Python Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Python Data Engineer
England > London

The median Python Data Engineer daily rate in London is £581, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 July 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 385 343 343
Rank change year-on-year -42 0 +64
Contract jobs requiring a Python Data Engineer 49 25 36
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.25% 0.18% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.20% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 17 35
10th Percentile £415 £460 £438
25th Percentile £450 £490 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% -7.69% -4.59%
75th Percentile £666 £800 £825
90th Percentile £813 - -
England median daily rate £588 £495 £600
% change year-on-year +18.69% -17.50% -
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 18,540 12,626 15,560
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.04% 93.07% 94.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,139 8,542 11,072
10th Percentile £363 £331 £343
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 £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 200 228
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.75 £22.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £30.00 £32.40
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -7.39% -13.61%
75th Percentile £59.36 £50.13 £52.44
90th Percentile £77.83 £63.88 £71.44
England median hourly rate £45.25 £26.30 £43.00
% change year-on-year +72.05% -38.84% -1.71%

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 -2 4 £600 - 4
East London +4 2 £450 -
South London - 1 £500 - 1
Python Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 July 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 49 (100.00%) Python
2 35 (71.43%) SQL
3 28 (57.14%) Data Pipeline
4 25 (51.02%) Azure
5 19 (38.78%) Data Modelling
5 19 (38.78%) Data Quality
5 19 (38.78%) ETL
6 16 (32.65%) Analytics
7 15 (30.61%) Data Engineering
8 14 (28.57%) Databricks
9 11 (22.45%) Data Governance
9 11 (22.45%) Snowflake
10 10 (20.41%) AWS
10 10 (20.41%) CI/CD
10 10 (20.41%) dbt
11 9 (18.37%) Agile
11 9 (18.37%) Azure Data Factory
11 9 (18.37%) BigQuery
11 9 (18.37%) Data Integration
11 9 (18.37%) Investment Management
12 8 (16.33%) AI
12 8 (16.33%) Apache Airflow
12 8 (16.33%) Microsoft
12 8 (16.33%) Performance Tuning
13 7 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
13 7 (14.29%) Data Transformation
13 7 (14.29%) Machine Learning
14 6 (12.24%) Data Architecture
14 6 (12.24%) Docker
14 6 (12.24%) 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 (16.33%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (10.20%) Apache
3 2 (4.08%) Apache Spark
3 2 (4.08%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (10.20%) Aladdin
2 3 (6.12%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 25 (51.02%) Azure
2 11 (22.45%) Snowflake
3 10 (20.41%) AWS
3 10 (20.41%) dbt
4 9 (18.37%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (12.24%) GCP
6 5 (10.20%) Power Platform
7 3 (6.12%) Dagster
7 3 (6.12%) GitHub
8 2 (4.08%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (4.08%) Cloud Composer
8 2 (4.08%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (4.08%) Serverless
9 1 (2.04%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (2.04%) Amazon EventBridge
9 1 (2.04%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (2.04%) Azure Functions
9 1 (2.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (2.04%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (18.37%) BigQuery
2 5 (10.20%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (10.20%) Power BI
2 5 (10.20%) Relational Database
2 5 (10.20%) Snowflake Schema
3 4 (8.16%) Data Lake
4 3 (6.12%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (6.12%) SQL Server
5 2 (4.08%) Flink
5 2 (4.08%) Looker
5 2 (4.08%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.04%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (2.04%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (2.04%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.04%) Data Hub
6 1 (2.04%) Delta Lake
6 1 (2.04%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (2.04%) Metadata
6 1 (2.04%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Git
General
1 23 (46.94%) Finance
2 10 (20.41%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (10.20%) Social Skills
4 4 (8.16%) Banking
4 4 (8.16%) Front Office
5 2 (4.08%) Games
5 2 (4.08%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.04%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.04%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.24%) PySpark
2 5 (10.20%) Pandas
3 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (4.08%) Apache Beam
4 2 (4.08%) Great Expectations
4 2 (4.08%) Kafka
4 2 (4.08%) scikit-learn
5 1 (2.04%) .NET
5 1 (2.04%) Apache Jena
5 1 (2.04%) GeoJSON
5 1 (2.04%) GraphQL
5 1 (2.04%) JSON
5 1 (2.04%) Matplotlib
5 1 (2.04%) NumPy
5 1 (2.04%) Polars
5 1 (2.04%) PyTorch
5 1 (2.04%) REST
5 1 (2.04%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.20%) Data Structures
2 4 (8.16%) Reference Data
3 3 (6.12%) Derivative
4 2 (4.08%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.08%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.04%) Fixed Income
5 1 (2.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.04%) Hedge funds
5 1 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.04%) Life Science
5 1 (2.04%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.04%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.04%) Linux
1 1 (2.04%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (57.14%) Data Pipeline
2 19 (38.78%) Data Modelling
2 19 (38.78%) ETL
3 16 (32.65%) Analytics
4 15 (30.61%) Data Engineering
5 11 (22.45%) Data Governance
6 10 (20.41%) CI/CD
7 9 (18.37%) Agile
7 9 (18.37%) Data Integration
7 9 (18.37%) Investment Management
8 8 (16.33%) AI
8 8 (16.33%) Performance Tuning
9 7 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
9 7 (14.29%) Data Transformation
9 7 (14.29%) Machine Learning
10 6 (12.24%) Data Architecture
10 6 (12.24%) Infrastructure as Code
11 5 (10.20%) Data Science
11 5 (10.20%) SDLC
11 5 (10.20%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 49 (100.00%) Python
2 35 (71.43%) SQL
3 4 (8.16%) C#
3 4 (8.16%) PowerShell
4 3 (6.12%) Java
5 2 (4.08%) Scala
5 2 (4.08%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.04%) C
6 1 (2.04%) C++
6 1 (2.04%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.04%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.04%) SPARQL
6 1 (2.04%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (12.24%) SC Cleared
1 6 (12.24%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.08%) Degree
3 1 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (38.78%) Data Quality
2 4 (8.16%) QA
3 1 (2.04%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (12.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (10.20%) Terraform
2 3 (6.12%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.04%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 14 (28.57%) Databricks
2 8 (16.33%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.16%) Bloomberg
4 3 (6.12%) Google
4 3 (6.12%) SimCorp
5 2 (4.08%) New Relic
5 2 (4.08%) Oracle
5 2 (4.08%) Splunk
6 1 (2.04%) Solace