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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 226 181 315
Rank change year-on-year -45 +134 +54
Contract jobs citing PySpark 144 214 111
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.03% 1.38% 0.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.89% 5.30% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 166 90
10th Percentile £365 £450 £460
25th Percentile £413 £505 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £568
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +10.13% -5.42%
75th Percentile £609 £825 £700
90th Percentile £700 £888 £788
England median daily rate £500 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
England median hourly rate - £21.50 -

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 3,704 4,037 5,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.51% 26.04% 26.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,524 2,639 3,953
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.30% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £712 £700
90th Percentile £788 £850 £800
England median daily rate £508 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.73% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 21 37
10th Percentile £31.77 £35.00 £33.80
25th Percentile £42.50 £38.25 £36.84
Median hourly rate £55.00 £45.00 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -22.41% -0.85%
75th Percentile £63.19 £61.43 £72.00
90th Percentile £85.95 £71.00 £87.94
England median hourly rate £56.25 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -13.46% +18.18% -15.38%

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 18 November 2025.

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 18 November 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
Central London -3 15 £575 +9.47% 41
West London -14 2 £625 -
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 31 (21.53%) Apache Spark
2 12 (8.33%) Apache
3 9 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.78%) Confluence
5 2 (1.39%) Jupyter
5 2 (1.39%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 94 (65.28%) Azure
2 50 (34.72%) Azure Data Factory
3 39 (27.08%) AWS
4 38 (26.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 38 (26.39%) Power Platform
5 23 (15.97%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (7.64%) GCP
7 10 (6.94%) GitHub
7 10 (6.94%) Microsoft Purview
8 7 (4.86%) Snowflake
9 6 (4.17%) dbt
9 6 (4.17%) Serverless
10 5 (3.47%) Amazon S3
10 5 (3.47%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (3.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 5 (3.47%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (2.78%) Amazon EMR
12 3 (2.08%) AWS Step Functions
12 3 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (21.53%) Data Warehouse
1 31 (21.53%) Power BI
2 25 (17.36%) Data Lake
3 19 (13.19%) Metadata
4 18 (12.50%) Delta Lake
5 16 (11.11%) Spark SQL
6 15 (10.42%) Big Data
7 14 (9.72%) Azure SQL Database
8 13 (9.03%) Hadoop
9 10 (6.94%) PostgreSQL
10 8 (5.56%) NoSQL
11 7 (4.86%) Tableau
12 6 (4.17%) Apache Hive
13 5 (3.47%) Relational Database
13 5 (3.47%) Star Schema
14 4 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (2.78%) Qlik Sense
14 4 (2.78%) SQL Server
15 3 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
15 3 (2.08%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (14.58%) Git
2 4 (2.78%) JIRA
3 3 (2.08%) GitLab
3 3 (2.08%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.39%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.69%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.69%) ERwin
5 1 (0.69%) Gradle
5 1 (0.69%) SpecFlow
General
1 39 (27.08%) Finance
1 39 (27.08%) Social Skills
2 15 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (7.64%) Public Sector
4 10 (6.94%) Retail
5 9 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (5.56%) Banking
7 4 (2.78%) Corporate Banking
7 4 (2.78%) Front Office
7 4 (2.78%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.78%) Retail Banking
8 3 (2.08%) Marketing
8 3 (2.08%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.39%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.69%) Electronics
10 1 (0.69%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.69%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 75 (52.08%) Data Engineer
2 23 (15.97%) Azure Engineer
3 21 (14.58%) Azure Data Engineer
4 17 (11.81%) Lead
5 16 (11.11%) Architect
6 11 (7.64%) Data Architect
7 10 (6.94%) Python Engineer
8 9 (6.25%) Developer
8 9 (6.25%) Senior
9 7 (4.86%) Senior Data Engineer
10 6 (4.17%) Lead Data Engineer
10 6 (4.17%) Python Data Engineer
11 5 (3.47%) AWS Engineer
11 5 (3.47%) Data Scientist
12 4 (2.78%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 4 (2.78%) Azure Architect
12 4 (2.78%) Tester
13 3 (2.08%) Consultant
13 3 (2.08%) ETL Tester
13 3 (2.08%) Lead Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.33%) Kafka
2 7 (4.86%) Pandas
3 6 (4.17%) Apache NiFi
4 5 (3.47%) PyTorch
4 5 (3.47%) YAML
5 4 (2.78%) CSS
5 4 (2.78%) HTML
5 4 (2.78%) TensorFlow
6 3 (2.08%) .NET
6 3 (2.08%) ARM Templates
6 3 (2.08%) NumPy
6 3 (2.08%) RESTful
6 3 (2.08%) scikit-learn
7 2 (1.39%) GeoPandas
7 2 (1.39%) LangChain
7 2 (1.39%) PostGIS
7 2 (1.39%) Ray
8 1 (0.69%) Apache Avro
8 1 (0.69%) REST
8 1 (0.69%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.94%) Distributed Computing
2 8 (5.56%) Low-Code
3 7 (4.86%) Cloud Native
4 6 (4.17%) Data Structures
5 5 (3.47%) Algorithms
5 5 (3.47%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.08%) AI Agents
7 3 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (2.08%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.08%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.39%) Autonomous Agent
8 2 (1.39%) Educational Technology
8 2 (1.39%) IoT
8 2 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.69%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.69%) Replication
9 1 (0.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.08%) Linux
2 2 (1.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (46.53%) Data Pipeline
2 59 (40.97%) Data Engineering
2 59 (40.97%) Data Modelling
3 52 (36.11%) ETL
4 50 (34.72%) Analytics
5 45 (31.25%) Data Governance
6 42 (29.17%) Business Intelligence
7 41 (28.47%) Agile
8 37 (25.69%) CI/CD
8 37 (25.69%) DevOps
9 29 (20.14%) Data Science
10 27 (18.75%) Data Architecture
11 26 (18.06%) Machine Learning
11 26 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
12 21 (14.58%) AI
12 21 (14.58%) Data Transformation
12 21 (14.58%) Visualisation
13 19 (13.19%) Migration
14 18 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
15 17 (11.81%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 104 (72.22%) Python
2 100 (69.44%) SQL
3 18 (12.50%) Scala
4 11 (7.64%) Java
5 8 (5.56%) JavaScript
6 5 (3.47%) Bicep
7 3 (2.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (2.08%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.39%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.39%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.69%) C#
9 1 (0.69%) C++
9 1 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.69%) R
9 1 (0.69%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.69%) VBA
Qualifications
1 30 (20.83%) Security Cleared
2 29 (20.14%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.64%) Azure Certification
4 9 (6.25%) Degree
5 6 (4.17%) DV Cleared
6 5 (3.47%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.39%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.39%) MCP
8 2 (1.39%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (19.44%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.86%) QA
3 5 (3.47%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (4.86%) Docker
2 2 (1.39%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 18 (12.50%) Terraform
2 11 (7.64%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.69%) Argo
Vendors
1 74 (51.39%) Databricks
2 30 (20.83%) Microsoft
3 14 (9.72%) Palantir
4 12 (8.33%) Foundry
5 6 (4.17%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.78%) Cloudera
6 4 (2.78%) Guidewire
6 4 (2.78%) Oracle
7 2 (1.39%) Informatica
7 2 (1.39%) SAP
8 1 (0.69%) Confluent
8 1 (0.69%) Google
8 1 (0.69%) IBM
8 1 (0.69%) RedGate
8 1 (0.69%) StreamSets