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

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 200 190 288
Rank change year-on-year -10 +98 +98
Contract jobs citing PySpark 187 197 117
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.31% 1.31% 0.62%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.97% 5.10% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 154 99
10th Percentile £379 £463 £459
25th Percentile £419 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £650 £560
Median % change year-on-year -21.15% +16.07% -2.10%
75th Percentile £589 £838 £700
90th Percentile £640 £888 £788
England median daily rate £513 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -14.58% +9.09% -
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 3,762 3,862 4,837
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.28% 25.74% 25.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,547 2,520 3,652
10th Percentile £361 £380 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £590
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -2.46% -1.75%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -5.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 19 30
10th Percentile £33.43 £34.65 £31.77
25th Percentile £43.77 £38.38 £36.40
Median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -2.33% -17.31%
75th Percentile £63.56 £63.75 £71.50
90th Percentile £71.00 £72.80 £78.75
England median hourly rate £58.00 £63.75 £51.89
% change year-on-year -9.02% +22.86% -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 21 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 21 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 +5 19 £513 -16.53% 9
West London -11 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 49 (26.20%) Apache Spark
2 15 (8.02%) Apache
3 14 (7.49%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.14%) Confluence
5 2 (1.07%) Jupyter
5 2 (1.07%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 126 (67.38%) Azure
2 68 (36.36%) Azure Data Factory
3 46 (24.60%) AWS
4 44 (23.53%) Power Platform
5 43 (22.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 29 (15.51%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (8.02%) GCP
7 15 (8.02%) GitHub
8 13 (6.95%) Microsoft Purview
8 13 (6.95%) Serverless
9 10 (5.35%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (5.35%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (4.28%) Amazon S3
10 8 (4.28%) Snowflake
11 7 (3.74%) dbt
12 6 (3.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (3.21%) AWS Step Functions
13 5 (2.67%) Amazon EMR
13 5 (2.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 4 (2.14%) Azure Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (25.67%) Data Warehouse
2 37 (19.79%) Data Lake
3 36 (19.25%) Power BI
4 32 (17.11%) Delta Lake
5 29 (15.51%) Azure SQL Database
6 26 (13.90%) Metadata
7 21 (11.23%) NoSQL
8 20 (10.70%) Big Data
9 18 (9.63%) Spark SQL
10 11 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
10 11 (5.88%) Hadoop
10 11 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
11 10 (5.35%) Relational Database
11 10 (5.35%) Tableau
12 7 (3.74%) Amazon Athena
12 7 (3.74%) SQL Server
13 5 (2.67%) Star Schema
14 4 (2.14%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (2.14%) Snowflake Schema
14 4 (2.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 43 (22.99%) Git
2 7 (3.74%) GitLab
2 7 (3.74%) Jenkins
2 7 (3.74%) MLflow
3 5 (2.67%) JIRA
4 2 (1.07%) ERwin
4 2 (1.07%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.53%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.53%) Gradle
5 1 (0.53%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.53%) SpecFlow
General
1 45 (24.06%) Finance
2 41 (21.93%) Social Skills
3 15 (8.02%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (6.95%) Retail
5 12 (6.42%) Public Sector
6 9 (4.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (3.74%) Banking
8 4 (2.14%) Front Office
8 4 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.14%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.60%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (1.60%) Marketing
9 3 (1.60%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.07%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.53%) Electronics
11 1 (0.53%) Law
11 1 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.53%) Publishing
11 1 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 98 (52.41%) Data Engineer
2 39 (20.86%) Azure Engineer
3 34 (18.18%) Azure Data Engineer
4 20 (10.70%) Senior
5 19 (10.16%) Architect
6 18 (9.63%) Developer
7 17 (9.09%) Lead
8 14 (7.49%) Data Architect
8 14 (7.49%) Senior Data Engineer
9 10 (5.35%) Python Engineer
10 8 (4.28%) AWS Engineer
11 6 (3.21%) Data Analytics Engineer
11 6 (3.21%) Data Scientist
11 6 (3.21%) Python Data Engineer
12 5 (2.67%) Lead Data Engineer
12 5 (2.67%) Principal Engineer
12 5 (2.67%) Principal Software Engineer
12 5 (2.67%) Software Engineer
13 4 (2.14%) GCP Software Engineer
13 4 (2.14%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (10.70%) Kafka
2 12 (6.42%) Pandas
3 9 (4.81%) YAML
4 8 (4.28%) PyTorch
5 6 (3.21%) Apache NiFi
5 6 (3.21%) scikit-learn
6 5 (2.67%) NumPy
6 5 (2.67%) TensorFlow
7 4 (2.14%) LangChain
7 4 (2.14%) Spark Streaming
8 3 (1.60%) .NET
8 3 (1.60%) ARM Templates
8 3 (1.60%) HTML
8 3 (1.60%) Matplotlib
8 3 (1.60%) RESTful
8 3 (1.60%) XGBoost
9 2 (1.07%) JSON
9 2 (1.07%) Node.js
9 2 (1.07%) REST
9 2 (1.07%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.81%) Cloud Native
1 9 (4.81%) Distributed Computing
2 8 (4.28%) Low-Code
3 7 (3.74%) Data Structures
4 5 (2.67%) AI Agents
4 5 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.60%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.07%) Autonomous Agent
7 2 (1.07%) Educational Technology
7 2 (1.07%) IoT
7 2 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.53%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.53%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.53%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.53%) Multi-touch
8 1 (0.53%) Replication
8 1 (0.53%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.60%) Linux
2 2 (1.07%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (52.94%) Data Engineering
2 95 (50.80%) Data Pipeline
3 81 (43.32%) Data Modelling
4 71 (37.97%) ETL
5 70 (37.43%) Data Governance
6 65 (34.76%) Analytics
7 63 (33.69%) Agile
8 56 (29.95%) CI/CD
9 49 (26.20%) Data Architecture
10 48 (25.67%) Business Intelligence
10 48 (25.67%) DevOps
11 33 (17.65%) Data Science
11 33 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
12 31 (16.58%) Data Integration
13 29 (15.51%) Data Transformation
13 29 (15.51%) Machine Learning
14 24 (12.83%) Integration Patterns
15 22 (11.76%) Migration
15 22 (11.76%) Visualisation
16 21 (11.23%) AI
Programming Languages
1 132 (70.59%) Python
2 129 (68.98%) SQL
3 41 (21.93%) Scala
4 16 (8.56%) Java
5 8 (4.28%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.21%) Bicep
6 6 (3.21%) R
7 4 (2.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (1.60%) C#
8 3 (1.60%) C++
8 3 (1.60%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.60%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.07%) Ada
9 2 (1.07%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.53%) VBA
Qualifications
1 53 (28.34%) Security Cleared
2 50 (26.74%) SC Cleared
3 15 (8.02%) Azure Certification
4 6 (3.21%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.67%) Degree
6 4 (2.14%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.14%) MCP
7 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.07%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.53%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (31.55%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.81%) GDPR
3 7 (3.74%) QA
4 3 (1.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.07%) Accessibility
System Software
1 15 (8.02%) Docker
2 4 (2.14%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 21 (11.23%) Terraform
2 15 (8.02%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.53%) Argo
Vendors
1 115 (61.50%) Databricks
2 33 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.74%) Salesforce
4 6 (3.21%) Foundry
4 6 (3.21%) Palantir
5 5 (2.67%) Oracle
6 4 (2.14%) Cloudera
6 4 (2.14%) Guidewire
7 3 (1.60%) SAP
8 2 (1.07%) Informatica
8 2 (1.07%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.53%) Confluent
9 1 (0.53%) Google
9 1 (0.53%) IBM
9 1 (0.53%) RedGate
9 1 (0.53%) StreamSets