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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 211 219 205
Rank change year-on-year +8 -14 +110
Contract jobs citing PySpark 237 155 207
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.19% 1.14% 1.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.25% 4.39% 4.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 115 164
10th Percentile £388 £403 £425
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £558
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +7.62% -10.80%
75th Percentile £638 £838 £763
90th Percentile £736 £875 £875
England median daily rate £516 £571 £550
% change year-on-year -9.63% +3.86% -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 4,517 3,530 4,633
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.71% 26.03% 26.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,990 2,453 3,379
10th Percentile £392 £375 £375
25th Percentile £450 £430 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £671 £700 £725
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 24 26
10th Percentile £24.30 £31.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.25 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.50 £48.22 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.86% +20.55% -40.74%
75th Percentile £73.00 £62.81 £58.76
90th Percentile £92.50 £81.88 £71.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £58.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% +3.45% -8.66%

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 18 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 18 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 -7 31 £538 -19.78% 3
West London -11 2 £633 -18.39% 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 47 (19.83%) Apache Spark
2 31 (13.08%) Apache
2 31 (13.08%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (5.06%) Confluence
4 10 (4.22%) Palantir Foundry
5 8 (3.38%) SAS
6 1 (0.42%) Camunda
Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 122 (51.48%) Azure
2 92 (38.82%) AWS
3 63 (26.58%) Power Platform
4 56 (23.63%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (19.83%) Azure Data Factory
6 45 (18.99%) Amazon S3
6 45 (18.99%) GitHub
7 43 (18.14%) Serverless
8 38 (16.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 36 (15.19%) AWS Lambda
10 27 (11.39%) dbt
11 25 (10.55%) Amazon EMR
11 25 (10.55%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (5.91%) Azure AI
13 13 (5.49%) GCP
13 13 (5.49%) Snowflake
14 12 (5.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 11 (4.64%) AWS CloudFormation
16 10 (4.22%) Azure Monitor
17 9 (3.80%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.42%) Firewall
1 1 (0.42%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (26.58%) Power BI
2 47 (19.83%) Delta Lake
3 46 (19.41%) Data Lake
4 34 (14.35%) Data Warehouse
5 30 (12.66%) Amazon Athena
6 29 (12.24%) Amazon Redshift
6 29 (12.24%) Spark SQL
7 24 (10.13%) Metadata
8 20 (8.44%) Big Data
9 11 (4.64%) Azure SQL Database
9 11 (4.64%) Snowflake Schema
10 8 (3.38%) NoSQL
10 8 (3.38%) Tableau
11 7 (2.95%) Neo4j
11 7 (2.95%) Parquet
11 7 (2.95%) SQL Server
11 7 (2.95%) Star Schema
12 6 (2.53%) Base SAS
13 5 (2.11%) Data Vault
13 5 (2.11%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 41 (17.30%) Git
2 28 (11.81%) GitLab
3 18 (7.59%) JIRA
4 10 (4.22%) MLflow
5 3 (1.27%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.84%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.42%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.42%) ERwin
7 1 (0.42%) Postman
7 1 (0.42%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 93 (39.24%) Finance
2 55 (23.21%) Social Skills
3 30 (12.66%) Public Sector
4 24 (10.13%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (9.28%) Banking
6 7 (2.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.11%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.11%) Marketing
8 4 (1.69%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.27%) Retail
10 2 (0.84%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.84%) Front Office
10 2 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.84%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.42%) Law
11 1 (0.42%) Legal
11 1 (0.42%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.42%) Publishing
11 1 (0.42%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 131 (55.27%) Data Engineer
2 60 (25.32%) Senior
3 34 (14.35%) Senior Data Engineer
4 23 (9.70%) Lead
5 21 (8.86%) Architect
6 18 (7.59%) Developer
7 14 (5.91%) Platform Engineer
8 13 (5.49%) Data Scientist
9 12 (5.06%) Data Architect
9 12 (5.06%) Python Engineer
10 11 (4.64%) AWS Engineer
11 10 (4.22%) Azure Engineer
11 10 (4.22%) Senior Developer
12 9 (3.80%) Azure Data Engineer
13 7 (2.95%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 7 (2.95%) Lead Data Engineer
14 6 (2.53%) AWS Data Engineer
14 6 (2.53%) Informatica Engineer
14 6 (2.53%) Principal Engineer
14 6 (2.53%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (10.55%) Kafka
2 17 (7.17%) Pandas
3 13 (5.49%) React
4 12 (5.06%) REST
5 9 (3.80%) Great Expectations
5 9 (3.80%) scikit-learn
6 8 (3.38%) .NET
6 8 (3.38%) JSON
6 8 (3.38%) NumPy
7 7 (2.95%) .NET Core
7 7 (2.95%) pytest
7 7 (2.95%) PyTorch
7 7 (2.95%) Spark Streaming
8 6 (2.53%) FastAPI
8 6 (2.53%) RESTful
8 6 (2.53%) Spring
8 6 (2.53%) Spring Boot
9 5 (2.11%) Redux
10 4 (1.69%) Flask
10 4 (1.69%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 44 (18.57%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.91%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (4.22%) Distributed Computing
4 8 (3.38%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.38%) NHS
5 7 (2.95%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (2.95%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.95%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.53%) Algorithms
6 6 (2.53%) Reference Data
7 5 (2.11%) AI Agents
7 5 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.69%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.69%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.27%) Derivative
9 3 (1.27%) Market Risk
9 3 (1.27%) Marketing Technology
10 2 (0.84%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.84%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.22%) Linux
2 9 (3.80%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (54.43%) CI/CD
2 128 (54.01%) Data Pipeline
3 122 (51.48%) Data Engineering
4 108 (45.57%) Analytics
5 95 (40.08%) ETL
6 93 (39.24%) DevOps
7 88 (37.13%) Data Modelling
8 80 (33.76%) Agile
9 68 (28.69%) Business Intelligence
10 64 (27.00%) AI
11 61 (25.74%) Infrastructure as Code
12 55 (23.21%) Data Governance
13 54 (22.78%) Data Science
14 45 (18.99%) Machine Learning
15 42 (17.72%) Migration
16 32 (13.50%) Performance Optimisation
17 31 (13.08%) Data Architecture
18 30 (12.66%) Data Transformation
19 28 (11.81%) Problem-Solving
20 27 (11.39%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 206 (86.92%) Python
2 157 (66.24%) SQL
3 20 (8.44%) Scala
4 19 (8.02%) Java
5 13 (5.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 10 (4.22%) TypeScript
7 9 (3.80%) C#
8 8 (3.38%) Shell Script
8 8 (3.38%) T-SQL
9 6 (2.53%) JavaScript
9 6 (2.53%) SAS Macro
10 3 (1.27%) Bicep
10 3 (1.27%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.27%) SPARQL
11 2 (0.84%) Bash
12 1 (0.42%) Korn
12 1 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.42%) R
Qualifications
1 66 (27.85%) Security Cleared
2 60 (25.32%) SC Cleared
3 17 (7.17%) Degree
4 11 (4.64%) Azure Certification
5 10 (4.22%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (3.38%) Master's Degree
7 7 (2.95%) AWS Certification
7 7 (2.95%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 5 (2.11%) PhD
9 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.84%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.84%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (32.07%) Data Quality
2 11 (4.64%) GDPR
3 4 (1.69%) QA
4 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.42%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (0.42%) MiFID
4 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (8.02%) Docker
2 2 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.42%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 67 (28.27%) Terraform
2 18 (7.59%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.69%) Grafana
Vendors
1 100 (42.19%) Databricks
2 48 (20.25%) Microsoft
3 18 (7.59%) Palantir
4 14 (5.91%) Informatica
5 12 (5.06%) Foundry
6 9 (3.80%) OpenAI
7 6 (2.53%) Google
8 5 (2.11%) Cloudera
9 4 (1.69%) Hortonworks
10 3 (1.27%) Apple
11 2 (0.84%) Oracle
11 2 (0.84%) Salesforce
12 1 (0.42%) Bloomberg
12 1 (0.42%) Reuters
12 1 (0.42%) SimCorp
12 1 (0.42%) Tagetik
12 1 (0.42%) Trayport