Python Data Engineer Contracts in London

Python Data Engineer
England > London

The median Python Data Engineer daily rate in London is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

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

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 324 401 515
Rank change year-on-year +77 +114 0
Contract jobs requiring a Python Data Engineer 57 30 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.36% 0.15% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.16% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 24 58
10th Percentile £516 £475 £480
25th Percentile £550 £488 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £825 £800 £700
90th Percentile - £963 £783
England median daily rate £600 £550 £610
% change year-on-year +9.09% -9.84% +6.09%

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 14,705 19,194 35,324
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.92% 93.86% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,509 13,971 25,561
10th Percentile £338 £350 £375
25th Percentile £450 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £790 £800 £788
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 212 302
10th Percentile £17.25 £18.02 £15.75
25th Percentile £24.50 £21.94 £20.25
Median hourly rate £39.00 £40.50 £32.25
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +25.58% +7.50%
75th Percentile £60.00 £61.94 £57.50
90th Percentile £80.75 £76.25 £75.00
England median hourly rate £41.50 £45.94 £30.00
% change year-on-year -9.66% +53.13% +50.00%

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 31 October 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 October 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 +18 3 £650 -24.64%
West London - 3 £588 -
Python Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 October 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 57 (100.00%) Python
2 39 (68.42%) AWS
3 37 (64.91%) Azure
4 36 (63.16%) Finance
5 31 (54.39%) PySpark
6 28 (49.12%) GCP
6 28 (49.12%) Analytics
7 26 (45.61%) Data Engineering
7 26 (45.61%) Banking
8 25 (43.86%) SQL
8 25 (43.86%) dbt
9 24 (42.11%) Front Office
9 24 (42.11%) Fintech
9 24 (42.11%) Apache Airflow
10 23 (40.35%) Agile
10 23 (40.35%) Java
11 22 (38.60%) Asset Management
11 22 (38.60%) NumPy
12 21 (36.84%) Data Lake
12 21 (36.84%) Pandas
12 21 (36.84%) Investment Management
13 20 (35.09%) Software Engineering
13 20 (35.09%) SciPy
13 20 (35.09%) Amazon Athena
13 20 (35.09%) Dremio
13 20 (35.09%) Dagster
14 14 (24.56%) Data Pipeline
15 12 (21.05%) Big Data
16 11 (19.30%) Databricks
17 10 (17.54%) Data Modelling

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 24 (42.11%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (14.04%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.75%) Apache
3 1 (1.75%) Luigi
3 1 (1.75%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Aladdin
1 1 (1.75%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 39 (68.42%) AWS
2 37 (64.91%) Azure
3 28 (49.12%) GCP
4 25 (43.86%) dbt
5 20 (35.09%) Dagster
6 5 (8.77%) Snowflake
7 4 (7.02%) Power Platform
8 3 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (3.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (1.75%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (1.75%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (1.75%) Fivetran
10 1 (1.75%) GitHub
10 1 (1.75%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (36.84%) Data Lake
2 20 (35.09%) Amazon Athena
2 20 (35.09%) Dremio
3 12 (21.05%) Big Data
4 8 (14.04%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (8.77%) Hadoop
6 4 (7.02%) Power BI
7 3 (5.26%) NoSQL
8 2 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (3.51%) Tableau
9 1 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.75%) Azkaban
9 1 (1.75%) BigQuery
9 1 (1.75%) Delta Lake
9 1 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.75%) HBase
9 1 (1.75%) Qlik Sense
9 1 (1.75%) SAP HANA
9 1 (1.75%) SAS EBI
9 1 (1.75%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Git
1 1 (1.75%) IBM UrbanCode
1 1 (1.75%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.75%) JIRA
1 1 (1.75%) TeamCity
General
1 36 (63.16%) Finance
2 26 (45.61%) Banking
3 24 (42.11%) Front Office
4 5 (8.77%) Social Skills
5 4 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.51%) Financial Institution
6 2 (3.51%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.75%) French Language
7 1 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.75%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.75%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (54.39%) PySpark
2 22 (38.60%) NumPy
3 21 (36.84%) Pandas
4 20 (35.09%) SciPy
5 5 (8.77%) Kafka
6 1 (1.75%) Django
6 1 (1.75%) FastAPI
6 1 (1.75%) React
6 1 (1.75%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.77%) Data Structures
1 5 (8.77%) Hedge funds
2 4 (7.02%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.75%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.75%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.75%) Linux
1 1 (1.75%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (49.12%) Analytics
2 26 (45.61%) Data Engineering
3 24 (42.11%) Fintech
4 23 (40.35%) Agile
5 22 (38.60%) Asset Management
6 21 (36.84%) Investment Management
7 20 (35.09%) Software Engineering
8 14 (24.56%) Data Pipeline
9 10 (17.54%) Data Modelling
10 7 (12.28%) ETL
11 5 (8.77%) Business Intelligence
11 5 (8.77%) Data Analytics
12 4 (7.02%) Data Migration
12 4 (7.02%) Data Strategy
12 4 (7.02%) DevOps
12 4 (7.02%) Migration
13 3 (5.26%) CI/CD
13 3 (5.26%) Data Ingestion
13 3 (5.26%) Decision-Making
13 3 (5.26%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 57 (100.00%) Python
2 25 (43.86%) SQL
3 23 (40.35%) Java
4 3 (5.26%) Scala
5 1 (1.75%) Bash
5 1 (1.75%) C++
5 1 (1.75%) Go
5 1 (1.75%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.75%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.75%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (5.26%) Degree
2 1 (1.75%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.75%) DV Cleared
2 1 (1.75%) Master's Degree
2 1 (1.75%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.26%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.75%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (1.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.51%) Terraform
2 1 (1.75%) Ansible
2 1 (1.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (19.30%) Databricks
2 4 (7.02%) Informatica
3 2 (3.51%) Google
4 1 (1.75%) IBM
4 1 (1.75%) Oracle
4 1 (1.75%) SAP