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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 243 204
Rank change year-on-year +35 -39 +112
Contract jobs citing PySpark 279 127 205
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.37% 0.94% 1.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.21% 3.18% 4.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 90 160
10th Percentile £398 £374 £430
25th Percentile £447 £413 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £500 £607
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -17.63% +1.17%
75th Percentile £650 £608 £825
90th Percentile £738 £740 £888
England median daily rate £525 £495 £580
% change year-on-year +6.06% -14.66% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £80.00
England median hourly rate £71.33 - £22.00

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 5,352 3,995 4,936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.32% 29.63% 30.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,596 2,747 3,388
10th Percentile £400 £368 £385
25th Percentile £452 £432 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £703
90th Percentile £763 £800 £850
England median daily rate £535 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +2.88% -5.45% -1.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 32 22
10th Percentile £27.64 £31.77 £23.84
25th Percentile £36.19 £34.17 £36.25
Median hourly rate £44.75 £51.97 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.89% +22.28% -32.00%
75th Percentile £66.06 £62.81 £59.51
90th Percentile £82.00 £85.95 £74.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.93
% change year-on-year +18.18% -12.60% +4.88%

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 0 42 £550 +2.33% 16
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 (24.37%) Apache Spark
2 53 (19.00%) Apache
3 52 (18.64%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (3.23%) Confluence
4 9 (3.23%) Palantir Foundry
5 6 (2.15%) SAS
6 2 (0.72%) SugarCRM
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.36%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.72%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.36%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 161 (57.71%) Azure
2 111 (39.78%) AWS
3 70 (25.09%) Power Platform
4 62 (22.22%) Azure Data Factory
5 61 (21.86%) Azure DevOps
6 46 (16.49%) Amazon S3
7 43 (15.41%) Serverless
8 40 (14.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 38 (13.62%) dbt
10 37 (13.26%) GitHub
11 35 (12.54%) AWS Lambda
12 32 (11.47%) Azure Databricks
12 32 (11.47%) GCP
13 27 (9.68%) GitHub Actions
13 27 (9.68%) Snowflake
14 26 (9.32%) Amazon EMR
15 15 (5.38%) Microsoft Purview
16 14 (5.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 13 (4.66%) Amazon EC2
18 11 (3.94%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.36%) Firewall
1 1 (0.36%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (24.01%) Power BI
2 65 (23.30%) Delta Lake
3 56 (20.07%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (16.49%) Data Lake
5 37 (13.26%) Metadata
6 34 (12.19%) Amazon Redshift
7 28 (10.04%) Spark SQL
8 21 (7.53%) Amazon Athena
9 18 (6.45%) BigQuery
10 16 (5.73%) Big Data
11 13 (4.66%) SQL Server
11 13 (4.66%) Star Schema
12 9 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
13 8 (2.87%) Data Vault
13 8 (2.87%) NoSQL
13 8 (2.87%) Parquet
13 8 (2.87%) PostgreSQL
13 8 (2.87%) Relational Database
13 8 (2.87%) Snowflake Schema
14 7 (2.51%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 46 (16.49%) Git
2 27 (9.68%) GitLab
3 16 (5.73%) MLflow
4 11 (3.94%) JIRA
5 5 (1.79%) ER Studio
5 5 (1.79%) ERwin
6 4 (1.43%) RStudio
6 4 (1.43%) Selenium
6 4 (1.43%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.08%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.36%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.36%) Postman
8 1 (0.36%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.36%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.36%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 113 (40.50%) Finance
2 78 (27.96%) Social Skills
3 41 (14.70%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (13.26%) Banking
5 25 (8.96%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (3.58%) Investment Banking
7 8 (2.87%) Retail
8 7 (2.51%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.43%) Billing
9 4 (1.43%) Marketing
10 3 (1.08%) Automotive
10 3 (1.08%) Front Office
10 3 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.72%) Local Government
11 2 (0.72%) Publishing
12 1 (0.36%) Law
12 1 (0.36%) Legal
12 1 (0.36%) Military
Job Titles
1 151 (54.12%) Data Engineer
2 73 (26.16%) Senior
3 51 (18.28%) Senior Data Engineer
4 36 (12.90%) Architect
4 36 (12.90%) Lead
5 30 (10.75%) Databricks Engineer
6 21 (7.53%) Data Architect
6 21 (7.53%) Databricks Data Engineer
6 21 (7.53%) Developer
7 16 (5.73%) Platform Engineer
8 14 (5.02%) Python Engineer
9 13 (4.66%) Lead Data Engineer
9 13 (4.66%) Senior Developer
10 12 (4.30%) Azure Engineer
10 12 (4.30%) Python Data Engineer
11 11 (3.94%) Data Scientist
12 10 (3.58%) AWS Engineer
12 10 (3.58%) Senior Databricks Data Engineer
13 7 (2.51%) AWS Data Engineer
13 7 (2.51%) Databricks Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (24.37%) Terraform
2 40 (14.34%) Kafka
3 26 (9.32%) Pandas
4 23 (8.24%) REST
5 16 (5.73%) NumPy
6 13 (4.66%) Great Expectations
6 13 (4.66%) React
7 12 (4.30%) pytest
8 9 (3.23%) .NET
9 8 (2.87%) .NET Core
9 8 (2.87%) RESTful
10 7 (2.51%) FastAPI
10 7 (2.51%) PyTorch
10 7 (2.51%) scikit-learn
11 6 (2.15%) Redux
11 6 (2.15%) Spring
11 6 (2.15%) Spring Boot
12 5 (1.79%) Django
12 5 (1.79%) Flask
12 5 (1.79%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 37 (13.26%) Cloud Native
2 17 (6.09%) Product Ownership
3 16 (5.73%) Legacy Systems
4 15 (5.38%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (5.38%) Onboarding
5 12 (4.30%) Data Structures
6 10 (3.58%) Reference Data
7 8 (2.87%) AI Agents
7 8 (2.87%) NHS
8 7 (2.51%) Distributed Computing
8 7 (2.51%) Fixed Income
9 6 (2.15%) Algorithms
9 6 (2.15%) Derivative
10 5 (1.79%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.79%) Market Risk
10 5 (1.79%) Pricing Data
11 4 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.43%) Low-Code
11 4 (1.43%) Virtual Team
12 3 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.23%) Linux
2 8 (2.87%) Unix
3 1 (0.36%) Robot Operating System
3 1 (0.36%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (53.41%) Data Engineering
2 147 (52.69%) Data Pipeline
3 144 (51.61%) CI/CD
4 133 (47.67%) Analytics
5 112 (40.14%) Data Modelling
6 101 (36.20%) DevOps
7 98 (35.13%) ETL
8 92 (32.97%) Agile
9 90 (32.26%) AI
10 86 (30.82%) Business Intelligence
11 76 (27.24%) Data Governance
12 75 (26.88%) Lakehouse
13 65 (23.30%) Machine Learning
14 64 (22.94%) Infrastructure as Code
15 61 (21.86%) Migration
16 53 (19.00%) Validation
17 52 (18.64%) Stakeholder Management
18 51 (18.28%) Data Science
18 51 (18.28%) Data Transformation
19 46 (16.49%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 228 (81.72%) Python
2 203 (72.76%) SQL
3 20 (7.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 13 (4.66%) JavaScript
5 12 (4.30%) Java
5 12 (4.30%) Scala
6 10 (3.58%) C#
7 9 (3.23%) TypeScript
8 8 (2.87%) T-SQL
9 7 (2.51%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.79%) Bicep
10 5 (1.79%) R
11 3 (1.08%) SPARQL
12 2 (0.72%) Bash
12 2 (0.72%) Korn
12 2 (0.72%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.36%) C
13 1 (0.36%) COBOL
13 1 (0.36%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.36%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 56 (20.07%) Security Cleared
2 51 (18.28%) SC Cleared
3 11 (3.94%) Azure Certification
3 11 (3.94%) Degree
4 8 (2.87%) AWS Certification
4 8 (2.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 7 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.15%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.43%) PhD
9 2 (0.72%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.72%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.36%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (43.37%) Data Quality
2 11 (3.94%) GDPR
3 7 (2.51%) QA
4 4 (1.43%) SLA
5 1 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.36%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.36%) GRC
5 1 (0.36%) MiFID
System Software
1 31 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (0.36%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (10.39%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.43%) Ansible
3 3 (1.08%) Grafana
4 1 (0.36%) Control-M
4 1 (0.36%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 140 (50.18%) Databricks
2 72 (25.81%) Microsoft
3 17 (6.09%) Palantir
4 15 (5.38%) Informatica
5 9 (3.23%) Foundry
5 9 (3.23%) OpenAI
6 7 (2.51%) Oracle
7 6 (2.15%) Google
8 5 (1.79%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.72%) Cloudera
9 2 (0.72%) HubSpot
9 2 (0.72%) Sage
9 2 (0.72%) SAP
9 2 (0.72%) Teradata
10 1 (0.36%) Anaplan
10 1 (0.36%) Confluent
10 1 (0.36%) Hortonworks
10 1 (0.36%) NVIDIA
10 1 (0.36%) PagerDuty
10 1 (0.36%) Tagetik