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 £463, 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 344 363 412
Rank change year-on-year +19 +49 +83
Contract jobs requiring a Python Data Engineer 19 8 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.043% 0.099%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.047% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 6 16
10th Percentile £410 £438 £406
25th Percentile £413 £459 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £495 £488
Median % change year-on-year -6.57% +1.54% -17.02%
75th Percentile £488 £500 £578
90th Percentile - £575 £638
UK median daily rate £490 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -16.60% -2.08% -2.04%

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 13,732 16,995 21,083
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.35% 92.01% 94.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,406 10,368 14,278
10th Percentile £215 £219 £230
25th Percentile £363 £375 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.04%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £684 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,206 1,772 1,162
10th Percentile £13.36 £14.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.50 £18.35 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.90 £38.95
Median % change year-on-year -42.71% +12.71% +83.08%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -41.51% - +67.45%

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
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 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
North of England -4 9 £475 -3.06% 2
North West +3 8 £475 - 2
Scotland +2 5 £463 +2.78% 1
Midlands -4 4 £420 - 1
West Midlands -2 2 - - 1
East Midlands - 2 £420 -
South East +28 1 - - 4
Yorkshire -4 1 - -
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 4 August 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 19 (100.00%) Python
2 10 (52.63%) Containerisation
2 10 (52.63%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (47.37%) Kubernetes
4 8 (42.11%) Docker
5 7 (36.84%) AWS
5 7 (36.84%) Data Pipeline
6 6 (31.58%) Azure
6 6 (31.58%) SQL
6 6 (31.58%) Apache
7 5 (26.32%) ETL
7 5 (26.32%) Workflow
7 5 (26.32%) Data Integration
7 5 (26.32%) Git
7 5 (26.32%) Big Data
7 5 (26.32%) CI/CD
7 5 (26.32%) Snowflake
7 5 (26.32%) PySpark
8 4 (21.05%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (21.05%) Data Engineering
8 4 (21.05%) Analytics
8 4 (21.05%) Apache Spark
8 4 (21.05%) RESTful
8 4 (21.05%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (21.05%) Amazon S3
8 4 (21.05%) Agile
9 3 (15.79%) Artificial Intelligence
9 3 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
9 3 (15.79%) Hadoop
9 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared

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 10 (52.63%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (31.58%) Apache
3 4 (21.05%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 7 (36.84%) AWS
2 6 (31.58%) Azure
3 5 (26.32%) Snowflake
4 4 (21.05%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (21.05%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (21.05%) Amazon S3
5 2 (10.53%) OpenShift
5 2 (10.53%) Power Platform
6 1 (5.26%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) Big Data
2 3 (15.79%) Hadoop
3 2 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (10.53%) NoSQL
3 2 (10.53%) Power BI
3 2 (10.53%) Redis
3 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
3 2 (10.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (5.26%) Delta Lake
4 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Git
2 2 (10.53%) Artifactory
2 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Finance
3 1 (5.26%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) PySpark
2 4 (21.05%) RESTful
3 3 (15.79%) Apache NiFi
3 3 (15.79%) Pandas
4 2 (10.53%) FastAPI
4 2 (10.53%) Flask
4 2 (10.53%) Hugging Face
4 2 (10.53%) Kafka
4 2 (10.53%) LangChain
4 2 (10.53%) LangGraph
4 2 (10.53%) Loki
4 2 (10.53%) OAuth
4 2 (10.53%) OAuth2
4 2 (10.53%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (10.53%) PyTorch
4 2 (10.53%) REST
4 2 (10.53%) TensorFlow
5 1 (5.26%) Great Expectations
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (15.79%) Onboarding
2 2 (10.53%) AI Agents
2 2 (10.53%) Private Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) Containerisation
2 7 (36.84%) Data Pipeline
3 5 (26.32%) CI/CD
3 5 (26.32%) Data Integration
3 5 (26.32%) ETL
3 5 (26.32%) Workflow
4 4 (21.05%) Agile
4 4 (21.05%) Analytics
4 4 (21.05%) Data Engineering
5 3 (15.79%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (15.79%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 3 (15.79%) DataOps
5 3 (15.79%) Decision-Making
5 3 (15.79%) Generative AI
5 3 (15.79%) LLM
5 3 (15.79%) Machine Learning
5 3 (15.79%) Storage Management
6 2 (10.53%) Configuration Management
6 2 (10.53%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 19 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (31.58%) SQL
3 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) BPSS Clearance
1 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
1 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (10.53%) Degree
2 2 (10.53%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.26%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 8 (42.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (47.37%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.53%) Grafana
2 2 (10.53%) Kustomize
2 2 (10.53%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Databricks
1 2 (10.53%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.26%) Foundry
2 1 (5.26%) HubSpot
2 1 (5.26%) Palantir