Python Engineer Contracts in England

Python Engineer
UK > England

The median Python Engineer daily rate in England is £675, 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 243 313 398
Rank change year-on-year +70 +85 -55
Contract jobs requiring a Python Engineer 261 239 271
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.07% 0.64% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.16% 0.69% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 205 238
10th Percentile £413 £463 £450
25th Percentile £513 £538 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £650 £624
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +4.21% +3.96%
75th Percentile £838 £788 £738
90th Percentile £875 £850 £788
UK median daily rate £634 £638 £623
% change year-on-year -0.59% +2.41% +3.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £65.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £65.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year - +13.91% +154.03%

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 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Python Engineer in England

Python Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Python Engineer in England

Python Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python Engineer in England

Python Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Python Engineer in England

Python 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 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 +40 212 £725 +3.57% 91
North of England +34 22 £475 -7.32% 28
North West +26 15 £475 -9.52% 22
Midlands +28 8 £537 -2.36% 6
South East +45 7 £575 -4.17% 35
Yorkshire +14 7 £500 +2.04% 5
West Midlands +17 5 £650 +18.18% 2
South West +45 4 £444 -19.32% 7
East Midlands - 3 £420 - 4
East of England +21 1 £313 -30.56% 11
Python Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 England region featuring Python Engineer in the job title.

1 261 (100.00%) Python
2 168 (64.37%) AWS
3 140 (53.64%) Software Engineering
4 131 (50.19%) Finance
5 118 (45.21%) Agile
6 100 (38.31%) CI/CD
7 99 (37.93%) Apache Airflow
8 98 (37.55%) Front Office
9 93 (35.63%) Asset Management
10 92 (35.25%) dbt
11 88 (33.72%) Kubernetes
12 87 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
13 84 (32.18%) Dremio
13 84 (32.18%) Apache Iceberg
14 75 (28.74%) Java
14 75 (28.74%) Apache Arrow
15 70 (26.82%) Docker
16 69 (26.44%) Apache
17 68 (26.05%) Terraform
18 67 (25.67%) Pandas
19 66 (25.29%) NumPy
20 64 (24.52%) DevOps
21 61 (23.37%) Banking
21 61 (23.37%) PySpark
22 57 (21.84%) Data Engineering
22 57 (21.84%) Apache Ignite
23 56 (21.46%) JavaScript
23 56 (21.46%) Azure
24 51 (19.54%) SciPy
24 51 (19.54%) Kafka

Python 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 99 (37.93%) Apache Airflow
2 69 (26.44%) Apache
3 44 (16.86%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.15%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.77%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.77%) Cloud Foundry
5 2 (0.77%) JBoss
6 1 (0.38%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 168 (64.37%) AWS
2 92 (35.25%) dbt
3 56 (21.46%) Azure
4 47 (18.01%) Serverless
5 44 (16.86%) AWS Lambda
5 44 (16.86%) GCP
6 43 (16.48%) Amazon ECS
7 34 (13.03%) OpenShift
8 31 (11.88%) Snowflake
9 20 (7.66%) Amazon EC2
10 18 (6.90%) Amazon S3
11 15 (5.75%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (5.75%) Dagster
11 15 (5.75%) GitHub
12 14 (5.36%) Azure AKS
13 12 (4.60%) Amazon SQS
14 11 (4.21%) Amazon EKS
14 11 (4.21%) GitHub Actions
15 10 (3.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 10 (3.83%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.30%) DNS
2 3 (1.15%) BGP
2 3 (1.15%) Firewall
2 3 (1.15%) IPsec
2 3 (1.15%) OSPF
3 1 (0.38%) WebEx
3 1 (0.38%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
2 84 (32.18%) Apache Iceberg
2 84 (32.18%) Dremio
3 75 (28.74%) Apache Arrow
4 57 (21.84%) Apache Ignite
5 27 (10.34%) Data Lake
6 16 (6.13%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (6.13%) SQL Server
7 14 (5.36%) Amazon Redshift
8 12 (4.60%) Relational Database
9 11 (4.21%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (3.45%) Big Data
11 6 (2.30%) DynamoDB
12 5 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (1.92%) GIS
12 5 (1.92%) NoSQL
13 4 (1.53%) Metadata
14 3 (1.15%) BigQuery
14 3 (1.15%) Data Mining
14 3 (1.15%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 30 (11.49%) Artifactory
2 27 (10.34%) Git
3 20 (7.66%) Jenkins
4 13 (4.98%) JIRA
5 12 (4.60%) Selenium
6 9 (3.45%) Postman
7 8 (3.07%) REST Assured
8 5 (1.92%) GitLab
9 4 (1.53%) SonarQube
10 3 (1.15%) Appium
10 3 (1.15%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.15%) JUnit
10 3 (1.15%) TestNG
10 3 (1.15%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.77%) Bitbucket Server
11 2 (0.77%) CA Release Automation
11 2 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.77%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.38%) Locust
12 1 (0.38%) MLflow
General
1 131 (50.19%) Finance
2 98 (37.55%) Front Office
3 61 (23.37%) Banking
4 35 (13.41%) Investment Banking
5 24 (9.20%) Social Skills
6 14 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (3.07%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.30%) Retail
9 5 (1.92%) Financial Institution
9 5 (1.92%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (1.92%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.53%) Corporate Banking
10 4 (1.53%) Retail Banking
11 3 (1.15%) Back Office
12 1 (0.38%) Advertising
12 1 (0.38%) Local Government
12 1 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.38%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (25.67%) Pandas
2 66 (25.29%) NumPy
3 61 (23.37%) PySpark
4 51 (19.54%) Kafka
4 51 (19.54%) SciPy
5 35 (13.41%) React
6 29 (11.11%) gRPC
6 29 (11.11%) Protocol Buffers
7 28 (10.73%) J2EE
7 28 (10.73%) REST
8 26 (9.96%) AngularJS
9 25 (9.58%) Vue
10 22 (8.43%) pytest
11 21 (8.05%) Node.js
12 18 (6.90%) FastAPI
13 12 (4.60%) OAuth
14 11 (4.21%) Redux
15 10 (3.83%) Flask
15 10 (3.83%) OAuth2
15 10 (3.83%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 49 (18.77%) Fixed Income
2 34 (13.03%) Hedge funds
3 33 (12.64%) Equities
3 33 (12.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 28 (10.73%) Derivative
5 15 (5.75%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (4.60%) Pricing Data
7 10 (3.83%) Cloud Native
8 6 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.92%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.92%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.53%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.53%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.15%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.15%) NHS
11 3 (1.15%) Product Ownership
12 2 (0.77%) Data Centre
12 2 (0.77%) Mobile App
12 2 (0.77%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.07%) Linux
2 3 (1.15%) Android
2 3 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.77%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (53.64%) Software Engineering
2 118 (45.21%) Agile
3 100 (38.31%) CI/CD
4 93 (35.63%) Asset Management
5 64 (24.52%) DevOps
6 57 (21.84%) Data Engineering
7 44 (16.86%) Investment Management
8 40 (15.33%) Fintech
9 39 (14.94%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 36 (13.79%) Open Source
11 33 (12.64%) Test Automation
12 32 (12.26%) Artificial Intelligence
13 29 (11.11%) Analytics
14 27 (10.34%) Data Science
15 26 (9.96%) Containerisation
16 23 (8.81%) Data Pipeline
16 23 (8.81%) Generative AI
16 23 (8.81%) Machine Learning
17 22 (8.43%) Problem-Solving
18 21 (8.05%) Performance Attribution
Programming Languages
1 261 (100.00%) Python
2 75 (28.74%) Java
3 56 (21.46%) JavaScript
4 49 (18.77%) TypeScript
5 44 (16.86%) SQL
6 31 (11.88%) Go
7 14 (5.36%) C#
8 8 (3.07%) Bash
8 8 (3.07%) Scala
9 5 (1.92%) Clojure
9 5 (1.92%) Rust
10 4 (1.53%) C++
10 4 (1.53%) Elixir
11 3 (1.15%) C
11 3 (1.15%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.77%) Perl
12 2 (0.77%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.38%) Haskell
13 1 (0.38%) R
13 1 (0.38%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 14 (5.36%) SC Cleared
1 14 (5.36%) Security Cleared
2 13 (4.98%) Degree
3 8 (3.07%) Master's Degree
4 4 (1.53%) CCNP
4 4 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.15%) PhD
6 2 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.38%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.38%) OCA
7 1 (0.38%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.38%) RHCA
7 1 (0.38%) RHCE
7 1 (0.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.45%) QA
2 7 (2.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 6 (2.30%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.15%) Accessibility
System Software
1 70 (26.82%) Docker
2 2 (0.77%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 88 (33.72%) Kubernetes
2 68 (26.05%) Terraform
3 16 (6.13%) Ansible
4 5 (1.92%) Progress Chef
5 4 (1.53%) Puppet
6 3 (1.15%) Salt
7 2 (0.77%) Kibana
8 1 (0.38%) Podman
8 1 (0.38%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.38%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 11 (4.21%) Databricks
2 5 (1.92%) Cisco
3 4 (1.53%) Microsoft
3 4 (1.53%) Oracle
3 4 (1.53%) Red Hat
4 3 (1.15%) Arista
4 3 (1.15%) CheckPoint
4 3 (1.15%) Fortinet
4 3 (1.15%) Virgin Media
5 2 (0.77%) AppDynamics
5 2 (0.77%) Google
5 2 (0.77%) Splunk
5 2 (0.77%) VMware
6 1 (0.38%) BT
6 1 (0.38%) Confluent
6 1 (0.38%) Foundry
6 1 (0.38%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.38%) Palantir