PySpark Contract Job Trends in London

PySpark - Spark Python API
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring PySpark skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 250 193
Rank change year-on-year +48 -57 +99
Contract jobs citing PySpark 287 125 207
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.41% 0.93% 1.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.38% 3.17% 4.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 90 162
10th Percentile £390 £363 £426
25th Percentile £449 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £513 £616
Median % change year-on-year +5.12% -16.77% +2.63%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £825
90th Percentile £736 £778 £888
England median daily rate £525 £500 £586
% change year-on-year +5.00% -14.71% -2.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £80.00
England median hourly rate £71.33 - £22.00

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,333 3,942 4,963
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.24% 29.22% 30.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,555 2,725 3,472
10th Percentile £400 £368 £385
25th Percentile £450 £431 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £658 £688 £713
90th Percentile £763 £821 £850
England median daily rate £530 £519 £550
% change year-on-year +2.12% -5.64% -0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 32 20
10th Percentile £26.60 £31.77 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.13 £34.17 £33.54
Median hourly rate £44.50 £51.97 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.37% +15.49% -28.57%
75th Percentile £62.25 £62.81 £61.70
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £75.50
England median hourly rate £67.47 £54.35 £62.50
% change year-on-year +24.14% -13.04% -0.79%

PySpark
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

PySpark job vacancy trend in London

PySpark
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing PySpark

PySpark
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PySpark in London over the 6 months to 12 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PySpark in London

PySpark
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing PySpark.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing PySpark

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 12 September 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
Central London +4 42 £550 -24.14% 8
PySpark
England

PySpark
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 66 (23.00%) Apache Spark
2 54 (18.82%) Apache Airflow
3 50 (17.42%) Apache
4 10 (3.48%) Palantir Foundry
5 9 (3.14%) Confluence
6 6 (2.09%) SAS
7 2 (0.70%) SugarCRM
8 1 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.35%) PowerExchange
8 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 169 (58.89%) Azure
2 114 (39.72%) AWS
3 71 (24.74%) Power Platform
4 67 (23.34%) Azure Data Factory
5 65 (22.65%) Azure DevOps
6 47 (16.38%) Serverless
7 44 (15.33%) Amazon S3
8 42 (14.63%) GitHub
9 40 (13.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 39 (13.59%) AWS Lambda
11 37 (12.89%) dbt
12 36 (12.54%) Azure Databricks
13 33 (11.50%) GCP
14 30 (10.45%) GitHub Actions
15 27 (9.41%) Snowflake
16 24 (8.36%) Amazon EMR
17 15 (5.23%) Microsoft Purview
18 12 (4.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 11 (3.83%) Azure AI
20 10 (3.48%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.35%) Firewall
1 1 (0.35%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (24.04%) Delta Lake
1 69 (24.04%) Power BI
2 54 (18.82%) Data Warehouse
3 43 (14.98%) Data Lake
4 40 (13.94%) Metadata
5 34 (11.85%) Amazon Redshift
6 32 (11.15%) Spark SQL
7 22 (7.67%) Amazon Athena
8 17 (5.92%) Big Data
9 16 (5.57%) BigQuery
10 13 (4.53%) Star Schema
11 12 (4.18%) SQL Server
12 9 (3.14%) Parquet
13 8 (2.79%) Azure SQL Database
13 8 (2.79%) NoSQL
13 8 (2.79%) Relational Database
13 8 (2.79%) Snowflake Schema
14 7 (2.44%) Neo4j
14 7 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
14 7 (2.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 44 (15.33%) Git
2 25 (8.71%) GitLab
3 16 (5.57%) MLflow
4 14 (4.88%) JIRA
5 5 (1.74%) ER Studio
5 5 (1.74%) ERwin
6 4 (1.39%) RStudio
6 4 (1.39%) Selenium
6 4 (1.39%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.05%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.35%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.35%) Postman
8 1 (0.35%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.35%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 120 (41.81%) Finance
2 72 (25.09%) Social Skills
3 41 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (11.85%) Banking
5 26 (9.06%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (3.48%) Investment Banking
7 9 (3.14%) Retail
8 8 (2.79%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.39%) Billing
9 4 (1.39%) Marketing
10 3 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.70%) Automotive
11 2 (0.70%) Front Office
11 2 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.70%) Local Government
11 2 (0.70%) Publishing
12 1 (0.35%) Law
12 1 (0.35%) Legal
12 1 (0.35%) Military
Job Titles
1 156 (54.36%) Data Engineer
2 76 (26.48%) Senior
3 51 (17.77%) Senior Data Engineer
4 36 (12.54%) Lead
5 35 (12.20%) Architect
6 29 (10.10%) Databricks Engineer
7 22 (7.67%) Developer
8 21 (7.32%) Databricks Data Engineer
9 20 (6.97%) Data Architect
10 16 (5.57%) Platform Engineer
11 15 (5.23%) Python Engineer
12 14 (4.88%) Lead Data Engineer
12 14 (4.88%) Senior Developer
13 13 (4.53%) Data Scientist
14 12 (4.18%) Azure Engineer
14 12 (4.18%) Python Data Engineer
15 11 (3.83%) AWS Engineer
16 9 (3.14%) Senior Databricks Data Engineer
17 8 (2.79%) Analyst
17 8 (2.79%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (22.65%) Terraform
2 39 (13.59%) Kafka
3 28 (9.76%) Pandas
4 23 (8.01%) REST
5 16 (5.57%) NumPy
5 16 (5.57%) React
6 14 (4.88%) Great Expectations
6 14 (4.88%) pytest
7 9 (3.14%) .NET
8 8 (2.79%) .NET Core
8 8 (2.79%) FastAPI
8 8 (2.79%) RESTful
9 7 (2.44%) JSON
9 7 (2.44%) scikit-learn
10 6 (2.09%) PyTorch
10 6 (2.09%) Redux
10 6 (2.09%) Spring
10 6 (2.09%) Spring Boot
11 5 (1.74%) Django
11 5 (1.74%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 39 (13.59%) Cloud Native
2 19 (6.62%) Product Ownership
3 16 (5.57%) Legacy Systems
4 15 (5.23%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (5.23%) Onboarding
5 11 (3.83%) Data Structures
6 10 (3.48%) Reference Data
7 9 (3.14%) AI Agents
8 8 (2.79%) NHS
9 6 (2.09%) Algorithms
9 6 (2.09%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (2.09%) Fixed Income
9 6 (2.09%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.74%) Derivative
10 5 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.74%) Market Risk
10 5 (1.74%) Pricing Data
10 5 (1.74%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.39%) Low-Code
11 4 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.18%) Linux
2 11 (3.83%) Unix
3 1 (0.35%) Robot Operating System
3 1 (0.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (54.36%) Data Pipeline
2 153 (53.31%) Data Engineering
3 148 (51.57%) CI/CD
4 135 (47.04%) Analytics
5 117 (40.77%) Data Modelling
6 105 (36.59%) DevOps
7 104 (36.24%) ETL
8 97 (33.80%) Agile
9 89 (31.01%) AI
9 89 (31.01%) Business Intelligence
10 76 (26.48%) Data Governance
11 74 (25.78%) Lakehouse
12 64 (22.30%) Infrastructure as Code
13 63 (21.95%) Machine Learning
14 58 (20.21%) Migration
15 53 (18.47%) Data Transformation
15 53 (18.47%) Validation
16 51 (17.77%) Data Science
17 50 (17.42%) Data Architecture
18 47 (16.38%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 235 (81.88%) Python
2 211 (73.52%) SQL
3 20 (6.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 14 (4.88%) Java
5 13 (4.53%) JavaScript
5 13 (4.53%) Scala
6 11 (3.83%) TypeScript
7 10 (3.48%) C#
7 10 (3.48%) Shell Script
8 9 (3.14%) T-SQL
9 6 (2.09%) R
10 4 (1.39%) Bicep
10 4 (1.39%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.05%) SPARQL
12 2 (0.70%) Bash
12 2 (0.70%) Korn
13 1 (0.35%) COBOL
13 1 (0.35%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.35%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 60 (20.91%) Security Cleared
2 54 (18.82%) SC Cleared
3 14 (4.88%) Degree
4 12 (4.18%) Azure Certification
5 8 (2.79%) AWS Certification
5 8 (2.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 8 (2.79%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.44%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.74%) PhD
8 3 (1.05%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.70%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.35%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (43.21%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.18%) GDPR
3 8 (2.79%) QA
4 4 (1.39%) SLA
5 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.35%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.35%) GRC
5 1 (0.35%) MiFID
5 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 32 (11.15%) Docker
2 1 (0.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (10.10%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.39%) Ansible
2 4 (1.39%) Grafana
3 1 (0.35%) Control-M
3 1 (0.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 142 (49.48%) Databricks
2 72 (25.09%) Microsoft
3 18 (6.27%) Palantir
4 16 (5.57%) Informatica
5 10 (3.48%) Foundry
6 9 (3.14%) OpenAI
7 7 (2.44%) Oracle
8 5 (1.74%) Google
8 5 (1.74%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.39%) Cloudera
10 3 (1.05%) Hortonworks
11 2 (0.70%) HubSpot
11 2 (0.70%) Sage
11 2 (0.70%) SAP
11 2 (0.70%) Teradata
12 1 (0.35%) Atlassian
12 1 (0.35%) Bloomberg
12 1 (0.35%) Reuters
12 1 (0.35%) SimCorp
12 1 (0.35%) Trayport