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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 209 232 208
Rank change year-on-year +23 -24 +117
Contract jobs citing PySpark 262 142 194
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.29% 1.05% 1.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.69% 4.02% 4.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 107 153
10th Percentile £387 £387 £425
25th Percentile £450 £459 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.83% -2.50% -2.44%
75th Percentile £653 £838 £800
90th Percentile £750 £875 £875
England median daily rate £523 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -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 4,607 3,535 4,424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.72% 26.04% 27.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,046 2,467 3,179
10th Percentile £390 £368 £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 £673 £700 £725
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 27 24
10th Percentile £26.48 £32.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.25 £33.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.41 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +31.25% -40.30%
75th Percentile £61.50 £63.13 £53.42
90th Percentile £81.25 £78.20 £72.60
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.63
% change year-on-year +18.18% -1.12% -7.29%

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 8 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 8 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 -7 36 £550 -21.15% 10
West London -19 1 £640 -17.42% 2
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 63 (24.05%) Apache Spark
2 43 (16.41%) Apache
3 38 (14.50%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (4.58%) Confluence
4 12 (4.58%) Palantir Foundry
5 9 (3.44%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 141 (53.82%) Azure
2 98 (37.40%) AWS
3 65 (24.81%) Power Platform
4 63 (24.05%) Azure DevOps
5 59 (22.52%) Azure Data Factory
6 42 (16.03%) Amazon S3
6 42 (16.03%) GitHub
6 42 (16.03%) Serverless
7 41 (15.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 35 (13.36%) AWS Lambda
9 27 (10.31%) dbt
9 27 (10.31%) GitHub Actions
10 24 (9.16%) Amazon EMR
11 21 (8.02%) GCP
12 15 (5.73%) Snowflake
13 14 (5.34%) Azure AI
14 11 (4.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 9 (3.44%) Microsoft Purview
16 8 (3.05%) AWS CloudFormation
16 8 (3.05%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.38%) Firewall
1 1 (0.38%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (24.81%) Power BI
2 55 (20.99%) Delta Lake
3 44 (16.79%) Data Lake
3 44 (16.79%) Data Warehouse
4 31 (11.83%) Amazon Redshift
4 31 (11.83%) Spark SQL
5 29 (11.07%) Metadata
6 27 (10.31%) Amazon Athena
7 22 (8.40%) Big Data
8 9 (3.44%) SQL Server
9 8 (3.05%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (3.05%) BigQuery
9 8 (3.05%) NoSQL
9 8 (3.05%) Snowflake Schema
9 8 (3.05%) Star Schema
10 7 (2.67%) Neo4j
10 7 (2.67%) Parquet
10 7 (2.67%) Relational Database
10 7 (2.67%) Tableau
11 6 (2.29%) Base SAS
Development Applications
1 37 (14.12%) Git
2 29 (11.07%) GitLab
3 18 (6.87%) JIRA
4 12 (4.58%) MLflow
5 4 (1.53%) ER Studio
5 4 (1.53%) ERwin
6 3 (1.15%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.15%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.76%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.38%) Postman
8 1 (0.38%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.38%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.38%) Selenium
8 1 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 110 (41.98%) Finance
2 67 (25.57%) Social Skills
3 32 (12.21%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (11.83%) Banking
5 30 (11.45%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.05%) Financial Institution
6 8 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (3.05%) Investment Banking
7 5 (1.91%) Marketing
8 4 (1.53%) Retail
9 3 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.76%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.76%) Front Office
10 2 (0.76%) Local Government
10 2 (0.76%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.38%) Law
11 1 (0.38%) Legal
11 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 140 (53.44%) Data Engineer
2 67 (25.57%) Senior
3 38 (14.50%) Senior Data Engineer
4 28 (10.69%) Lead
5 26 (9.92%) Architect
6 21 (8.02%) Developer
7 16 (6.11%) Data Architect
8 14 (5.34%) Data Scientist
8 14 (5.34%) Platform Engineer
9 13 (4.96%) Senior Developer
10 12 (4.58%) Azure Engineer
10 12 (4.58%) Python Engineer
11 11 (4.20%) AWS Engineer
11 11 (4.20%) Azure Data Engineer
12 10 (3.82%) Lead Data Engineer
13 8 (3.05%) Python Data Engineer
14 7 (2.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 7 (2.67%) Python Developer
15 6 (2.29%) Analyst
15 6 (2.29%) Informatica Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (12.98%) Kafka
2 23 (8.78%) Pandas
3 16 (6.11%) REST
4 15 (5.73%) React
5 13 (4.96%) NumPy
5 13 (4.96%) pytest
6 10 (3.82%) Great Expectations
7 9 (3.44%) .NET
7 9 (3.44%) FastAPI
7 9 (3.44%) scikit-learn
8 8 (3.05%) .NET Core
8 8 (3.05%) JSON
9 7 (2.67%) PyTorch
9 7 (2.67%) RESTful
9 7 (2.67%) Spark Streaming
10 6 (2.29%) Flask
10 6 (2.29%) Redux
10 6 (2.29%) Spring
10 6 (2.29%) Spring Boot
11 5 (1.91%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 43 (16.41%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.11%) Legacy Systems
3 13 (4.96%) Product Ownership
4 12 (4.58%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (3.44%) Data Structures
5 9 (3.44%) Distributed Computing
5 9 (3.44%) Reference Data
6 8 (3.05%) NHS
6 8 (3.05%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.67%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (2.29%) Algorithms
8 6 (2.29%) Fixed Income
8 6 (2.29%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.91%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.91%) Derivative
9 5 (1.91%) Market Risk
9 5 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.53%) Pricing Data
10 4 (1.53%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.15%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.58%) Linux
2 11 (4.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (54.20%) Data Pipeline
2 135 (51.53%) CI/CD
2 135 (51.53%) Data Engineering
3 127 (48.47%) Analytics
4 107 (40.84%) Data Modelling
5 105 (40.08%) DevOps
6 98 (37.40%) ETL
7 89 (33.97%) Agile
8 76 (29.01%) Business Intelligence
9 70 (26.72%) AI
10 61 (23.28%) Data Governance
11 57 (21.76%) Infrastructure as Code
12 55 (20.99%) Data Science
12 55 (20.99%) Machine Learning
13 45 (17.18%) Migration
14 43 (16.41%) Data Transformation
15 40 (15.27%) Data Architecture
16 38 (14.50%) Performance Optimisation
17 36 (13.74%) Validation
18 33 (12.60%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 225 (85.88%) Python
2 180 (68.70%) SQL
3 18 (6.87%) Java
4 15 (5.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 15 (5.73%) Scala
5 11 (4.20%) C#
5 11 (4.20%) TypeScript
6 10 (3.82%) Shell Script
7 8 (3.05%) JavaScript
7 8 (3.05%) T-SQL
8 6 (2.29%) SAS Macro
9 4 (1.53%) Bicep
9 4 (1.53%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.15%) SPARQL
11 2 (0.76%) Bash
12 1 (0.38%) Korn
12 1 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.38%) R
Qualifications
1 65 (24.81%) Security Cleared
2 58 (22.14%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.34%) Degree
4 12 (4.58%) Azure Certification
5 11 (4.20%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (2.67%) AWS Certification
6 7 (2.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 7 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.67%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.91%) PhD
8 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.76%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.76%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (35.50%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.58%) GDPR
3 6 (2.29%) QA
4 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.38%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (0.38%) MiFID
4 1 (0.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 25 (9.54%) Docker
2 1 (0.38%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 62 (23.66%) Terraform
2 23 (8.78%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.53%) Grafana
4 1 (0.38%) Ansible
Vendors
1 113 (43.13%) Databricks
2 58 (22.14%) Microsoft
3 20 (7.63%) Palantir
4 14 (5.34%) Foundry
4 14 (5.34%) Informatica
5 9 (3.44%) OpenAI
6 6 (2.29%) Google
7 5 (1.91%) Cloudera
8 4 (1.53%) Hortonworks
9 3 (1.15%) Apple
10 2 (0.76%) Oracle
10 2 (0.76%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.38%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.38%) Confluent
11 1 (0.38%) NVIDIA
11 1 (0.38%) Reuters
11 1 (0.38%) SimCorp
11 1 (0.38%) Tagetik
11 1 (0.38%) Trayport