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 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 190 282
Rank change year-on-year -1 +92 +104
Contract jobs citing PySpark 193 186 111
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.35% 1.30% 0.61%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.12% 5.08% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 144 94
10th Percentile £367 £464 £462
25th Percentile £413 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £650 £555
Median % change year-on-year -21.54% +17.12% -3.48%
75th Percentile £588 £838 £763
90th Percentile £625 £888 £835
England median daily rate £513 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -14.58% +9.09% -4.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
England median hourly rate - £43.25 -

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 3,768 3,659 4,598
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.33% 25.57% 25.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,549 2,390 3,468
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £670 £700 £700
90th Percentile £763 £825 £800
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 19 31
10th Percentile £35.05 £34.65 £29.72
25th Percentile £43.13 £38.38 £35.94
Median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -15.97%
75th Percentile £63.38 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £71.60 £72.80 £77.50
England median hourly rate £60.50 £62.50 £52.20
% change year-on-year -3.20% +19.74% -19.70%

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 4 January 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 4 January 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 +7 21 £513 -17.27% 19
West London -11 5 £625 - 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 52 (26.94%) Apache Spark
2 14 (7.25%) Apache
3 13 (6.74%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.07%) Confluence
5 2 (1.04%) Jupyter
5 2 (1.04%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 132 (68.39%) Azure
2 72 (37.31%) Azure Data Factory
3 51 (26.42%) Power Platform
4 48 (24.87%) AWS
5 45 (23.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 33 (17.10%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (8.29%) GitHub
7 16 (8.29%) Microsoft Purview
7 16 (8.29%) Serverless
8 15 (7.77%) GCP
9 12 (6.22%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (5.70%) Amazon S3
10 11 (5.70%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (4.15%) Snowflake
12 7 (3.63%) AWS Step Functions
12 7 (3.63%) dbt
13 6 (3.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (2.59%) Amazon EMR
15 4 (2.07%) Amazon Kinesis
15 4 (2.07%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (24.87%) Data Warehouse
2 43 (22.28%) Power BI
3 41 (21.24%) Data Lake
4 35 (18.13%) Delta Lake
5 31 (16.06%) Azure SQL Database
6 26 (13.47%) Metadata
7 23 (11.92%) NoSQL
7 23 (11.92%) Spark SQL
8 19 (9.84%) Big Data
9 14 (7.25%) Amazon Redshift
9 14 (7.25%) Relational Database
10 11 (5.70%) Hadoop
10 11 (5.70%) PostgreSQL
11 10 (5.18%) Tableau
12 9 (4.66%) Amazon Athena
13 8 (4.15%) SQL Server
14 5 (2.59%) Parquet
14 5 (2.59%) Star Schema
15 4 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
15 4 (2.07%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 50 (25.91%) Git
2 11 (5.70%) GitLab
3 7 (3.63%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.63%) MLflow
4 5 (2.59%) JIRA
5 2 (1.04%) ERwin
5 2 (1.04%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.52%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.52%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.52%) Gradle
6 1 (0.52%) SonarQube
General
1 49 (25.39%) Finance
2 41 (21.24%) Social Skills
3 13 (6.74%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (6.74%) Retail
4 12 (6.22%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (3.63%) Banking
7 4 (2.07%) Front Office
7 4 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.07%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.55%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (1.55%) Marketing
8 3 (1.55%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.04%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.52%) Electronics
10 1 (0.52%) Law
10 1 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 106 (54.92%) Data Engineer
2 44 (22.80%) Azure Engineer
3 39 (20.21%) Azure Data Engineer
4 22 (11.40%) Senior
5 20 (10.36%) Developer
6 19 (9.84%) Architect
7 16 (8.29%) Lead
7 16 (8.29%) Senior Data Engineer
8 14 (7.25%) Data Architect
9 12 (6.22%) Python Engineer
10 9 (4.66%) AWS Engineer
11 8 (4.15%) Python Data Engineer
12 6 (3.11%) Data Analytics Engineer
13 5 (2.59%) AWS Data Engineer
13 5 (2.59%) Data Scientist
13 5 (2.59%) Lead Data Engineer
13 5 (2.59%) Principal Engineer
13 5 (2.59%) Principal Software Engineer
13 5 (2.59%) Software Engineer
14 4 (2.07%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (11.92%) Kafka
2 14 (7.25%) Pandas
3 8 (4.15%) Spark Streaming
3 8 (4.15%) YAML
4 7 (3.63%) PyTorch
5 6 (3.11%) Apache NiFi
6 5 (2.59%) NumPy
6 5 (2.59%) REST
6 5 (2.59%) scikit-learn
7 4 (2.07%) TensorFlow
8 3 (1.55%) .NET
8 3 (1.55%) ARM Templates
8 3 (1.55%) HTML
8 3 (1.55%) LangChain
8 3 (1.55%) Matplotlib
8 3 (1.55%) RESTful
9 2 (1.04%) CrewAI
9 2 (1.04%) LangGraph
9 2 (1.04%) NLTK
9 2 (1.04%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.70%) Distributed Computing
2 9 (4.66%) Cloud Native
3 8 (4.15%) Data Structures
3 8 (4.15%) Low-Code
4 6 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.07%) AI Agents
5 4 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.55%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.04%) Educational Technology
7 2 (1.04%) IoT
8 1 (0.52%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.52%) Autonomous Agent
8 1 (0.52%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.52%) Multi-touch
8 1 (0.52%) Replication
8 1 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.52%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.55%) Linux
2 2 (1.04%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (54.92%) Data Engineering
2 101 (52.33%) Data Pipeline
3 86 (44.56%) Data Modelling
4 77 (39.90%) ETL
5 74 (38.34%) Data Governance
6 69 (35.75%) Analytics
7 68 (35.23%) Agile
8 62 (32.12%) CI/CD
9 56 (29.02%) DevOps
10 54 (27.98%) Business Intelligence
11 53 (27.46%) Data Architecture
12 36 (18.65%) Data Science
13 34 (17.62%) Data Integration
14 31 (16.06%) Problem-Solving
15 27 (13.99%) Integration Patterns
16 26 (13.47%) Data Transformation
16 26 (13.47%) Machine Learning
17 25 (12.95%) AI
18 22 (11.40%) Migration
19 21 (10.88%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 144 (74.61%) Python
2 135 (69.95%) SQL
3 43 (22.28%) Scala
4 19 (9.84%) Java
5 10 (5.18%) Bicep
6 8 (4.15%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.11%) R
8 4 (2.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.55%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.55%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.04%) Ada
10 2 (1.04%) C#
10 2 (1.04%) C++
10 2 (1.04%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.52%) VBA
Qualifications
1 57 (29.53%) Security Cleared
2 54 (27.98%) SC Cleared
3 17 (8.81%) Azure Certification
4 6 (3.11%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.07%) Degree
6 3 (1.55%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.55%) MCP
6 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.52%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (34.20%) Data Quality
2 14 (7.25%) GDPR
3 7 (3.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (2.59%) QA
5 2 (1.04%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 19 (9.84%) Docker
2 4 (2.07%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 24 (12.44%) Terraform
2 19 (9.84%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.52%) Argo
Vendors
1 116 (60.10%) Databricks
2 41 (21.24%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.63%) Salesforce
4 6 (3.11%) Foundry
4 6 (3.11%) Palantir
5 4 (2.07%) Cloudera
5 4 (2.07%) Guidewire
5 4 (2.07%) Oracle
5 4 (2.07%) SAP
6 2 (1.04%) Informatica
6 2 (1.04%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.52%) Confluent
7 1 (0.52%) Google
7 1 (0.52%) IBM
7 1 (0.52%) RedGate
7 1 (0.52%) StreamSets