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 23 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 193 255
Rank change year-on-year +3 +62 +69
Contract jobs citing PySpark 250 151 147
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.37% 1.25% 0.84%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.95% 4.78% 3.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 116 123
10th Percentile £363 £456 £428
25th Percentile £425 £533 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £775 £550
Median % change year-on-year -32.90% +40.91% -10.57%
75th Percentile £588 £875 £650
90th Percentile £675 - £795
England median daily rate £513 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -21.15% +18.18% -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 4,203 3,159 4,485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.07% 26.05% 25.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,794 2,211 3,351
10th Percentile £371 £385 £375
25th Percentile £438 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £838
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 16 25
10th Percentile £23.65 £31.16 £16.25
25th Percentile £28.00 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £37.50 £38.91 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% -8.45% -39.29%
75th Percentile £59.72 £57.19 £62.50
90th Percentile £91.00 £81.25 £71.80
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%

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 23 May 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 23 May 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 -4 33 £505 -21.16% 16
West London -23 6 £625 -19.35%
East London - 1 £449 - 4
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 66 (26.40%) Apache Spark
2 32 (12.80%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (11.20%) Apache
4 7 (2.80%) Palantir Foundry
4 7 (2.80%) SAS
5 4 (1.60%) Confluence
6 1 (0.40%) Camunda
Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.40%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 150 (60.00%) Azure
2 84 (33.60%) AWS
3 67 (26.80%) Azure Data Factory
4 65 (26.00%) Power Platform
5 63 (25.20%) Azure DevOps
6 52 (20.80%) GitHub
7 50 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 42 (16.80%) Serverless
9 36 (14.40%) Amazon S3
10 32 (12.80%) GitHub Actions
11 31 (12.40%) AWS Lambda
12 15 (6.00%) GCP
12 15 (6.00%) Microsoft Purview
13 14 (5.60%) dbt
14 13 (5.20%) Amazon EMR
14 13 (5.20%) AWS CloudFormation
15 11 (4.40%) AWS Step Functions
15 11 (4.40%) Snowflake
16 10 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 10 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (26.80%) Data Lake
2 63 (25.20%) Power BI
3 57 (22.80%) Delta Lake
4 39 (15.60%) Data Warehouse
5 36 (14.40%) Spark SQL
6 30 (12.00%) Amazon Athena
6 30 (12.00%) Metadata
7 28 (11.20%) Azure SQL Database
8 27 (10.80%) Amazon Redshift
9 23 (9.20%) Big Data
10 18 (7.20%) NoSQL
11 13 (5.20%) SQL Server
12 12 (4.80%) Tableau
13 11 (4.40%) Relational Database
14 10 (4.00%) Snowflake Schema
15 9 (3.60%) Parquet
16 6 (2.40%) Base SAS
17 5 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
17 5 (2.00%) Neo4j
17 5 (2.00%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 65 (26.00%) Git
2 20 (8.00%) GitLab
3 12 (4.80%) MLflow
4 10 (4.00%) JIRA
5 7 (2.80%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.40%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.40%) ERwin
6 1 (0.40%) Postman
6 1 (0.40%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.40%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 83 (33.20%) Finance
2 46 (18.40%) Social Skills
3 27 (10.80%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (6.00%) Banking
4 15 (6.00%) Public Sector
5 7 (2.80%) Retail
6 5 (2.00%) Marketing
7 3 (1.20%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.20%) Investment Banking
7 3 (1.20%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.80%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.80%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.40%) Law
9 1 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.40%) Publishing
9 1 (0.40%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 145 (58.00%) Data Engineer
2 51 (20.40%) Senior
3 33 (13.20%) Azure Engineer
4 32 (12.80%) Senior Data Engineer
5 29 (11.60%) Azure Data Engineer
6 24 (9.60%) Developer
7 22 (8.80%) Lead
8 14 (5.60%) Python Engineer
9 13 (5.20%) Architect
10 10 (4.00%) AWS Engineer
10 10 (4.00%) Data Scientist
11 9 (3.60%) Data Analytics Engineer
11 9 (3.60%) Data Architect
11 9 (3.60%) Platform Engineer
11 9 (3.60%) Principal Engineer
12 8 (3.20%) Python Data Engineer
12 8 (3.20%) Software Engineer
13 7 (2.80%) Lead Data Engineer
13 7 (2.80%) Senior Developer
14 6 (2.40%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (12.40%) Kafka
2 22 (8.80%) Pandas
3 13 (5.20%) Spark Streaming
4 12 (4.80%) REST
5 11 (4.40%) PyTorch
5 11 (4.40%) React
6 9 (3.60%) Great Expectations
6 9 (3.60%) scikit-learn
7 7 (2.80%) pytest
8 6 (2.40%) JSON
9 5 (2.00%) .NET
9 5 (2.00%) .NET Core
9 5 (2.00%) HTML
9 5 (2.00%) Node.js
9 5 (2.00%) NumPy
9 5 (2.00%) RESTful
9 5 (2.00%) Spring
9 5 (2.00%) Spring Boot
10 4 (1.60%) Redux
10 4 (1.60%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 40 (16.00%) Cloud Native
2 18 (7.20%) Distributed Computing
3 9 (3.60%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.80%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.40%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (2.00%) AI Agents
6 5 (2.00%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.60%) Reference Data
8 3 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.20%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.20%) Marketing Technology
8 3 (1.20%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.20%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.80%) Equities
9 2 (0.80%) Fixed Income
9 2 (0.80%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.80%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.40%) Autonomous Agent
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.80%) Unix
2 6 (2.40%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (54.00%) Data Engineering
2 133 (53.20%) Data Pipeline
3 119 (47.60%) CI/CD
4 107 (42.80%) ETL
5 106 (42.40%) Analytics
6 105 (42.00%) Data Modelling
7 94 (37.60%) DevOps
8 89 (35.60%) Agile
9 75 (30.00%) Data Governance
10 62 (24.80%) Business Intelligence
11 57 (22.80%) AI
12 51 (20.40%) Infrastructure as Code
13 50 (20.00%) Data Science
14 43 (17.20%) Data Architecture
15 39 (15.60%) Machine Learning
16 33 (13.20%) Migration
17 31 (12.40%) Problem-Solving
18 30 (12.00%) Performance Tuning
19 29 (11.60%) Performance Optimisation
20 28 (11.20%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 215 (86.00%) Python
2 169 (67.60%) SQL
3 47 (18.80%) Scala
4 26 (10.40%) Java
5 10 (4.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 9 (3.60%) TypeScript
7 8 (3.20%) C#
8 7 (2.80%) Bicep
8 7 (2.80%) JavaScript
9 6 (2.40%) R
9 6 (2.40%) SAS Macro
9 6 (2.40%) Shell Script
9 6 (2.40%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.80%) Ada
10 2 (0.80%) C++
10 2 (0.80%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.80%) SPARQL
11 1 (0.40%) Bash
11 1 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.40%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 73 (29.20%) Security Cleared
2 65 (26.00%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.60%) Degree
4 13 (5.20%) Azure Certification
5 8 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.60%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.80%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.80%) PhD
9 1 (0.40%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (36.40%) Data Quality
2 16 (6.40%) GDPR
3 7 (2.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (1.20%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.20%) QA
5 2 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.40%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.40%) MiFID
6 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (10.80%) Docker
2 2 (0.80%) HDFS
2 2 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 62 (24.80%) Terraform
2 26 (10.40%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 125 (50.00%) Databricks
2 51 (20.40%) Microsoft
3 9 (3.60%) Foundry
4 7 (2.80%) Palantir
5 6 (2.40%) Google
6 4 (1.60%) Cloudera
6 4 (1.60%) Hortonworks
6 4 (1.60%) OpenAI
6 4 (1.60%) Oracle
6 4 (1.60%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.20%) Apple
8 2 (0.80%) Informatica
8 2 (0.80%) SAP
9 1 (0.40%) New Relic
9 1 (0.40%) SimCorp