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 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 192 282
Rank change year-on-year +2 +90 +119
Contract jobs citing PySpark 208 174 114
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.42% 1.24% 0.63%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.42% 4.79% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 136 96
10th Percentile £363 £463 £456
25th Percentile £413 £513 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -21.15% +18.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £588 £838 £681
90th Percentile £643 £888 £850
England median daily rate £513 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -14.58% +9.09% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
England median hourly rate - £43.25 -

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 3,835 3,636 4,537
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.26% 26.01% 25.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,605 2,381 3,446
10th Percentile £363 £380 £398
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £669 £700 £700
90th Percentile £763 £825 £800
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 20 30
10th Percentile £35.00 £34.83 £29.60
25th Percentile £41.88 £38.44 £35.79
Median hourly rate £55.00 £54.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +10.77% -25.00%
75th Percentile £66.25 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £81.38 £76.50
England median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £54.78
% change year-on-year -0.80% +14.09% -15.72%

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 22 January 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 22 January 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 +17 25 £513 -18.00% 15
West London -12 7 £625 - 1
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 54 (25.96%) Apache Spark
2 14 (6.73%) Apache
2 14 (6.73%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.96%) Confluence
3 2 (0.96%) Jupyter
3 2 (0.96%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 141 (67.79%) Azure
2 76 (36.54%) Azure Data Factory
3 55 (26.44%) AWS
4 53 (25.48%) Power Platform
5 48 (23.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 39 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (12.50%) GitHub
8 18 (8.65%) GitHub Actions
8 18 (8.65%) Serverless
9 15 (7.21%) GCP
10 14 (6.73%) Amazon S3
11 13 (6.25%) Microsoft Purview
12 11 (5.29%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (4.33%) Snowflake
14 8 (3.85%) dbt
15 7 (3.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 6 (2.88%) AWS Step Functions
17 5 (2.40%) Azure Functions
17 5 (2.40%) Azure Key Vault
18 4 (1.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (24.04%) Data Warehouse
2 47 (22.60%) Data Lake
2 47 (22.60%) Power BI
3 40 (19.23%) Delta Lake
4 33 (15.87%) Azure SQL Database
5 27 (12.98%) Metadata
6 25 (12.02%) NoSQL
7 21 (10.10%) Spark SQL
8 17 (8.17%) Amazon Redshift
8 17 (8.17%) Big Data
9 15 (7.21%) Relational Database
10 11 (5.29%) Amazon Athena
10 11 (5.29%) Tableau
11 9 (4.33%) Hadoop
11 9 (4.33%) PostgreSQL
11 9 (4.33%) SQL Server
12 6 (2.88%) Parquet
13 5 (2.40%) Star Schema
14 4 (1.92%) MySQL
14 4 (1.92%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 53 (25.48%) Git
2 11 (5.29%) GitLab
3 10 (4.81%) MLflow
4 8 (3.85%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.44%) JIRA
6 2 (0.96%) ERwin
6 2 (0.96%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.48%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.48%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.48%) Gradle
7 1 (0.48%) SonarQube
General
1 53 (25.48%) Finance
2 43 (20.67%) Social Skills
3 16 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (5.77%) Retail
5 10 (4.81%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.88%) Banking
6 6 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.92%) Front Office
7 4 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.44%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.44%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.44%) Marketing
9 2 (0.96%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (0.96%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.48%) Electronics
10 1 (0.48%) Law
10 1 (0.48%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 116 (55.77%) Data Engineer
2 44 (21.15%) Azure Engineer
3 39 (18.75%) Azure Data Engineer
4 25 (12.02%) Senior
5 20 (9.62%) Developer
6 19 (9.13%) Senior Data Engineer
7 18 (8.65%) Architect
8 17 (8.17%) Lead
9 11 (5.29%) Data Architect
9 11 (5.29%) Python Engineer
10 9 (4.33%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (4.33%) Python Data Engineer
11 8 (3.85%) Data Analytics Engineer
12 7 (3.37%) Principal Engineer
12 7 (3.37%) Principal Software Engineer
12 7 (3.37%) Software Engineer
13 6 (2.88%) Lead Data Engineer
14 5 (2.40%) AWS Data Engineer
14 5 (2.40%) Data Scientist
15 4 (1.92%) GCP Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (10.58%) Kafka
2 16 (7.69%) Pandas
3 10 (4.81%) PyTorch
4 9 (4.33%) YAML
5 8 (3.85%) Spark Streaming
6 6 (2.88%) REST
6 6 (2.88%) scikit-learn
7 5 (2.40%) NumPy
7 5 (2.40%) TensorFlow
8 4 (1.92%) Apache NiFi
9 3 (1.44%) .NET
9 3 (1.44%) ARM Templates
9 3 (1.44%) HTML
9 3 (1.44%) LangChain
9 3 (1.44%) Matplotlib
9 3 (1.44%) RESTful
10 2 (0.96%) JSON
10 2 (0.96%) Node.js
10 2 (0.96%) Plotly
10 2 (0.96%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.77%) Distributed Computing
3 8 (3.85%) Data Structures
4 6 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.40%) Low-Code
6 4 (1.92%) AI Agents
6 4 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.44%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.96%) Educational Technology
8 2 (0.96%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.48%) Autonomous Agent
9 1 (0.48%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.48%) Multi-touch
9 1 (0.48%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.48%) Replication
9 1 (0.48%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.48%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.44%) Linux
2 2 (0.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (55.77%) Data Engineering
2 106 (50.96%) Data Pipeline
3 89 (42.79%) Data Modelling
4 81 (38.94%) ETL
5 77 (37.02%) Data Governance
6 76 (36.54%) Analytics
7 73 (35.10%) Agile
8 72 (34.62%) CI/CD
9 62 (29.81%) DevOps
10 56 (26.92%) Business Intelligence
11 50 (24.04%) Data Architecture
12 43 (20.67%) Data Science
13 34 (16.35%) Data Integration
14 33 (15.87%) AI
15 30 (14.42%) Infrastructure as Code
15 30 (14.42%) Machine Learning
16 29 (13.94%) Problem-Solving
17 28 (13.46%) Data Transformation
17 28 (13.46%) Integration Patterns
18 23 (11.06%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 158 (75.96%) Python
2 146 (70.19%) SQL
3 48 (23.08%) Scala
4 16 (7.69%) Java
5 11 (5.29%) Bicep
6 9 (4.33%) JavaScript
7 7 (3.37%) R
8 4 (1.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.44%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.44%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.96%) Ada
10 2 (0.96%) C#
10 2 (0.96%) C++
10 2 (0.96%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.48%) VBA
Qualifications
1 63 (30.29%) Security Cleared
2 59 (28.37%) SC Cleared
3 19 (9.13%) Azure Certification
4 6 (2.88%) Degree
5 4 (1.92%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.44%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.44%) MCP
6 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.48%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (34.62%) Data Quality
2 16 (7.69%) GDPR
3 7 (3.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (2.40%) QA
5 2 (0.96%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 22 (10.58%) Docker
2 4 (1.92%) HDFS
3 1 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 36 (17.31%) Terraform
2 21 (10.10%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.48%) Argo
3 1 (0.48%) Grafana
Vendors
1 124 (59.62%) Databricks
2 41 (19.71%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.85%) Salesforce
4 6 (2.88%) Foundry
4 6 (2.88%) Palantir
5 4 (1.92%) Guidewire
5 4 (1.92%) Oracle
5 4 (1.92%) SAP
6 3 (1.44%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.96%) Cloudera
7 2 (0.96%) Informatica
8 1 (0.48%) Confluent
8 1 (0.48%) IBM
8 1 (0.48%) New Relic
8 1 (0.48%) RedGate
8 1 (0.48%) StreamSets