PySpark Contract Job Trends in East London

PySpark - Spark Python API
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in East London requiring PySpark skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing PySpark 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in East London 1.02% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.55% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 - -
London median daily rate £513 £750 £550
% change year-on-year -31.67% +36.36% -8.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
East 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 East London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 22 37 40
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 22.45% 30.58% 15.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 33 33
10th Percentile £442 - £450
25th Percentile £448 £400 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £495 £538
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% -7.91% +26.47%
75th Percentile £541 £588 £561
90th Percentile £641 £636 £690
London median daily rate £540 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.09% - -6.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
London median hourly rate £50.50 £52.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -3.81% +23.53% -34.62%

PySpark
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PySpark relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in East London.

PySpark job vacancy trend in East London

PySpark
Daily Rate Trend in East London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing PySpark.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing PySpark

PySpark
Contract Job Locations in East 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 East London region over the 6 months to 26 February 2026. 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
Tower Hamlets - 1 £449 -
PySpark
London

PySpark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (100.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EMR
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (100.00%) Base SAS
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Data Mart
1 1 (100.00%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Change Data Capture
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Refactoring
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SAS Macro
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform