Python Engineer Contracts in London

Python Engineer
England > London

The median Python Engineer daily rate in London is £700 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 215 292 243
Rank change year-on-year +77 -49 -6
Contract jobs requiring a Python Engineer 190 209 459
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.07% 0.77% 1.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.15% 0.81% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 183 405
10th Percentile £463 £456 £513
25th Percentile £538 £549 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +12.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £788 £775 £700
90th Percentile £850 £788 £800
England median daily rate £650 £625 £600
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
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 £65.50 - £26.27
% change year-on-year - - -17.26%

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 16,503 25,805 37,110
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 95.30% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,929 18,697 27,064
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 337 292 447
10th Percentile £16.01 £17.98 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.50 £22.03
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.99% +0.71% +11.13%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £77.83 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%

Python Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Python Engineer in London

Python Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Python Engineer in London

Python Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python Engineer in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python Engineer in London

Python Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Python Engineer 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 27 April 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 +38 18 £678 +6.27% 5
West London +19 1 £425 -39.29% 1
Python Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Python 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 190 (100.00%) Python
2 107 (56.32%) Software Engineering
2 107 (56.32%) AWS
3 100 (52.63%) Finance
4 87 (45.79%) Apache Airflow
5 85 (44.74%) Agile
6 83 (43.68%) Asset Management
7 79 (41.58%) Front Office
8 78 (41.05%) Protocol Buffers
8 78 (41.05%) TypeScript
8 78 (41.05%) gRPC
9 76 (40.00%) Fixed Income
10 74 (38.95%) Apache
11 73 (38.42%) Banking
11 73 (38.42%) Azure
12 71 (37.37%) Investment Management
12 71 (37.37%) Apache Ignite
13 68 (35.79%) GCP
14 63 (33.16%) Hedge funds
15 60 (31.58%) Pandas
15 60 (31.58%) Artificial Intelligence
16 59 (31.05%) React
17 51 (26.84%) NumPy
18 50 (26.32%) Material-UI
19 49 (25.79%) Full Stack Development
20 48 (25.26%) Redux
20 48 (25.26%) Machine Learning
21 44 (23.16%) SQL
22 43 (22.63%) PostgreSQL
22 43 (22.63%) Automated Trading

Python 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 87 (45.79%) Apache Airflow
2 74 (38.95%) Apache
3 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.53%) nginx
3 1 (0.53%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.53%) Tornado
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 107 (56.32%) AWS
2 73 (38.42%) Azure
3 68 (35.79%) GCP
4 33 (17.37%) dbt
5 19 (10.00%) Snowflake
6 15 (7.89%) Serverless
7 10 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (3.16%) Amazon S3
8 6 (3.16%) GitHub
9 5 (2.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (2.11%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.11%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (2.11%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (2.11%) Dagster
10 4 (2.11%) IaaS
11 3 (1.58%) Amazon Kinesis
11 3 (1.58%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.58%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (1.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (1.58%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.05%) Firewall
2 1 (0.53%) 5G
2 1 (0.53%) MQTT
2 1 (0.53%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (37.37%) Apache Ignite
2 43 (22.63%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (15.79%) Amazon Athena
3 30 (15.79%) Apache Arrow
3 30 (15.79%) Dremio
4 21 (11.05%) Data Lake
5 12 (6.32%) NoSQL
6 10 (5.26%) Big Data
7 9 (4.74%) MongoDB
8 5 (2.63%) Sybase ASE
9 4 (2.11%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (1.58%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (1.05%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (1.05%) DynamoDB
11 2 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (1.05%) Power BI
11 2 (1.05%) SQL Server
12 1 (0.53%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 29 (15.26%) Cypress.io
2 19 (10.00%) Git
3 15 (7.89%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.63%) Artifactory
4 5 (2.63%) Maven
4 5 (2.63%) TeamCity
5 4 (2.11%) Gradle
6 3 (1.58%) GitLab
6 3 (1.58%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.05%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.05%) git-flow
7 2 (1.05%) Subversion
7 2 (1.05%) webpack
8 1 (0.53%) Ant
8 1 (0.53%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.53%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.53%) JIRA
8 1 (0.53%) JUnit
8 1 (0.53%) RStudio
8 1 (0.53%) Selenium
General
1 100 (52.63%) Finance
2 79 (41.58%) Front Office
3 73 (38.42%) Banking
4 28 (14.74%) Investment Banking
5 18 (9.47%) Social Skills
6 10 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.63%) Law
8 3 (1.58%) Games
8 3 (1.58%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.53%) Aviation
10 1 (0.53%) Back Office
10 1 (0.53%) Dutch Language
10 1 (0.53%) Music Industry
10 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (41.05%) gRPC
1 78 (41.05%) Protocol Buffers
2 60 (31.58%) Pandas
3 59 (31.05%) React
4 51 (26.84%) NumPy
5 50 (26.32%) Material-UI
6 48 (25.26%) Redux
7 42 (22.11%) SciPy
8 23 (12.11%) Kafka
9 17 (8.95%) PySpark
10 12 (6.32%) AngularJS
10 12 (6.32%) Vue
11 9 (4.74%) REST
11 9 (4.74%) RESTful
12 8 (4.21%) Node.js
12 8 (4.21%) RabbitMQ
13 7 (3.68%) FastAPI
13 7 (3.68%) Lambda Expressions
14 6 (3.16%) Flask
15 5 (2.63%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 76 (40.00%) Fixed Income
2 63 (33.16%) Hedge funds
3 41 (21.58%) Equities
4 28 (14.74%) Derivative
5 27 (14.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 14 (7.37%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (4.74%) Data Structures
8 8 (4.21%) Algorithms
9 6 (3.16%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (2.11%) Pricing Data
10 4 (2.11%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (1.58%) Management Information System
12 2 (1.05%) Hackathon
12 2 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (1.05%) Product Ownership
12 2 (1.05%) Public Cloud
12 2 (1.05%) Solar Panel
13 1 (0.53%) Cloud Native
13 1 (0.53%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 24 (12.63%) Linux
2 5 (2.63%) Windows
3 4 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.58%) Android
4 3 (1.58%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.58%) Unix
5 2 (1.05%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.53%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (56.32%) Software Engineering
2 85 (44.74%) Agile
3 83 (43.68%) Asset Management
4 71 (37.37%) Investment Management
5 60 (31.58%) Artificial Intelligence
6 49 (25.79%) Full Stack Development
7 48 (25.26%) Machine Learning
8 43 (22.63%) Automated Trading
9 34 (17.89%) CI/CD
10 28 (14.74%) DevOps
11 25 (13.16%) Analytics
12 16 (8.42%) Mathematics
13 14 (7.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 14 (7.37%) Microservices
14 13 (6.84%) Mentoring
14 13 (6.84%) Test Automation
15 12 (6.32%) Data Pipeline
15 12 (6.32%) Mathematical Modelling
15 12 (6.32%) Problem-Solving
16 10 (5.26%) Decision Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 190 (100.00%) Python
2 78 (41.05%) TypeScript
3 44 (23.16%) SQL
4 42 (22.11%) Java
5 40 (21.05%) JavaScript
6 16 (8.42%) C++
6 16 (8.42%) Shell Script
7 8 (4.21%) PowerShell
8 7 (3.68%) C#
8 7 (3.68%) Go
9 6 (3.16%) Perl
10 5 (2.63%) Bash
10 5 (2.63%) Rust
10 5 (2.63%) Scala
11 2 (1.05%) C
11 2 (1.05%) Clojure
11 2 (1.05%) Haskell
11 2 (1.05%) Ruby
12 1 (0.53%) Groovy
12 1 (0.53%) PHP
Qualifications
1 7 (3.68%) Degree
2 4 (2.11%) SC Cleared
2 4 (2.11%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.53%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.53%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.21%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.63%) QA
System Software
1 20 (10.53%) Docker
2 8 (4.21%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.53%) iptables
4 1 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 33 (17.37%) Kubernetes
2 18 (9.47%) Terraform
3 17 (8.95%) Ansible
4 9 (4.74%) Grafana
4 9 (4.74%) Prometheus
5 8 (4.21%) Consul
6 6 (3.16%) Puppet
7 4 (2.11%) Argo
8 2 (1.05%) BladeLogic
8 2 (1.05%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (1.05%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 42 (22.11%) Google
2 14 (7.37%) Microsoft
3 11 (5.79%) Databricks
4 8 (4.21%) SaltStack
5 6 (3.16%) Sybase
6 4 (2.11%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.11%) VMware
7 2 (1.05%) Altiris
7 2 (1.05%) Citrix
7 2 (1.05%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.05%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.53%) Confluent
8 1 (0.53%) Foundry
8 1 (0.53%) Oracle
8 1 (0.53%) Palantir
8 1 (0.53%) SAP