Python Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Python Data Engineer
England > London

The median Python Data Engineer daily rate in London is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 April 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 311 361
Rank change year-on-year -54 +50 +83
Contract jobs requiring a Python Data Engineer 43 42 26
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.25% 0.33% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.35% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 33 26
10th Percentile £414 £425 £438
25th Percentile £425 £550 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +20.00% -18.37%
75th Percentile £681 £650 £597
90th Percentile £728 £800 £650
England median daily rate £525 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +20.00% -16.67%

All Contract IT Job Roles
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 London with a recognized job title 16,034 11,841 16,574
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 93.51% 93.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,705 8,105 11,970
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £430 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 143 339
10th Percentile £18.55 £21.22 £16.00
25th Percentile £24.03 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% +25.85% -20.54%
75th Percentile £63.00 £50.75 £44.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £64.75 £64.63
England median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £34.21
% change year-on-year +38.46% -5.00% -21.90%

Python Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Python Data Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Python Data Engineer job vacancy trend in London

Python Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Python Data Engineer job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Python Data Engineer job vacancies in London

Python Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python Data Engineer in London over the 6 months to 15 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Python Data Engineer in London

Python Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 15 April 2026. 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
Central London -13 3 £525 -
East London - 1 £450 -
Python Data Engineer
England

Python Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 15 April 2026, Python Data Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Python Data Engineer in the job title.

1 43 (100.00%) Python
2 27 (62.79%) SQL
3 23 (53.49%) Azure
4 21 (48.84%) Data Pipeline
5 16 (37.21%) Data Modelling
6 14 (32.56%) AWS
7 13 (30.23%) Databricks
7 13 (30.23%) ETL
7 13 (30.23%) Machine Learning
8 12 (27.91%) Analytics
9 11 (25.58%) Data Quality
9 11 (25.58%) PySpark
9 11 (25.58%) SC Cleared
9 11 (25.58%) Security Cleared
10 10 (23.26%) Data Engineering
11 8 (18.60%) Agile
11 8 (18.60%) BigQuery
11 8 (18.60%) Containerisation
12 7 (16.28%) CI/CD
12 7 (16.28%) Data Science
12 7 (16.28%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (16.28%) GCP
12 7 (16.28%) Pandas
12 7 (16.28%) Snowflake
13 6 (13.95%) Apache Airflow
13 6 (13.95%) Data Governance
13 6 (13.95%) Data Integration
13 6 (13.95%) Delta Lake
13 6 (13.95%) Infrastructure as Code
13 6 (13.95%) Performance Tuning

Python Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (13.95%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.33%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Aladdin
1 1 (2.33%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 23 (53.49%) Azure
2 14 (32.56%) AWS
3 7 (16.28%) GCP
3 7 (16.28%) Snowflake
4 5 (11.63%) dbt
5 4 (9.30%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (6.98%) GitHub
7 2 (4.65%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (4.65%) Dagster
7 2 (4.65%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (4.65%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.33%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.33%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (2.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (2.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (2.33%) PaaS
8 1 (2.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (18.60%) BigQuery
2 7 (16.28%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (13.95%) Delta Lake
4 3 (6.98%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (4.65%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (4.65%) Data Lake
5 2 (4.65%) NoSQL
5 2 (4.65%) Power BI
5 2 (4.65%) Relational Database
5 2 (4.65%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (4.65%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.33%) Data Vault
6 1 (2.33%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (2.33%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.33%) Power Query
6 1 (2.33%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 3 (6.98%) MLflow
2 1 (2.33%) Git
2 1 (2.33%) JIRA
General
1 9 (20.93%) Finance
2 6 (13.95%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (11.63%) Social Skills
4 4 (9.30%) Front Office
5 2 (4.65%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.33%) Banking
6 1 (2.33%) Games
6 1 (2.33%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.33%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (25.58%) PySpark
2 7 (16.28%) Pandas
3 4 (9.30%) NumPy
3 4 (9.30%) scikit-learn
4 3 (6.98%) PyTorch
4 3 (6.98%) TensorFlow
5 2 (4.65%) Great Expectations
5 2 (4.65%) Kafka
6 1 (2.33%) Apache Jena
6 1 (2.33%) GeoJSON
6 1 (2.33%) GraphQL
6 1 (2.33%) JSON
6 1 (2.33%) Matplotlib
6 1 (2.33%) Polars
6 1 (2.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.30%) Public Cloud
2 3 (6.98%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.65%) Derivative
3 2 (4.65%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.65%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.65%) Reference Data
4 1 (2.33%) Equities
4 1 (2.33%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.33%) Life Science
4 1 (2.33%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (48.84%) Data Pipeline
2 16 (37.21%) Data Modelling
3 13 (30.23%) ETL
3 13 (30.23%) Machine Learning
4 12 (27.91%) Analytics
5 10 (23.26%) Data Engineering
6 8 (18.60%) Agile
6 8 (18.60%) Containerisation
7 7 (16.28%) CI/CD
7 7 (16.28%) Data Science
8 6 (13.95%) Data Governance
8 6 (13.95%) Data Integration
8 6 (13.95%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (13.95%) Performance Tuning
8 6 (13.95%) Software Engineering
9 5 (11.63%) AI
9 5 (11.63%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (9.30%) Data Architecture
10 4 (9.30%) DevOps
11 3 (6.98%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 43 (100.00%) Python
2 27 (62.79%) SQL
3 3 (6.98%) C#
4 1 (2.33%) C
4 1 (2.33%) C++
4 1 (2.33%) Java
4 1 (2.33%) Scala
4 1 (2.33%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 11 (25.58%) SC Cleared
1 11 (25.58%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.65%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.65%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (25.58%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.65%) QA
3 1 (2.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (11.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (6.98%) Kubeflow
1 3 (6.98%) Kubernetes
1 3 (6.98%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (30.23%) Databricks
2 3 (6.98%) Google
3 2 (4.65%) Oracle
4 1 (2.33%) Bloomberg
4 1 (2.33%) Informatica
4 1 (2.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.33%) Reuters
4 1 (2.33%) SimCorp
4 1 (2.33%) Solace
4 1 (2.33%) Virgin Media