Python Engineer Contracts in Central London

Python Engineer
London > Central London

The median Python Engineer daily rate in Central London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 125 163
Rank change year-on-year +8 +38 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Python Engineer 15 13 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.73% 0.54% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.78% 0.57% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 11 14
10th Percentile - £406 £486
25th Percentile £413 £513 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £700 £638
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +9.80% +2.00%
75th Percentile £725 £718 £806
90th Percentile £768 £750 £825
London median daily rate £750 £725 £675
% change year-on-year +3.45% +7.41% +12.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 1,921 2,275 3,557
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.89% 95.27% 94.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,252 1,566 2,432
10th Percentile £339 £350 £313
25th Percentile £438 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £551 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.14% -8.21% +7.14%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £713
90th Percentile £775 £788 £820
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 26 22
10th Percentile £21.51 £20.07 £15.61
25th Percentile £24.66 £22.28 £18.93
Median hourly rate £30.04 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -20.54% -15.66%
75th Percentile £51.31 £41.69 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.89 £70.00 £87.97
London median hourly rate £31.75 £28.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +13.39% -25.33% +7.14%

Python Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Python Engineer in Central London

Python Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Python Engineer in Central London

Python Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python Engineer in Central London over the 6 months to 13 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python Engineer in Central London

Python 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 Engineer within the Central London region over the 6 months to 13 July 2025. 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 +2 13 £600 -14.29% 7
City of Westminster - 1 £450 -
West End of London - 1 £750 -
Python Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 13 July 2025, 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 across the Central London region featuring Python Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (40.00%) Finance
2 6 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 5 (33.33%) AWS
3 5 (33.33%) REST
4 4 (26.67%) SQL
4 4 (26.67%) Software Engineering
4 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (26.67%) Kubernetes
5 3 (20.00%) Jenkins
5 3 (20.00%) Kafka
5 3 (20.00%) Relational Database
5 3 (20.00%) API Testing
5 3 (20.00%) PySpark
5 3 (20.00%) pytest
5 3 (20.00%) Data Science
5 3 (20.00%) REST Assured
5 3 (20.00%) Postman
5 3 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (20.00%) JIRA
5 3 (20.00%) Banking
5 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
5 3 (20.00%) Test Strategy
5 3 (20.00%) Azure
5 3 (20.00%) BDD
5 3 (20.00%) Open Source
5 3 (20.00%) Git
5 3 (20.00%) Selenium
5 3 (20.00%) Test Scripting

Python 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 1 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (6.67%) Apache Spark
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) Azure AKS
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (6.67%) GitHub
3 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) DNS
1 1 (6.67%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (6.67%) Big Data
2 1 (6.67%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (6.67%) Hadoop
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Git
1 3 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (20.00%) JIRA
1 3 (20.00%) Postman
1 3 (20.00%) REST Assured
1 3 (20.00%) Selenium
General
1 6 (40.00%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Banking
4 2 (13.33%) Corporate Banking
4 2 (13.33%) Investment Banking
4 2 (13.33%) Retail
4 2 (13.33%) Retail Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Advertising
5 1 (6.67%) Financial Institution
5 1 (6.67%) Publishing
5 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) REST
2 3 (20.00%) Kafka
2 3 (20.00%) PySpark
2 3 (20.00%) pytest
3 2 (13.33%) NumPy
3 2 (13.33%) Pandas
4 1 (6.67%) Dask
4 1 (6.67%) LangChain
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (6.67%) OAuth
4 1 (6.67%) OAuth2
4 1 (6.67%) OpenID
4 1 (6.67%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (6.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Hedge funds
2 1 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Fixed Income
2 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.67%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 4 (26.67%) Software Engineering
4 3 (20.00%) API Testing
4 3 (20.00%) BDD
4 3 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (20.00%) Data Science
4 3 (20.00%) Open Source
4 3 (20.00%) Test Scripting
4 3 (20.00%) Test Strategy
5 2 (13.33%) Analytical Modelling
5 2 (13.33%) Data Engineering
5 2 (13.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 2 (13.33%) Decision-Making
5 2 (13.33%) DevOps
5 2 (13.33%) Financial Modelling
5 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (13.33%) Predictive Modelling
5 2 (13.33%) Pricing Strategy
5 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (26.67%) SQL
3 2 (13.33%) C#
4 1 (6.67%) Go
4 1 (6.67%) Java
4 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Cisco
2 1 (6.67%) Confluent