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

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 198 196 287
Rank change year-on-year -2 +91 +100
Contract jobs citing PySpark 193 188 119
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.34% 1.27% 0.64%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.07% 4.93% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 145 99
10th Percentile £372 £465 £462
25th Percentile £413 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £650 £560
Median % change year-on-year -21.15% +16.07% -2.10%
75th Percentile £588 £838 £713
90th Percentile £630 £888 £788
England median daily rate £513 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -14.58% +9.09% -2.44%
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 3,805 3,816 4,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.34% 25.70% 25.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,568 2,498 3,584
10th Percentile £362 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £590
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -2.54% -1.67%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 19 31
10th Percentile £33.07 £34.65 £29.72
25th Percentile £43.75 £38.38 £35.94
Median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -19.68%
75th Percentile £63.75 £63.75 £71.00
90th Percentile £71.20 £72.80 £77.50
England median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £51.89
% change year-on-year -4.00% +20.45% -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 27 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 27 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 +8 20 £513 -17.27% 18
West London -13 5 £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 50 (25.91%) Apache Spark
2 14 (7.25%) Apache
3 13 (6.74%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.07%) Confluence
5 2 (1.04%) Jupyter
5 2 (1.04%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 132 (68.39%) Azure
2 70 (36.27%) Azure Data Factory
3 48 (24.87%) Power Platform
4 47 (24.35%) AWS
5 44 (22.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 31 (16.06%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (8.29%) GitHub
8 15 (7.77%) GCP
8 15 (7.77%) Serverless
9 14 (7.25%) Microsoft Purview
10 11 (5.70%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (5.70%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (5.18%) Amazon S3
12 8 (4.15%) Snowflake
13 7 (3.63%) AWS Step Functions
13 7 (3.63%) dbt
14 6 (3.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 5 (2.59%) Amazon EMR
15 5 (2.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 4 (2.07%) Azure Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (25.91%) Data Warehouse
2 40 (20.73%) Data Lake
2 40 (20.73%) Power BI
3 33 (17.10%) Delta Lake
4 31 (16.06%) Azure SQL Database
5 26 (13.47%) Metadata
6 22 (11.40%) NoSQL
7 20 (10.36%) Spark SQL
8 19 (9.84%) Big Data
9 13 (6.74%) Amazon Redshift
10 12 (6.22%) Relational Database
11 11 (5.70%) Hadoop
11 11 (5.70%) PostgreSQL
12 10 (5.18%) Tableau
13 8 (4.15%) Amazon Athena
13 8 (4.15%) SQL Server
14 5 (2.59%) Parquet
14 5 (2.59%) Star Schema
15 4 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
15 4 (2.07%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 47 (24.35%) Git
2 9 (4.66%) GitLab
3 7 (3.63%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.63%) MLflow
4 5 (2.59%) JIRA
5 2 (1.04%) ERwin
5 2 (1.04%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.52%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.52%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.52%) Gradle
6 1 (0.52%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.52%) SpecFlow
General
1 47 (24.35%) Finance
2 43 (22.28%) Social Skills
3 15 (7.77%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (6.74%) Retail
5 12 (6.22%) Public Sector
6 9 (4.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (3.63%) Banking
8 4 (2.07%) Front Office
8 4 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.07%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.55%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (1.55%) Marketing
9 3 (1.55%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.04%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.52%) Electronics
11 1 (0.52%) Law
11 1 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 105 (54.40%) Data Engineer
2 42 (21.76%) Azure Engineer
3 37 (19.17%) Azure Data Engineer
4 21 (10.88%) Senior
5 19 (9.84%) Architect
5 19 (9.84%) Developer
6 17 (8.81%) Lead
7 15 (7.77%) Senior Data Engineer
8 14 (7.25%) Data Architect
9 11 (5.70%) Python Engineer
10 9 (4.66%) AWS Engineer
11 7 (3.63%) Python Data Engineer
12 6 (3.11%) Data Analytics Engineer
12 6 (3.11%) Data Scientist
13 5 (2.59%) AWS Data Engineer
13 5 (2.59%) Lead Data Engineer
13 5 (2.59%) Principal Engineer
13 5 (2.59%) Principal Software Engineer
13 5 (2.59%) Software Engineer
14 4 (2.07%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (11.40%) Kafka
2 14 (7.25%) Pandas
3 9 (4.66%) YAML
4 7 (3.63%) PyTorch
5 6 (3.11%) Apache NiFi
5 6 (3.11%) NumPy
5 6 (3.11%) scikit-learn
5 6 (3.11%) Spark Streaming
6 4 (2.07%) REST
6 4 (2.07%) TensorFlow
7 3 (1.55%) .NET
7 3 (1.55%) ARM Templates
7 3 (1.55%) HTML
7 3 (1.55%) LangChain
7 3 (1.55%) Matplotlib
7 3 (1.55%) RESTful
7 3 (1.55%) XGBoost
8 2 (1.04%) JSON
8 2 (1.04%) Node.js
8 2 (1.04%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.66%) Cloud Native
1 9 (4.66%) Distributed Computing
2 8 (4.15%) Data Structures
2 8 (4.15%) Low-Code
3 5 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.07%) AI Agents
4 4 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.55%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.04%) Educational Technology
6 2 (1.04%) IoT
6 2 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.52%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.52%) Autonomous Agent
7 1 (0.52%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.52%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.52%) Multi-touch
7 1 (0.52%) Replication
7 1 (0.52%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.55%) Linux
2 2 (1.04%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (53.37%) Data Engineering
2 99 (51.30%) Data Pipeline
3 84 (43.52%) Data Modelling
4 76 (39.38%) ETL
5 72 (37.31%) Data Governance
6 67 (34.72%) Agile
6 67 (34.72%) Analytics
7 60 (31.09%) CI/CD
8 52 (26.94%) Business Intelligence
8 52 (26.94%) DevOps
9 51 (26.42%) Data Architecture
10 35 (18.13%) Data Science
11 33 (17.10%) Data Integration
11 33 (17.10%) Problem-Solving
12 28 (14.51%) Data Transformation
13 27 (13.99%) Machine Learning
14 26 (13.47%) Integration Patterns
15 23 (11.92%) AI
16 22 (11.40%) Migration
16 22 (11.40%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 140 (72.54%) Python
2 134 (69.43%) SQL
3 41 (21.24%) Scala
4 17 (8.81%) Java
5 8 (4.15%) Bicep
5 8 (4.15%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.11%) R
7 4 (2.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (1.55%) C#
8 3 (1.55%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.55%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.04%) Ada
9 2 (1.04%) C++
9 2 (1.04%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.52%) VBA
Qualifications
1 55 (28.50%) Security Cleared
2 52 (26.94%) SC Cleared
3 16 (8.29%) Azure Certification
4 6 (3.11%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.07%) Degree
6 3 (1.55%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.55%) MCP
6 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.04%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (32.64%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.70%) GDPR
3 7 (3.63%) QA
4 5 (2.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.04%) Accessibility
System Software
1 17 (8.81%) Docker
2 4 (2.07%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 22 (11.40%) Terraform
2 17 (8.81%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.52%) Argo
Vendors
1 118 (61.14%) Databricks
2 37 (19.17%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.63%) Salesforce
4 6 (3.11%) Foundry
4 6 (3.11%) Palantir
5 5 (2.59%) Oracle
6 4 (2.07%) Cloudera
6 4 (2.07%) Guidewire
6 4 (2.07%) SAP
7 2 (1.04%) Informatica
7 2 (1.04%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.52%) Confluent
8 1 (0.52%) Google
8 1 (0.52%) IBM
8 1 (0.52%) RedGate
8 1 (0.52%) StreamSets