Python Data Engineer Contracts in Central London

Python Data Engineer
London > Central London

The median Python Data Engineer daily rate in Central London is £725 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 169 187
Rank change year-on-year +43 +18 -33
Contract jobs requiring a Python Data Engineer 3 5 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.12% 0.13% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.14% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 5
10th Percentile £538 £530 £507
25th Percentile £594 £575 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £781 £719 £638
90th Percentile £793 £753 £675
London median daily rate £500 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -23.08% +4.00% +8.70%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 2,323 3,673 4,299
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.32% 95.23% 94.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,655 2,515 3,271
10th Percentile £342 £325 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £560
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +4.91% +6.67%
75th Percentile £682 £725 £675
90th Percentile £795 £813 £763
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 27 53
10th Percentile £19.92 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £21.63 £19.36 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -6.67% +108.62%
75th Percentile £27.81 £58.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £40.00 £86.32 £65.10
London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.43% - +11.64%

Python Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Python Data Engineer in Central London

Python Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Python Data Engineer in Central London

Python Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python Data Engineer in Central London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python Data Engineer in Central London

Python Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 2 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
City of London +46 2 £613 -5.77%
City of Westminster - 1 £750 -
Python Data Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 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 across the Central London region featuring Python Data Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) ETL
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) PySpark
2 2 (66.67%) Data Science
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Foundry
3 1 (33.33%) Hedge funds
3 1 (33.33%) Big Data
3 1 (33.33%) Kafka
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Palantir
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (33.33%) Docker
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Systematic Trading
3 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (33.33%) Presto
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Terraform
3 1 (33.33%) Databricks
3 1 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (33.33%) ERP
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Migration

Python Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 2 (66.67%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (33.33%) Big Data
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (33.33%) Hadoop
1 1 (33.33%) Presto
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) PySpark
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (33.33%) Hedge funds
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Data Science
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Business Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Business Development
3 1 (33.33%) Commercialisation
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) ERP
3 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Ontologies
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Systematic Trading
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks
1 1 (33.33%) Foundry
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Palantir
1 1 (33.33%) SAP