Python Engineer Contracts in the City of London

Python Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Python Engineer daily rate in the City of London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 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
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 113 147
Rank change year-on-year +4 +34 +16
Contract jobs requiring a Python Engineer 13 13 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.72% 0.61% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.76% 0.64% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 11 11
10th Percentile £413 £406 £480
25th Percentile £463 £513 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £700 £575
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +21.74% -8.00%
75th Percentile £710 £710 £706
90th Percentile £738 £750 £825
Central London median daily rate £600 £700 £600
% change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -4.00%

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 1,701 2,034 3,333
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.56% 95.36% 94.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,082 1,395 2,254
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £568 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.44% -5.42% +6.19%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £551 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +0.18% -8.33% +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 15 19
10th Percentile £17.57 £15.62 £15.24
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £26.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -25.00% -18.60%
75th Percentile £62.00 £40.00 £76.25
90th Percentile £86.43 £67.35 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £30.04 £27.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +11.24% -22.86% -16.67%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python Engineer in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Python Engineer 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 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python Engineer 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 6 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 City of London region featuring Python Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
3 5 (38.46%) Finance
3 5 (38.46%) Test Automation
3 5 (38.46%) AWS
3 5 (38.46%) REST
4 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (30.77%) SQL
4 4 (30.77%) Software Engineering
4 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
5 3 (23.08%) API Testing
5 3 (23.08%) PySpark
5 3 (23.08%) Data Science
5 3 (23.08%) REST Assured
5 3 (23.08%) Postman
5 3 (23.08%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (23.08%) Banking
5 3 (23.08%) Selenium
5 3 (23.08%) JIRA
5 3 (23.08%) Test Scripting
5 3 (23.08%) pytest
5 3 (23.08%) Relational Database
5 3 (23.08%) Test Strategy
5 3 (23.08%) Kafka
5 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
5 3 (23.08%) BDD
5 3 (23.08%) Open Source
5 3 (23.08%) Git
5 3 (23.08%) Azure
6 2 (15.38%) Predictive Modelling

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 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) AWS
2 3 (23.08%) Azure
3 1 (7.69%) Azure AKS
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
3 1 (7.69%) GitHub
3 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Relational Database
2 1 (7.69%) Big Data
2 1 (7.69%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (7.69%) Hadoop
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Git
1 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
1 3 (23.08%) JIRA
1 3 (23.08%) Postman
1 3 (23.08%) REST Assured
1 3 (23.08%) Selenium
General
1 5 (38.46%) Finance
2 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Banking
4 2 (15.38%) Corporate Banking
4 2 (15.38%) Investment Banking
4 2 (15.38%) Retail
4 2 (15.38%) Retail Banking
5 1 (7.69%) Advertising
5 1 (7.69%) Financial Institution
5 1 (7.69%) Publishing
5 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) REST
2 3 (23.08%) Kafka
2 3 (23.08%) PySpark
2 3 (23.08%) pytest
3 2 (15.38%) NumPy
3 2 (15.38%) Pandas
4 1 (7.69%) Dask
4 1 (7.69%) LangChain
4 1 (7.69%) OAuth
4 1 (7.69%) OAuth2
4 1 (7.69%) OpenID
4 1 (7.69%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (7.69%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Hedge funds
1 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
1 1 (7.69%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
2 5 (38.46%) Test Automation
3 4 (30.77%) Software Engineering
4 3 (23.08%) API Testing
4 3 (23.08%) BDD
4 3 (23.08%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (23.08%) Data Science
4 3 (23.08%) Open Source
4 3 (23.08%) Test Scripting
4 3 (23.08%) Test Strategy
5 2 (15.38%) Analytical Modelling
5 2 (15.38%) Data Engineering
5 2 (15.38%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 2 (15.38%) Decision-Making
5 2 (15.38%) DevOps
5 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (15.38%) Predictive Modelling
5 2 (15.38%) Pricing Strategy
5 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (15.38%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (30.77%) SQL
3 2 (15.38%) C#
4 1 (7.69%) Go
4 1 (7.69%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Confluent