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

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 197 287
Rank change year-on-year +15 +90 +120
Contract jobs citing PySpark 206 170 113
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.43% 1.21% 0.62%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.41% 4.69% 2.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 133 95
10th Percentile £363 £465 £462
25th Percentile £413 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £588 £838 £700
90th Percentile £633 £888 £850
England median daily rate £513 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -14.58% +9.09% -4.10%
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 3,808 3,625 4,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.37% 25.85% 25.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,583 2,373 3,461
10th Percentile £363 £380 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% -2.13% -3.69%
75th Percentile £669 £700 £700
90th Percentile £763 £825 £800
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 19 31
10th Percentile £35.00 £34.65 £29.72
25th Percentile £41.25 £38.38 £35.94
Median hourly rate £54.00 £52.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +5.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £63.00 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £71.20 £72.80 £75.00
England median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £54.56
% change year-on-year -4.00% +14.55% -16.06%

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 17 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 17 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 +13 23 £513 -18.00% 15
West London -13 6 £625 - 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 54 (26.21%) Apache Spark
2 14 (6.80%) Apache
2 14 (6.80%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.46%) Confluence
4 2 (0.97%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.97%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.49%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 139 (67.48%) Azure
2 76 (36.89%) Azure Data Factory
3 53 (25.73%) AWS
4 52 (25.24%) Power Platform
5 48 (23.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 37 (17.96%) Azure DevOps
7 23 (11.17%) GitHub
8 17 (8.25%) GitHub Actions
8 17 (8.25%) Serverless
9 15 (7.28%) GCP
10 14 (6.80%) Microsoft Purview
11 13 (6.31%) Amazon S3
12 11 (5.34%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (4.37%) Snowflake
14 8 (3.88%) dbt
15 7 (3.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 6 (2.91%) AWS Step Functions
17 5 (2.43%) Azure Key Vault
18 4 (1.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 4 (1.94%) Azure Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (24.27%) Data Warehouse
2 45 (21.84%) Data Lake
2 45 (21.84%) Power BI
3 39 (18.93%) Delta Lake
4 33 (16.02%) Azure SQL Database
5 27 (13.11%) Metadata
6 25 (12.14%) NoSQL
7 22 (10.68%) Spark SQL
8 18 (8.74%) Big Data
9 16 (7.77%) Amazon Redshift
10 15 (7.28%) Relational Database
11 11 (5.34%) Tableau
12 10 (4.85%) Amazon Athena
12 10 (4.85%) Hadoop
12 10 (4.85%) PostgreSQL
13 9 (4.37%) SQL Server
14 6 (2.91%) Parquet
15 5 (2.43%) Star Schema
16 4 (1.94%) MySQL
16 4 (1.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 51 (24.76%) Git
2 11 (5.34%) GitLab
3 10 (4.85%) MLflow
4 8 (3.88%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.94%) JIRA
6 2 (0.97%) ERwin
6 2 (0.97%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.49%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.49%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.49%) Gradle
7 1 (0.49%) SonarQube
General
1 52 (25.24%) Finance
2 44 (21.36%) Social Skills
3 15 (7.28%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (5.83%) Retail
5 11 (5.34%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.91%) Banking
8 4 (1.94%) Front Office
8 4 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.46%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.46%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.46%) Marketing
10 2 (0.97%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (0.97%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.49%) Electronics
11 1 (0.49%) Law
11 1 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 113 (54.85%) Data Engineer
2 45 (21.84%) Azure Engineer
3 40 (19.42%) Azure Data Engineer
4 25 (12.14%) Senior
5 20 (9.71%) Developer
6 19 (9.22%) Architect
6 19 (9.22%) Senior Data Engineer
7 16 (7.77%) Lead
8 12 (5.83%) Data Architect
8 12 (5.83%) Python Engineer
9 9 (4.37%) AWS Engineer
9 9 (4.37%) Python Data Engineer
10 7 (3.40%) Data Analytics Engineer
11 6 (2.91%) Principal Engineer
11 6 (2.91%) Principal Software Engineer
11 6 (2.91%) Software Engineer
12 5 (2.43%) AWS Data Engineer
12 5 (2.43%) Data Scientist
12 5 (2.43%) Lead Data Engineer
13 4 (1.94%) GCP Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (11.17%) Kafka
2 16 (7.77%) Pandas
3 10 (4.85%) PyTorch
4 9 (4.37%) YAML
5 8 (3.88%) Spark Streaming
6 6 (2.91%) REST
6 6 (2.91%) scikit-learn
7 5 (2.43%) Apache NiFi
7 5 (2.43%) NumPy
7 5 (2.43%) TensorFlow
8 3 (1.46%) .NET
8 3 (1.46%) ARM Templates
8 3 (1.46%) HTML
8 3 (1.46%) LangChain
8 3 (1.46%) Matplotlib
8 3 (1.46%) RESTful
9 2 (0.97%) JSON
9 2 (0.97%) Node.js
9 2 (0.97%) Plotly
9 2 (0.97%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.83%) Distributed Computing
2 11 (5.34%) Cloud Native
3 8 (3.88%) Data Structures
4 6 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.91%) Low-Code
5 4 (1.94%) AI Agents
5 4 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.46%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.97%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.49%) Autonomous Agent
8 1 (0.49%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.49%) Multi-touch
8 1 (0.49%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.49%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.49%) Replication
8 1 (0.49%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.49%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.46%) Linux
2 2 (0.97%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (55.34%) Data Engineering
2 105 (50.97%) Data Pipeline
3 88 (42.72%) Data Modelling
4 79 (38.35%) ETL
5 76 (36.89%) Data Governance
6 73 (35.44%) Agile
6 73 (35.44%) Analytics
7 69 (33.50%) CI/CD
8 60 (29.13%) DevOps
9 55 (26.70%) Business Intelligence
10 51 (24.76%) Data Architecture
11 42 (20.39%) Data Science
12 35 (16.99%) Data Integration
13 32 (15.53%) AI
14 30 (14.56%) Machine Learning
14 30 (14.56%) Problem-Solving
15 28 (13.59%) Data Transformation
15 28 (13.59%) Infrastructure as Code
15 28 (13.59%) Integration Patterns
16 23 (11.17%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 157 (76.21%) Python
2 143 (69.42%) SQL
3 46 (22.33%) Scala
4 17 (8.25%) Java
5 11 (5.34%) Bicep
6 9 (4.37%) JavaScript
7 7 (3.40%) R
8 4 (1.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.46%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.46%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.97%) Ada
10 2 (0.97%) C#
10 2 (0.97%) C++
10 2 (0.97%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.49%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.49%) VBA
Qualifications
1 62 (30.10%) Security Cleared
2 58 (28.16%) SC Cleared
3 19 (9.22%) Azure Certification
4 6 (2.91%) Degree
5 5 (2.43%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.46%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.46%) MCP
6 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.49%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (34.47%) Data Quality
2 16 (7.77%) GDPR
3 7 (3.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (2.43%) QA
5 2 (0.97%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 22 (10.68%) Docker
2 4 (1.94%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 33 (16.02%) Terraform
2 21 (10.19%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.49%) Argo
3 1 (0.49%) Grafana
Vendors
1 121 (58.74%) Databricks
2 42 (20.39%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.88%) Salesforce
4 6 (2.91%) Foundry
4 6 (2.91%) Palantir
5 4 (1.94%) Guidewire
5 4 (1.94%) Oracle
5 4 (1.94%) SAP
6 3 (1.46%) Cloudera
6 3 (1.46%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.97%) Informatica
8 1 (0.49%) Confluent
8 1 (0.49%) IBM
8 1 (0.49%) New Relic
8 1 (0.49%) RedGate
8 1 (0.49%) StreamSets