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 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 189 291
Rank change year-on-year -3 +102 +101
Contract jobs citing PySpark 193 181 110
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.36% 1.28% 0.61%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.15% 5.01% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 140 93
10th Percentile £363 £463 £462
25th Percentile £413 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £838 £725
90th Percentile £625 £888 £838
England median daily rate £513 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -14.58% +9.09% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
England median hourly rate - £43.25 -

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 3,745 3,613 4,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.39% 25.64% 25.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,529 2,363 3,449
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £593
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% -2.95% -2.87%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £764 £825 £800
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 19 31
10th Percentile £35.00 £34.65 £29.72
25th Percentile £42.19 £38.38 £35.94
Median hourly rate £54.50 £52.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% +5.00% -15.97%
75th Percentile £63.19 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £71.40 £72.80 £75.00
England median hourly rate £58.00 £62.50 £51.89
% change year-on-year -7.20% +20.45% -20.17%

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 10 January 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 10 January 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 20 £513 -18.00% 20
West London -13 5 £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 50 (25.91%) Apache Spark
2 13 (6.74%) Apache
2 13 (6.74%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.07%) Confluence
4 2 (1.04%) Jupyter
4 2 (1.04%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 131 (67.88%) Azure
2 71 (36.79%) Azure Data Factory
3 49 (25.39%) AWS
3 49 (25.39%) Power Platform
4 44 (22.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 32 (16.58%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (9.33%) GitHub
7 15 (7.77%) Serverless
8 14 (7.25%) GCP
8 14 (7.25%) GitHub Actions
9 13 (6.74%) Microsoft Purview
10 12 (6.22%) Amazon S3
11 10 (5.18%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (4.15%) Snowflake
13 7 (3.63%) dbt
14 6 (3.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (3.11%) AWS Step Functions
15 4 (2.07%) Amazon EMR
15 4 (2.07%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 4 (2.07%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (24.35%) Data Warehouse
2 42 (21.76%) Data Lake
2 42 (21.76%) Power BI
3 35 (18.13%) Delta Lake
4 31 (16.06%) Azure SQL Database
5 24 (12.44%) Metadata
6 23 (11.92%) NoSQL
7 22 (11.40%) Spark SQL
8 18 (9.33%) Big Data
9 14 (7.25%) Amazon Redshift
9 14 (7.25%) Relational Database
10 11 (5.70%) Hadoop
11 10 (5.18%) PostgreSQL
11 10 (5.18%) Tableau
12 9 (4.66%) Amazon Athena
12 9 (4.66%) SQL Server
13 6 (3.11%) Parquet
14 5 (2.59%) Star Schema
15 4 (2.07%) Qlik Sense
15 4 (2.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 48 (24.87%) Git
2 11 (5.70%) GitLab
3 7 (3.63%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.63%) MLflow
4 5 (2.59%) JIRA
5 2 (1.04%) ERwin
5 2 (1.04%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.52%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.52%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.52%) Gradle
6 1 (0.52%) SonarQube
General
1 49 (25.39%) Finance
2 40 (20.73%) Social Skills
3 13 (6.74%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (6.74%) Retail
4 11 (5.70%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (3.63%) Banking
7 4 (2.07%) Front Office
7 4 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.07%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.55%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (1.55%) Marketing
8 3 (1.55%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.04%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.52%) Electronics
10 1 (0.52%) Law
10 1 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 107 (55.44%) Data Engineer
2 45 (23.32%) Azure Engineer
3 40 (20.73%) Azure Data Engineer
4 23 (11.92%) Senior
5 20 (10.36%) Developer
6 18 (9.33%) Architect
7 17 (8.81%) Senior Data Engineer
8 16 (8.29%) Lead
9 13 (6.74%) Data Architect
9 13 (6.74%) Python Engineer
10 9 (4.66%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (4.66%) Python Data Engineer
11 6 (3.11%) Data Analytics Engineer
12 5 (2.59%) AWS Data Engineer
12 5 (2.59%) Lead Data Engineer
12 5 (2.59%) Principal Engineer
12 5 (2.59%) Principal Software Engineer
12 5 (2.59%) Software Engineer
13 4 (2.07%) AWS Software Engineer
13 4 (2.07%) Azure Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (10.88%) Kafka
2 14 (7.25%) Pandas
3 8 (4.15%) PyTorch
3 8 (4.15%) Spark Streaming
3 8 (4.15%) YAML
4 6 (3.11%) Apache NiFi
4 6 (3.11%) REST
5 5 (2.59%) NumPy
5 5 (2.59%) scikit-learn
6 4 (2.07%) TensorFlow
7 3 (1.55%) .NET
7 3 (1.55%) ARM Templates
7 3 (1.55%) HTML
7 3 (1.55%) LangChain
7 3 (1.55%) Matplotlib
7 3 (1.55%) RESTful
8 2 (1.04%) CrewAI
8 2 (1.04%) LangGraph
8 2 (1.04%) NLTK
8 2 (1.04%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.70%) Distributed Computing
2 9 (4.66%) Cloud Native
3 8 (4.15%) Data Structures
4 7 (3.63%) Low-Code
5 6 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.07%) AI Agents
6 4 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.55%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.04%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.52%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.52%) Autonomous Agent
9 1 (0.52%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.52%) Multi-touch
9 1 (0.52%) Replication
9 1 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.52%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.55%) Linux
2 2 (1.04%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (54.92%) Data Engineering
2 100 (51.81%) Data Pipeline
3 85 (44.04%) Data Modelling
4 76 (39.38%) ETL
5 71 (36.79%) Data Governance
6 68 (35.23%) Analytics
7 66 (34.20%) Agile
8 62 (32.12%) CI/CD
9 55 (28.50%) DevOps
10 53 (27.46%) Business Intelligence
11 52 (26.94%) Data Architecture
12 36 (18.65%) Data Science
13 34 (17.62%) Data Integration
14 30 (15.54%) Problem-Solving
15 27 (13.99%) AI
15 27 (13.99%) Integration Patterns
15 27 (13.99%) Machine Learning
16 25 (12.95%) Data Transformation
17 22 (11.40%) Infrastructure as Code
17 22 (11.40%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 144 (74.61%) Python
2 132 (68.39%) SQL
3 43 (22.28%) Scala
4 18 (9.33%) Java
5 11 (5.70%) Bicep
6 8 (4.15%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.11%) R
8 4 (2.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.55%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.55%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.04%) Ada
10 2 (1.04%) C#
10 2 (1.04%) C++
10 2 (1.04%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.52%) VBA
Qualifications
1 58 (30.05%) Security Cleared
2 55 (28.50%) SC Cleared
3 17 (8.81%) Azure Certification
4 6 (3.11%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.07%) Degree
6 3 (1.55%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.55%) MCP
6 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.52%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (33.68%) Data Quality
2 14 (7.25%) GDPR
3 7 (3.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (2.59%) QA
5 2 (1.04%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 20 (10.36%) Docker
2 4 (2.07%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 26 (13.47%) Terraform
2 19 (9.84%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.52%) Argo
3 1 (0.52%) Grafana
Vendors
1 114 (59.07%) Databricks
2 41 (21.24%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.63%) Salesforce
4 6 (3.11%) Foundry
4 6 (3.11%) Palantir
5 4 (2.07%) Cloudera
5 4 (2.07%) Guidewire
5 4 (2.07%) Oracle
5 4 (2.07%) SAP
6 2 (1.04%) Informatica
6 2 (1.04%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.52%) Confluent
7 1 (0.52%) IBM
7 1 (0.52%) New Relic
7 1 (0.52%) RedGate
7 1 (0.52%) StreamSets