Python Engineer Contracts

Python Engineer
UK

The median Python Engineer daily rate in the UK is £638 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 332 411 346
Rank change year-on-year +79 -65 -15
Contract jobs requiring a Python Engineer 276 328 678
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.64% 0.55% 0.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% 0.58% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 265 593
10th Percentile £440 £450 £471
25th Percentile £525 £500 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £623 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.41% +3.75% +9.09%
75th Percentile £788 £738 £675
90th Percentile £850 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £62.85 - £19.21
25th Percentile £63.38 £56.25 £20.28
Median hourly rate £65.50 £57.50 £22.64
Median % change year-on-year +13.91% +154.03% -17.69%
75th Percentile £69.31 £58.75 £25.05
90th Percentile £70.85 - £26.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.50 £57.50 -
% change year-on-year +13.91% - -

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 40,181 56,479 84,762
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.61% 95.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,164 39,476 59,482
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £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 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £491 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.87% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,646 1,570 2,098
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.29 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.49 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.03
Median % change year-on-year -20.10% +95.42% +0.12%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.75 £63.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.75 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.18% +117.95% +2.55%

Python Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Python Engineer in the UK

Python Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Python Engineer in the UK

Python Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Python Engineer in the UK

Python Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Python Engineer in the UK

Python Engineer
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 UK 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
England +78 228 £650 +4.21% 90
London +86 190 £700 +3.70% 59
Work from Home +74 128 £655 +4.80% 56
UK excluding London +75 66 £550 +10.00% 30
Scotland +53 34 £563 +25.00%
East of England +5 10 £450 -7.69% 9
South East +26 8 £600 +9.09% 9
North of England +28 7 £513 +0.49% 5
North West +23 6 £525 -8.70% 2
South West +10 5 £550 - 3
West Midlands +29 2 £550 -3.51% 1
Midlands +25 2 £550 -3.51% 4
Yorkshire +19 1 £490 -2.97% 3

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

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 featuring Python Engineer in the job title.

1 276 (100.00%) Python
2 139 (50.36%) AWS
3 135 (48.91%) Software Engineering
4 115 (41.67%) Finance
5 103 (37.32%) Agile
6 95 (34.42%) Azure
7 94 (34.06%) Apache Airflow
8 87 (31.52%) Asset Management
9 85 (30.80%) Banking
10 84 (30.43%) TypeScript
11 81 (29.35%) Front Office
12 78 (28.26%) Protocol Buffers
12 78 (28.26%) gRPC
13 77 (27.90%) Investment Management
14 76 (27.54%) Fixed Income
14 76 (27.54%) Apache
15 72 (26.09%) GCP
16 71 (25.72%) Apache Ignite
17 67 (24.28%) Artificial Intelligence
18 63 (22.83%) Hedge funds
19 62 (22.46%) Pandas
19 62 (22.46%) React
20 61 (22.10%) Java
21 59 (21.38%) SQL
21 59 (21.38%) DevOps
22 55 (19.93%) Machine Learning
22 55 (19.93%) Full Stack Development
23 52 (18.84%) Linux
23 52 (18.84%) NumPy
24 50 (18.12%) Material-UI

Python 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 94 (34.06%) Apache Airflow
2 76 (27.54%) Apache
3 5 (1.81%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.45%) SAS
5 1 (0.36%) nginx
5 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.36%) Tornado
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 139 (50.36%) AWS
2 95 (34.42%) Azure
3 72 (26.09%) GCP
4 39 (14.13%) dbt
5 23 (8.33%) Snowflake
6 20 (7.25%) Serverless
7 12 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (3.62%) GitHub
9 9 (3.26%) OpenShift
10 8 (2.90%) Amazon S3
11 6 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (1.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (1.81%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (1.81%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (1.81%) IaaS
12 5 (1.81%) Power Platform
13 4 (1.45%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (1.45%) Azure Monitor
13 4 (1.45%) Dagster
13 4 (1.45%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.54%) SAN
2 4 (1.45%) Fibre Channel
2 4 (1.45%) iSCSI
2 4 (1.45%) Radio Access Network
3 3 (1.09%) DNS
3 3 (1.09%) NAS
3 3 (1.09%) Wireless
4 2 (0.72%) DHCP
4 2 (0.72%) Firewall
4 2 (0.72%) HTTP
4 2 (0.72%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.36%) 5G
5 1 (0.36%) BGP
5 1 (0.36%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (0.36%) Internet
5 1 (0.36%) IOS XR
5 1 (0.36%) MQTT
5 1 (0.36%) SSL
5 1 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (25.72%) Apache Ignite
2 48 (17.39%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (10.87%) Amazon Athena
3 30 (10.87%) Apache Arrow
3 30 (10.87%) Dremio
4 24 (8.70%) Data Lake
5 15 (5.43%) Big Data
6 12 (4.35%) NoSQL
7 11 (3.99%) MongoDB
8 5 (1.81%) Power BI
8 5 (1.81%) Sybase ASE
9 4 (1.45%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.45%) DB2
10 3 (1.09%) MySQL
10 3 (1.09%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.09%) SQL Server
11 2 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.72%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 31 (11.23%) Cypress.io
2 26 (9.42%) Git
3 22 (7.97%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.81%) Artifactory
4 5 (1.81%) Maven
4 5 (1.81%) TeamCity
5 4 (1.45%) GitLab
5 4 (1.45%) Gradle
5 4 (1.45%) Selenium
6 3 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.72%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.72%) git-flow
7 2 (0.72%) Subversion
7 2 (0.72%) webpack
8 1 (0.36%) Ant
8 1 (0.36%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.36%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.36%) JIRA
8 1 (0.36%) JUnit
8 1 (0.36%) Mercurial
General
1 115 (41.67%) Finance
2 85 (30.80%) Banking
3 81 (29.35%) Front Office
4 36 (13.04%) Social Skills
5 34 (12.32%) Investment Banking
6 15 (5.43%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.81%) Law
7 5 (1.81%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.09%) Games
9 3 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.72%) Electronics
10 2 (0.72%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.72%) Public Sector
10 2 (0.72%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.36%) Aviation
11 1 (0.36%) Back Office
11 1 (0.36%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.36%) Multimedia
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (28.26%) gRPC
1 78 (28.26%) Protocol Buffers
2 62 (22.46%) Pandas
2 62 (22.46%) React
3 52 (18.84%) NumPy
4 50 (18.12%) Material-UI
5 48 (17.39%) Redux
6 43 (15.58%) SciPy
7 25 (9.06%) Kafka
8 24 (8.70%) PySpark
9 16 (5.80%) AngularJS
10 15 (5.43%) REST
11 12 (4.35%) RESTful
11 12 (4.35%) Vue
12 10 (3.62%) Node.js
13 9 (3.26%) FastAPI
13 9 (3.26%) Flask
14 8 (2.90%) Lambda Expressions
14 8 (2.90%) Middleware
14 8 (2.90%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 76 (27.54%) Fixed Income
2 63 (22.83%) Hedge funds
3 41 (14.86%) Equities
4 28 (10.14%) Derivative
5 27 (9.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 17 (6.16%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (4.35%) Algorithms
8 9 (3.26%) Data Structures
9 8 (2.90%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (2.54%) Management Information System
11 6 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (2.17%) Linux Command Line
11 6 (2.17%) Renewable Energy
12 4 (1.45%) Client/Server
12 4 (1.45%) NVMe
12 4 (1.45%) Pricing Data
13 3 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
13 3 (1.09%) Product Ownership
13 3 (1.09%) Public Cloud
14 2 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 52 (18.84%) Linux
2 15 (5.43%) Unix
3 14 (5.07%) Windows
4 8 (2.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.90%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.54%) Android
6 4 (1.45%) Data ONTAP
7 3 (1.09%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.36%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (48.91%) Software Engineering
2 103 (37.32%) Agile
3 87 (31.52%) Asset Management
4 77 (27.90%) Investment Management
5 67 (24.28%) Artificial Intelligence
6 59 (21.38%) DevOps
7 55 (19.93%) Full Stack Development
7 55 (19.93%) Machine Learning
8 48 (17.39%) CI/CD
9 43 (15.58%) Automated Trading
10 28 (10.14%) Analytics
11 24 (8.70%) Test Automation
12 20 (7.25%) Data Pipeline
12 20 (7.25%) Problem-Solving
13 19 (6.88%) SDLC
14 18 (6.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 18 (6.52%) Mathematics
15 17 (6.16%) Computer Science
15 17 (6.16%) ETL
15 17 (6.16%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 276 (100.00%) Python
2 84 (30.43%) TypeScript
3 61 (22.10%) Java
4 59 (21.38%) SQL
5 49 (17.75%) JavaScript
6 28 (10.14%) Perl
7 26 (9.42%) C++
8 16 (5.80%) Shell Script
9 13 (4.71%) C#
10 11 (3.99%) Scala
11 9 (3.26%) PowerShell
12 8 (2.90%) Bash
12 8 (2.90%) Go
13 5 (1.81%) Rust
14 4 (1.45%) C
14 4 (1.45%) Kotlin
15 3 (1.09%) Ruby
16 2 (0.72%) Clojure
16 2 (0.72%) Haskell
16 2 (0.72%) HLSL
Qualifications
1 13 (4.71%) Degree
2 7 (2.54%) SC Cleared
2 7 (2.54%) Security Cleared
3 6 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.09%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.72%) PhD
6 1 (0.36%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.36%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.36%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.62%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.54%) QA
3 1 (0.36%) NIST
3 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 30 (10.87%) Docker
2 11 (3.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (2.90%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 4 (1.45%) GPFS
4 4 (1.45%) NFS
5 1 (0.36%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.36%) iptables
5 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 49 (17.75%) Kubernetes
2 29 (10.51%) Terraform
3 25 (9.06%) Ansible
4 14 (5.07%) Grafana
4 14 (5.07%) Prometheus
5 8 (2.90%) Consul
6 6 (2.17%) Puppet
7 4 (1.45%) Argo
7 4 (1.45%) Veritas Storage Foundation
8 2 (0.72%) BladeLogic
8 2 (0.72%) Dell DRAC
8 2 (0.72%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.72%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.72%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.36%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 47 (17.03%) Google
2 16 (5.80%) Databricks
2 16 (5.80%) Microsoft
3 15 (5.43%) VMware
4 10 (3.62%) Sybase
5 8 (2.90%) SaltStack
6 6 (2.17%) Veritas
7 4 (1.45%) Brocade
7 4 (1.45%) EMC
7 4 (1.45%) IBM
7 4 (1.45%) NetApp
7 4 (1.45%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.72%) Altiris
8 2 (0.72%) Bloomberg
8 2 (0.72%) BMC
8 2 (0.72%) Citrix
8 2 (0.72%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.72%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.72%) Oracle
9 1 (0.36%) Splunk