Python Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Python Data Engineer
England > London

The median Python Data Engineer daily rate in London is £569, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025.

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

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 353 323 387
Rank change year-on-year -30 +64 +129
Contract jobs requiring a Python Data Engineer 32 65 27
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.22% 0.41% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.44% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 60 23
10th Percentile £430 £473 £463
25th Percentile £493 £550 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £700 £803 £775
90th Percentile £725 £825 £975
England median daily rate £520 £600 £536
% change year-on-year -13.33% +11.89% -13.86%
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 13,246 14,783 18,056
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.20% 93.60% 93.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,814 9,604 13,048
10th Percentile £338 £340 £337
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £760 £800 £788
England median daily rate £504 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.03% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 154 212
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.18
25th Percentile £21.35 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £27.86 £35.75 £36.14
Median % change year-on-year -22.08% -1.08% +3.26%
75th Percentile £54.06 £53.75 £59.06
90th Percentile £74.75 £80.75 £73.54
England median hourly rate £25.44 £37.25 £45.00
% change year-on-year -31.70% -17.22% +36.36%

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 5 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 5 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 -2 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 5 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 32 (100.00%) Python
2 23 (71.88%) SQL
3 19 (59.38%) Data Pipeline
4 16 (50.00%) Azure
5 15 (46.88%) Databricks
6 14 (43.75%) AWS
7 11 (34.38%) Data Engineering
7 11 (34.38%) Data Modelling
8 10 (31.25%) Machine Learning
9 9 (28.13%) CI/CD
10 8 (25.00%) ETL
10 8 (25.00%) PySpark
10 8 (25.00%) Snowflake
11 7 (21.88%) Analytics
11 7 (21.88%) Data Quality
11 7 (21.88%) Data Science
11 7 (21.88%) Git
11 7 (21.88%) Infrastructure as Code
12 6 (18.75%) Apache Airflow
12 6 (18.75%) Docker
12 6 (18.75%) Pandas
12 6 (18.75%) SC Cleared
12 6 (18.75%) Security Cleared
12 6 (18.75%) Terraform
13 5 (15.63%) Business Intelligence
13 5 (15.63%) Data Visualisation
13 5 (15.63%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (15.63%) dbt
13 5 (15.63%) NumPy
13 5 (15.63%) Power BI

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 (18.75%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (12.50%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.13%) Luigi
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 16 (50.00%) Azure
2 14 (43.75%) AWS
3 8 (25.00%) Snowflake
4 5 (15.63%) dbt
4 5 (15.63%) Power Platform
5 4 (12.50%) GCP
6 3 (9.38%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (6.25%) Amazon S3
7 2 (6.25%) GitHub
7 2 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (3.13%) Amazon Bedrock
8 1 (3.13%) Azure Functions
8 1 (3.13%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (3.13%) IaaS
8 1 (3.13%) IBM Cloud
8 1 (3.13%) PaaS
8 1 (3.13%) SaaS
8 1 (3.13%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.63%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (15.63%) Power BI
2 4 (12.50%) BigQuery
3 3 (9.38%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (9.38%) Data Lake
3 3 (9.38%) NoSQL
3 3 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (9.38%) SQL Server
3 3 (9.38%) Tableau
4 2 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (6.25%) Delta Lake
4 2 (6.25%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (6.25%) GIS
4 2 (6.25%) MongoDB
4 2 (6.25%) QGIS
4 2 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (3.13%) ArangoDB
5 1 (3.13%) CrateDB
5 1 (3.13%) Metadata
5 1 (3.13%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (21.88%) Git
2 3 (9.38%) MLflow
3 1 (3.13%) ERwin
3 1 (3.13%) Selenium
3 1 (3.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (21.88%) Finance
3 3 (9.38%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Front Office
4 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.25%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.13%) Banking
5 1 (3.13%) Legal
5 1 (3.13%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (25.00%) PySpark
2 6 (18.75%) Pandas
3 5 (15.63%) NumPy
4 2 (6.25%) GeoPandas
4 2 (6.25%) Jinja
4 2 (6.25%) Kafka
4 2 (6.25%) PostGIS
4 2 (6.25%) PyTorch
4 2 (6.25%) scikit-learn
4 2 (6.25%) TensorFlow
5 1 (3.13%) FHIR
5 1 (3.13%) Matplotlib
5 1 (3.13%) Playwright
5 1 (3.13%) Puppeteer
5 1 (3.13%) Seaborn
5 1 (3.13%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.25%) Algorithms
1 2 (6.25%) Distributed Computing
1 2 (6.25%) Onboarding
1 2 (6.25%) Public Cloud
1 2 (6.25%) Reinsurance
2 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.13%) Hedge funds
2 1 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (59.38%) Data Pipeline
2 11 (34.38%) Data Engineering
2 11 (34.38%) Data Modelling
3 10 (31.25%) Machine Learning
4 9 (28.13%) CI/CD
5 8 (25.00%) ETL
6 7 (21.88%) Analytics
6 7 (21.88%) Data Science
6 7 (21.88%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (15.63%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (15.63%) Data Visualisation
7 5 (15.63%) Visualisation
8 4 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
8 4 (12.50%) AI
8 4 (12.50%) Workflow
9 3 (9.38%) Containerisation
9 3 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (9.38%) Data Integration
9 3 (9.38%) DevOps
9 3 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 32 (100.00%) Python
2 23 (71.88%) SQL
3 2 (6.25%) Bash
3 2 (6.25%) Scala
4 1 (3.13%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (18.75%) SC Cleared
1 6 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.13%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (21.88%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.13%) Dodd-Frank
2 1 (3.13%) EMIR
System Software
1 6 (18.75%) Docker
2 1 (3.13%) zsh
Systems Management
1 6 (18.75%) Terraform
2 3 (9.38%) Kubernetes
3 2 (6.25%) Kubeflow
4 1 (3.13%) Argo
4 1 (3.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (46.88%) Databricks
2 4 (12.50%) Google
3 3 (9.38%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.25%) Virgin Media
5 1 (3.13%) IBM
5 1 (3.13%) Informatica
5 1 (3.13%) RedGate
5 1 (3.13%) SnapLogic
5 1 (3.13%) Zoomdata