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 5 July 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
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 253 277 403
Rank change year-on-year +24 +126 -60
Contract jobs requiring a Python Engineer 257 303 264
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.97% 0.81% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.05% 0.87% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 277 228
10th Percentile £413 £462 £450
25th Percentile £500 £545 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £825 £850 £750
90th Percentile £875 £875 £788
UK median daily rate £600 £700 £650
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £62.81 -
25th Percentile - £63.28 £61.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.63 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +74.83%
75th Percentile - £69.53 £63.75
90th Percentile - £70.94 -
UK median hourly rate £58.75 £65.63 £60.00
% change year-on-year -10.48% +9.38% +67.83%

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 24,431 34,632 45,324
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.13% 92.92% 94.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,933 22,678 32,135
10th Percentile £290 £300 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £663
90th Percentile £748 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,148 2,542 1,381
10th Percentile £13.85 £12.88 £14.42
25th Percentile £17.98 £17.00 £19.50
Median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -8.57% +76.02%
75th Percentile £57.31 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £74.95 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £26.39 £38.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -31.47% -10.47% +70.13%

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 5 July 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 5 July 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 +4 203 £750 +3.45% 333
North of England +17 21 £475 -5.00% 55
North West +8 11 £475 -5.00% 37
Yorkshire +12 10 £500 +5.26% 15
South East +36 9 £575 -4.17% 39
Midlands +14 8 £500 +14.68% 15
South West +40 6 £463 -2.63% 11
West Midlands +10 5 £500 -9.09% 4
East of England +21 3 £444 +4.41% 18
East Midlands +6 3 £420 +30.43% 11
Python Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 July 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.

1 257 (100.00%) Python
2 169 (65.76%) AWS
3 122 (47.47%) Finance
4 116 (45.14%) Software Engineering
5 102 (39.69%) Agile
6 95 (36.96%) Apache Airflow
7 80 (31.13%) Asset Management
7 80 (31.13%) Amazon Athena
7 80 (31.13%) dbt
8 79 (30.74%) CI/CD
8 79 (30.74%) Front Office
9 78 (30.35%) Dremio
9 78 (30.35%) Apache Iceberg
10 74 (28.79%) Apache Arrow
11 72 (28.02%) Pandas
12 71 (27.63%) NumPy
13 64 (24.90%) Java
14 62 (24.12%) JavaScript
14 62 (24.12%) Kubernetes
15 61 (23.74%) TypeScript
15 61 (23.74%) Fixed Income
16 58 (22.57%) Apache
16 58 (22.57%) SciPy
17 56 (21.79%) Azure
17 56 (21.79%) Investment Management
18 55 (21.40%) Banking
19 53 (20.62%) Equities
19 53 (20.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
19 53 (20.62%) Terraform
20 51 (19.84%) Hedge funds

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 95 (36.96%) Apache Airflow
2 58 (22.57%) Apache
3 27 (10.51%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.78%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.78%) Confluence
5 2 (0.78%) JBoss
6 1 (0.39%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 169 (65.76%) AWS
2 80 (31.13%) dbt
3 56 (21.79%) Azure
4 43 (16.73%) Snowflake
5 38 (14.79%) GCP
6 29 (11.28%) Serverless
7 23 (8.95%) AWS Lambda
8 22 (8.56%) GitHub
9 16 (6.23%) OpenShift
10 15 (5.84%) Amazon ECS
11 12 (4.67%) Azure AKS
12 10 (3.89%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (3.11%) Amazon S3
13 8 (3.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 8 (3.11%) Azure Service Bus
13 8 (3.11%) Entra ID
14 6 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
14 6 (2.33%) Power Platform
15 5 (1.95%) AWS CloudFormation
16 4 (1.56%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.72%) BGP
1 7 (2.72%) Firewall
1 7 (2.72%) IPsec
1 7 (2.72%) OSPF
2 4 (1.56%) DNS
3 1 (0.39%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.39%) HTTP
3 1 (0.39%) Network Security
3 1 (0.39%) SSL
3 1 (0.39%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.39%) WebEx
3 1 (0.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (31.13%) Amazon Athena
2 78 (30.35%) Apache Iceberg
2 78 (30.35%) Dremio
3 74 (28.79%) Apache Arrow
4 46 (17.90%) Apache Ignite
5 34 (13.23%) Data Lake
6 25 (9.73%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (4.67%) SQL Server
8 11 (4.28%) Relational Database
9 9 (3.50%) GIS
10 7 (2.72%) Geospatial Data
11 6 (2.33%) Big Data
11 6 (2.33%) Tableau
12 5 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (1.95%) NoSQL
12 5 (1.95%) Power BI
13 4 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (1.56%) Hadoop
13 4 (1.56%) QGIS
14 3 (1.17%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 21 (8.17%) Jenkins
2 20 (7.78%) Git
3 15 (5.84%) Artifactory
4 7 (2.72%) JIRA
4 7 (2.72%) Selenium
5 5 (1.95%) Postman
6 4 (1.56%) GitLab
6 4 (1.56%) REST Assured
7 3 (1.17%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.78%) Bitbucket Server
8 2 (0.78%) CA Release Automation
8 2 (0.78%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.78%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.39%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.39%) Locust
9 1 (0.39%) MLflow
9 1 (0.39%) Poetry
9 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 122 (47.47%) Finance
2 79 (30.74%) Front Office
3 55 (21.40%) Banking
4 48 (18.68%) Investment Banking
5 39 (15.18%) Social Skills
6 20 (7.78%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (3.89%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.33%) Public Sector
9 5 (1.95%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (1.56%) Retail
11 3 (1.17%) Back Office
11 3 (1.17%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (1.17%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.78%) Legal
12 2 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.39%) Advertising
13 1 (0.39%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.39%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (28.02%) Pandas
2 71 (27.63%) NumPy
3 58 (22.57%) SciPy
4 38 (14.79%) PySpark
5 32 (12.45%) gRPC
5 32 (12.45%) Protocol Buffers
6 30 (11.67%) React
7 29 (11.28%) Kafka
8 27 (10.51%) AngularJS
9 26 (10.12%) Vue
10 25 (9.73%) REST
11 23 (8.95%) Node.js
12 14 (5.45%) J2EE
13 12 (4.67%) FastAPI
14 10 (3.89%) OpenTelemetry
14 10 (3.89%) pytest
15 9 (3.50%) Flask
15 9 (3.50%) OAuth
16 8 (3.11%) Django
16 8 (3.11%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 61 (23.74%) Fixed Income
2 53 (20.62%) Equities
2 53 (20.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 51 (19.84%) Hedge funds
4 38 (14.79%) Derivative
5 30 (11.67%) Pricing Data
6 14 (5.45%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (3.89%) Cloud Native
8 8 (3.11%) Onboarding
9 6 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.95%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.95%) Distributed Computing
11 4 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.56%) Product Ownership
11 4 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (1.17%) Public Cloud
13 2 (0.78%) Data Centre
13 2 (0.78%) Data Structures
13 2 (0.78%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.84%) Linux
2 4 (1.56%) Windows
3 3 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.39%) Unix
4 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (45.14%) Software Engineering
2 102 (39.69%) Agile
3 80 (31.13%) Asset Management
4 79 (30.74%) CI/CD
5 56 (21.79%) Investment Management
6 47 (18.29%) DevOps
7 32 (12.45%) Data Engineering
8 29 (11.28%) Data Pipeline
9 27 (10.51%) Fintech
10 26 (10.12%) Artificial Intelligence
10 26 (10.12%) Containerisation
10 26 (10.12%) Problem-Solving
11 25 (9.73%) Data Science
12 23 (8.95%) Test Automation
13 22 (8.56%) Infrastructure as Code
13 22 (8.56%) Performance Attribution
14 21 (8.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 20 (7.78%) Open Source
15 20 (7.78%) Order Management
15 20 (7.78%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 257 (100.00%) Python
2 64 (24.90%) Java
3 62 (24.12%) JavaScript
4 61 (23.74%) TypeScript
5 44 (17.12%) SQL
6 25 (9.73%) Go
7 14 (5.45%) Bash
8 13 (5.06%) C#
9 7 (2.72%) Scala
10 5 (1.95%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.56%) C++
11 4 (1.56%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.17%) Clojure
12 3 (1.17%) Elixir
12 3 (1.17%) Perl
12 3 (1.17%) Rust
13 2 (0.78%) DAML
14 1 (0.39%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.39%) Ruby
14 1 (0.39%) VB6
Qualifications
1 20 (7.78%) Security Cleared
2 19 (7.39%) SC Cleared
3 12 (4.67%) Degree
4 8 (3.11%) CCNP
4 8 (3.11%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (1.95%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.78%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.39%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.39%) OCA
9 1 (0.39%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.39%) PhD
9 1 (0.39%) RHCA
9 1 (0.39%) RHCE
9 1 (0.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.72%) QA
1 7 (2.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 5 (1.95%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.17%) Accessibility
System Software
1 45 (17.51%) Docker
2 3 (1.17%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 62 (24.12%) Kubernetes
2 53 (20.62%) Terraform
3 36 (14.01%) Ansible
4 7 (2.72%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.33%) Grafana
5 6 (2.33%) Puppet
6 3 (1.17%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.17%) Salt
7 2 (0.78%) Kibana
7 2 (0.78%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.39%) Podman
Vendors
1 18 (7.00%) Arista
2 14 (5.45%) Databricks
3 10 (3.89%) Microsoft
3 10 (3.89%) Splunk
4 9 (3.50%) Cisco
5 7 (2.72%) CheckPoint
5 7 (2.72%) Fortinet
6 4 (1.56%) Virgin Media
7 3 (1.17%) Oracle
8 2 (0.78%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.78%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.78%) VMware
9 1 (0.39%) Confluent
9 1 (0.39%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.39%) F5
9 1 (0.39%) Foundry
9 1 (0.39%) Google
9 1 (0.39%) Palantir
9 1 (0.39%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.39%) UiPath