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 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 246 199
Rank change year-on-year +46 -47 +102
Contract jobs citing PySpark 286 122 203
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.42% 0.92% 1.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.39% 3.13% 4.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 88 159
10th Percentile £390 £375 £425
25th Percentile £450 £418 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £525 £618
Median % change year-on-year +2.62% -14.98% +0.61%
75th Percentile £653 £691 £825
90th Percentile £738 £858 £888
England median daily rate £525 £500 £594
% change year-on-year +5.00% -15.79% -1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £80.00
England median hourly rate £71.33 - £22.00

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 5,304 3,896 4,866
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.29% 29.27% 30.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,536 2,695 3,437
10th Percentile £400 £369 £385
25th Percentile £450 £430 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £658 £688 £713
90th Percentile £763 £821 £850
England median daily rate £530 £519 £550
% change year-on-year +2.12% -5.64% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 32 20
10th Percentile £26.78 £31.77 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.00 £34.17 £33.54
Median hourly rate £43.50 £51.97 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.30% +15.49% -32.84%
75th Percentile £61.50 £62.81 £61.70
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £75.50
England median hourly rate £67.49 £54.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +24.97% -13.60% -0.40%

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 5 September 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 5 September 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 0 43 £550 -21.15% 9
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 68 (23.78%) Apache Spark
2 51 (17.83%) Apache Airflow
3 49 (17.13%) Apache
4 11 (3.85%) Palantir Foundry
5 9 (3.15%) Confluence
6 7 (2.45%) SAS
7 1 (0.35%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.35%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 168 (58.74%) Azure
2 111 (38.81%) AWS
3 71 (24.83%) Power Platform
4 69 (24.13%) Azure Data Factory
5 67 (23.43%) Azure DevOps
6 47 (16.43%) Serverless
7 42 (14.69%) GitHub
8 40 (13.99%) Amazon S3
8 40 (13.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 39 (13.64%) AWS Lambda
10 38 (13.29%) Azure Databricks
11 31 (10.84%) dbt
11 31 (10.84%) GCP
12 30 (10.49%) GitHub Actions
13 22 (7.69%) Snowflake
14 21 (7.34%) Amazon EMR
15 15 (5.24%) Microsoft Purview
16 12 (4.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 11 (3.85%) Azure AI
18 7 (2.45%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.35%) Firewall
1 1 (0.35%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (24.13%) Power BI
2 67 (23.43%) Delta Lake
3 51 (17.83%) Data Warehouse
4 43 (15.03%) Data Lake
5 39 (13.64%) Metadata
6 34 (11.89%) Amazon Redshift
7 32 (11.19%) Spark SQL
8 23 (8.04%) Amazon Athena
9 18 (6.29%) Big Data
10 14 (4.90%) BigQuery
11 13 (4.55%) Star Schema
12 12 (4.20%) SQL Server
13 9 (3.15%) Parquet
14 8 (2.80%) Azure SQL Database
14 8 (2.80%) NoSQL
15 7 (2.45%) Data Vault
15 7 (2.45%) Relational Database
15 7 (2.45%) Tableau
16 6 (2.10%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
16 6 (2.10%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 40 (13.99%) Git
2 27 (9.44%) GitLab
3 16 (5.59%) MLflow
4 15 (5.24%) JIRA
5 5 (1.75%) ER Studio
5 5 (1.75%) ERwin
6 4 (1.40%) RStudio
6 4 (1.40%) Selenium
6 4 (1.40%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.05%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.70%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.35%) Postman
9 1 (0.35%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.35%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 121 (42.31%) Finance
2 74 (25.87%) Social Skills
3 42 (14.69%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (11.89%) Banking
5 26 (9.09%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (3.50%) Investment Banking
7 8 (2.80%) Financial Institution
7 8 (2.80%) Retail
8 6 (2.10%) Marketing
9 4 (1.40%) Billing
10 3 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.70%) Front Office
11 2 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.70%) Local Government
11 2 (0.70%) Publishing
12 1 (0.35%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.35%) Automotive
12 1 (0.35%) Law
12 1 (0.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 158 (55.24%) Data Engineer
2 77 (26.92%) Senior
3 50 (17.48%) Senior Data Engineer
4 33 (11.54%) Architect
4 33 (11.54%) Lead
5 30 (10.49%) Databricks Engineer
6 22 (7.69%) Databricks Data Engineer
7 21 (7.34%) Developer
8 19 (6.64%) Data Architect
9 17 (5.94%) Platform Engineer
10 16 (5.59%) Python Engineer
11 14 (4.90%) Lead Data Engineer
11 14 (4.90%) Senior Developer
12 13 (4.55%) Data Scientist
12 13 (4.55%) Python Data Engineer
13 11 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
14 10 (3.50%) AWS Engineer
15 9 (3.15%) Senior Databricks Data Engineer
16 8 (2.80%) Analyst
16 8 (2.80%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (21.33%) Terraform
2 39 (13.64%) Kafka
3 26 (9.09%) Pandas
4 24 (8.39%) REST
5 17 (5.94%) React
6 16 (5.59%) Great Expectations
7 15 (5.24%) NumPy
7 15 (5.24%) pytest
8 9 (3.15%) .NET
9 8 (2.80%) .NET Core
9 8 (2.80%) FastAPI
9 8 (2.80%) JSON
10 7 (2.45%) RESTful
10 7 (2.45%) scikit-learn
11 6 (2.10%) PyTorch
11 6 (2.10%) Redux
11 6 (2.10%) Spring
11 6 (2.10%) Spring Boot
12 5 (1.75%) Flask
12 5 (1.75%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 40 (13.99%) Cloud Native
2 18 (6.29%) Product Ownership
3 16 (5.59%) Legacy Systems
4 15 (5.24%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (4.90%) Onboarding
6 10 (3.50%) Data Structures
6 10 (3.50%) Reference Data
7 8 (2.80%) NHS
8 7 (2.45%) AI Agents
8 7 (2.45%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (2.10%) Algorithms
9 6 (2.10%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (2.10%) Fixed Income
9 6 (2.10%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.75%) Derivative
10 5 (1.75%) Market Risk
10 5 (1.75%) Pricing Data
10 5 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.75%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.40%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.55%) Linux
1 13 (4.55%) Unix
2 1 (0.35%) Robot Operating System
2 1 (0.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (54.55%) Data Pipeline
2 151 (52.80%) Data Engineering
3 144 (50.35%) CI/CD
4 135 (47.20%) Analytics
5 116 (40.56%) Data Modelling
6 105 (36.71%) DevOps
7 103 (36.01%) ETL
8 96 (33.57%) Agile
9 89 (31.12%) Business Intelligence
10 85 (29.72%) AI
11 76 (26.57%) Data Governance
12 72 (25.17%) Lakehouse
13 63 (22.03%) Machine Learning
14 60 (20.98%) Infrastructure as Code
15 57 (19.93%) Migration
16 52 (18.18%) Data Science
17 51 (17.83%) Data Architecture
17 51 (17.83%) Data Transformation
18 47 (16.43%) Validation
19 44 (15.38%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 239 (83.57%) Python
2 207 (72.38%) SQL
3 22 (7.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 15 (5.24%) Java
5 13 (4.55%) Scala
6 11 (3.85%) JavaScript
6 11 (3.85%) Shell Script
7 10 (3.50%) C#
7 10 (3.50%) TypeScript
8 9 (3.15%) T-SQL
9 6 (2.10%) R
10 4 (1.40%) Bicep
10 4 (1.40%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.05%) SPARQL
12 2 (0.70%) Bash
12 2 (0.70%) Korn
13 1 (0.35%) COBOL
13 1 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.35%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 61 (21.33%) Security Cleared
2 56 (19.58%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.24%) Degree
4 12 (4.20%) Azure Certification
5 8 (2.80%) AWS Certification
5 8 (2.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 8 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.45%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.75%) PhD
8 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.70%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.70%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (42.66%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.20%) GDPR
3 8 (2.80%) QA
4 4 (1.40%) SLA
5 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.35%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.35%) GRC
5 1 (0.35%) MiFID
5 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (10.84%) Docker
2 1 (0.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (9.79%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.40%) Ansible
2 4 (1.40%) Grafana
3 1 (0.35%) Control-M
Vendors
1 142 (49.65%) Databricks
2 70 (24.48%) Microsoft
3 19 (6.64%) Palantir
4 16 (5.59%) Informatica
5 11 (3.85%) Foundry
6 9 (3.15%) OpenAI
7 6 (2.10%) Google
7 6 (2.10%) Oracle
8 5 (1.75%) Cloudera
9 4 (1.40%) Hortonworks
10 3 (1.05%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.70%) Apple
11 2 (0.70%) Teradata
12 1 (0.35%) Atlassian
12 1 (0.35%) Bloomberg
12 1 (0.35%) Reuters
12 1 (0.35%) Sage
12 1 (0.35%) SAP
12 1 (0.35%) SimCorp
12 1 (0.35%) Trayport