Python Data Engineer Contracts in London

Python Data Engineer
England > London

The median Python Data Engineer daily rate in London is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 378 429 494
Rank change year-on-year +51 +65 -113
Contract jobs requiring a Python Data Engineer 23 66 101
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.13% 0.25% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.26% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 60 89
10th Percentile £438 £456 £455
25th Percentile £463 £563 £524
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £669 £625
Median % change year-on-year -25.23% +7.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £619 £775 £688
90th Percentile £740 £788 £755
England median daily rate £500 £600 £620
% change year-on-year -16.67% -3.23% +7.83%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,596 25,593 37,134
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.26% 95.28% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,994 18,537 27,104
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £441 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £680
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 292 449
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.45
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.60 £22.03
Median hourly rate £27.66 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.55% +0.71% +11.13%
75th Percentile £43.75 £62.13 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £78.72 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.03% +97.91% +2.27%

Python Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Python Data Engineer in London

Python Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Python Data Engineer in London

Python Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python Data Engineer in London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python Data Engineer in London

Python Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 3 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
Central London +44 3 £725 +11.54%
Python Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, 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 London region featuring Python Data Engineer in the job title.

1 23 (100.00%) Python
2 17 (73.91%) SQL
3 15 (65.22%) PySpark
4 10 (43.48%) Data Pipeline
4 10 (43.48%) Azure
4 10 (43.48%) AWS
5 9 (39.13%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (39.13%) Databricks
6 8 (34.78%) Serverless
6 8 (34.78%) Big Data
7 7 (30.43%) Kafka
7 7 (30.43%) NumPy
7 7 (30.43%) Data Modelling
7 7 (30.43%) Workflow
7 7 (30.43%) Pandas
7 7 (30.43%) Terraform
8 6 (26.09%) NoSQL
8 6 (26.09%) Git
9 5 (21.74%) Data Transformation
9 5 (21.74%) Finance
9 5 (21.74%) ETL
9 5 (21.74%) CI/CD
9 5 (21.74%) Data Engineering
9 5 (21.74%) Kubernetes
9 5 (21.74%) Microservices
9 5 (21.74%) Data Science
10 4 (17.39%) Decision-Making
10 4 (17.39%) Lambda Expressions
10 4 (17.39%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (17.39%) Amazon Aurora

Python Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 9 (39.13%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (13.04%) Apache
3 1 (4.35%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 10 (43.48%) AWS
1 10 (43.48%) Azure
2 8 (34.78%) Serverless
3 4 (17.39%) Amazon S3
3 4 (17.39%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (17.39%) Dagster
4 3 (13.04%) Amazon Kinesis
4 3 (13.04%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (13.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (13.04%) dbt
4 3 (13.04%) Power Platform
5 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (8.70%) Azure Stack
5 2 (8.70%) Azure Storage
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (4.35%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (34.78%) Big Data
2 6 (26.09%) NoSQL
3 4 (17.39%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (13.04%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (13.04%) Power BI
5 2 (8.70%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 2 (8.70%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (8.70%) Data Lake
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (4.35%) Hadoop
6 1 (4.35%) Presto
6 1 (4.35%) RDBMS
6 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
6 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (26.09%) Git
2 1 (4.35%) Ant
2 1 (4.35%) Gradle
2 1 (4.35%) JUnit
2 1 (4.35%) Maven
2 1 (4.35%) RStudio
General
1 5 (21.74%) Finance
2 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Banking
4 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (65.22%) PySpark
2 7 (30.43%) Kafka
2 7 (30.43%) NumPy
2 7 (30.43%) Pandas
3 4 (17.39%) Lambda Expressions
3 4 (17.39%) REST
4 2 (8.70%) YAML
5 1 (4.35%) Django
5 1 (4.35%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (4.35%) Algorithms
2 1 (4.35%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.35%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) Data Pipeline
2 7 (30.43%) Data Modelling
2 7 (30.43%) Workflow
3 5 (21.74%) CI/CD
3 5 (21.74%) Data Engineering
3 5 (21.74%) Data Science
3 5 (21.74%) Data Transformation
3 5 (21.74%) ETL
3 5 (21.74%) Microservices
4 4 (17.39%) Decision-Making
5 3 (13.04%) Agile
5 3 (13.04%) Analytics
5 3 (13.04%) Data Integration
5 3 (13.04%) DevOps
5 3 (13.04%) Full Stack Development
5 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (8.70%) Data Analytics
6 2 (8.70%) Data Governance
6 2 (8.70%) Quality Management
6 2 (8.70%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 23 (100.00%) Python
2 17 (73.91%) SQL
3 2 (8.70%) Bash
3 2 (8.70%) Java
3 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
3 2 (8.70%) Scala
4 1 (4.35%) C
4 1 (4.35%) C++
4 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (4.35%) Degree
1 1 (4.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (30.43%) Terraform
2 5 (21.74%) Kubernetes
3 4 (17.39%) Argo
Vendors
1 9 (39.13%) Databricks
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.35%) Foundry
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle
3 1 (4.35%) Palantir
3 1 (4.35%) SAP