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 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 206 211 219
Rank change year-on-year +5 +8 +99
Contract jobs citing PySpark 242 147 187
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.27% 1.18% 1.05%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.57% 4.45% 3.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 112 148
10th Percentile £363 £413 £425
25th Percentile £428 £509 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £750 £550
Median % change year-on-year -30.33% +36.36% -15.38%
75th Percentile £625 £838 £741
90th Percentile £725 £875 £858
England median daily rate £513 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -12.77% +6.82% -8.33%

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 4,341 3,306 4,706
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.81% 26.44% 26.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,880 2,317 3,470
10th Percentile £380 £378 £375
25th Percentile £450 £428 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £700
90th Percentile £785 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 19 29
10th Percentile £23.98 £32.41 £16.25
25th Percentile £34.01 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.25 £44.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.06% +4.71% -36.57%
75th Percentile £73.50 £61.25 £61.43
90th Percentile £93.13 £87.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +6.12% +11.36% -15.38%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 34 £505 -27.60% 5
West London -25 3 £625 -19.35%
East London - 1 £449 - 3
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 50 (20.66%) Apache Spark
2 29 (11.98%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (10.74%) Apache
4 12 (4.96%) Confluence
5 9 (3.72%) Palantir Foundry
6 8 (3.31%) SAS
7 1 (0.41%) Camunda
Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 134 (55.37%) Azure
2 90 (37.19%) AWS
3 71 (29.34%) Power Platform
4 58 (23.97%) Azure DevOps
5 53 (21.90%) GitHub
6 52 (21.49%) Azure Data Factory
7 47 (19.42%) Amazon S3
7 47 (19.42%) Serverless
8 45 (18.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 37 (15.29%) AWS Lambda
10 32 (13.22%) GitHub Actions
11 22 (9.09%) Amazon EMR
11 22 (9.09%) dbt
12 14 (5.79%) Azure AI
12 14 (5.79%) Microsoft Purview
12 14 (5.79%) Snowflake
13 13 (5.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 12 (4.96%) AWS CloudFormation
15 11 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
15 11 (4.55%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.41%) Firewall
1 1 (0.41%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (28.93%) Power BI
2 51 (21.07%) Data Lake
2 51 (21.07%) Delta Lake
3 34 (14.05%) Amazon Athena
3 34 (14.05%) Data Warehouse
4 33 (13.64%) Amazon Redshift
4 33 (13.64%) Spark SQL
5 26 (10.74%) Metadata
6 18 (7.44%) Big Data
7 16 (6.61%) Azure SQL Database
8 11 (4.55%) Snowflake Schema
9 10 (4.13%) NoSQL
9 10 (4.13%) Parquet
9 10 (4.13%) SQL Server
10 9 (3.72%) Relational Database
11 8 (3.31%) Neo4j
11 8 (3.31%) Tableau
12 6 (2.48%) Base SAS
12 6 (2.48%) Star Schema
13 5 (2.07%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 53 (21.90%) Git
2 29 (11.98%) GitLab
3 18 (7.44%) JIRA
4 11 (4.55%) MLflow
5 4 (1.65%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.41%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.41%) Postman
6 1 (0.41%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 88 (36.36%) Finance
2 54 (22.31%) Social Skills
3 26 (10.74%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 17 (7.02%) Banking
6 5 (2.07%) Marketing
7 4 (1.65%) Financial Institution
7 4 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.24%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.24%) Retail
9 2 (0.83%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.83%) Front Office
9 2 (0.83%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.83%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.41%) Local Government
10 1 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.41%) Publishing
10 1 (0.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 139 (57.44%) Data Engineer
2 53 (21.90%) Senior
3 35 (14.46%) Senior Data Engineer
4 21 (8.68%) Lead
5 17 (7.02%) Architect
5 17 (7.02%) Azure Engineer
5 17 (7.02%) Developer
6 16 (6.61%) Azure Data Engineer
7 15 (6.20%) Python Engineer
8 12 (4.96%) Data Scientist
8 12 (4.96%) Platform Engineer
9 10 (4.13%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (3.72%) Python Data Engineer
11 8 (3.31%) Senior Developer
12 7 (2.89%) Data Architect
12 7 (2.89%) Lead Data Engineer
12 7 (2.89%) Principal Engineer
12 7 (2.89%) Technical Architect
13 6 (2.48%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
13 6 (2.48%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (11.16%) Kafka
2 19 (7.85%) Pandas
3 13 (5.37%) REST
4 12 (4.96%) React
5 10 (4.13%) Spark Streaming
6 9 (3.72%) Great Expectations
6 9 (3.72%) PyTorch
6 9 (3.72%) scikit-learn
7 8 (3.31%) JSON
8 7 (2.89%) .NET
8 7 (2.89%) .NET Core
8 7 (2.89%) pytest
9 6 (2.48%) RESTful
10 5 (2.07%) NumPy
10 5 (2.07%) Redux
10 5 (2.07%) Spring
10 5 (2.07%) Spring Boot
11 4 (1.65%) FastAPI
11 4 (1.65%) Node.js
12 3 (1.24%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 44 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.79%) Distributed Computing
3 11 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.89%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (2.89%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (2.89%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.07%) Algorithms
5 5 (2.07%) Reference Data
5 5 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.65%) NHS
6 4 (1.65%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.24%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.24%) Marketing Technology
7 3 (1.24%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.24%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.83%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.83%) Equities
8 2 (0.83%) Legacy Code
8 2 (0.83%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.89%) Linux
1 7 (2.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (52.89%) CI/CD
2 127 (52.48%) Data Pipeline
3 123 (50.83%) Data Engineering
4 103 (42.56%) Analytics
5 98 (40.50%) ETL
6 93 (38.43%) DevOps
7 89 (36.78%) Data Modelling
8 86 (35.54%) Agile
9 72 (29.75%) Business Intelligence
10 71 (29.34%) AI
11 60 (24.79%) Infrastructure as Code
12 58 (23.97%) Data Science
13 57 (23.55%) Data Governance
14 44 (18.18%) Machine Learning
15 38 (15.70%) Migration
16 29 (11.98%) Performance Optimisation
16 29 (11.98%) Performance Tuning
17 28 (11.57%) Data Architecture
17 28 (11.57%) Data Transformation
17 28 (11.57%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 215 (88.84%) Python
2 159 (65.70%) SQL
3 26 (10.74%) Scala
4 22 (9.09%) Java
5 11 (4.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 10 (4.13%) TypeScript
7 8 (3.31%) C#
8 7 (2.89%) Bicep
8 7 (2.89%) T-SQL
9 6 (2.48%) JavaScript
9 6 (2.48%) SAS Macro
9 6 (2.48%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.24%) SPARQL
11 2 (0.83%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.83%) R
12 1 (0.41%) Bash
12 1 (0.41%) Korn
12 1 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 71 (29.34%) Security Cleared
2 65 (26.86%) SC Cleared
3 18 (7.44%) Degree
4 13 (5.37%) Azure Certification
5 11 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.89%) AWS Certification
7 7 (2.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 7 (2.89%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.65%) PhD
9 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.83%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.41%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (32.23%) Data Quality
2 15 (6.20%) GDPR
3 4 (1.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (1.24%) QA
5 2 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.41%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.41%) MiFID
6 1 (0.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 25 (10.33%) Docker
2 2 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 70 (28.93%) Terraform
2 23 (9.50%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.07%) Grafana
Vendors
1 100 (41.32%) Databricks
2 55 (22.73%) Microsoft
3 14 (5.79%) Palantir
4 11 (4.55%) Foundry
4 11 (4.55%) Informatica
5 8 (3.31%) OpenAI
6 6 (2.48%) Google
7 4 (1.65%) Cloudera
7 4 (1.65%) Hortonworks
8 3 (1.24%) Apple
8 3 (1.24%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.83%) Oracle
10 1 (0.41%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.41%) New Relic
10 1 (0.41%) Reuters
10 1 (0.41%) SAP
10 1 (0.41%) SimCorp
10 1 (0.41%) Tagetik
10 1 (0.41%) Trayport