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 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 188 272
Rank change year-on-year -1 +84 +124
Contract jobs citing PySpark 221 178 126
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.38% 1.36% 0.69%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.45% 5.21% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 140 108
10th Percentile £363 £481 £438
25th Percentile £415 £550 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £775 £550
Median % change year-on-year -32.26% +40.91% -11.29%
75th Percentile £588 £875 £660
90th Percentile £675 £876 £806
England median daily rate £525 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -16.00% +13.64% -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% -47.17%

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 4,053 3,414 4,474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.27% 26.15% 24.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,763 2,338 3,363
10th Percentile £363 £385 £381
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £670 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 18 31
10th Percentile £27.00 £34.48 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.00 £38.31 £27.69
Median hourly rate £47.00 £44.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.03% +5.29% -35.40%
75th Percentile £63.00 £64.13 £65.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.83 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year +1.56% +31.36% -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 9 March 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 9 March 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 +3 27 £513 -14.23% 8
West London -10 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 61 (27.60%) Apache Spark
2 16 (7.24%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (6.33%) Apache
4 7 (3.17%) SAS
5 6 (2.71%) Palantir Foundry
6 5 (2.26%) Confluence
7 2 (0.90%) Jupyter
8 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
1 141 (63.80%) Azure
2 73 (33.03%) Azure Data Factory
3 66 (29.86%) AWS
4 55 (24.89%) Power Platform
5 51 (23.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 46 (20.81%) Azure DevOps
7 34 (15.38%) GitHub
8 25 (11.31%) Serverless
9 24 (10.86%) Amazon S3
10 19 (8.60%) GitHub Actions
11 15 (6.79%) AWS Lambda
12 14 (6.33%) GCP
13 12 (5.43%) dbt
13 12 (5.43%) Microsoft Purview
14 11 (4.98%) Azure Monitor
15 10 (4.52%) Amazon EMR
15 10 (4.52%) Snowflake
16 9 (4.07%) AWS CloudFormation
17 8 (3.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 8 (3.62%) AWS Step Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (26.70%) Data Lake
2 53 (23.98%) Data Warehouse
3 52 (23.53%) Power BI
4 48 (21.72%) Delta Lake
5 41 (18.55%) Azure SQL Database
6 28 (12.67%) NoSQL
7 25 (11.31%) Spark SQL
8 24 (10.86%) Metadata
9 23 (10.41%) Amazon Redshift
10 21 (9.50%) Big Data
11 18 (8.14%) Amazon Athena
12 15 (6.79%) Relational Database
13 14 (6.33%) Tableau
14 9 (4.07%) Snowflake Schema
15 8 (3.62%) SQL Server
16 7 (3.17%) Hadoop
17 6 (2.71%) PostgreSQL
18 5 (2.26%) Base SAS
18 5 (2.26%) Parquet
18 5 (2.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 68 (30.77%) Git
2 15 (6.79%) GitLab
3 10 (4.52%) MLflow
4 8 (3.62%) Jenkins
5 6 (2.71%) JIRA
6 2 (0.90%) ERwin
6 2 (0.90%) 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 66 (29.86%) Finance
2 42 (19.00%) Social Skills
3 17 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 12 (5.43%) Banking
6 10 (4.52%) Retail
7 4 (1.81%) Front Office
7 4 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (1.81%) Marketing
8 3 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.36%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.36%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.90%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (0.90%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.45%) Electronics
10 1 (0.45%) Law
10 1 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 118 (53.39%) Data Engineer
2 41 (18.55%) Azure Engineer
3 36 (16.29%) Azure Data Engineer
4 34 (15.38%) Senior
5 26 (11.76%) Senior Data Engineer
6 24 (10.86%) Developer
7 23 (10.41%) Lead
8 16 (7.24%) Architect
9 12 (5.43%) Python Engineer
10 11 (4.98%) Data Analytics Engineer
11 10 (4.52%) Principal Engineer
12 9 (4.07%) AWS Engineer
12 9 (4.07%) Software Engineer
13 8 (3.62%) Data Architect
13 8 (3.62%) Python Data Engineer
14 7 (3.17%) Lead Data Engineer
14 7 (3.17%) Principal Software Engineer
15 6 (2.71%) Data Scientist
15 6 (2.71%) Platform Engineer
16 5 (2.26%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (10.86%) Kafka
2 16 (7.24%) Pandas
3 10 (4.52%) Spark Streaming
4 9 (4.07%) PyTorch
4 9 (4.07%) YAML
5 8 (3.62%) scikit-learn
6 6 (2.71%) REST
7 5 (2.26%) HTML
7 5 (2.26%) NumPy
7 5 (2.26%) TensorFlow
8 4 (1.81%) .NET
8 4 (1.81%) LangChain
9 3 (1.36%) ARM Templates
9 3 (1.36%) CSS
9 3 (1.36%) LangGraph
9 3 (1.36%) Matplotlib
9 3 (1.36%) Model Context Protocol
9 3 (1.36%) Node.js
9 3 (1.36%) pytest
9 3 (1.36%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 23 (10.41%) Cloud Native
2 16 (7.24%) Distributed Computing
3 5 (2.26%) Data Structures
4 4 (1.81%) AI Agents
4 4 (1.81%) Algorithms
4 4 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.36%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.36%) Public Cloud
6 2 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (0.90%) Autonomous Agent
6 2 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.45%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.45%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.45%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.45%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.45%) Multi-touch
7 1 (0.45%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.36%) Linux
2 2 (0.90%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (58.37%) Data Engineering
2 117 (52.94%) Data Pipeline
3 96 (43.44%) Analytics
3 96 (43.44%) Data Modelling
4 93 (42.08%) ETL
5 92 (41.63%) CI/CD
6 83 (37.56%) Agile
7 80 (36.20%) DevOps
8 79 (35.75%) Data Governance
9 57 (25.79%) Business Intelligence
10 51 (23.08%) Data Science
11 47 (21.27%) Data Architecture
12 44 (19.91%) Infrastructure as Code
13 40 (18.10%) AI
14 34 (15.38%) Machine Learning
15 31 (14.03%) Data Integration
16 29 (13.12%) Problem-Solving
17 28 (12.67%) Data Transformation
18 27 (12.22%) Integration Patterns
19 25 (11.31%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 179 (81.00%) Python
2 158 (71.49%) SQL
3 56 (25.34%) Scala
4 15 (6.79%) Java
5 11 (4.98%) Bicep
6 9 (4.07%) JavaScript
7 7 (3.17%) R
8 5 (2.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (2.26%) SAS Macro
9 4 (1.81%) C#
9 4 (1.81%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.36%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.90%) Ada
11 2 (0.90%) C++
12 1 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.45%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 66 (29.86%) Security Cleared
2 60 (27.15%) SC Cleared
3 17 (7.69%) Azure Certification
4 10 (4.52%) Degree
5 5 (2.26%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.36%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.45%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (37.56%) Data Quality
2 14 (6.33%) GDPR
3 7 (3.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 6 (2.71%) QA
5 2 (0.90%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 22 (9.95%) Docker
2 4 (1.81%) HDFS
3 2 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 53 (23.98%) Terraform
2 20 (9.05%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.45%) Grafana
Vendors
1 126 (57.01%) Databricks
2 38 (17.19%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.62%) Foundry
4 7 (3.17%) Salesforce
5 6 (2.71%) Palantir
6 4 (1.81%) Guidewire
7 3 (1.36%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.36%) Oracle
7 3 (1.36%) SAP
8 2 (0.90%) Google
8 2 (0.90%) Informatica
9 1 (0.45%) Apple
9 1 (0.45%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.45%) Confluent
9 1 (0.45%) IBM
9 1 (0.45%) New Relic
9 1 (0.45%) RedGate
9 1 (0.45%) StreamSets