Python Software Engineer Contracts in England

Python Software Engineer
UK > England

The median Python Software Engineer daily rate in England is £725 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 15 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
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 404 604 603
Rank change year-on-year +200 -1 -42
Contract jobs requiring a Python Software Engineer 142 38 165
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.39% 0.079% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.083% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 34 147
10th Percentile £538 £438 £513
25th Percentile £550 £514 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £683 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.23% +13.75% +12.15%
75th Percentile £850 £788 £663
90th Percentile £881 - £730
UK median daily rate £725 £725 £600
% change year-on-year - +20.83% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £25.64
Median hourly rate - - £26.27
75th Percentile - - £26.91
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £26.27
% change year-on-year - - -4.47%

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 33,715 45,699 67,069
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,350 32,457 47,796
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,424 1,347 1,860
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.54 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +95.65% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.30 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.20 £64.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.67%

Python Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Python Software Engineer in England

Python Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Python Software Engineer in England

Python Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python Software Engineer in England over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python Software Engineer in England

Python Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Python Software Engineer in England

Python Software 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 Software Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 15 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 +191 127 £725 +6.23% 32
East of England - 5 £425 - 4
North of England - 2 - - 1
North West - 2 - -
South West - 2 £550 - 1
South East - 1 - - 3
Python Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 May 2024, Python Software 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 142 (100.00%) Python
1 142 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 125 (88.03%) AWS
3 114 (80.28%) Finance
4 110 (77.46%) Asset Management
5 109 (76.76%) TypeScript
6 108 (76.06%) Protocol Buffers
6 108 (76.06%) Front Office
6 108 (76.06%) gRPC
6 108 (76.06%) Apache Airflow
7 107 (75.35%) Fixed Income
8 104 (73.24%) Agile
9 102 (71.83%) Apache
9 102 (71.83%) Apache Ignite
10 98 (69.01%) Banking
11 96 (67.61%) Investment Management
12 91 (64.08%) GCP
12 91 (64.08%) Hedge funds
13 77 (54.23%) React
14 73 (51.41%) Azure
15 70 (49.30%) Redux
16 69 (48.59%) Material-UI
17 67 (47.18%) Artificial Intelligence
18 66 (46.48%) Equities
18 66 (46.48%) Machine Learning
19 65 (45.77%) Full Stack Development
20 62 (43.66%) PostgreSQL
20 62 (43.66%) Google
21 61 (42.96%) Automated Trading
22 50 (35.21%) JavaScript

Python Software 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
1 108 (76.06%) Apache Airflow
2 102 (71.83%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 125 (88.03%) AWS
2 91 (64.08%) GCP
3 73 (51.41%) Azure
4 41 (28.87%) dbt
5 28 (19.72%) Snowflake
6 5 (3.52%) Serverless
7 4 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (2.82%) Pulumi
8 3 (2.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (2.11%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.11%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (2.11%) SaaS
9 2 (1.41%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.41%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.70%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (0.70%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (0.70%) Cloud Run
10 1 (0.70%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.82%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (1.41%) Wireless
3 1 (0.70%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (71.83%) Apache Ignite
2 62 (43.66%) PostgreSQL
3 41 (28.87%) Amazon Athena
3 41 (28.87%) Apache Arrow
3 41 (28.87%) Dremio
4 28 (19.72%) Data Lake
5 5 (3.52%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.70%) Big Data
7 1 (0.70%) Metadata
7 1 (0.70%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.70%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 45 (31.69%) Cypress.io
2 2 (1.41%) webpack
3 1 (0.70%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.70%) Git
3 1 (0.70%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.70%) JUnit
General
1 114 (80.28%) Finance
2 108 (76.06%) Front Office
3 98 (69.01%) Banking
4 34 (23.94%) Investment Banking
5 3 (2.11%) Games
5 3 (2.11%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.41%) Law
6 2 (1.41%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.41%) Social Skills
7 1 (0.70%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.70%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (76.06%) gRPC
1 108 (76.06%) Protocol Buffers
2 77 (54.23%) React
3 70 (49.30%) Redux
4 69 (48.59%) Material-UI
5 49 (34.51%) Pandas
6 43 (30.28%) NumPy
7 41 (28.87%) SciPy
8 15 (10.56%) AngularJS
9 13 (9.15%) Vue
10 10 (7.04%) Node.js
11 4 (2.82%) FastAPI
11 4 (2.82%) Flask
11 4 (2.82%) Kafka
11 4 (2.82%) SQLAlchemy
12 3 (2.11%) RESTful
12 3 (2.11%) WebSockets
13 2 (1.41%) Lambda Expressions
13 2 (1.41%) REST
14 1 (0.70%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 107 (75.35%) Fixed Income
2 91 (64.08%) Hedge funds
3 66 (46.48%) Equities
4 36 (25.35%) Derivative
4 36 (25.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 8 (5.63%) Pricing Data
6 4 (2.82%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.41%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.70%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.70%) NHS
8 1 (0.70%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 110 (77.46%) Asset Management
3 104 (73.24%) Agile
4 96 (67.61%) Investment Management
5 67 (47.18%) Artificial Intelligence
6 66 (46.48%) Machine Learning
7 65 (45.77%) Full Stack Development
8 61 (42.96%) Automated Trading
9 17 (11.97%) Analytics
10 11 (7.75%) Line Management
11 9 (6.34%) Greeks
12 8 (5.63%) Fintech
12 8 (5.63%) Mentoring
13 7 (4.93%) Credit Risk Analysis
13 7 (4.93%) Performance Attribution
14 5 (3.52%) End-to-End Testing
14 5 (3.52%) ETL
14 5 (3.52%) Integration Testing
14 5 (3.52%) Unit Testing
15 4 (2.82%) ETL Development
Programming Languages
1 142 (100.00%) Python
2 109 (76.76%) TypeScript
3 50 (35.21%) JavaScript
4 34 (23.94%) Java
5 23 (16.20%) SQL
6 5 (3.52%) C++
6 5 (3.52%) Rust
7 2 (1.41%) C#
7 2 (1.41%) Clojure
7 2 (1.41%) Haskell
7 2 (1.41%) Ruby
7 2 (1.41%) Scala
8 1 (0.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (2.82%) SC Cleared
1 4 (2.82%) Security Cleared
2 1 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.34%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (2.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (3.52%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 62 (43.66%) Google
2 1 (0.70%) Brio
2 1 (0.70%) NVIDIA