Python Data Engineer Contracts in London

Python Data Engineer
England > London

The median Python Data Engineer daily rate in London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 April 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 314 372 439
Rank change year-on-year +58 +67 +61
Contract jobs requiring a Python Data Engineer 35 22 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.27% 0.12% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.13% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 22 58
10th Percentile £406 £438 £456
25th Percentile £550 £463 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £488 £638
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -23.53% +2.00%
75th Percentile £675 £600 £775
90th Percentile £800 £650 £788
England median daily rate £600 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +20.00% -16.67% -3.23%

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 11,917 16,635 25,954
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.48% 93.17% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,183 12,041 18,763
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £434 £442 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 342 294
10th Percentile £20.73 £16.00 £17.98
25th Percentile £24.30 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £35.00 £27.66 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year +26.56% -21.55% +0.71%
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.38 £64.45 £77.48
England median hourly rate £31.64 £35.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -10.87% -21.11% +100.00%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 +14 3 - -
Python Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2025, 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 35 (100.00%) Python
2 23 (65.71%) AWS
3 20 (57.14%) Data Engineering
4 17 (48.57%) Analytics
4 17 (48.57%) Azure
5 16 (45.71%) Finance
5 16 (45.71%) Banking
6 15 (42.86%) dbt
7 14 (40.00%) PySpark
7 14 (40.00%) Agile
7 14 (40.00%) Java
7 14 (40.00%) SQL
8 13 (37.14%) Front Office
9 12 (34.29%) Apache Airflow
9 12 (34.29%) Amazon Athena
10 11 (31.43%) Data Pipeline
10 11 (31.43%) Software Engineering
11 10 (28.57%) Investment Management
11 10 (28.57%) SciPy
11 10 (28.57%) NumPy
11 10 (28.57%) Asset Management
11 10 (28.57%) Fintech
11 10 (28.57%) Data Lake
11 10 (28.57%) GCP
11 10 (28.57%) Pandas
11 10 (28.57%) Dremio
11 10 (28.57%) Dagster
11 10 (28.57%) Apache Iceberg
12 9 (25.71%) Apache Spark
13 8 (22.86%) Decision-Making

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 12 (34.29%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (25.71%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.86%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 23 (65.71%) AWS
2 17 (48.57%) Azure
3 15 (42.86%) dbt
4 10 (28.57%) Dagster
4 10 (28.57%) GCP
5 3 (8.57%) Amazon EMR
5 3 (8.57%) Amazon Kinesis
5 3 (8.57%) Amazon S3
5 3 (8.57%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (8.57%) IaaS
5 3 (8.57%) SaaS
6 2 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (5.71%) PaaS
6 2 (5.71%) Power Platform
6 2 (5.71%) Snowflake
7 1 (2.86%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.86%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (2.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (2.86%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (34.29%) Amazon Athena
2 10 (28.57%) Apache Iceberg
2 10 (28.57%) Data Lake
2 10 (28.57%) Dremio
3 5 (14.29%) Relational Database
4 4 (11.43%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (8.57%) Big Data
6 2 (5.71%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (5.71%) Delta Lake
6 2 (5.71%) Power BI
7 1 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (2.86%) DynamoDB
7 1 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (2.86%) GIS
7 1 (2.86%) Hadoop
7 1 (2.86%) Metadata
7 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
7 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (2.86%) Presto
7 1 (2.86%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Git
2 1 (2.86%) GitLab
2 1 (2.86%) Poetry
2 1 (2.86%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 16 (45.71%) Banking
1 16 (45.71%) Finance
2 13 (37.14%) Front Office
3 6 (17.14%) Social Skills
4 5 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (14.29%) Investment Banking
4 5 (14.29%) Retail
5 3 (8.57%) Corporate Banking
5 3 (8.57%) Retail Banking
6 1 (2.86%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (40.00%) PySpark
2 10 (28.57%) NumPy
2 10 (28.57%) Pandas
2 10 (28.57%) SciPy
3 4 (11.43%) Kafka
4 2 (5.71%) pytest
5 1 (2.86%) ADO
5 1 (2.86%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (2.86%) Spring
5 1 (2.86%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Algorithms
2 3 (8.57%) Data Structures
3 2 (5.71%) Derivative
3 2 (5.71%) Equities
3 2 (5.71%) Fixed Income
3 2 (5.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (5.71%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (5.71%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.86%) Hedge funds
4 1 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.86%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (57.14%) Data Engineering
2 17 (48.57%) Analytics
3 14 (40.00%) Agile
4 11 (31.43%) Data Pipeline
4 11 (31.43%) Software Engineering
5 10 (28.57%) Asset Management
5 10 (28.57%) Fintech
5 10 (28.57%) Investment Management
6 8 (22.86%) Decision-Making
7 6 (17.14%) Data Modelling
8 5 (14.29%) Data Ingestion
8 5 (14.29%) Data Science
8 5 (14.29%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 5 (14.29%) ETL
8 5 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (14.29%) Machine Learning
9 4 (11.43%) CI/CD
9 4 (11.43%) Data Transformation
9 4 (11.43%) Predictive Modelling
10 3 (8.57%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 35 (100.00%) Python
2 14 (40.00%) Java
2 14 (40.00%) SQL
3 4 (11.43%) Scala
4 1 (2.86%) Bash
4 1 (2.86%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (2.86%) Degree
1 1 (2.86%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (5.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (14.29%) Terraform
2 3 (8.57%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.86%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (11.43%) Databricks
2 1 (2.86%) Red Hat