Python Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Python Data Engineer
England > London

The median Python Data Engineer daily rate in London is £523, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 September 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
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 340 345 412
Rank change year-on-year +5 +67 +126
Contract jobs requiring a Python Data Engineer 24 45 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.18% 0.28% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.30% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 44 38
10th Percentile £456 £525 £475
25th Percentile £490 £575 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £700 £700
Median % change year-on-year -25.36% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £663 £825 £788
90th Percentile £725 - £791
England median daily rate £495 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -17.50% - -
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 12,300 15,146 20,707
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.66% 93.99% 94.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,223 10,093 15,105
10th Percentile £331 £343 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £673 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £546
% change year-on-year -2.86% -3.85% -0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 178 225
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.43 £18.23
25th Percentile £22.95 £23.80 £22.29
Median hourly rate £29.07 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.94% -6.67% +17.19%
75th Percentile £50.25 £57.13 £63.75
90th Percentile £65.46 £75.00 £77.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -45.54% +2.62% +73.08%

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
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 22 September 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 22 September 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
East London - 1 - -
Python Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 22 September 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 24 (100.00%) Python
2 18 (75.00%) SQL
3 17 (70.83%) Data Pipeline
4 16 (66.67%) Azure
5 14 (58.33%) Databricks
6 13 (54.17%) AWS
7 12 (50.00%) Data Modelling
8 10 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (41.67%) CI/CD
9 9 (37.50%) Apache Spark
9 9 (37.50%) Data Engineering
10 7 (29.17%) Machine Learning
10 7 (29.17%) Git
11 6 (25.00%) ETL
11 6 (25.00%) Workflow
11 6 (25.00%) Analytics
11 6 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
11 6 (25.00%) Terraform
11 6 (25.00%) Data Science
12 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
12 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure as Code
12 5 (20.83%) Power Platform
12 5 (20.83%) Power BI
12 5 (20.83%) Kafka
12 5 (20.83%) Data Governance
12 5 (20.83%) Data Quality
12 5 (20.83%) Tableau
12 5 (20.83%) Finance
12 5 (20.83%) Artificial Intelligence
12 5 (20.83%) Business Intelligence

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 9 (37.50%) Apache Spark
2 4 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (4.17%) Apache
3 1 (4.17%) Luigi
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 16 (66.67%) Azure
2 13 (54.17%) AWS
3 5 (20.83%) Power Platform
4 4 (16.67%) GCP
5 3 (12.50%) Amazon S3
5 3 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (12.50%) dbt
6 2 (8.33%) GitHub
6 2 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (8.33%) Snowflake
7 1 (4.17%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (4.17%) IaaS
7 1 (4.17%) IBM Cloud
7 1 (4.17%) PaaS
7 1 (4.17%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) Power BI
1 5 (20.83%) Tableau
2 4 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (16.67%) Geospatial Data
2 4 (16.67%) GIS
2 4 (16.67%) QGIS
2 4 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 3 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (8.33%) Data Lake
4 2 (8.33%) Hadoop
4 2 (8.33%) MongoDB
4 2 (8.33%) NoSQL
4 2 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (4.17%) AllegroGraph
5 1 (4.17%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (4.17%) Big Data
5 1 (4.17%) CrateDB
5 1 (4.17%) Delta Lake
5 1 (4.17%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 7 (29.17%) Git
2 1 (4.17%) ERwin
2 1 (4.17%) GitLab
2 1 (4.17%) Poetry
2 1 (4.17%) Selenium
2 1 (4.17%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 10 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Finance
3 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Telecoms
4 2 (8.33%) Banking
4 2 (8.33%) Investment Banking
4 2 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.17%) Legal
5 1 (4.17%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) Kafka
2 4 (16.67%) GeoPandas
2 4 (16.67%) PostGIS
3 3 (12.50%) PySpark
4 2 (8.33%) Jinja
4 2 (8.33%) NumPy
4 2 (8.33%) Pandas
5 1 (4.17%) ADO
5 1 (4.17%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (4.17%) Playwright
5 1 (4.17%) Puppeteer
5 1 (4.17%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Algorithms
1 4 (16.67%) Distributed Computing
2 3 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (12.50%) Reinsurance
3 2 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (70.83%) Data Pipeline
2 12 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 10 (41.67%) CI/CD
4 9 (37.50%) Data Engineering
5 7 (29.17%) Machine Learning
6 6 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
6 6 (25.00%) Analytics
6 6 (25.00%) Data Science
6 6 (25.00%) ETL
6 6 (25.00%) Workflow
7 5 (20.83%) Artificial Intelligence
7 5 (20.83%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (20.83%) Data Governance
7 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (20.83%) Mathematics
7 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
8 4 (16.67%) Mentoring
8 4 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 24 (100.00%) Python
2 18 (75.00%) SQL
3 4 (16.67%) Scala
4 2 (8.33%) Bash
5 1 (4.17%) C#
5 1 (4.17%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.83%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) zsh
Systems Management
1 6 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (4.17%) Argo
2 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (58.33%) Databricks
2 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.33%) Google
4 1 (4.17%) IBM
4 1 (4.17%) Informatica
4 1 (4.17%) SnapLogic
4 1 (4.17%) Zoomdata