Python Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Python Data Engineer
England > London

The median Python Data Engineer daily rate in London is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 February 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 297 377
Rank change year-on-year -58 +80 +111
Contract jobs requiring a Python Data Engineer 34 60 25
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.23% 0.44% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.47% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 52 21
10th Percentile £414 £453 -
25th Percentile £422 £550 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% +20.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £700 £650 £650
90th Percentile £729 £800 £1,000
England median daily rate £500 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% -16.67%

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 13,814 12,776 17,388
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.66% 93.62% 93.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,208 8,172 12,584
10th Percentile £350 £332 £325
25th Percentile £425 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £780
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 141 335
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.00 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.55 £24.66 £19.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £37.50 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +31.58% -12.31%
75th Percentile £61.25 £53.75 £49.48
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.75 £65.45
England median hourly rate £30.11 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -13.99% - -3.19%

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 8 February 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 8 February 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 -7 3 £625 - 6
Python Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 February 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 34 (100.00%) Python
2 20 (58.82%) SQL
3 17 (50.00%) Azure
3 17 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
4 12 (35.29%) AWS
4 12 (35.29%) Data Modelling
5 11 (32.35%) Databricks
5 11 (32.35%) ETL
6 10 (29.41%) Data Engineering
7 9 (26.47%) Machine Learning
7 9 (26.47%) PySpark
7 9 (26.47%) Snowflake
8 8 (23.53%) Analytics
8 8 (23.53%) Data Quality
8 8 (23.53%) Data Science
8 8 (23.53%) SC Cleared
8 8 (23.53%) Security Cleared
9 7 (20.59%) CI/CD
9 7 (20.59%) Pandas
10 6 (17.65%) Containerisation
10 6 (17.65%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (17.65%) dbt
10 6 (17.65%) Delta Lake
10 6 (17.65%) Docker
10 6 (17.65%) NumPy
11 5 (14.71%) AI
11 5 (14.71%) Apache Airflow
11 5 (14.71%) Git
11 5 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
12 4 (11.76%) BigQuery

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 (14.71%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.94%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 17 (50.00%) Azure
2 12 (35.29%) AWS
3 9 (26.47%) Snowflake
4 6 (17.65%) dbt
5 4 (11.76%) GCP
6 3 (8.82%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (8.82%) Power Platform
7 2 (5.88%) GitHub
7 2 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.94%) Amazon Bedrock
8 1 (2.94%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.94%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.94%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (2.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (2.94%) Dagster
8 1 (2.94%) IBM Cloud
8 1 (2.94%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.65%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (17.65%) Delta Lake
2 4 (11.76%) BigQuery
3 3 (8.82%) Data Lake
3 3 (8.82%) NoSQL
3 3 (8.82%) Power BI
4 2 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (5.88%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.94%) Data Vault
5 1 (2.94%) DB2
5 1 (2.94%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.94%) Metadata
5 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.94%) Power Query
5 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.94%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.94%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (14.71%) Git
2 3 (8.82%) MLflow
3 1 (2.94%) JIRA
3 1 (2.94%) Selenium
3 1 (2.94%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (14.71%) Finance
3 3 (8.82%) Front Office
4 2 (5.88%) Banking
4 2 (5.88%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.94%) Marketing
5 1 (2.94%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (26.47%) PySpark
2 7 (20.59%) Pandas
3 6 (17.65%) NumPy
4 2 (5.88%) Kafka
4 2 (5.88%) PyTorch
4 2 (5.88%) scikit-learn
4 2 (5.88%) TensorFlow
5 1 (2.94%) FHIR
5 1 (2.94%) Matplotlib
5 1 (2.94%) Playwright
5 1 (2.94%) Puppeteer
5 1 (2.94%) Seaborn
5 1 (2.94%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.82%) Public Cloud
1 3 (8.82%) Reinsurance
2 2 (5.88%) Data Structures
2 2 (5.88%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.94%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.94%) Derivative
3 1 (2.94%) Equities
3 1 (2.94%) Fixed Income
3 1 (2.94%) Hedge funds
3 1 (2.94%) Life Science
3 1 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.94%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.94%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 12 (35.29%) Data Modelling
3 11 (32.35%) ETL
4 10 (29.41%) Data Engineering
5 9 (26.47%) Machine Learning
6 8 (23.53%) Analytics
6 8 (23.53%) Data Science
7 7 (20.59%) CI/CD
8 6 (17.65%) Containerisation
9 5 (14.71%) AI
9 5 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
10 4 (11.76%) Data Analysis
10 4 (11.76%) Data Integration
10 4 (11.76%) Data Visualisation
10 4 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
10 4 (11.76%) Software Engineering
10 4 (11.76%) Visualisation
11 3 (8.82%) Actionable Insight
11 3 (8.82%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 34 (100.00%) Python
2 20 (58.82%) SQL
3 1 (2.94%) Bash
3 1 (2.94%) C
3 1 (2.94%) C#
3 1 (2.94%) C++
3 1 (2.94%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (23.53%) SC Cleared
1 8 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (23.53%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.94%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.94%) Dodd-Frank
2 1 (2.94%) EMIR
System Software
1 6 (17.65%) Docker
2 1 (2.94%) zsh
Systems Management
1 3 (8.82%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.88%) Kubeflow
3 1 (2.94%) Argo
3 1 (2.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (32.35%) Databricks
2 3 (8.82%) Google
3 2 (5.88%) Virgin Media
4 1 (2.94%) Bloomberg
4 1 (2.94%) IBM
4 1 (2.94%) Informatica
4 1 (2.94%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.94%) Oracle
4 1 (2.94%) RedGate
4 1 (2.94%) Reuters