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 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 249 201
Rank change year-on-year +47 -48 +94
Contract jobs citing PySpark 281 125 205
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.39% 0.93% 1.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.29% 3.18% 4.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 92 161
10th Percentile £388 £376 £425
25th Percentile £449 £425 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £525 £620
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% -15.32% +1.22%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £825
90th Percentile £734 £848 £888
England median daily rate £525 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +5.00% -16.67% -

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 5,310 3,934 4,896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.26% 29.22% 30.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,550 2,736 3,480
10th Percentile £400 £369 £385
25th Percentile £455 £425 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £662 £688 £713
90th Percentile £763 £813 £850
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 32 19
10th Percentile £26.78 £31.77 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.00 £34.17 £30.82
Median hourly rate £43.50 £51.97 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.30% +22.28% -35.61%
75th Percentile £61.50 £62.81 £57.59
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £67.03
England median hourly rate £67.47 £54.79 £62.50
% change year-on-year +23.15% -12.34% -2.34%

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 29 August 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 29 August 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 +4 43 £550 -21.15% 3
West London - 1 £640 - 4
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 (24.20%) Apache Spark
2 49 (17.44%) Apache Airflow
3 48 (17.08%) Apache
4 11 (3.91%) Palantir Foundry
5 9 (3.20%) Confluence
6 7 (2.49%) SAS
7 1 (0.36%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 162 (57.65%) Azure
2 111 (39.50%) AWS
3 73 (25.98%) Power Platform
4 67 (23.84%) Azure Data Factory
5 64 (22.78%) Azure DevOps
6 48 (17.08%) Serverless
7 41 (14.59%) Amazon S3
8 40 (14.23%) AWS Lambda
9 39 (13.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 39 (13.88%) GitHub
10 30 (10.68%) dbt
11 28 (9.96%) GCP
11 28 (9.96%) GitHub Actions
12 21 (7.47%) Amazon EMR
12 21 (7.47%) Snowflake
13 14 (4.98%) Microsoft Purview
14 11 (3.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 11 (3.91%) Azure AI
15 8 (2.85%) AWS Step Functions
16 7 (2.49%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.36%) Firewall
1 1 (0.36%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (25.27%) Power BI
2 65 (23.13%) Delta Lake
3 49 (17.44%) Data Warehouse
4 45 (16.01%) Data Lake
5 40 (14.23%) Metadata
6 35 (12.46%) Amazon Redshift
7 32 (11.39%) Spark SQL
8 24 (8.54%) Amazon Athena
9 17 (6.05%) Big Data
10 13 (4.63%) BigQuery
11 12 (4.27%) Star Schema
12 10 (3.56%) SQL Server
13 8 (2.85%) Data Vault
13 8 (2.85%) Parquet
13 8 (2.85%) Snowflake Schema
13 8 (2.85%) Tableau
14 7 (2.49%) NoSQL
14 7 (2.49%) Relational Database
15 6 (2.14%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 6 (2.14%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 34 (12.10%) Git
2 28 (9.96%) GitLab
3 16 (5.69%) MLflow
4 15 (5.34%) JIRA
5 5 (1.78%) ER Studio
5 5 (1.78%) ERwin
6 4 (1.42%) Selenium
7 3 (1.07%) Jenkins
7 3 (1.07%) RStudio
7 3 (1.07%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.71%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.36%) Postman
9 1 (0.36%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.36%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 118 (41.99%) Finance
2 73 (25.98%) Social Skills
3 41 (14.59%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (11.39%) Banking
5 27 (9.61%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.20%) Investment Banking
8 8 (2.85%) Financial Institution
9 6 (2.14%) Retail
10 5 (1.78%) Marketing
11 3 (1.07%) Billing
12 2 (0.71%) Front Office
12 2 (0.71%) Local Government
12 2 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.36%) Law
13 1 (0.36%) Legal
13 1 (0.36%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.36%) Publishing
13 1 (0.36%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 154 (54.80%) Data Engineer
2 70 (24.91%) Senior
3 44 (15.66%) Senior Data Engineer
4 34 (12.10%) Architect
5 31 (11.03%) Lead
6 21 (7.47%) Developer
7 20 (7.12%) Data Architect
8 16 (5.69%) Platform Engineer
8 16 (5.69%) Python Engineer
9 14 (4.98%) Lead Data Engineer
9 14 (4.98%) Senior Developer
10 13 (4.63%) Data Scientist
10 13 (4.63%) Python Data Engineer
11 11 (3.91%) AWS Engineer
12 10 (3.56%) Azure Engineer
13 8 (2.85%) Analyst
13 8 (2.85%) Azure Data Engineer
14 7 (2.49%) AWS Data Engineer
14 7 (2.49%) Data Analyst
14 7 (2.49%) Informatica Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (21.71%) Terraform
2 40 (14.23%) Kafka
3 24 (8.54%) Pandas
4 20 (7.12%) REST
5 17 (6.05%) React
6 15 (5.34%) Great Expectations
7 14 (4.98%) NumPy
7 14 (4.98%) pytest
8 9 (3.20%) .NET
9 8 (2.85%) .NET Core
9 8 (2.85%) JSON
10 7 (2.49%) FastAPI
10 7 (2.49%) RESTful
10 7 (2.49%) scikit-learn
11 6 (2.14%) PyTorch
11 6 (2.14%) Redux
11 6 (2.14%) Spring
11 6 (2.14%) Spring Boot
12 5 (1.78%) Django
12 5 (1.78%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 39 (13.88%) Cloud Native
2 18 (6.41%) Product Ownership
3 16 (5.69%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (4.27%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (4.27%) Onboarding
5 10 (3.56%) Data Structures
5 10 (3.56%) Reference Data
6 8 (2.85%) NHS
7 7 (2.49%) AI Agents
7 7 (2.49%) Distributed Computing
7 7 (2.49%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (2.14%) Algorithms
8 6 (2.14%) Fixed Income
8 6 (2.14%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.78%) Derivative
9 5 (1.78%) Market Risk
9 5 (1.78%) Pricing Data
9 5 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.78%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.42%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.27%) Linux
1 12 (4.27%) Unix
2 1 (0.36%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (53.74%) Data Pipeline
2 150 (53.38%) Data Engineering
3 142 (50.53%) CI/CD
4 133 (47.33%) Analytics
5 110 (39.15%) Data Modelling
6 103 (36.65%) DevOps
7 101 (35.94%) ETL
8 94 (33.45%) Agile
9 89 (31.67%) Business Intelligence
10 85 (30.25%) AI
11 71 (25.27%) Data Governance
12 61 (21.71%) Machine Learning
13 58 (20.64%) Infrastructure as Code
14 53 (18.86%) Migration
15 52 (18.51%) Data Science
16 50 (17.79%) Data Transformation
17 49 (17.44%) Data Architecture
18 47 (16.73%) Validation
19 43 (15.30%) Performance Optimisation
20 38 (13.52%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 236 (83.99%) Python
2 203 (72.24%) SQL
3 22 (7.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 17 (6.05%) Java
5 11 (3.91%) C#
5 11 (3.91%) JavaScript
5 11 (3.91%) Scala
5 11 (3.91%) Shell Script
6 10 (3.56%) TypeScript
7 8 (2.85%) T-SQL
8 5 (1.78%) R
9 4 (1.42%) Bicep
9 4 (1.42%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.07%) SPARQL
11 2 (0.71%) Bash
11 2 (0.71%) Korn
12 1 (0.36%) COBOL
12 1 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.36%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.36%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 61 (21.71%) Security Cleared
2 56 (19.93%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.34%) Degree
4 11 (3.91%) Azure Certification
5 8 (2.85%) AWS Certification
5 8 (2.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 8 (2.85%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.49%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.78%) PhD
8 3 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.71%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.71%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (40.21%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.27%) GDPR
3 9 (3.20%) QA
4 3 (1.07%) SLA
5 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.36%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.36%) MiFID
5 1 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (10.68%) Docker
2 1 (0.36%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (8.90%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.42%) Ansible
2 4 (1.42%) Grafana
3 1 (0.36%) Control-M
Vendors
1 135 (48.04%) Databricks
2 67 (23.84%) Microsoft
3 19 (6.76%) Palantir
4 16 (5.69%) Informatica
5 11 (3.91%) Foundry
6 9 (3.20%) OpenAI
7 6 (2.14%) Google
7 6 (2.14%) Oracle
8 5 (1.78%) Cloudera
9 4 (1.42%) Hortonworks
10 3 (1.07%) Apple
11 2 (0.71%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.71%) Teradata
12 1 (0.36%) Atlassian
12 1 (0.36%) Bloomberg
12 1 (0.36%) NVIDIA
12 1 (0.36%) Reuters
12 1 (0.36%) SimCorp
12 1 (0.36%) Tagetik
12 1 (0.36%) Trayport