Python Engineer Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Python Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Python Engineer daily rate in the City of London is £678, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 September 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
19 Sep 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 116 135
Rank change year-on-year +10 +19 +13
Contract jobs requiring a Python Engineer 11 12 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.63% 0.57% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% 0.61% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 11 15
10th Percentile £545 £406 £481
25th Percentile £590 £513 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £678 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year +4.27% -3.70% +8.00%
75th Percentile £738 £710 £725
90th Percentile £775 £725 £745
Central London median daily rate £678 £650 £675
% change year-on-year +4.27% -3.70% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.25 - -
Median hourly rate £27.50 - -
75th Percentile £28.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 1,644 1,982 2,832
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.78% 94.16% 94.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,104 1,246 1,958
10th Percentile £325 £363 £359
25th Percentile £421 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £783 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £580
% change year-on-year -4.35% -0.86% +2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 14 12
10th Percentile £17.08 £15.95 £16.65
25th Percentile £23.75 £22.28 £17.00
Median hourly rate £28.15 £32.75 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.05% -7.75% -14.46%
75th Percentile £56.75 £89.06 £44.87
90th Percentile £65.57 £137.50 £67.13
Central London median hourly rate £27.83 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.50% - -15.66%

Python Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Python Engineer in the City of London

Python Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Python Engineer job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Python Engineer job vacancies in the City of London

Python Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python Engineer in the City of London

Python Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Python Engineer job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Python Engineer job vacancies in the City of London

Python Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 19 September 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 City of London region featuring Python Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Python
2 7 (63.64%) CI/CD
3 6 (54.55%) Code Quality
4 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
4 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
4 4 (36.36%) Linux
4 4 (36.36%) Software Engineering
4 4 (36.36%) Test Automation
4 4 (36.36%) AWS
5 3 (27.27%) Agile
5 3 (27.27%) Finance
5 3 (27.27%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (27.27%) SDLC
5 3 (27.27%) Serverless
5 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (27.27%) Containerisation
6 2 (18.18%) Observability
6 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (18.18%) Technical Debt
6 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
6 2 (18.18%) Domain Models
6 2 (18.18%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (18.18%) Data Science
6 2 (18.18%) Robot Framework
6 2 (18.18%) API Integration
6 2 (18.18%) Fastly
6 2 (18.18%) GDPR
6 2 (18.18%) Terraform
6 2 (18.18%) Private Cloud
6 2 (18.18%) Mobile Development

Python Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (9.09%) Apache Spark
1 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) AWS
2 3 (27.27%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (27.27%) Serverless
3 2 (18.18%) Fastly
3 2 (18.18%) Heroku
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
4 1 (9.09%) Azure
4 1 (9.09%) GitHub
4 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) DNS
1 2 (18.18%) HTTP
1 2 (18.18%) SSL
1 2 (18.18%) TCP/IP
2 1 (9.09%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (18.18%) Relational Database
2 1 (9.09%) Big Data
2 1 (9.09%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (9.09%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Robot Framework
2 1 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) GitLab
2 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Finance
3 2 (18.18%) Financial Institution
4 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Flask
1 2 (18.18%) REST
1 2 (18.18%) SQLAlchemy
2 1 (9.09%) boto
2 1 (9.09%) Flake8
2 1 (9.09%) Kafka
2 1 (9.09%) LDAP
2 1 (9.09%) mypy
2 1 (9.09%) pytest
2 1 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (9.09%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Private Cloud
1 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (9.09%) Hedge funds
2 1 (9.09%) Social Media
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Linux
2 2 (18.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) CI/CD
2 6 (54.55%) Code Quality
3 4 (36.36%) Software Engineering
3 4 (36.36%) Test Automation
4 3 (27.27%) Agile
4 3 (27.27%) Containerisation
4 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (27.27%) SDLC
5 2 (18.18%) Analytics
5 2 (18.18%) API Integration
5 2 (18.18%) Data Science
5 2 (18.18%) Domain Models
5 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (18.18%) Load Balancing
5 2 (18.18%) Low Latency
5 2 (18.18%) Observability
5 2 (18.18%) Technical Architecture
5 2 (18.18%) Technical Debt
5 2 (18.18%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (18.18%) C#
2 2 (18.18%) Go
2 2 (18.18%) Perl
3 1 (9.09%) C++
3 1 (9.09%) Fortran
3 1 (9.09%) Java
3 1 (9.09%) MATLAB
3 1 (9.09%) R
3 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
1 1 (9.09%) Postgraduate
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) GDPR
2 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
2 2 (18.18%) Ansible
2 2 (18.18%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (18.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) F5
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Atlassian
5 Python Engineer jobs in Central London