Python Data Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Python Data Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Python Data Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £475, 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 315 393 443
Rank change year-on-year +78 +50 +59
Contract jobs requiring a Python Data Engineer 21 6 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.029% 0.079%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.031% 0.084%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 4 14
10th Percentile £412 £461 £408
25th Percentile £413 £476 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £480
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +8.33% -0.21%
75th Percentile £488 £575 £628
90th Percentile £600 £620 £705
UK median daily rate £588 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +17.50% -16.67% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Python Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Python Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Python Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python Data Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Python Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Python Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Python Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Python Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python Data Engineer within the UK excluding 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
North of England +27 10 £475 -3.06% 2
North West +24 8 £475 - 1
Midlands +26 6 £535 -2.73% 1
West Midlands +16 4 £650 +18.18%
Scotland +15 3 £475 +5.56% 1
Yorkshire +9 2 £475 -3.06%
East Midlands - 2 £420 - 1
South East - 1 - -
Wales - 1 £550 -
Python Data Engineer
UK

Python Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Python Data 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 UK excluding London region featuring Python Data Engineer in the job title.

1 21 (100.00%) Python
2 9 (42.86%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (42.86%) Azure
3 8 (38.10%) AWS
3 8 (38.10%) PySpark
3 8 (38.10%) Docker
3 8 (38.10%) Data Pipeline
3 8 (38.10%) Containerisation
4 7 (33.33%) Kubernetes
5 6 (28.57%) Analytics
6 5 (23.81%) SQL
6 5 (23.81%) Apache
6 5 (23.81%) CI/CD
7 4 (19.05%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 4 (19.05%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (19.05%) ETL
7 4 (19.05%) SC Cleared
7 4 (19.05%) Security Cleared
7 4 (19.05%) Decision-Making
7 4 (19.05%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (19.05%) Amazon S3
8 3 (14.29%) Data Integration
8 3 (14.29%) Pandas
8 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (14.29%) Databricks
8 3 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (14.29%) Data Engineering
8 3 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (14.29%) Git

Python Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 9 (42.86%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (23.81%) Apache
3 2 (9.52%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 9 (42.86%) Azure
2 8 (38.10%) AWS
3 4 (19.05%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (19.05%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (19.05%) Amazon S3
4 3 (14.29%) Snowflake
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Data Pipeline
5 1 (4.76%) dbt
5 1 (4.76%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
1 2 (9.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (4.76%) Big Data
2 1 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.76%) Delta Lake
2 1 (4.76%) Hadoop
2 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Git
General
1 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Finance
2 2 (9.52%) Financial Institution
3 1 (4.76%) Front Office
3 1 (4.76%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (38.10%) PySpark
2 3 (14.29%) Apache NiFi
2 3 (14.29%) Pandas
3 1 (4.76%) Great Expectations
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
1 3 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.76%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (38.10%) Containerisation
1 8 (38.10%) Data Pipeline
2 6 (28.57%) Analytics
3 5 (23.81%) CI/CD
4 4 (19.05%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 4 (19.05%) Decision-Making
4 4 (19.05%) ETL
5 3 (14.29%) Data Engineering
5 3 (14.29%) Data Integration
5 3 (14.29%) DataOps
5 3 (14.29%) Storage Management
5 3 (14.29%) Workflow
6 2 (9.52%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (9.52%) Continuous Deployment
6 2 (9.52%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (9.52%) Data Migration
6 2 (9.52%) Data Science
6 2 (9.52%) Data Transformation
6 2 (9.52%) Operational Stability
6 2 (9.52%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 21 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (23.81%) SQL
3 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) SC Cleared
1 4 (19.05%) Security Cleared
2 3 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 2 (9.52%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 8 (38.10%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) Databricks
2 1 (4.76%) Foundry
2 1 (4.76%) HubSpot
2 1 (4.76%) Palantir