Python Engineer Contracts in South London

Python Engineer
London > South London

The median Python Engineer daily rate in South London is £644, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 August 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
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 - 46
Rank change year-on-year - - +9
Contract jobs requiring a Python Engineer 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 0.58% - 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% - 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £644 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +36.59%
London median daily rate £750 £725 £650
% change year-on-year +3.45% +11.54% +8.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in South 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 South London with a recognized job title 155 175 327
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.12% 97.22% 93.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 122 243
10th Percentile £213 £363 £279
25th Percentile £381 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £528
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -5.30% +0.86%
75th Percentile £630 £558 £606
90th Percentile £703 £724 £688
London median daily rate £545 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 21
10th Percentile - - £15.00
25th Percentile - £17.25 £23.46
Median hourly rate £17.98 £19.50 £50.42
Median % change year-on-year -7.79% -61.32% +14.94%
75th Percentile - £71.88 £55.00
90th Percentile - £73.75 £65.11
London median hourly rate £29.54 £33.07 £37.50
% change year-on-year -10.69% -11.81% +12.78%

Python Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Python Engineer in South London

Python Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for Python Engineer in South London

Python Engineer
Contract Job Locations in South 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 South London region over the 6 months to 4 August 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
Croydon - 1 £644 - 2
Python Engineer
London

Python Engineer Skill Set
Top 22 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London

For the 6 months to 4 August 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 London region featuring Python Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) boto
1 1 (100.00%) pytest
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless

Python Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) boto
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) pytest
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes