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 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 181 264
Rank change year-on-year -1 +83 +85
Contract jobs citing PySpark 242 185 130
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.39% 1.46% 0.73%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.73% 5.59% 2.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 141 111
10th Percentile £363 £458 £425
25th Percentile £445 £550 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £775 £550
Median % change year-on-year -33.87% +40.91% -11.29%
75th Percentile £588 £875 £700
90th Percentile £650 £888 £838
England median daily rate £513 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -21.15% +18.18% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
England median hourly rate £35.00 £65.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -46.15% +209.52% -51.72%

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 4,225 3,310 4,448
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.30% 26.05% 24.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,850 2,319 3,342
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £653 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £801
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 16 21
10th Percentile £23.33 £34.13 £16.25
25th Percentile £28.00 £38.19 £24.18
Median hourly rate £42.50 £54.00 £36.84
Median % change year-on-year -21.30% +46.58% -45.01%
75th Percentile £60.94 £65.63 £62.50
90th Percentile £74.80 £81.25 £70.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

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 19 April 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 19 April 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 -3 29 £509 -22.36% 19
West London -18 8 £625 -19.35% 2
East London - 1 £449 -
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 70 (28.93%) Apache Spark
2 23 (9.50%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (8.68%) Apache
4 9 (3.72%) SAS
5 6 (2.48%) Palantir Foundry
6 4 (1.65%) Confluence
7 1 (0.41%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 150 (61.98%) Azure
2 80 (33.06%) AWS
3 74 (30.58%) Azure Data Factory
4 62 (25.62%) Power Platform
5 58 (23.97%) Azure DevOps
6 51 (21.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 44 (18.18%) GitHub
8 38 (15.70%) Serverless
9 32 (13.22%) Amazon S3
10 27 (11.16%) AWS Lambda
11 24 (9.92%) GitHub Actions
12 19 (7.85%) GCP
13 15 (6.20%) Microsoft Purview
14 13 (5.37%) AWS CloudFormation
15 12 (4.96%) dbt
15 12 (4.96%) Snowflake
16 11 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 11 (4.55%) AWS Step Functions
17 10 (4.13%) Amazon EMR
17 10 (4.13%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (26.86%) Data Lake
2 60 (24.79%) Power BI
3 54 (22.31%) Delta Lake
4 50 (20.66%) Data Warehouse
5 39 (16.12%) Azure SQL Database
6 34 (14.05%) Spark SQL
7 29 (11.98%) Metadata
8 27 (11.16%) Amazon Athena
8 27 (11.16%) NoSQL
9 25 (10.33%) Amazon Redshift
10 19 (7.85%) Big Data
11 15 (6.20%) Tableau
12 11 (4.55%) Relational Database
13 10 (4.13%) Snowflake Schema
14 8 (3.31%) Parquet
14 8 (3.31%) SQL Server
15 6 (2.48%) Base SAS
16 5 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
16 5 (2.07%) SAS Data Integration Studio
17 4 (1.65%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 72 (29.75%) Git
2 18 (7.44%) GitLab
3 12 (4.96%) MLflow
4 10 (4.13%) Jenkins
4 10 (4.13%) JIRA
5 1 (0.41%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.41%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.41%) ERwin
5 1 (0.41%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 69 (28.51%) Finance
2 43 (17.77%) Social Skills
3 23 (9.50%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (7.02%) Public Sector
5 13 (5.37%) Banking
6 7 (2.89%) Retail
7 5 (2.07%) Marketing
8 4 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.24%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.24%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.83%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (0.83%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.83%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.41%) Electronics
11 1 (0.41%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.41%) Front Office
11 1 (0.41%) Law
11 1 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 138 (57.02%) Data Engineer
2 46 (19.01%) Senior
3 41 (16.94%) Azure Engineer
4 36 (14.88%) Azure Data Engineer
5 31 (12.81%) Senior Data Engineer
6 25 (10.33%) Developer
7 19 (7.85%) Lead
8 14 (5.79%) Python Engineer
9 13 (5.37%) Architect
10 11 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
10 11 (4.55%) Principal Engineer
11 10 (4.13%) Data Analytics Engineer
11 10 (4.13%) Python Data Engineer
11 10 (4.13%) Software Engineer
12 9 (3.72%) Data Scientist
13 8 (3.31%) Data Architect
13 8 (3.31%) Platform Engineer
14 7 (2.89%) Lead Data Engineer
14 7 (2.89%) Principal Software Engineer
15 5 (2.07%) Principal Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (11.98%) Kafka
2 20 (8.26%) Pandas
3 12 (4.96%) PyTorch
4 11 (4.55%) Spark Streaming
5 8 (3.31%) Great Expectations
5 8 (3.31%) scikit-learn
5 8 (3.31%) YAML
6 7 (2.89%) React
7 6 (2.48%) JSON
7 6 (2.48%) pytest
7 6 (2.48%) REST
8 5 (2.07%) HTML
8 5 (2.07%) Node.js
8 5 (2.07%) TensorFlow
9 4 (1.65%) LangChain
9 4 (1.65%) NumPy
10 3 (1.24%) ADO
10 3 (1.24%) CSS
10 3 (1.24%) Matplotlib
10 3 (1.24%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 29 (11.98%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.61%) Distributed Computing
3 7 (2.89%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.48%) AI Agents
4 6 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.24%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.24%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.24%) Marketing Technology
7 3 (1.24%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.83%) Autonomous Agent
8 2 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.41%) Data Fabric
9 1 (0.41%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.41%) IoT
9 1 (0.41%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.41%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.89%) Unix
2 6 (2.48%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (57.44%) Data Engineering
2 136 (56.20%) Data Pipeline
3 109 (45.04%) CI/CD
4 103 (42.56%) Data Modelling
5 102 (42.15%) Analytics
6 97 (40.08%) ETL
7 92 (38.02%) Agile
8 90 (37.19%) DevOps
9 79 (32.64%) Data Governance
10 58 (23.97%) Business Intelligence
11 52 (21.49%) Data Architecture
11 52 (21.49%) Infrastructure as Code
12 50 (20.66%) AI
13 49 (20.25%) Data Science
14 36 (14.88%) Machine Learning
15 34 (14.05%) Data Integration
16 32 (13.22%) Data Transformation
17 29 (11.98%) Integration Patterns
17 29 (11.98%) Migration
17 29 (11.98%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 199 (82.23%) Python
2 170 (70.25%) SQL
3 56 (23.14%) Scala
4 21 (8.68%) Java
5 9 (3.72%) Bicep
6 8 (3.31%) R
7 7 (2.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 6 (2.48%) SAS Macro
8 6 (2.48%) T-SQL
9 5 (2.07%) JavaScript
9 5 (2.07%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.65%) C#
10 4 (1.65%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.83%) Ada
11 2 (0.83%) C++
11 2 (0.83%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.41%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 80 (33.06%) Security Cleared
2 73 (30.17%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.79%) Azure Certification
4 12 (4.96%) Degree
5 8 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.24%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.41%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.41%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.41%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (40.50%) Data Quality
2 16 (6.61%) GDPR
3 7 (2.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (1.24%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.24%) QA
5 2 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.41%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (9.92%) Docker
2 2 (0.83%) HDFS
2 2 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 64 (26.45%) Terraform
2 21 (8.68%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.07%) Grafana
Vendors
1 131 (54.13%) Databricks
2 44 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.31%) Foundry
4 6 (2.48%) Google
4 6 (2.48%) Palantir
5 4 (1.65%) Oracle
6 3 (1.24%) Apple
6 3 (1.24%) Cloudera
6 3 (1.24%) Hortonworks
6 3 (1.24%) Informatica
6 3 (1.24%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.24%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.24%) SAP
7 1 (0.41%) Confluent
7 1 (0.41%) IBM
7 1 (0.41%) New Relic
7 1 (0.41%) StreamSets