Python Data Engineer Contracts

Python Data Engineer
UK

The median Python Data Engineer daily rate in the UK is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 543 589 672
Rank change year-on-year +46 +83 -146
Contract jobs requiring a Python Data Engineer 36 111 188
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.083% 0.19% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.089% 0.20% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 97 170
10th Percentile £438 £425 £463
25th Percentile £456 £456 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £594 £700 £675
90th Percentile £650 £788 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £450 £478
% change year-on-year +15.56% -5.86% +6.22%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,413 56,730 84,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,320 39,605 59,435
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,653 1,602 2,109
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.28 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £42.37 £19.50
% change year-on-year -10.30% +117.26% +2.47%

Python Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Python Data Engineer in the UK

Python Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Python Data Engineer in the UK

Python Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python Data Engineer over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python Data Engineer in the UK

Python Data Engineer
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python Data Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 26 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
England +49 29 £500 -16.67% 10
London +69 22 £488 -23.53% 9
Work from Home +80 18 £523 -12.92% 5
UK excluding London +54 6 £520 +15.56%
West Midlands +31 2 £550 +0.46%
Midlands +28 2 £550 +0.46%
North of England +21 2 £490 -11.71%
Scotland +30 1 £450 -
North West +17 1 - -
Yorkshire +17 1 £490 -3.92%
East of England +11 1 £650 +44.44%

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Python Data 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 featuring Python Data Engineer in the job title.

1 36 (100.00%) Python
2 24 (66.67%) SQL
3 18 (50.00%) Azure
3 18 (50.00%) PySpark
4 17 (47.22%) AWS
5 14 (38.89%) Data Pipeline
6 12 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
6 12 (33.33%) Databricks
6 12 (33.33%) Big Data
7 9 (25.00%) Kafka
7 9 (25.00%) Data Engineering
7 9 (25.00%) Data Modelling
7 9 (25.00%) dbt
8 8 (22.22%) ETL
8 8 (22.22%) Terraform
8 8 (22.22%) Serverless
8 8 (22.22%) Pandas
8 8 (22.22%) Data Transformation
9 7 (19.44%) NumPy
9 7 (19.44%) Git
9 7 (19.44%) Workflow
9 7 (19.44%) CI/CD
10 6 (16.67%) Social Skills
10 6 (16.67%) Finance
10 6 (16.67%) NoSQL
10 6 (16.67%) Analytics
10 6 (16.67%) Kubernetes
10 6 (16.67%) Data Science
11 5 (13.89%) Lambda Expressions
11 5 (13.89%) Data Lake

Python Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 12 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (13.89%) Apache
2 5 (13.89%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 18 (50.00%) Azure
2 17 (47.22%) AWS
3 9 (25.00%) dbt
4 8 (22.22%) Serverless
5 5 (13.89%) Amazon S3
5 5 (13.89%) Power Platform
6 4 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (11.11%) Dagster
7 3 (8.33%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (8.33%) GCP
7 3 (8.33%) Snowflake
8 2 (5.56%) Azure Stack
8 2 (5.56%) Azure Storage
9 1 (2.78%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (2.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (2.78%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (2.78%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (33.33%) Big Data
2 6 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 5 (13.89%) Data Lake
3 5 (13.89%) Power BI
4 4 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (5.56%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 2 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (5.56%) Data Hub
6 2 (5.56%) Delta Lake
6 2 (5.56%) Hadoop
6 2 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (5.56%) Spark SQL
7 1 (2.78%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (2.78%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (2.78%) Flink
7 1 (2.78%) HBase
7 1 (2.78%) Metadata
7 1 (2.78%) Presto
7 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (19.44%) Git
2 1 (2.78%) Ant
2 1 (2.78%) GitLab
2 1 (2.78%) Gradle
2 1 (2.78%) JUnit
2 1 (2.78%) Maven
2 1 (2.78%) RStudio
General
1 6 (16.67%) Finance
1 6 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.56%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (2.78%) Health Technology
4 1 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (50.00%) PySpark
2 9 (25.00%) Kafka
3 8 (22.22%) Pandas
4 7 (19.44%) NumPy
5 5 (13.89%) Lambda Expressions
5 5 (13.89%) REST
6 2 (5.56%) Flask
6 2 (5.56%) YAML
7 1 (2.78%) ADO
7 1 (2.78%) AWS CDK
7 1 (2.78%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (2.78%) Algorithms
2 1 (2.78%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.78%) Hedge funds
2 1 (2.78%) NHS
2 1 (2.78%) Omics
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (38.89%) Data Pipeline
2 9 (25.00%) Data Engineering
2 9 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 8 (22.22%) Data Transformation
3 8 (22.22%) ETL
4 7 (19.44%) CI/CD
4 7 (19.44%) Workflow
5 6 (16.67%) Analytics
5 6 (16.67%) Data Science
6 5 (13.89%) Agile
6 5 (13.89%) Data Governance
6 5 (13.89%) DevOps
6 5 (13.89%) Investment Management
6 5 (13.89%) Microservices
6 5 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (11.11%) Asset Management
7 4 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (11.11%) Data Integration
7 4 (11.11%) Decision-Making
7 4 (11.11%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 36 (100.00%) Python
2 24 (66.67%) SQL
3 5 (13.89%) Scala
4 3 (8.33%) Java
5 2 (5.56%) Bash
5 2 (5.56%) PowerShell
5 2 (5.56%) R
6 1 (2.78%) C
6 1 (2.78%) C++
6 1 (2.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (2.78%) Azure Certification
1 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (2.78%) Degree
1 1 (2.78%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (22.22%) Terraform
2 6 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 4 (11.11%) Argo
4 1 (2.78%) Grafana
4 1 (2.78%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (33.33%) Databricks
2 4 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.56%) Bloomberg
4 1 (2.78%) Foundry
4 1 (2.78%) Oracle
4 1 (2.78%) Palantir
4 1 (2.78%) Sage
4 1 (2.78%) SAP
4 1 (2.78%) Splunk