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 £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 March 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 104 115
Rank change year-on-year -3 +11 +49
Contract jobs requiring a Python Engineer 19 16 13
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.93% 0.89% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.99% 0.96% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 13 13
10th Percentile £446 - £550
25th Percentile £475 £413 £591
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £675
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -37.04% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £738 £725
90th Percentile £779 £800 £783
Central London median daily rate £525 £425 £700
% change year-on-year +23.53% -39.29% -6.67%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 1,916 1,675 2,234
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.11% 93.11% 94.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,318 1,043 1,601
10th Percentile £350 £361 £338
25th Percentile £444 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% -5.06%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 10 19
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £16.15
25th Percentile £20.18 £26.25 £17.97
Median hourly rate £40.50 £35.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.08% +57.78% -35.71%
75th Percentile £52.16 £96.19 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £119.55 £49.05
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -25.40% +40.00% -25.93%

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 11 March 2026.

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 11 March 2026, 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 19 (100.00%) Python
2 13 (68.42%) CI/CD
3 11 (57.89%) AWS
4 10 (52.63%) Test Automation
5 8 (42.11%) Docker
5 8 (42.11%) Software Engineering
6 7 (36.84%) Kubernetes
6 7 (36.84%) Microservices
6 7 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (31.58%) API Development
7 6 (31.58%) Asynchronous Programming
7 6 (31.58%) Code Quality
7 6 (31.58%) Design Patterns
7 6 (31.58%) DevOps
7 6 (31.58%) Relational Database
7 6 (31.58%) RESTful
8 5 (26.32%) AI
9 4 (21.05%) Data Pipeline
9 4 (21.05%) GitHub
9 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
9 4 (21.05%) Serverless
9 4 (21.05%) SQL
9 4 (21.05%) Terraform
10 3 (15.79%) Azure
10 3 (15.79%) Django
10 3 (15.79%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (15.79%) JavaScript
10 3 (15.79%) LLM
10 3 (15.79%) React
10 3 (15.79%) TypeScript

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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (57.89%) AWS
2 4 (21.05%) GitHub
2 4 (21.05%) Serverless
3 3 (15.79%) Azure
3 3 (15.79%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (10.53%) Azure AKS
4 2 (10.53%) Azure App Service
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Functions
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Storage
5 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (5.26%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (5.26%) Cloud Run
5 1 (5.26%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (31.58%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.26%) Big Data
2 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Git
1 2 (10.53%) GitLab
2 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.26%) Postman
2 1 (5.26%) Robot Framework
2 1 (5.26%) Selenium
General
1 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Banking
2 2 (10.53%) Finance
3 1 (5.26%) Back Office
3 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (31.58%) RESTful
2 3 (15.79%) Django
2 3 (15.79%) React
3 2 (10.53%) AWS CDK
3 2 (10.53%) FastAPI
3 2 (10.53%) Flask
3 2 (10.53%) Next.js
4 1 (5.26%) ADO
4 1 (5.26%) CSS
4 1 (5.26%) HTML
4 1 (5.26%) Kafka
4 1 (5.26%) LangGraph
4 1 (5.26%) pytest
4 1 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (5.26%) REST
4 1 (5.26%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 7 (36.84%) Virtual Team
2 2 (10.53%) AI Agents
3 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.26%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.26%) Hedge funds
3 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (68.42%) CI/CD
2 10 (52.63%) Test Automation
3 8 (42.11%) Software Engineering
4 7 (36.84%) Microservices
4 7 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (31.58%) API Development
5 6 (31.58%) Asynchronous Programming
5 6 (31.58%) Code Quality
5 6 (31.58%) Design Patterns
5 6 (31.58%) DevOps
6 5 (26.32%) AI
7 4 (21.05%) Data Pipeline
7 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (15.79%) LLM
9 2 (10.53%) Collaborative Culture
9 2 (10.53%) Containerisation
9 2 (10.53%) Full-Stack Development
9 2 (10.53%) Human-in-the-Loop
9 2 (10.53%) Observability
9 2 (10.53%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 19 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (21.05%) SQL
3 3 (15.79%) JavaScript
3 3 (15.79%) TypeScript
4 2 (10.53%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.26%) Degree
1 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.26%) Dodd-Frank
1 1 (5.26%) EMIR
1 1 (5.26%) GDPR
1 1 (5.26%) QA
1 1 (5.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (42.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (36.84%) Kubernetes
2 4 (21.05%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
1 2 (10.53%) OpenAI
2 1 (5.26%) Google