Python Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Python Data Engineer
England > London

The median Python Data Engineer daily rate in London is £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025.

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

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 349 318 399
Rank change year-on-year -31 +81 +119
Contract jobs requiring a Python Data Engineer 30 57 30
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.22% 0.37% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.39% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 54 24
10th Percentile £475 £516 £475
25th Percentile £500 £550 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £700 £825 £800
90th Percentile £738 - £963
England median daily rate £525 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -9.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 - -

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 12,582 14,601 19,069
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.01% 93.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,342 9,436 13,877
10th Percentile £334 £339 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £794 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 156 211
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.16
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.33 £21.75
Median hourly rate £26.68 £38.00 £39.83
Median % change year-on-year -29.80% -4.59% +23.50%
75th Percentile £47.50 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £67.31 £80.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year -38.66% -10.64% +52.93%

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 3 November 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 3 November 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 1 £805 +23.85%
East London - 1 - - 1
Python Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 November 2025, 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 30 (100.00%) Python
2 22 (73.33%) SQL
3 21 (70.00%) Data Pipeline
4 17 (56.67%) Azure
4 17 (56.67%) Databricks
5 14 (46.67%) AWS
5 14 (46.67%) Data Modelling
6 12 (40.00%) Data Engineering
7 10 (33.33%) Data Science
7 10 (33.33%) Machine Learning
8 9 (30.00%) ETL
9 8 (26.67%) Analytics
9 8 (26.67%) Apache Spark
9 8 (26.67%) CI/CD
10 7 (23.33%) AI
10 7 (23.33%) Git
10 7 (23.33%) Infrastructure as Code
11 6 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
11 6 (20.00%) Data Quality
11 6 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
11 6 (20.00%) Power BI
11 6 (20.00%) Power Platform
11 6 (20.00%) PySpark
11 6 (20.00%) Terraform
11 6 (20.00%) Visualisation
12 5 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
12 5 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (16.67%) Data Governance
12 5 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (16.67%) GCP

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 8 (26.67%) Apache Spark
2 4 (13.33%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.33%) Apache
3 1 (3.33%) Luigi
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 17 (56.67%) Azure
2 14 (46.67%) AWS
3 6 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 5 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (16.67%) GCP
4 5 (16.67%) Snowflake
5 3 (10.00%) Amazon S3
5 3 (10.00%) dbt
6 2 (6.67%) GitHub
6 2 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.33%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (3.33%) IaaS
7 1 (3.33%) IBM Cloud
7 1 (3.33%) PaaS
7 1 (3.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.00%) Power BI
2 5 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (13.33%) SQL Server
3 4 (13.33%) Tableau
4 3 (10.00%) Geospatial Data
4 3 (10.00%) GIS
4 3 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (10.00%) QGIS
5 2 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (6.67%) BigQuery
5 2 (6.67%) Data Lake
5 2 (6.67%) Hadoop
5 2 (6.67%) MongoDB
5 2 (6.67%) NoSQL
5 2 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (3.33%) AllegroGraph
6 1 (3.33%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (3.33%) Big Data
6 1 (3.33%) Neo4j
6 1 (3.33%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 7 (23.33%) Git
2 1 (3.33%) ERwin
2 1 (3.33%) MLflow
2 1 (3.33%) Selenium
2 1 (3.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (23.33%) Finance
3 4 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 3 (10.00%) Banking
4 3 (10.00%) Telecoms
5 2 (6.67%) Front Office
5 2 (6.67%) Investment Banking
5 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.33%) Legal
6 1 (3.33%) Marketing
6 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.00%) PySpark
2 5 (16.67%) Kafka
3 4 (13.33%) Pandas
4 3 (10.00%) GeoPandas
4 3 (10.00%) NumPy
4 3 (10.00%) PostGIS
5 2 (6.67%) Jinja
6 1 (3.33%) FHIR
6 1 (3.33%) Matplotlib
6 1 (3.33%) Playwright
6 1 (3.33%) Puppeteer
6 1 (3.33%) Seaborn
6 1 (3.33%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) Algorithms
1 3 (10.00%) Distributed Computing
1 3 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
1 3 (10.00%) Reinsurance
2 2 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.33%) Hedge funds
3 1 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (70.00%) Data Pipeline
2 14 (46.67%) Data Modelling
3 12 (40.00%) Data Engineering
4 10 (33.33%) Data Science
4 10 (33.33%) Machine Learning
5 9 (30.00%) ETL
6 8 (26.67%) Analytics
6 8 (26.67%) CI/CD
7 7 (23.33%) AI
7 7 (23.33%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
8 6 (20.00%) Visualisation
9 5 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
9 5 (16.67%) Data Governance
9 5 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (16.67%) Workflow
10 4 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (13.33%) Mathematics
10 4 (13.33%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 30 (100.00%) Python
2 22 (73.33%) SQL
3 4 (13.33%) Scala
4 2 (6.67%) Bash
5 1 (3.33%) C#
5 1 (3.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.33%) Dodd-Frank
2 1 (3.33%) EMIR
System Software
1 3 (10.00%) Docker
2 1 (3.33%) zsh
Systems Management
1 6 (20.00%) Terraform
2 1 (3.33%) Argo
2 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 17 (56.67%) Databricks
2 4 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.67%) Google
4 1 (3.33%) IBM
4 1 (3.33%) Informatica
4 1 (3.33%) RedGate
4 1 (3.33%) SnapLogic
4 1 (3.33%) Virgin Media
4 1 (3.33%) Zoomdata