Python Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Python Data Engineer
England > London

The median Python Data Engineer daily rate in London is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 March 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 311 361
Rank change year-on-year -54 +50 +104
Contract jobs requiring a Python Data Engineer 40 48 30
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.24% 0.37% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.39% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 40 27
10th Percentile £413 £469 £438
25th Percentile £417 £550 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% +20.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £719 £650 £644
90th Percentile £745 £800 £880
England median daily rate £500 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% -16.67%

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 15,176 12,215 16,982
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 93.68% 93.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,174 8,211 12,276
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 142 337
10th Percentile £18.20 £21.02 £15.98
25th Percentile £22.26 £24.66 £19.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.45 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% +26.59% -20.00%
75th Percentile £61.00 £53.75 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.31 £64.72
England median hourly rate £37.44 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +6.97% +7.69% -23.53%

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 15 March 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 15 March 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 -8 3 £625 -
Python Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 March 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 40 (100.00%) Python
2 24 (60.00%) SQL
3 22 (55.00%) Azure
4 20 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
5 14 (35.00%) Data Modelling
6 13 (32.50%) ETL
6 13 (32.50%) Machine Learning
7 12 (30.00%) AWS
8 11 (27.50%) Analytics
8 11 (27.50%) Databricks
8 11 (27.50%) Snowflake
9 10 (25.00%) Data Engineering
9 10 (25.00%) SC Cleared
9 10 (25.00%) Security Cleared
10 9 (22.50%) PySpark
11 8 (20.00%) Containerisation
11 8 (20.00%) Data Quality
11 8 (20.00%) Data Science
12 7 (17.50%) CI/CD
12 7 (17.50%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (17.50%) GCP
12 7 (17.50%) Pandas
13 6 (15.00%) Apache Airflow
13 6 (15.00%) BigQuery
13 6 (15.00%) Delta Lake
13 6 (15.00%) Software Engineering
14 5 (12.50%) Agile
14 5 (12.50%) AI
14 5 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
14 5 (12.50%) Data Integration

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 6 (15.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.50%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Aladdin
1 1 (2.50%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 22 (55.00%) Azure
2 12 (30.00%) AWS
3 11 (27.50%) Snowflake
4 7 (17.50%) GCP
5 5 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (12.50%) dbt
6 3 (7.50%) GitHub
6 3 (7.50%) Power Platform
7 2 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (5.00%) Dagster
7 2 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.50%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.50%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (2.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (2.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (2.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.50%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (15.00%) BigQuery
2 6 (15.00%) Delta Lake
3 3 (7.50%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (7.50%) Power BI
4 2 (5.00%) Data Lake
4 2 (5.00%) NoSQL
4 2 (5.00%) Relational Database
4 2 (5.00%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.50%) Data Vault
5 1 (2.50%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (2.50%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.50%) Metadata
5 1 (2.50%) Power Query
5 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.50%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 3 (7.50%) MLflow
2 2 (5.00%) Git
3 1 (2.50%) JIRA
3 1 (2.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (15.00%) Finance
2 5 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (10.00%) Front Office
3 4 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Banking
5 1 (2.50%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.50%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.50%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.50%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (22.50%) PySpark
2 7 (17.50%) Pandas
3 5 (12.50%) NumPy
4 4 (10.00%) scikit-learn
5 3 (7.50%) PyTorch
5 3 (7.50%) TensorFlow
6 2 (5.00%) Kafka
6 2 (5.00%) Matplotlib
7 1 (2.50%) Apache Jena
7 1 (2.50%) FHIR
7 1 (2.50%) GeoJSON
7 1 (2.50%) GraphQL
7 1 (2.50%) Polars
7 1 (2.50%) REST
7 1 (2.50%) Seaborn
7 1 (2.50%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.00%) Public Cloud
2 3 (7.50%) Data Structures
2 3 (7.50%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.00%) Reference Data
4 1 (2.50%) Derivative
4 1 (2.50%) Equities
4 1 (2.50%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.50%) Hedge funds
4 1 (2.50%) Life Science
4 1 (2.50%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 14 (35.00%) Data Modelling
3 13 (32.50%) ETL
3 13 (32.50%) Machine Learning
4 11 (27.50%) Analytics
5 10 (25.00%) Data Engineering
6 8 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 8 (20.00%) Data Science
7 7 (17.50%) CI/CD
8 6 (15.00%) Software Engineering
9 5 (12.50%) Agile
9 5 (12.50%) AI
9 5 (12.50%) Data Integration
9 5 (12.50%) Visualisation
10 4 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
10 4 (10.00%) Data Visualisation
10 4 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
10 4 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
10 4 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
11 3 (7.50%) Data Ingestion
Programming Languages
1 40 (100.00%) Python
2 24 (60.00%) SQL
3 2 (5.00%) C#
4 1 (2.50%) C
4 1 (2.50%) C++
4 1 (2.50%) Java
4 1 (2.50%) Scala
4 1 (2.50%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 10 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 10 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.50%) Dodd-Frank
2 1 (2.50%) EMIR
2 1 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 5 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (7.50%) Kubeflow
1 3 (7.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (27.50%) Databricks
2 3 (7.50%) Google
3 2 (5.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.00%) Virgin Media
4 1 (2.50%) Bloomberg
4 1 (2.50%) Informatica
4 1 (2.50%) Oracle
4 1 (2.50%) RedGate
4 1 (2.50%) Reuters
4 1 (2.50%) SimCorp
4 1 (2.50%) Solace