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 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 217 215
Rank change year-on-year +15 -2 +107
Contract jobs citing PySpark 244 154 192
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.26% 1.17% 1.09%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.54% 4.42% 4.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 116 155
10th Percentile £367 £406 £425
25th Percentile £446 £490 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £700 £550
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +27.27% -11.22%
75th Percentile £638 £838 £750
90th Percentile £738 £875 £875
England median daily rate £513 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -10.87% +4.55% -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 4,404 3,488 4,739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.76% 26.39% 26.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,916 2,428 3,483
10th Percentile £381 £375 £375
25th Percentile £450 £428 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £713 £713
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 23 27
10th Percentile £23.98 £31.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £34.01 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.25 £45.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.11% +5.88% -36.80%
75th Percentile £73.50 £60.75 £61.97
90th Percentile £93.13 £83.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.63 £58.15
% change year-on-year +12.80% -0.90% -10.54%

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 4 July 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 4 July 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 -12 32 £513 -26.52% 13
West London -17 3 £625 -19.35% 2
East London - 1 £449 - 1
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 48 (19.67%) Apache Spark
2 31 (12.70%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (11.07%) Apache
4 12 (4.92%) Confluence
5 11 (4.51%) Palantir Foundry
6 8 (3.28%) SAS
7 1 (0.41%) Camunda
Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 128 (52.46%) Azure
2 94 (38.52%) AWS
3 66 (27.05%) Power Platform
4 58 (23.77%) Azure DevOps
5 52 (21.31%) GitHub
6 48 (19.67%) Azure Data Factory
7 46 (18.85%) Amazon S3
8 44 (18.03%) Serverless
9 41 (16.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 36 (14.75%) AWS Lambda
11 30 (12.30%) GitHub Actions
12 25 (10.25%) Amazon EMR
12 25 (10.25%) dbt
13 14 (5.74%) Azure AI
13 14 (5.74%) Snowflake
14 13 (5.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 13 (5.33%) GCP
15 12 (4.92%) AWS CloudFormation
16 11 (4.51%) Azure Monitor
16 11 (4.51%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.41%) Firewall
1 1 (0.41%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (26.64%) Power BI
2 51 (20.90%) Delta Lake
3 47 (19.26%) Data Lake
4 35 (14.34%) Data Warehouse
5 32 (13.11%) Amazon Athena
5 32 (13.11%) Amazon Redshift
6 29 (11.89%) Spark SQL
7 25 (10.25%) Metadata
8 19 (7.79%) Big Data
9 13 (5.33%) Azure SQL Database
10 11 (4.51%) Snowflake Schema
11 9 (3.69%) NoSQL
12 8 (3.28%) Parquet
12 8 (3.28%) SQL Server
12 8 (3.28%) Tableau
13 7 (2.87%) Neo4j
13 7 (2.87%) Star Schema
14 6 (2.46%) Base SAS
15 5 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
15 5 (2.05%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 44 (18.03%) Git
2 28 (11.48%) GitLab
3 18 (7.38%) JIRA
4 12 (4.92%) MLflow
5 4 (1.64%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.82%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.41%) Postman
7 1 (0.41%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 89 (36.48%) Finance
2 57 (23.36%) Social Skills
3 29 (11.89%) Public Sector
4 26 (10.66%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (6.97%) Banking
6 5 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.05%) Marketing
7 4 (1.64%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.23%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.23%) Retail
9 2 (0.82%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.82%) Front Office
9 2 (0.82%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.82%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.41%) Legal
10 1 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.41%) Publishing
10 1 (0.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 137 (56.15%) Data Engineer
2 57 (23.36%) Senior
3 35 (14.34%) Senior Data Engineer
4 22 (9.02%) Lead
5 20 (8.20%) Architect
6 15 (6.15%) Developer
7 14 (5.74%) Data Scientist
7 14 (5.74%) Platform Engineer
8 13 (5.33%) Python Engineer
9 12 (4.92%) Azure Engineer
10 11 (4.51%) AWS Engineer
10 11 (4.51%) Azure Data Engineer
11 10 (4.10%) Data Architect
12 8 (3.28%) Senior Developer
13 7 (2.87%) Lead Data Engineer
13 7 (2.87%) Principal Engineer
13 7 (2.87%) Python Data Engineer
13 7 (2.87%) Technical Architect
14 6 (2.46%) AWS Data Engineer
14 6 (2.46%) Data Analytics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (10.25%) Kafka
2 17 (6.97%) Pandas
3 13 (5.33%) React
4 10 (4.10%) REST
4 10 (4.10%) scikit-learn
5 9 (3.69%) Great Expectations
5 9 (3.69%) PyTorch
6 8 (3.28%) .NET
6 8 (3.28%) JSON
7 7 (2.87%) .NET Core
7 7 (2.87%) pytest
8 6 (2.46%) RESTful
8 6 (2.46%) Spark Streaming
9 5 (2.05%) NumPy
9 5 (2.05%) Redux
9 5 (2.05%) Spring
9 5 (2.05%) Spring Boot
10 4 (1.64%) FastAPI
10 4 (1.64%) Node.js
11 3 (1.23%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 44 (18.03%) Cloud Native
2 11 (4.51%) Distributed Computing
2 11 (4.51%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (3.28%) NHS
4 7 (2.87%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (2.87%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (2.87%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.46%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.05%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.05%) Reference Data
6 5 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.64%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.64%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.23%) Marketing Technology
8 3 (1.23%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.82%) Equities
9 2 (0.82%) Fixed Income
9 2 (0.82%) Legacy Code
9 2 (0.82%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.28%) Linux
2 7 (2.87%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (54.92%) CI/CD
2 130 (53.28%) Data Pipeline
3 126 (51.64%) Data Engineering
4 106 (43.44%) Analytics
5 99 (40.57%) ETL
6 93 (38.11%) DevOps
7 86 (35.25%) Data Modelling
8 85 (34.84%) Agile
9 68 (27.87%) AI
9 68 (27.87%) Business Intelligence
10 64 (26.23%) Infrastructure as Code
11 59 (24.18%) Data Science
12 54 (22.13%) Data Governance
13 46 (18.85%) Machine Learning
14 40 (16.39%) Migration
15 31 (12.70%) Data Transformation
16 30 (12.30%) Performance Optimisation
16 30 (12.30%) Problem-Solving
17 27 (11.07%) LLM
18 26 (10.66%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 215 (88.11%) Python
2 159 (65.16%) SQL
3 22 (9.02%) Scala
4 18 (7.38%) Java
5 13 (5.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 10 (4.10%) TypeScript
7 9 (3.69%) C#
8 8 (3.28%) T-SQL
9 7 (2.87%) JavaScript
10 6 (2.46%) SAS Macro
10 6 (2.46%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.64%) Bicep
12 3 (1.23%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.23%) SPARQL
13 2 (0.82%) Bash
13 2 (0.82%) R
14 1 (0.41%) Korn
14 1 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 69 (28.28%) Security Cleared
2 63 (25.82%) SC Cleared
3 19 (7.79%) Degree
4 11 (4.51%) Azure Certification
4 11 (4.51%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (3.28%) Master's Degree
7 7 (2.87%) AWS Certification
7 7 (2.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 5 (2.05%) PhD
9 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.82%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.41%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (31.56%) Data Quality
2 11 (4.51%) GDPR
3 3 (1.23%) QA
4 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.41%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.41%) MiFID
4 1 (0.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 21 (8.61%) Docker
2 2 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 73 (29.92%) Terraform
2 20 (8.20%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.05%) Grafana
Vendors
1 104 (42.62%) Databricks
2 49 (20.08%) Microsoft
3 19 (7.79%) Palantir
4 14 (5.74%) Informatica
5 13 (5.33%) Foundry
6 10 (4.10%) OpenAI
7 6 (2.46%) Google
8 4 (1.64%) Cloudera
8 4 (1.64%) Hortonworks
9 3 (1.23%) Apple
9 3 (1.23%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.82%) Oracle
11 1 (0.41%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.41%) New Relic
11 1 (0.41%) Reuters
11 1 (0.41%) SimCorp
11 1 (0.41%) Tagetik
11 1 (0.41%) Trayport