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 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 202 190 287
Rank change year-on-year -12 +97 +101
Contract jobs citing PySpark 180 201 118
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.26% 1.33% 0.62%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.81% 5.19% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 156 100
10th Percentile £381 £463 £460
25th Percentile £413 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £560
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +16.07% -2.35%
75th Percentile £590 £838 £700
90th Percentile £648 £888 £788
England median daily rate £525 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -2.22%
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 3,740 3,872 4,882
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.18% 25.70% 25.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,525 2,528 3,692
10th Percentile £360 £379 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £668 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 19 30
10th Percentile £33.79 £34.65 £31.77
25th Percentile £43.13 £38.38 £36.40
Median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -2.33% -17.31%
75th Percentile £63.38 £63.75 £71.50
90th Percentile £70.80 £72.80 £78.75
England median hourly rate £61.00 £65.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year -6.15% +25.26% -20.17%

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 18 December 2025.

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 18 December 2025. 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 +8 18 £525 -14.50% 9
West London -12 5 £625 - 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 46 (25.56%) Apache Spark
2 15 (8.33%) Apache
3 14 (7.78%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.22%) Confluence
5 2 (1.11%) Jupyter
5 2 (1.11%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 122 (67.78%) Azure
2 65 (36.11%) Azure Data Factory
3 44 (24.44%) AWS
4 42 (23.33%) Power Platform
5 41 (22.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 27 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (8.33%) GCP
8 14 (7.78%) GitHub
9 13 (7.22%) Microsoft Purview
9 13 (7.22%) Serverless
10 10 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (4.44%) Amazon S3
12 8 (4.44%) Snowflake
13 6 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 6 (3.33%) AWS Step Functions
13 6 (3.33%) dbt
14 5 (2.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 4 (2.22%) Azure Functions
15 4 (2.22%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (26.11%) Data Warehouse
2 34 (18.89%) Data Lake
2 34 (18.89%) Power BI
3 31 (17.22%) Delta Lake
4 28 (15.56%) Azure SQL Database
5 26 (14.44%) Metadata
6 20 (11.11%) NoSQL
7 18 (10.00%) Big Data
7 18 (10.00%) Spark SQL
8 11 (6.11%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (5.56%) Relational Database
9 10 (5.56%) Tableau
10 9 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (5.00%) Hadoop
11 7 (3.89%) Amazon Athena
12 6 (3.33%) SQL Server
13 5 (2.78%) Star Schema
14 4 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (2.22%) Snowflake Schema
14 4 (2.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 42 (23.33%) Git
2 7 (3.89%) GitLab
2 7 (3.89%) Jenkins
2 7 (3.89%) MLflow
3 5 (2.78%) JIRA
4 2 (1.11%) ERwin
4 2 (1.11%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.56%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.56%) Gradle
5 1 (0.56%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.56%) SpecFlow
General
1 44 (24.44%) Finance
2 40 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 15 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (7.22%) Retail
5 12 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 9 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (3.89%) Banking
8 4 (2.22%) Front Office
8 4 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.22%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.67%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (1.67%) Marketing
9 3 (1.67%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.11%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.56%) Electronics
11 1 (0.56%) Law
11 1 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.56%) Publishing
11 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 94 (52.22%) Data Engineer
2 38 (21.11%) Azure Engineer
3 33 (18.33%) Azure Data Engineer
4 19 (10.56%) Architect
5 18 (10.00%) Senior
6 17 (9.44%) Developer
6 17 (9.44%) Lead
7 14 (7.78%) Data Architect
8 13 (7.22%) Senior Data Engineer
9 10 (5.56%) Python Engineer
10 8 (4.44%) AWS Engineer
11 6 (3.33%) Data Analytics Engineer
11 6 (3.33%) Data Scientist
11 6 (3.33%) Python Data Engineer
12 5 (2.78%) Lead Data Engineer
12 5 (2.78%) Principal Engineer
12 5 (2.78%) Principal Software Engineer
12 5 (2.78%) Software Engineer
13 4 (2.22%) Azure Software Engineer
13 4 (2.22%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (11.11%) Kafka
2 9 (5.00%) Pandas
2 9 (5.00%) YAML
3 6 (3.33%) Apache NiFi
3 6 (3.33%) PyTorch
4 4 (2.22%) scikit-learn
4 4 (2.22%) Spark Streaming
5 3 (1.67%) .NET
5 3 (1.67%) ARM Templates
5 3 (1.67%) NumPy
5 3 (1.67%) RESTful
5 3 (1.67%) TensorFlow
6 2 (1.11%) JSON
6 2 (1.11%) LangChain
6 2 (1.11%) pytest
6 2 (1.11%) Ray
7 1 (0.56%) Apache Avro
7 1 (0.56%) Matplotlib
7 1 (0.56%) REST
7 1 (0.56%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.00%) Cloud Native
1 9 (5.00%) Distributed Computing
2 8 (4.44%) Low-Code
3 7 (3.89%) Data Structures
4 5 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.67%) AI Agents
6 3 (1.67%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.11%) Autonomous Agent
7 2 (1.11%) Educational Technology
7 2 (1.11%) IoT
7 2 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.56%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.56%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.56%) Multi-touch
8 1 (0.56%) Replication
8 1 (0.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.67%) Linux
2 2 (1.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (52.78%) Data Engineering
2 92 (51.11%) Data Pipeline
3 78 (43.33%) Data Modelling
4 69 (38.33%) ETL
5 68 (37.78%) Data Governance
6 64 (35.56%) Analytics
7 61 (33.89%) Agile
8 55 (30.56%) CI/CD
9 48 (26.67%) Data Architecture
10 46 (25.56%) Business Intelligence
10 46 (25.56%) DevOps
11 33 (18.33%) Problem-Solving
12 32 (17.78%) Data Science
13 30 (16.67%) Data Integration
14 28 (15.56%) Data Transformation
15 27 (15.00%) Machine Learning
16 23 (12.78%) Integration Patterns
17 21 (11.67%) Migration
18 20 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
19 19 (10.56%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 127 (70.56%) Python
2 125 (69.44%) SQL
3 39 (21.67%) Scala
4 14 (7.78%) Java
5 8 (4.44%) JavaScript
6 5 (2.78%) Bicep
7 4 (2.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (2.22%) R
8 3 (1.67%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.67%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.11%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.56%) C#
10 1 (0.56%) C++
10 1 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 50 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 47 (26.11%) SC Cleared
3 14 (7.78%) Azure Certification
4 6 (3.33%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.78%) Degree
6 4 (2.22%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.11%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.11%) MCP
9 1 (0.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (31.67%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.44%) GDPR
3 7 (3.89%) QA
4 3 (1.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.11%) Accessibility
System Software
1 15 (8.33%) Docker
2 2 (1.11%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 19 (10.56%) Terraform
2 15 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.56%) Argo
Vendors
1 110 (61.11%) Databricks
2 31 (17.22%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.89%) Salesforce
4 6 (3.33%) Foundry
4 6 (3.33%) Palantir
5 5 (2.78%) Oracle
6 4 (2.22%) Cloudera
6 4 (2.22%) Guidewire
7 3 (1.67%) SAP
8 2 (1.11%) Informatica
9 1 (0.56%) Confluent
9 1 (0.56%) Google
9 1 (0.56%) IBM
9 1 (0.56%) RedGate
9 1 (0.56%) StreamSets