Python Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Python Data Engineer
England > London

The median Python Data Engineer daily rate in London is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 389 356 346
Rank change year-on-year -33 -10 +65
Contract jobs requiring a Python Data Engineer 51 24 36
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.25% 0.18% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.19% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 17 35
10th Percentile £401 £460 £438
25th Percentile £431 £490 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £700
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -14.29% +2.75%
75th Percentile £653 £800 £825
90th Percentile £809 - -
England median daily rate £575 £495 £600
% change year-on-year +16.16% -17.50% +1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
England median hourly rate - £62.50 -

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 18,620 12,668 15,338
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.08% 93.00% 94.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,167 8,582 10,875
10th Percentile £363 £326 £348
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 347 202 200
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £17.48
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.93 £22.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £29.54 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +32.05% -10.69% -11.81%
75th Percentile £59.36 £50.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £63.75 £72.19
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.32 £45.00
% change year-on-year +77.73% -43.73% +5.88%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 - 4 £600 - 4
East London +4 2 £450 -
South London - 1 £500 -
Python Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 August 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 51 (100.00%) Python
2 37 (72.55%) SQL
3 30 (58.82%) Data Pipeline
4 25 (49.02%) Azure
5 21 (41.18%) Data Modelling
5 21 (41.18%) Data Quality
6 19 (37.25%) ETL
7 17 (33.33%) Analytics
8 16 (31.37%) Data Engineering
9 15 (29.41%) Databricks
10 13 (25.49%) CI/CD
11 12 (23.53%) Data Governance
11 12 (23.53%) dbt
11 12 (23.53%) Snowflake
12 11 (21.57%) AWS
12 11 (21.57%) BigQuery
13 10 (19.61%) Agile
13 10 (19.61%) Apache Airflow
14 9 (17.65%) Azure Data Factory
14 9 (17.65%) Data Integration
14 9 (17.65%) Investment Management
14 9 (17.65%) Performance Tuning
15 8 (15.69%) AI
15 8 (15.69%) Business Intelligence
15 8 (15.69%) Data Transformation
15 8 (15.69%) Docker
15 8 (15.69%) GCP
15 8 (15.69%) Machine Learning
15 8 (15.69%) Microsoft
16 7 (13.73%) Apache

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 10 (19.61%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (13.73%) Apache
3 3 (5.88%) Apache Spark
4 2 (3.92%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (9.80%) Aladdin
2 3 (5.88%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 25 (49.02%) Azure
2 12 (23.53%) dbt
2 12 (23.53%) Snowflake
3 11 (21.57%) AWS
4 9 (17.65%) Azure Data Factory
5 8 (15.69%) GCP
6 6 (11.76%) Power Platform
7 4 (7.84%) GitHub
8 3 (5.88%) Cloud Composer
8 3 (5.88%) Dagster
8 3 (5.88%) Serverless
9 2 (3.92%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (3.92%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.96%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (1.96%) Amazon EventBridge
10 1 (1.96%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (1.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (1.96%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (1.96%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (21.57%) BigQuery
2 6 (11.76%) Power BI
3 5 (9.80%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (9.80%) Relational Database
3 5 (9.80%) Snowflake Schema
4 4 (7.84%) Data Lake
5 3 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (5.88%) Flink
5 3 (5.88%) Looker
5 3 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (5.88%) SQL Server
6 2 (3.92%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (3.92%) Apache Iceberg
6 2 (3.92%) Delta Lake
6 2 (3.92%) Tableau
7 1 (1.96%) Data Hub
7 1 (1.96%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (1.96%) Metadata
7 1 (1.96%) Redshift Spectrum
7 1 (1.96%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 3 (5.88%) Git
General
1 24 (47.06%) Finance
2 9 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (9.80%) Social Skills
4 4 (7.84%) Banking
4 4 (7.84%) Front Office
5 2 (3.92%) Games
5 2 (3.92%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.96%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (13.73%) PySpark
2 5 (9.80%) Pandas
3 3 (5.88%) Apache Beam
3 3 (5.88%) Great Expectations
3 3 (5.88%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (3.92%) Kafka
4 2 (3.92%) scikit-learn
5 1 (1.96%) .NET
5 1 (1.96%) Apache Jena
5 1 (1.96%) GeoJSON
5 1 (1.96%) GraphQL
5 1 (1.96%) Jinja
5 1 (1.96%) JSON
5 1 (1.96%) Matplotlib
5 1 (1.96%) NumPy
5 1 (1.96%) Polars
5 1 (1.96%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.96%) REST
5 1 (1.96%) TensorFlow
5 1 (1.96%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.84%) Data Structures
1 4 (7.84%) Reference Data
2 3 (5.88%) Derivative
2 3 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.92%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.96%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.96%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.96%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.96%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.96%) Linux
1 1 (1.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (58.82%) Data Pipeline
2 21 (41.18%) Data Modelling
3 19 (37.25%) ETL
4 17 (33.33%) Analytics
5 16 (31.37%) Data Engineering
6 13 (25.49%) CI/CD
7 12 (23.53%) Data Governance
8 10 (19.61%) Agile
9 9 (17.65%) Data Integration
9 9 (17.65%) Investment Management
9 9 (17.65%) Performance Tuning
10 8 (15.69%) AI
10 8 (15.69%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (15.69%) Data Transformation
10 8 (15.69%) Machine Learning
11 7 (13.73%) Data Architecture
11 7 (13.73%) Infrastructure as Code
12 6 (11.76%) SDLC
12 6 (11.76%) Test Automation
13 5 (9.80%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 51 (100.00%) Python
2 37 (72.55%) SQL
3 4 (7.84%) C#
3 4 (7.84%) Java
3 4 (7.84%) PowerShell
4 3 (5.88%) Scala
4 3 (5.88%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.96%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.96%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.96%) SPARQL
5 1 (1.96%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (11.76%) SC Cleared
1 6 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (3.92%) Degree
3 1 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (41.18%) Data Quality
2 4 (7.84%) QA
System Software
1 8 (15.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (11.76%) Terraform
2 5 (9.80%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.96%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 15 (29.41%) Databricks
2 8 (15.69%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.84%) Bloomberg
3 4 (7.84%) Google
4 3 (5.88%) New Relic
4 3 (5.88%) SimCorp
4 3 (5.88%) Splunk
5 2 (3.92%) Oracle
6 1 (1.96%) Solace