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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 176 270
Rank change year-on-year -5 +94 +105
Contract jobs citing PySpark 235 182 125
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.43% 1.41% 0.69%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.71% 5.44% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 142 107
10th Percentile £363 £482 £438
25th Percentile £420 £550 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £775 £550
Median % change year-on-year -32.90% +40.91% -10.20%
75th Percentile £588 £875 £653
90th Percentile £690 £886 £813
England median daily rate £525 £640 £550
% change year-on-year -17.97% +16.36% -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 4,119 3,343 4,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.14% 25.96% 24.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,793 2,310 3,339
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% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £525 £538 £540
% change year-on-year -2.33% -0.46% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 17 28
10th Percentile £28.60 £34.30 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.13 £38.50 £26.41
Median hourly rate £47.00 £45.00 £42.35
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% +6.27% -34.85%
75th Percentile £61.36 £65.00 £63.56
90th Percentile £69.75 £80.10 £76.13
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year - +33.42% -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 17 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 17 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 +4 29 £513 -18.00% 17
West London -12 8 £625 -19.35% 2
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 65 (27.66%) Apache Spark
2 22 (9.36%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (7.23%) Apache
4 8 (3.40%) SAS
5 7 (2.98%) Palantir Foundry
6 5 (2.13%) Confluence
7 2 (0.85%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.43%) Camunda
Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 151 (64.26%) Azure
2 79 (33.62%) Azure Data Factory
3 71 (30.21%) AWS
4 56 (23.83%) Power Platform
5 53 (22.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 52 (22.13%) Azure DevOps
7 40 (17.02%) GitHub
8 29 (12.34%) Serverless
9 25 (10.64%) Amazon S3
10 24 (10.21%) GitHub Actions
11 18 (7.66%) AWS Lambda
12 16 (6.81%) GCP
13 13 (5.53%) dbt
14 12 (5.11%) Microsoft Purview
15 11 (4.68%) Azure Monitor
15 11 (4.68%) Snowflake
16 10 (4.26%) Amazon EMR
17 9 (3.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 9 (3.83%) AWS CloudFormation
17 9 (3.83%) AWS Step Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (27.23%) Data Lake
2 53 (22.55%) Data Warehouse
2 53 (22.55%) Delta Lake
2 53 (22.55%) Power BI
3 41 (17.45%) Azure SQL Database
4 28 (11.91%) Metadata
4 28 (11.91%) Spark SQL
5 27 (11.49%) NoSQL
6 25 (10.64%) Amazon Redshift
7 21 (8.94%) Big Data
8 19 (8.09%) Amazon Athena
9 15 (6.38%) Relational Database
10 12 (5.11%) Tableau
11 10 (4.26%) Snowflake Schema
12 8 (3.40%) SQL Server
13 7 (2.98%) Parquet
14 6 (2.55%) PostgreSQL
15 5 (2.13%) Base SAS
15 5 (2.13%) Hadoop
15 5 (2.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 67 (28.51%) Git
2 17 (7.23%) GitLab
3 10 (4.26%) Jenkins
3 10 (4.26%) MLflow
4 7 (2.98%) JIRA
5 2 (0.85%) ERwin
5 2 (0.85%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.43%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.43%) Gradle
6 1 (0.43%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 68 (28.94%) Finance
2 45 (19.15%) Social Skills
3 21 (8.94%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (5.96%) Public Sector
5 12 (5.11%) Banking
6 10 (4.26%) Retail
7 6 (2.55%) Marketing
8 4 (1.70%) Front Office
8 4 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.28%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.28%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.85%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (0.85%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.85%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.43%) Electronics
11 1 (0.43%) Law
11 1 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 129 (54.89%) Data Engineer
2 41 (17.45%) Azure Engineer
2 41 (17.45%) Senior
3 36 (15.32%) Azure Data Engineer
4 28 (11.91%) Senior Data Engineer
5 23 (9.79%) Developer
5 23 (9.79%) Lead
6 14 (5.96%) Architect
6 14 (5.96%) Python Engineer
7 11 (4.68%) Data Analytics Engineer
8 10 (4.26%) Principal Engineer
8 10 (4.26%) Software Engineer
9 9 (3.83%) AWS Engineer
9 9 (3.83%) Python Data Engineer
10 8 (3.40%) Data Architect
11 7 (2.98%) Lead Data Engineer
11 7 (2.98%) Principal Software Engineer
12 6 (2.55%) Platform Engineer
13 5 (2.13%) Data Scientist
13 5 (2.13%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (11.49%) Kafka
2 14 (5.96%) Pandas
3 11 (4.68%) Spark Streaming
4 9 (3.83%) PyTorch
4 9 (3.83%) YAML
5 6 (2.55%) HTML
5 6 (2.55%) REST
5 6 (2.55%) scikit-learn
6 5 (2.13%) JSON
6 5 (2.13%) NumPy
6 5 (2.13%) pytest
6 5 (2.13%) TensorFlow
7 4 (1.70%) CSS
7 4 (1.70%) FastAPI
7 4 (1.70%) LangChain
7 4 (1.70%) Node.js
8 3 (1.28%) LangGraph
8 3 (1.28%) Model Context Protocol
8 3 (1.28%) React
8 3 (1.28%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 28 (11.91%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.81%) Distributed Computing
3 8 (3.40%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.55%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.13%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.70%) AI Agents
6 4 (1.70%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.70%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.28%) Marketing Technology
7 3 (1.28%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.85%) Autonomous Agent
8 2 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.43%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.43%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.43%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.43%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.43%) Multi-touch
9 1 (0.43%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.98%) Linux
1 7 (2.98%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (57.87%) Data Engineering
2 126 (53.62%) Data Pipeline
3 104 (44.26%) Data Modelling
4 100 (42.55%) Analytics
5 99 (42.13%) CI/CD
6 92 (39.15%) ETL
7 90 (38.30%) Agile
8 87 (37.02%) DevOps
9 78 (33.19%) Data Governance
10 58 (24.68%) Business Intelligence
11 53 (22.55%) Data Science
12 52 (22.13%) Data Architecture
13 44 (18.72%) Infrastructure as Code
14 41 (17.45%) AI
15 36 (15.32%) Machine Learning
16 33 (14.04%) Problem-Solving
17 31 (13.19%) Data Integration
17 31 (13.19%) Data Transformation
18 28 (11.91%) Integration Patterns
19 27 (11.49%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 195 (82.98%) Python
2 173 (73.62%) SQL
3 57 (24.26%) Scala
4 18 (7.66%) Java
5 9 (3.83%) Bicep
6 8 (3.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 7 (2.98%) JavaScript
7 7 (2.98%) R
8 5 (2.13%) SAS Macro
8 5 (2.13%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.70%) C#
9 4 (1.70%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.28%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.85%) Ada
11 2 (0.85%) C++
11 2 (0.85%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.43%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.43%) VBA
Qualifications
1 72 (30.64%) Security Cleared
2 66 (28.09%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.81%) Azure Certification
4 10 (4.26%) Degree
5 6 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.70%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.85%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.43%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (38.72%) Data Quality
2 14 (5.96%) GDPR
3 7 (2.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 6 (2.55%) QA
5 2 (0.85%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 21 (8.94%) Docker
2 3 (1.28%) HDFS
3 2 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 55 (23.40%) Terraform
2 19 (8.09%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.85%) Grafana
Vendors
1 134 (57.02%) Databricks
2 38 (16.17%) Microsoft
3 9 (3.83%) Foundry
4 7 (2.98%) Palantir
5 6 (2.55%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.13%) Google
7 4 (1.70%) Cloudera
7 4 (1.70%) Oracle
8 3 (1.28%) Apple
8 3 (1.28%) Guidewire
8 3 (1.28%) Hortonworks
8 3 (1.28%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.28%) SAP
9 2 (0.85%) Informatica
10 1 (0.43%) Confluent
10 1 (0.43%) IBM
10 1 (0.43%) New Relic
10 1 (0.43%) RedGate
10 1 (0.43%) StreamSets