Python Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Python Data Engineer
South London > Croydon

The median Python Data Engineer daily rate in Croydon is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 July 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Python Data Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 0.56% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £490 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £510 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South London median daily rate £500 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Croydon

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Croydon. 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 Croydon with a recognized job title 169 76 93
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.94% 96.20% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 53 62
10th Percentile £350 £280 £380
25th Percentile £477 £472 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £533 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.76% +6.50% -7.06%
75th Percentile £552 £633 £539
90th Percentile £721 £707 £599
South London median daily rate £519 £515 £500
% change year-on-year +0.69% +3.00% -5.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.50 - £17.25
Median hourly rate £19.00 - £19.50
75th Percentile £19.50 - £21.75
90th Percentile - - £53.70
South London median hourly rate £58.74 £17.98 £19.50
% change year-on-year +226.67% -7.79% -61.32%

Python Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Python Data Engineer job vacancy trend in Croydon

Python Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Python Data Engineer job vacancies in Croydon.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Python Data Engineer job vacancies in Croydon

Python Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 17 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon

For the 6 months to 28 July 2026, Python Data 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 Croydon region featuring Python Data Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) Python

Python Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft