Python Engineer Contracts in the South East

Python Engineer
England > South East

The median Python Engineer daily rate in the South East is £575, 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 152 197 220
Rank change year-on-year +45 +23 +34
Contract jobs requiring a Python Engineer 7 8 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.23% 0.14% 0.034%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.16% 0.036%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 2
10th Percentile £475 £545 £466
25th Percentile £543 £575 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -4.26%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £603
90th Percentile £594 £640 £624
England median daily rate £675 £650 £624
% change year-on-year +3.85% +4.21% +3.96%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 2,767 5,141 5,491
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.93% 92.50% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,821 3,084 3,829
10th Percentile £250 £213 £225
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.42%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £606
90th Percentile £663 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 481 240
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.78 £18.04
25th Percentile £20.06 £18.32 £22.16
Median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.50 £65.16
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £75.00
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 the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Python Engineer in the South East

Python Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python Engineer in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Python Engineer in the South East

Python Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Python Engineer in the South East

Python Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python Engineer in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Python Engineer in the South East

Python Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley +46 4 £575 +15.00% 8
Berkshire +34 4 £575 +15.00% 2
Hampshire +27 2 £569 - 3
Surrey +12 1 £425 -29.17% 4
Python Engineer
England

Python Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

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 South East region featuring Python Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
3 4 (57.14%) Generative AI
3 4 (57.14%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (57.14%) Software Engineering
3 4 (57.14%) Azure
4 3 (42.86%) CQRS
4 3 (42.86%) Telecoms
4 3 (42.86%) Databricks
4 3 (42.86%) Design Patterns
4 3 (42.86%) Virgin Media
5 2 (28.57%) Code Quality
5 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
5 2 (28.57%) AWS
5 2 (28.57%) Git
5 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
5 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
5 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
5 2 (28.57%) Docker
5 2 (28.57%) DevOps
5 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
5 2 (28.57%) PySpark
6 1 (14.29%) Cloud Operations
6 1 (14.29%) CA Release Automation
6 1 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
6 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (14.29%) Clean Code
6 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (14.29%) SonarQube

Python Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
1 1 (14.29%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
2 1 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (14.29%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket Server
2 1 (14.29%) CA Release Automation
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) SonarQube
2 1 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (14.29%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (42.86%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) PySpark
2 1 (14.29%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) ADO
2 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
2 1 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
1 1 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (57.14%) Generative AI
2 4 (57.14%) Software Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) CQRS
3 3 (42.86%) Design Patterns
4 2 (28.57%) Code Quality
4 2 (28.57%) DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) Build Automation
5 1 (14.29%) Concurrent Programming
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (14.29%) Data Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) Data Governance
5 1 (14.29%) LLM
5 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
5 1 (14.29%) Microservices
5 1 (14.29%) Migration
5 1 (14.29%) Multithreading
5 1 (14.29%) OO
5 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) Perl
3 1 (14.29%) Ruby
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Kibana
2 1 (14.29%) Progress Chef
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Databricks
1 3 (42.86%) Virgin Media
2 1 (14.29%) AppDynamics
2 1 (14.29%) Foundry
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Palantir
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
2 1 (14.29%) Splunk