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 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 223 200
Rank change year-on-year +23 -23 +126
Contract jobs citing PySpark 261 147 198
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.30% 1.08% 1.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.72% 4.14% 4.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 112 156
10th Percentile £388 £401 £425
25th Percentile £450 £463 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £650 £838 £775
90th Percentile £738 £875 £875
England median daily rate £520 £571 £550
% change year-on-year -8.97% +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 4,566 3,555 4,443
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.66% 26.07% 27.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,025 2,493 3,217
10th Percentile £390 £371 £375
25th Percentile £450 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £725
90th Percentile £785 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 24 25
10th Percentile £23.69 £31.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £32.09 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.16 £51.97 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +38.59% -43.18%
75th Percentile £60.63 £62.81 £50.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £71.03 £71.80
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -6.25%

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 1 August 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 1 August 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 +2 35 £550 -17.91% 14
West London -16 1 £640 -17.42% 4
East London - 1 £449 - 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 62 (23.75%) Apache Spark
2 41 (15.71%) Apache
3 37 (14.18%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (4.60%) Confluence
4 12 (4.60%) Palantir Foundry
5 8 (3.07%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 136 (52.11%) Azure
2 97 (37.16%) AWS
3 66 (25.29%) Power Platform
4 64 (24.52%) Azure DevOps
5 58 (22.22%) Azure Data Factory
6 45 (17.24%) GitHub
7 44 (16.86%) Amazon S3
8 43 (16.48%) Serverless
9 40 (15.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 36 (13.79%) AWS Lambda
11 29 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
12 28 (10.73%) dbt
13 25 (9.58%) Amazon EMR
14 19 (7.28%) GCP
15 14 (5.36%) Azure AI
15 14 (5.36%) Snowflake
16 12 (4.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 10 (3.83%) AWS CloudFormation
17 10 (3.83%) Microsoft Purview
18 9 (3.45%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.38%) Firewall
1 1 (0.38%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (25.29%) Power BI
2 54 (20.69%) Delta Lake
3 46 (17.62%) Data Lake
4 41 (15.71%) Data Warehouse
5 33 (12.64%) Amazon Redshift
6 29 (11.11%) Spark SQL
7 28 (10.73%) Amazon Athena
8 27 (10.34%) Metadata
9 23 (8.81%) Big Data
10 10 (3.83%) Snowflake Schema
11 9 (3.45%) SQL Server
11 9 (3.45%) Tableau
12 8 (3.07%) Azure SQL Database
12 8 (3.07%) NoSQL
13 7 (2.68%) BigQuery
13 7 (2.68%) Neo4j
13 7 (2.68%) Parquet
13 7 (2.68%) Relational Database
13 7 (2.68%) Star Schema
14 6 (2.30%) Base SAS
Development Applications
1 37 (14.18%) Git
2 29 (11.11%) GitLab
3 18 (6.90%) JIRA
4 12 (4.60%) MLflow
5 4 (1.53%) ER Studio
5 4 (1.53%) ERwin
6 3 (1.15%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.15%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.77%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.38%) Postman
8 1 (0.38%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.38%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 110 (42.15%) Finance
2 65 (24.90%) Social Skills
3 33 (12.64%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (12.26%) Banking
5 30 (11.49%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (3.07%) Investment Banking
7 7 (2.68%) Financial Institution
8 5 (1.92%) Marketing
9 4 (1.53%) Retail
10 3 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.77%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.77%) Front Office
11 2 (0.77%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.38%) Law
12 1 (0.38%) Legal
12 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.38%) Publishing
12 1 (0.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 141 (54.02%) Data Engineer
2 67 (25.67%) Senior
3 38 (14.56%) Senior Data Engineer
4 27 (10.34%) Lead
5 25 (9.58%) Architect
6 21 (8.05%) Developer
7 16 (6.13%) Data Architect
8 14 (5.36%) Data Scientist
9 13 (4.98%) Platform Engineer
9 13 (4.98%) Python Engineer
9 13 (4.98%) Senior Developer
10 12 (4.60%) Azure Engineer
11 11 (4.21%) AWS Engineer
11 11 (4.21%) Azure Data Engineer
12 9 (3.45%) Lead Data Engineer
13 7 (2.68%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 7 (2.68%) Python Data Engineer
13 7 (2.68%) Python Developer
14 6 (2.30%) Full-Stack Developer
14 6 (2.30%) Informatica Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (12.64%) Kafka
2 23 (8.81%) Pandas
3 16 (6.13%) REST
4 14 (5.36%) React
5 13 (4.98%) NumPy
6 12 (4.60%) pytest
7 9 (3.45%) .NET
7 9 (3.45%) FastAPI
7 9 (3.45%) Great Expectations
7 9 (3.45%) scikit-learn
8 8 (3.07%) .NET Core
8 8 (3.07%) JSON
9 7 (2.68%) PyTorch
9 7 (2.68%) RESTful
9 7 (2.68%) Spark Streaming
10 6 (2.30%) Flask
10 6 (2.30%) Redux
10 6 (2.30%) Spring
10 6 (2.30%) Spring Boot
11 5 (1.92%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 45 (17.24%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.13%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (4.60%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (4.21%) Product Ownership
5 9 (3.45%) Data Structures
5 9 (3.45%) Distributed Computing
5 9 (3.45%) Reference Data
6 8 (3.07%) NHS
6 8 (3.07%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.68%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (2.30%) Algorithms
8 6 (2.30%) Fixed Income
8 6 (2.30%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.92%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.92%) Derivative
9 5 (1.92%) Market Risk
9 5 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.53%) Pricing Data
10 4 (1.53%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.15%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.60%) Linux
2 11 (4.21%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (53.64%) Data Pipeline
2 134 (51.34%) CI/CD
2 134 (51.34%) Data Engineering
3 127 (48.66%) Analytics
4 105 (40.23%) Data Modelling
5 104 (39.85%) DevOps
6 100 (38.31%) ETL
7 89 (34.10%) Agile
8 76 (29.12%) Business Intelligence
9 69 (26.44%) AI
10 61 (23.37%) Data Governance
11 59 (22.61%) Infrastructure as Code
12 56 (21.46%) Data Science
13 53 (20.31%) Machine Learning
14 45 (17.24%) Migration
15 40 (15.33%) Data Transformation
16 39 (14.94%) Data Architecture
17 37 (14.18%) Performance Optimisation
18 34 (13.03%) Validation
19 32 (12.26%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 224 (85.82%) Python
2 179 (68.58%) SQL
3 18 (6.90%) Java
4 17 (6.51%) Scala
5 14 (5.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 11 (4.21%) C#
6 11 (4.21%) TypeScript
7 10 (3.83%) Shell Script
8 8 (3.07%) T-SQL
9 7 (2.68%) JavaScript
10 6 (2.30%) SAS Macro
11 4 (1.53%) Bicep
11 4 (1.53%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.15%) SPARQL
13 2 (0.77%) Bash
14 1 (0.38%) Korn
14 1 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.38%) R
Qualifications
1 67 (25.67%) Security Cleared
2 60 (22.99%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.13%) Degree
4 12 (4.60%) Azure Certification
5 11 (4.21%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (2.68%) AWS Certification
6 7 (2.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 7 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.68%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.92%) PhD
8 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.77%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.77%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (34.48%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.60%) GDPR
3 5 (1.92%) QA
4 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.38%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (0.38%) MiFID
4 1 (0.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (8.43%) Docker
2 1 (0.38%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 65 (24.90%) Terraform
2 21 (8.05%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.53%) Grafana
Vendors
1 110 (42.15%) Databricks
2 55 (21.07%) Microsoft
3 20 (7.66%) Palantir
4 14 (5.36%) Foundry
4 14 (5.36%) Informatica
5 9 (3.45%) OpenAI
6 6 (2.30%) Google
7 5 (1.92%) Cloudera
8 4 (1.53%) Hortonworks
9 3 (1.15%) Apple
10 2 (0.77%) Oracle
10 2 (0.77%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.38%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.38%) Confluent
11 1 (0.38%) NVIDIA
11 1 (0.38%) Reuters
11 1 (0.38%) SimCorp
11 1 (0.38%) Tagetik
11 1 (0.38%) Trayport