Python Software Engineer Contracts in England

Python Software Engineer
UK > England

The median Python Software Engineer daily rate in England is £750, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 411 417 631
Rank change year-on-year +6 +214 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Python Software Engineer 75 124 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.31% 0.33% 0.083%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.36% 0.088%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 107 37
10th Percentile £518 £538 £438
25th Percentile £638 £550 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £725 £675
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +7.41% +12.50%
75th Percentile £875 £800 £788
90th Percentile - £880 -
UK median daily rate £750 £725 £675
% change year-on-year +3.45% +7.41% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £65.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £65.50 -

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 22,595 34,453 47,601
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.55% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,023 22,865 33,797
10th Percentile £300 £280 £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 £640 £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 899 2,434 1,402
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.30
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.78 £36.02 £44.77
Median % change year-on-year -14.55% -19.53% +98.96%
75th Percentile £64.13 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.95
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.02 £45.00
% change year-on-year -19.49% -19.95% +91.49%

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 2 May 2025.

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 2 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 0 66 £750 +3.45% 70
South East +49 4 £575 - 19
North of England +25 4 £475 - 21
North West +16 4 £475 - 18
South West +42 1 £425 -22.73% 4
Python Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, 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 75 (100.00%) Python
1 75 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 60 (80.00%) Agile
3 58 (77.33%) Finance
4 55 (73.33%) AWS
5 47 (62.67%) Asset Management
5 47 (62.67%) Front Office
5 47 (62.67%) Fixed Income
5 47 (62.67%) Amazon Athena
5 47 (62.67%) Dremio
5 47 (62.67%) Apache Airflow
5 47 (62.67%) dbt
5 47 (62.67%) Apache Arrow
5 47 (62.67%) Apache Iceberg
6 46 (61.33%) NumPy
7 45 (60.00%) Pandas
8 43 (57.33%) TypeScript
9 41 (54.67%) JavaScript
10 39 (52.00%) SciPy
11 36 (48.00%) Apache
12 35 (46.67%) Investment Management
13 32 (42.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 32 (42.67%) Equities
14 29 (38.67%) Java
14 29 (38.67%) Banking
15 28 (37.33%) Protocol Buffers
15 28 (37.33%) GCP
15 28 (37.33%) Apache Ignite
15 28 (37.33%) gRPC
16 27 (36.00%) Hedge funds

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 47 (62.67%) Apache Airflow
2 36 (48.00%) Apache
3 2 (2.67%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 55 (73.33%) AWS
2 47 (62.67%) dbt
3 28 (37.33%) GCP
4 26 (34.67%) Snowflake
5 15 (20.00%) Azure
6 9 (12.00%) Azure AKS
6 9 (12.00%) GitHub
6 9 (12.00%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (10.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 8 (10.67%) Azure Service Bus
7 8 (10.67%) Entra ID
8 6 (8.00%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (8.00%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (8.00%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (8.00%) Dagster
9 3 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (4.00%) Serverless
10 2 (2.67%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (1.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (1.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (62.67%) Amazon Athena
1 47 (62.67%) Apache Arrow
1 47 (62.67%) Apache Iceberg
1 47 (62.67%) Dremio
2 28 (37.33%) Apache Ignite
3 18 (24.00%) Data Lake
4 14 (18.67%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (16.00%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.67%) Impala
6 2 (2.67%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.67%) Redis
7 1 (1.33%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.33%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (4.00%) Git
2 2 (2.67%) Artifactory
2 2 (2.67%) Bitbucket
2 2 (2.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.67%) JIRA
2 2 (2.67%) SonarQube
2 2 (2.67%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (1.33%) GitLab
General
1 58 (77.33%) Finance
2 47 (62.67%) Front Office
3 29 (38.67%) Banking
4 26 (34.67%) Investment Banking
5 6 (8.00%) Social Skills
6 3 (4.00%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.67%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.33%) Advertising
8 1 (1.33%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.33%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (61.33%) NumPy
2 45 (60.00%) Pandas
3 39 (52.00%) SciPy
4 28 (37.33%) gRPC
4 28 (37.33%) Protocol Buffers
5 23 (30.67%) React
6 22 (29.33%) AngularJS
7 21 (28.00%) Node.js
7 21 (28.00%) Vue
8 14 (18.67%) PySpark
9 12 (16.00%) Kafka
10 10 (13.33%) Redux
11 9 (12.00%) OAuth
12 8 (10.67%) OAuth2
12 8 (10.67%) OpenID
13 7 (9.33%) OpenTelemetry
14 6 (8.00%) REST
14 6 (8.00%) RESTful
15 4 (5.33%) FastAPI
16 2 (2.67%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 47 (62.67%) Fixed Income
2 32 (42.67%) Equities
2 32 (42.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 27 (36.00%) Hedge funds
4 26 (34.67%) Derivative
5 12 (16.00%) Pricing Data
6 2 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.67%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.33%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.33%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.33%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.33%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 60 (80.00%) Agile
3 47 (62.67%) Asset Management
4 35 (46.67%) Investment Management
5 21 (28.00%) Fintech
5 21 (28.00%) Performance Attribution
6 15 (20.00%) CI/CD
7 13 (17.33%) Risk Management
8 12 (16.00%) Test Automation
9 11 (14.67%) Order Management
10 10 (13.33%) Credit Risk Analysis
11 8 (10.67%) Containerisation
11 8 (10.67%) Data Management
11 8 (10.67%) Microservices
11 8 (10.67%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (8.00%) Data Science
12 6 (8.00%) Event-Driven
12 6 (8.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 6 (8.00%) Migration
12 6 (8.00%) Quantitative Finance
Programming Languages
1 75 (100.00%) Python
2 43 (57.33%) TypeScript
3 41 (54.67%) JavaScript
4 29 (38.67%) Java
5 15 (20.00%) SQL
6 11 (14.67%) C#
7 2 (2.67%) Go
8 1 (1.33%) Clojure
8 1 (1.33%) Haskell
8 1 (1.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1 (1.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (1.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (1.33%) QA
System Software
1 7 (9.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (16.00%) Kubernetes
2 10 (13.33%) Terraform
3 3 (4.00%) Ansible
4 1 (1.33%) Podman
4 1 (1.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (5.33%) Databricks
2 3 (4.00%) Oracle
2 3 (4.00%) Virgin Media