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 23 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 191 263
Rank change year-on-year +5 +72 +116
Contract jobs citing PySpark 220 175 123
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.42% 1.30% 0.67%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.52% 4.95% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 135 106
10th Percentile £363 £475 £438
25th Percentile £413 £525 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £750 £550
Median % change year-on-year -31.67% +36.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £838 £654
90th Percentile £650 £888 £819
England median daily rate £513 £618 £550
% change year-on-year -17.00% +12.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
England median hourly rate - £65.00 -

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 3,989 3,537 4,521
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.68% 26.38% 24.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,694 2,355 3,404
10th Percentile £363 £382 £385
25th Percentile £425 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £653 £700 £689
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 21 35
10th Percentile £27.80 £35.00 £20.12
25th Percentile £35.06 £38.50 £30.86
Median hourly rate £50.50 £52.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +23.53% -34.62%
75th Percentile £63.56 £65.00 £66.88
90th Percentile £92.50 £80.00 £74.46
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

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 23 February 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 23 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
Central London +8 26 £513 -18.00% 8
West London -13 7 £625 -19.35%
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 (24.55%) Apache Spark
2 14 (6.36%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (5.45%) Apache
4 7 (3.18%) Palantir Foundry
5 6 (2.73%) Confluence
5 6 (2.73%) SAS
6 2 (0.91%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.45%) Camunda
Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 146 (66.36%) Azure
2 78 (35.45%) Azure Data Factory
3 60 (27.27%) AWS
4 56 (25.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 55 (25.00%) Power Platform
6 44 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
7 33 (15.00%) GitHub
8 21 (9.55%) Serverless
9 20 (9.09%) Amazon S3
10 19 (8.64%) GitHub Actions
11 14 (6.36%) GCP
12 13 (5.91%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (5.91%) dbt
12 13 (5.91%) Microsoft Purview
13 9 (4.09%) Amazon EMR
13 9 (4.09%) Azure Monitor
13 9 (4.09%) Snowflake
14 8 (3.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 8 (3.64%) AWS CloudFormation
15 7 (3.18%) AWS Step Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (25.45%) Data Lake
1 56 (25.45%) Data Warehouse
2 51 (23.18%) Power BI
3 46 (20.91%) Delta Lake
4 39 (17.73%) Azure SQL Database
5 25 (11.36%) NoSQL
6 24 (10.91%) Metadata
7 23 (10.45%) Spark SQL
8 21 (9.55%) Amazon Redshift
9 19 (8.64%) Big Data
10 16 (7.27%) Amazon Athena
11 15 (6.82%) Relational Database
12 13 (5.91%) Tableau
13 8 (3.64%) Hadoop
13 8 (3.64%) SQL Server
14 7 (3.18%) PostgreSQL
14 7 (3.18%) Snowflake Schema
15 5 (2.27%) Parquet
15 5 (2.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 5 (2.27%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 65 (29.55%) Git
2 14 (6.36%) GitLab
3 10 (4.55%) MLflow
4 8 (3.64%) Jenkins
5 7 (3.18%) JIRA
6 2 (0.91%) ERwin
6 2 (0.91%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.45%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.45%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.45%) Gradle
7 1 (0.45%) SonarQube
General
1 64 (29.09%) Finance
2 44 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 16 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (5.91%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.00%) Banking
5 11 (5.00%) Retail
6 4 (1.82%) Front Office
6 4 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.36%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.36%) Marketing
8 2 (0.91%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.45%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.45%) Electronics
9 1 (0.45%) Law
9 1 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.45%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 124 (56.36%) Data Engineer
2 43 (19.55%) Azure Engineer
3 38 (17.27%) Azure Data Engineer
4 32 (14.55%) Senior
5 26 (11.82%) Senior Data Engineer
6 23 (10.45%) Developer
7 22 (10.00%) Lead
8 16 (7.27%) Architect
9 13 (5.91%) Python Engineer
10 10 (4.55%) Data Analytics Engineer
11 9 (4.09%) Python Data Engineer
12 8 (3.64%) AWS Engineer
12 8 (3.64%) Data Architect
13 7 (3.18%) Lead Data Engineer
13 7 (3.18%) Principal Engineer
13 7 (3.18%) Principal Software Engineer
13 7 (3.18%) Software Engineer
14 6 (2.73%) Data Scientist
15 5 (2.27%) Technical Leader
16 4 (1.82%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (10.00%) Kafka
2 16 (7.27%) Pandas
3 10 (4.55%) PyTorch
4 9 (4.09%) YAML
5 8 (3.64%) Spark Streaming
6 7 (3.18%) scikit-learn
7 6 (2.73%) REST
7 6 (2.73%) TensorFlow
8 5 (2.27%) NumPy
9 4 (1.82%) Apache NiFi
9 4 (1.82%) HTML
10 3 (1.36%) .NET
10 3 (1.36%) ARM Templates
10 3 (1.36%) LangChain
10 3 (1.36%) Matplotlib
10 3 (1.36%) Model Context Protocol
10 3 (1.36%) RESTful
11 2 (0.91%) Node.js
11 2 (0.91%) pytest
11 2 (0.91%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.27%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.36%) Distributed Computing
3 8 (3.64%) Data Structures
4 6 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.82%) Algorithms
5 4 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.36%) AI Agents
6 3 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.91%) Educational Technology
7 2 (0.91%) Low-Code
7 2 (0.91%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.91%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.45%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.45%) Freedom of Information Act
8 1 (0.45%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.45%) Multi-touch
8 1 (0.45%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.36%) Linux
2 2 (0.91%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (55.91%) Data Engineering
2 116 (52.73%) Data Pipeline
3 97 (44.09%) Data Modelling
4 95 (43.18%) ETL
5 90 (40.91%) Analytics
6 85 (38.64%) CI/CD
7 83 (37.73%) Agile
8 79 (35.91%) Data Governance
9 74 (33.64%) DevOps
10 58 (26.36%) Business Intelligence
11 49 (22.27%) Data Architecture
11 49 (22.27%) Data Science
12 44 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
13 35 (15.91%) AI
14 32 (14.55%) Machine Learning
15 31 (14.09%) Data Integration
16 29 (13.18%) Data Transformation
16 29 (13.18%) Problem-Solving
17 27 (12.27%) Integration Patterns
18 26 (11.82%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 174 (79.09%) Python
2 159 (72.27%) SQL
3 54 (24.55%) Scala
4 13 (5.91%) Java
5 11 (5.00%) Bicep
6 9 (4.09%) JavaScript
7 7 (3.18%) R
8 5 (2.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (1.82%) SAS Macro
10 3 (1.36%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.36%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.91%) Ada
11 2 (0.91%) C#
11 2 (0.91%) C++
12 1 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.45%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 69 (31.36%) Security Cleared
2 63 (28.64%) SC Cleared
3 19 (8.64%) Azure Certification
4 9 (4.09%) Degree
5 4 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.82%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.82%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.45%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (37.27%) Data Quality
2 15 (6.82%) GDPR
3 7 (3.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 6 (2.73%) QA
5 2 (0.91%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 22 (10.00%) Docker
2 4 (1.82%) HDFS
3 2 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 51 (23.18%) Terraform
2 21 (9.55%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.45%) Argo
3 1 (0.45%) Grafana
Vendors
1 128 (58.18%) Databricks
2 40 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.18%) Foundry
3 7 (3.18%) Palantir
3 7 (3.18%) Salesforce
4 4 (1.82%) Guidewire
5 3 (1.36%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.36%) Oracle
5 3 (1.36%) SAP
6 2 (0.91%) Cloudera
6 2 (0.91%) Informatica
7 1 (0.45%) Confluent
7 1 (0.45%) IBM
7 1 (0.45%) New Relic
7 1 (0.45%) RedGate
7 1 (0.45%) StreamSets