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 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 252 186
Rank change year-on-year +51 -66 +122
Contract jobs citing PySpark 281 121 210
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.38% 0.90% 1.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.25% 3.04% 4.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 86 165
10th Percentile £389 £363 £430
25th Percentile £447 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £490 £614
Median % change year-on-year +9.69% -20.20% +2.33%
75th Percentile £650 £607 £825
90th Percentile £738 £750 £888
England median daily rate £525 £481 £588
% change year-on-year +9.09% -18.09% -2.08%
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 5,356 3,982 5,010
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.30% 29.57% 30.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,590 2,747 3,469
10th Percentile £400 £366 £377
25th Percentile £450 £430 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £660 £688 £703
90th Percentile £763 £811 £850
England median daily rate £534 £519 £550
% change year-on-year +2.99% -5.73% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 34 22
10th Percentile £26.43 £32.10 £23.84
25th Percentile £36.06 £34.61 £36.25
Median hourly rate £43.50 £52.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% +23.53% -34.62%
75th Percentile £63.00 £63.44 £59.51
90th Percentile £81.25 £82.85 £74.00
England median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +22.67% -12.00% -1.57%

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 19 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 19 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 43 £550 -14.13% 14
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 (23.49%) Apache Spark
2 51 (18.15%) Apache
3 50 (17.79%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (3.20%) Confluence
4 9 (3.20%) Palantir Foundry
5 6 (2.14%) SAS
6 2 (0.71%) SugarCRM
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.36%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.71%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.36%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 161 (57.30%) Azure
2 113 (40.21%) AWS
3 71 (25.27%) Power Platform
4 62 (22.06%) Azure Data Factory
5 61 (21.71%) Azure DevOps
6 47 (16.73%) Amazon S3
7 44 (15.66%) Serverless
8 39 (13.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 39 (13.88%) GitHub
9 37 (13.17%) AWS Lambda
9 37 (13.17%) dbt
10 32 (11.39%) Azure Databricks
11 31 (11.03%) GCP
12 28 (9.96%) Snowflake
13 27 (9.61%) Amazon EMR
13 27 (9.61%) GitHub Actions
14 15 (5.34%) Microsoft Purview
15 14 (4.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 13 (4.63%) Amazon EC2
17 11 (3.91%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.36%) Firewall
1 1 (0.36%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (24.56%) Power BI
2 66 (23.49%) Delta Lake
3 54 (19.22%) Data Warehouse
4 44 (15.66%) Data Lake
5 38 (13.52%) Metadata
6 33 (11.74%) Amazon Redshift
7 29 (10.32%) Spark SQL
8 22 (7.83%) Amazon Athena
9 16 (5.69%) Big Data
9 16 (5.69%) BigQuery
10 13 (4.63%) SQL Server
10 13 (4.63%) Star Schema
11 9 (3.20%) Azure SQL Database
12 8 (2.85%) Data Vault
12 8 (2.85%) NoSQL
12 8 (2.85%) Relational Database
12 8 (2.85%) Snowflake Schema
13 7 (2.49%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 7 (2.49%) PostgreSQL
13 7 (2.49%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 43 (15.30%) Git
2 28 (9.96%) GitLab
3 16 (5.69%) MLflow
4 14 (4.98%) JIRA
5 5 (1.78%) ER Studio
5 5 (1.78%) ERwin
6 4 (1.42%) RStudio
6 4 (1.42%) Selenium
6 4 (1.42%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.07%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.36%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.36%) Postman
8 1 (0.36%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.36%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.36%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 113 (40.21%) Finance
2 77 (27.40%) Social Skills
3 40 (14.23%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (12.46%) Banking
5 25 (8.90%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (3.56%) Investment Banking
7 8 (2.85%) Retail
8 7 (2.49%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.42%) Billing
9 4 (1.42%) Marketing
10 3 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.71%) Automotive
11 2 (0.71%) Front Office
11 2 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.71%) Local Government
11 2 (0.71%) Publishing
12 1 (0.36%) Law
12 1 (0.36%) Legal
12 1 (0.36%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 150 (53.38%) Data Engineer
2 74 (26.33%) Senior
3 52 (18.51%) Senior Data Engineer
4 36 (12.81%) Architect
4 36 (12.81%) Lead
5 30 (10.68%) Databricks Engineer
6 21 (7.47%) Data Architect
6 21 (7.47%) Databricks Data Engineer
6 21 (7.47%) Developer
7 16 (5.69%) Platform Engineer
8 14 (4.98%) Python Engineer
9 13 (4.63%) Lead Data Engineer
9 13 (4.63%) Senior Developer
10 12 (4.27%) Azure Engineer
10 12 (4.27%) Python Data Engineer
11 11 (3.91%) AWS Engineer
11 11 (3.91%) Data Scientist
12 10 (3.56%) Senior Databricks Data Engineer
13 8 (2.85%) Analyst
13 8 (2.85%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (23.49%) Terraform
2 38 (13.52%) Kafka
3 26 (9.25%) Pandas
4 23 (8.19%) REST
5 16 (5.69%) NumPy
6 15 (5.34%) React
7 14 (4.98%) Great Expectations
8 13 (4.63%) pytest
9 9 (3.20%) .NET
10 8 (2.85%) .NET Core
10 8 (2.85%) RESTful
11 7 (2.49%) FastAPI
11 7 (2.49%) PyTorch
11 7 (2.49%) scikit-learn
12 6 (2.14%) Redux
12 6 (2.14%) Spring
12 6 (2.14%) Spring Boot
13 5 (1.78%) Django
13 5 (1.78%) Flask
13 5 (1.78%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 35 (12.46%) Cloud Native
2 17 (6.05%) Product Ownership
3 16 (5.69%) Legacy Systems
4 15 (5.34%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (5.34%) Onboarding
5 12 (4.27%) Data Structures
6 10 (3.56%) Reference Data
7 8 (2.85%) AI Agents
7 8 (2.85%) NHS
8 7 (2.49%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (2.14%) Algorithms
9 6 (2.14%) Fixed Income
10 5 (1.78%) Derivative
10 5 (1.78%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.78%) Market Risk
10 5 (1.78%) Pricing Data
10 5 (1.78%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.42%) Low-Code
12 3 (1.07%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.20%) Linux
2 8 (2.85%) Unix
3 1 (0.36%) Robot Operating System
3 1 (0.36%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (53.38%) Data Engineering
2 148 (52.67%) Data Pipeline
3 145 (51.60%) CI/CD
4 134 (47.69%) Analytics
5 116 (41.28%) Data Modelling
6 103 (36.65%) DevOps
7 100 (35.59%) ETL
8 94 (33.45%) Agile
9 90 (32.03%) AI
10 88 (31.32%) Business Intelligence
11 77 (27.40%) Data Governance
12 75 (26.69%) Lakehouse
13 65 (23.13%) Machine Learning
14 64 (22.78%) Infrastructure as Code
15 59 (21.00%) Migration
16 52 (18.51%) Validation
17 51 (18.15%) Data Transformation
18 49 (17.44%) Data Science
18 49 (17.44%) Stakeholder Management
19 46 (16.37%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 229 (81.49%) Python
2 202 (71.89%) SQL
3 20 (7.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 13 (4.63%) Java
4 13 (4.63%) JavaScript
5 12 (4.27%) Scala
6 10 (3.56%) C#
6 10 (3.56%) TypeScript
7 8 (2.85%) T-SQL
8 7 (2.49%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.78%) Bicep
9 5 (1.78%) R
10 3 (1.07%) SPARQL
11 2 (0.71%) Bash
11 2 (0.71%) Korn
11 2 (0.71%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.36%) COBOL
12 1 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.36%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.36%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 57 (20.28%) Security Cleared
2 52 (18.51%) SC Cleared
3 11 (3.91%) Azure Certification
3 11 (3.91%) Degree
4 8 (2.85%) AWS Certification
4 8 (2.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 7 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.14%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.42%) PhD
9 2 (0.71%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.71%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.36%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (43.06%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.63%) GDPR
3 8 (2.85%) QA
4 4 (1.42%) SLA
5 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.36%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.36%) GRC
5 1 (0.36%) MiFID
5 1 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 32 (11.39%) Docker
2 1 (0.36%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (10.32%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.42%) Ansible
3 3 (1.07%) Grafana
4 1 (0.36%) Control-M
4 1 (0.36%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 140 (49.82%) Databricks
2 73 (25.98%) Microsoft
3 17 (6.05%) Palantir
4 16 (5.69%) Informatica
5 9 (3.20%) Foundry
5 9 (3.20%) OpenAI
6 6 (2.14%) Oracle
7 5 (1.78%) Google
7 5 (1.78%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.71%) Cloudera
8 2 (0.71%) HubSpot
8 2 (0.71%) Sage
8 2 (0.71%) SAP
8 2 (0.71%) Teradata
9 1 (0.36%) Confluent
9 1 (0.36%) eFront
9 1 (0.36%) NVIDIA
9 1 (0.36%) Reuters
9 1 (0.36%) SimCorp
9 1 (0.36%) Tagetik