Python Engineer Contracts in Croydon

Python Engineer
South London > Croydon

The median Python Engineer daily rate in Croydon is £644, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 August 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
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Python Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Croydon 1.25% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.32% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £644 - -
South London median daily rate £644 - £700
% change year-on-year - - +36.59%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 76 93 144
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.00% 96.88% 93.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 63 112
10th Percentile £275 £380 £427
25th Percentile £472 £425 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £500 £539
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -7.15% -2.09%
75th Percentile £631 £538 £600
90th Percentile £706 £567 £680
South London median daily rate £510 £500 £528
% change year-on-year +2.00% -5.30% +1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £19.50 -
South London median hourly rate £17.98 £19.50 £50.42
% change year-on-year -7.79% -61.32% +14.94%

Python Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Job postings that featured Python Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

Job vacancy trend for Python Engineer in Croydon

Python Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python Engineer in Croydon.

Daily rate trend for Python Engineer in Croydon

Python Engineer Skill Set
Top 22 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Croydon

For the 6 months to 2 August 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 Croydon region featuring Python Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) boto
1 1 (100.00%) pytest
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless

Python Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Croydon 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 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) boto
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) pytest
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes