Python Engineer Contracts in London

Python Engineer
England > London

The median Python Engineer daily rate in London is £700, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 172 290 241
Rank change year-on-year +118 -49 +19
Contract jobs requiring a Python Engineer 251 200 460
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.42% 0.80% 1.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.52% 0.84% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 175 398
10th Percentile £488 £453 £515
25th Percentile £550 £538 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +12.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £850 £785 £700
90th Percentile £875 £788 £800
England median daily rate £700 £644 £600
% change year-on-year +8.74% +7.29% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £62.81 - -
25th Percentile £63.28 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.63 - £52.50
75th Percentile £69.53 - £53.75
90th Percentile £70.94 - -
England median hourly rate £65.63 - £35.75
% change year-on-year - - +12.60%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 London with a recognized job title 16,560 23,906 36,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.67% 95.05% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,921 17,459 27,030
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 281 404
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.98 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.17 £22.63 £23.75
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.12%
75th Percentile £46.59 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

Python Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Python Engineer in London

Python Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Python Engineer in London

Python Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Python Engineer in London

Python Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Python Engineer in London

Python Engineer
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 Python Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Central London +41 17 £655 +9.17% 6
West London +20 1 £425 -45.16% 1
Python Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 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 London region featuring Python Engineer in the job title.

1 251 (100.00%) Python
2 169 (67.33%) Software Engineering
3 166 (66.14%) AWS
4 162 (64.54%) Finance
5 142 (56.57%) Apache Airflow
6 140 (55.78%) Agile
6 140 (55.78%) Asset Management
7 136 (54.18%) Front Office
8 132 (52.59%) Fixed Income
8 132 (52.59%) Protocol Buffers
8 132 (52.59%) TypeScript
8 132 (52.59%) gRPC
9 131 (52.19%) Banking
10 127 (50.60%) Apache
11 126 (50.20%) Apache Ignite
12 123 (49.00%) Investment Management
13 115 (45.82%) Hedge funds
14 108 (43.03%) GCP
15 100 (39.84%) Azure
16 90 (35.86%) Pandas
17 88 (35.06%) Equities
18 86 (34.26%) React
19 85 (33.86%) Artificial Intelligence
20 83 (33.07%) NumPy
21 77 (30.68%) SciPy
21 77 (30.68%) Redux
21 77 (30.68%) Full Stack Development
22 75 (29.88%) Java
23 73 (29.08%) JavaScript
23 73 (29.08%) Machine Learning

Python Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 142 (56.57%) Apache Airflow
2 127 (50.60%) Apache
3 3 (1.20%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.40%) nginx
4 1 (0.40%) SAS
4 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 166 (66.14%) AWS
2 108 (43.03%) GCP
3 100 (39.84%) Azure
4 65 (25.90%) dbt
5 46 (18.33%) Snowflake
6 13 (5.18%) Serverless
7 9 (3.59%) Dagster
8 8 (3.19%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (2.79%) Amazon S3
10 6 (2.39%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (2.39%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (1.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (1.99%) Power Platform
12 4 (1.59%) GitHub
13 3 (1.20%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (1.20%) Azure Data Factory
13 3 (1.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 3 (1.20%) SaaS
14 2 (0.80%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.20%) Firewall
2 1 (0.40%) 5G
2 1 (0.40%) MQTT
2 1 (0.40%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.40%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.40%) WAN
2 1 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (50.20%) Apache Ignite
2 70 (27.89%) PostgreSQL
3 65 (25.90%) Amazon Athena
3 65 (25.90%) Dremio
4 61 (24.30%) Apache Arrow
5 53 (21.12%) Data Lake
6 11 (4.38%) NoSQL
7 10 (3.98%) Big Data
7 10 (3.98%) MongoDB
8 6 (2.39%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (1.99%) Power BI
9 5 (1.99%) Sybase ASE
10 4 (1.59%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (1.20%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.20%) SQL Server
12 2 (0.80%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.80%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 49 (19.52%) Cypress.io
2 19 (7.57%) Git
3 16 (6.37%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.99%) Artifactory
5 4 (1.59%) TeamCity
6 3 (1.20%) Maven
7 2 (0.80%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.80%) git-flow
7 2 (0.80%) Gradle
7 2 (0.80%) Subversion
7 2 (0.80%) webpack
8 1 (0.40%) GitLab
8 1 (0.40%) IBM UrbanCode
8 1 (0.40%) JIRA
8 1 (0.40%) kappa
8 1 (0.40%) Poetry
8 1 (0.40%) PyCharm
8 1 (0.40%) Pylint
8 1 (0.40%) RStudio
8 1 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 162 (64.54%) Finance
2 136 (54.18%) Front Office
3 131 (52.19%) Banking
4 54 (21.51%) Investment Banking
5 18 (7.17%) Social Skills
6 14 (5.58%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (1.59%) Games
8 3 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.20%) Law
8 3 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.40%) Aviation
10 1 (0.40%) Dutch Language
10 1 (0.40%) Music Industry
10 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (52.59%) gRPC
1 132 (52.59%) Protocol Buffers
2 90 (35.86%) Pandas
3 86 (34.26%) React
4 83 (33.07%) NumPy
5 77 (30.68%) Redux
5 77 (30.68%) SciPy
6 73 (29.08%) Material-UI
7 24 (9.56%) Kafka
8 23 (9.16%) PySpark
9 17 (6.77%) Vue
10 16 (6.37%) AngularJS
11 12 (4.78%) Node.js
12 10 (3.98%) RESTful
13 8 (3.19%) RabbitMQ
13 8 (3.19%) REST
14 7 (2.79%) Flask
15 6 (2.39%) FastAPI
16 4 (1.59%) Lambda Expressions
16 4 (1.59%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 132 (52.59%) Fixed Income
2 115 (45.82%) Hedge funds
3 88 (35.06%) Equities
4 54 (21.51%) Derivative
4 54 (21.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 16 (6.37%) Pricing Data
6 15 (5.98%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (3.98%) Data Structures
8 9 (3.59%) Algorithms
9 7 (2.79%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (2.39%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.59%) Renewable Energy
12 3 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (1.20%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.20%) Public Cloud
13 2 (0.80%) Hackathon
13 2 (0.80%) Product Ownership
13 2 (0.80%) Solar Panel
14 1 (0.40%) Cloud Native
14 1 (0.40%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 22 (8.76%) Linux
2 5 (1.99%) Windows
3 4 (1.59%) Android
3 4 (1.59%) Unix
4 3 (1.20%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.80%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.40%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (67.33%) Software Engineering
2 140 (55.78%) Agile
2 140 (55.78%) Asset Management
3 123 (49.00%) Investment Management
4 85 (33.86%) Artificial Intelligence
5 77 (30.68%) Full Stack Development
6 73 (29.08%) Machine Learning
7 65 (25.90%) Automated Trading
8 33 (13.15%) CI/CD
9 29 (11.55%) Analytics
9 29 (11.55%) DevOps
10 17 (6.77%) Line Management
11 16 (6.37%) Data Engineering
11 16 (6.37%) Mathematics
12 15 (5.98%) Microservices
13 14 (5.58%) Fintech
14 13 (5.18%) Greeks
14 13 (5.18%) Problem-Solving
15 12 (4.78%) Data Pipeline
15 12 (4.78%) Mathematical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 251 (100.00%) Python
2 132 (52.59%) TypeScript
3 75 (29.88%) Java
4 73 (29.08%) JavaScript
5 49 (19.52%) SQL
6 18 (7.17%) Shell Script
7 15 (5.98%) C++
8 8 (3.19%) Go
9 6 (2.39%) Bash
9 6 (2.39%) Perl
9 6 (2.39%) Rust
9 6 (2.39%) Scala
10 5 (1.99%) C#
10 5 (1.99%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.20%) Clojure
11 3 (1.20%) Haskell
11 3 (1.20%) Ruby
12 2 (0.80%) C
13 1 (0.40%) Groovy
13 1 (0.40%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (1.59%) Degree
1 4 (1.59%) SC Cleared
1 4 (1.59%) Security Cleared
2 2 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (0.80%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.40%) CCNP
3 1 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.37%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.20%) QA
3 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
System Software
1 19 (7.57%) Docker
2 8 (3.19%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.40%) iptables
3 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 32 (12.75%) Kubernetes
2 15 (5.98%) Ansible
3 13 (5.18%) Terraform
4 11 (4.38%) Grafana
5 10 (3.98%) Prometheus
6 8 (3.19%) Consul
7 6 (2.39%) Puppet
8 4 (1.59%) Argo
9 2 (0.80%) BladeLogic
9 2 (0.80%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.80%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 67 (26.69%) Google
2 12 (4.78%) Microsoft
3 9 (3.59%) Databricks
4 8 (3.19%) SaltStack
5 6 (2.39%) Sybase
6 3 (1.20%) Oracle
7 2 (0.80%) Altiris
7 2 (0.80%) Bloomberg
7 2 (0.80%) Citrix
7 2 (0.80%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.80%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.80%) Reuters
8 1 (0.40%) Cisco
8 1 (0.40%) Confluent
8 1 (0.40%) IBM
8 1 (0.40%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.40%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.40%) SAP
8 1 (0.40%) Solace
8 1 (0.40%) TIBCO