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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 181 256
Rank change year-on-year -8 +75 +100
Contract jobs citing PySpark 240 186 129
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.39% 1.47% 0.72%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.68% 5.65% 2.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 141 110
10th Percentile £363 £458 £436
25th Percentile £449 £550 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £775 £550
Median % change year-on-year -33.87% +40.91% -10.57%
75th Percentile £588 £875 £700
90th Percentile £675 £888 £839
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 4,228 3,293 4,433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.44% 26.00% 24.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,862 2,298 3,330
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £657 £713 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £800
England median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 17 23
10th Percentile £22.79 £34.30 £16.25
25th Percentile £32.02 £39.25 £25.00
Median hourly rate £43.50 £55.50 £38.16
Median % change year-on-year -21.62% +45.46% -42.19%
75th Percentile £60.12 £65.00 £60.63
90th Percentile £77.00 £78.75 £69.40
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

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 9 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 9 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 -5 30 £513 -23.51% 17
West London -19 8 £625 -19.35% 1
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 68 (28.33%) Apache Spark
2 22 (9.17%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (8.33%) Apache
4 9 (3.75%) SAS
5 6 (2.50%) Palantir Foundry
6 4 (1.67%) Confluence
7 1 (0.42%) Camunda
7 1 (0.42%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 153 (63.75%) Azure
2 79 (32.92%) AWS
3 73 (30.42%) Azure Data Factory
4 63 (26.25%) Power Platform
5 57 (23.75%) Azure DevOps
6 50 (20.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 45 (18.75%) GitHub
8 36 (15.00%) Serverless
9 30 (12.50%) Amazon S3
10 25 (10.42%) AWS Lambda
11 24 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
12 19 (7.92%) GCP
13 14 (5.83%) Microsoft Purview
14 12 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
14 12 (5.00%) dbt
15 11 (4.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 11 (4.58%) AWS Step Functions
15 11 (4.58%) Snowflake
16 10 (4.17%) Amazon EMR
16 10 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (26.67%) Data Lake
2 60 (25.00%) Power BI
3 54 (22.50%) Delta Lake
4 51 (21.25%) Data Warehouse
5 39 (16.25%) Azure SQL Database
6 34 (14.17%) Spark SQL
7 29 (12.08%) Metadata
8 27 (11.25%) NoSQL
9 25 (10.42%) Amazon Athena
9 25 (10.42%) Amazon Redshift
10 20 (8.33%) Big Data
11 14 (5.83%) Tableau
12 11 (4.58%) Relational Database
13 10 (4.17%) Snowflake Schema
14 8 (3.33%) Parquet
14 8 (3.33%) SQL Server
15 6 (2.50%) Base SAS
16 5 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
16 5 (2.08%) SAS Data Integration Studio
17 4 (1.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 71 (29.58%) Git
2 18 (7.50%) GitLab
3 12 (5.00%) MLflow
4 10 (4.17%) Jenkins
4 10 (4.17%) JIRA
5 1 (0.42%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.42%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.42%) ERwin
5 1 (0.42%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.42%) Visual Studio
General
1 68 (28.33%) Finance
2 44 (18.33%) Social Skills
3 23 (9.58%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 13 (5.42%) Banking
6 8 (3.33%) Retail
7 4 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (1.67%) Marketing
8 3 (1.25%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.25%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.83%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (0.83%) Front Office
9 2 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.83%) Retail Banking
9 2 (0.83%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.42%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.42%) Electronics
10 1 (0.42%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 136 (56.67%) Data Engineer
2 44 (18.33%) Senior
3 41 (17.08%) Azure Engineer
4 36 (15.00%) Azure Data Engineer
5 29 (12.08%) Senior Data Engineer
6 25 (10.42%) Developer
7 18 (7.50%) Lead
8 14 (5.83%) Architect
8 14 (5.83%) Python Engineer
9 11 (4.58%) Data Analytics Engineer
9 11 (4.58%) Principal Engineer
10 10 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
10 10 (4.17%) Python Data Engineer
10 10 (4.17%) Software Engineer
11 9 (3.75%) Data Architect
12 8 (3.33%) Data Scientist
13 7 (2.92%) Lead Data Engineer
13 7 (2.92%) Platform Engineer
13 7 (2.92%) Principal Software Engineer
14 5 (2.08%) Principal Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (12.08%) Kafka
2 19 (7.92%) Pandas
3 11 (4.58%) PyTorch
3 11 (4.58%) Spark Streaming
4 8 (3.33%) scikit-learn
4 8 (3.33%) YAML
5 6 (2.50%) JSON
5 6 (2.50%) pytest
5 6 (2.50%) React
5 6 (2.50%) REST
6 5 (2.08%) Great Expectations
6 5 (2.08%) HTML
6 5 (2.08%) Node.js
6 5 (2.08%) TensorFlow
7 4 (1.67%) LangChain
7 4 (1.67%) NumPy
8 3 (1.25%) FastAPI
8 3 (1.25%) LangGraph
8 3 (1.25%) SQLAlchemy
8 3 (1.25%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 29 (12.08%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.67%) Distributed Computing
3 6 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (2.50%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.08%) AI Agents
4 5 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.25%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.25%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.25%) Marketing Technology
6 3 (1.25%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.83%) Autonomous Agent
7 2 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.42%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.42%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.42%) IoT
8 1 (0.42%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.42%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.42%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.92%) Unix
2 6 (2.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (57.08%) Data Engineering
1 137 (57.08%) Data Pipeline
2 108 (45.00%) CI/CD
3 105 (43.75%) Data Modelling
4 100 (41.67%) Analytics
5 97 (40.42%) ETL
6 90 (37.50%) Agile
6 90 (37.50%) DevOps
7 79 (32.92%) Data Governance
8 58 (24.17%) Business Intelligence
9 53 (22.08%) Data Architecture
10 51 (21.25%) Data Science
11 50 (20.83%) Infrastructure as Code
12 46 (19.17%) AI
13 37 (15.42%) Machine Learning
14 34 (14.17%) Data Integration
15 32 (13.33%) Data Transformation
16 30 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
17 29 (12.08%) Integration Patterns
18 28 (11.67%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 199 (82.92%) Python
2 169 (70.42%) SQL
3 56 (23.33%) Scala
4 22 (9.17%) Java
5 9 (3.75%) Bicep
6 8 (3.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 8 (3.33%) R
7 6 (2.50%) SAS Macro
7 6 (2.50%) T-SQL
8 5 (2.08%) JavaScript
9 4 (1.67%) C#
9 4 (1.67%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.67%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.83%) Ada
10 2 (0.83%) C++
10 2 (0.83%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.42%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 80 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 73 (30.42%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.83%) Azure Certification
4 11 (4.58%) Degree
5 7 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.25%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.83%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.42%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.42%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (39.58%) Data Quality
2 16 (6.67%) GDPR
3 7 (2.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (1.25%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.25%) QA
5 2 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (9.17%) Docker
2 2 (0.83%) HDFS
2 2 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 61 (25.42%) Terraform
2 20 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.08%) Grafana
Vendors
1 131 (54.58%) Databricks
2 44 (18.33%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.33%) Foundry
4 6 (2.50%) Google
4 6 (2.50%) Palantir
5 4 (1.67%) Oracle
6 3 (1.25%) Apple
6 3 (1.25%) Cloudera
6 3 (1.25%) Hortonworks
6 3 (1.25%) Informatica
6 3 (1.25%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.25%) SAP
7 2 (0.83%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.42%) Confluent
8 1 (0.42%) IBM
8 1 (0.42%) New Relic
8 1 (0.42%) StreamSets