Python Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Python Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Python 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 255 333 406
Rank change year-on-year +78 +73 +38
Contract jobs requiring a Python Engineer 81 66 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.63% 0.32% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% 0.34% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 37 38
10th Percentile £410 £440 £425
25th Percentile £413 £500 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £635
90th Percentile £594 £655 £672
UK median daily rate £634 £638 £623
% change year-on-year -0.59% +2.41% +3.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £64.25 £56.25
Median hourly rate - £65.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - +13.91% -
75th Percentile - £66.75 £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £65.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year - +13.91% +154.03%

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 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Python Engineer in the UK excluding London

Python Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Python Engineer in the UK excluding London

Python Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Python Engineer in the UK excluding London

Python Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Python Engineer in the UK excluding London

Python 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 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
Scotland +15 37 £456 -18.89% 6
North of England +34 22 £475 -7.32% 28
North West +26 15 £475 -9.52% 22
Midlands +28 8 £537 -2.36% 6
South East +45 7 £575 -4.17% 35
Yorkshire +14 7 £500 +2.04% 5
West Midlands +17 5 £650 +18.18% 2
South West +45 4 £444 -19.32% 7
East Midlands - 3 £420 - 4
Wales - 2 £563 -
East of England +21 1 £313 -30.56% 11
Python Engineer
UK

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

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 UK excluding London region featuring Python Engineer in the job title.

1 81 (100.00%) Python
2 28 (34.57%) AWS
3 27 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 24 (29.63%) Social Skills
5 22 (27.16%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (25.93%) Kubernetes
6 21 (25.93%) Azure
6 21 (25.93%) SQL
6 21 (25.93%) Linux
7 20 (24.69%) Docker
8 18 (22.22%) Software Engineering
8 18 (22.22%) Containerisation
9 17 (20.99%) Management Information System
9 17 (20.99%) TypeScript
10 16 (19.75%) Git
11 15 (18.52%) Unix
11 15 (18.52%) Windows
11 15 (18.52%) Jenkins
11 15 (18.52%) Decision-Making
12 14 (17.28%) Data Science
12 14 (17.28%) Artificial Intelligence
13 13 (16.05%) Finance
13 13 (16.05%) Distributed Systems
14 12 (14.81%) Data-Driven Decision Making
14 12 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
14 12 (14.81%) JavaScript
15 11 (13.58%) Java
15 11 (13.58%) Agile
15 11 (13.58%) Cloud Computing
15 11 (13.58%) DevOps

Python 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 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (6.17%) Apache
3 2 (2.47%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.47%) Confluence
3 2 (2.47%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 28 (34.57%) AWS
2 21 (25.93%) Azure
3 11 (13.58%) Cloud Computing
4 9 (11.11%) Serverless
5 7 (8.64%) Amazon S3
5 7 (8.64%) OpenShift
6 6 (7.41%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (6.17%) IaaS
8 4 (4.94%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (4.94%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (4.94%) GCP
9 3 (3.70%) Snowflake
10 2 (2.47%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (2.47%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (2.47%) GitHub
10 2 (2.47%) Prefect
11 1 (1.23%) AWS Data Pipeline
11 1 (1.23%) dbt
11 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.94%) Network Security
1 4 (4.94%) SAN
1 4 (4.94%) VPN
2 3 (3.70%) NAS
3 1 (1.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.17%) Relational Database
1 5 (6.17%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.94%) Big Data
3 3 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.70%) RDBMS
4 2 (2.47%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.47%) Hadoop
4 2 (2.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.23%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.23%) DB2
5 1 (1.23%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.23%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (1.23%) GIS
5 1 (1.23%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.23%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 16 (19.75%) Git
2 15 (18.52%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.94%) Bitbucket
3 4 (4.94%) JIRA
4 2 (2.47%) Bitbucket Server
4 2 (2.47%) CA Release Automation
4 2 (2.47%) GitLab
4 2 (2.47%) SonarQube
4 2 (2.47%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (2.47%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.23%) IntelliJ
5 1 (1.23%) PyCharm
5 1 (1.23%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.23%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 24 (29.63%) Social Skills
2 13 (16.05%) Finance
3 12 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (9.88%) Banking
4 8 (9.88%) Investment Banking
5 4 (4.94%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (4.94%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.47%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.23%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.11%) PySpark
2 5 (6.17%) Kafka
2 5 (6.17%) Pandas
3 4 (4.94%) NumPy
3 4 (4.94%) RESTful
4 3 (3.70%) Apache NiFi
4 3 (3.70%) Django
4 3 (3.70%) Lambda Expressions
5 2 (2.47%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (2.47%) FastAPI
5 2 (2.47%) Metaflow
5 2 (2.47%) PyTorch
5 2 (2.47%) REST
5 2 (2.47%) scikit-learn
5 2 (2.47%) Spring Boot
5 2 (2.47%) TensorFlow
6 1 (1.23%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.23%) OpenCV
6 1 (1.23%) PostGIS
6 1 (1.23%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 17 (20.99%) Management Information System
2 13 (16.05%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (7.41%) Virtual Team
4 5 (6.17%) Algorithms
4 5 (6.17%) Cloud Native
4 5 (6.17%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (4.94%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (4.94%) Mainframe
6 3 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (3.70%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.47%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.23%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.23%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (25.93%) Linux
2 15 (18.52%) Unix
2 15 (18.52%) Windows
3 8 (9.88%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 22 (27.16%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (22.22%) Containerisation
3 18 (22.22%) Software Engineering
4 15 (18.52%) Decision-Making
5 14 (17.28%) Artificial Intelligence
5 14 (17.28%) Data Science
6 12 (14.81%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 11 (13.58%) Agile
7 11 (13.58%) DevOps
7 11 (13.58%) Machine Learning
8 9 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
8 9 (11.11%) Data Security
8 9 (11.11%) Task Automation
9 8 (9.88%) Collaborative Working
9 8 (9.88%) Critical Thinking
9 8 (9.88%) Experimental Design
9 8 (9.88%) Natural Language Processing
9 8 (9.88%) Risk Management
9 8 (9.88%) Statistical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 81 (100.00%) Python
2 21 (25.93%) SQL
3 17 (20.99%) TypeScript
4 12 (14.81%) JavaScript
5 11 (13.58%) Java
6 7 (8.64%) Perl
7 5 (6.17%) Erlang
7 5 (6.17%) Prolog
8 3 (3.70%) Bash
8 3 (3.70%) C#
9 1 (1.23%) C
9 1 (1.23%) C++
9 1 (1.23%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (12.35%) SC Cleared
1 10 (12.35%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.47%) AWS Certification
3 2 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.47%) Degree
4 1 (1.23%) CCNP
4 1 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.23%) OCA
4 1 (1.23%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (1.23%) RHCA
4 1 (1.23%) RHCE
4 1 (1.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.70%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.47%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.47%) QA
System Software
1 20 (24.69%) Docker
2 6 (7.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.47%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.23%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 21 (25.93%) Kubernetes
2 10 (12.35%) Terraform
3 6 (7.41%) Ansible
4 5 (6.17%) Progress Chef
5 3 (3.70%) NetBackup
5 3 (3.70%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (2.47%) Kibana
7 1 (1.23%) Puppet
7 1 (1.23%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.23%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 6 (7.41%) Databricks
1 6 (7.41%) VMware
2 4 (4.94%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.94%) Oracle
2 4 (4.94%) Veritas
3 3 (3.70%) Virgin Media
4 2 (2.47%) AppDynamics
4 2 (2.47%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.47%) Splunk
5 1 (1.23%) Brocade
5 1 (1.23%) BT
5 1 (1.23%) Cisco
5 1 (1.23%) EMC
5 1 (1.23%) Foundry
5 1 (1.23%) Google
5 1 (1.23%) HubSpot
5 1 (1.23%) IBM
5 1 (1.23%) NetApp
5 1 (1.23%) Palantir
5 1 (1.23%) Sybase