Python Engineer Contracts in England

Python Engineer
UK > England

The median Python Engineer daily rate in England is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 318 404 339
Rank change year-on-year +86 -65 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Python Engineer 228 270 557
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.62% 0.53% 0.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% 0.56% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 237 495
10th Percentile £463 £450 £488
25th Percentile £538 £513 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £788 £738 £700
90th Percentile £850 £788 £783
UK median daily rate £638 £623 £600
% change year-on-year +2.41% +3.75% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £62.85 - -
25th Percentile £63.38 - £25.64
Median hourly rate £65.50 - £26.27
75th Percentile £69.31 - £26.91
90th Percentile £70.85 - -
UK median hourly rate £65.50 £57.50 £26.27
% change year-on-year +13.91% +118.88% -4.47%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 England with a recognized job title 34,271 47,824 67,952
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.61% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,751 33,955 48,268
10th Percentile £275 £312 £313
25th Percentile £412 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,410 1,422 1,902
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.71 £48.70
90th Percentile £72.54 £77.00 £62.24
UK median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -

Python Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Python Engineer in England

Python Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Python Engineer in England

Python Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python Engineer in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python Engineer in England

Python Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Python Engineer in England

Python Engineer
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 27 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
London +77 190 £700 +3.70% 56
East of England +13 10 £450 -7.69% 7
South East +32 8 £600 +9.09% 9
North of England +29 7 £513 +0.49% 5
North West +16 6 £525 -8.70% 2
South West +17 5 £550 - 3
West Midlands +28 2 £550 -3.51% 1
Midlands +21 2 £550 -3.51% 4
Yorkshire +16 1 £490 -2.97% 3
Python Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 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 England region featuring Python Engineer in the job title.

1 228 (100.00%) Python
2 124 (54.39%) Software Engineering
3 120 (52.63%) AWS
4 102 (44.74%) Finance
5 91 (39.91%) Agile
6 87 (38.16%) Apache Airflow
7 84 (36.84%) Asset Management
8 83 (36.40%) TypeScript
9 81 (35.53%) Azure
10 79 (34.65%) Front Office
11 78 (34.21%) Protocol Buffers
11 78 (34.21%) gRPC
12 76 (33.33%) Fixed Income
13 74 (32.46%) Apache
14 73 (32.02%) Banking
15 72 (31.58%) Investment Management
16 71 (31.14%) Apache Ignite
17 69 (30.26%) GCP
18 67 (29.39%) Artificial Intelligence
19 63 (27.63%) Hedge funds
20 62 (27.19%) React
20 62 (27.19%) Pandas
21 55 (24.12%) Machine Learning
22 54 (23.68%) Full Stack Development
23 53 (23.25%) Java
24 52 (22.81%) NumPy
25 50 (21.93%) Material-UI
26 48 (21.05%) Redux
26 48 (21.05%) SQL
27 45 (19.74%) JavaScript

Python Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 87 (38.16%) Apache Airflow
2 74 (32.46%) Apache
3 2 (0.88%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.44%) nginx
4 1 (0.44%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.44%) Tornado
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 120 (52.63%) AWS
2 81 (35.53%) Azure
3 69 (30.26%) GCP
4 35 (15.35%) dbt
5 19 (8.33%) Serverless
5 19 (8.33%) Snowflake
6 11 (4.82%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (4.39%) GitHub
8 7 (3.07%) Amazon S3
9 5 (2.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (2.19%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (1.75%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (1.75%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.75%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (1.75%) Dagster
10 4 (1.75%) IaaS
10 4 (1.75%) Pulumi
11 3 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.32%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.75%) Radio Access Network
2 3 (1.32%) Wireless
3 2 (0.88%) Firewall
4 1 (0.44%) 5G
4 1 (0.44%) BGP
4 1 (0.44%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (0.44%) DNS
4 1 (0.44%) HTTP
4 1 (0.44%) Internet
4 1 (0.44%) IOS XR
4 1 (0.44%) MQTT
4 1 (0.44%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (31.14%) Apache Ignite
2 44 (19.30%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (13.16%) Amazon Athena
3 30 (13.16%) Apache Arrow
3 30 (13.16%) Dremio
4 22 (9.65%) Data Lake
5 12 (5.26%) Big Data
5 12 (5.26%) NoSQL
6 10 (4.39%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.19%) Sybase ASE
8 4 (1.75%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.32%) Power BI
9 3 (1.32%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.32%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.88%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.88%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.88%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 31 (13.60%) Cypress.io
2 22 (9.65%) Git
3 18 (7.89%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.19%) Artifactory
4 5 (2.19%) Maven
4 5 (2.19%) TeamCity
5 4 (1.75%) Gradle
6 3 (1.32%) GitLab
6 3 (1.32%) Selenium
6 3 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.88%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.88%) git-flow
7 2 (0.88%) Subversion
7 2 (0.88%) webpack
8 1 (0.44%) Ant
8 1 (0.44%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.44%) JIRA
8 1 (0.44%) JUnit
8 1 (0.44%) Pylint
8 1 (0.44%) RStudio
General
1 102 (44.74%) Finance
2 79 (34.65%) Front Office
3 73 (32.02%) Banking
4 28 (12.28%) Investment Banking
5 24 (10.53%) Social Skills
6 12 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.19%) Law
7 5 (2.19%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.32%) Games
8 3 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.88%) Electronics
9 2 (0.88%) Health Technology
9 2 (0.88%) Public Sector
9 2 (0.88%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.44%) Back Office
10 1 (0.44%) Dutch Language
10 1 (0.44%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.44%) Music Industry
10 1 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (34.21%) gRPC
1 78 (34.21%) Protocol Buffers
2 62 (27.19%) Pandas
2 62 (27.19%) React
3 52 (22.81%) NumPy
4 50 (21.93%) Material-UI
5 48 (21.05%) Redux
6 43 (18.86%) SciPy
7 24 (10.53%) Kafka
8 19 (8.33%) PySpark
9 14 (6.14%) AngularJS
10 12 (5.26%) REST
10 12 (5.26%) RESTful
10 12 (5.26%) Vue
11 10 (4.39%) Node.js
12 9 (3.95%) Flask
13 8 (3.51%) FastAPI
13 8 (3.51%) RabbitMQ
14 7 (3.07%) Lambda Expressions
15 5 (2.19%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 76 (33.33%) Fixed Income
2 63 (27.63%) Hedge funds
3 41 (17.98%) Equities
4 28 (12.28%) Derivative
5 27 (11.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 14 (6.14%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (5.26%) Algorithms
8 9 (3.95%) Data Structures
9 6 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (2.63%) Renewable Energy
10 4 (1.75%) Pricing Data
11 3 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.32%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.32%) Public Cloud
12 2 (0.88%) Animation
12 2 (0.88%) Augmented Reality
12 2 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.88%) NHS
12 2 (0.88%) Photography
Operating Systems
1 26 (11.40%) Linux
2 7 (3.07%) Android
2 7 (3.07%) Windows
3 4 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.32%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.32%) Unix
5 2 (0.88%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.44%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (54.39%) Software Engineering
2 91 (39.91%) Agile
3 84 (36.84%) Asset Management
4 72 (31.58%) Investment Management
5 67 (29.39%) Artificial Intelligence
6 55 (24.12%) Machine Learning
7 54 (23.68%) Full Stack Development
8 43 (18.86%) Automated Trading
9 41 (17.98%) CI/CD
10 35 (15.35%) DevOps
11 25 (10.96%) Analytics
12 18 (7.89%) Mathematics
12 18 (7.89%) Test Automation
13 17 (7.46%) Microservices
13 17 (7.46%) Problem-Solving
14 15 (6.58%) Data Pipeline
14 15 (6.58%) Mentoring
15 14 (6.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 13 (5.70%) ETL
17 12 (5.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 228 (100.00%) Python
2 83 (36.40%) TypeScript
3 53 (23.25%) Java
4 48 (21.05%) SQL
5 45 (19.74%) JavaScript
6 26 (11.40%) C++
7 16 (7.02%) Shell Script
8 13 (5.70%) C#
9 9 (3.95%) PowerShell
10 7 (3.07%) Go
11 6 (2.63%) Bash
11 6 (2.63%) Perl
11 6 (2.63%) Scala
12 5 (2.19%) Rust
13 4 (1.75%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.88%) C
14 2 (0.88%) Clojure
14 2 (0.88%) GLSL
14 2 (0.88%) HLSL
14 2 (0.88%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 11 (4.82%) Degree
2 6 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (2.63%) SC Cleared
2 6 (2.63%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.32%) Master's Degree
4 2 (0.88%) PhD
5 1 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.44%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.39%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.63%) QA
3 1 (0.44%) NIST
3 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 22 (9.65%) Docker
2 8 (3.51%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.44%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.44%) iptables
4 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 37 (16.23%) Kubernetes
2 23 (10.09%) Terraform
3 21 (9.21%) Ansible
4 9 (3.95%) Grafana
4 9 (3.95%) Prometheus
5 8 (3.51%) Consul
6 6 (2.63%) Puppet
7 4 (1.75%) Argo
8 2 (0.88%) BladeLogic
8 2 (0.88%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.88%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.44%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 42 (18.42%) Google
2 15 (6.58%) Microsoft
3 12 (5.26%) Databricks
4 8 (3.51%) SaltStack
5 7 (3.07%) VMware
6 6 (2.63%) Sybase
7 4 (1.75%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.88%) Altiris
8 2 (0.88%) Citrix
8 2 (0.88%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.88%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.44%) Brio
9 1 (0.44%) Cisco
9 1 (0.44%) Confluent
9 1 (0.44%) NVIDIA
9 1 (0.44%) Oracle
9 1 (0.44%) Palantir
9 1 (0.44%) Sage
9 1 (0.44%) SAP
9 1 (0.44%) TOWER Software