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 2 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
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 305 366 457
Rank change year-on-year +61 +91 +58
Contract jobs requiring a Python Data Engineer 47 27 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.37% 0.15% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.16% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 26 53
10th Percentile £456 £438 £456
25th Percentile £550 £463 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -16.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £650 £588 £719
90th Percentile £800 £706 £788
England median daily rate £600 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +20.00% -16.67% -4.00%

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 11,795 16,821 27,152
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.57% 93.18% 95.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,079 12,144 19,608
10th Percentile £338 £325 £363
25th Percentile £427 £444 £469
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 148 337 300
10th Percentile £21.15 £16.00 £18.41
25th Percentile £24.66 £19.57 £22.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £27.81 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.85% -21.66% +1.43%
75th Percentile £50.86 £46.50 £62.13
90th Percentile £65.00 £64.06 £75.00
England median hourly rate £34.00 £32.50 £42.84
% change year-on-year +4.62% -24.14% +94.73%

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 2 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 2 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 0 3 - - 4
Python Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 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 47 (100.00%) Python
2 31 (65.96%) AWS
3 27 (57.45%) Finance
4 25 (53.19%) Azure
5 24 (51.06%) Data Engineering
6 22 (46.81%) Analytics
6 22 (46.81%) Banking
6 22 (46.81%) PySpark
7 20 (42.55%) Front Office
7 20 (42.55%) SQL
8 19 (40.43%) dbt
9 18 (38.30%) Java
9 18 (38.30%) Agile
9 18 (38.30%) Apache Airflow
10 17 (36.17%) Fintech
11 16 (34.04%) GCP
11 16 (34.04%) Amazon Athena
12 15 (31.91%) Data Pipeline
12 15 (31.91%) NumPy
12 15 (31.91%) Pandas
12 15 (31.91%) Software Engineering
13 14 (29.79%) Investment Management
13 14 (29.79%) Asset Management
13 14 (29.79%) SciPy
13 14 (29.79%) Data Lake
13 14 (29.79%) Dremio
13 14 (29.79%) Dagster
13 14 (29.79%) Apache Iceberg
14 9 (19.15%) Apache Spark
15 8 (17.02%) Databricks

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 18 (38.30%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (19.15%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.13%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 31 (65.96%) AWS
2 25 (53.19%) Azure
3 19 (40.43%) dbt
4 16 (34.04%) GCP
5 14 (29.79%) Dagster
6 3 (6.38%) Amazon EMR
6 3 (6.38%) Amazon Kinesis
6 3 (6.38%) Amazon S3
6 3 (6.38%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (6.38%) IaaS
6 3 (6.38%) Power Platform
6 3 (6.38%) SaaS
7 2 (4.26%) PaaS
7 2 (4.26%) Snowflake
8 1 (2.13%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (2.13%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (2.13%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (2.13%) GitHub
8 1 (2.13%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (34.04%) Amazon Athena
2 14 (29.79%) Apache Iceberg
2 14 (29.79%) Data Lake
2 14 (29.79%) Dremio
3 5 (10.64%) Big Data
4 4 (8.51%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (8.51%) Relational Database
5 3 (6.38%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (6.38%) Power BI
6 2 (4.26%) Delta Lake
7 1 (2.13%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (2.13%) DynamoDB
7 1 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (2.13%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (2.13%) GIS
7 1 (2.13%) Hadoop
7 1 (2.13%) Metadata
7 1 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (2.13%) Presto
Development Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Git
General
1 27 (57.45%) Finance
2 22 (46.81%) Banking
3 20 (42.55%) Front Office
4 6 (12.77%) Social Skills
5 5 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (10.64%) Investment Banking
5 5 (10.64%) Retail
6 3 (6.38%) Corporate Banking
6 3 (6.38%) Retail Banking
7 2 (4.26%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.13%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (46.81%) PySpark
2 15 (31.91%) NumPy
2 15 (31.91%) Pandas
3 14 (29.79%) SciPy
4 4 (8.51%) Kafka
5 1 (2.13%) FastAPI
5 1 (2.13%) pytest
5 1 (2.13%) React
5 1 (2.13%) Spring
5 1 (2.13%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.64%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (8.51%) Algorithms
2 4 (8.51%) Hedge funds
3 3 (6.38%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.26%) Derivative
4 2 (4.26%) Equities
4 2 (4.26%) Fixed Income
4 2 (4.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (4.26%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.13%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.13%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (51.06%) Data Engineering
2 22 (46.81%) Analytics
3 18 (38.30%) Agile
4 17 (36.17%) Fintech
5 15 (31.91%) Data Pipeline
5 15 (31.91%) Software Engineering
6 14 (29.79%) Asset Management
6 14 (29.79%) Investment Management
7 8 (17.02%) Decision-Making
8 7 (14.89%) Data Modelling
9 5 (10.64%) Data Ingestion
9 5 (10.64%) Data Science
9 5 (10.64%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 5 (10.64%) ETL
9 5 (10.64%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (10.64%) Machine Learning
10 4 (8.51%) Data Migration
10 4 (8.51%) Data Transformation
10 4 (8.51%) Migration
10 4 (8.51%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 47 (100.00%) Python
2 20 (42.55%) SQL
3 18 (38.30%) Java
4 4 (8.51%) Scala
5 1 (2.13%) Bash
5 1 (2.13%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.13%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (4.26%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.13%) Degree
2 1 (2.13%) DV Cleared
2 1 (2.13%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.26%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (4.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (10.64%) Terraform
2 3 (6.38%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.13%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (17.02%) Databricks
2 1 (2.13%) Red Hat