Python Engineer Contracts

Python Engineer
UK

The median Python Engineer daily rate in the UK is £638 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 311 411 350
Rank change year-on-year +100 -61 -18
Contract jobs requiring a Python Engineer 286 329 673
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.66% 0.56% 0.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% 0.59% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 267 590
10th Percentile £443 £450 £475
25th Percentile £538 £500 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £623 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.41% +3.75% +9.09%
75th Percentile £788 £738 £675
90th Percentile £850 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £62.85 - £19.21
25th Percentile £63.38 £56.25 £20.28
Median hourly rate £65.50 £57.50 £22.64
Median % change year-on-year +13.91% +154.03% -17.69%
75th Percentile £69.31 £58.75 £25.05
90th Percentile £70.85 - £26.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.50 £57.50 -
% change year-on-year +13.91% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,246 55,892 84,695
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,216 39,044 59,517
10th Percentile £279 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,676 1,569 2,074
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.25 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £64.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.16 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.11% +115.96% +2.74%

Python Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Python Engineer in the UK

Python Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Python Engineer in the UK

Python Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python Engineer over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python Engineer in the UK

Python Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python Engineer.

Hourly rate trend for Python Engineer in the UK

Python Engineer
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 6 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
England +84 240 £650 +4.00% 97
London +105 204 £700 +3.70% 67
Work from Home +77 129 £665 +6.40% 61
UK excluding London +66 62 £550 +10.00% 29
Scotland +57 33 £563 +25.00%
South East +27 8 £600 +9.09% 11
East of England +3 8 £488 - 6
North of England +23 6 £500 -0.99% 3
North West +26 5 £513 -2.38% 1
South West +18 5 £550 - 3
Midlands +29 2 £550 -3.51% 6
West Midlands +18 2 £550 -3.51% 3
Yorkshire +17 1 £490 -2.97% 2

Python Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 6 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 featuring Python Engineer in the job title.

1 286 (100.00%) Python
2 153 (53.50%) AWS
3 151 (52.80%) Software Engineering
4 130 (45.45%) Finance
5 118 (41.26%) Agile
6 109 (38.11%) Apache Airflow
7 106 (37.06%) Azure
8 101 (35.31%) Asset Management
9 100 (34.97%) Banking
10 99 (34.62%) TypeScript
11 95 (33.22%) Front Office
12 93 (32.52%) Protocol Buffers
12 93 (32.52%) gRPC
13 92 (32.17%) Fixed Income
13 92 (32.17%) Apache
13 92 (32.17%) Investment Management
14 87 (30.42%) Apache Ignite
15 84 (29.37%) GCP
16 80 (27.97%) Hedge funds
17 79 (27.62%) Artificial Intelligence
18 73 (25.52%) React
19 67 (23.43%) Machine Learning
19 67 (23.43%) Full Stack Development
20 65 (22.73%) Pandas
21 62 (21.68%) Java
22 61 (21.33%) Material-UI
23 60 (20.98%) PostgreSQL
23 60 (20.98%) Redux
24 59 (20.63%) SQL
24 59 (20.63%) Google

Python Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 109 (38.11%) Apache Airflow
2 92 (32.17%) Apache
3 5 (1.75%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.40%) SAS
5 1 (0.35%) nginx
5 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.35%) Tornado
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 153 (53.50%) AWS
2 106 (37.06%) Azure
3 84 (29.37%) GCP
4 43 (15.03%) dbt
5 28 (9.79%) Snowflake
6 20 (6.99%) Serverless
7 12 (4.20%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (3.50%) GitHub
9 8 (2.80%) Amazon S3
9 8 (2.80%) OpenShift
10 6 (2.10%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (2.10%) Power Platform
11 5 (1.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (1.75%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (1.75%) IaaS
12 4 (1.40%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (1.40%) Azure Monitor
12 4 (1.40%) Dagster
12 4 (1.40%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.45%) SAN
2 4 (1.40%) Fibre Channel
2 4 (1.40%) iSCSI
2 4 (1.40%) Radio Access Network
3 3 (1.05%) Firewall
3 3 (1.05%) NAS
4 2 (0.70%) DHCP
4 2 (0.70%) DNS
4 2 (0.70%) HTTP
4 2 (0.70%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.70%) Wireless
5 1 (0.35%) 5G
5 1 (0.35%) BGP
5 1 (0.35%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (0.35%) IOS XR
5 1 (0.35%) MQTT
5 1 (0.35%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.35%) SSL
5 1 (0.35%) WAN
5 1 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (30.42%) Apache Ignite
2 60 (20.98%) PostgreSQL
3 34 (11.89%) Amazon Athena
3 34 (11.89%) Apache Arrow
3 34 (11.89%) Dremio
4 29 (10.14%) Data Lake
5 15 (5.24%) Big Data
6 12 (4.20%) NoSQL
7 11 (3.85%) MongoDB
8 6 (2.10%) Power BI
9 5 (1.75%) Sybase ASE
10 4 (1.40%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.40%) DB2
11 3 (1.05%) MySQL
11 3 (1.05%) SQL Server
12 2 (0.70%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.70%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.70%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 41 (14.34%) Cypress.io
2 26 (9.09%) Git
3 22 (7.69%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.75%) Artifactory
4 5 (1.75%) Maven
4 5 (1.75%) TeamCity
5 4 (1.40%) GitLab
5 4 (1.40%) Gradle
5 4 (1.40%) Selenium
6 3 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.70%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.70%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.70%) git-flow
7 2 (0.70%) JUnit
7 2 (0.70%) Subversion
7 2 (0.70%) webpack
8 1 (0.35%) Ant
8 1 (0.35%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.35%) JIRA
8 1 (0.35%) Mercurial
General
1 130 (45.45%) Finance
2 100 (34.97%) Banking
3 95 (33.22%) Front Office
4 36 (12.59%) Social Skills
5 35 (12.24%) Investment Banking
6 15 (5.24%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.75%) Law
7 5 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.05%) Games
10 2 (0.70%) Electronics
10 2 (0.70%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.70%) Public Sector
10 2 (0.70%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.35%) Aviation
11 1 (0.35%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.35%) Multimedia
11 1 (0.35%) Music Industry
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (32.52%) gRPC
1 93 (32.52%) Protocol Buffers
2 73 (25.52%) React
3 65 (22.73%) Pandas
4 61 (21.33%) Material-UI
5 60 (20.98%) Redux
6 56 (19.58%) NumPy
7 47 (16.43%) SciPy
8 25 (8.74%) Kafka
9 23 (8.04%) PySpark
10 15 (5.24%) AngularJS
10 15 (5.24%) REST
11 11 (3.85%) Node.js
11 11 (3.85%) RESTful
11 11 (3.85%) Vue
12 9 (3.15%) Flask
13 8 (2.80%) FastAPI
13 8 (2.80%) Lambda Expressions
13 8 (2.80%) Middleware
13 8 (2.80%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 92 (32.17%) Fixed Income
2 80 (27.97%) Hedge funds
3 55 (19.23%) Equities
4 31 (10.84%) Derivative
4 31 (10.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 16 (5.59%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (4.20%) Algorithms
7 9 (3.15%) Data Structures
8 8 (2.80%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (2.45%) Management Information System
10 6 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (2.10%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (2.10%) Pricing Data
10 6 (2.10%) Renewable Energy
11 4 (1.40%) Client/Server
11 4 (1.40%) NVMe
12 3 (1.05%) Product Ownership
12 3 (1.05%) Public Cloud
13 2 (0.70%) NHS
13 2 (0.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 50 (17.48%) Linux
2 14 (4.90%) Unix
3 13 (4.55%) Windows
4 8 (2.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.80%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.45%) Android
6 4 (1.40%) Data ONTAP
7 3 (1.05%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (52.80%) Software Engineering
2 118 (41.26%) Agile
3 101 (35.31%) Asset Management
4 92 (32.17%) Investment Management
5 79 (27.62%) Artificial Intelligence
6 67 (23.43%) Full Stack Development
6 67 (23.43%) Machine Learning
7 57 (19.93%) DevOps
8 55 (19.23%) Automated Trading
9 47 (16.43%) CI/CD
10 25 (8.74%) Analytics
11 23 (8.04%) Test Automation
12 20 (6.99%) Problem-Solving
13 19 (6.64%) Data Pipeline
13 19 (6.64%) SDLC
14 18 (6.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 17 (5.94%) ETL
15 17 (5.94%) Mathematics
16 16 (5.59%) Computer Science
16 16 (5.59%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 286 (100.00%) Python
2 99 (34.62%) TypeScript
3 62 (21.68%) Java
4 59 (20.63%) SQL
5 52 (18.18%) JavaScript
6 28 (9.79%) Perl
7 25 (8.74%) C++
8 16 (5.59%) Shell Script
9 10 (3.50%) C#
9 10 (3.50%) Scala
10 9 (3.15%) PowerShell
11 8 (2.80%) Bash
11 8 (2.80%) Go
12 5 (1.75%) Rust
13 4 (1.40%) C
13 4 (1.40%) Kotlin
14 3 (1.05%) Ruby
15 2 (0.70%) Clojure
15 2 (0.70%) Haskell
15 2 (0.70%) R
Qualifications
1 12 (4.20%) Degree
2 6 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (2.10%) SC Cleared
2 6 (2.10%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.05%) Master's Degree
4 2 (0.70%) PhD
5 1 (0.35%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (0.35%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.35%) CCNP
5 1 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.85%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.10%) QA
3 1 (0.35%) NIST
3 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 30 (10.49%) Docker
2 10 (3.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (2.80%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 4 (1.40%) GPFS
4 4 (1.40%) NFS
5 1 (0.35%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.35%) iptables
5 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 48 (16.78%) Kubernetes
2 28 (9.79%) Terraform
3 24 (8.39%) Ansible
4 14 (4.90%) Grafana
4 14 (4.90%) Prometheus
5 8 (2.80%) Consul
6 6 (2.10%) Puppet
7 4 (1.40%) Argo
7 4 (1.40%) Veritas Storage Foundation
8 2 (0.70%) BladeLogic
8 2 (0.70%) Dell DRAC
8 2 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.70%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.70%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 59 (20.63%) Google
2 16 (5.59%) Databricks
2 16 (5.59%) Microsoft
3 13 (4.55%) VMware
4 10 (3.50%) Sybase
5 8 (2.80%) SaltStack
6 6 (2.10%) Veritas
7 4 (1.40%) Brocade
7 4 (1.40%) EMC
7 4 (1.40%) IBM
7 4 (1.40%) NetApp
7 4 (1.40%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.70%) Altiris
8 2 (0.70%) Bloomberg
8 2 (0.70%) BMC
8 2 (0.70%) Cisco
8 2 (0.70%) Citrix
8 2 (0.70%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.70%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.70%) Oracle