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 6 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 203 205 251
Rank change year-on-year +2 +46 +63
Contract jobs citing PySpark 239 152 155
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.29% 1.25% 0.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.59% 4.72% 3.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 115 128
10th Percentile £363 £416 £434
25th Percentile £449 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £750 £550
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +36.36% -11.29%
75th Percentile £625 £838 £700
90th Percentile £700 £875 £825
England median daily rate £513 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -14.58% +9.09% -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 4,278 3,217 4,605
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.03% 26.50% 26.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,843 2,251 3,413
10th Percentile £375 £385 £375
25th Percentile £447 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £557 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% -3.13% -4.17%
75th Percentile £669 £719 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £838
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 17 28
10th Percentile £22.63 £31.58 £16.25
25th Percentile £29.52 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £37.50 £42.82 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.41% +0.74% -35.61%
75th Percentile £64.50 £55.00 £63.13
90th Percentile £95.00 £76.25 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.43
% change year-on-year +4.00% +29.05% -25.49%

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 6 June 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 6 June 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 -10 32 £509 -20.57% 15
West London -17 5 £625 -19.35%
East London - 1 £449 - 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 57 (23.85%) Apache Spark
2 30 (12.55%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (11.30%) Apache
4 9 (3.77%) Palantir Foundry
5 8 (3.35%) SAS
6 6 (2.51%) Confluence
7 1 (0.42%) Camunda
Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 136 (56.90%) Azure
2 87 (36.40%) AWS
3 65 (27.20%) Power Platform
4 60 (25.10%) Azure DevOps
5 56 (23.43%) Azure Data Factory
6 54 (22.59%) GitHub
7 45 (18.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 40 (16.74%) Serverless
9 38 (15.90%) Amazon S3
10 33 (13.81%) GitHub Actions
11 31 (12.97%) AWS Lambda
12 16 (6.69%) Amazon EMR
12 16 (6.69%) dbt
13 14 (5.86%) GCP
14 13 (5.44%) Microsoft Purview
15 12 (5.02%) AWS CloudFormation
15 12 (5.02%) Snowflake
16 10 (4.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 10 (4.18%) Azure Monitor
17 9 (3.77%) Azure AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (26.78%) Power BI
2 57 (23.85%) Data Lake
3 51 (21.34%) Delta Lake
4 33 (13.81%) Spark SQL
5 31 (12.97%) Data Warehouse
6 30 (12.55%) Amazon Athena
7 27 (11.30%) Amazon Redshift
7 27 (11.30%) Metadata
8 22 (9.21%) Big Data
9 21 (8.79%) Azure SQL Database
10 13 (5.44%) NoSQL
10 13 (5.44%) SQL Server
11 10 (4.18%) Parquet
11 10 (4.18%) Tableau
12 9 (3.77%) Relational Database
12 9 (3.77%) Snowflake Schema
13 6 (2.51%) Base SAS
13 6 (2.51%) Neo4j
13 6 (2.51%) PostgreSQL
14 5 (2.09%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 55 (23.01%) Git
2 23 (9.62%) GitLab
3 13 (5.44%) JIRA
4 11 (4.60%) MLflow
5 5 (2.09%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.42%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.42%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.42%) ERwin
6 1 (0.42%) Postman
6 1 (0.42%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 84 (35.15%) Finance
2 47 (19.67%) Social Skills
3 27 (11.30%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (7.53%) Public Sector
5 15 (6.28%) Banking
6 7 (2.93%) Retail
7 5 (2.09%) Marketing
8 3 (1.26%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.26%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.26%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.84%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.84%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.42%) Front Office
10 1 (0.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.42%) Law
10 1 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.42%) Publishing
10 1 (0.42%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 136 (56.90%) Data Engineer
2 49 (20.50%) Senior
3 30 (12.55%) Senior Data Engineer
4 22 (9.21%) Azure Engineer
5 21 (8.79%) Lead
6 20 (8.37%) Azure Data Engineer
6 20 (8.37%) Developer
7 17 (7.11%) Architect
8 13 (5.44%) Python Engineer
9 11 (4.60%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (4.18%) AWS Engineer
10 10 (4.18%) Data Architect
10 10 (4.18%) Data Scientist
11 8 (3.35%) Data Analytics Engineer
11 8 (3.35%) Principal Engineer
11 8 (3.35%) Senior Developer
12 7 (2.93%) Lead Data Engineer
12 7 (2.93%) Python Data Engineer
12 7 (2.93%) Software Engineer
13 6 (2.51%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (11.72%) Kafka
2 23 (9.62%) Pandas
3 14 (5.86%) REST
4 12 (5.02%) React
5 11 (4.60%) PyTorch
5 11 (4.60%) Spark Streaming
6 10 (4.18%) scikit-learn
7 9 (3.77%) Great Expectations
8 7 (2.93%) .NET
8 7 (2.93%) .NET Core
8 7 (2.93%) JSON
8 7 (2.93%) pytest
9 6 (2.51%) Node.js
9 6 (2.51%) NumPy
9 6 (2.51%) RESTful
10 5 (2.09%) HTML
10 5 (2.09%) Redux
10 5 (2.09%) Spring
10 5 (2.09%) Spring Boot
11 4 (1.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 46 (19.25%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.69%) Distributed Computing
3 9 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.93%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (2.93%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.51%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.09%) AI Agents
6 5 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.67%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.67%) Reference Data
8 3 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.26%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.26%) Marketing Technology
8 3 (1.26%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.26%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.84%) Equities
9 2 (0.84%) Fixed Income
9 2 (0.84%) Legacy Code
9 2 (0.84%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.93%) Unix
2 6 (2.51%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (53.14%) Data Pipeline
2 118 (49.37%) CI/CD
2 118 (49.37%) Data Engineering
3 102 (42.68%) Analytics
4 99 (41.42%) ETL
5 96 (40.17%) Data Modelling
6 88 (36.82%) DevOps
7 81 (33.89%) Agile
8 64 (26.78%) AI
9 63 (26.36%) Business Intelligence
9 63 (26.36%) Data Governance
10 53 (22.18%) Infrastructure as Code
11 50 (20.92%) Data Science
12 42 (17.57%) Machine Learning
13 35 (14.64%) Data Architecture
14 34 (14.23%) Migration
15 30 (12.55%) Problem-Solving
16 27 (11.30%) Performance Optimisation
17 26 (10.88%) Scrum
17 26 (10.88%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 208 (87.03%) Python
2 161 (67.36%) SQL
3 34 (14.23%) Scala
4 25 (10.46%) Java
5 10 (4.18%) C#
5 10 (4.18%) TypeScript
6 9 (3.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 7 (2.93%) Bicep
8 6 (2.51%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.51%) SAS Macro
8 6 (2.51%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.09%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.67%) R
11 2 (0.84%) Ada
11 2 (0.84%) C++
11 2 (0.84%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.84%) SPARQL
12 1 (0.42%) Bash
12 1 (0.42%) Korn
12 1 (0.42%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 69 (28.87%) Security Cleared
2 62 (25.94%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.28%) Degree
4 12 (5.02%) Azure Certification
5 8 (3.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.09%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.26%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 3 (1.26%) PhD
8 2 (0.84%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.42%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (33.47%) Data Quality
2 15 (6.28%) GDPR
3 5 (2.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (1.26%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.26%) QA
5 2 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.42%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.42%) MiFID
6 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 25 (10.46%) Docker
2 2 (0.84%) HDFS
2 2 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 65 (27.20%) Terraform
2 24 (10.04%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.09%) Grafana
Vendors
1 109 (45.61%) Databricks
2 52 (21.76%) Microsoft
3 11 (4.60%) Foundry
4 9 (3.77%) Palantir
5 7 (2.93%) OpenAI
6 6 (2.51%) Google
7 5 (2.09%) Informatica
8 4 (1.67%) Cloudera
8 4 (1.67%) Hortonworks
8 4 (1.67%) Oracle
8 4 (1.67%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.26%) Apple
10 1 (0.42%) New Relic
10 1 (0.42%) SAP
10 1 (0.42%) SimCorp