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 £552, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 110 158
Rank change year-on-year +10 +48 +17
Contract jobs requiring a Python Engineer 19 17 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.08% 0.77% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.16% 0.81% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 15 17
10th Percentile - £510 £492
25th Percentile £413 £550 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £552 £675 £675
Median % change year-on-year -18.30% - +8.00%
75th Percentile £706 £710 £825
90th Percentile £800 £778 -
Central London median daily rate £525 £678 £675
% change year-on-year -22.51% +0.37% +8.00%

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 1,632 2,086 3,469
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 94.95% 95.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,021 1,483 2,364
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.25% +6.19%
75th Percentile £681 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £798 £820
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £585
% change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 22
10th Percentile £22.00 £15.62 £15.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £31.00 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -34.29% -6.04%
75th Percentile £48.75 £27.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £92.75 £40.00 £87.97
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.78 £35.00
% change year-on-year +12.76% -26.34% -6.04%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 19 (100.00%) Python
2 10 (52.63%) AWS
2 10 (52.63%) CI/CD
3 9 (47.37%) Test Automation
3 9 (47.37%) REST
4 7 (36.84%) Test Strategy
4 7 (36.84%) BDD
4 7 (36.84%) Open Source
4 7 (36.84%) Jenkins
4 7 (36.84%) pytest
4 7 (36.84%) JIRA
4 7 (36.84%) Selenium
4 7 (36.84%) Test Scripting
4 7 (36.84%) Git
4 7 (36.84%) REST Assured
4 7 (36.84%) Postman
4 7 (36.84%) API Testing
5 6 (31.58%) Finance
5 6 (31.58%) SQL
6 5 (26.32%) Software Engineering
6 5 (26.32%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (26.32%) Kubernetes
7 4 (21.05%) Relational Database
7 4 (21.05%) Azure
7 4 (21.05%) Banking
7 4 (21.05%) PySpark
7 4 (21.05%) Data Pipeline
8 3 (15.79%) Analytical Modelling
8 3 (15.79%) Data Science
8 3 (15.79%) Data-Driven Decision Making

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 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.26%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 10 (52.63%) AWS
2 4 (21.05%) Azure
3 1 (5.26%) Azure AKS
3 1 (5.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (5.26%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (5.26%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.26%) GitHub
3 1 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.26%) Big Data
2 1 (5.26%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (5.26%) Hadoop
2 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (36.84%) Git
1 7 (36.84%) Jenkins
1 7 (36.84%) JIRA
1 7 (36.84%) Postman
1 7 (36.84%) REST Assured
1 7 (36.84%) Selenium
General
1 6 (31.58%) Finance
2 5 (26.32%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (21.05%) Banking
4 3 (15.79%) Corporate Banking
4 3 (15.79%) Investment Banking
4 3 (15.79%) Retail
4 3 (15.79%) Retail Banking
4 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Advertising
5 1 (5.26%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.26%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (47.37%) REST
2 7 (36.84%) pytest
3 4 (21.05%) PySpark
4 3 (15.79%) Kafka
4 3 (15.79%) NumPy
4 3 (15.79%) Pandas
5 2 (10.53%) Dask
5 2 (10.53%) LangChain
6 1 (5.26%) OAuth
6 1 (5.26%) OAuth2
6 1 (5.26%) OpenID
6 1 (5.26%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (5.26%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.26%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) CI/CD
2 9 (47.37%) Test Automation
3 7 (36.84%) API Testing
3 7 (36.84%) BDD
3 7 (36.84%) Open Source
3 7 (36.84%) Test Scripting
3 7 (36.84%) Test Strategy
4 5 (26.32%) Software Engineering
5 4 (21.05%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (15.79%) Analytical Modelling
6 3 (15.79%) Data Engineering
6 3 (15.79%) Data Science
6 3 (15.79%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 3 (15.79%) Decision-Making
6 3 (15.79%) Economics
6 3 (15.79%) ETL
6 3 (15.79%) Financial Modelling
6 3 (15.79%) Pricing Strategy
6 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (15.79%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (31.58%) SQL
3 1 (5.26%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Degree
1 2 (10.53%) Master's Degree
2 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.26%) Confluent