Python Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Python Engineer
England > London

The median Python Engineer daily rate in London is £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 176 181
Rank change year-on-year -89 +5 +104
Contract jobs requiring a Python Engineer 166 179 250
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.88% 1.45% 1.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.94% 1.55% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 142 232
10th Percentile £415 £438 £489
25th Percentile £450 £575 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £750 £700
Median % change year-on-year -28.33% +7.14% +3.70%
75th Percentile £666 £838 £850
90th Percentile £836 £875 £875
England median daily rate £538 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -20.37% -3.57% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £62.81
25th Percentile - - £63.28
Median hourly rate - - £65.63
75th Percentile - - £69.53
90th Percentile - - £70.94
England median hourly rate - - £65.63

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 17,568 11,533 16,506
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 93.54% 93.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,592 7,808 11,861
10th Percentile £358 £341 £325
25th Percentile £432 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £799 £800
England median daily rate £520 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 166 325
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.12 £15.97
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.30 £20.02
Median hourly rate £39.50 £33.45 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +18.10% +20.26% -23.33%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.69 £46.48
90th Percentile £78.75 £64.38 £66.80
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.75 £39.55
% change year-on-year +56.52% -27.31% -12.11%

Python Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Python Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Python Engineer job vacancy trend in London

Python Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Python Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python Engineer in London over the 6 months to 16 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Python Engineer in London

Python Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Python Engineer job vacancies in London

Python 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 Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 16 June 2026. 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 -18 15 £523 -9.60% 9
East London - 2 £450 -
South London - 1 - -
Python Engineer
England

Python Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 16 June 2026, Python Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Python Engineer in the job title.

1 166 (100.00%) Python
2 66 (39.76%) Azure
3 55 (33.13%) SQL
4 53 (31.93%) AWS
5 50 (30.12%) AI
6 45 (27.11%) CI/CD
7 44 (26.51%) Agile
7 44 (26.51%) Software Engineering
8 41 (24.70%) Data Pipeline
9 29 (17.47%) Docker
10 28 (16.87%) Analytics
11 27 (16.27%) Containerisation
12 26 (15.66%) React
12 26 (15.66%) Terraform
13 25 (15.06%) LLM
14 24 (14.46%) Data Modelling
15 22 (13.25%) DevOps
15 22 (13.25%) GCP
15 22 (13.25%) Kubernetes
15 22 (13.25%) TypeScript
16 21 (12.65%) ETL
17 20 (12.05%) Microservices
18 19 (11.45%) FastAPI
18 19 (11.45%) Machine Learning
19 18 (10.84%) Data Quality
19 18 (10.84%) Data Science
19 18 (10.84%) Full-Stack Development
19 18 (10.84%) Infrastructure as Code
19 18 (10.84%) PostgreSQL
19 18 (10.84%) Security Cleared

Python Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (3.01%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.81%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.60%) Apache
3 1 (0.60%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.60%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (2.41%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.41%) Aladdin
2 3 (1.81%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 66 (39.76%) Azure
2 53 (31.93%) AWS
3 22 (13.25%) GCP
4 18 (10.84%) Serverless
5 14 (8.43%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (7.83%) GitHub
7 10 (6.02%) Amazon ECS
8 9 (5.42%) Amazon S3
8 9 (5.42%) Azure AI
8 9 (5.42%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (4.82%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (4.82%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (4.22%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (4.22%) Power Platform
11 6 (3.61%) Azure Data Factory
11 6 (3.61%) dbt
12 5 (3.01%) Snowflake
13 4 (2.41%) Azure Functions
14 3 (1.81%) AWS CloudFormation
14 3 (1.81%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.60%) BGP
1 1 (0.60%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (0.60%) DMZ
1 1 (0.60%) Firewall
1 1 (0.60%) IGMP
1 1 (0.60%) Multicast
1 1 (0.60%) SSH
1 1 (0.60%) VXLAN
1 1 (0.60%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.84%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (5.42%) Relational Database
3 8 (4.82%) BigQuery
4 7 (4.22%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (4.22%) Delta Lake
4 7 (4.22%) Power BI
5 6 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (3.01%) SQL Server
7 4 (2.41%) Data Lake
7 4 (2.41%) Tableau
8 3 (1.81%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.81%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (1.20%) Big Data
9 2 (1.20%) Pinecone
9 2 (1.20%) Power Query
9 2 (1.20%) Weaviate
10 1 (0.60%) Data Vault
10 1 (0.60%) Geospatial Data
10 1 (0.60%) Metadata
10 1 (0.60%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (4.82%) Jenkins
2 5 (3.01%) Git
2 5 (3.01%) GitLab
3 4 (2.41%) PyCharm
4 3 (1.81%) JIRA
4 3 (1.81%) Postman
4 3 (1.81%) Robot Framework
4 3 (1.81%) Selenium
5 1 (0.60%) Appium
5 1 (0.60%) JUnit
5 1 (0.60%) MLflow
5 1 (0.60%) TestNG
5 1 (0.60%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.60%) Zephyr
General
1 60 (36.14%) Finance
2 21 (12.65%) Front Office
3 20 (12.05%) Social Skills
4 13 (7.83%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (6.63%) Banking
5 11 (6.63%) Public Sector
6 9 (5.42%) Back Office
7 5 (3.01%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.81%) Games
9 1 (0.60%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.60%) Military
9 1 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.60%) Publishing
9 1 (0.60%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (15.66%) React
2 19 (11.45%) FastAPI
3 17 (10.24%) Flask
4 15 (9.04%) Django
4 15 (9.04%) PySpark
5 14 (8.43%) Kafka
6 10 (6.02%) Next.js
7 9 (5.42%) REST
8 8 (4.82%) Node.js
8 8 (4.82%) Redux
9 6 (3.61%) AngularJS
9 6 (3.61%) Pandas
10 5 (3.01%) .NET
10 5 (3.01%) GraphQL
10 5 (3.01%) LangChain
10 5 (3.01%) pytest
10 5 (3.01%) scikit-learn
10 5 (3.01%) Web Services
11 4 (2.41%) PyTorch
11 4 (2.41%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.05%) Equities
2 18 (10.84%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (9.64%) Cloud Native
4 14 (8.43%) Fixed Income
5 13 (7.83%) Derivative
6 9 (5.42%) AI Agents
7 5 (3.01%) Data Structures
7 5 (3.01%) Reference Data
8 4 (2.41%) Data Centre
8 4 (2.41%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.20%) CMDB
10 2 (1.20%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.20%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.60%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.60%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.60%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.60%) Reinsurance
11 1 (0.60%) Renewable Energy
11 1 (0.60%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.61%) Linux
2 2 (1.20%) Unix
3 1 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.60%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.60%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (30.12%) AI
2 45 (27.11%) CI/CD
3 44 (26.51%) Agile
3 44 (26.51%) Software Engineering
4 41 (24.70%) Data Pipeline
5 28 (16.87%) Analytics
6 27 (16.27%) Containerisation
7 25 (15.06%) LLM
8 24 (14.46%) Data Modelling
9 22 (13.25%) DevOps
10 21 (12.65%) ETL
11 20 (12.05%) Microservices
12 19 (11.45%) Machine Learning
13 18 (10.84%) Data Science
13 18 (10.84%) Full-Stack Development
13 18 (10.84%) Infrastructure as Code
14 17 (10.24%) Data Engineering
14 17 (10.24%) Test Automation
15 15 (9.04%) Investment Management
16 14 (8.43%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 166 (100.00%) Python
2 55 (33.13%) SQL
3 22 (13.25%) TypeScript
4 17 (10.24%) JavaScript
5 7 (4.22%) C#
6 5 (3.01%) Java
7 3 (1.81%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.20%) Bicep
8 2 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.60%) C
9 1 (0.60%) C++
9 1 (0.60%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.60%) R
9 1 (0.60%) Ruby
9 1 (0.60%) SPARQL
9 1 (0.60%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (10.84%) Security Cleared
2 16 (9.64%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.42%) Degree
4 7 (4.22%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.60%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.84%) Data Quality
2 12 (7.23%) QA
3 2 (1.20%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.20%) GDPR
3 2 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 29 (17.47%) Docker
2 1 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 26 (15.66%) Terraform
2 22 (13.25%) Kubernetes
3 5 (3.01%) Ansible
4 2 (1.20%) Grafana
4 2 (1.20%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.60%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 17 (10.24%) Databricks
2 14 (8.43%) Microsoft
3 11 (6.63%) OpenAI
4 4 (2.41%) SimCorp
5 3 (1.81%) Oracle
5 3 (1.81%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.20%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.20%) Foundry
6 2 (1.20%) Google
7 1 (0.60%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.60%) Aruba
7 1 (0.60%) AVEVA
7 1 (0.60%) Cisco
7 1 (0.60%) Citrix
7 1 (0.60%) F5
7 1 (0.60%) Informatica
7 1 (0.60%) Juniper
7 1 (0.60%) Meraki
7 1 (0.60%) Reuters
7 1 (0.60%) Splunk