Python Data Engineer Contracts in England

Python Data Engineer
UK > England

The median Python Data Engineer daily rate in England is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 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
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 506 544 651
Rank change year-on-year +38 +107 -110
Contract jobs requiring a Python Data Engineer 37 94 130
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.10% 0.20% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.21% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 81 116
10th Percentile £438 £456 £438
25th Percentile £474 £505 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £615
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -2.44% +6.96%
75th Percentile £700 £708 £688
90th Percentile £815 £788 £744
UK median daily rate £540 £600 £614
% change year-on-year -10.00% -2.24% +6.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.50
Median hourly rate - - £19.00
75th Percentile - - £19.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £19.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,161 44,903 67,296
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.57% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,530 31,932 48,137
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.11%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,560 1,303 1,794
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.63 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.39% +88.21% +11.21%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.15
% change year-on-year -16.67% +86.37% +9.75%

Python Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Python Data Engineer in England

Python Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Python Data Engineer in England

Python Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python Data Engineer in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python Data Engineer in England

Python Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 31 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
London +48 28 £588 -9.62% 10
North of England +20 3 £495 +3.13%
Midlands +22 2 £550 +0.46%
North West +18 2 £500 -
West Midlands +16 2 £550 +0.46%
Yorkshire +11 1 £490 +2.08%
East of England +8 1 £650 +44.44%
Python Data Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 2024, 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 England region featuring Python Data Engineer in the job title.

1 37 (100.00%) Python
2 20 (54.05%) PySpark
3 19 (51.35%) Azure
4 18 (48.65%) SQL
5 13 (35.14%) AWS
5 13 (35.14%) Databricks
6 12 (32.43%) Data Pipeline
6 12 (32.43%) Data Engineering
7 9 (24.32%) Finance
8 8 (21.62%) Data Modelling
8 8 (21.62%) ETL
8 8 (21.62%) Big Data
8 8 (21.62%) CI/CD
8 8 (21.62%) Apache Airflow
9 7 (18.92%) Kafka
9 7 (18.92%) Analytics
9 7 (18.92%) Git
9 7 (18.92%) Pandas
10 6 (16.22%) Kubernetes
10 6 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
10 6 (16.22%) NumPy
10 6 (16.22%) Data Governance
10 6 (16.22%) Java
10 6 (16.22%) Banking
10 6 (16.22%) Investment Management
10 6 (16.22%) Social Skills
10 6 (16.22%) Dagster
11 5 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (13.51%) DevOps
11 5 (13.51%) Data Lake

Python Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 8 (21.62%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (10.81%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.70%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 19 (51.35%) Azure
2 13 (35.14%) AWS
3 6 (16.22%) Dagster
4 5 (13.51%) Power Platform
4 5 (13.51%) Serverless
5 4 (10.81%) Amazon S3
5 4 (10.81%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (10.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (10.81%) dbt
5 4 (10.81%) GCP
6 3 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (5.41%) Azure Stack
7 2 (5.41%) Azure Storage
8 1 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (2.70%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (2.70%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.70%) OpenShift
8 1 (2.70%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (21.62%) Big Data
2 5 (13.51%) Data Lake
2 5 (13.51%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (13.51%) Power BI
3 4 (10.81%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (10.81%) Hadoop
4 3 (8.11%) NoSQL
5 2 (5.41%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (5.41%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 2 (5.41%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (5.41%) Dremio
5 2 (5.41%) MySQL
5 2 (5.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (5.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (2.70%) Data Mining
6 1 (2.70%) Delta Lake
6 1 (2.70%) Metadata
6 1 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.70%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (18.92%) Git
2 1 (2.70%) Ant
2 1 (2.70%) Gradle
2 1 (2.70%) IBM UrbanCode
2 1 (2.70%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.70%) JUnit
2 1 (2.70%) Maven
2 1 (2.70%) RStudio
2 1 (2.70%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (24.32%) Finance
2 6 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (16.22%) Banking
2 6 (16.22%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.41%) Front Office
4 1 (2.70%) Health Technology
4 1 (2.70%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (54.05%) PySpark
2 7 (18.92%) Kafka
2 7 (18.92%) Pandas
3 6 (16.22%) NumPy
4 4 (10.81%) REST
5 2 (5.41%) Flask
5 2 (5.41%) SciPy
5 2 (5.41%) YAML
6 1 (2.70%) ADO
6 1 (2.70%) Django
6 1 (2.70%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.11%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (5.41%) Hedge funds
3 1 (2.70%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.70%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.70%) NHS
3 1 (2.70%) Omics
3 1 (2.70%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.11%) Linux
2 1 (2.70%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (32.43%) Data Engineering
1 12 (32.43%) Data Pipeline
2 8 (21.62%) CI/CD
2 8 (21.62%) Data Modelling
2 8 (21.62%) ETL
3 7 (18.92%) Analytics
4 6 (16.22%) Data Governance
4 6 (16.22%) Investment Management
5 5 (13.51%) Agile
5 5 (13.51%) Data Transformation
5 5 (13.51%) DevOps
5 5 (13.51%) Microservices
5 5 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (10.81%) Data Analytics
6 4 (10.81%) Data Science
6 4 (10.81%) Software Engineering
6 4 (10.81%) Workflow
7 3 (8.11%) Asset Management
7 3 (8.11%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (8.11%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 37 (100.00%) Python
2 18 (48.65%) SQL
3 6 (16.22%) Java
4 4 (10.81%) Scala
5 2 (5.41%) Bash
5 2 (5.41%) C++
5 2 (5.41%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.70%) C
6 1 (2.70%) Go
6 1 (2.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (5.41%) Degree
1 2 (5.41%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.51%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.70%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (5.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (16.22%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.81%) Argo
2 4 (10.81%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (35.14%) Databricks
2 4 (10.81%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.41%) Oracle
4 1 (2.70%) Foundry
4 1 (2.70%) Google
4 1 (2.70%) IBM
4 1 (2.70%) Palantir
4 1 (2.70%) Sage
4 1 (2.70%) SAP