Python Software Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Python Software Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Python Software Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £488 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 377 445 484
Rank change year-on-year +68 +39 -66
Contract jobs requiring a Python Software Engineer 11 2 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.053% 0.008% 0.084%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.058% 0.009% 0.088%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 22
10th Percentile - - £408
25th Percentile £413 - £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.53%
75th Percentile £550 - £566
90th Percentile - - £694
UK median daily rate £725 £683 £600
% change year-on-year +6.23% +13.75% +13.21%
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 - - -
UK median hourly rate £65.50 - £26.27
% change year-on-year - - -4.47%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,104 22,515 29,589
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.55% 94.27% 95.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,669 15,787 20,737
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £397 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £597 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,253 1,161 1,465
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.16 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% +115.96% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £43.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Python Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Python Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Python Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python Software Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Python Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Python Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python Software Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Python Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python Software Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Python Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Python Software Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python Software Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 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
East of England - 6 £425 - 5
North of England - 2 - - 1
North West - 2 - -
South West - 2 £550 - 2
South East - 1 - - 7
Python Software Engineer
UK

Python Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, Python Software 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 UK excluding London region featuring Python Software Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Python
1 11 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (36.36%) C++
2 4 (36.36%) Radio Access Network
3 3 (27.27%) AWS
3 3 (27.27%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (18.18%) Wireless
4 2 (18.18%) ETL
4 2 (18.18%) SQLAlchemy
4 2 (18.18%) Machine Learning
4 2 (18.18%) Flask
4 2 (18.18%) Pulumi
4 2 (18.18%) ETL Development
4 2 (18.18%) Front End Development
4 2 (18.18%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (9.09%) Fintech
5 1 (9.09%) Computer Vision
5 1 (9.09%) NVIDIA
5 1 (9.09%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (9.09%) Metadata
5 1 (9.09%) Full Stack Development
5 1 (9.09%) FastAPI
5 1 (9.09%) Data Collection
5 1 (9.09%) Code Quality
5 1 (9.09%) DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) Pandas
5 1 (9.09%) React
5 1 (9.09%) GitHub
5 1 (9.09%) Unity (Game Engine)

Python Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) Pulumi
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (18.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) Mercurial
General
1 1 (9.09%) Multimedia
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Flask
1 2 (18.18%) SQLAlchemy
2 1 (9.09%) FastAPI
2 1 (9.09%) JSON
2 1 (9.09%) NumPy
2 1 (9.09%) Pandas
2 1 (9.09%) React
2 1 (9.09%) SciPy
2 1 (9.09%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 1 (9.09%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (9.09%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (27.27%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (18.18%) ETL
3 2 (18.18%) ETL Development
3 2 (18.18%) Front End Development
3 2 (18.18%) Machine Learning
4 1 (9.09%) Code Quality
4 1 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (9.09%) Computer Vision
4 1 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (9.09%) Data Collection
4 1 (9.09%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (9.09%) Data Protection
4 1 (9.09%) DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Fintech
4 1 (9.09%) Full Stack Development
4 1 (9.09%) Signal Processing
4 1 (9.09%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (36.36%) C++
3 1 (9.09%) C#
3 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) NVIDIA