Python Data Engineer Contracts in England

Python Data Engineer
UK > England

The median Python Data Engineer daily rate in England is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 511 571 665
Rank change year-on-year +60 +94 -149
Contract jobs requiring a Python Data Engineer 30 90 135
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.081% 0.18% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.088% 0.19% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 80 122
10th Percentile £438 £456 £428
25th Percentile £463 £511 £524
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £615
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -2.44% +6.96%
75th Percentile £609 £710 £700
90th Percentile £684 £788 £749
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -16.67% - +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.50
Median hourly rate - - £19.00
75th Percentile - - £19.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £19.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,183 47,267 67,930
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.63% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,703 33,560 48,361
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,401 1,881
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £44.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.05% +95.56% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.82 £77.00 £62.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
% change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%

Python Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Python Data Engineer in England

Python Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Python Data Engineer in England

Python Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python Data Engineer in England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python Data Engineer in England

Python Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python Data Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +72 23 £500 -25.23% 8
Midlands +29 2 £550 +0.46%
North of England +27 2 £490 -3.92%
West Midlands +23 2 £550 +0.46%
North West +25 1 - -
Yorkshire +17 1 £490 -3.92%
East of England - 1 £650 -
Python Data Engineer
UK

Python Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Python Data 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 England region featuring Python Data Engineer in the job title.

1 30 (100.00%) Python
2 20 (66.67%) SQL
3 16 (53.33%) PySpark
4 13 (43.33%) AWS
5 12 (40.00%) Azure
5 12 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
6 10 (33.33%) Databricks
7 9 (30.00%) Apache Airflow
7 9 (30.00%) Big Data
7 9 (30.00%) Data Modelling
8 8 (26.67%) Kafka
8 8 (26.67%) Pandas
8 8 (26.67%) Serverless
9 7 (23.33%) Terraform
9 7 (23.33%) Data Engineering
9 7 (23.33%) Data Transformation
9 7 (23.33%) Workflow
9 7 (23.33%) Git
9 7 (23.33%) NumPy
10 6 (20.00%) NoSQL
10 6 (20.00%) ETL
10 6 (20.00%) Data Science
10 6 (20.00%) Social Skills
10 6 (20.00%) CI/CD
11 5 (16.67%) dbt
11 5 (16.67%) Kubernetes
11 5 (16.67%) Microservices
11 5 (16.67%) Finance
12 4 (13.33%) REST
12 4 (13.33%) Data Governance

Python Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 9 (30.00%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (10.00%) Apache
3 2 (6.67%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 13 (43.33%) AWS
2 12 (40.00%) Azure
3 8 (26.67%) Serverless
4 5 (16.67%) dbt
5 4 (13.33%) Amazon S3
5 4 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (13.33%) Dagster
5 4 (13.33%) Power Platform
6 3 (10.00%) Amazon Kinesis
6 3 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (6.67%) Azure Stack
7 2 (6.67%) Azure Storage
8 1 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (3.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (3.33%) GCP
8 1 (3.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (30.00%) Big Data
2 6 (20.00%) NoSQL
3 4 (13.33%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (13.33%) Power BI
4 3 (10.00%) Data Lake
4 3 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (6.67%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 2 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (6.67%) Hadoop
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (3.33%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (3.33%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (3.33%) Data Mining
6 1 (3.33%) HBase
6 1 (3.33%) MySQL
6 1 (3.33%) Presto
6 1 (3.33%) RDBMS
6 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
6 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (23.33%) Git
2 1 (3.33%) Ant
2 1 (3.33%) Gradle
2 1 (3.33%) JUnit
2 1 (3.33%) Maven
2 1 (3.33%) RStudio
General
1 6 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.67%) Finance
3 3 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (3.33%) Banking
5 1 (3.33%) Health Technology
5 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (53.33%) PySpark
2 8 (26.67%) Kafka
2 8 (26.67%) Pandas
3 7 (23.33%) NumPy
4 4 (13.33%) Lambda Expressions
4 4 (13.33%) REST
5 2 (6.67%) Flask
5 2 (6.67%) YAML
6 1 (3.33%) ADO
6 1 (3.33%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.33%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.33%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.33%) Hedge funds
2 1 (3.33%) NHS
2 1 (3.33%) Omics
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
2 9 (30.00%) Data Modelling
3 7 (23.33%) Data Engineering
3 7 (23.33%) Data Transformation
3 7 (23.33%) Workflow
4 6 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (20.00%) Data Science
4 6 (20.00%) ETL
5 5 (16.67%) Microservices
6 4 (13.33%) Data Governance
6 4 (13.33%) Decision-Making
6 4 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (10.00%) Agile
7 3 (10.00%) Analytics
7 3 (10.00%) Data Integration
7 3 (10.00%) DevOps
7 3 (10.00%) Full Stack Development
7 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (10.00%) Investment Management
8 2 (6.67%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 30 (100.00%) Python
2 20 (66.67%) SQL
3 3 (10.00%) Java
3 3 (10.00%) Scala
4 2 (6.67%) Bash
4 2 (6.67%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.33%) C
5 1 (3.33%) C++
5 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (3.33%) Degree
1 1 (3.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (3.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (23.33%) Terraform
2 5 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 4 (13.33%) Argo
Vendors
1 10 (33.33%) Databricks
2 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.33%) Foundry
3 1 (3.33%) Oracle
3 1 (3.33%) Palantir
3 1 (3.33%) Sage
3 1 (3.33%) SAP