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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 206 237
Rank change year-on-year +7 +31 +88
Contract jobs citing PySpark 240 151 167
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.27% 1.23% 0.94%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.54% 4.65% 3.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 114 136
10th Percentile £363 £413 £431
25th Percentile £425 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £750 £550
Median % change year-on-year -30.67% +36.36% -11.29%
75th Percentile £625 £838 £709
90th Percentile £714 £875 £844
England median daily rate £513 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -14.58% +9.09% -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 4,330 3,245 4,671
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.97% 26.43% 26.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,873 2,279 3,456
10th Percentile £375 £381 £375
25th Percentile £447 £432 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £554 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.72% -3.65% -4.17%
75th Percentile £673 £713 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £846
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 18 29
10th Percentile £23.65 £32.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £33.02 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.00 £43.66 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% +2.72% -36.80%
75th Percentile £68.38 £64.38 £62.50
90th Percentile £93.75 £87.88 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £49.75
% change year-on-year +4.00% +25.63% -23.46%

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 13 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 13 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 -7 35 £509 -27.06% 16
West London -21 4 £625 -19.35%
East London - 1 £449 - 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 52 (21.67%) Apache Spark
2 29 (12.08%) Apache Airflow
3 25 (10.42%) Apache
4 9 (3.75%) Confluence
4 9 (3.75%) Palantir Foundry
5 8 (3.33%) SAS
6 1 (0.42%) Camunda
Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 131 (54.58%) Azure
2 87 (36.25%) AWS
3 70 (29.17%) Power Platform
4 60 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
5 56 (23.33%) GitHub
6 55 (22.92%) Azure Data Factory
7 46 (19.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 44 (18.33%) Serverless
9 42 (17.50%) Amazon S3
10 35 (14.58%) GitHub Actions
11 34 (14.17%) AWS Lambda
12 19 (7.92%) Amazon EMR
12 19 (7.92%) dbt
13 14 (5.83%) Microsoft Purview
14 13 (5.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 12 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
15 12 (5.00%) Azure AI
15 12 (5.00%) Snowflake
16 11 (4.58%) Azure Monitor
17 10 (4.17%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.42%) Firewall
1 1 (0.42%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (28.75%) Power BI
2 55 (22.92%) Data Lake
3 50 (20.83%) Delta Lake
4 32 (13.33%) Amazon Athena
4 32 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
4 32 (13.33%) Spark SQL
5 31 (12.92%) Amazon Redshift
6 26 (10.83%) Metadata
7 22 (9.17%) Big Data
8 18 (7.50%) Azure SQL Database
9 11 (4.58%) Parquet
9 11 (4.58%) Snowflake Schema
9 11 (4.58%) SQL Server
10 10 (4.17%) NoSQL
11 9 (3.75%) Tableau
12 8 (3.33%) Relational Database
13 7 (2.92%) Neo4j
14 6 (2.50%) Base SAS
14 6 (2.50%) Star Schema
15 5 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 52 (21.67%) Git
2 26 (10.83%) GitLab
3 15 (6.25%) JIRA
4 11 (4.58%) MLflow
5 5 (2.08%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.42%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.42%) Postman
6 1 (0.42%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 85 (35.42%) Finance
2 51 (21.25%) Social Skills
3 26 (10.83%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (7.50%) Public Sector
5 17 (7.08%) Banking
6 5 (2.08%) Marketing
7 4 (1.67%) Retail
8 3 (1.25%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.25%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.25%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.83%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.83%) Front Office
9 2 (0.83%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.42%) Local Government
10 1 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.42%) Publishing
10 1 (0.42%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 137 (57.08%) Data Engineer
2 52 (21.67%) Senior
3 34 (14.17%) Senior Data Engineer
4 20 (8.33%) Lead
5 18 (7.50%) Azure Engineer
5 18 (7.50%) Developer
6 17 (7.08%) Architect
6 17 (7.08%) Azure Data Engineer
7 15 (6.25%) Python Engineer
8 12 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
9 11 (4.58%) Data Scientist
10 9 (3.75%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (3.75%) Python Data Engineer
11 8 (3.33%) Data Architect
11 8 (3.33%) Principal Engineer
11 8 (3.33%) Senior Developer
12 7 (2.92%) Data Analytics Engineer
12 7 (2.92%) Lead Data Engineer
13 6 (2.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 6 (2.50%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (11.25%) Kafka
2 23 (9.58%) Pandas
3 14 (5.83%) REST
4 12 (5.00%) React
5 11 (4.58%) PyTorch
5 11 (4.58%) scikit-learn
6 10 (4.17%) Spark Streaming
7 9 (3.75%) Great Expectations
8 8 (3.33%) JSON
9 7 (2.92%) .NET
9 7 (2.92%) .NET Core
9 7 (2.92%) NumPy
9 7 (2.92%) pytest
10 6 (2.50%) Node.js
10 6 (2.50%) RESTful
11 5 (2.08%) HTML
11 5 (2.08%) Redux
11 5 (2.08%) Spring
11 5 (2.08%) Spring Boot
12 4 (1.67%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 46 (19.17%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.83%) Distributed Computing
3 10 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.92%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (2.92%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (2.92%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.08%) AI Agents
5 5 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.67%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.67%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.67%) Reference Data
7 3 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.25%) Marketing Technology
7 3 (1.25%) NHS
7 3 (1.25%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.25%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.83%) Equities
8 2 (0.83%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.83%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.92%) Unix
2 6 (2.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (52.08%) Data Pipeline
2 124 (51.67%) CI/CD
3 120 (50.00%) Data Engineering
4 101 (42.08%) Analytics
5 97 (40.42%) ETL
6 91 (37.92%) Data Modelling
6 91 (37.92%) DevOps
7 82 (34.17%) Agile
8 71 (29.58%) AI
9 69 (28.75%) Business Intelligence
10 59 (24.58%) Data Governance
10 59 (24.58%) Infrastructure as Code
11 54 (22.50%) Data Science
12 43 (17.92%) Machine Learning
13 37 (15.42%) Migration
14 30 (12.50%) Data Architecture
15 28 (11.67%) Performance Optimisation
15 28 (11.67%) Performance Tuning
15 28 (11.67%) Use Case
16 27 (11.25%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 210 (87.50%) Python
2 159 (66.25%) SQL
3 29 (12.08%) Scala
4 24 (10.00%) Java
5 11 (4.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 10 (4.17%) C#
6 10 (4.17%) TypeScript
7 8 (3.33%) Bicep
8 7 (2.92%) T-SQL
9 6 (2.50%) JavaScript
9 6 (2.50%) SAS Macro
9 6 (2.50%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.67%) R
11 2 (0.83%) Ada
11 2 (0.83%) C++
11 2 (0.83%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.83%) SPARQL
12 1 (0.42%) Bash
12 1 (0.42%) Korn
12 1 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 69 (28.75%) Security Cleared
2 63 (26.25%) SC Cleared
3 17 (7.08%) Degree
4 14 (5.83%) Azure Certification
5 11 (4.58%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.92%) Master's Degree
8 6 (2.50%) AWS Certification
8 6 (2.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (1.67%) PhD
10 3 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.83%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.42%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (32.08%) Data Quality
2 15 (6.25%) GDPR
3 4 (1.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (1.25%) QA
5 2 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.42%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.42%) MiFID
6 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 25 (10.42%) Docker
2 2 (0.83%) HDFS
2 2 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.42%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 70 (29.17%) Terraform
2 23 (9.58%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.08%) Grafana
Vendors
1 102 (42.50%) Databricks
2 55 (22.92%) Microsoft
3 12 (5.00%) Palantir
4 11 (4.58%) Foundry
5 8 (3.33%) OpenAI
6 7 (2.92%) Informatica
7 6 (2.50%) Google
8 4 (1.67%) Cloudera
8 4 (1.67%) Hortonworks
9 3 (1.25%) Apple
9 3 (1.25%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.83%) Oracle
11 1 (0.42%) New Relic
11 1 (0.42%) SAP
11 1 (0.42%) SimCorp