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

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 221 177 291
Rank change year-on-year -44 +114 +85
Contract jobs citing PySpark 162 221 119
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.13% 1.42% 0.61%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.36% 5.49% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 170 99
10th Percentile £378 £442 £459
25th Percentile £413 £501 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £645 £575
Median % change year-on-year -22.48% +12.17% -1.71%
75th Percentile £590 £838 £700
90th Percentile £650 £888 £788
England median daily rate £500 £600 £560
% change year-on-year -16.67% +7.14% -2.61%
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 3,717 4,025 5,058
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.00% 25.80% 25.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,514 2,632 3,816
10th Percentile £357 £375 £400
25th Percentile £424 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £656 £708 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £800
England median daily rate £508 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.73% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 21 31
10th Percentile £34.16 £35.00 £32.00
25th Percentile £43.44 £38.25 £36.55
Median hourly rate £55.00 £45.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -21.74% -7.63%
75th Percentile £63.19 £62.50 £72.83
90th Percentile £77.03 £71.00 £86.56
England median hourly rate £56.90 £65.00 £53.50
% change year-on-year -12.46% +21.50% -17.69%

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 9 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 9 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 +10 15 £556 +11.25% 9
West London -9 3 £625 - 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 41 (25.31%) Apache Spark
2 12 (7.41%) Apache
3 10 (6.17%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.47%) Confluence
5 2 (1.23%) Jupyter
5 2 (1.23%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.62%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 110 (67.90%) Azure
2 61 (37.65%) Azure Data Factory
3 41 (25.31%) Power Platform
4 39 (24.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 36 (22.22%) AWS
6 24 (14.81%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (8.02%) Microsoft Purview
8 12 (7.41%) GitHub
9 11 (6.79%) Serverless
10 10 (6.17%) GCP
11 8 (4.94%) Amazon S3
11 8 (4.94%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (4.32%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (4.32%) Snowflake
13 6 (3.70%) AWS Step Functions
13 6 (3.70%) dbt
14 5 (3.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 4 (2.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 4 (2.47%) Azure Functions
15 4 (2.47%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (25.31%) Data Warehouse
2 33 (20.37%) Power BI
3 30 (18.52%) Data Lake
4 28 (17.28%) Delta Lake
5 24 (14.81%) Azure SQL Database
6 23 (14.20%) Metadata
7 17 (10.49%) NoSQL
8 16 (9.88%) Big Data
8 16 (9.88%) Spark SQL
9 10 (6.17%) Hadoop
9 10 (6.17%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (6.17%) Tableau
10 9 (5.56%) Relational Database
11 6 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (3.09%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (3.09%) SQL Server
12 5 (3.09%) Star Schema
13 4 (2.47%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (2.47%) Qlik Sense
13 4 (2.47%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 37 (22.84%) Git
2 6 (3.70%) GitLab
2 6 (3.70%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.47%) JIRA
3 4 (2.47%) MLflow
4 2 (1.23%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.62%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.62%) ERwin
5 1 (0.62%) Gradle
5 1 (0.62%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.62%) SpecFlow
General
1 42 (25.93%) Finance
2 40 (24.69%) Social Skills
3 15 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (6.17%) Public Sector
5 9 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (5.56%) Retail
6 8 (4.94%) Banking
7 4 (2.47%) Front Office
7 4 (2.47%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.85%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.85%) Marketing
8 3 (1.85%) Retail Banking
8 3 (1.85%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.62%) Electronics
9 1 (0.62%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.62%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.62%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 83 (51.23%) Data Engineer
2 34 (20.99%) Azure Engineer
3 30 (18.52%) Azure Data Engineer
4 19 (11.73%) Lead
5 15 (9.26%) Developer
5 15 (9.26%) Senior
6 14 (8.64%) Architect
7 12 (7.41%) Python Engineer
7 12 (7.41%) Senior Data Engineer
8 9 (5.56%) Data Architect
9 8 (4.94%) Python Data Engineer
10 6 (3.70%) AWS Engineer
10 6 (3.70%) Lead Data Engineer
11 5 (3.09%) Data Scientist
12 4 (2.47%) Azure Architect
12 4 (2.47%) Data Analytics Engineer
12 4 (2.47%) Tester
13 3 (1.85%) AWS Data Engineer
13 3 (1.85%) GCP Engineer
13 3 (1.85%) GCP Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (10.49%) Kafka
2 9 (5.56%) YAML
3 7 (4.32%) Pandas
4 6 (3.70%) Apache NiFi
5 5 (3.09%) PyTorch
6 4 (2.47%) TensorFlow
7 3 (1.85%) .NET
7 3 (1.85%) ARM Templates
7 3 (1.85%) NumPy
7 3 (1.85%) RESTful
7 3 (1.85%) scikit-learn
7 3 (1.85%) Spark Streaming
8 2 (1.23%) GeoPandas
8 2 (1.23%) JSON
8 2 (1.23%) LangChain
8 2 (1.23%) PostGIS
8 2 (1.23%) pytest
8 2 (1.23%) Ray
9 1 (0.62%) Apache Avro
9 1 (0.62%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.17%) Distributed Computing
2 8 (4.94%) Low-Code
3 6 (3.70%) Algorithms
3 6 (3.70%) Cloud Native
3 6 (3.70%) Data Structures
4 5 (3.09%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.85%) AI Agents
6 3 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.23%) Autonomous Agent
7 2 (1.23%) Educational Technology
7 2 (1.23%) IoT
7 2 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.62%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.62%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.62%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.62%) Multi-touch
8 1 (0.62%) Replication
8 1 (0.62%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.85%) Linux
2 2 (1.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (51.85%) Data Engineering
2 82 (50.62%) Data Pipeline
3 68 (41.98%) Data Modelling
4 61 (37.65%) ETL
5 58 (35.80%) Analytics
5 58 (35.80%) Data Governance
6 53 (32.72%) Agile
7 48 (29.63%) CI/CD
8 44 (27.16%) Business Intelligence
8 44 (27.16%) DevOps
9 38 (23.46%) Data Architecture
10 30 (18.52%) Data Science
11 27 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
12 26 (16.05%) Machine Learning
13 25 (15.43%) Data Transformation
14 24 (14.81%) Data Integration
15 21 (12.96%) Migration
16 20 (12.35%) AI
17 19 (11.73%) Infrastructure as Code
17 19 (11.73%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 119 (73.46%) Python
2 111 (68.52%) SQL
3 34 (20.99%) Scala
4 13 (8.02%) Java
5 8 (4.94%) JavaScript
6 5 (3.09%) Bicep
7 4 (2.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (2.47%) R
8 3 (1.85%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.85%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.23%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.62%) C#
10 1 (0.62%) C++
10 1 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.62%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.62%) VBA
Qualifications
1 40 (24.69%) Security Cleared
2 38 (23.46%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.02%) Azure Certification
4 6 (3.70%) Degree
4 6 (3.70%) DV Cleared
5 5 (3.09%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.23%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.23%) MCP
7 2 (1.23%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (27.78%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.32%) GDPR
2 7 (4.32%) QA
3 2 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (8.02%) Docker
2 2 (1.23%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 16 (9.88%) Terraform
2 13 (8.02%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.62%) Argo
Vendors
1 96 (59.26%) Databricks
2 32 (19.75%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.70%) Foundry
3 6 (3.70%) Palantir
3 6 (3.70%) Salesforce
4 4 (2.47%) Cloudera
4 4 (2.47%) Guidewire
4 4 (2.47%) Oracle
5 3 (1.85%) SAP
6 2 (1.23%) Informatica
7 1 (0.62%) Confluent
7 1 (0.62%) Google
7 1 (0.62%) IBM
7 1 (0.62%) RedGate
7 1 (0.62%) StreamSets