Python Engineer Contracts in England

Python Engineer
UK > England

The median Python Engineer daily rate in England is £665 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 294 406 334
Rank change year-on-year +112 -72 +12
Contract jobs requiring a Python Engineer 259 256 565
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.71% 0.53% 0.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.77% 0.56% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 223 502
10th Percentile £463 £456 £500
25th Percentile £538 £513 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £665 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.40% +4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £800 £750 £695
90th Percentile £850 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £644 £623 £600
% change year-on-year +3.41% +3.75% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £62.81 - £19.21
25th Percentile £63.28 - £20.28
Median hourly rate £65.63 - £22.64
75th Percentile £69.53 - £25.05
90th Percentile £70.94 - £26.16
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
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 33,809 45,522 67,131
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.60% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,413 32,346 47,872
10th Percentile £283 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,342 1,849
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.92 £44.77 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.54% +94.63% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Python Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Python Engineer in England

Python Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Python Engineer in England

Python Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python Engineer in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python Engineer in England

Python Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Python Engineer in England

Python 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 Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 17 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 +93 221 £700 +3.70% 88
North of England +24 8 £500 - 5
South East +22 8 £600 +9.09% 27
East of England +6 8 £425 -15.00% 9
North West +18 6 £500 -4.76% 4
South West -2 5 £550 +2.33% 4
Midlands +28 2 £550 -3.51% 7
West Midlands +23 2 £550 -3.51% 4
Yorkshire +9 2 £475 -5.00% 1
Python Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 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 England region featuring Python Engineer in the job title.

1 259 (100.00%) Python
2 156 (60.23%) Software Engineering
3 150 (57.92%) AWS
4 136 (52.51%) Finance
5 121 (46.72%) Agile
6 117 (45.17%) Apache Airflow
7 115 (44.40%) TypeScript
7 115 (44.40%) Asset Management
8 110 (42.47%) Front Office
8 110 (42.47%) Protocol Buffers
8 110 (42.47%) gRPC
9 109 (42.08%) Fixed Income
10 106 (40.93%) Banking
11 105 (40.54%) Apache
12 104 (40.15%) Apache Ignite
13 103 (39.77%) Azure
14 102 (39.38%) Investment Management
15 95 (36.68%) Hedge funds
16 92 (35.52%) GCP
17 84 (32.43%) Artificial Intelligence
18 82 (31.66%) React
19 75 (28.96%) Full Stack Development
20 73 (28.19%) Machine Learning
21 71 (27.41%) Pandas
22 70 (27.03%) Redux
23 69 (26.64%) Material-UI
24 68 (26.25%) Equities
25 64 (24.71%) PostgreSQL
25 64 (24.71%) Java
26 63 (24.32%) Automated Trading

Python 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
1 117 (45.17%) Apache Airflow
2 105 (40.54%) Apache
3 2 (0.77%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.39%) nginx
4 1 (0.39%) SAS
4 1 (0.39%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.39%) Tornado
Applications
1 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 150 (57.92%) AWS
2 103 (39.77%) Azure
3 92 (35.52%) GCP
4 46 (17.76%) dbt
5 31 (11.97%) Snowflake
6 17 (6.56%) Serverless
7 9 (3.47%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (3.47%) GitHub
8 7 (2.70%) Amazon S3
9 5 (1.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (1.93%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (1.93%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (1.93%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.93%) Power Platform
10 4 (1.54%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (1.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (1.54%) Dagster
10 4 (1.54%) IaaS
10 4 (1.54%) Pulumi
11 3 (1.16%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.54%) Radio Access Network
2 3 (1.16%) Firewall
2 3 (1.16%) Wireless
3 1 (0.39%) 5G
3 1 (0.39%) BGP
3 1 (0.39%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (0.39%) HTTP
3 1 (0.39%) IOS XR
3 1 (0.39%) MQTT
3 1 (0.39%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.39%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.39%) WAN
3 1 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (40.15%) Apache Ignite
2 64 (24.71%) PostgreSQL
3 43 (16.60%) Amazon Athena
3 43 (16.60%) Apache Arrow
3 43 (16.60%) Dremio
4 34 (13.13%) Data Lake
5 12 (4.63%) NoSQL
6 11 (4.25%) MongoDB
7 10 (3.86%) Big Data
8 5 (1.93%) Power BI
8 5 (1.93%) Sybase ASE
9 4 (1.54%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.16%) SQL Server
11 2 (0.77%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.77%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.77%) MySQL
11 2 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 47 (18.15%) Cypress.io
2 22 (8.49%) Git
3 19 (7.34%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.93%) Artifactory
5 4 (1.54%) Maven
5 4 (1.54%) TeamCity
6 3 (1.16%) Gradle
6 3 (1.16%) Selenium
7 2 (0.77%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.77%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.77%) git-flow
7 2 (0.77%) GitLab
7 2 (0.77%) JUnit
7 2 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.77%) Subversion
7 2 (0.77%) webpack
8 1 (0.39%) Ant
8 1 (0.39%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.39%) JIRA
8 1 (0.39%) Pylint
General
1 136 (52.51%) Finance
2 110 (42.47%) Front Office
3 106 (40.93%) Banking
4 37 (14.29%) Investment Banking
5 24 (9.27%) Social Skills
6 14 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.54%) Law
7 4 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.16%) Games
9 2 (0.77%) Electronics
9 2 (0.77%) Health Technology
9 2 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.77%) Public Sector
9 2 (0.77%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.39%) Aviation
10 1 (0.39%) Dutch Language
10 1 (0.39%) Music Industry
10 1 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (42.47%) gRPC
1 110 (42.47%) Protocol Buffers
2 82 (31.66%) React
3 71 (27.41%) Pandas
4 70 (27.03%) Redux
5 69 (26.64%) Material-UI
6 62 (23.94%) NumPy
7 55 (21.24%) SciPy
8 24 (9.27%) Kafka
9 19 (7.34%) PySpark
10 15 (5.79%) AngularJS
11 13 (5.02%) Node.js
11 13 (5.02%) Vue
12 12 (4.63%) RESTful
13 11 (4.25%) REST
14 9 (3.47%) FastAPI
14 9 (3.47%) Flask
14 9 (3.47%) RabbitMQ
15 5 (1.93%) Lambda Expressions
15 5 (1.93%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 109 (42.08%) Fixed Income
2 95 (36.68%) Hedge funds
3 68 (26.25%) Equities
4 38 (14.67%) Derivative
4 38 (14.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 15 (5.79%) Distributed Systems
6 13 (5.02%) Algorithms
7 10 (3.86%) Data Structures
7 10 (3.86%) Pricing Data
8 6 (2.32%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (2.32%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (2.32%) Renewable Energy
9 4 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.16%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.16%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.77%) Animation
11 2 (0.77%) Augmented Reality
11 2 (0.77%) Hackathon
11 2 (0.77%) NHS
11 2 (0.77%) Photography
Operating Systems
1 26 (10.04%) Linux
2 7 (2.70%) Android
3 5 (1.93%) Windows
4 4 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.54%) Unix
5 3 (1.16%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.77%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.39%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (60.23%) Software Engineering
2 121 (46.72%) Agile
3 115 (44.40%) Asset Management
4 102 (39.38%) Investment Management
5 84 (32.43%) Artificial Intelligence
6 75 (28.96%) Full Stack Development
7 73 (28.19%) Machine Learning
8 63 (24.32%) Automated Trading
9 42 (16.22%) CI/CD
10 36 (13.90%) DevOps
11 23 (8.88%) Analytics
12 19 (7.34%) Problem-Solving
13 17 (6.56%) Mathematics
13 17 (6.56%) Microservices
13 17 (6.56%) Test Automation
14 14 (5.41%) Mentoring
15 13 (5.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 12 (4.63%) Data Pipeline
16 12 (4.63%) Mathematical Modelling
16 12 (4.63%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 259 (100.00%) Python
2 115 (44.40%) TypeScript
3 64 (24.71%) Java
4 57 (22.01%) JavaScript
5 51 (19.69%) SQL
6 24 (9.27%) C++
7 19 (7.34%) Shell Script
8 10 (3.86%) PowerShell
9 8 (3.09%) C#
10 7 (2.70%) Go
11 6 (2.32%) Bash
11 6 (2.32%) Perl
11 6 (2.32%) Scala
12 5 (1.93%) Rust
13 4 (1.54%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.77%) C
14 2 (0.77%) Clojure
14 2 (0.77%) GLSL
14 2 (0.77%) Haskell
14 2 (0.77%) HLSL
Qualifications
1 9 (3.47%) Degree
2 6 (2.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (1.93%) SC Cleared
3 5 (1.93%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.16%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.77%) PhD
6 1 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.39%) CCNP
6 1 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.02%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.54%) QA
3 1 (0.39%) NIST
3 1 (0.39%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 24 (9.27%) Docker
2 9 (3.47%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.39%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.39%) iptables
4 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 40 (15.44%) Kubernetes
2 22 (8.49%) Ansible
3 19 (7.34%) Terraform
4 12 (4.63%) Grafana
5 11 (4.25%) Prometheus
6 9 (3.47%) Consul
7 7 (2.70%) Puppet
8 4 (1.54%) Argo
9 2 (0.77%) BladeLogic
9 2 (0.77%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.77%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 62 (23.94%) Google
2 16 (6.18%) Microsoft
3 13 (5.02%) Databricks
4 9 (3.47%) SaltStack
5 6 (2.32%) Sybase
5 6 (2.32%) VMware
6 4 (1.54%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.77%) Altiris
7 2 (0.77%) Cisco
7 2 (0.77%) Citrix
7 2 (0.77%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.77%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.77%) Oracle
8 1 (0.39%) Brio
8 1 (0.39%) Confluent
8 1 (0.39%) NVIDIA
8 1 (0.39%) Palantir
8 1 (0.39%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.39%) SAP
8 1 (0.39%) TOWER Software