Python Data Engineer Contracts in London

Python Data Engineer
England > London

The median Python Data Engineer daily rate in London is £588 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 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
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 362 410 498
Rank change year-on-year +48 +88 -100
Contract jobs requiring a Python Data Engineer 28 67 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.16% 0.26% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.28% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 59 86
10th Percentile £438 £456 £479
25th Percentile £463 £563 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £650 £620
Median % change year-on-year -9.62% +4.84% +7.83%
75th Percentile £766 £775 £688
90th Percentile £825 £788 £750
England median daily rate £550 £600 £615
% change year-on-year -8.33% -2.44% +6.96%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 16,359 24,202 36,895
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.56% 95.18% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,819 17,639 27,124
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £678 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 276 418
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.74 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.22 £22.60 £22.91
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +8.63%
75th Percentile £46.77 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.75 £82.38 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.63 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.39% +88.21% +11.21%

Python Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Python Data Engineer in London

Python Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python Data Engineer in London.

Daily rate trend for Python Data Engineer 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 31 May 2024.

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 31 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
Central London +38 4 £713 +18.75% 2
Python Data Engineer
England

Python Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 31 May 2024, Python Data 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 London region featuring Python Data Engineer in the job title.

1 28 (100.00%) Python
2 16 (57.14%) PySpark
2 16 (57.14%) SQL
3 14 (50.00%) Azure
4 11 (39.29%) AWS
5 10 (35.71%) Databricks
5 10 (35.71%) Data Engineering
5 10 (35.71%) Data Pipeline
6 9 (32.14%) Finance
7 8 (28.57%) ETL
7 8 (28.57%) Apache Airflow
8 7 (25.00%) Big Data
8 7 (25.00%) Analytics
8 7 (25.00%) CI/CD
9 6 (21.43%) Dagster
9 6 (21.43%) Kafka
9 6 (21.43%) NumPy
9 6 (21.43%) Pandas
9 6 (21.43%) Kubernetes
9 6 (21.43%) Banking
9 6 (21.43%) Data Modelling
9 6 (21.43%) Git
10 5 (17.86%) Agile
10 5 (17.86%) Investment Management
10 5 (17.86%) Java
10 5 (17.86%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (17.86%) Serverless
10 5 (17.86%) DevOps
10 5 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (17.86%) Microservices

Python Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 8 (28.57%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (10.71%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.57%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 14 (50.00%) Azure
2 11 (39.29%) AWS
3 6 (21.43%) Dagster
4 5 (17.86%) Serverless
5 4 (14.29%) Amazon S3
5 4 (14.29%) Power Platform
6 3 (10.71%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (10.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (10.71%) GCP
7 2 (7.14%) Azure Stack
7 2 (7.14%) Azure Storage
7 2 (7.14%) dbt
8 1 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (3.57%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (3.57%) OpenShift
8 1 (3.57%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.00%) Big Data
2 5 (17.86%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (14.29%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (14.29%) Data Lake
3 4 (14.29%) Power BI
4 3 (10.71%) Hadoop
4 3 (10.71%) NoSQL
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (7.14%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 2 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (7.14%) Dremio
5 2 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (7.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (3.57%) Delta Lake
6 1 (3.57%) MySQL
6 1 (3.57%) Presto
6 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
6 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
6 1 (3.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (21.43%) Git
2 1 (3.57%) Ant
2 1 (3.57%) Gradle
2 1 (3.57%) IBM UrbanCode
2 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.57%) JUnit
2 1 (3.57%) Maven
2 1 (3.57%) RStudio
2 1 (3.57%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (32.14%) Finance
2 6 (21.43%) Banking
3 5 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (14.29%) Social Skills
5 2 (7.14%) Front Office
6 1 (3.57%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (57.14%) PySpark
2 6 (21.43%) Kafka
2 6 (21.43%) NumPy
2 6 (21.43%) Pandas
3 4 (14.29%) REST
4 2 (7.14%) SciPy
4 2 (7.14%) YAML
5 1 (3.57%) Django
5 1 (3.57%) Flask
5 1 (3.57%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (7.14%) Hedge funds
3 1 (3.57%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.57%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.57%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.71%) Linux
2 1 (3.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (35.71%) Data Engineering
1 10 (35.71%) Data Pipeline
2 8 (28.57%) ETL
3 7 (25.00%) Analytics
3 7 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (21.43%) Data Modelling
5 5 (17.86%) Agile
5 5 (17.86%) DevOps
5 5 (17.86%) Investment Management
5 5 (17.86%) Microservices
6 4 (14.29%) Data Analytics
6 4 (14.29%) Data Governance
6 4 (14.29%) Software Engineering
6 4 (14.29%) Workflow
7 3 (10.71%) Computer Science
7 3 (10.71%) Data Integration
7 3 (10.71%) Data Science
7 3 (10.71%) Data Transformation
7 3 (10.71%) Full Stack Development
7 3 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 28 (100.00%) Python
2 16 (57.14%) SQL
3 5 (17.86%) Java
4 3 (10.71%) Scala
5 2 (7.14%) Bash
5 2 (7.14%) C++
5 2 (7.14%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.57%) C
6 1 (3.57%) Go
6 1 (3.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (7.14%) Degree
1 2 (7.14%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.57%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (21.43%) Kubernetes
2 4 (14.29%) Argo
2 4 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (35.71%) Databricks
2 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.14%) Oracle
3 1 (3.57%) Foundry
3 1 (3.57%) Google
3 1 (3.57%) IBM
3 1 (3.57%) Palantir
3 1 (3.57%) SAP