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 1 June 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 320 362
Rank change year-on-year -51 +42 +49
Contract jobs requiring a Python Data Engineer 40 24 28
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.22% 0.20% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.21% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 18 28
10th Percentile £415 £438 £438
25th Percentile £425 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +2.13% -9.62%
75th Percentile £606 £781 £766
90th Percentile £787 £800 £825
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%

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 17,071 11,462 16,365
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.88% 93.48% 93.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,297 7,772 11,824
10th Percentile £356 £350 £325
25th Percentile £431 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £518 £518 £525
% change year-on-year - -1.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 158 326
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.24 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.30 £20.22
Median hourly rate £38.25 £31.67 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +20.77% +13.89% -22.75%
75th Percentile £63.10 £49.94 £46.77
90th Percentile £76.66 £63.08 £66.75
England median hourly rate £45.00 £29.80 £37.63
% change year-on-year +51.01% -20.80% -16.39%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -10 2 £523 - 1
East London - 2 £450 - 1
Python Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 40 (100.00%) Python
2 28 (70.00%) SQL
3 23 (57.50%) Azure
4 21 (52.50%) Data Pipeline
5 19 (47.50%) Data Modelling
6 17 (42.50%) ETL
7 13 (32.50%) Data Quality
8 12 (30.00%) Analytics
8 12 (30.00%) Databricks
9 10 (25.00%) Data Engineering
9 10 (25.00%) SC Cleared
9 10 (25.00%) Security Cleared
10 8 (20.00%) Agile
10 8 (20.00%) AWS
10 8 (20.00%) Data Integration
10 8 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
10 8 (20.00%) PySpark
11 7 (17.50%) BigQuery
11 7 (17.50%) Containerisation
11 7 (17.50%) Data Governance
12 6 (15.00%) CI/CD
12 6 (15.00%) Delta Lake
12 6 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
13 5 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
13 5 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
13 5 (12.50%) Data Ingestion
13 5 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (12.50%) Investment Management
13 5 (12.50%) Machine Learning
13 5 (12.50%) Microsoft

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 5 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (5.00%) Jupyter
3 1 (2.50%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Aladdin
1 3 (7.50%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 23 (57.50%) Azure
2 8 (20.00%) AWS
3 5 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (10.00%) dbt
4 4 (10.00%) GCP
4 4 (10.00%) Snowflake
5 3 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (7.50%) GitHub
5 3 (7.50%) Power Platform
6 2 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (5.00%) Dagster
6 2 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (2.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (2.50%) PaaS
7 1 (2.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.50%) BigQuery
2 6 (15.00%) Delta Lake
3 5 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (10.00%) Relational Database
5 3 (7.50%) Power BI
6 2 (5.00%) Data Lake
6 2 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (5.00%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (5.00%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (2.50%) Data Vault
7 1 (2.50%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (2.50%) Hadoop
7 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
7 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (2.50%) Tableau
7 1 (2.50%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 1 (2.50%) JIRA
General
1 15 (37.50%) Finance
2 10 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Banking
4 2 (5.00%) Front Office
4 2 (5.00%) Games
4 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.50%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.50%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.50%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (20.00%) PySpark
2 5 (12.50%) Pandas
3 2 (5.00%) Great Expectations
3 2 (5.00%) Kafka
3 2 (5.00%) NumPy
3 2 (5.00%) scikit-learn
4 1 (2.50%) Apache Jena
4 1 (2.50%) GeoJSON
4 1 (2.50%) GraphQL
4 1 (2.50%) JSON
4 1 (2.50%) Matplotlib
4 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (2.50%) Polars
4 1 (2.50%) PyTorch
4 1 (2.50%) REST
4 1 (2.50%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) Data Structures
2 4 (10.00%) Derivative
2 4 (10.00%) Reference Data
3 2 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.50%) Equities
4 1 (2.50%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.50%) Life Science
4 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.50%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.50%) Linux
1 1 (2.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (52.50%) Data Pipeline
2 19 (47.50%) Data Modelling
3 17 (42.50%) ETL
4 12 (30.00%) Analytics
5 10 (25.00%) Data Engineering
6 8 (20.00%) Agile
6 8 (20.00%) Data Integration
6 8 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
7 7 (17.50%) Containerisation
7 7 (17.50%) Data Governance
8 6 (15.00%) CI/CD
8 6 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (12.50%) Data Ingestion
9 5 (12.50%) Investment Management
9 5 (12.50%) Machine Learning
10 4 (10.00%) AI
10 4 (10.00%) Data Architecture
10 4 (10.00%) Software Engineering
10 4 (10.00%) Test Automation
10 4 (10.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 40 (100.00%) Python
2 28 (70.00%) SQL
3 3 (7.50%) C#
4 1 (2.50%) C
4 1 (2.50%) C++
4 1 (2.50%) Java
4 1 (2.50%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.50%) SPARQL
4 1 (2.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 10 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (32.50%) Data Quality
2 3 (7.50%) QA
3 1 (2.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (7.50%) Terraform
2 1 (2.50%) Kubeflow
2 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (30.00%) Databricks
2 5 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.50%) Oracle
3 3 (7.50%) SimCorp
4 2 (5.00%) Bloomberg
5 1 (2.50%) Google
5 1 (2.50%) Informatica
5 1 (2.50%) Reuters
5 1 (2.50%) Solace