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 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 243 199
Rank change year-on-year +44 -44 +111
Contract jobs citing PySpark 269 131 199
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.33% 0.97% 1.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.85% 3.74% 4.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 96 157
10th Percentile £386 £380 £425
25th Percentile £448 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £574 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.32% -4.38% -2.44%
75th Percentile £663 £783 £825
90th Percentile £748 £875 £888
England median daily rate £525 £525 £568
% change year-on-year - -7.49% -5.42%

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 4,597 3,504 4,432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.77% 25.92% 27.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,037 2,435 3,164
10th Percentile £392 £363 £377
25th Percentile £450 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £669 £695 £725
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £514 £550
% change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 27 24
10th Percentile £26.40 £32.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.63 £33.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.50 £52.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +40.00% -44.03%
75th Percentile £62.25 £63.13 £50.19
90th Percentile £81.25 £78.20 £72.01
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.75
% change year-on-year +18.18% -3.08% -7.35%

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 15 August 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 15 August 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 +1 38 £550 -21.15% 5
East London - 1 £449 - 2
West London - 1 £640 - 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 68 (25.28%) Apache Spark
2 45 (16.73%) Apache
3 44 (16.36%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (4.09%) Palantir Foundry
5 9 (3.35%) Confluence
5 9 (3.35%) SAS
6 1 (0.37%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 148 (55.02%) Azure
2 105 (39.03%) AWS
3 64 (23.79%) Power Platform
4 63 (23.42%) Azure DevOps
5 62 (23.05%) Azure Data Factory
6 42 (15.61%) Amazon S3
6 42 (15.61%) Serverless
7 41 (15.24%) GitHub
8 39 (14.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 36 (13.38%) AWS Lambda
10 27 (10.04%) GitHub Actions
11 25 (9.29%) Amazon EMR
11 25 (9.29%) dbt
12 24 (8.92%) GCP
13 19 (7.06%) Snowflake
14 12 (4.46%) Azure AI
15 11 (4.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 11 (4.09%) Microsoft Purview
16 8 (2.97%) AWS Step Functions
17 7 (2.60%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.37%) Firewall
1 1 (0.37%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (23.42%) Power BI
2 54 (20.07%) Delta Lake
3 43 (15.99%) Data Warehouse
4 42 (15.61%) Data Lake
5 33 (12.27%) Amazon Redshift
6 31 (11.52%) Metadata
7 29 (10.78%) Spark SQL
8 28 (10.41%) Amazon Athena
9 21 (7.81%) Big Data
10 11 (4.09%) BigQuery
11 10 (3.72%) SQL Server
12 9 (3.35%) NoSQL
13 8 (2.97%) Azure SQL Database
13 8 (2.97%) Parquet
13 8 (2.97%) Snowflake Schema
13 8 (2.97%) Star Schema
14 7 (2.60%) Relational Database
14 7 (2.60%) Tableau
15 6 (2.23%) Base SAS
15 6 (2.23%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 33 (12.27%) Git
2 27 (10.04%) GitLab
3 15 (5.58%) JIRA
4 13 (4.83%) MLflow
5 4 (1.49%) ER Studio
5 4 (1.49%) ERwin
6 3 (1.12%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.12%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.74%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.74%) Selenium
8 1 (0.37%) Postman
8 1 (0.37%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.37%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 113 (42.01%) Finance
2 67 (24.91%) Social Skills
3 34 (12.64%) Banking
4 33 (12.27%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (10.04%) Public Sector
6 9 (3.35%) Investment Banking
7 8 (2.97%) Financial Institution
7 8 (2.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.86%) Marketing
9 4 (1.49%) Retail
10 2 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.74%) Front Office
10 2 (0.74%) Local Government
10 2 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.37%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.37%) Law
11 1 (0.37%) Legal
11 1 (0.37%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.37%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 146 (54.28%) Data Engineer
2 67 (24.91%) Senior
3 38 (14.13%) Senior Data Engineer
4 30 (11.15%) Lead
5 26 (9.67%) Architect
6 22 (8.18%) Developer
7 17 (6.32%) Data Architect
8 15 (5.58%) Platform Engineer
9 14 (5.20%) Python Engineer
10 13 (4.83%) Data Scientist
10 13 (4.83%) Lead Data Engineer
10 13 (4.83%) Senior Developer
11 12 (4.46%) AWS Engineer
12 11 (4.09%) Azure Engineer
13 10 (3.72%) Azure Data Engineer
13 10 (3.72%) Python Data Engineer
14 7 (2.60%) Analyst
14 7 (2.60%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 7 (2.60%) AWS Data Engineer
14 7 (2.60%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (13.38%) Kafka
2 23 (8.55%) Pandas
3 16 (5.95%) React
3 16 (5.95%) REST
4 14 (5.20%) NumPy
4 14 (5.20%) pytest
5 11 (4.09%) Great Expectations
6 9 (3.35%) .NET
6 9 (3.35%) FastAPI
7 8 (2.97%) .NET Core
7 8 (2.97%) JSON
7 8 (2.97%) scikit-learn
8 7 (2.60%) RESTful
8 7 (2.60%) Spark Streaming
9 6 (2.23%) Flask
9 6 (2.23%) PyTorch
9 6 (2.23%) Redux
9 6 (2.23%) Spring
9 6 (2.23%) Spring Boot
10 5 (1.86%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 42 (15.61%) Cloud Native
2 16 (5.95%) Legacy Systems
3 13 (4.83%) Product Ownership
4 12 (4.46%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (3.35%) Data Structures
5 9 (3.35%) Distributed Computing
5 9 (3.35%) Onboarding
5 9 (3.35%) Reference Data
6 8 (2.97%) NHS
7 7 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (2.23%) Algorithms
8 6 (2.23%) Fixed Income
8 6 (2.23%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.86%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.86%) Derivative
9 5 (1.86%) Market Risk
9 5 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.49%) Pricing Data
10 4 (1.49%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.12%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.46%) Linux
2 11 (4.09%) Unix
3 1 (0.37%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (53.90%) Data Pipeline
2 139 (51.67%) Data Engineering
3 135 (50.19%) CI/CD
4 126 (46.84%) Analytics
5 107 (39.78%) Data Modelling
6 102 (37.92%) DevOps
7 101 (37.55%) ETL
8 92 (34.20%) Agile
9 75 (27.88%) Business Intelligence
10 73 (27.14%) AI
11 63 (23.42%) Data Governance
12 55 (20.45%) Machine Learning
13 53 (19.70%) Data Science
13 53 (19.70%) Infrastructure as Code
14 50 (18.59%) Migration
15 49 (18.22%) Data Transformation
16 43 (15.99%) Data Architecture
17 40 (14.87%) Validation
18 37 (13.75%) Performance Optimisation
19 36 (13.38%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 230 (85.50%) Python
2 186 (69.14%) SQL
3 18 (6.69%) Java
4 16 (5.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 14 (5.20%) Scala
6 11 (4.09%) C#
6 11 (4.09%) TypeScript
7 10 (3.72%) Shell Script
8 9 (3.35%) JavaScript
9 8 (2.97%) T-SQL
10 6 (2.23%) SAS Macro
11 4 (1.49%) Bicep
11 4 (1.49%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.12%) SPARQL
13 2 (0.74%) Bash
13 2 (0.74%) Korn
14 1 (0.37%) COBOL
14 1 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.37%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.37%) R
Qualifications
1 61 (22.68%) Security Cleared
2 55 (20.45%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.20%) Degree
4 11 (4.09%) Azure Certification
5 8 (2.97%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (2.60%) AWS Certification
6 7 (2.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 7 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.60%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.86%) PhD
8 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.74%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.74%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (36.80%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.46%) GDPR
3 8 (2.97%) QA
4 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.37%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (0.37%) MiFID
4 1 (0.37%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (10.04%) Docker
2 1 (0.37%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 59 (21.93%) Terraform
2 24 (8.92%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.49%) Grafana
4 2 (0.74%) Ansible
5 1 (0.37%) Control-M
Vendors
1 120 (44.61%) Databricks
2 58 (21.56%) Microsoft
3 19 (7.06%) Palantir
4 15 (5.58%) Informatica
5 13 (4.83%) Foundry
6 9 (3.35%) OpenAI
7 6 (2.23%) Google
8 5 (1.86%) Cloudera
9 4 (1.49%) Hortonworks
10 3 (1.12%) Apple
10 3 (1.12%) Oracle
11 2 (0.74%) Salesforce
12 1 (0.37%) Atlassian
12 1 (0.37%) Bloomberg
12 1 (0.37%) Confluent
12 1 (0.37%) NVIDIA
12 1 (0.37%) Reuters
12 1 (0.37%) SimCorp
12 1 (0.37%) Tagetik
12 1 (0.37%) Trayport