Python Engineer Contracts in Central London

Python Engineer
London > Central London

The median Python Engineer daily rate in Central London is £665 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 156 174
Rank change year-on-year +38 +18 -32
Contract jobs requiring a Python Engineer 18 19 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.74% 0.50% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.78% 0.52% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 16 18
10th Percentile £453 £490 £398
25th Percentile £544 £518 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £665 £638 £579
Median % change year-on-year +4.31% +10.15% -5.51%
75th Percentile £710 £825 £709
90th Percentile £736 - £761
London median daily rate £700 £675 £600
% change year-on-year +3.70% +12.50% +4.35%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Central London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Central London with a recognized job title 2,310 3,622 4,282
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.30% 95.14% 94.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,646 2,481 3,265
10th Percentile £339 £325 £361
25th Percentile £438 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £595 £563
Median % change year-on-year -7.56% +5.78% +7.14%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £795 £813 £763
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 25 54
10th Percentile £20.19 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £22.13 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.78 £35.00 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -26.34% -6.04% +107.23%
75th Percentile £27.81 £58.75 £51.31
90th Percentile £40.38 £86.98 £64.78
London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.54% +1.43% +10.62%

Python Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings that featured Python Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Python Engineer in Central London

Python Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python Engineer in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Python Engineer in Central London

Python Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python Engineer in Central London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python Engineer in Central London

Python Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python Engineer within the Central London region over the 6 months to 12 May 2024. 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
City of London +41 17 £655 +2.75% 3
City of Westminster - 1 £750 -
Python Engineer
London

Python Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 12 May 2024, Python Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Central London region featuring Python Engineer in the job title.

1 18 (100.00%) Python
2 11 (61.11%) Kubernetes
3 10 (55.56%) DevOps
3 10 (55.56%) CI/CD
4 9 (50.00%) Kafka
4 9 (50.00%) Linux
4 9 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 9 (50.00%) MongoDB
5 8 (44.44%) RabbitMQ
5 8 (44.44%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 8 (44.44%) Shell Script
5 8 (44.44%) Java
5 8 (44.44%) SaltStack
5 8 (44.44%) Microservices
5 8 (44.44%) Grafana
5 8 (44.44%) Consul
5 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
5 8 (44.44%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (44.44%) Prometheus
5 8 (44.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 7 (38.89%) Task Automation
6 7 (38.89%) Analytical Thinking
6 7 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (38.89%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (38.89%) Data Structures
6 7 (38.89%) Algorithms
6 7 (38.89%) RESTful
7 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (27.78%) AWS
8 5 (27.78%) ETL

Python Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (5.56%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) AWS
2 2 (11.11%) Pulumi
3 1 (5.56%) Azure
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (5.56%) Cloud Run
3 1 (5.56%) GitHub
3 1 (5.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Firewall
1 1 (5.56%) MQTT
1 1 (5.56%) SD-WAN
1 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
1 1 (5.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (5.56%) Big Data
2 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.56%) Hadoop
2 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.56%) Presto
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Cucumber
1 1 (5.56%) IntelliJ
1 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
1 1 (5.56%) Maven
1 1 (5.56%) Selenium
General
1 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 7 (38.89%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (5.56%) Aviation
4 1 (5.56%) Music Industry
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (50.00%) Kafka
2 8 (44.44%) RabbitMQ
3 7 (38.89%) RESTful
4 2 (11.11%) Flask
4 2 (11.11%) PySpark
4 2 (11.11%) SQLAlchemy
5 1 (5.56%) Laravel
5 1 (5.56%) Nuxt
Miscellaneous
1 8 (44.44%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (38.89%) Algorithms
2 7 (38.89%) Data Structures
3 2 (11.11%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (5.56%) Hedge funds
4 1 (5.56%) Machine to Machine
Operating Systems
1 9 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (5.56%) Android
2 1 (5.56%) Apple iOS
2 1 (5.56%) Mac OS
2 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) CI/CD
1 10 (55.56%) DevOps
2 8 (44.44%) Microservices
2 8 (44.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 7 (38.89%) Analytical Thinking
3 7 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (38.89%) Task Automation
4 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (27.78%) ETL
5 5 (27.78%) Software Engineering
6 2 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (11.11%) Containerisation
6 2 (11.11%) Data Science
6 2 (11.11%) ETL Development
6 2 (11.11%) Front End Development
6 2 (11.11%) Machine Learning
7 1 (5.56%) Analytics
7 1 (5.56%) Data Engineering
7 1 (5.56%) SDET
7 1 (5.56%) Systematic Trading
Programming Languages
1 18 (100.00%) Python
2 8 (44.44%) Java
2 8 (44.44%) Shell Script
3 4 (22.22%) C++
3 4 (22.22%) Go
4 3 (16.67%) SQL
5 1 (5.56%) Bash
5 1 (5.56%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) CCNP
1 1 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 8 (44.44%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 4 (22.22%) Docker
3 1 (5.56%) iptables
3 1 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (61.11%) Kubernetes
2 8 (44.44%) Consul
2 8 (44.44%) Grafana
2 8 (44.44%) Prometheus
3 1 (5.56%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (44.44%) SaltStack
3 1 (5.56%) Cisco
3 1 (5.56%) Databricks
3 1 (5.56%) Foundry
3 1 (5.56%) Google
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle
3 1 (5.56%) Palantir
3 1 (5.56%) Palo Alto
3 1 (5.56%) SAP