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 £570, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 122 133
Rank change year-on-year +19 +11 +14
Contract jobs requiring a Python Engineer 17 6 14
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.00% 0.29% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.06% 0.31% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 6 12
10th Percentile - £509 £529
25th Percentile £513 £616 £584
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £675 £688
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% -1.82% +5.77%
75th Percentile £763 £721 £741
90th Percentile £815 £738 £784
Central London median daily rate £613 £675 £725
% change year-on-year -9.26% -6.90% +5.45%
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 1,598 1,954 2,617
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.61% 93.31% 94.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,109 1,197 1,831
10th Percentile £325 £363 £350
25th Percentile £417 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £690
90th Percentile £767 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 15 15
10th Percentile £16.90 £16.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.07 £25.06 £17.97
Median hourly rate £27.75 £57.50 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.74% +51.32% -6.17%
75th Percentile £44.63 £112.00 £50.63
90th Percentile £64.30 £137.50 £71.75
Central London median hourly rate £27.75 £35.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% -7.89% -6.17%

Python Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Python Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Python Engineer job vacancy trend 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 4 November 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 & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 4 November 2025, Python Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of 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 17 (100.00%) Python
2 11 (64.71%) AWS
2 11 (64.71%) CI/CD
3 9 (52.94%) Code Quality
4 8 (47.06%) Software Engineering
4 8 (47.06%) Test Automation
5 6 (35.29%) Docker
5 6 (35.29%) Kubernetes
5 6 (35.29%) Microservices
5 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (29.41%) API Development
6 5 (29.41%) Asynchronous Programming
6 5 (29.41%) Design Patterns
6 5 (29.41%) Relational Database
6 5 (29.41%) RESTful
7 4 (23.53%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (23.53%) Serverless
8 3 (17.65%) Agile
8 3 (17.65%) Containerisation
8 3 (17.65%) DevOps
8 3 (17.65%) Linux
8 3 (17.65%) SDLC
8 3 (17.65%) Terraform
9 2 (11.76%) Analytics
9 2 (11.76%) Ansible
9 2 (11.76%) Configuration Management
9 2 (11.76%) Data Science
9 2 (11.76%) DNS
9 2 (11.76%) Domain Models
9 2 (11.76%) F5

Python Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.88%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (64.71%) AWS
2 4 (23.53%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (23.53%) Serverless
3 2 (11.76%) Fastly
3 2 (11.76%) GitHub
3 2 (11.76%) Heroku
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Run
4 1 (5.88%) GCP
4 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) DNS
1 2 (11.76%) HTTP
1 2 (11.76%) SSL
1 2 (11.76%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.88%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) Relational Database
2 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Git
1 2 (11.76%) GitLab
1 2 (11.76%) Robot Framework
2 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Banking
3 2 (11.76%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (29.41%) RESTful
2 2 (11.76%) Flask
2 2 (11.76%) SQLAlchemy
3 1 (5.88%) AWS CDK
3 1 (5.88%) boto
3 1 (5.88%) Flake8
3 1 (5.88%) LangGraph
3 1 (5.88%) LDAP
3 1 (5.88%) mypy
3 1 (5.88%) pytest
3 1 (5.88%) React
3 1 (5.88%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Virtual Team
2 2 (11.76%) Hedge funds
2 2 (11.76%) Private Cloud
2 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.88%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Linux
2 2 (11.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) CI/CD
2 9 (52.94%) Code Quality
3 8 (47.06%) Software Engineering
3 8 (47.06%) Test Automation
4 6 (35.29%) Microservices
4 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (29.41%) API Development
5 5 (29.41%) Asynchronous Programming
5 5 (29.41%) Design Patterns
6 3 (17.65%) Agile
6 3 (17.65%) Containerisation
6 3 (17.65%) DevOps
6 3 (17.65%) SDLC
7 2 (11.76%) Analytics
7 2 (11.76%) Configuration Management
7 2 (11.76%) High Availability
7 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Management
7 2 (11.76%) Load Balancing
7 2 (11.76%) Technical Architecture
7 2 (11.76%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 17 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (11.76%) Go
2 2 (11.76%) Perl
3 1 (5.88%) C#
3 1 (5.88%) C++
3 1 (5.88%) Fortran
3 1 (5.88%) Java
3 1 (5.88%) MATLAB
3 1 (5.88%) R
3 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (5.88%) Degree
1 1 (5.88%) Postgraduate
1 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) GDPR
2 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.88%) Dodd-Frank
2 1 (5.88%) EMIR
2 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 6 (35.29%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) Kubernetes
2 3 (17.65%) Terraform
3 2 (11.76%) Ansible
3 2 (11.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) F5
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Atlassian
2 1 (5.88%) Google