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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 213 181 302
Rank change year-on-year -32 +121 +77
Contract jobs citing PySpark 161 222 117
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.14% 1.43% 0.60%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.35% 5.51% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 172 97
10th Percentile £377 £443 £457
25th Percentile £413 £504 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +13.04% -2.71%
75th Percentile £590 £875 £700
90th Percentile £650 £888 £788
England median daily rate £500 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -16.67% +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 3,701 4,030 5,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.17% 25.90% 26.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,508 2,639 3,848
10th Percentile £356 £377 £400
25th Percentile £424 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £653 £713 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £800
England median daily rate £503 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.64% - -5.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 20 32
10th Percentile £34.16 £36.13 £32.30
25th Percentile £43.44 £38.44 £36.69
Median hourly rate £55.00 £48.75 £55.25
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -11.76% -11.24%
75th Percentile £63.19 £63.13 £72.41
90th Percentile £77.03 £71.90 £85.65
England median hourly rate £59.75 £65.00 £53.00
% change year-on-year -8.08% +22.64% -18.46%

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 2 December 2025.

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 2 December 2025. 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 +5 14 £575 +15.00% 9
West London -10 3 £625 -
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 40 (24.84%) Apache Spark
2 12 (7.45%) Apache
3 10 (6.21%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.48%) Confluence
5 2 (1.24%) Jupyter
5 2 (1.24%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.62%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 107 (66.46%) Azure
2 57 (35.40%) Azure Data Factory
3 41 (25.47%) AWS
4 40 (24.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 39 (24.22%) Power Platform
6 24 (14.91%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (8.07%) Microsoft Purview
8 12 (7.45%) GitHub
9 10 (6.21%) GCP
10 9 (5.59%) Serverless
11 8 (4.97%) Amazon S3
11 8 (4.97%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (4.35%) Snowflake
13 6 (3.73%) AWS Step Functions
13 6 (3.73%) dbt
14 5 (3.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 4 (2.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 4 (2.48%) Cloud Computing
16 3 (1.86%) Amazon EMR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (24.84%) Data Warehouse
2 31 (19.25%) Data Lake
2 31 (19.25%) Power BI
3 26 (16.15%) Delta Lake
4 22 (13.66%) Metadata
5 20 (12.42%) Azure SQL Database
6 19 (11.80%) Spark SQL
7 16 (9.94%) Big Data
8 14 (8.70%) NoSQL
9 13 (8.07%) Hadoop
10 10 (6.21%) PostgreSQL
11 9 (5.59%) Tableau
12 8 (4.97%) Relational Database
13 6 (3.73%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (3.73%) Apache Hive
14 5 (3.11%) Amazon Athena
14 5 (3.11%) SQL Server
14 5 (3.11%) Star Schema
15 4 (2.48%) Elasticsearch
15 4 (2.48%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 31 (19.25%) Git
2 5 (3.11%) GitLab
2 5 (3.11%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.48%) JIRA
3 4 (2.48%) MLflow
4 2 (1.24%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.62%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.62%) ERwin
5 1 (0.62%) Gradle
5 1 (0.62%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.62%) SpecFlow
General
1 44 (27.33%) Finance
1 44 (27.33%) Social Skills
2 18 (11.18%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (6.83%) Public Sector
4 9 (5.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (5.59%) Retail
5 8 (4.97%) Banking
6 4 (2.48%) Front Office
6 4 (2.48%) Investment Banking
7 3 (1.86%) Corporate Banking
7 3 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.86%) Marketing
7 3 (1.86%) Retail Banking
7 3 (1.86%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.62%) Electronics
8 1 (0.62%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.62%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.62%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 83 (51.55%) Data Engineer
2 32 (19.88%) Azure Engineer
3 28 (17.39%) Azure Data Engineer
4 19 (11.80%) Lead
5 15 (9.32%) Architect
5 15 (9.32%) Senior
6 14 (8.70%) Developer
7 12 (7.45%) Senior Data Engineer
8 11 (6.83%) Python Engineer
9 10 (6.21%) Data Architect
10 7 (4.35%) Python Data Engineer
11 6 (3.73%) AWS Engineer
11 6 (3.73%) Lead Data Engineer
12 5 (3.11%) Data Scientist
13 4 (2.48%) Azure Architect
13 4 (2.48%) Data Analytics Engineer
13 4 (2.48%) Tester
14 3 (1.86%) AWS Data Engineer
14 3 (1.86%) GCP Engineer
14 3 (1.86%) GCP Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (9.94%) Kafka
2 8 (4.97%) YAML
3 7 (4.35%) Pandas
4 6 (3.73%) Apache NiFi
5 5 (3.11%) PyTorch
6 4 (2.48%) CSS
6 4 (2.48%) HTML
6 4 (2.48%) TensorFlow
7 3 (1.86%) .NET
7 3 (1.86%) ARM Templates
7 3 (1.86%) NumPy
7 3 (1.86%) RESTful
7 3 (1.86%) scikit-learn
8 2 (1.24%) GeoPandas
8 2 (1.24%) JSON
8 2 (1.24%) LangChain
8 2 (1.24%) PostGIS
8 2 (1.24%) pytest
8 2 (1.24%) Ray
8 2 (1.24%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.45%) Distributed Computing
2 8 (4.97%) Low-Code
3 7 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 6 (3.73%) Algorithms
4 6 (3.73%) Data Structures
5 5 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.48%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.86%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.86%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.86%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.24%) Autonomous Agent
8 2 (1.24%) Educational Technology
8 2 (1.24%) IoT
8 2 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.62%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.62%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.62%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.62%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.86%) Linux
2 2 (1.24%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (50.31%) Data Pipeline
2 77 (47.83%) Data Engineering
3 69 (42.86%) Data Modelling
4 60 (37.27%) ETL
5 58 (36.02%) Analytics
6 54 (33.54%) Data Governance
7 51 (31.68%) Agile
8 46 (28.57%) CI/CD
9 42 (26.09%) Business Intelligence
9 42 (26.09%) DevOps
10 34 (21.12%) Data Architecture
11 32 (19.88%) Data Science
12 30 (18.63%) Problem-Solving
13 26 (16.15%) Data Transformation
13 26 (16.15%) Machine Learning
14 21 (13.04%) Migration
15 20 (12.42%) Data Integration
16 19 (11.80%) AI
16 19 (11.80%) Infrastructure as Code
16 19 (11.80%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 119 (73.91%) Python
2 112 (69.57%) SQL
3 30 (18.63%) Scala
4 12 (7.45%) Java
5 11 (6.83%) JavaScript
6 5 (3.11%) Bicep
7 4 (2.48%) R
8 3 (1.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (1.86%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.24%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.24%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.62%) C#
10 1 (0.62%) C++
10 1 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.62%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.62%) VBA
Qualifications
1 36 (22.36%) Security Cleared
2 34 (21.12%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.45%) Azure Certification
4 9 (5.59%) Degree
5 6 (3.73%) DV Cleared
6 5 (3.11%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.24%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.24%) MCP
8 2 (1.24%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (24.22%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.35%) QA
3 6 (3.73%) GDPR
4 1 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (6.21%) Docker
2 2 (1.24%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 17 (10.56%) Terraform
2 14 (8.70%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.62%) Argo
Vendors
1 93 (57.76%) Databricks
2 30 (18.63%) Microsoft
3 10 (6.21%) Foundry
3 10 (6.21%) Palantir
4 6 (3.73%) Salesforce
5 4 (2.48%) Cloudera
5 4 (2.48%) Guidewire
5 4 (2.48%) Oracle
6 3 (1.86%) SAP
7 2 (1.24%) Informatica
8 1 (0.62%) Confluent
8 1 (0.62%) Google
8 1 (0.62%) IBM
8 1 (0.62%) RedGate
8 1 (0.62%) StreamSets