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 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 193 280
Rank change year-on-year +7 +87 +109
Contract jobs citing PySpark 225 178 119
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.42% 1.32% 0.66%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.54% 5.00% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 137 104
10th Percentile £363 £475 £438
25th Percentile £413 £525 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £750 £550
Median % change year-on-year -31.67% +36.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £838 £651
90th Percentile £650 £888 £831
England median daily rate £513 £618 £550
% change year-on-year -17.00% +12.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
England median hourly rate - £65.00 -

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 4,061 3,557 4,447
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.64% 26.42% 24.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,750 2,370 3,354
10th Percentile £363 £382 £388
25th Percentile £425 £454 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 21 35
10th Percentile £27.80 £35.00 £20.12
25th Percentile £35.06 £38.50 £29.12
Median hourly rate £50.50 £52.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +23.53% -34.62%
75th Percentile £63.56 £65.00 £66.88
90th Percentile £92.50 £80.00 £74.46
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

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 26 February 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 26 February 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 +20 26 £513 -18.00% 9
West London -12 7 £625 -19.35%
East London - 1 £449 -
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 57 (25.33%) Apache Spark
2 15 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (5.33%) Apache
4 7 (3.11%) Palantir Foundry
4 7 (3.11%) SAS
5 6 (2.67%) Confluence
6 2 (0.89%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.44%) Camunda
Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 148 (65.78%) Azure
2 78 (34.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 63 (28.00%) AWS
4 57 (25.33%) Power Platform
5 56 (24.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 46 (20.44%) Azure DevOps
7 33 (14.67%) GitHub
8 21 (9.33%) Amazon S3
8 21 (9.33%) Serverless
9 19 (8.44%) GitHub Actions
10 15 (6.67%) GCP
11 13 (5.78%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (5.78%) dbt
11 13 (5.78%) Microsoft Purview
12 10 (4.44%) Amazon EMR
13 9 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
13 9 (4.00%) Snowflake
14 8 (3.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 7 (3.11%) AWS Step Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (24.89%) Data Lake
1 56 (24.89%) Data Warehouse
2 53 (23.56%) Power BI
3 46 (20.44%) Delta Lake
4 39 (17.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 27 (12.00%) NoSQL
6 25 (11.11%) Spark SQL
7 24 (10.67%) Metadata
8 22 (9.78%) Big Data
9 21 (9.33%) Amazon Redshift
10 17 (7.56%) Amazon Athena
11 15 (6.67%) Relational Database
12 13 (5.78%) Tableau
13 8 (3.56%) Hadoop
13 8 (3.56%) SQL Server
14 7 (3.11%) PostgreSQL
14 7 (3.11%) Snowflake Schema
15 5 (2.22%) Base SAS
15 5 (2.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 5 (2.22%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 66 (29.33%) Git
2 14 (6.22%) GitLab
3 10 (4.44%) MLflow
4 8 (3.56%) Jenkins
5 7 (3.11%) JIRA
6 2 (0.89%) ERwin
6 2 (0.89%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.44%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.44%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.44%) Gradle
7 1 (0.44%) SonarQube
General
1 68 (30.22%) Finance
2 46 (20.44%) Social Skills
3 16 (7.11%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (5.78%) Banking
4 13 (5.78%) Public Sector
5 12 (5.33%) Retail
6 4 (1.78%) Front Office
6 4 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.33%) Investment Banking
7 3 (1.33%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.33%) Marketing
8 2 (0.89%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (0.89%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.44%) Electronics
9 1 (0.44%) Law
9 1 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 126 (56.00%) Data Engineer
2 45 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
3 40 (17.78%) Azure Data Engineer
4 33 (14.67%) Senior
5 26 (11.56%) Senior Data Engineer
6 25 (11.11%) Lead
7 23 (10.22%) Developer
8 16 (7.11%) Architect
9 13 (5.78%) Python Engineer
10 10 (4.44%) Data Analytics Engineer
11 9 (4.00%) Lead Data Engineer
11 9 (4.00%) Python Data Engineer
12 8 (3.56%) AWS Engineer
12 8 (3.56%) Data Architect
12 8 (3.56%) Principal Engineer
13 7 (3.11%) Principal Software Engineer
13 7 (3.11%) Software Engineer
14 6 (2.67%) Data Scientist
15 5 (2.22%) Technical Leader
16 4 (1.78%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (9.78%) Kafka
2 16 (7.11%) Pandas
3 10 (4.44%) PyTorch
3 10 (4.44%) Spark Streaming
4 9 (4.00%) YAML
5 8 (3.56%) scikit-learn
6 6 (2.67%) REST
6 6 (2.67%) TensorFlow
7 5 (2.22%) NumPy
8 4 (1.78%) Apache NiFi
8 4 (1.78%) HTML
8 4 (1.78%) LangChain
9 3 (1.33%) .NET
9 3 (1.33%) ARM Templates
9 3 (1.33%) LangGraph
9 3 (1.33%) Matplotlib
9 3 (1.33%) Model Context Protocol
9 3 (1.33%) RESTful
9 3 (1.33%) XGBoost
10 2 (0.89%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.44%) Cloud Native
2 15 (6.67%) Distributed Computing
3 8 (3.56%) Data Structures
4 6 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.78%) AI Agents
5 4 (1.78%) Algorithms
5 4 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.33%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.89%) Autonomous Agent
7 2 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.89%) Educational Technology
7 2 (0.89%) Low-Code
7 2 (0.89%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.44%) Freedom of Information Act
8 1 (0.44%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.44%) Multi-touch
8 1 (0.44%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.44%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.33%) Linux
2 2 (0.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (56.89%) Data Engineering
2 119 (52.89%) Data Pipeline
3 98 (43.56%) Data Modelling
4 96 (42.67%) ETL
5 93 (41.33%) Analytics
6 89 (39.56%) CI/CD
7 86 (38.22%) Agile
8 79 (35.11%) Data Governance
9 78 (34.67%) DevOps
10 60 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
11 51 (22.67%) Data Science
12 49 (21.78%) Data Architecture
13 45 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
14 38 (16.89%) AI
15 34 (15.11%) Machine Learning
16 31 (13.78%) Data Integration
17 29 (12.89%) Data Transformation
17 29 (12.89%) Problem-Solving
18 27 (12.00%) Integration Patterns
18 27 (12.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 179 (79.56%) Python
2 159 (70.67%) SQL
3 54 (24.00%) Scala
4 14 (6.22%) Java
5 11 (4.89%) Bicep
6 9 (4.00%) JavaScript
7 7 (3.11%) R
8 5 (2.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (2.22%) SAS Macro
9 3 (1.33%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.33%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.89%) Ada
10 2 (0.89%) C#
10 2 (0.89%) C++
11 1 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.44%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.44%) VBA
Qualifications
1 69 (30.67%) Security Cleared
2 63 (28.00%) SC Cleared
3 19 (8.44%) Azure Certification
4 9 (4.00%) Degree
5 4 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.78%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.78%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.44%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (37.33%) Data Quality
2 15 (6.67%) GDPR
3 7 (3.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 6 (2.67%) QA
5 2 (0.89%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 22 (9.78%) Docker
2 4 (1.78%) HDFS
3 2 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 52 (23.11%) Terraform
2 21 (9.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.44%) Argo
3 1 (0.44%) Grafana
Vendors
1 129 (57.33%) Databricks
2 42 (18.67%) Microsoft
3 9 (4.00%) Foundry
4 7 (3.11%) Palantir
4 7 (3.11%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.78%) Guidewire
6 3 (1.33%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.33%) Oracle
6 3 (1.33%) SAP
7 2 (0.89%) Cloudera
7 2 (0.89%) Informatica
8 1 (0.44%) Confluent
8 1 (0.44%) Google
8 1 (0.44%) IBM
8 1 (0.44%) New Relic
8 1 (0.44%) RedGate
8 1 (0.44%) StreamSets