Python Software Engineer Contracts in London

Python Software Engineer
England > London

The median Python Software Engineer daily rate in London is £725 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 301 465 457
Rank change year-on-year +164 -8 -64
Contract jobs requiring a Python Software Engineer 94 41 139
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.53% 0.15% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.16% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 36 127
10th Percentile £538 £438 -
25th Percentile £650 £552 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% +12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £800 £788 £650
90th Percentile £883 - £713
England median daily rate £725 £675 £600
% change year-on-year +7.41% +12.50% +14.29%

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 16,639 26,231 37,490
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.14% 95.27% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,042 18,937 27,371
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £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 341 300 454
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £22.05
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% - +12.90%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £64.53 £76.43 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.00 £43.25 £22.28
% change year-on-year -19.08% +94.12% -0.62%

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 18 April 2024.

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 18 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 - 4 £551 - 3
Python Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 April 2024, 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 94 (100.00%) Python
1 94 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 83 (88.30%) AWS
3 78 (82.98%) Finance
4 75 (79.79%) Asset Management
5 73 (77.66%) Front Office
5 73 (77.66%) Protocol Buffers
5 73 (77.66%) gRPC
5 73 (77.66%) Apache Airflow
6 72 (76.60%) TypeScript
7 70 (74.47%) Fixed Income
8 66 (70.21%) GCP
9 65 (69.15%) Agile
10 64 (68.09%) Apache
10 64 (68.09%) Apache Ignite
11 61 (64.89%) Banking
12 60 (63.83%) Investment Management
13 54 (57.45%) React
14 53 (56.38%) Hedge funds
15 50 (53.19%) Azure
16 48 (51.06%) Material-UI
17 44 (46.81%) Redux
18 42 (44.68%) Artificial Intelligence
19 41 (43.62%) Machine Learning
20 38 (40.43%) Pandas
20 38 (40.43%) Google
20 38 (40.43%) Full Stack Development
21 37 (39.36%) Equities
21 37 (39.36%) PostgreSQL
21 37 (39.36%) Automated Trading

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 73 (77.66%) Apache Airflow
2 64 (68.09%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 83 (88.30%) AWS
2 66 (70.21%) GCP
3 50 (53.19%) Azure
4 27 (28.72%) dbt
5 14 (14.89%) Snowflake
6 3 (3.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (3.19%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (3.19%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (3.19%) SaaS
6 3 (3.19%) Serverless
7 2 (2.13%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.13%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (2.13%) Pulumi
8 1 (1.06%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.06%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (1.06%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (1.06%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.06%) Cloud Run
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (68.09%) Apache Ignite
2 37 (39.36%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (28.72%) Amazon Athena
3 27 (28.72%) Apache Arrow
3 27 (28.72%) Dremio
4 14 (14.89%) Data Lake
5 5 (5.32%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.06%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 27 (28.72%) Cypress.io
2 2 (2.13%) webpack
3 1 (1.06%) Jenkins
General
1 78 (82.98%) Finance
2 73 (77.66%) Front Office
3 61 (64.89%) Banking
4 22 (23.40%) Investment Banking
5 3 (3.19%) Games
5 3 (3.19%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.13%) Law
7 1 (1.06%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (77.66%) gRPC
1 73 (77.66%) Protocol Buffers
2 54 (57.45%) React
3 48 (51.06%) Material-UI
4 44 (46.81%) Redux
5 38 (40.43%) Pandas
6 29 (30.85%) NumPy
7 27 (28.72%) SciPy
8 14 (14.89%) AngularJS
8 14 (14.89%) Vue
9 7 (7.45%) Node.js
10 4 (4.26%) Kafka
11 3 (3.19%) FastAPI
11 3 (3.19%) SQLAlchemy
11 3 (3.19%) WebSockets
12 2 (2.13%) Flask
12 2 (2.13%) Lambda Expressions
12 2 (2.13%) REST
12 2 (2.13%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 70 (74.47%) Fixed Income
2 53 (56.38%) Hedge funds
3 37 (39.36%) Equities
4 25 (26.60%) Derivative
4 25 (26.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.13%) Pricing Data
5 2 (2.13%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.13%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.06%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 75 (79.79%) Asset Management
3 65 (69.15%) Agile
4 60 (63.83%) Investment Management
5 42 (44.68%) Artificial Intelligence
6 41 (43.62%) Machine Learning
7 38 (40.43%) Full Stack Development
8 37 (39.36%) Automated Trading
9 22 (23.40%) Analytics
10 7 (7.45%) Line Management
10 7 (7.45%) Mentoring
11 5 (5.32%) Credit Risk Analysis
11 5 (5.32%) Data Architecture
11 5 (5.32%) End-to-End Testing
11 5 (5.32%) Fintech
11 5 (5.32%) Greeks
11 5 (5.32%) Integration Testing
11 5 (5.32%) Performance Attribution
11 5 (5.32%) Unit Testing
12 4 (4.26%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 94 (100.00%) Python
2 72 (76.60%) TypeScript
3 36 (38.30%) JavaScript
4 21 (22.34%) Java
5 17 (18.09%) SQL
6 5 (5.32%) Rust
7 2 (2.13%) C#
7 2 (2.13%) Clojure
7 2 (2.13%) Haskell
7 2 (2.13%) Ruby
7 2 (2.13%) Scala
8 1 (1.06%) C++
8 1 (1.06%) PHP
8 1 (1.06%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (4.26%) SC Cleared
1 4 (4.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.32%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (3.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (5.32%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 38 (40.43%) Google