Python Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Python Data Engineer
England > London

The median Python Data Engineer daily rate in London is £523, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 September 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
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 339 339 410
Rank change year-on-year 0 +71 +128
Contract jobs requiring a Python Data Engineer 25 46 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.19% 0.28% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.30% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 45 38
10th Percentile £456 £518 £475
25th Percentile £490 £575 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £700 £700
Median % change year-on-year -25.36% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £663 £825 £788
90th Percentile £725 - £791
England median daily rate £495 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -17.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 12,392 15,300 20,765
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 93.99% 94.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,286 10,210 15,153
10th Percentile £331 £343 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -2.86% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 179 226
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.45 £18.08
25th Percentile £22.98 £23.80 £22.06
Median hourly rate £29.54 £35.00 £36.27
Median % change year-on-year -15.61% -3.50% +12.47%
75th Percentile £50.00 £56.75 £62.31
90th Percentile £65.40 £75.00 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -45.54% +2.62% +73.08%

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
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Python Data Engineer job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Python Data Engineer job vacancies 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 21 September 2025.

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 21 September 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
East London - 1 - -
Python Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 September 2025, 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 25 (100.00%) Python
2 19 (76.00%) SQL
3 17 (68.00%) Azure
3 17 (68.00%) Data Pipeline
4 14 (56.00%) Databricks
5 13 (52.00%) AWS
5 13 (52.00%) Data Modelling
6 11 (44.00%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (40.00%) CI/CD
8 9 (36.00%) Apache Spark
8 9 (36.00%) Data Engineering
9 7 (28.00%) Terraform
9 7 (28.00%) Machine Learning
9 7 (28.00%) Git
10 6 (24.00%) Security Cleared
10 6 (24.00%) ETL
10 6 (24.00%) Business Intelligence
10 6 (24.00%) Workflow
10 6 (24.00%) Analytics
10 6 (24.00%) Power BI
10 6 (24.00%) Actionable Insight
10 6 (24.00%) Data Science
10 6 (24.00%) Power Platform
11 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
11 5 (20.00%) Social Skills
11 5 (20.00%) SC Cleared
11 5 (20.00%) Mentoring
11 5 (20.00%) Kafka
11 5 (20.00%) Data Governance

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 (36.00%) Apache Spark
2 4 (16.00%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (4.00%) Apache
3 1 (4.00%) Luigi
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 17 (68.00%) Azure
2 13 (52.00%) AWS
3 6 (24.00%) Power Platform
4 4 (16.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (16.00%) GCP
5 3 (12.00%) Amazon S3
5 3 (12.00%) dbt
6 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (8.00%) GitHub
6 2 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (8.00%) Snowflake
7 1 (4.00%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (4.00%) IaaS
7 1 (4.00%) IBM Cloud
7 1 (4.00%) PaaS
7 1 (4.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (24.00%) Power BI
2 5 (20.00%) Tableau
3 4 (16.00%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (16.00%) Geospatial Data
3 4 (16.00%) GIS
3 4 (16.00%) QGIS
3 4 (16.00%) SQL Server
4 3 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (8.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (8.00%) Data Lake
5 2 (8.00%) Hadoop
5 2 (8.00%) MongoDB
5 2 (8.00%) NoSQL
5 2 (8.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (4.00%) AllegroGraph
6 1 (4.00%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (4.00%) Big Data
6 1 (4.00%) CrateDB
6 1 (4.00%) Delta Lake
6 1 (4.00%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 7 (28.00%) Git
2 1 (4.00%) ERwin
2 1 (4.00%) GitLab
2 1 (4.00%) Poetry
2 1 (4.00%) Selenium
2 1 (4.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 11 (44.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Finance
2 5 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (16.00%) Telecoms
4 3 (12.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (8.00%) Banking
5 2 (8.00%) Investment Banking
5 2 (8.00%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (4.00%) Legal
6 1 (4.00%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.00%) Kafka
2 4 (16.00%) GeoPandas
2 4 (16.00%) PostGIS
2 4 (16.00%) PySpark
3 2 (8.00%) Jinja
3 2 (8.00%) NumPy
3 2 (8.00%) Pandas
4 1 (4.00%) ADO
4 1 (4.00%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (4.00%) Playwright
4 1 (4.00%) Puppeteer
4 1 (4.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Algorithms
1 4 (16.00%) Distributed Computing
2 3 (12.00%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (12.00%) Reinsurance
3 2 (8.00%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (68.00%) Data Pipeline
2 13 (52.00%) Data Modelling
3 10 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 9 (36.00%) Data Engineering
5 7 (28.00%) Machine Learning
6 6 (24.00%) Actionable Insight
6 6 (24.00%) Analytics
6 6 (24.00%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (24.00%) Data Science
6 6 (24.00%) ETL
6 6 (24.00%) Workflow
7 5 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
7 5 (20.00%) Data Governance
7 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (20.00%) Mathematics
7 5 (20.00%) Mentoring
7 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (20.00%) Visualisation
8 4 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (16.00%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 25 (100.00%) Python
2 19 (76.00%) SQL
3 4 (16.00%) Scala
4 2 (8.00%) Bash
5 1 (4.00%) C#
5 1 (4.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (24.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (12.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.00%) zsh
Systems Management
1 7 (28.00%) Terraform
2 1 (4.00%) Argo
2 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (56.00%) Databricks
2 4 (16.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.00%) Google
4 1 (4.00%) IBM
4 1 (4.00%) Informatica
4 1 (4.00%) SnapLogic
4 1 (4.00%) Zoomdata