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 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 179 263
Rank change year-on-year -16 +84 +74
Contract jobs citing PySpark 237 185 132
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.35% 1.45% 0.74%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.64% 5.58% 2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 142 112
10th Percentile £363 £455 £426
25th Percentile £450 £540 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £775 £550
Median % change year-on-year -33.87% +40.91% -10.57%
75th Percentile £588 £875 £691
90th Percentile £665 £886 £798
England median daily rate £513 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -21.15% +18.18% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
England median hourly rate £35.00 £65.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -46.15% +209.52% -51.72%

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 4,202 3,317 4,464
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.96% 26.03% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,834 2,329 3,354
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £656 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £813
England median daily rate £525 £533 £550
% change year-on-year -1.55% -3.05% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 18 23
10th Percentile £23.00 £33.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £28.00 £36.06 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.50 £52.50 £34.23
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +53.37% -48.91%
75th Percentile £61.63 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.25 £69.40
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 -11 27 £505 -24.63% 11
West London -18 7 £625 -19.35% 1
East London - 1 £449 - 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 67 (28.27%) Apache Spark
2 26 (10.97%) Apache Airflow
3 24 (10.13%) Apache
4 7 (2.95%) SAS
5 6 (2.53%) Palantir Foundry
6 4 (1.69%) Confluence
7 1 (0.42%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 143 (60.34%) Azure
2 76 (32.07%) AWS
3 70 (29.54%) Azure Data Factory
4 60 (25.32%) Power Platform
5 58 (24.47%) Azure DevOps
6 50 (21.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 45 (18.99%) GitHub
8 38 (16.03%) Serverless
9 31 (13.08%) Amazon S3
10 27 (11.39%) AWS Lambda
11 25 (10.55%) GitHub Actions
12 16 (6.75%) GCP
13 15 (6.33%) Microsoft Purview
14 13 (5.49%) AWS CloudFormation
15 12 (5.06%) dbt
16 11 (4.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 11 (4.64%) AWS Step Functions
17 10 (4.22%) Amazon EMR
17 10 (4.22%) Azure Monitor
17 10 (4.22%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (27.00%) Data Lake
2 58 (24.47%) Power BI
3 54 (22.78%) Delta Lake
4 46 (19.41%) Data Warehouse
5 35 (14.77%) Azure SQL Database
6 34 (14.35%) Spark SQL
7 29 (12.24%) Metadata
8 27 (11.39%) Amazon Athena
9 25 (10.55%) Amazon Redshift
10 24 (10.13%) NoSQL
11 22 (9.28%) Big Data
12 14 (5.91%) Tableau
13 11 (4.64%) Relational Database
14 10 (4.22%) Snowflake Schema
15 8 (3.38%) Parquet
15 8 (3.38%) SQL Server
16 6 (2.53%) Base SAS
17 5 (2.11%) Amazon RDS
17 5 (2.11%) SAS Data Integration Studio
18 4 (1.69%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 68 (28.69%) Git
2 15 (6.33%) GitLab
3 13 (5.49%) MLflow
4 10 (4.22%) JIRA
5 8 (3.38%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.42%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.42%) ERwin
6 1 (0.42%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.42%) Visual Studio
General
1 72 (30.38%) Finance
2 43 (18.14%) Social Skills
3 23 (9.70%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (6.75%) Public Sector
5 12 (5.06%) Banking
6 7 (2.95%) Retail
7 4 (1.69%) Marketing
8 3 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.27%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.84%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (0.84%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.84%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.42%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.42%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.42%) Law
10 1 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.42%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 138 (58.23%) Data Engineer
2 45 (18.99%) Senior
3 37 (15.61%) Azure Engineer
4 33 (13.92%) Azure Data Engineer
5 30 (12.66%) Senior Data Engineer
6 24 (10.13%) Developer
7 19 (8.02%) Lead
8 13 (5.49%) Architect
8 13 (5.49%) Python Engineer
9 10 (4.22%) AWS Engineer
9 10 (4.22%) Principal Engineer
10 9 (3.80%) Data Analytics Engineer
10 9 (3.80%) Data Scientist
10 9 (3.80%) Python Data Engineer
10 9 (3.80%) Software Engineer
11 8 (3.38%) Data Architect
11 8 (3.38%) Platform Engineer
12 7 (2.95%) Lead Data Engineer
13 6 (2.53%) Principal Software Engineer
14 5 (2.11%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (10.97%) Kafka
2 20 (8.44%) Pandas
3 12 (5.06%) PyTorch
4 11 (4.64%) Spark Streaming
5 9 (3.80%) scikit-learn
6 8 (3.38%) Great Expectations
7 7 (2.95%) React
8 6 (2.53%) JSON
8 6 (2.53%) pytest
8 6 (2.53%) REST
8 6 (2.53%) YAML
9 5 (2.11%) HTML
9 5 (2.11%) Node.js
9 5 (2.11%) TensorFlow
10 4 (1.69%) LangChain
10 4 (1.69%) NumPy
11 3 (1.27%) FastAPI
11 3 (1.27%) LangGraph
11 3 (1.27%) Next.js
11 3 (1.27%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 30 (12.66%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.75%) Distributed Computing
3 7 (2.95%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (2.95%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.53%) AI Agents
5 5 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.27%) Marketing Technology
6 3 (1.27%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.84%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.84%) Autonomous Agent
7 2 (0.84%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.84%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.42%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.42%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.42%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.42%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.42%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.42%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.53%) Unix
2 5 (2.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (56.54%) Data Engineering
2 130 (54.85%) Data Pipeline
3 110 (46.41%) CI/CD
4 100 (42.19%) Analytics
5 99 (41.77%) Data Modelling
5 99 (41.77%) ETL
6 89 (37.55%) Agile
6 89 (37.55%) DevOps
7 75 (31.65%) Data Governance
8 55 (23.21%) Business Intelligence
9 51 (21.52%) Infrastructure as Code
10 49 (20.68%) AI
10 49 (20.68%) Data Science
11 47 (19.83%) Data Architecture
12 35 (14.77%) Machine Learning
13 31 (13.08%) Data Transformation
14 30 (12.66%) Data Integration
15 29 (12.24%) Migration
16 28 (11.81%) Performance Tuning
16 28 (11.81%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 197 (83.12%) Python
2 162 (68.35%) SQL
3 54 (22.78%) Scala
4 23 (9.70%) Java
5 9 (3.80%) Bicep
6 8 (3.38%) R
7 7 (2.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 6 (2.53%) SAS Macro
8 6 (2.53%) T-SQL
9 5 (2.11%) JavaScript
9 5 (2.11%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.11%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.69%) C#
11 2 (0.84%) Ada
11 2 (0.84%) C++
11 2 (0.84%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.42%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 76 (32.07%) Security Cleared
2 69 (29.11%) SC Cleared
3 13 (5.49%) Azure Certification
3 13 (5.49%) Degree
4 8 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.69%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.84%) PhD
8 1 (0.42%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.42%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (39.24%) Data Quality
2 16 (6.75%) GDPR
3 7 (2.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (1.27%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.27%) QA
5 2 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.42%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 25 (10.55%) Docker
2 2 (0.84%) HDFS
2 2 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 63 (26.58%) Terraform
2 23 (9.70%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.11%) Grafana
Vendors
1 125 (52.74%) Databricks
2 44 (18.57%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.38%) Foundry
4 6 (2.53%) Google
4 6 (2.53%) Palantir
5 4 (1.69%) Cloudera
5 4 (1.69%) Hortonworks
6 3 (1.27%) Apple
6 3 (1.27%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.27%) Oracle
6 3 (1.27%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.84%) Informatica
7 2 (0.84%) SAP
8 1 (0.42%) New Relic