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 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 232 196 304
Rank change year-on-year -36 +108 +63
Contract jobs citing PySpark 132 203 132
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.99% 1.27% 0.63%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.80% 4.73% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 156 100
10th Percentile £365 £436 £475
25th Percentile £413 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £581
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +3.23% -3.13%
75th Percentile £609 £825 £700
90th Percentile £720 £888 £788
England median daily rate £500 £575 £560
% change year-on-year -13.04% +2.68% -6.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
England median hourly rate - £21.75 -

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 3,475 4,296 5,453
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.14% 26.91% 26.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,355 2,843 4,119
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £713 £713
90th Percentile £800 £850 £810
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 23 40
10th Percentile £31.77 £24.12 £34.58
25th Percentile £34.17 £37.50 £39.02
Median hourly rate £51.97 £42.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.28% -29.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £61.56 £61.97 £72.41
90th Percentile £85.95 £74.20 £90.00
England median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £56.06
% change year-on-year -16.92% +15.95% -13.75%

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 19 October 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 19 October 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 +7 14 £519 +3.65% 22
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 22 (16.67%) Apache Spark
2 9 (6.82%) Apache
3 8 (6.06%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (3.03%) Confluence
5 3 (2.27%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 83 (62.88%) Azure
2 39 (29.55%) Azure Data Factory
3 36 (27.27%) AWS
4 35 (26.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 33 (25.00%) Power Platform
6 18 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (9.85%) Microsoft Purview
8 11 (8.33%) GitHub
9 9 (6.82%) GCP
10 5 (3.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 5 (3.79%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (3.79%) Serverless
11 4 (3.03%) Amazon EMR
11 4 (3.03%) Amazon S3
11 4 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (2.27%) AWS Step Functions
12 3 (2.27%) Azure Machine Learning
12 3 (2.27%) dbt
12 3 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (2.27%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.76%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (19.70%) Data Lake
1 26 (19.70%) Power BI
2 20 (15.15%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (14.39%) Delta Lake
3 19 (14.39%) Metadata
4 16 (12.12%) Big Data
5 15 (11.36%) Spark SQL
6 14 (10.61%) Hadoop
7 10 (7.58%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (6.06%) Apache Hive
9 7 (5.30%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (3.79%) SQL Server
10 5 (3.79%) Tableau
11 4 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (3.03%) Qlik Sense
11 4 (3.03%) Relational Database
12 3 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (2.27%) Star Schema
13 2 (1.52%) Geospatial Data
13 2 (1.52%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 16 (12.12%) Git
2 5 (3.79%) JIRA
3 1 (0.76%) ERwin
3 1 (0.76%) Gradle
3 1 (0.76%) RStudio
3 1 (0.76%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.76%) Visual Studio
General
1 37 (28.03%) Social Skills
2 30 (22.73%) Finance
3 17 (12.88%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (8.33%) Banking
4 11 (8.33%) Retail
5 10 (7.58%) Public Sector
6 8 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.03%) Corporate Banking
7 4 (3.03%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.03%) Retail Banking
8 3 (2.27%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.27%) Front Office
9 2 (1.52%) Marketing
9 2 (1.52%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.76%) Games
10 1 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.76%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 74 (56.06%) Data Engineer
2 20 (15.15%) Azure Data Engineer
2 20 (15.15%) Azure Engineer
3 19 (14.39%) Lead
4 15 (11.36%) Architect
5 11 (8.33%) Data Architect
6 9 (6.82%) Python Engineer
6 9 (6.82%) Senior
7 7 (5.30%) Lead Data Engineer
7 7 (5.30%) Senior Data Engineer
8 6 (4.55%) Data Scientist
9 5 (3.79%) Python Data Engineer
10 4 (3.03%) Azure Architect
10 4 (3.03%) Consultant
10 4 (3.03%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 4 (3.03%) Tester
11 3 (2.27%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 3 (2.27%) AWS Engineer
11 3 (2.27%) Developer
11 3 (2.27%) ETL Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.30%) Kafka
1 7 (5.30%) Pandas
2 6 (4.55%) Apache NiFi
3 5 (3.79%) TensorFlow
4 4 (3.03%) CSS
4 4 (3.03%) HTML
4 4 (3.03%) PyTorch
4 4 (3.03%) scikit-learn
5 3 (2.27%) .NET
5 3 (2.27%) ARM Templates
5 3 (2.27%) RESTful
5 3 (2.27%) YAML
6 2 (1.52%) GeoPandas
6 2 (1.52%) JSON
6 2 (1.52%) NumPy
6 2 (1.52%) PostGIS
6 2 (1.52%) Ray
7 1 (0.76%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.76%) LangChain
7 1 (0.76%) pydantic
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.85%) Distributed Computing
2 8 (6.06%) Low-Code
3 7 (5.30%) Algorithms
4 6 (4.55%) Cloud Native
4 6 (4.55%) Data Structures
5 5 (3.79%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (3.79%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.27%) Credit Risk
7 3 (2.27%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.27%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.52%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.52%) Educational Technology
8 2 (1.52%) IoT
8 2 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.76%) Autonomous Agent
9 1 (0.76%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.76%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.76%) Multi-touch
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.27%) Linux
2 1 (0.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (40.91%) Data Modelling
2 53 (40.15%) Data Pipeline
3 52 (39.39%) ETL
4 47 (35.61%) Data Engineering
5 43 (32.58%) Analytics
6 38 (28.79%) Data Governance
7 35 (26.52%) Business Intelligence
8 33 (25.00%) CI/CD
9 32 (24.24%) Agile
10 29 (21.97%) Data Science
10 29 (21.97%) DevOps
11 28 (21.21%) Machine Learning
12 24 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
13 22 (16.67%) AI
14 20 (15.15%) Data Ingestion
15 19 (14.39%) Visualisation
16 17 (12.88%) Data Architecture
17 16 (12.12%) Infrastructure as Code
18 15 (11.36%) Migration
19 14 (10.61%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 100 (75.76%) Python
2 89 (67.42%) SQL
3 13 (9.85%) Java
3 13 (9.85%) Scala
4 7 (5.30%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.27%) Bicep
5 3 (2.27%) C++
5 3 (2.27%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.52%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.52%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.76%) Bash
7 1 (0.76%) C
7 1 (0.76%) C#
7 1 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.76%) VBA
Qualifications
1 22 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 21 (15.91%) SC Cleared
3 12 (9.09%) Degree
4 9 (6.82%) Azure Certification
5 8 (6.06%) Master's Degree
6 6 (4.55%) DV Cleared
7 5 (3.79%) PhD
8 4 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.76%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.76%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (15.15%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.30%) QA
3 5 (3.79%) GDPR
4 1 (0.76%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (4.55%) Docker
2 2 (1.52%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 16 (12.12%) Terraform
2 10 (7.58%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.76%) Argo
Vendors
1 68 (51.52%) Databricks
2 27 (20.45%) Microsoft
3 14 (10.61%) Palantir
4 13 (9.85%) Foundry
5 6 (4.55%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.03%) Cloudera
6 4 (3.03%) Guidewire
6 4 (3.03%) Informatica
7 3 (2.27%) Oracle
8 2 (1.52%) Google
9 1 (0.76%) RedGate
9 1 (0.76%) SAP