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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 241 198
Rank change year-on-year +46 -43 +103
Contract jobs citing PySpark 279 126 199
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.38% 0.94% 1.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.26% 3.22% 4.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 92 157
10th Percentile £400 £376 £425
25th Percentile £450 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £614
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -10.42% -0.16%
75th Percentile £656 £763 £825
90th Percentile £738 £875 £888
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -4.17%

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 5,302 3,911 4,913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.29% 29.15% 30.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,557 2,724 3,510
10th Percentile £400 £368 £385
25th Percentile £455 £430 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £713
90th Percentile £766 £824 £850
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 31 19
10th Percentile £26.43 £31.61 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.00 £33.87 £24.59
Median hourly rate £42.50 £51.44 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +21.04% -36.80%
75th Percentile £63.00 £61.88 £50.38
90th Percentile £81.25 £72.00 £67.03
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +18.18% -10.71% -3.75%

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 22 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 22 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 +2 42 £550 -21.15% 9
East London - 1 £449 - 1
West London - 1 £640 - 3
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 70 (25.09%) Apache Spark
2 47 (16.85%) Apache Airflow
3 46 (16.49%) Apache
4 11 (3.94%) Palantir Foundry
5 9 (3.23%) Confluence
6 7 (2.51%) SAS
7 1 (0.36%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 158 (56.63%) Azure
2 110 (39.43%) AWS
3 70 (25.09%) Power Platform
4 64 (22.94%) Azure Data Factory
4 64 (22.94%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (16.85%) Serverless
6 40 (14.34%) Amazon S3
6 40 (14.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 40 (14.34%) GitHub
7 38 (13.62%) AWS Lambda
8 28 (10.04%) GitHub Actions
9 27 (9.68%) GCP
10 26 (9.32%) dbt
11 22 (7.89%) Amazon EMR
12 20 (7.17%) Snowflake
13 13 (4.66%) Azure AI
14 12 (4.30%) Microsoft Purview
15 11 (3.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 8 (2.87%) AWS Step Functions
17 7 (2.51%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.36%) Firewall
1 1 (0.36%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (24.37%) Power BI
2 60 (21.51%) Delta Lake
3 46 (16.49%) Data Warehouse
4 44 (15.77%) Data Lake
5 35 (12.54%) Amazon Redshift
5 35 (12.54%) Metadata
6 33 (11.83%) Spark SQL
7 25 (8.96%) Amazon Athena
8 20 (7.17%) Big Data
9 12 (4.30%) BigQuery
10 10 (3.58%) SQL Server
11 9 (3.23%) NoSQL
11 9 (3.23%) Star Schema
12 8 (2.87%) Parquet
12 8 (2.87%) Snowflake Schema
12 8 (2.87%) Tableau
13 7 (2.51%) Azure SQL Database
13 7 (2.51%) Data Vault
13 7 (2.51%) Relational Database
14 6 (2.15%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 31 (11.11%) Git
2 28 (10.04%) GitLab
3 16 (5.73%) MLflow
4 15 (5.38%) JIRA
5 4 (1.43%) ER Studio
5 4 (1.43%) ERwin
6 3 (1.08%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.08%) RStudio
6 3 (1.08%) Selenium
6 3 (1.08%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.72%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.36%) Postman
8 1 (0.36%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.36%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 115 (41.22%) Finance
2 71 (25.45%) Social Skills
3 37 (13.26%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (11.83%) Banking
5 27 (9.68%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (3.58%) Investment Banking
7 8 (2.87%) Financial Institution
8 7 (2.51%) Retail
9 5 (1.79%) Marketing
10 3 (1.08%) Billing
11 2 (0.72%) Front Office
11 2 (0.72%) Local Government
11 2 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.36%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.36%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.36%) Law
12 1 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.36%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 151 (54.12%) Data Engineer
2 70 (25.09%) Senior
3 42 (15.05%) Senior Data Engineer
4 33 (11.83%) Architect
5 32 (11.47%) Lead
6 20 (7.17%) Data Architect
7 19 (6.81%) Developer
8 17 (6.09%) Python Engineer
9 16 (5.73%) Platform Engineer
10 15 (5.38%) Lead Data Engineer
11 13 (4.66%) Data Scientist
11 13 (4.66%) Python Data Engineer
12 12 (4.30%) Azure Engineer
12 12 (4.30%) Senior Developer
13 11 (3.94%) AWS Engineer
14 10 (3.58%) Azure Data Engineer
15 8 (2.87%) Analyst
16 7 (2.51%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 7 (2.51%) Data Analyst
16 7 (2.51%) Informatica Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (22.58%) Terraform
2 39 (13.98%) Kafka
3 24 (8.60%) Pandas
4 20 (7.17%) REST
5 17 (6.09%) React
6 14 (5.02%) NumPy
6 14 (5.02%) pytest
7 13 (4.66%) Great Expectations
8 9 (3.23%) .NET
8 9 (3.23%) FastAPI
9 8 (2.87%) .NET Core
9 8 (2.87%) JSON
9 8 (2.87%) scikit-learn
10 7 (2.51%) RESTful
10 7 (2.51%) Spark Streaming
11 6 (2.15%) Flask
11 6 (2.15%) PyTorch
11 6 (2.15%) Redux
11 6 (2.15%) Spring
11 6 (2.15%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 41 (14.70%) Cloud Native
2 16 (5.73%) Legacy Systems
2 16 (5.73%) Product Ownership
3 12 (4.30%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (4.30%) Onboarding
4 9 (3.23%) Data Structures
4 9 (3.23%) Reference Data
5 8 (2.87%) Distributed Computing
5 8 (2.87%) NHS
6 7 (2.51%) AI Agents
6 7 (2.51%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (2.15%) Algorithms
7 6 (2.15%) Fixed Income
7 6 (2.15%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.79%) Derivative
8 5 (1.79%) Market Risk
8 5 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.79%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.43%) Pricing Data
10 3 (1.08%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.30%) Linux
1 12 (4.30%) Unix
2 1 (0.36%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (54.48%) Data Pipeline
2 150 (53.76%) Data Engineering
3 142 (50.90%) CI/CD
4 131 (46.95%) Analytics
5 108 (38.71%) Data Modelling
6 104 (37.28%) DevOps
7 99 (35.48%) ETL
8 95 (34.05%) Agile
9 85 (30.47%) AI
9 85 (30.47%) Business Intelligence
10 66 (23.66%) Data Governance
11 63 (22.58%) Machine Learning
12 58 (20.79%) Infrastructure as Code
13 55 (19.71%) Data Science
14 53 (19.00%) Migration
15 50 (17.92%) Data Transformation
16 46 (16.49%) Data Architecture
17 44 (15.77%) Validation
18 43 (15.41%) Performance Optimisation
19 37 (13.26%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 237 (84.95%) Python
2 197 (70.61%) SQL
3 18 (6.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 18 (6.45%) Java
4 12 (4.30%) Scala
5 11 (3.94%) C#
5 11 (3.94%) Shell Script
5 11 (3.94%) TypeScript
6 10 (3.58%) JavaScript
7 8 (2.87%) T-SQL
8 5 (1.79%) R
9 4 (1.43%) Bicep
9 4 (1.43%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.08%) SPARQL
11 2 (0.72%) Bash
11 2 (0.72%) Korn
11 2 (0.72%) SAS Macro
12 1 (0.36%) COBOL
12 1 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.36%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 61 (21.86%) Security Cleared
2 56 (20.07%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.38%) Degree
4 11 (3.94%) Azure Certification
5 8 (2.87%) AWS Certification
5 8 (2.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 8 (2.87%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.51%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.79%) PhD
8 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.72%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.72%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (39.78%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.30%) GDPR
3 8 (2.87%) QA
4 3 (1.08%) SLA
5 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.36%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.36%) MiFID
5 1 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (10.39%) Docker
2 1 (0.36%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (8.96%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.43%) Grafana
3 3 (1.08%) Ansible
4 1 (0.36%) Control-M
Vendors
1 129 (46.24%) Databricks
2 63 (22.58%) Microsoft
3 19 (6.81%) Palantir
4 16 (5.73%) Informatica
5 13 (4.66%) Foundry
6 9 (3.23%) OpenAI
7 6 (2.15%) Google
8 5 (1.79%) Cloudera
8 5 (1.79%) Oracle
9 4 (1.43%) Hortonworks
10 3 (1.08%) Apple
11 2 (0.72%) Salesforce
12 1 (0.36%) Atlassian
12 1 (0.36%) Bloomberg
12 1 (0.36%) NVIDIA
12 1 (0.36%) Reuters
12 1 (0.36%) SimCorp
12 1 (0.36%) Tagetik
12 1 (0.36%) Teradata
12 1 (0.36%) Trayport