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 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 179 265
Rank change year-on-year -20 +86 +61
Contract jobs citing PySpark 238 179 133
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.34% 1.42% 0.75%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.67% 5.46% 2.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 135 112
10th Percentile £363 £456 £438
25th Percentile £449 £550 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £775 £550
Median % change year-on-year -32.90% +40.91% -10.57%
75th Percentile £588 £875 £700
90th Percentile £663 £888 £798
England median daily rate £513 £660 £550
% change year-on-year -22.35% +20.00% -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 4,200 3,280 4,465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.68% 26.07% 25.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,814 2,300 3,348
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £430 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £656 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £825
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 18 26
10th Percentile £23.33 £33.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £28.00 £36.06 £23.90
Median hourly rate £42.50 £52.50 £37.17
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +41.24% -43.68%
75th Percentile £60.94 £65.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £74.80 £76.25 £68.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

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 2 May 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 2 May 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 30 £509 -27.71% 21
West London -20 6 £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 66 (27.73%) Apache Spark
2 25 (10.50%) Apache Airflow
3 24 (10.08%) Apache
4 7 (2.94%) SAS
5 6 (2.52%) Palantir Foundry
6 4 (1.68%) Confluence
7 1 (0.42%) Camunda
Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 143 (60.08%) Azure
2 78 (32.77%) AWS
3 66 (27.73%) Azure Data Factory
4 63 (26.47%) Power Platform
5 59 (24.79%) Azure DevOps
6 50 (21.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 48 (20.17%) GitHub
8 37 (15.55%) Serverless
9 31 (13.03%) Amazon S3
10 28 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
11 26 (10.92%) AWS Lambda
12 15 (6.30%) GCP
12 15 (6.30%) Microsoft Purview
13 13 (5.46%) AWS CloudFormation
14 12 (5.04%) dbt
14 12 (5.04%) Snowflake
15 11 (4.62%) AWS Step Functions
16 10 (4.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 10 (4.20%) Amazon EMR
16 10 (4.20%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (26.89%) Data Lake
2 61 (25.63%) Power BI
3 54 (22.69%) Delta Lake
4 42 (17.65%) Data Warehouse
5 36 (15.13%) Spark SQL
6 33 (13.87%) Azure SQL Database
7 28 (11.76%) Metadata
8 27 (11.34%) Amazon Athena
9 24 (10.08%) Amazon Redshift
10 22 (9.24%) Big Data
10 22 (9.24%) NoSQL
11 14 (5.88%) Tableau
12 12 (5.04%) Relational Database
13 10 (4.20%) SQL Server
14 9 (3.78%) Snowflake Schema
15 8 (3.36%) Parquet
16 6 (2.52%) Base SAS
17 5 (2.10%) Amazon RDS
17 5 (2.10%) SAS Data Integration Studio
18 4 (1.68%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 66 (27.73%) Git
2 18 (7.56%) GitLab
3 13 (5.46%) MLflow
4 10 (4.20%) JIRA
5 8 (3.36%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.42%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.42%) ERwin
6 1 (0.42%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 77 (32.35%) Finance
2 43 (18.07%) Social Skills
3 26 (10.92%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (6.30%) Public Sector
5 14 (5.88%) Banking
6 7 (2.94%) Retail
7 5 (2.10%) Marketing
8 3 (1.26%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.84%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.84%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.84%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.42%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.42%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.42%) Law
10 1 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.42%) Publishing
10 1 (0.42%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 138 (57.98%) Data Engineer
2 49 (20.59%) Senior
3 34 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
4 31 (13.03%) Azure Data Engineer
4 31 (13.03%) Senior Data Engineer
5 24 (10.08%) Developer
6 20 (8.40%) Lead
7 13 (5.46%) Architect
7 13 (5.46%) Python Engineer
8 9 (3.78%) AWS Engineer
8 9 (3.78%) Data Scientist
8 9 (3.78%) Platform Engineer
8 9 (3.78%) Principal Engineer
8 9 (3.78%) Python Data Engineer
9 8 (3.36%) Data Analytics Engineer
9 8 (3.36%) Data Architect
9 8 (3.36%) Software Engineer
10 7 (2.94%) Lead Data Engineer
11 6 (2.52%) Data Analyst
11 6 (2.52%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (11.76%) Kafka
2 20 (8.40%) Pandas
3 12 (5.04%) PyTorch
4 11 (4.62%) Spark Streaming
5 10 (4.20%) React
6 9 (3.78%) REST
6 9 (3.78%) scikit-learn
7 8 (3.36%) Great Expectations
8 6 (2.52%) JSON
8 6 (2.52%) pytest
8 6 (2.52%) YAML
9 5 (2.10%) HTML
9 5 (2.10%) Node.js
9 5 (2.10%) TensorFlow
10 4 (1.68%) .NET
10 4 (1.68%) .NET Core
10 4 (1.68%) LangChain
10 4 (1.68%) NumPy
11 3 (1.26%) Matplotlib
11 3 (1.26%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 32 (13.45%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.72%) Distributed Computing
3 8 (3.36%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.94%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.52%) AI Agents
6 5 (2.10%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.26%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.26%) Marketing Technology
8 3 (1.26%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.84%) Autonomous Agent
9 2 (0.84%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.84%) Equities
9 2 (0.84%) Fixed Income
9 2 (0.84%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.42%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.42%) Freedom of Information Act
10 1 (0.42%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.52%) Unix
2 5 (2.10%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (55.88%) Data Engineering
2 130 (54.62%) Data Pipeline
3 111 (46.64%) CI/CD
4 102 (42.86%) Data Modelling
5 101 (42.44%) Analytics
6 100 (42.02%) ETL
7 91 (38.24%) DevOps
8 90 (37.82%) Agile
9 73 (30.67%) Data Governance
10 58 (24.37%) Business Intelligence
11 52 (21.85%) AI
12 51 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
13 49 (20.59%) Data Science
14 42 (17.65%) Data Architecture
15 37 (15.55%) Machine Learning
16 31 (13.03%) Migration
16 31 (13.03%) Performance Tuning
17 30 (12.61%) Data Integration
17 30 (12.61%) Data Transformation
18 28 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 200 (84.03%) Python
2 159 (66.81%) SQL
3 52 (21.85%) Scala
4 23 (9.66%) Java
5 8 (3.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 8 (3.36%) JavaScript
5 8 (3.36%) R
5 8 (3.36%) TypeScript
6 7 (2.94%) Bicep
6 7 (2.94%) C#
7 6 (2.52%) SAS Macro
8 5 (2.10%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.68%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.84%) Ada
10 2 (0.84%) C++
10 2 (0.84%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.42%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 73 (30.67%) Security Cleared
2 66 (27.73%) SC Cleared
3 13 (5.46%) Azure Certification
3 13 (5.46%) Degree
4 8 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.68%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.84%) PhD
8 1 (0.42%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.42%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (38.24%) Data Quality
2 16 (6.72%) GDPR
3 7 (2.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (1.26%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.26%) QA
5 2 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.42%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.42%) MiFID
6 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 26 (10.92%) Docker
2 2 (0.84%) HDFS
2 2 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 62 (26.05%) Terraform
2 24 (10.08%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.10%) Grafana
Vendors
1 122 (51.26%) Databricks
2 45 (18.91%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.36%) Foundry
4 6 (2.52%) Google
4 6 (2.52%) Palantir
5 4 (1.68%) Cloudera
5 4 (1.68%) Hortonworks
5 4 (1.68%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.26%) Apple
6 3 (1.26%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.26%) Oracle
7 2 (0.84%) Informatica
7 2 (0.84%) SAP
8 1 (0.42%) New Relic