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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 210 191 285
Rank change year-on-year -19 +94 +101
Contract jobs citing PySpark 175 206 120
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.23% 1.35% 0.63%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.69% 5.26% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 160 101
10th Percentile £386 £461 £461
25th Percentile £422 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £650 £560
Median % change year-on-year -20.19% +16.07% -2.61%
75th Percentile £588 £838 £700
90th Percentile £641 £888 £788
England median daily rate £525 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -2.65%
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 3,728 3,915 4,950
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.14% 25.63% 25.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,516 2,552 3,743
10th Percentile £359 £380 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £661 £704 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £800
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 20 29
10th Percentile £33.79 £34.83 £31.54
25th Percentile £43.13 £37.88 £36.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £48.75 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -2.50% -19.68%
75th Percentile £63.38 £63.13 £72.00
90th Percentile £70.80 £71.90 £80.00
England median hourly rate £61.00 £65.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year -6.15% +25.26% -20.17%

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 14 December 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 14 December 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 +6 17 £513 -9.81% 9
West London -10 4 £625 - 4
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 44 (25.14%) Apache Spark
2 14 (8.00%) Apache
3 12 (6.86%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.29%) Confluence
5 2 (1.14%) Jupyter
5 2 (1.14%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 121 (69.14%) Azure
2 64 (36.57%) Azure Data Factory
3 41 (23.43%) AWS
3 41 (23.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 41 (23.43%) Power Platform
4 26 (14.86%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (8.57%) GCP
6 13 (7.43%) Microsoft Purview
7 12 (6.86%) GitHub
8 11 (6.29%) Serverless
9 8 (4.57%) Amazon S3
9 8 (4.57%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (4.57%) Snowflake
10 7 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (3.43%) AWS Step Functions
11 6 (3.43%) dbt
12 5 (2.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 4 (2.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (2.29%) Azure Functions
13 4 (2.29%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (26.29%) Data Warehouse
2 33 (18.86%) Data Lake
2 33 (18.86%) Power BI
3 31 (17.71%) Delta Lake
4 27 (15.43%) Azure SQL Database
5 25 (14.29%) Metadata
6 20 (11.43%) NoSQL
7 18 (10.29%) Spark SQL
8 16 (9.14%) Big Data
9 11 (6.29%) PostgreSQL
10 10 (5.71%) Relational Database
10 10 (5.71%) Tableau
11 9 (5.14%) Hadoop
12 7 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (3.43%) Amazon Athena
13 6 (3.43%) SQL Server
14 5 (2.86%) Star Schema
15 4 (2.29%) Elasticsearch
15 4 (2.29%) Snowflake Schema
15 4 (2.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 42 (24.00%) Git
2 7 (4.00%) GitLab
3 6 (3.43%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.43%) MLflow
4 5 (2.86%) JIRA
5 2 (1.14%) ERwin
5 2 (1.14%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.57%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.57%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.57%) Gradle
6 1 (0.57%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.57%) SpecFlow
General
1 44 (25.14%) Finance
2 40 (22.86%) Social Skills
3 15 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (6.86%) Public Sector
4 12 (6.86%) Retail
5 9 (5.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (4.00%) Banking
7 4 (2.29%) Front Office
7 4 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.29%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.71%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (1.71%) Marketing
8 3 (1.71%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.14%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.57%) Electronics
10 1 (0.57%) Law
10 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.57%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 92 (52.57%) Data Engineer
2 38 (21.71%) Azure Engineer
3 33 (18.86%) Azure Data Engineer
4 18 (10.29%) Architect
5 17 (9.71%) Developer
5 17 (9.71%) Lead
5 17 (9.71%) Senior
6 13 (7.43%) Data Architect
7 12 (6.86%) Senior Data Engineer
8 11 (6.29%) Python Engineer
9 8 (4.57%) AWS Engineer
10 7 (4.00%) Python Data Engineer
11 5 (2.86%) Data Analytics Engineer
11 5 (2.86%) Data Scientist
11 5 (2.86%) Lead Data Engineer
12 4 (2.29%) AWS Software Engineer
12 4 (2.29%) Azure Architect
12 4 (2.29%) Azure Software Engineer
12 4 (2.29%) Software Engineer
12 4 (2.29%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (10.29%) Kafka
2 9 (5.14%) YAML
3 8 (4.57%) Pandas
4 6 (3.43%) Apache NiFi
5 5 (2.86%) PyTorch
6 4 (2.29%) Spark Streaming
7 3 (1.71%) .NET
7 3 (1.71%) ARM Templates
7 3 (1.71%) NumPy
7 3 (1.71%) RESTful
7 3 (1.71%) scikit-learn
7 3 (1.71%) TensorFlow
8 2 (1.14%) JSON
8 2 (1.14%) LangChain
8 2 (1.14%) pytest
8 2 (1.14%) Ray
9 1 (0.57%) Apache Avro
9 1 (0.57%) Matplotlib
9 1 (0.57%) PostGIS
9 1 (0.57%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.71%) Distributed Computing
2 8 (4.57%) Low-Code
3 7 (4.00%) Data Structures
4 6 (3.43%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.29%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.29%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.71%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.14%) Autonomous Agent
8 2 (1.14%) Educational Technology
8 2 (1.14%) IoT
8 2 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.57%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.57%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.57%) Multi-touch
9 1 (0.57%) Replication
9 1 (0.57%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.71%) Linux
2 2 (1.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (52.57%) Data Engineering
2 90 (51.43%) Data Pipeline
3 76 (43.43%) Data Modelling
4 67 (38.29%) ETL
5 66 (37.71%) Data Governance
6 63 (36.00%) Analytics
7 59 (33.71%) Agile
8 52 (29.71%) CI/CD
9 46 (26.29%) Data Architecture
10 45 (25.71%) Business Intelligence
10 45 (25.71%) DevOps
11 32 (18.29%) Problem-Solving
12 31 (17.71%) Data Science
13 29 (16.57%) Data Integration
14 27 (15.43%) Data Transformation
14 27 (15.43%) Machine Learning
15 22 (12.57%) Integration Patterns
16 21 (12.00%) Migration
17 19 (10.86%) Visualisation
18 18 (10.29%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 124 (70.86%) Python
2 121 (69.14%) SQL
3 37 (21.14%) Scala
4 14 (8.00%) Java
5 8 (4.57%) JavaScript
6 5 (2.86%) Bicep
7 4 (2.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (2.29%) R
8 3 (1.71%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.71%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.14%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.57%) C#
10 1 (0.57%) C++
10 1 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.57%) VBA
Qualifications
1 47 (26.86%) Security Cleared
2 44 (25.14%) SC Cleared
3 13 (7.43%) Azure Certification
4 6 (3.43%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.86%) Degree
6 4 (2.29%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.14%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.14%) MCP
9 1 (0.57%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (30.86%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.57%) GDPR
3 7 (4.00%) QA
4 3 (1.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.14%) Accessibility
System Software
1 14 (8.00%) Docker
2 2 (1.14%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 17 (9.71%) Terraform
2 14 (8.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.57%) Argo
Vendors
1 107 (61.14%) Databricks
2 32 (18.29%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.00%) Salesforce
4 6 (3.43%) Foundry
4 6 (3.43%) Palantir
5 5 (2.86%) Oracle
6 4 (2.29%) Cloudera
6 4 (2.29%) Guidewire
7 3 (1.71%) SAP
8 2 (1.14%) Informatica
9 1 (0.57%) Confluent
9 1 (0.57%) Google
9 1 (0.57%) IBM
9 1 (0.57%) RedGate
9 1 (0.57%) StreamSets