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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 204 250
Rank change year-on-year +8 +46 +68
Contract jobs citing PySpark 241 150 150
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.30% 1.23% 0.86%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.65% 4.68% 3.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 115 123
10th Percentile £363 £435 £428
25th Percentile £425 £515 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £750 £550
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +36.36% -10.57%
75th Percentile £600 £838 £650
90th Percentile £700 £875 £795
England median daily rate £513 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -14.58% +9.09% -8.33%

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 4,263 3,203 4,553
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.08% 26.33% 26.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,832 2,243 3,395
10th Percentile £375 £385 £375
25th Percentile £440 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £557 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% -3.13% -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £719 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £838
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 17 27
10th Percentile £24.30 £31.58 £16.25
25th Percentile £29.52 £33.25 £23.99
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -17.65% -36.57%
75th Percentile £64.50 £53.75 £63.77
90th Percentile £95.00 £68.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.43
% change year-on-year +4.00% +29.05% -25.49%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 -6 34 £509 -20.57% 5
West London -23 5 £625 -19.35%
East London - 1 £449 - 2
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 60 (24.90%) Apache Spark
2 30 (12.45%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (11.20%) Apache
4 9 (3.73%) Palantir Foundry
5 7 (2.90%) SAS
6 4 (1.66%) Confluence
7 1 (0.41%) Camunda
Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 141 (58.51%) Azure
2 82 (34.02%) AWS
3 64 (26.56%) Power Platform
4 60 (24.90%) Azure Data Factory
4 60 (24.90%) Azure DevOps
5 53 (21.99%) GitHub
6 45 (18.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 39 (16.18%) Serverless
8 35 (14.52%) Amazon S3
9 32 (13.28%) GitHub Actions
10 28 (11.62%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (5.81%) dbt
11 14 (5.81%) GCP
12 13 (5.39%) Amazon EMR
12 13 (5.39%) Microsoft Purview
13 12 (4.98%) AWS CloudFormation
13 12 (4.98%) Snowflake
14 10 (4.15%) Azure Monitor
15 8 (3.32%) AWS Step Functions
15 8 (3.32%) Azure Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (26.14%) Power BI
2 60 (24.90%) Data Lake
3 53 (21.99%) Delta Lake
4 34 (14.11%) Spark SQL
5 33 (13.69%) Data Warehouse
6 28 (11.62%) Metadata
7 27 (11.20%) Amazon Athena
8 25 (10.37%) Azure SQL Database
9 24 (9.96%) Amazon Redshift
10 22 (9.13%) Big Data
11 15 (6.22%) NoSQL
12 12 (4.98%) SQL Server
13 11 (4.56%) Tableau
14 10 (4.15%) Parquet
14 10 (4.15%) Snowflake Schema
15 9 (3.73%) Relational Database
16 6 (2.49%) Base SAS
16 6 (2.49%) Neo4j
17 5 (2.07%) PostgreSQL
17 5 (2.07%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 58 (24.07%) Git
2 20 (8.30%) GitLab
3 11 (4.56%) JIRA
3 11 (4.56%) MLflow
4 6 (2.49%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.41%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.41%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.41%) ERwin
5 1 (0.41%) Postman
5 1 (0.41%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 83 (34.44%) Finance
2 44 (18.26%) Social Skills
3 25 (10.37%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (6.22%) Banking
4 15 (6.22%) Public Sector
5 7 (2.90%) Retail
6 5 (2.07%) Marketing
7 3 (1.24%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.24%) Investment Banking
7 3 (1.24%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.83%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (0.83%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.41%) Front Office
9 1 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.41%) Law
9 1 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.41%) Publishing
9 1 (0.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 140 (58.09%) Data Engineer
2 47 (19.50%) Senior
3 29 (12.03%) Senior Data Engineer
4 25 (10.37%) Azure Engineer
5 23 (9.54%) Azure Data Engineer
6 21 (8.71%) Lead
7 19 (7.88%) Developer
8 15 (6.22%) Architect
9 14 (5.81%) Python Engineer
10 11 (4.56%) Platform Engineer
11 10 (4.15%) AWS Engineer
11 10 (4.15%) Data Scientist
12 9 (3.73%) Data Architect
13 8 (3.32%) Data Analytics Engineer
13 8 (3.32%) Principal Engineer
13 8 (3.32%) Python Data Engineer
14 7 (2.90%) Lead Data Engineer
14 7 (2.90%) Senior Developer
14 7 (2.90%) Software Engineer
15 6 (2.49%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (11.62%) Kafka
2 23 (9.54%) Pandas
3 13 (5.39%) REST
4 12 (4.98%) Spark Streaming
5 11 (4.56%) PyTorch
5 11 (4.56%) React
6 10 (4.15%) scikit-learn
7 9 (3.73%) Great Expectations
8 7 (2.90%) JSON
9 6 (2.49%) NumPy
9 6 (2.49%) pytest
10 5 (2.07%) .NET
10 5 (2.07%) .NET Core
10 5 (2.07%) HTML
10 5 (2.07%) Node.js
10 5 (2.07%) RESTful
10 5 (2.07%) Spring
10 5 (2.07%) Spring Boot
11 4 (1.66%) Redux
11 4 (1.66%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 41 (17.01%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.64%) Distributed Computing
3 9 (3.73%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.90%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (2.90%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.07%) AI Agents
5 5 (2.07%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.66%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.66%) Reference Data
7 3 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.24%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.24%) Marketing Technology
7 3 (1.24%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.24%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.83%) Equities
8 2 (0.83%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.83%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.83%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.90%) Unix
2 6 (2.49%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (53.11%) Data Pipeline
2 122 (50.62%) Data Engineering
3 116 (48.13%) CI/CD
4 101 (41.91%) Analytics
5 99 (41.08%) ETL
6 97 (40.25%) Data Modelling
7 87 (36.10%) DevOps
8 83 (34.44%) Agile
9 68 (28.22%) Data Governance
10 63 (26.14%) AI
11 62 (25.73%) Business Intelligence
12 52 (21.58%) Infrastructure as Code
13 51 (21.16%) Data Science
14 40 (16.60%) Machine Learning
15 38 (15.77%) Data Architecture
16 32 (13.28%) Migration
17 28 (11.62%) Performance Optimisation
17 28 (11.62%) Problem-Solving
18 27 (11.20%) Performance Tuning
19 25 (10.37%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 208 (86.31%) Python
2 163 (67.63%) SQL
3 39 (16.18%) Scala
4 25 (10.37%) Java
5 10 (4.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 9 (3.73%) TypeScript
7 8 (3.32%) C#
8 7 (2.90%) Bicep
9 6 (2.49%) SAS Macro
9 6 (2.49%) Shell Script
9 6 (2.49%) T-SQL
10 5 (2.07%) JavaScript
11 4 (1.66%) R
12 2 (0.83%) Ada
12 2 (0.83%) C++
12 2 (0.83%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.83%) SPARQL
13 1 (0.41%) Bash
13 1 (0.41%) Korn
13 1 (0.41%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 71 (29.46%) Security Cleared
2 64 (26.56%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.22%) Degree
4 13 (5.39%) Azure Certification
5 8 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (2.07%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.24%) PhD
9 2 (0.83%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.41%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (34.85%) Data Quality
2 16 (6.64%) GDPR
3 6 (2.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (1.24%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.24%) QA
5 2 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.41%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.41%) MiFID
6 1 (0.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (11.20%) Docker
2 2 (0.83%) HDFS
2 2 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 63 (26.14%) Terraform
2 25 (10.37%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.07%) Grafana
Vendors
1 114 (47.30%) Databricks
2 52 (21.58%) Microsoft
3 11 (4.56%) Foundry
4 9 (3.73%) Palantir
5 7 (2.90%) OpenAI
6 6 (2.49%) Google
7 4 (1.66%) Cloudera
7 4 (1.66%) Hortonworks
7 4 (1.66%) Oracle
7 4 (1.66%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.24%) Apple
9 2 (0.83%) Informatica
10 1 (0.41%) New Relic
10 1 (0.41%) SAP
10 1 (0.41%) SimCorp