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

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 195 265
Rank change year-on-year 0 +70 +127
Contract jobs citing PySpark 208 173 137
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.40% 1.27% 0.73%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.36% 4.82% 2.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 132 116
10th Percentile £363 £464 £453
25th Percentile £413 £513 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -21.15% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £838 £650
90th Percentile £630 £888 £788
England median daily rate £513 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -14.58% +9.09% -2.22%
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 3,877 3,589 4,605
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.00% 26.30% 24.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,618 2,349 3,487
10th Percentile £363 £380 £385
25th Percentile £425 £460 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -5.93%
75th Percentile £669 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 21 29
10th Percentile £27.75 £35.00 £28.18
25th Percentile £35.00 £38.50 £35.63
Median hourly rate £47.00 £52.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.48% +10.53% -26.92%
75th Percentile £63.00 £65.00 £66.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £73.92
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%

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 8 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 8 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 +6 24 £513 -18.00% 14
West London -10 7 £625 - 2
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 54 (25.96%) Apache Spark
2 15 (7.21%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (6.73%) Apache
4 6 (2.88%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (0.96%) Confluence
5 2 (0.96%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.96%) SAS
6 1 (0.48%) Camunda
Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 140 (67.31%) Azure
2 76 (36.54%) Azure Data Factory
3 55 (26.44%) AWS
4 53 (25.48%) Power Platform
5 50 (24.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 41 (19.71%) Azure DevOps
7 29 (13.94%) GitHub
8 19 (9.13%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (8.65%) Serverless
10 16 (7.69%) Amazon S3
11 15 (7.21%) GCP
12 14 (6.73%) Microsoft Purview
13 12 (5.77%) AWS Lambda
14 9 (4.33%) dbt
14 9 (4.33%) Snowflake
15 8 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 6 (2.88%) AWS CloudFormation
16 6 (2.88%) AWS Step Functions
16 6 (2.88%) Azure Monitor
17 5 (2.40%) Azure Key Vault
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 48 (23.08%) Data Warehouse
2 48 (23.08%) Power BI
3 42 (20.19%) Delta Lake
4 36 (17.31%) Azure SQL Database
5 25 (12.02%) Metadata
5 25 (12.02%) NoSQL
6 20 (9.62%) Amazon Redshift
6 20 (9.62%) Spark SQL
7 16 (7.69%) Big Data
8 15 (7.21%) Relational Database
9 13 (6.25%) Tableau
10 12 (5.77%) Amazon Athena
11 8 (3.85%) Hadoop
11 8 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
11 8 (3.85%) SQL Server
12 6 (2.88%) Parquet
12 6 (2.88%) Snowflake Schema
13 5 (2.40%) Star Schema
14 4 (1.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 54 (25.96%) Git
2 11 (5.29%) GitLab
3 10 (4.81%) MLflow
4 8 (3.85%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.44%) JIRA
6 2 (0.96%) ERwin
6 2 (0.96%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.48%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.48%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.48%) Gradle
7 1 (0.48%) SonarQube
General
1 56 (26.92%) Finance
2 41 (19.71%) Social Skills
3 16 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (4.81%) Public Sector
4 10 (4.81%) Retail
5 7 (3.37%) Banking
6 5 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.92%) Front Office
7 4 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.44%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.44%) Marketing
9 1 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.48%) Electronics
9 1 (0.48%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.48%) Law
9 1 (0.48%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 119 (57.21%) Data Engineer
2 42 (20.19%) Azure Engineer
3 37 (17.79%) Azure Data Engineer
4 26 (12.50%) Senior
5 21 (10.10%) Senior Data Engineer
6 20 (9.62%) Developer
7 19 (9.13%) Lead
8 16 (7.69%) Architect
9 13 (6.25%) Python Engineer
10 10 (4.81%) Data Analytics Engineer
11 9 (4.33%) Data Architect
11 9 (4.33%) Python Data Engineer
12 7 (3.37%) AWS Engineer
12 7 (3.37%) Lead Data Engineer
12 7 (3.37%) Principal Engineer
12 7 (3.37%) Principal Software Engineer
12 7 (3.37%) Software Engineer
13 5 (2.40%) Data Scientist
14 4 (1.92%) Support Engineer
14 4 (1.92%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (10.58%) Kafka
2 16 (7.69%) Pandas
3 9 (4.33%) PyTorch
3 9 (4.33%) YAML
4 8 (3.85%) Spark Streaming
5 6 (2.88%) REST
5 6 (2.88%) scikit-learn
6 5 (2.40%) NumPy
6 5 (2.40%) TensorFlow
7 4 (1.92%) Apache NiFi
8 3 (1.44%) .NET
8 3 (1.44%) ARM Templates
8 3 (1.44%) HTML
8 3 (1.44%) LangChain
8 3 (1.44%) Matplotlib
8 3 (1.44%) Model Context Protocol
8 3 (1.44%) RESTful
9 2 (0.96%) JSON
9 2 (0.96%) LangGraph
9 2 (0.96%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.73%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.25%) Distributed Computing
3 8 (3.85%) Data Structures
4 6 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.44%) AI Agents
6 3 (1.44%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.44%) Low-Code
7 2 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.96%) Educational Technology
7 2 (0.96%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.48%) Autonomous Agent
8 1 (0.48%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.48%) Freedom of Information Act
8 1 (0.48%) Multi-touch
8 1 (0.48%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.48%) Replication
8 1 (0.48%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.44%) Linux
2 2 (0.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (55.77%) Data Engineering
2 107 (51.44%) Data Pipeline
3 89 (42.79%) Data Modelling
4 86 (41.35%) ETL
5 79 (37.98%) Analytics
5 79 (37.98%) Data Governance
6 77 (37.02%) Agile
7 73 (35.10%) CI/CD
8 64 (30.77%) DevOps
9 55 (26.44%) Business Intelligence
10 49 (23.56%) Data Architecture
11 46 (22.12%) Data Science
12 36 (17.31%) Infrastructure as Code
13 32 (15.38%) AI
13 32 (15.38%) Data Integration
14 29 (13.94%) Machine Learning
15 28 (13.46%) Data Transformation
15 28 (13.46%) Integration Patterns
15 28 (13.46%) Problem-Solving
16 22 (10.58%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 161 (77.40%) Python
2 149 (71.63%) SQL
3 52 (25.00%) Scala
4 15 (7.21%) Java
5 11 (5.29%) Bicep
6 9 (4.33%) JavaScript
7 7 (3.37%) R
8 5 (2.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.44%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.44%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.96%) Ada
10 2 (0.96%) C#
10 2 (0.96%) C++
11 1 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.48%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.48%) VBA
Qualifications
1 65 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 61 (29.33%) SC Cleared
3 19 (9.13%) Azure Certification
4 9 (4.33%) Degree
5 4 (1.92%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.92%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.48%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (36.54%) Data Quality
2 16 (7.69%) GDPR
3 7 (3.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (2.40%) QA
5 2 (0.96%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 23 (11.06%) Docker
2 4 (1.92%) HDFS
3 1 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 42 (20.19%) Terraform
2 22 (10.58%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.48%) Argo
3 1 (0.48%) Grafana
Vendors
1 123 (59.13%) Databricks
2 38 (18.27%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.85%) Salesforce
4 6 (2.88%) Foundry
4 6 (2.88%) Palantir
5 4 (1.92%) Guidewire
6 3 (1.44%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.44%) Oracle
6 3 (1.44%) SAP
7 2 (0.96%) Cloudera
7 2 (0.96%) Informatica
8 1 (0.48%) Confluent
8 1 (0.48%) IBM
8 1 (0.48%) New Relic
8 1 (0.48%) RedGate
8 1 (0.48%) StreamSets