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 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 210 203
Rank change year-on-year +12 -7 +121
Contract jobs citing PySpark 250 154 201
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.25% 1.13% 1.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.51% 4.34% 4.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 116 159
10th Percentile £390 £403 £425
25th Percentile £450 £472 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -6.84%
75th Percentile £643 £838 £763
90th Percentile £749 £875 £875
England median daily rate £520 £571 £550
% change year-on-year -8.97% +3.86% -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 4,537 3,551 4,515
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.72% 26.15% 27.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,001 2,485 3,275
10th Percentile £390 £375 £375
25th Percentile £450 £428 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £672 £700 £725
90th Percentile £781 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £519 £550
% change year-on-year +1.16% -5.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 23 26
10th Percentile £23.98 £31.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £34.20 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.25 £45.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.11% +12.50% -40.30%
75th Percentile £61.50 £60.75 £58.76
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.50 £71.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -10.36%

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 25 July 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 25 July 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 -9 33 £550 -17.91% 4
West London -16 1 £640 -17.42% 4
East London - 1 £449 - 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 59 (23.60%) Apache Spark
2 38 (15.20%) Apache
3 33 (13.20%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (4.80%) Confluence
4 12 (4.80%) Palantir Foundry
5 8 (3.20%) SAS
6 1 (0.40%) Camunda
Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 129 (51.60%) Azure
2 94 (37.60%) AWS
3 62 (24.80%) Power Platform
4 59 (23.60%) Azure DevOps
5 54 (21.60%) Azure Data Factory
6 44 (17.60%) Amazon S3
7 43 (17.20%) GitHub
7 43 (17.20%) Serverless
8 39 (15.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 36 (14.40%) AWS Lambda
10 28 (11.20%) dbt
11 25 (10.00%) Amazon EMR
11 25 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
12 16 (6.40%) GCP
13 14 (5.60%) Azure AI
14 13 (5.20%) Snowflake
15 12 (4.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 10 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
17 9 (3.60%) AWS Step Functions
17 9 (3.60%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.40%) Firewall
1 1 (0.40%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (24.80%) Power BI
2 53 (21.20%) Delta Lake
3 46 (18.40%) Data Lake
4 37 (14.80%) Data Warehouse
5 29 (11.60%) Spark SQL
6 28 (11.20%) Amazon Athena
6 28 (11.20%) Amazon Redshift
7 27 (10.80%) Metadata
8 24 (9.60%) Big Data
9 10 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (4.00%) Snowflake Schema
10 8 (3.20%) NoSQL
10 8 (3.20%) SQL Server
10 8 (3.20%) Tableau
11 7 (2.80%) Neo4j
11 7 (2.80%) Parquet
11 7 (2.80%) Star Schema
12 6 (2.40%) Base SAS
13 5 (2.00%) Relational Database
13 5 (2.00%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 40 (16.00%) Git
2 28 (11.20%) GitLab
3 18 (7.20%) JIRA
4 12 (4.80%) MLflow
5 4 (1.60%) ER Studio
5 4 (1.60%) ERwin
6 3 (1.20%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.80%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.40%) Postman
8 1 (0.40%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 103 (41.20%) Finance
2 63 (25.20%) Social Skills
3 30 (12.00%) Public Sector
4 29 (11.60%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (11.60%) Banking
5 8 (3.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (2.40%) Financial Institution
6 6 (2.40%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.00%) Marketing
8 3 (1.20%) Retail
9 2 (0.80%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.80%) Front Office
9 2 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.80%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.40%) Law
10 1 (0.40%) Legal
10 1 (0.40%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.40%) Publishing
10 1 (0.40%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 137 (54.80%) Data Engineer
2 63 (25.20%) Senior
3 36 (14.40%) Senior Data Engineer
4 24 (9.60%) Architect
5 23 (9.20%) Lead
6 19 (7.60%) Developer
7 15 (6.00%) Data Architect
8 14 (5.60%) Data Scientist
8 14 (5.60%) Platform Engineer
9 12 (4.80%) Azure Engineer
9 12 (4.80%) Python Engineer
10 11 (4.40%) AWS Engineer
10 11 (4.40%) Azure Data Engineer
10 11 (4.40%) Senior Developer
11 7 (2.80%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 7 (2.80%) Lead Data Engineer
12 6 (2.40%) AWS Data Engineer
12 6 (2.40%) Informatica Engineer
12 6 (2.40%) Python Data Engineer
12 6 (2.40%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (11.60%) Kafka
2 22 (8.80%) Pandas
3 13 (5.20%) React
3 13 (5.20%) REST
4 12 (4.80%) NumPy
5 9 (3.60%) Great Expectations
5 9 (3.60%) scikit-learn
6 8 (3.20%) .NET
6 8 (3.20%) FastAPI
6 8 (3.20%) JSON
7 7 (2.80%) .NET Core
7 7 (2.80%) pytest
7 7 (2.80%) PyTorch
7 7 (2.80%) Spark Streaming
8 6 (2.40%) RESTful
8 6 (2.40%) Spring
8 6 (2.40%) Spring Boot
9 5 (2.00%) Flask
9 5 (2.00%) Redux
10 4 (1.60%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 44 (17.60%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.40%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (4.40%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (4.00%) Distributed Computing
4 10 (4.00%) Product Ownership
5 9 (3.60%) Reference Data
6 8 (3.20%) Data Structures
6 8 (3.20%) NHS
7 7 (2.80%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (2.80%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.40%) Algorithms
9 5 (2.00%) AI Agents
9 5 (2.00%) Fixed Income
9 5 (2.00%) Management Information System
9 5 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.60%) Derivative
10 4 (1.60%) Market Risk
10 4 (1.60%) Pricing Data
10 4 (1.60%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.20%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.40%) Linux
2 10 (4.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (54.00%) Data Pipeline
2 131 (52.40%) CI/CD
2 131 (52.40%) Data Engineering
3 119 (47.60%) Analytics
4 99 (39.60%) Data Modelling
4 99 (39.60%) ETL
5 97 (38.80%) DevOps
6 85 (34.00%) Agile
7 71 (28.40%) Business Intelligence
8 66 (26.40%) AI
9 62 (24.80%) Data Governance
10 61 (24.40%) Infrastructure as Code
11 58 (23.20%) Data Science
12 50 (20.00%) Machine Learning
13 44 (17.60%) Migration
14 38 (15.20%) Data Architecture
14 38 (15.20%) Data Transformation
15 36 (14.40%) Performance Optimisation
16 32 (12.80%) Validation
17 30 (12.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 215 (86.00%) Python
2 169 (67.60%) SQL
3 19 (7.60%) Java
3 19 (7.60%) Scala
4 13 (5.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 10 (4.00%) TypeScript
6 9 (3.60%) C#
6 9 (3.60%) Shell Script
7 8 (3.20%) T-SQL
8 6 (2.40%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.40%) SAS Macro
9 3 (1.20%) Bicep
9 3 (1.20%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.20%) SPARQL
10 2 (0.80%) Bash
11 1 (0.40%) Korn
11 1 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.40%) R
Qualifications
1 66 (26.40%) Security Cleared
2 59 (23.60%) SC Cleared
3 17 (6.80%) Degree
4 12 (4.80%) Azure Certification
5 11 (4.40%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (3.20%) Master's Degree
7 7 (2.80%) AWS Certification
7 7 (2.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 5 (2.00%) PhD
9 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.80%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.80%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (34.80%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.80%) GDPR
3 4 (1.60%) QA
4 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.40%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (0.40%) MiFID
4 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 21 (8.40%) Docker
2 1 (0.40%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 66 (26.40%) Terraform
2 20 (8.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.60%) Grafana
Vendors
1 105 (42.00%) Databricks
2 53 (21.20%) Microsoft
3 20 (8.00%) Palantir
4 14 (5.60%) Foundry
4 14 (5.60%) Informatica
5 9 (3.60%) OpenAI
6 6 (2.40%) Google
7 5 (2.00%) Cloudera
8 4 (1.60%) Hortonworks
9 3 (1.20%) Apple
10 2 (0.80%) Oracle
10 2 (0.80%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.40%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.40%) Confluent
11 1 (0.40%) NVIDIA
11 1 (0.40%) Reuters
11 1 (0.40%) SimCorp
11 1 (0.40%) Tagetik
11 1 (0.40%) Trayport