Python Software Engineer Contracts in England

Python Software Engineer
UK > England

The median Python Software Engineer daily rate in England is £725 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 381 604 610
Rank change year-on-year +223 +6 -54
Contract jobs requiring a Python Software Engineer 150 42 167
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.41% 0.087% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.092% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 38 150
10th Percentile £538 £438 £513
25th Percentile £550 £511 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £683 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.23% +13.75% +12.15%
75th Percentile £850 £788 £675
90th Percentile £884 - £738
UK median daily rate £725 £725 £600
% change year-on-year - +20.83% +14.29%

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 33,767 45,838 67,777
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.60% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,422 32,556 48,342
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,441 1,340 1,860
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.18 £44.77 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.94% +94.63% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.05 £64.78
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Python Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Python Software Engineer in England

Python Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Python Software Engineer in England

Python Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python Software Engineer in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python Software Engineer in England

Python Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Python Software Engineer in England

Python Software 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 Software Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 20 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 +191 135 £725 +6.23% 41
East of England - 5 £425 - 7
North of England - 2 - - 2
North West - 2 - - 1
South West - 2 £550 - 1
South East - 1 - - 14
Python Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, Python Software 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 150 (100.00%) Python
1 150 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 133 (88.67%) AWS
3 121 (80.67%) Finance
4 117 (78.00%) Asset Management
5 116 (77.33%) TypeScript
6 115 (76.67%) Protocol Buffers
6 115 (76.67%) Front Office
6 115 (76.67%) gRPC
6 115 (76.67%) Apache Airflow
7 114 (76.00%) Fixed Income
8 111 (74.00%) Agile
9 109 (72.67%) Apache
9 109 (72.67%) Apache Ignite
10 105 (70.00%) Banking
11 102 (68.00%) Investment Management
12 98 (65.33%) Hedge funds
13 96 (64.00%) GCP
14 81 (54.00%) React
15 77 (51.33%) Azure
16 74 (49.33%) Redux
17 73 (48.67%) Material-UI
17 73 (48.67%) Equities
18 71 (47.33%) Artificial Intelligence
19 70 (46.67%) Machine Learning
19 70 (46.67%) Full Stack Development
20 66 (44.00%) Google
20 66 (44.00%) PostgreSQL
21 65 (43.33%) Automated Trading
22 53 (35.33%) JavaScript

Python Software 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
1 115 (76.67%) Apache Airflow
2 109 (72.67%) Apache
3 1 (0.67%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 133 (88.67%) AWS
2 96 (64.00%) GCP
3 77 (51.33%) Azure
4 44 (29.33%) dbt
5 31 (20.67%) Snowflake
6 5 (3.33%) Serverless
7 4 (2.67%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (2.67%) Pulumi
8 3 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.00%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (2.00%) SaaS
9 2 (1.33%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.33%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.67%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (0.67%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (0.67%) Cloud Run
10 1 (0.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.67%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (1.33%) Wireless
3 1 (0.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (72.67%) Apache Ignite
2 66 (44.00%) PostgreSQL
3 44 (29.33%) Amazon Athena
3 44 (29.33%) Apache Arrow
3 44 (29.33%) Dremio
4 31 (20.67%) Data Lake
5 5 (3.33%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.67%) Big Data
7 1 (0.67%) Metadata
7 1 (0.67%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.67%) MySQL
7 1 (0.67%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 49 (32.67%) Cypress.io
2 2 (1.33%) webpack
3 1 (0.67%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.67%) Git
3 1 (0.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.67%) JUnit
General
1 121 (80.67%) Finance
2 115 (76.67%) Front Office
3 105 (70.00%) Banking
4 37 (24.67%) Investment Banking
5 3 (2.00%) Games
5 3 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.33%) Law
6 2 (1.33%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.33%) Social Skills
7 1 (0.67%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.67%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (76.67%) gRPC
1 115 (76.67%) Protocol Buffers
2 81 (54.00%) React
3 74 (49.33%) Redux
4 73 (48.67%) Material-UI
5 52 (34.67%) Pandas
6 46 (30.67%) NumPy
7 44 (29.33%) SciPy
8 15 (10.00%) AngularJS
9 13 (8.67%) Vue
10 10 (6.67%) Node.js
11 4 (2.67%) FastAPI
11 4 (2.67%) Flask
11 4 (2.67%) Kafka
11 4 (2.67%) SQLAlchemy
12 3 (2.00%) RESTful
12 3 (2.00%) WebSockets
13 2 (1.33%) Lambda Expressions
13 2 (1.33%) REST
14 1 (0.67%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 114 (76.00%) Fixed Income
2 98 (65.33%) Hedge funds
3 73 (48.67%) Equities
4 39 (26.00%) Derivative
4 39 (26.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 10 (6.67%) Pricing Data
6 4 (2.67%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.33%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.67%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.67%) NHS
8 1 (0.67%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 117 (78.00%) Asset Management
3 111 (74.00%) Agile
4 102 (68.00%) Investment Management
5 71 (47.33%) Artificial Intelligence
6 70 (46.67%) Full Stack Development
6 70 (46.67%) Machine Learning
7 65 (43.33%) Automated Trading
8 17 (11.33%) Analytics
9 12 (8.00%) Line Management
10 9 (6.00%) Greeks
11 8 (5.33%) Fintech
11 8 (5.33%) Mentoring
12 7 (4.67%) Credit Risk Analysis
12 7 (4.67%) Performance Attribution
13 5 (3.33%) End-to-End Testing
13 5 (3.33%) ETL
13 5 (3.33%) Integration Testing
13 5 (3.33%) Unit Testing
14 4 (2.67%) ETL Development
Programming Languages
1 150 (100.00%) Python
2 116 (77.33%) TypeScript
3 53 (35.33%) JavaScript
4 37 (24.67%) Java
5 23 (15.33%) SQL
6 5 (3.33%) C++
6 5 (3.33%) Rust
7 2 (1.33%) C#
7 2 (1.33%) Clojure
7 2 (1.33%) Haskell
7 2 (1.33%) Ruby
7 2 (1.33%) Scala
8 1 (0.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (2.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (2.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (2.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (4.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 66 (44.00%) Google
2 1 (0.67%) Brio
2 1 (0.67%) NVIDIA
2 1 (0.67%) Oracle