Python Software Engineer Contracts

Python Software Engineer
UK

The median Python Software Engineer daily rate in the UK is £725 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 461 637 680
Rank change year-on-year +176 +43 -109
Contract jobs requiring a Python Software Engineer 118 63 180
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.11% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.11% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 44 161
10th Percentile £538 £438 £486
25th Percentile £550 £609 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% +12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £800 £788 £650
90th Percentile £875 - £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 - £525
% change year-on-year - - +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £64.25 - £25.64
Median hourly rate £65.50 - £26.27
75th Percentile £66.75 - £26.91
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.50 - -

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 Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Python Software Engineer in the UK

Python Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Python Software Engineer in the UK

Python Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Python Software Engineer in the UK

Python Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Python Software Engineer in the UK

Python Software Engineer
Top 9 Contract Locations

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 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 +185 114 £725 +7.41% 41
London +167 98 £725 +7.41% 23
Work from Home +115 50 £750 +11.11% 31
UK excluding London +78 12 £550 - 17
East of England - 6 £425 - 7
North of England - 3 £550 - 2
North West - 3 £550 -
South West +24 2 £550 - 2
South East - 1 - - 4

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 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 featuring Python Software Engineer in the job title.

1 118 (100.00%) Python
1 118 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 96 (81.36%) AWS
3 85 (72.03%) Finance
4 80 (67.80%) Front Office
4 80 (67.80%) Asset Management
4 80 (67.80%) TypeScript
5 78 (66.10%) Protocol Buffers
5 78 (66.10%) gRPC
5 78 (66.10%) Apache Airflow
6 76 (64.41%) Fixed Income
7 75 (63.56%) Agile
8 71 (60.17%) Apache
8 71 (60.17%) Apache Ignite
9 68 (57.63%) Banking
9 68 (57.63%) GCP
10 67 (56.78%) Investment Management
11 61 (51.69%) Hedge funds
12 57 (48.31%) React
13 55 (46.61%) Azure
14 50 (42.37%) Material-UI
15 49 (41.53%) Artificial Intelligence
16 48 (40.68%) Redux
17 47 (39.83%) Machine Learning
18 46 (38.98%) Full Stack Development
19 43 (36.44%) PostgreSQL
20 42 (35.59%) JavaScript
20 42 (35.59%) Google
21 41 (34.75%) Equities
21 41 (34.75%) Automated Trading

Python Software 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 78 (66.10%) Apache Airflow
2 71 (60.17%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 96 (81.36%) AWS
2 68 (57.63%) GCP
3 55 (46.61%) Azure
4 30 (25.42%) dbt
5 18 (15.25%) Snowflake
6 6 (5.08%) Serverless
7 5 (4.24%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (3.39%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (3.39%) Pulumi
9 3 (2.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (2.54%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (2.54%) SaaS
10 2 (1.69%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.69%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (1.69%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.85%) Amazon SageMaker
11 1 (0.85%) Cloud Run
11 1 (0.85%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.39%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (1.69%) Wireless
3 1 (0.85%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (60.17%) Apache Ignite
2 43 (36.44%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (25.42%) Amazon Athena
3 30 (25.42%) Apache Arrow
3 30 (25.42%) Dremio
4 18 (15.25%) Data Lake
5 5 (4.24%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.85%) Big Data
7 1 (0.85%) Metadata
7 1 (0.85%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.85%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 29 (24.58%) Cypress.io
2 2 (1.69%) Git
2 2 (1.69%) webpack
3 1 (0.85%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.85%) Mercurial
3 1 (0.85%) Selenium
General
1 85 (72.03%) Finance
2 80 (67.80%) Front Office
3 68 (57.63%) Banking
4 25 (21.19%) Investment Banking
5 4 (3.39%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.39%) Social Skills
6 3 (2.54%) Games
6 3 (2.54%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.69%) Law
7 2 (1.69%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.85%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.85%) Multimedia
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (66.10%) gRPC
1 78 (66.10%) Protocol Buffers
2 57 (48.31%) React
3 50 (42.37%) Material-UI
4 48 (40.68%) Redux
5 40 (33.90%) Pandas
6 33 (27.97%) NumPy
7 31 (26.27%) SciPy
8 15 (12.71%) AngularJS
9 12 (10.17%) Vue
10 7 (5.93%) Node.js
11 4 (3.39%) FastAPI
11 4 (3.39%) Flask
11 4 (3.39%) Kafka
11 4 (3.39%) SQLAlchemy
12 3 (2.54%) RESTful
12 3 (2.54%) WebSockets
13 2 (1.69%) Lambda Expressions
13 2 (1.69%) REST
14 1 (0.85%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 76 (64.41%) Fixed Income
2 61 (51.69%) Hedge funds
3 41 (34.75%) Equities
4 27 (22.88%) Derivative
4 27 (22.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (3.39%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (3.39%) Pricing Data
5 4 (3.39%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.69%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.85%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.85%) NHS
7 1 (0.85%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.85%) Unix
1 1 (0.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 80 (67.80%) Asset Management
3 75 (63.56%) Agile
4 67 (56.78%) Investment Management
5 49 (41.53%) Artificial Intelligence
6 47 (39.83%) Machine Learning
7 46 (38.98%) Full Stack Development
8 41 (34.75%) Automated Trading
9 19 (16.10%) Analytics
10 8 (6.78%) Line Management
10 8 (6.78%) Mentoring
11 6 (5.08%) ETL
11 6 (5.08%) Fintech
11 6 (5.08%) Greeks
12 5 (4.24%) Credit Risk Analysis
12 5 (4.24%) End-to-End Testing
12 5 (4.24%) Integration Testing
12 5 (4.24%) Performance Attribution
12 5 (4.24%) Test Automation
12 5 (4.24%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 118 (100.00%) Python
2 80 (67.80%) TypeScript
3 42 (35.59%) JavaScript
4 25 (21.19%) Java
5 19 (16.10%) SQL
6 6 (5.08%) C++
7 5 (4.24%) Rust
8 3 (2.54%) C#
9 2 (1.69%) Clojure
9 2 (1.69%) Haskell
9 2 (1.69%) Ruby
9 2 (1.69%) Scala
10 1 (0.85%) Go
10 1 (0.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (4.24%) SC Cleared
1 5 (4.24%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.69%) Degree
3 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.08%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.85%) QA
System Software
1 3 (2.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (4.24%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.54%) Terraform
3 1 (0.85%) Ansible
Vendors
1 42 (35.59%) Google
2 1 (0.85%) Brio
2 1 (0.85%) NVIDIA