Python Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Python Engineer
England > London

The median Python Engineer daily rate in London is £675, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

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

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 172 163 233
Rank change year-on-year -9 +70 +31
Contract jobs requiring a Python Engineer 228 243 179
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.59% 1.56% 0.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.73% 1.66% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 209 155
10th Percentile £430 £495 £493
25th Percentile £525 £600 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% +6.56%
75th Percentile £825 £850 £756
90th Percentile £875 £878 £800
England median daily rate £625 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £29.88 - -
25th Percentile £35.31 - -
Median hourly rate £45.00 - -
75th Percentile £54.06 - -
90th Percentile £59.13 - -
England median hourly rate £54.70 - £64.00
% change year-on-year - - +21.90%

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 13,179 14,595 18,242
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.19% 93.55% 93.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,760 9,478 13,182
10th Percentile £338 £338 £336
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £799 £788
England median daily rate £507 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 152 214
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.05
25th Percentile £21.12 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £27.61 £36.65 £36.14
Median % change year-on-year -24.68% +1.41% +3.26%
75th Percentile £53.59 £54.06 £58.75
90th Percentile £75.16 £80.75 £73.31
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.48% -17.22% +36.36%

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 13 December 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Python Engineer in London over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 13 December 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 +23 21 £570 -8.80% 5
South London -3 4 £531 -29.20% 1
West London -14 1 £600 +2.13% 3
East London - 1 - -
Python Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, 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.

1 228 (100.00%) Python
2 139 (60.96%) AWS
3 85 (37.28%) Software Engineering
4 67 (29.39%) Agile
5 65 (28.51%) CI/CD
6 57 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
7 50 (21.93%) JavaScript
7 50 (21.93%) Pandas
8 49 (21.49%) Investment Management
9 48 (21.05%) NumPy
10 47 (20.61%) DevOps
11 46 (20.18%) dbt
11 46 (20.18%) Java
12 45 (19.74%) TypeScript
13 42 (18.42%) Amazon Athena
13 42 (18.42%) Asset Management
14 41 (17.98%) Apache Arrow
14 41 (17.98%) Apache Iceberg
14 41 (17.98%) Dremio
14 41 (17.98%) SciPy
15 40 (17.54%) Kubernetes
16 38 (16.67%) Snowflake
16 38 (16.67%) SQL
17 35 (15.35%) AI
17 35 (15.35%) Data Pipeline
17 35 (15.35%) Machine Learning
17 35 (15.35%) Terraform
18 34 (14.91%) Docker
19 32 (14.04%) Azure
19 32 (14.04%) Data Lake

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 57 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
2 29 (12.72%) Apache
3 9 (3.95%) Confluence
4 6 (2.63%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.88%) SAS
6 1 (0.44%) Luigi
Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.44%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 139 (60.96%) AWS
2 46 (20.18%) dbt
3 38 (16.67%) Snowflake
4 32 (14.04%) Azure
5 31 (13.60%) GCP
6 23 (10.09%) GitHub
7 16 (7.02%) Serverless
8 15 (6.58%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (6.14%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (5.26%) Amazon S3
11 11 (4.82%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (3.51%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (3.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (2.63%) Amazon Kinesis
14 6 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
14 6 (2.63%) Power Platform
15 4 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
15 4 (1.75%) Azure Data Factory
16 3 (1.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 3 (1.32%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.63%) Firewall
1 6 (2.63%) Network Security
2 4 (1.75%) HTTP
2 4 (1.75%) SSL
2 4 (1.75%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.32%) BGP
3 3 (1.32%) DNS
3 3 (1.32%) OpenLDAP
3 3 (1.32%) OSPF
4 2 (0.88%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (0.88%) Ethernet VPN
4 2 (0.88%) IOS XR
4 2 (0.88%) MPLS
4 2 (0.88%) NX-OS
4 2 (0.88%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.88%) VXLAN
4 2 (0.88%) WAN
5 1 (0.44%) IPsec
5 1 (0.44%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.44%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (18.42%) Amazon Athena
2 41 (17.98%) Apache Arrow
2 41 (17.98%) Apache Iceberg
2 41 (17.98%) Dremio
3 32 (14.04%) Data Lake
4 28 (12.28%) Apache Ignite
5 27 (11.84%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (3.51%) NoSQL
6 8 (3.51%) Relational Database
7 7 (3.07%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (2.63%) BigQuery
8 6 (2.63%) Flink
8 6 (2.63%) Power BI
9 5 (2.19%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (2.19%) Big Data
9 5 (2.19%) Hadoop
9 5 (2.19%) Tableau
10 4 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (1.75%) DynamoDB
10 4 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 21 (9.21%) Git
2 13 (5.70%) Jenkins
3 11 (4.82%) GitLab
4 9 (3.95%) JIRA
5 8 (3.51%) MLflow
6 4 (1.75%) Robot Framework
7 3 (1.32%) Selenium
7 3 (1.32%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.88%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.44%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.44%) ERwin
9 1 (0.44%) JMeter
9 1 (0.44%) Locust
9 1 (0.44%) Maven
9 1 (0.44%) PyCharm
9 1 (0.44%) PyUnit
9 1 (0.44%) Visual Studio
General
1 94 (41.23%) Finance
2 49 (21.49%) Front Office
3 44 (19.30%) Banking
4 37 (16.23%) Social Skills
5 32 (14.04%) Investment Banking
6 13 (5.70%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (3.07%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.75%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.32%) Back Office
9 3 (1.32%) Publishing
9 3 (1.32%) Retail
10 2 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.88%) Legal
10 2 (0.88%) Marketing
10 2 (0.88%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.44%) Advertising
11 1 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.44%) Military
11 1 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (21.93%) Pandas
2 48 (21.05%) NumPy
3 41 (17.98%) SciPy
4 28 (12.28%) gRPC
4 28 (12.28%) Kafka
4 28 (12.28%) Protocol Buffers
5 23 (10.09%) React
6 15 (6.58%) Node.js
7 14 (6.14%) AngularJS
7 14 (6.14%) Vue
8 12 (5.26%) PySpark
9 9 (3.95%) RESTful
10 8 (3.51%) REST
11 7 (3.07%) pytest
12 6 (2.63%) FastAPI
13 5 (2.19%) boto
13 5 (2.19%) LangChain
13 5 (2.19%) LDAP
14 4 (1.75%) Django
14 4 (1.75%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 51 (22.37%) Hedge funds
2 49 (21.49%) Fixed Income
3 41 (17.98%) Equities
3 41 (17.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 28 (12.28%) Derivative
4 28 (12.28%) Pricing Data
5 12 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
6 11 (4.82%) Cloud Native
7 7 (3.07%) Virtual Team
8 6 (2.63%) Data Structures
9 5 (2.19%) Data Centre
9 5 (2.19%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (2.19%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.75%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.32%) Algorithms
11 3 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.32%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.32%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.32%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 27 (11.84%) Linux
2 5 (2.19%) Unix
3 2 (0.88%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.44%) Android
4 1 (0.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (37.28%) Software Engineering
2 67 (29.39%) Agile
3 65 (28.51%) CI/CD
4 49 (21.49%) Investment Management
5 47 (20.61%) DevOps
6 42 (18.42%) Asset Management
7 35 (15.35%) AI
7 35 (15.35%) Data Pipeline
7 35 (15.35%) Machine Learning
8 27 (11.84%) Data Science
9 25 (10.96%) Infrastructure as Code
9 25 (10.96%) Problem-Solving
10 20 (8.77%) Data Engineering
10 20 (8.77%) Microservices
10 20 (8.77%) Test Automation
11 18 (7.89%) Observability
12 17 (7.46%) Code Quality
12 17 (7.46%) ETL
13 15 (6.58%) Data Modelling
13 15 (6.58%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 228 (100.00%) Python
2 50 (21.93%) JavaScript
3 46 (20.18%) Java
4 45 (19.74%) TypeScript
5 38 (16.67%) SQL
6 18 (7.89%) Go
7 11 (4.82%) C++
8 7 (3.07%) Bash
8 7 (3.07%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.63%) PromQL
10 4 (1.75%) Perl
11 3 (1.32%) C#
11 3 (1.32%) MATLAB
11 3 (1.32%) R
11 3 (1.32%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.88%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.88%) Ruby
12 2 (0.88%) Scala
13 1 (0.44%) DAML
13 1 (0.44%) Rust
Qualifications
1 24 (10.53%) SC Cleared
1 24 (10.53%) Security Cleared
2 6 (2.63%) Degree
3 4 (1.75%) DV Cleared
3 4 (1.75%) MCP
4 3 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.88%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.44%) CCNP
6 1 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.44%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.44%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.51%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.19%) QA
3 3 (1.32%) GDPR
4 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.44%) Dodd-Frank
4 1 (0.44%) EMIR
System Software
1 34 (14.91%) Docker
2 9 (3.95%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.44%) zsh
Systems Management
1 40 (17.54%) Kubernetes
2 35 (15.35%) Terraform
3 26 (11.40%) Ansible
4 8 (3.51%) Prometheus
5 7 (3.07%) Argo
5 7 (3.07%) Grafana
6 2 (0.88%) Kubeflow
6 2 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.44%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.44%) Puppet
Vendors
1 21 (9.21%) Databricks
2 19 (8.33%) Arista
3 9 (3.95%) Google
4 8 (3.51%) Microsoft
5 7 (3.07%) Splunk
6 6 (2.63%) CrowdStrike
6 6 (2.63%) Forcepoint
7 5 (2.19%) Foundry
8 4 (1.75%) Cloudera
8 4 (1.75%) F5
8 4 (1.75%) Palantir
9 3 (1.32%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.32%) Cisco
10 2 (0.88%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.88%) Oracle
10 2 (0.88%) Virgin Media
11 1 (0.44%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.44%) Palo Alto
11 1 (0.44%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.44%) SnapLogic