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 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 203 212 218
Rank change year-on-year +9 +6 +104
Contract jobs citing PySpark 245 149 192
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.28% 1.17% 1.09%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.58% 4.44% 4.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 112 155
10th Percentile £363 £413 £425
25th Percentile £425 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £750 £550
Median % change year-on-year -30.67% +36.36% -11.61%
75th Percentile £638 £838 £750
90th Percentile £733 £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 4,387 3,358 4,698
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.89% 26.37% 26.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,908 2,343 3,458
10th Percentile £381 £378 £375
25th Percentile £450 £429 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £673 £713 £709
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 21 28
10th Percentile £24.30 - £16.25
25th Percentile £35.00 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.00 £45.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +5.88% -36.57%
75th Percentile £73.00 £62.50 £61.70
90th Percentile £92.50 £87.50 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £58.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% +3.45% -10.77%

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 27 June 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 27 June 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 -13 32 £505 -27.60% 6
West London -20 3 £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 49 (20.00%) Apache Spark
2 30 (12.24%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (10.61%) Apache
4 12 (4.90%) Confluence
5 10 (4.08%) Palantir Foundry
6 8 (3.27%) SAS
7 1 (0.41%) Camunda
Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 131 (53.47%) Azure
2 94 (38.37%) AWS
3 68 (27.76%) Power Platform
4 56 (22.86%) Azure DevOps
5 52 (21.22%) GitHub
6 49 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 46 (18.78%) Amazon S3
8 45 (18.37%) Serverless
9 44 (17.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 36 (14.69%) AWS Lambda
11 31 (12.65%) GitHub Actions
12 25 (10.20%) Amazon EMR
13 23 (9.39%) dbt
14 14 (5.71%) Azure AI
14 14 (5.71%) Snowflake
15 13 (5.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 13 (5.31%) GCP
15 13 (5.31%) Microsoft Purview
16 12 (4.90%) AWS CloudFormation
17 11 (4.49%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.41%) Firewall
1 1 (0.41%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (27.35%) Power BI
2 51 (20.82%) Delta Lake
3 49 (20.00%) Data Lake
4 34 (13.88%) Data Warehouse
5 33 (13.47%) Amazon Athena
6 32 (13.06%) Amazon Redshift
7 30 (12.24%) Spark SQL
8 25 (10.20%) Metadata
9 19 (7.76%) Big Data
10 14 (5.71%) Azure SQL Database
11 11 (4.49%) Snowflake Schema
12 10 (4.08%) NoSQL
13 9 (3.67%) Parquet
13 9 (3.67%) SQL Server
14 8 (3.27%) Tableau
15 7 (2.86%) Neo4j
15 7 (2.86%) Relational Database
16 6 (2.45%) Base SAS
16 6 (2.45%) Star Schema
17 5 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 49 (20.00%) Git
2 30 (12.24%) GitLab
3 18 (7.35%) JIRA
4 12 (4.90%) MLflow
5 4 (1.63%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.41%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.41%) Postman
6 1 (0.41%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 90 (36.73%) Finance
2 58 (23.67%) Social Skills
3 27 (11.02%) Public Sector
4 26 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (6.94%) Banking
6 5 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.04%) Marketing
7 4 (1.63%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.22%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.22%) 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%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 138 (56.33%) Data Engineer
2 57 (23.27%) Senior
3 35 (14.29%) Senior Data Engineer
4 22 (8.98%) Lead
5 18 (7.35%) Architect
6 16 (6.53%) Developer
7 14 (5.71%) Azure Engineer
7 14 (5.71%) Data Scientist
7 14 (5.71%) Python Engineer
8 13 (5.31%) Azure Data Engineer
8 13 (5.31%) Platform Engineer
9 11 (4.49%) AWS Engineer
10 8 (3.27%) Data Architect
10 8 (3.27%) Python Data Engineer
10 8 (3.27%) Senior Developer
11 7 (2.86%) Lead Data Engineer
11 7 (2.86%) Principal Engineer
11 7 (2.86%) Technical Architect
12 6 (2.45%) Analyst
12 6 (2.45%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (10.61%) Kafka
2 18 (7.35%) Pandas
3 13 (5.31%) React
4 11 (4.49%) REST
5 10 (4.08%) scikit-learn
6 9 (3.67%) Great Expectations
6 9 (3.67%) PyTorch
7 8 (3.27%) .NET
7 8 (3.27%) JSON
7 8 (3.27%) Spark Streaming
8 7 (2.86%) .NET Core
8 7 (2.86%) pytest
9 6 (2.45%) RESTful
10 5 (2.04%) NumPy
10 5 (2.04%) Redux
10 5 (2.04%) Spring
10 5 (2.04%) Spring Boot
11 4 (1.63%) FastAPI
11 4 (1.63%) Node.js
12 3 (1.22%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 44 (17.96%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.31%) Distributed Computing
3 12 (4.90%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (2.86%) NHS
4 7 (2.86%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.04%) Algorithms
5 5 (2.04%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.04%) Reference Data
5 5 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.63%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.22%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.22%) Marketing Technology
7 3 (1.22%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.82%) Equities
8 2 (0.82%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.82%) Legacy Code
8 2 (0.82%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.27%) Linux
2 7 (2.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (53.88%) CI/CD
2 131 (53.47%) Data Pipeline
3 128 (52.24%) Data Engineering
4 106 (43.27%) Analytics
5 100 (40.82%) ETL
6 92 (37.55%) DevOps
7 88 (35.92%) Agile
7 88 (35.92%) Data Modelling
8 70 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
9 69 (28.16%) AI
10 64 (26.12%) Infrastructure as Code
11 60 (24.49%) Data Science
12 55 (22.45%) Data Governance
13 46 (18.78%) Machine Learning
14 40 (16.33%) Migration
15 30 (12.24%) Data Transformation
15 30 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
16 29 (11.84%) Performance Optimisation
17 28 (11.43%) Data Architecture
18 27 (11.02%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 216 (88.16%) Python
2 160 (65.31%) SQL
3 24 (9.80%) Scala
4 20 (8.16%) Java
5 12 (4.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 10 (4.08%) TypeScript
7 9 (3.67%) C#
8 8 (3.27%) T-SQL
9 7 (2.86%) JavaScript
10 6 (2.45%) SAS Macro
10 6 (2.45%) Shell Script
11 5 (2.04%) Bicep
12 3 (1.22%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.22%) 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 71 (28.98%) Security Cleared
2 65 (26.53%) SC Cleared
3 19 (7.76%) Degree
4 12 (4.90%) Azure Certification
5 11 (4.49%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (3.27%) Master's Degree
8 7 (2.86%) AWS Certification
8 7 (2.86%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 5 (2.04%) PhD
10 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.82%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.41%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (31.84%) Data Quality
2 13 (5.31%) GDPR
3 3 (1.22%) QA
4 2 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.41%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.41%) MiFID
5 1 (0.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (9.39%) Docker
2 2 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 73 (29.80%) Terraform
2 22 (8.98%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.04%) Grafana
Vendors
1 103 (42.04%) Databricks
2 52 (21.22%) Microsoft
3 18 (7.35%) Palantir
4 14 (5.71%) Informatica
5 12 (4.90%) Foundry
6 9 (3.67%) OpenAI
7 6 (2.45%) Google
8 4 (1.63%) Cloudera
8 4 (1.63%) Hortonworks
9 3 (1.22%) Apple
9 3 (1.22%) 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