Python Engineer Contracts in London

Python Engineer
England > London

The median Python Engineer daily rate in London is £725, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 161 201 293
Rank change year-on-year +40 +92 -53
Contract jobs requiring a Python Engineer 212 200 210
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.69% 1.12% 0.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.81% 1.20% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 176 184
10th Percentile £440 £463 £456
25th Percentile £575 £538 £555
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £700 £675
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +3.70% +12.50%
75th Percentile £838 £800 £775
90th Percentile £875 £850 £788
England median daily rate £675 £650 £624
% change year-on-year +3.85% +4.21% +3.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £65.63 -
England median hourly rate - £65.50 -

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 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 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
Central London +6 20 £525 -22.51% 18
South London - 2 £750 -
Python Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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.

1 212 (100.00%) Python
2 142 (66.98%) AWS
3 130 (61.32%) Finance
3 130 (61.32%) Software Engineering
4 115 (54.25%) Agile
5 97 (45.75%) Front Office
6 93 (43.87%) Asset Management
7 90 (42.45%) dbt
8 89 (41.98%) Apache Airflow
9 86 (40.57%) Amazon Athena
10 84 (39.62%) Dremio
10 84 (39.62%) Apache Iceberg
11 83 (39.15%) CI/CD
12 75 (35.38%) Apache Arrow
13 74 (34.91%) Java
13 74 (34.91%) Kubernetes
14 65 (30.66%) Apache
15 64 (30.19%) Pandas
16 63 (29.72%) NumPy
17 61 (28.77%) Banking
18 58 (27.36%) DevOps
18 58 (27.36%) Terraform
19 57 (26.89%) Apache Ignite
20 56 (26.42%) PySpark
21 54 (25.47%) Data Engineering
22 53 (25.00%) Docker
23 52 (24.53%) JavaScript
24 51 (24.06%) SciPy
25 49 (23.11%) Fixed Income
26 46 (21.70%) Kafka

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 89 (41.98%) Apache Airflow
2 65 (30.66%) Apache
3 43 (20.28%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.42%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.94%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.94%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.47%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 142 (66.98%) AWS
2 90 (42.45%) dbt
3 43 (20.28%) Amazon ECS
3 43 (20.28%) Azure
4 42 (19.81%) GCP
5 41 (19.34%) AWS Lambda
5 41 (19.34%) Serverless
6 30 (14.15%) OpenShift
7 29 (13.68%) Snowflake
8 16 (7.55%) Amazon EC2
9 15 (7.08%) Dagster
10 14 (6.60%) Amazon S3
10 14 (6.60%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (6.60%) GitHub
11 13 (6.13%) Azure AKS
12 11 (5.19%) Amazon SQS
13 10 (4.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 10 (4.72%) Azure Service Bus
13 10 (4.72%) Entra ID
13 10 (4.72%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.83%) DNS
2 3 (1.42%) BGP
2 3 (1.42%) Firewall
2 3 (1.42%) IPsec
2 3 (1.42%) OSPF
3 1 (0.47%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (40.57%) Amazon Athena
2 84 (39.62%) Apache Iceberg
2 84 (39.62%) Dremio
3 75 (35.38%) Apache Arrow
4 57 (26.89%) Apache Ignite
5 27 (12.74%) Data Lake
6 14 (6.60%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (5.66%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (5.19%) SQL Server
9 10 (4.72%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (3.77%) Big Data
10 8 (3.77%) Relational Database
11 5 (2.36%) DynamoDB
12 4 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.89%) GIS
12 4 (1.89%) Metadata
12 4 (1.89%) NoSQL
13 3 (1.42%) Data Mining
13 3 (1.42%) Hadoop
13 3 (1.42%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 30 (14.15%) Artifactory
2 20 (9.43%) Git
3 15 (7.08%) Jenkins
4 12 (5.66%) Selenium
5 11 (5.19%) JIRA
6 9 (4.25%) Postman
7 8 (3.77%) REST Assured
8 3 (1.42%) Appium
8 3 (1.42%) GitLab
8 3 (1.42%) JUnit
8 3 (1.42%) TestNG
8 3 (1.42%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.94%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.94%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.47%) Locust
10 1 (0.47%) MLflow
10 1 (0.47%) Poetry
General
1 130 (61.32%) Finance
2 97 (45.75%) Front Office
3 61 (28.77%) Banking
4 35 (16.51%) Investment Banking
5 20 (9.43%) Social Skills
6 12 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (3.77%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.83%) Retail
9 4 (1.89%) Corporate Banking
9 4 (1.89%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.89%) Retail Banking
10 3 (1.42%) Back Office
11 1 (0.47%) Advertising
11 1 (0.47%) Local Government
11 1 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.47%) Publishing
11 1 (0.47%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (30.19%) Pandas
2 63 (29.72%) NumPy
3 56 (26.42%) PySpark
4 51 (24.06%) SciPy
5 46 (21.70%) Kafka
6 33 (15.57%) React
7 29 (13.68%) gRPC
7 29 (13.68%) Protocol Buffers
8 28 (13.21%) J2EE
9 26 (12.26%) REST
10 24 (11.32%) AngularJS
11 23 (10.85%) Vue
12 22 (10.38%) pytest
13 21 (9.91%) Node.js
14 15 (7.08%) FastAPI
15 12 (5.66%) OAuth
16 11 (5.19%) Redux
17 10 (4.72%) OAuth2
17 10 (4.72%) OpenID
18 9 (4.25%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 49 (23.11%) Fixed Income
2 34 (16.04%) Hedge funds
3 33 (15.57%) Equities
3 33 (15.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 28 (13.21%) Derivative
5 15 (7.08%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (5.66%) Pricing Data
7 7 (3.30%) Cloud Native
8 5 (2.36%) Algorithms
8 5 (2.36%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.42%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.42%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.42%) NHS
9 3 (1.42%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.94%) Educational Technology
10 2 (0.94%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.94%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.47%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.47%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.36%) Linux
2 3 (1.42%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (61.32%) Software Engineering
2 115 (54.25%) Agile
3 93 (43.87%) Asset Management
4 83 (39.15%) CI/CD
5 58 (27.36%) DevOps
6 54 (25.47%) Data Engineering
7 44 (20.75%) Investment Management
8 40 (18.87%) Fintech
9 38 (17.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 36 (16.98%) Open Source
11 32 (15.09%) Test Automation
12 26 (12.26%) Artificial Intelligence
13 23 (10.85%) Analytics
14 22 (10.38%) Data Science
15 21 (9.91%) Machine Learning
15 21 (9.91%) Performance Attribution
16 18 (8.49%) Generative AI
17 17 (8.02%) Problem-Solving
18 16 (7.55%) Data Pipeline
19 12 (5.66%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 212 (100.00%) Python
2 74 (34.91%) Java
3 52 (24.53%) JavaScript
4 42 (19.81%) TypeScript
5 35 (16.51%) SQL
6 31 (14.62%) Go
7 13 (6.13%) C#
8 8 (3.77%) Scala
9 5 (2.36%) Bash
9 5 (2.36%) Clojure
9 5 (2.36%) Rust
10 4 (1.89%) C++
10 4 (1.89%) Elixir
11 3 (1.42%) C
11 3 (1.42%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.94%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.47%) Haskell
13 1 (0.47%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.47%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (4.72%) Degree
2 8 (3.77%) Master's Degree
3 5 (2.36%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.36%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.42%) CCNP
4 3 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (1.42%) PhD
5 1 (0.47%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.77%) QA
2 7 (3.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (2.36%) Data Quality
System Software
1 53 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 74 (34.91%) Kubernetes
2 58 (27.36%) Terraform
3 11 (5.19%) Ansible
4 3 (1.42%) Puppet
4 3 (1.42%) Salt
5 1 (0.47%) Podman
5 1 (0.47%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (2.83%) Databricks
2 4 (1.89%) Cisco
3 3 (1.42%) Arista
3 3 (1.42%) CheckPoint
3 3 (1.42%) Fortinet
3 3 (1.42%) Microsoft
4 2 (0.94%) Google
4 2 (0.94%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.47%) Confluent
5 1 (0.47%) VMware