Python Data Engineer Contracts in England

Python Data Engineer
UK > England

The median Python Data Engineer daily rate in England is £600, 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 431 512 559
Rank change year-on-year +81 +47 +89
Contract jobs requiring a Python Data Engineer 54 30 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.22% 0.081% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.087% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 28 84
10th Percentile £410 £438 £452
25th Percentile £463 £463 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -16.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £650 £609 £708
90th Percentile £788 £684 £788
UK median daily rate £588 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +17.50% -16.67% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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 +48 33 £600 +20.00% 3
North of England +27 10 £475 -3.06% 2
North West +24 8 £475 - 1
Midlands +26 6 £535 -2.73% 1
West Midlands +16 4 £650 +18.18%
Yorkshire +9 2 £475 -3.06%
East Midlands - 2 £420 - 1
South East - 1 - -
Python Data Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 54 (100.00%) Python
2 33 (61.11%) AWS
3 23 (42.59%) Azure
4 22 (40.74%) Data Engineering
5 21 (38.89%) Apache Airflow
5 21 (38.89%) Analytics
6 18 (33.33%) SQL
6 18 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
7 17 (31.48%) PySpark
8 16 (29.63%) Finance
8 16 (29.63%) dbt
9 15 (27.78%) Banking
10 13 (24.07%) Front Office
10 13 (24.07%) Agile
11 12 (22.22%) Java
11 12 (22.22%) Kubernetes
11 12 (22.22%) Decision-Making
11 12 (22.22%) Amazon Athena
12 11 (20.37%) Docker
12 11 (20.37%) Pandas
12 11 (20.37%) ETL
13 10 (18.52%) Software Engineering
13 10 (18.52%) Containerisation
14 9 (16.67%) Dagster
14 9 (16.67%) Apache Iceberg
14 9 (16.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
14 9 (16.67%) Dremio
14 9 (16.67%) Investment Management
14 9 (16.67%) SciPy
14 9 (16.67%) NumPy

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 21 (38.89%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (16.67%) Apache Spark
3 4 (7.41%) Apache
4 1 (1.85%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 33 (61.11%) AWS
2 23 (42.59%) Azure
3 16 (29.63%) dbt
4 9 (16.67%) Dagster
4 9 (16.67%) GCP
5 7 (12.96%) Amazon S3
6 4 (7.41%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (7.41%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (7.41%) Snowflake
7 3 (5.56%) Amazon EMR
7 3 (5.56%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (5.56%) IaaS
7 3 (5.56%) SaaS
8 2 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (3.70%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.70%) PaaS
8 2 (3.70%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (22.22%) Amazon Athena
2 9 (16.67%) Apache Iceberg
2 9 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 9 (16.67%) Dremio
3 6 (11.11%) Relational Database
4 4 (7.41%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (3.70%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (3.70%) Big Data
6 2 (3.70%) Delta Lake
6 2 (3.70%) DynamoDB
6 2 (3.70%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (3.70%) Power BI
6 2 (3.70%) SQL Server
6 2 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.85%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (1.85%) Metadata
7 1 (1.85%) Presto
Development Applications
1 3 (5.56%) Git
2 1 (1.85%) GitLab
2 1 (1.85%) Poetry
2 1 (1.85%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 16 (29.63%) Finance
2 15 (27.78%) Banking
3 13 (24.07%) Front Office
4 7 (12.96%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (12.96%) Social Skills
5 5 (9.26%) Investment Banking
5 5 (9.26%) Retail
6 3 (5.56%) Corporate Banking
6 3 (5.56%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (5.56%) Retail Banking
7 2 (3.70%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.85%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (31.48%) PySpark
2 11 (20.37%) Pandas
3 9 (16.67%) NumPy
3 9 (16.67%) SciPy
4 4 (7.41%) Kafka
5 3 (5.56%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (3.70%) pytest
7 1 (1.85%) ADO
7 1 (1.85%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (1.85%) Spring
7 1 (1.85%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.26%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (7.41%) Algorithms
2 4 (7.41%) Data Structures
3 3 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (5.56%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.70%) Derivative
4 2 (3.70%) Equities
4 2 (3.70%) Fixed Income
4 2 (3.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (3.70%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.85%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.85%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.85%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (40.74%) Data Engineering
2 21 (38.89%) Analytics
3 18 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
4 13 (24.07%) Agile
5 12 (22.22%) Decision-Making
6 11 (20.37%) ETL
7 10 (18.52%) Containerisation
7 10 (18.52%) Software Engineering
8 9 (16.67%) Asset Management
8 9 (16.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 9 (16.67%) Fintech
8 9 (16.67%) Investment Management
9 7 (12.96%) CI/CD
9 7 (12.96%) Data Science
10 6 (11.11%) Data Modelling
10 6 (11.11%) Data Transformation
10 6 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (11.11%) Machine Learning
11 5 (9.26%) Data Migration
11 5 (9.26%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 54 (100.00%) Python
2 18 (33.33%) SQL
3 12 (22.22%) Java
4 3 (5.56%) Scala
5 1 (1.85%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.85%) R
5 1 (1.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (7.41%) SC Cleared
1 4 (7.41%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (3.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.56%) Accessibility
1 3 (5.56%) Data Quality
System Software
1 11 (20.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 6 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (11.11%) Databricks
2 1 (1.85%) Foundry
2 1 (1.85%) HubSpot
2 1 (1.85%) Palantir
2 1 (1.85%) Red Hat