Python Engineer Contracts in the East of England

Python Engineer
England > East of England

The median Python Engineer daily rate in the East of England is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 104 109 135
Rank change year-on-year +5 +26 -33
Contract jobs requiring a Python Engineer 10 14 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.53% 0.68% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 0.74% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 12 9
10th Percentile £410 £450 £433
25th Percentile £413 £459 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -18.75% +60.00%
75th Percentile £541 £613 £631
90th Percentile £606 £650 £685
England median daily rate £650 £624 £600
% change year-on-year +4.21% +3.96% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £64.25 - -
Median hourly rate £65.50 - -
75th Percentile £66.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.50 - £22.64
% change year-on-year - - -28.71%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the East of England. 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 the East of England with a recognized job title 1,701 1,892 2,397
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.53% 91.53% 93.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 774 1,157 1,384
10th Percentile £206 £185 £163
25th Percentile £313 £300 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £563 £600 £542
90th Percentile £650 £700 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 585 294 370
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £43.00 £35.40 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.47% +128.39% -7.32%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £39.54
90th Percentile £75.25 £70.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.38% +100.00% +0.29%

Python Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Python Engineer in the East of England

Python Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python Engineer in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Python Engineer in the East of England

Python Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python Engineer in the East of England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python Engineer in the East of England

Python Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python Engineer in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Python Engineer in the East of England

Python Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Hertfordshire +8 7 £425 -5.56% 1
Cambridgeshire -7 3 £550 +10.00% 8
Python Engineer
England

Python Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 28 April 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 East of England region featuring Python Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Python
2 7 (70.00%) Software Engineering
3 5 (50.00%) C++
4 4 (40.00%) Radio Access Network
5 3 (30.00%) Machine Learning
5 3 (30.00%) C#
5 3 (30.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (30.00%) Wireless
6 2 (20.00%) Windows
6 2 (20.00%) Java
6 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
6 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 2 (20.00%) AWS
7 1 (10.00%) Containerisation
7 1 (10.00%) Data Collection
7 1 (10.00%) End-to-End Testing
7 1 (10.00%) Code Quality
7 1 (10.00%) Product Management
7 1 (10.00%) RESTful
7 1 (10.00%) Mercurial
7 1 (10.00%) Azure
7 1 (10.00%) SciPy
7 1 (10.00%) NumPy
7 1 (10.00%) Signal Processing
7 1 (10.00%) Data Transformation
7 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
7 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
7 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
7 1 (10.00%) DevOps
7 1 (10.00%) Pandas

Python Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) Radio Access Network
2 3 (30.00%) Wireless
3 1 (10.00%) DNS
3 1 (10.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) Mercurial
General
1 1 (10.00%) Multimedia
1 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) NumPy
1 1 (10.00%) Pandas
1 1 (10.00%) React
1 1 (10.00%) RESTful
1 1 (10.00%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (10.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (10.00%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (30.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (30.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (10.00%) Agile
4 1 (10.00%) Code Quality
4 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (10.00%) Computer Vision
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (10.00%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (10.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (10.00%) Data Transformation
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Product Management
4 1 (10.00%) Security Hardening
4 1 (10.00%) Signal Processing
4 1 (10.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (10.00%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (50.00%) C++
3 3 (30.00%) C#
4 2 (20.00%) Java
5 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (10.00%) SQL
5 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA