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 £655 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 109 152 173
Rank change year-on-year +43 +21 -36
Contract jobs requiring a Python Engineer 17 19 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.78% 0.53% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.82% 0.55% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 16 14
10th Percentile £444 £490 £500
25th Percentile £538 £518 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £655 £638 £625
Median % change year-on-year +2.75% +2.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £705 £825 £741
90th Percentile £742 - £776
Central London median daily rate £665 £638 £625
% change year-on-year +4.31% +2.00% +2.04%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 2,080 3,434 4,004
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.06% 95.10% 94.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,476 2,338 3,023
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £590 £560
% change year-on-year -6.78% +5.36% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 23 52
10th Percentile £15.62 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -2.78% +105.71%
75th Percentile £27.25 £58.75 £51.00
90th Percentile £40.00 £87.64 £65.43
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year -28.57% -5.41% +108.60%

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 May 2024.

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 May 2024, 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 17 (100.00%) Python
2 10 (58.82%) DevOps
2 10 (58.82%) Kubernetes
3 9 (52.94%) CI/CD
3 9 (52.94%) Linux
4 8 (47.06%) Microsoft
4 8 (47.06%) MongoDB
4 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
4 8 (47.06%) Kafka
5 7 (41.18%) SaltStack
5 7 (41.18%) Microservices
5 7 (41.18%) Grafana
5 7 (41.18%) Consul
5 7 (41.18%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (41.18%) Prometheus
5 7 (41.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 7 (41.18%) RabbitMQ
5 7 (41.18%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 7 (41.18%) Shell Script
5 7 (41.18%) Java
6 6 (35.29%) Software Engineering
6 6 (35.29%) RESTful
6 6 (35.29%) Task Automation
6 6 (35.29%) Analytical Thinking
6 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (35.29%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (35.29%) Data Structures
6 6 (35.29%) Algorithms
7 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (29.41%) C++

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 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.88%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) AWS
2 2 (11.76%) Pulumi
3 1 (5.88%) Azure
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Run
3 1 (5.88%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Firewall
1 1 (5.88%) MQTT
1 1 (5.88%) SD-WAN
1 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
1 1 (5.88%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (47.06%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (5.88%) Big Data
2 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.88%) Hadoop
2 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.88%) Presto
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Cucumber
1 1 (5.88%) IntelliJ
1 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.88%) JIRA
1 1 (5.88%) Maven
1 1 (5.88%) Selenium
General
1 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 6 (35.29%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (5.88%) Aviation
4 1 (5.88%) Music Industry
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (47.06%) Kafka
2 7 (41.18%) RabbitMQ
3 6 (35.29%) RESTful
4 2 (11.76%) Flask
4 2 (11.76%) PySpark
4 2 (11.76%) SQLAlchemy
5 1 (5.88%) Laravel
5 1 (5.88%) Nuxt
Miscellaneous
1 7 (41.18%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (35.29%) Algorithms
2 6 (35.29%) Data Structures
3 2 (11.76%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (5.88%) Machine to Machine
Operating Systems
1 9 (52.94%) Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Android
2 1 (5.88%) Apple iOS
2 1 (5.88%) Mac OS
2 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) DevOps
2 9 (52.94%) CI/CD
3 7 (41.18%) Microservices
3 7 (41.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 6 (35.29%) Analytical Thinking
4 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (35.29%) Software Engineering
4 6 (35.29%) Task Automation
5 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (23.53%) ETL
7 2 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence
7 2 (11.76%) Containerisation
7 2 (11.76%) Data Science
7 2 (11.76%) ETL Development
7 2 (11.76%) Front End Development
7 2 (11.76%) Machine Learning
8 1 (5.88%) Analytics
8 1 (5.88%) Data Engineering
8 1 (5.88%) Quantitative Trading
8 1 (5.88%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 17 (100.00%) Python
2 7 (41.18%) Java
2 7 (41.18%) Shell Script
3 5 (29.41%) C++
4 4 (23.53%) Go
5 2 (11.76%) SQL
6 1 (5.88%) Bash
6 1 (5.88%) C#
6 1 (5.88%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) CCNP
1 1 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 7 (41.18%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 4 (23.53%) Docker
3 1 (5.88%) iptables
3 1 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (58.82%) Kubernetes
2 7 (41.18%) Consul
2 7 (41.18%) Grafana
2 7 (41.18%) Prometheus
3 1 (5.88%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (47.06%) Microsoft
2 7 (41.18%) SaltStack
3 1 (5.88%) Cisco
3 1 (5.88%) Databricks
3 1 (5.88%) Foundry
3 1 (5.88%) Google
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle
3 1 (5.88%) Palantir
3 1 (5.88%) Palo Alto
3 1 (5.88%) SAP