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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 171 268
Rank change year-on-year -24 +97 +89
Contract jobs citing PySpark 235 185 124
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.39% 1.47% 0.69%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.63% 5.62% 2.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 143 107
10th Percentile £363 £461 £433
25th Percentile £450 £550 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £775 £550
Median % change year-on-year -33.39% +40.91% -10.57%
75th Percentile £588 £875 £694
90th Percentile £675 £885 £843
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 £43.25 £21.00
% change year-on-year -19.08% +105.95% -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 4,171 3,291 4,448
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.69% 26.07% 24.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,828 2,299 3,344
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £660 £713 £691
90th Percentile £775 £834 £800
England median daily rate £525 £534 £545
% change year-on-year -1.59% -2.11% -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 18 26
10th Percentile £26.63 £34.48 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.00 £38.69 £25.88
Median hourly rate £44.75 £54.00 £44.85
Median % change year-on-year -17.13% +20.41% -31.42%
75th Percentile £60.12 £65.00 £65.69
90th Percentile £82.50 £76.25 £76.88
England median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +0.78% +35.79% -26.92%

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 1 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 1 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 -2 30 £513 -23.51% 17
West London -14 8 £625 -19.35% 1
East London - 1 £449 -
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 (28.51%) Apache Spark
2 22 (9.36%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (8.09%) Apache
4 9 (3.83%) SAS
5 7 (2.98%) Palantir Foundry
6 5 (2.13%) Confluence
7 1 (0.43%) Camunda
7 1 (0.43%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 149 (63.40%) Azure
2 75 (31.91%) AWS
3 73 (31.06%) Azure Data Factory
4 61 (25.96%) Power Platform
5 56 (23.83%) Azure DevOps
6 49 (20.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 44 (18.72%) GitHub
8 33 (14.04%) Serverless
9 28 (11.91%) Amazon S3
10 24 (10.21%) GitHub Actions
11 22 (9.36%) AWS Lambda
12 19 (8.09%) GCP
13 14 (5.96%) Microsoft Purview
14 12 (5.11%) dbt
14 12 (5.11%) Snowflake
15 11 (4.68%) Amazon EMR
15 11 (4.68%) AWS CloudFormation
15 11 (4.68%) AWS Step Functions
16 10 (4.26%) Azure Monitor
17 9 (3.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (26.81%) Data Lake
2 58 (24.68%) Power BI
3 53 (22.55%) Delta Lake
4 51 (21.70%) Data Warehouse
5 38 (16.17%) Azure SQL Database
6 32 (13.62%) Spark SQL
7 29 (12.34%) Metadata
8 27 (11.49%) NoSQL
9 25 (10.64%) Amazon Redshift
10 22 (9.36%) Amazon Athena
11 21 (8.94%) Big Data
12 11 (4.68%) Relational Database
12 11 (4.68%) Tableau
13 10 (4.26%) Snowflake Schema
14 8 (3.40%) SQL Server
15 7 (2.98%) Parquet
16 6 (2.55%) Base SAS
17 5 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
17 5 (2.13%) SAS Data Integration Studio
17 5 (2.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 70 (29.79%) Git
2 18 (7.66%) GitLab
3 12 (5.11%) MLflow
4 11 (4.68%) JIRA
5 10 (4.26%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.43%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.43%) ERwin
6 1 (0.43%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.43%) Visual Studio
General
1 69 (29.36%) Finance
2 44 (18.72%) Social Skills
3 20 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (6.38%) Public Sector
5 13 (5.53%) Banking
6 8 (3.40%) Retail
7 4 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (1.70%) Marketing
8 3 (1.28%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.28%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.85%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (0.85%) Front Office
9 2 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.85%) Retail Banking
9 2 (0.85%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.43%) Electronics
10 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.43%) Law
10 1 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 134 (57.02%) Data Engineer
2 42 (17.87%) Senior
3 40 (17.02%) Azure Engineer
4 35 (14.89%) Azure Data Engineer
5 28 (11.91%) Senior Data Engineer
6 24 (10.21%) Developer
7 19 (8.09%) Lead
8 14 (5.96%) Python Engineer
9 13 (5.53%) Architect
10 11 (4.68%) AWS Engineer
10 11 (4.68%) Data Analytics Engineer
10 11 (4.68%) Principal Engineer
11 10 (4.26%) Software Engineer
12 9 (3.83%) Data Architect
12 9 (3.83%) Python Data Engineer
13 7 (2.98%) Lead Data Engineer
13 7 (2.98%) Platform Engineer
13 7 (2.98%) Principal Software Engineer
14 5 (2.13%) Data Scientist
14 5 (2.13%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (12.34%) Kafka
2 15 (6.38%) Pandas
3 11 (4.68%) Spark Streaming
4 8 (3.40%) PyTorch
4 8 (3.40%) YAML
5 6 (2.55%) pytest
5 6 (2.55%) React
5 6 (2.55%) REST
5 6 (2.55%) scikit-learn
6 5 (2.13%) HTML
6 5 (2.13%) JSON
6 5 (2.13%) Node.js
6 5 (2.13%) TensorFlow
7 4 (1.70%) Great Expectations
7 4 (1.70%) LangChain
7 4 (1.70%) NumPy
8 3 (1.28%) FastAPI
8 3 (1.28%) LangGraph
8 3 (1.28%) Matplotlib
8 3 (1.28%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 30 (12.77%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.81%) Distributed Computing
3 7 (2.98%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.13%) AI Agents
4 5 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (2.13%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.70%) Data Structures
5 4 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.28%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.28%) Marketing Technology
6 3 (1.28%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.85%) Autonomous Agent
7 2 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.43%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.43%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.43%) Freedom of Information Act
8 1 (0.43%) Life Science
8 1 (0.43%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.43%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.98%) Unix
2 6 (2.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (58.30%) Data Engineering
2 135 (57.45%) Data Pipeline
3 107 (45.53%) CI/CD
4 105 (44.68%) Data Modelling
5 100 (42.55%) Analytics
6 96 (40.85%) ETL
7 90 (38.30%) DevOps
8 88 (37.45%) Agile
9 79 (33.62%) Data Governance
10 58 (24.68%) Business Intelligence
11 53 (22.55%) Data Architecture
12 49 (20.85%) Data Science
13 46 (19.57%) Infrastructure as Code
14 43 (18.30%) AI
15 35 (14.89%) Machine Learning
16 33 (14.04%) Data Integration
16 33 (14.04%) Data Transformation
17 30 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
18 29 (12.34%) Integration Patterns
19 28 (11.91%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 195 (82.98%) Python
2 168 (71.49%) SQL
3 56 (23.83%) Scala
4 21 (8.94%) Java
5 9 (3.83%) Bicep
6 8 (3.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 8 (3.40%) R
7 6 (2.55%) SAS Macro
7 6 (2.55%) T-SQL
8 5 (2.13%) JavaScript
9 4 (1.70%) C#
9 4 (1.70%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.70%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.85%) Ada
10 2 (0.85%) C++
10 2 (0.85%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.43%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 75 (31.91%) Security Cleared
2 69 (29.36%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.96%) Azure Certification
4 10 (4.26%) Degree
5 6 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.28%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.28%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.43%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (40.00%) Data Quality
2 16 (6.81%) GDPR
3 7 (2.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (1.28%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.28%) QA
5 2 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (9.36%) Docker
2 2 (0.85%) HDFS
2 2 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 57 (24.26%) Terraform
2 17 (7.23%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.70%) Grafana
Vendors
1 130 (55.32%) Databricks
2 42 (17.87%) Microsoft
3 9 (3.83%) Foundry
4 7 (2.98%) Palantir
5 6 (2.55%) Google
6 4 (1.70%) Cloudera
6 4 (1.70%) Oracle
7 3 (1.28%) Apple
7 3 (1.28%) Hortonworks
7 3 (1.28%) Informatica
7 3 (1.28%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.28%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.28%) SAP
8 1 (0.43%) Confluent
8 1 (0.43%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.43%) IBM
8 1 (0.43%) New Relic
8 1 (0.43%) StreamSets