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 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 203 220 201
Rank change year-on-year +17 -19 +124
Contract jobs citing PySpark 248 155 200
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.25% 1.15% 1.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.48% 4.39% 4.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 116 159
10th Percentile £363 £403 £425
25th Percentile £446 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £627 £560
Median % change year-on-year -16.20% +11.88% -9.28%
75th Percentile £638 £838 £750
90th Percentile £738 £875 £875
England median daily rate £513 £573 £550
% change year-on-year -10.48% +4.09% -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 4,522 3,527 4,751
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.77% 26.08% 27.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,998 2,452 3,469
10th Percentile £384 £375 £375
25th Percentile £450 £430 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £713 £718
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 24 26
10th Percentile £24.63 £31.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.06 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.25 £48.22 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.38% +20.55% -40.74%
75th Percentile £70.69 £62.81 £58.76
90th Percentile £91.88 £81.88 £71.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.20% -10.31%

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 11 July 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 11 July 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 -2 34 £519 -22.57% 7
West London -14 3 £625 -19.35% 3
East London - 1 £449 - 2
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 49 (19.76%) Apache Spark
2 31 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (12.10%) Apache
4 12 (4.84%) Confluence
5 11 (4.44%) Palantir Foundry
6 8 (3.23%) SAS
7 1 (0.40%) Camunda
Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 130 (52.42%) Azure
2 95 (38.31%) AWS
3 67 (27.02%) Power Platform
4 60 (24.19%) Azure DevOps
5 51 (20.56%) Azure Data Factory
6 50 (20.16%) GitHub
7 45 (18.15%) Amazon S3
8 44 (17.74%) Serverless
9 43 (17.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 36 (14.52%) AWS Lambda
11 28 (11.29%) dbt
11 28 (11.29%) GitHub Actions
12 25 (10.08%) Amazon EMR
13 14 (5.65%) Azure AI
13 14 (5.65%) GCP
13 14 (5.65%) Snowflake
14 13 (5.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 11 (4.44%) AWS CloudFormation
15 11 (4.44%) Azure Monitor
15 11 (4.44%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.40%) Firewall
1 1 (0.40%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (26.61%) Power BI
2 50 (20.16%) Delta Lake
3 48 (19.35%) Data Lake
4 37 (14.92%) Data Warehouse
5 31 (12.50%) Amazon Athena
5 31 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
6 30 (12.10%) Spark SQL
7 26 (10.48%) Metadata
8 20 (8.06%) Big Data
9 13 (5.24%) Azure SQL Database
10 11 (4.44%) Snowflake Schema
11 9 (3.63%) NoSQL
12 8 (3.23%) Tableau
13 7 (2.82%) Neo4j
13 7 (2.82%) Parquet
13 7 (2.82%) SQL Server
13 7 (2.82%) Star Schema
14 6 (2.42%) Base SAS
15 5 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
15 5 (2.02%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 45 (18.15%) Git
2 28 (11.29%) GitLab
3 18 (7.26%) JIRA
4 13 (5.24%) MLflow
5 4 (1.61%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.81%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.40%) Postman
7 1 (0.40%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 92 (37.10%) Finance
2 59 (23.79%) Social Skills
3 31 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 26 (10.48%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (7.26%) Banking
6 7 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.02%) Marketing
8 4 (1.61%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.61%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.21%) Retail
10 2 (0.81%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.81%) Front Office
10 2 (0.81%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.81%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.40%) Law
11 1 (0.40%) Legal
11 1 (0.40%) Local Government
11 1 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 139 (56.05%) Data Engineer
2 60 (24.19%) Senior
3 36 (14.52%) Senior Data Engineer
4 22 (8.87%) Lead
5 21 (8.47%) Architect
6 17 (6.85%) Developer
7 15 (6.05%) Platform Engineer
8 14 (5.65%) Data Scientist
9 12 (4.84%) Python Engineer
10 11 (4.44%) AWS Engineer
10 11 (4.44%) Azure Engineer
11 10 (4.03%) Azure Data Engineer
11 10 (4.03%) Data Architect
12 9 (3.63%) Senior Developer
13 7 (2.82%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 7 (2.82%) Lead Data Engineer
13 7 (2.82%) Principal Engineer
13 7 (2.82%) Technical Architect
14 6 (2.42%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
14 6 (2.42%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (10.89%) Kafka
2 17 (6.85%) Pandas
3 13 (5.24%) React
4 10 (4.03%) REST
4 10 (4.03%) scikit-learn
5 9 (3.63%) Great Expectations
6 8 (3.23%) .NET
6 8 (3.23%) JSON
6 8 (3.23%) PyTorch
7 7 (2.82%) .NET Core
7 7 (2.82%) pytest
8 6 (2.42%) NumPy
8 6 (2.42%) RESTful
8 6 (2.42%) Spark Streaming
9 5 (2.02%) FastAPI
9 5 (2.02%) Redux
9 5 (2.02%) Spring
9 5 (2.02%) Spring Boot
10 4 (1.61%) Node.js
11 3 (1.21%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 45 (18.15%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.65%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (4.44%) Distributed Computing
4 8 (3.23%) NHS
5 7 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (2.82%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (2.82%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.82%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.02%) AI Agents
6 5 (2.02%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.02%) Reference Data
6 5 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.61%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.21%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.21%) Marketing Technology
8 3 (1.21%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.81%) Derivative
9 2 (0.81%) Equities
9 2 (0.81%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.63%) Linux
2 8 (3.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (54.03%) CI/CD
2 131 (52.82%) Data Pipeline
3 130 (52.42%) Data Engineering
4 110 (44.35%) Analytics
5 99 (39.92%) ETL
6 96 (38.71%) DevOps
7 90 (36.29%) Data Modelling
8 88 (35.48%) Agile
9 70 (28.23%) Business Intelligence
10 68 (27.42%) AI
11 66 (26.61%) Infrastructure as Code
12 60 (24.19%) Data Science
13 58 (23.39%) Data Governance
14 46 (18.55%) Machine Learning
15 43 (17.34%) Migration
16 33 (13.31%) Data Transformation
17 31 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
18 30 (12.10%) Problem-Solving
19 28 (11.29%) Data Architecture
19 28 (11.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 218 (87.90%) Python
2 165 (66.53%) SQL
3 23 (9.27%) Scala
4 18 (7.26%) Java
5 13 (5.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 10 (4.03%) TypeScript
7 9 (3.63%) C#
8 8 (3.23%) T-SQL
9 7 (2.82%) JavaScript
9 7 (2.82%) Shell Script
10 6 (2.42%) SAS Macro
11 3 (1.21%) Bicep
11 3 (1.21%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.21%) SPARQL
12 2 (0.81%) Bash
12 2 (0.81%) R
13 1 (0.40%) Korn
13 1 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 72 (29.03%) Security Cleared
2 65 (26.21%) SC Cleared
3 19 (7.66%) Degree
4 13 (5.24%) Azure Certification
5 11 (4.44%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (3.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (3.23%) Master's Degree
8 7 (2.82%) AWS Certification
8 7 (2.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 5 (2.02%) PhD
10 3 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.81%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.81%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (31.45%) Data Quality
2 13 (5.24%) GDPR
3 4 (1.61%) QA
4 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.40%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.40%) MiFID
4 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (8.06%) Docker
2 2 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.40%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 74 (29.84%) Terraform
2 20 (8.06%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.61%) Grafana
Vendors
1 106 (42.74%) Databricks
2 51 (20.56%) Microsoft
3 19 (7.66%) Palantir
4 14 (5.65%) Informatica
5 13 (5.24%) Foundry
6 10 (4.03%) OpenAI
7 6 (2.42%) Google
8 4 (1.61%) Cloudera
8 4 (1.61%) Hortonworks
9 3 (1.21%) Apple
9 3 (1.21%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.81%) Oracle
11 1 (0.40%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.40%) Reuters
11 1 (0.40%) SimCorp
11 1 (0.40%) Tagetik
11 1 (0.40%) Trayport