Python Software Engineer Contracts in London

Python Software Engineer
England > London

The median Python Software Engineer daily rate in London is £750, 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 286 283 452
Rank change year-on-year -3 +169 +5
Contract jobs requiring a Python Software Engineer 67 108 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.53% 0.61% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.65% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 99 36
10th Percentile - £538 £438
25th Percentile £638 £650 £552
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £725 £675
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +7.41% +12.50%
75th Percentile £875 £850 £788
90th Percentile £880 £888 -
England median daily rate £750 £725 £675
% change year-on-year +3.45% +7.41% +12.50%

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 Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Python Software Engineer in London

Python Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Python Software Engineer in London

Python Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python Software Engineer in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python Software Engineer in London

Python Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Python Software Engineer in London

Python Software 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 Software 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 +3 3 £800 +45.32% 16
South London - 2 £750 -
Python Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Python Software 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 67 (100.00%) Python
1 67 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 60 (89.55%) Agile
3 59 (88.06%) Finance
4 50 (74.63%) AWS
5 48 (71.64%) Front Office
6 47 (70.15%) Fixed Income
6 47 (70.15%) Asset Management
6 47 (70.15%) Apache Airflow
6 47 (70.15%) Amazon Athena
6 47 (70.15%) Dremio
6 47 (70.15%) dbt
6 47 (70.15%) Apache Arrow
6 47 (70.15%) Apache Iceberg
7 46 (68.66%) Pandas
7 46 (68.66%) NumPy
8 40 (59.70%) SciPy
8 40 (59.70%) JavaScript
8 40 (59.70%) TypeScript
9 37 (55.22%) Apache
10 35 (52.24%) Investment Management
11 31 (46.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 31 (46.27%) Equities
12 29 (43.28%) gRPC
12 29 (43.28%) Protocol Buffers
12 29 (43.28%) Banking
12 29 (43.28%) Java
12 29 (43.28%) Apache Ignite
13 27 (40.30%) Hedge funds
13 27 (40.30%) GCP

Python Software 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 47 (70.15%) Apache Airflow
2 37 (55.22%) Apache
3 2 (2.99%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 50 (74.63%) AWS
2 47 (70.15%) dbt
3 27 (40.30%) GCP
4 26 (38.81%) Snowflake
5 11 (16.42%) Azure
6 9 (13.43%) GitHub
6 9 (13.43%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (11.94%) Azure AKS
7 8 (11.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 8 (11.94%) Azure Service Bus
7 8 (11.94%) Entra ID
8 6 (8.96%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (8.96%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (8.96%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (8.96%) Dagster
9 2 (2.99%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (2.99%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (2.99%) Serverless
10 1 (1.49%) Datadog
10 1 (1.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.97%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (70.15%) Amazon Athena
1 47 (70.15%) Apache Arrow
1 47 (70.15%) Apache Iceberg
1 47 (70.15%) Dremio
2 29 (43.28%) Apache Ignite
3 18 (26.87%) Data Lake
4 10 (14.93%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (13.43%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.99%) Impala
6 2 (2.99%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.99%) Redis
7 1 (1.49%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.49%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (4.48%) Git
2 2 (2.99%) Artifactory
2 2 (2.99%) Bitbucket
2 2 (2.99%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.99%) JIRA
2 2 (2.99%) SonarQube
2 2 (2.99%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (1.49%) GitLab
General
1 59 (88.06%) Finance
2 48 (71.64%) Front Office
3 29 (43.28%) Banking
4 26 (38.81%) Investment Banking
5 5 (7.46%) Social Skills
6 2 (2.99%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.49%) Advertising
7 1 (1.49%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.49%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (68.66%) NumPy
1 46 (68.66%) Pandas
2 40 (59.70%) SciPy
3 29 (43.28%) gRPC
3 29 (43.28%) Protocol Buffers
4 23 (34.33%) React
5 22 (32.84%) AngularJS
6 21 (31.34%) Node.js
6 21 (31.34%) Vue
7 14 (20.90%) PySpark
8 11 (16.42%) Redux
9 9 (13.43%) Kafka
9 9 (13.43%) OAuth
10 8 (11.94%) OAuth2
10 8 (11.94%) OpenID
11 7 (10.45%) OpenTelemetry
12 6 (8.96%) REST
13 3 (4.48%) FastAPI
13 3 (4.48%) RESTful
14 2 (2.99%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 47 (70.15%) Fixed Income
2 31 (46.27%) Equities
2 31 (46.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 27 (40.30%) Hedge funds
4 26 (38.81%) Derivative
5 12 (17.91%) Pricing Data
6 2 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.99%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.49%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.49%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.49%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.49%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 60 (89.55%) Agile
3 47 (70.15%) Asset Management
4 35 (52.24%) Investment Management
5 21 (31.34%) Fintech
5 21 (31.34%) Performance Attribution
6 12 (17.91%) Risk Management
7 11 (16.42%) Credit Risk Analysis
7 11 (16.42%) Test Automation
8 10 (14.93%) Order Management
9 8 (11.94%) Data Management
10 7 (10.45%) CI/CD
10 7 (10.45%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (8.96%) Event-Driven
11 6 (8.96%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 6 (8.96%) Migration
11 6 (8.96%) Quantitative Finance
12 5 (7.46%) Continuous Delivery
12 5 (7.46%) Microservices
12 5 (7.46%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 67 (100.00%) Python
2 40 (59.70%) JavaScript
2 40 (59.70%) TypeScript
3 29 (43.28%) Java
4 11 (16.42%) SQL
5 10 (14.93%) C#
6 2 (2.99%) Go
7 1 (1.49%) Clojure
7 1 (1.49%) Haskell
7 1 (1.49%) Rust
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (2.99%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (14.93%) Kubernetes
1 10 (14.93%) Terraform
2 3 (4.48%) Ansible
3 1 (1.49%) Podman
3 1 (1.49%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (1.49%) Databricks