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 5 May 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 202 304 244
Rank change year-on-year +102 -60 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Python Engineer 199 209 461
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.12% 0.78% 1.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.21% 0.82% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 184 407
10th Percentile £463 £460 £513
25th Percentile £538 £561 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +12.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £800 £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 - £22.64
% change year-on-year - - -28.71%

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 16,501 25,472 37,134
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.24% 95.25% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,931 18,450 27,143
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £681
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 290 447
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.40
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.53 £22.24
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.99% +0.71% +10.62%
75th Percentile £43.75 £61.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £78.20 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.05% +95.56% +2.27%

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 5 May 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 5 May 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 +40 18 £665 +4.31% 7
West London +23 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 5 May 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.

1 199 (100.00%) Python
2 117 (58.79%) Software Engineering
2 117 (58.79%) AWS
3 110 (55.28%) Finance
4 97 (48.74%) Apache Airflow
5 96 (48.24%) Agile
6 92 (46.23%) Asset Management
7 88 (44.22%) Front Office
7 88 (44.22%) Protocol Buffers
7 88 (44.22%) TypeScript
7 88 (44.22%) gRPC
8 87 (43.72%) Fixed Income
9 85 (42.71%) Apache
10 83 (41.71%) Banking
11 82 (41.21%) Investment Management
11 82 (41.21%) Apache Ignite
12 80 (40.20%) Azure
13 75 (37.69%) Hedge funds
13 75 (37.69%) GCP
14 68 (34.17%) Artificial Intelligence
15 66 (33.17%) React
16 62 (31.16%) Pandas
17 57 (28.64%) Material-UI
17 57 (28.64%) Full Stack Development
18 56 (28.14%) Redux
18 56 (28.14%) Machine Learning
19 54 (27.14%) NumPy
20 51 (25.63%) PostgreSQL
20 51 (25.63%) Automated Trading
21 50 (25.13%) Equities

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 97 (48.74%) Apache Airflow
2 85 (42.71%) Apache
3 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.50%) nginx
3 1 (0.50%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.50%) Tornado
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 117 (58.79%) AWS
2 80 (40.20%) Azure
3 75 (37.69%) GCP
4 36 (18.09%) dbt
5 23 (11.56%) Snowflake
6 15 (7.54%) Serverless
7 10 (5.03%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (3.02%) Amazon S3
8 6 (3.02%) GitHub
9 5 (2.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (2.01%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.01%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (2.01%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (2.01%) Dagster
10 4 (2.01%) IaaS
11 3 (1.51%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.51%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (1.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (1.51%) Power Platform
11 3 (1.51%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.51%) Firewall
2 1 (0.50%) 5G
2 1 (0.50%) MQTT
2 1 (0.50%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.50%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.50%) WAN
2 1 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (41.21%) Apache Ignite
2 51 (25.63%) PostgreSQL
3 33 (16.58%) Amazon Athena
3 33 (16.58%) Apache Arrow
3 33 (16.58%) Dremio
4 25 (12.56%) Data Lake
5 12 (6.03%) NoSQL
6 10 (5.03%) Big Data
7 9 (4.52%) MongoDB
8 5 (2.51%) Sybase ASE
9 4 (2.01%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.51%) Power BI
11 2 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (1.01%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (1.01%) DynamoDB
11 2 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (1.01%) SQL Server
12 1 (0.50%) Presto
Development Applications
1 35 (17.59%) Cypress.io
2 19 (9.55%) Git
3 15 (7.54%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.51%) Artifactory
4 5 (2.51%) Maven
4 5 (2.51%) TeamCity
5 4 (2.01%) Gradle
6 3 (1.51%) GitLab
6 3 (1.51%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.01%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.01%) git-flow
7 2 (1.01%) Subversion
7 2 (1.01%) webpack
8 1 (0.50%) Ant
8 1 (0.50%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.50%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.50%) JIRA
8 1 (0.50%) JUnit
8 1 (0.50%) RStudio
8 1 (0.50%) Selenium
General
1 110 (55.28%) Finance
2 88 (44.22%) Front Office
3 83 (41.71%) Banking
4 29 (14.57%) Investment Banking
5 18 (9.05%) Social Skills
6 10 (5.03%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.51%) Law
8 3 (1.51%) Games
8 3 (1.51%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.50%) Aviation
10 1 (0.50%) Dutch Language
10 1 (0.50%) Music Industry
10 1 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (44.22%) gRPC
1 88 (44.22%) Protocol Buffers
2 66 (33.17%) React
3 62 (31.16%) Pandas
4 57 (28.64%) Material-UI
5 56 (28.14%) Redux
6 54 (27.14%) NumPy
7 45 (22.61%) SciPy
8 23 (11.56%) Kafka
9 17 (8.54%) PySpark
10 11 (5.53%) AngularJS
10 11 (5.53%) Vue
11 9 (4.52%) REST
11 9 (4.52%) RESTful
12 8 (4.02%) Node.js
12 8 (4.02%) RabbitMQ
13 7 (3.52%) FastAPI
13 7 (3.52%) Lambda Expressions
14 6 (3.02%) Flask
15 5 (2.51%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 87 (43.72%) Fixed Income
2 75 (37.69%) Hedge funds
3 50 (25.13%) Equities
4 30 (15.08%) Derivative
4 30 (15.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 14 (7.04%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (4.52%) Data Structures
7 8 (4.02%) Algorithms
8 6 (3.02%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (3.02%) Pricing Data
9 4 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (2.01%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (1.51%) Management Information System
11 2 (1.01%) Hackathon
11 2 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (1.01%) Product Ownership
11 2 (1.01%) Public Cloud
11 2 (1.01%) Solar Panel
12 1 (0.50%) Cloud Native
12 1 (0.50%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 24 (12.06%) Linux
2 5 (2.51%) Windows
3 4 (2.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.51%) Android
4 3 (1.51%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.51%) Unix
5 2 (1.01%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.50%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (58.79%) Software Engineering
2 96 (48.24%) Agile
3 92 (46.23%) Asset Management
4 82 (41.21%) Investment Management
5 68 (34.17%) Artificial Intelligence
6 57 (28.64%) Full Stack Development
7 56 (28.14%) Machine Learning
8 51 (25.63%) Automated Trading
9 34 (17.09%) CI/CD
10 28 (14.07%) DevOps
11 22 (11.06%) Analytics
12 15 (7.54%) Mathematics
13 14 (7.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 14 (7.04%) Microservices
14 13 (6.53%) Mentoring
14 13 (6.53%) Test Automation
15 12 (6.03%) Data Pipeline
15 12 (6.03%) Mathematical Modelling
15 12 (6.03%) Problem-Solving
16 10 (5.03%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 199 (100.00%) Python
2 88 (44.22%) TypeScript
3 46 (23.12%) SQL
4 43 (21.61%) Java
5 42 (21.11%) JavaScript
6 16 (8.04%) Shell Script
7 15 (7.54%) C++
8 8 (4.02%) PowerShell
9 7 (3.52%) Go
10 6 (3.02%) Perl
11 5 (2.51%) Bash
11 5 (2.51%) C#
11 5 (2.51%) Rust
11 5 (2.51%) Scala
12 2 (1.01%) C
12 2 (1.01%) Clojure
12 2 (1.01%) Haskell
12 2 (1.01%) Ruby
13 1 (0.50%) Groovy
13 1 (0.50%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (3.02%) Degree
2 4 (2.01%) SC Cleared
2 4 (2.01%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.50%) CCNP
4 1 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.52%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.51%) QA
System Software
1 20 (10.05%) Docker
2 8 (4.02%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.50%) iptables
4 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 33 (16.58%) Kubernetes
2 18 (9.05%) Terraform
3 17 (8.54%) Ansible
4 9 (4.52%) Grafana
4 9 (4.52%) Prometheus
5 8 (4.02%) Consul
6 6 (3.02%) Puppet
7 4 (2.01%) Argo
8 2 (1.01%) BladeLogic
8 2 (1.01%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (1.01%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 50 (25.13%) Google
2 14 (7.04%) Microsoft
3 11 (5.53%) Databricks
4 8 (4.02%) SaltStack
5 6 (3.02%) Sybase
6 4 (2.01%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.01%) VMware
7 2 (1.01%) Altiris
7 2 (1.01%) Citrix
7 2 (1.01%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.01%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.50%) Cisco
8 1 (0.50%) Confluent
8 1 (0.50%) Foundry
8 1 (0.50%) Oracle
8 1 (0.50%) Palantir
8 1 (0.50%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.50%) SAP