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 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 175 266
Rank change year-on-year -20 +91 +101
Contract jobs citing PySpark 232 186 120
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.39% 1.47% 0.66%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.63% 5.62% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 145 103
10th Percentile £363 £464 £438
25th Percentile £425 £537 £475
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 £883 £848
England median daily rate £523 £633 £550
% change year-on-year -17.39% +15.00% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
England median hourly rate £35.00 £43.25 £21.00
% change year-on-year -19.08% +105.95% -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 4,120 3,307 4,418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.74% 26.11% 24.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,793 2,304 3,322
10th Percentile £363 £385 £376
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.27% -1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £665 £707 £690
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £525 £537 £540
% change year-on-year -2.23% -0.56% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 18 27
10th Percentile £27.80 £34.48 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.06 £38.69 £26.76
Median hourly rate £45.50 £54.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.74% +27.06% -34.62%
75th Percentile £59.04 £65.00 £64.63
90th Percentile £69.88 £77.83 £76.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +0.78% +32.39% -25.05%

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 25 March 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 25 March 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 +6 29 £513 -19.92% 17
West London -11 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 64 (27.59%) Apache Spark
2 20 (8.62%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (7.33%) Apache
4 8 (3.45%) Palantir Foundry
4 8 (3.45%) SAS
5 5 (2.16%) Confluence
6 1 (0.43%) Camunda
6 1 (0.43%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 146 (62.93%) Azure
2 73 (31.47%) Azure Data Factory
3 70 (30.17%) AWS
4 58 (25.00%) Power Platform
5 53 (22.84%) Azure DevOps
6 49 (21.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 42 (18.10%) GitHub
8 31 (13.36%) Serverless
9 26 (11.21%) Amazon S3
10 22 (9.48%) GitHub Actions
11 20 (8.62%) AWS Lambda
12 18 (7.76%) GCP
13 13 (5.60%) Snowflake
14 12 (5.17%) dbt
14 12 (5.17%) Microsoft Purview
15 11 (4.74%) Amazon EMR
16 10 (4.31%) AWS CloudFormation
16 10 (4.31%) AWS Step Functions
16 10 (4.31%) Azure Monitor
17 9 (3.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (26.72%) Data Lake
2 55 (23.71%) Power BI
3 53 (22.84%) Delta Lake
4 51 (21.98%) Data Warehouse
5 38 (16.38%) Azure SQL Database
6 31 (13.36%) Spark SQL
7 30 (12.93%) Metadata
8 27 (11.64%) NoSQL
9 25 (10.78%) Amazon Redshift
10 20 (8.62%) Big Data
11 19 (8.19%) Amazon Athena
12 14 (6.03%) Relational Database
13 12 (5.17%) Tableau
14 10 (4.31%) Snowflake Schema
15 8 (3.45%) SQL Server
16 7 (3.02%) Parquet
17 5 (2.16%) Base SAS
17 5 (2.16%) PostgreSQL
17 5 (2.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 4 (1.72%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 68 (29.31%) Git
2 18 (7.76%) GitLab
3 10 (4.31%) Jenkins
3 10 (4.31%) JIRA
3 10 (4.31%) MLflow
4 2 (0.86%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.43%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.43%) ERwin
5 1 (0.43%) Gradle
5 1 (0.43%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 70 (30.17%) Finance
2 43 (18.53%) Social Skills
3 20 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (6.03%) Public Sector
5 12 (5.17%) Banking
6 8 (3.45%) Retail
7 5 (2.16%) Marketing
8 4 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.29%) Front Office
9 3 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.29%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.29%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.86%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (0.86%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.86%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.43%) Electronics
11 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.43%) Law
11 1 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 132 (56.90%) Data Engineer
2 40 (17.24%) Azure Engineer
2 40 (17.24%) Senior
3 35 (15.09%) Azure Data Engineer
4 27 (11.64%) Senior Data Engineer
5 23 (9.91%) Developer
6 19 (8.19%) Lead
7 14 (6.03%) Python Engineer
8 12 (5.17%) Architect
9 11 (4.74%) Data Analytics Engineer
10 10 (4.31%) AWS Engineer
10 10 (4.31%) Principal Engineer
10 10 (4.31%) Software Engineer
11 9 (3.88%) Python Data Engineer
12 8 (3.45%) Data Architect
13 7 (3.02%) Lead Data Engineer
13 7 (3.02%) Principal Software Engineer
14 6 (2.59%) Platform Engineer
15 5 (2.16%) Data Scientist
15 5 (2.16%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (11.64%) Kafka
2 15 (6.47%) Pandas
3 10 (4.31%) Spark Streaming
4 8 (3.45%) PyTorch
4 8 (3.45%) YAML
5 6 (2.59%) HTML
5 6 (2.59%) REST
5 6 (2.59%) scikit-learn
6 5 (2.16%) pytest
6 5 (2.16%) TensorFlow
7 4 (1.72%) CSS
7 4 (1.72%) JSON
7 4 (1.72%) LangChain
7 4 (1.72%) Node.js
7 4 (1.72%) NumPy
8 3 (1.29%) FastAPI
8 3 (1.29%) LangGraph
8 3 (1.29%) Matplotlib
8 3 (1.29%) React
8 3 (1.29%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 28 (12.07%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.90%) Distributed Computing
3 8 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.16%) AI Agents
4 5 (2.16%) Data Structures
4 5 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (2.16%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.29%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.29%) Marketing Technology
6 3 (1.29%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.86%) Autonomous Agent
7 2 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.43%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.43%) IoT
8 1 (0.43%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.43%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.43%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.02%) Unix
2 6 (2.59%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (59.05%) Data Engineering
2 129 (55.60%) Data Pipeline
3 105 (45.26%) Data Modelling
4 102 (43.97%) CI/CD
5 101 (43.53%) Analytics
6 92 (39.66%) ETL
7 88 (37.93%) Agile
7 88 (37.93%) DevOps
8 77 (33.19%) Data Governance
9 58 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
10 53 (22.84%) Data Architecture
11 49 (21.12%) Data Science
12 43 (18.53%) AI
12 43 (18.53%) Infrastructure as Code
13 34 (14.66%) Machine Learning
14 32 (13.79%) Data Integration
14 32 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
15 30 (12.93%) Data Transformation
16 28 (12.07%) Integration Patterns
17 26 (11.21%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 193 (83.19%) Python
2 169 (72.84%) SQL
3 56 (24.14%) Scala
4 19 (8.19%) Java
5 8 (3.45%) Bicep
5 8 (3.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 8 (3.45%) R
6 6 (2.59%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.16%) SAS Macro
7 5 (2.16%) T-SQL
8 4 (1.72%) C#
8 4 (1.72%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.86%) Ada
9 2 (0.86%) C++
9 2 (0.86%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.86%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.43%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.43%) VBA
Qualifications
1 73 (31.47%) Security Cleared
2 67 (28.88%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.03%) Azure Certification
4 10 (4.31%) Degree
5 6 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.29%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.29%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.43%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (40.09%) Data Quality
2 15 (6.47%) GDPR
3 7 (3.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (1.72%) QA
5 3 (1.29%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (8.62%) Docker
2 2 (0.86%) HDFS
2 2 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 53 (22.84%) Terraform
2 17 (7.33%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.29%) Grafana
Vendors
1 130 (56.03%) Databricks
2 38 (16.38%) Microsoft
3 10 (4.31%) Foundry
4 8 (3.45%) Palantir
5 6 (2.59%) Google
6 5 (2.16%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.72%) Cloudera
7 4 (1.72%) Oracle
8 3 (1.29%) Apple
8 3 (1.29%) Hortonworks
8 3 (1.29%) Informatica
8 3 (1.29%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.29%) SAP
9 2 (0.86%) Guidewire
10 1 (0.43%) Confluent
10 1 (0.43%) IBM
10 1 (0.43%) New Relic
10 1 (0.43%) RedGate
10 1 (0.43%) StreamSets