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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 176 247
Rank change year-on-year -7 +71 +67
Contract jobs citing PySpark 245 172 140
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.37% 1.38% 0.79%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.85% 5.30% 3.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 130 118
10th Percentile £363 £457 £438
25th Percentile £449 £550 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £775 £550
Median % change year-on-year -32.26% +40.91% -10.57%
75th Percentile £588 £875 £684
90th Percentile £663 £888 £783
England median daily rate £513 £700 £550
% change year-on-year -26.79% +27.27% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
England median hourly rate £35.00 £65.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -46.15% +209.52% -51.72%

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 4,188 3,247 4,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.42% 26.03% 25.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,783 2,282 3,369
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £435 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £574 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.14% -0.22% -4.17%
75th Percentile £659 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £825
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 17 24
10th Percentile £23.33 £33.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £28.00 £35.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.50 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +31.25% -40.52%
75th Percentile £64.44 £65.00 £63.13
90th Percentile £93.00 £78.75 £72.60
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

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 9 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 9 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 -1 31 £509 -27.71% 20
West London -22 6 £625 -19.35%
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 69 (28.16%) Apache Spark
2 27 (11.02%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (10.61%) Apache
4 7 (2.86%) Palantir Foundry
4 7 (2.86%) SAS
5 4 (1.63%) Confluence
6 1 (0.41%) Camunda
Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 145 (59.18%) Azure
2 83 (33.88%) AWS
3 66 (26.94%) Azure Data Factory
4 64 (26.12%) Power Platform
5 62 (25.31%) Azure DevOps
6 50 (20.41%) GitHub
7 49 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 41 (16.73%) Serverless
9 35 (14.29%) Amazon S3
10 30 (12.24%) AWS Lambda
10 30 (12.24%) GitHub Actions
11 15 (6.12%) GCP
11 15 (6.12%) Microsoft Purview
12 14 (5.71%) dbt
13 13 (5.31%) AWS CloudFormation
13 13 (5.31%) Snowflake
14 12 (4.90%) Amazon EMR
15 11 (4.49%) AWS Step Functions
16 10 (4.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 10 (4.08%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (26.12%) Data Lake
2 62 (25.31%) Power BI
3 56 (22.86%) Delta Lake
4 43 (17.55%) Data Warehouse
5 35 (14.29%) Spark SQL
6 32 (13.06%) Azure SQL Database
7 30 (12.24%) Metadata
8 29 (11.84%) Amazon Athena
9 27 (11.02%) Amazon Redshift
10 24 (9.80%) Big Data
11 21 (8.57%) NoSQL
12 14 (5.71%) Tableau
13 13 (5.31%) Relational Database
14 11 (4.49%) Snowflake Schema
14 11 (4.49%) SQL Server
15 9 (3.67%) Parquet
16 6 (2.45%) Base SAS
17 5 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
17 5 (2.04%) SAS Data Integration Studio
18 4 (1.63%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 66 (26.94%) Git
2 19 (7.76%) GitLab
3 13 (5.31%) MLflow
4 10 (4.08%) JIRA
5 8 (3.27%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.41%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.41%) ERwin
6 1 (0.41%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 81 (33.06%) Finance
2 44 (17.96%) Social Skills
3 27 (11.02%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (6.12%) Public Sector
5 14 (5.71%) Banking
6 7 (2.86%) Retail
7 5 (2.04%) Marketing
8 3 (1.22%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.22%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.82%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.82%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.41%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.41%) Law
10 1 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.41%) Publishing
10 1 (0.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 146 (59.59%) Data Engineer
2 51 (20.82%) Senior
3 35 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
4 32 (13.06%) Senior Data Engineer
5 31 (12.65%) Azure Data Engineer
6 23 (9.39%) Developer
7 20 (8.16%) Lead
8 14 (5.71%) Python Engineer
9 13 (5.31%) Architect
10 9 (3.67%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (3.67%) Data Analytics Engineer
10 9 (3.67%) Data Architect
10 9 (3.67%) Data Scientist
10 9 (3.67%) Platform Engineer
10 9 (3.67%) Principal Engineer
10 9 (3.67%) Python Data Engineer
11 8 (3.27%) Software Engineer
12 7 (2.86%) Lead Data Engineer
12 7 (2.86%) Senior Developer
13 6 (2.45%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (12.65%) Kafka
2 20 (8.16%) Pandas
3 13 (5.31%) Spark Streaming
4 12 (4.90%) PyTorch
5 11 (4.49%) React
5 11 (4.49%) REST
6 9 (3.67%) scikit-learn
7 8 (3.27%) Great Expectations
8 6 (2.45%) JSON
8 6 (2.45%) pytest
8 6 (2.45%) YAML
9 5 (2.04%) .NET
9 5 (2.04%) .NET Core
9 5 (2.04%) HTML
9 5 (2.04%) Node.js
9 5 (2.04%) Spring
9 5 (2.04%) Spring Boot
9 5 (2.04%) TensorFlow
10 4 (1.63%) LangChain
10 4 (1.63%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 35 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 19 (7.76%) Distributed Computing
3 8 (3.27%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.86%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.45%) AI Agents
5 6 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.22%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.22%) Marketing Technology
7 3 (1.22%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.22%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.82%) Autonomous Agent
8 2 (0.82%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.82%) Equities
8 2 (0.82%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.41%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.41%) Freedom of Information Act
9 1 (0.41%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.45%) Unix
2 5 (2.04%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (54.29%) Data Engineering
2 130 (53.06%) Data Pipeline
3 114 (46.53%) CI/CD
4 103 (42.04%) Analytics
4 103 (42.04%) Data Modelling
4 103 (42.04%) ETL
5 93 (37.96%) Agile
5 93 (37.96%) DevOps
6 74 (30.20%) Data Governance
7 60 (24.49%) Business Intelligence
8 54 (22.04%) AI
9 51 (20.82%) Infrastructure as Code
10 49 (20.00%) Data Science
11 43 (17.55%) Data Architecture
12 38 (15.51%) Machine Learning
13 31 (12.65%) Performance Tuning
14 30 (12.24%) Migration
15 29 (11.84%) Data Integration
15 29 (11.84%) Data Transformation
15 29 (11.84%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 209 (85.31%) Python
2 164 (66.94%) SQL
3 53 (21.63%) Scala
4 26 (10.61%) Java
5 9 (3.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 9 (3.67%) JavaScript
5 9 (3.67%) TypeScript
6 8 (3.27%) C#
6 8 (3.27%) R
7 7 (2.86%) Bicep
8 6 (2.45%) SAS Macro
9 5 (2.04%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.04%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.82%) Ada
10 2 (0.82%) C++
10 2 (0.82%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.41%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 73 (29.80%) Security Cleared
2 66 (26.94%) SC Cleared
3 13 (5.31%) Azure Certification
3 13 (5.31%) Degree
4 8 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.63%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.82%) PhD
8 1 (0.41%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.41%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (37.55%) Data Quality
2 16 (6.53%) GDPR
3 7 (2.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (1.22%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.22%) QA
5 2 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.41%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.41%) MiFID
6 1 (0.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (11.84%) Docker
2 2 (0.82%) HDFS
2 2 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 62 (25.31%) Terraform
2 28 (11.43%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.04%) Grafana
Vendors
1 124 (50.61%) Databricks
2 46 (18.78%) Microsoft
3 9 (3.67%) Foundry
4 7 (2.86%) Palantir
5 6 (2.45%) Google
6 4 (1.63%) Cloudera
6 4 (1.63%) Hortonworks
6 4 (1.63%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.22%) Apple
7 3 (1.22%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.22%) Oracle
8 2 (0.82%) Informatica
8 2 (0.82%) SAP
9 1 (0.41%) New Relic