Python Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Python Data Engineer
England > London

The median Python Data Engineer daily rate in London is £613, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025.

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

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 349 308 379
Rank change year-on-year -41 +71 +134
Contract jobs requiring a Python Data Engineer 29 65 26
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.20% 0.43% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.46% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 59 22
10th Percentile £428 £445 £463
25th Percentile £500 £550 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £600 £506
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% +18.52% -16.32%
75th Percentile £706 £675 £722
90th Percentile £726 £825 £988
England median daily rate £538 £600 £513
% change year-on-year -10.42% +17.07% -16.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 13,213 14,032 17,548
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.31% 93.52% 93.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,756 9,076 12,684
10th Percentile £344 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -3.02%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £757 £800 £788
England median daily rate £510 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -2.86% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 154 209
10th Percentile £17.50 £18.65 £17.20
25th Percentile £22.00 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £28.13 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.64% - -
75th Percentile £57.00 £54.69 £58.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £80.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £26.30 £35.00 £45.21
% change year-on-year -24.86% -22.58% +39.11%

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 21 December 2025.

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 21 December 2025. 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 -3 2 £715 +12.16%
East London - 1 - -
Python Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 December 2025, 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 29 (100.00%) Python
2 20 (68.97%) SQL
3 16 (55.17%) Data Pipeline
4 13 (44.83%) AWS
4 13 (44.83%) Azure
5 12 (41.38%) Databricks
6 9 (31.03%) Data Engineering
6 9 (31.03%) Data Modelling
7 8 (27.59%) Machine Learning
7 8 (27.59%) Snowflake
8 7 (24.14%) CI/CD
8 7 (24.14%) Data Science
8 7 (24.14%) ETL
9 6 (20.69%) Apache Airflow
9 6 (20.69%) Data Quality
9 6 (20.69%) Docker
9 6 (20.69%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (20.69%) Pandas
9 6 (20.69%) PySpark
9 6 (20.69%) SC Cleared
9 6 (20.69%) Security Cleared
10 5 (17.24%) Analytics
10 5 (17.24%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (17.24%) dbt
10 5 (17.24%) Git
10 5 (17.24%) NumPy
10 5 (17.24%) Terraform
11 4 (13.79%) AI
11 4 (13.79%) BigQuery
11 4 (13.79%) GCP

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 (20.69%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (6.90%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.45%) Luigi
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 13 (44.83%) AWS
1 13 (44.83%) Azure
2 8 (27.59%) Snowflake
3 5 (17.24%) dbt
4 4 (13.79%) GCP
5 3 (10.34%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (10.34%) Power Platform
6 2 (6.90%) GitHub
6 2 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon S3
7 1 (3.45%) Azure Functions
7 1 (3.45%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (3.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (3.45%) IaaS
7 1 (3.45%) IBM Cloud
7 1 (3.45%) PaaS
7 1 (3.45%) SaaS
7 1 (3.45%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.24%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (13.79%) BigQuery
3 3 (10.34%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (10.34%) Data Lake
3 3 (10.34%) NoSQL
3 3 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (10.34%) Power BI
4 2 (6.90%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (6.90%) Delta Lake
4 2 (6.90%) MongoDB
4 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
4 2 (6.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (3.45%) AllegroGraph
5 1 (3.45%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (3.45%) Azkaban
5 1 (3.45%) Big Data
5 1 (3.45%) CrateDB
5 1 (3.45%) Metadata
5 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.45%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 5 (17.24%) Git
2 3 (10.34%) MLflow
3 1 (3.45%) ERwin
3 1 (3.45%) Selenium
3 1 (3.45%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (20.69%) Finance
2 5 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Front Office
3 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.90%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Banking
4 1 (3.45%) Legal
4 1 (3.45%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.69%) Pandas
1 6 (20.69%) PySpark
2 5 (17.24%) NumPy
3 2 (6.90%) Jinja
3 2 (6.90%) Kafka
3 2 (6.90%) PyTorch
3 2 (6.90%) scikit-learn
3 2 (6.90%) TensorFlow
4 1 (3.45%) FHIR
4 1 (3.45%) Matplotlib
4 1 (3.45%) Playwright
4 1 (3.45%) Puppeteer
4 1 (3.45%) Seaborn
4 1 (3.45%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.90%) Onboarding
1 2 (6.90%) Public Cloud
1 2 (6.90%) Reinsurance
2 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.45%) Hedge funds
2 1 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (55.17%) Data Pipeline
2 9 (31.03%) Data Engineering
2 9 (31.03%) Data Modelling
3 8 (27.59%) Machine Learning
4 7 (24.14%) CI/CD
4 7 (24.14%) Data Science
4 7 (24.14%) ETL
5 6 (20.69%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (17.24%) Analytics
7 4 (13.79%) AI
8 3 (10.34%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (10.34%) Containerisation
8 3 (10.34%) Data Analysis
8 3 (10.34%) Data Integration
8 3 (10.34%) Data Visualisation
8 3 (10.34%) DevOps
8 3 (10.34%) Dimensional Modelling
8 3 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (10.34%) Software Engineering
8 3 (10.34%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 29 (100.00%) Python
2 20 (68.97%) SQL
3 2 (6.90%) Bash
3 2 (6.90%) Scala
4 1 (3.45%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) SC Cleared
1 6 (20.69%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.45%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.69%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.45%) Dodd-Frank
2 1 (3.45%) EMIR
System Software
1 6 (20.69%) Docker
2 1 (3.45%) zsh
Systems Management
1 5 (17.24%) Terraform
2 3 (10.34%) Kubernetes
3 2 (6.90%) Kubeflow
4 1 (3.45%) Argo
4 1 (3.45%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (41.38%) Databricks
2 4 (13.79%) Google
3 2 (6.90%) Virgin Media
4 1 (3.45%) IBM
4 1 (3.45%) Informatica
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.45%) RedGate
4 1 (3.45%) SnapLogic
4 1 (3.45%) Zoomdata