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 £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 335 392 441
Rank change year-on-year +57 +49 -88
Contract jobs requiring a Python Engineer 61 55 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.30% 0.23% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.25% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 37 63
10th Percentile £440 £425 £398
25th Percentile £500 £456 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +15.07%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £628
90th Percentile £658 £676 £694
UK median daily rate £650 £623 £600
% change year-on-year +4.42% +3.75% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
UK median hourly rate £65.63 £57.50 £22.64
% change year-on-year +14.13% +154.03% -17.69%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 18,944 22,126 29,093
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.32% 95.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,551 15,489 20,369
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,258 1,140 1,432
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.72 £17.86 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £19.67
Median % change year-on-year -5.73% +115.78% +3.50%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £43.07
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

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 9 May 2024.

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 9 May 2024. 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 +58 32 £563 +25.00% 1
South East +31 8 £600 +9.09% 10
East of England +3 8 £425 -15.00% 5
North of England +24 6 £500 - 3
North West +15 5 £513 -2.38% 1
South West +10 5 £550 - 2
Midlands +33 2 £550 -3.51% 6
West Midlands +20 2 £550 -3.51% 3
Yorkshire +14 1 £490 -2.00% 2
Python Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, 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 61 (100.00%) Python
2 26 (42.62%) DevOps
3 25 (40.98%) Linux
4 21 (34.43%) Perl
5 19 (31.15%) AWS
6 18 (29.51%) Software Engineering
7 16 (26.23%) Java
8 14 (22.95%) Kubernetes
9 13 (21.31%) OO
9 13 (21.31%) Social Skills
10 12 (19.67%) CI/CD
10 12 (19.67%) Computer Science
10 12 (19.67%) Azure
11 11 (18.03%) Agile
11 11 (18.03%) Banking
12 10 (16.39%) Unix
12 10 (16.39%) C++
12 10 (16.39%) Docker
13 9 (14.75%) SDLC
13 9 (14.75%) VMware
14 8 (13.11%) SQL
14 8 (13.11%) OpenShift
14 8 (13.11%) Terraform
14 8 (13.11%) Observability
15 7 (11.48%) Containerisation
15 7 (11.48%) Ansible
15 7 (11.48%) Jenkins
15 7 (11.48%) Windows
15 7 (11.48%) Finance
15 7 (11.48%) SAN

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 4 (6.56%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (6.56%) SAS
2 1 (1.64%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 19 (31.15%) AWS
2 12 (19.67%) Azure
3 8 (13.11%) OpenShift
4 4 (6.56%) GitHub
5 2 (3.28%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (3.28%) dbt
5 2 (3.28%) GCP
5 2 (3.28%) Pulumi
5 2 (3.28%) Serverless
5 2 (3.28%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.64%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (1.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.64%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.64%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.64%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.48%) SAN
2 4 (6.56%) Fibre Channel
2 4 (6.56%) iSCSI
2 4 (6.56%) Radio Access Network
3 3 (4.92%) NAS
3 3 (4.92%) Wireless
4 2 (3.28%) DHCP
4 2 (3.28%) DNS
5 1 (1.64%) BGP
5 1 (1.64%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (1.64%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.56%) DB2
2 2 (3.28%) MySQL
2 2 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.64%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (1.64%) Big Data
3 1 (1.64%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (1.64%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.64%) Data Mining
3 1 (1.64%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.64%) HBase
3 1 (1.64%) Metadata
3 1 (1.64%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.64%) Power BI
3 1 (1.64%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (11.48%) Jenkins
2 5 (8.20%) Git
3 2 (3.28%) Cypress.io
3 2 (3.28%) Selenium
4 1 (1.64%) GitLab
General
1 13 (21.31%) Social Skills
2 11 (18.03%) Banking
3 7 (11.48%) Finance
4 5 (8.20%) Investment Banking
5 3 (4.92%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.28%) Electronics
6 2 (3.28%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.64%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.64%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.84%) Middleware
1 6 (9.84%) REST
2 4 (6.56%) DirectX
2 4 (6.56%) Flash
2 4 (6.56%) OpenGL
2 4 (6.56%) OpenGL ES
2 4 (6.56%) POSIX
2 4 (6.56%) Vulkan
3 3 (4.92%) Flask
3 3 (4.92%) PySpark
3 3 (4.92%) Unity (Game Engine)
4 2 (3.28%) CSS3
4 2 (3.28%) HTML
4 2 (3.28%) HTML5
4 2 (3.28%) Jest
4 2 (3.28%) Node.js
4 2 (3.28%) React
4 2 (3.28%) React Native
4 2 (3.28%) SQLAlchemy
4 2 (3.28%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.56%) Algorithms
1 4 (6.56%) Client/Server
1 4 (6.56%) Linux Command Line
1 4 (6.56%) NVMe
2 3 (4.92%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.28%) Animation
3 2 (3.28%) Augmented Reality
3 2 (3.28%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.28%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (3.28%) Mixed Reality
3 2 (3.28%) Photography
3 2 (3.28%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (3.28%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.64%) NHS
4 1 (1.64%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.64%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 25 (40.98%) Linux
2 10 (16.39%) Unix
3 7 (11.48%) Windows
4 6 (9.84%) Windows Server
5 4 (6.56%) Android
5 4 (6.56%) Data ONTAP
5 4 (6.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (42.62%) DevOps
2 18 (29.51%) Software Engineering
3 13 (21.31%) OO
4 12 (19.67%) CI/CD
4 12 (19.67%) Computer Science
5 11 (18.03%) Agile
6 9 (14.75%) SDLC
7 8 (13.11%) Observability
8 7 (11.48%) Containerisation
9 6 (9.84%) Artificial Intelligence
9 6 (9.84%) Machine Learning
9 6 (9.84%) Task Automation
9 6 (9.84%) Test Automation
10 5 (8.20%) Data Protection
11 4 (6.56%) Capacity Management
11 4 (6.56%) Continuous Integration
11 4 (6.56%) High Availability
11 4 (6.56%) Investment Management
11 4 (6.56%) Problem Management
11 4 (6.56%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 61 (100.00%) Python
2 21 (34.43%) Perl
3 16 (26.23%) Java
4 10 (16.39%) C++
5 8 (13.11%) SQL
6 4 (6.56%) C#
6 4 (6.56%) Kotlin
7 3 (4.92%) Scala
7 3 (4.92%) TypeScript
8 2 (3.28%) Bash
8 2 (3.28%) C
8 2 (3.28%) GLSL
8 2 (3.28%) HLSL
8 2 (3.28%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.64%) Elixir
9 1 (1.64%) Go
9 1 (1.64%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.64%) Ruby
9 1 (1.64%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (6.56%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (6.56%) Degree
2 2 (3.28%) Master's Degree
2 2 (3.28%) PhD
3 1 (1.64%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.64%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.28%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.64%) NIST
2 1 (1.64%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (16.39%) Docker
2 7 (11.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (6.56%) GPFS
3 4 (6.56%) NFS
4 1 (1.64%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.64%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (22.95%) Kubernetes
2 8 (13.11%) Terraform
3 7 (11.48%) Ansible
4 4 (6.56%) Grafana
4 4 (6.56%) Prometheus
4 4 (6.56%) Veritas Storage Foundation
5 2 (3.28%) Dell DRAC
5 2 (3.28%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 9 (14.75%) VMware
2 6 (9.84%) Veritas
3 5 (8.20%) Google
4 4 (6.56%) Brocade
4 4 (6.56%) EMC
4 4 (6.56%) IBM
4 4 (6.56%) NetApp
4 4 (6.56%) Sybase
5 3 (4.92%) Databricks
6 2 (3.28%) BMC
7 1 (1.64%) Cisco
7 1 (1.64%) Dell
7 1 (1.64%) HP
7 1 (1.64%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.64%) NVIDIA
7 1 (1.64%) Oracle
7 1 (1.64%) Sage
7 1 (1.64%) TOWER Software