

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

Daily rate histogram for PySpark in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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