Python Data Engineer Contracts in London

Python Data Engineer
England > London

The median Python Data Engineer daily rate in London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 July 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
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 333 372 418
Rank change year-on-year +39 +46 +98
Contract jobs requiring a Python Data Engineer 27 33 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.20% 0.19% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.20% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 33 59
10th Percentile £464 £438 £456
25th Percentile £493 £500 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £781 £825 £788
90th Percentile £800 - -
England median daily rate £500 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -16.67% - -2.44%
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 12,401 16,552 24,293
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.37% 93.94% 94.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,367 11,848 17,742
10th Percentile £332 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 307 275
10th Percentile £18.87 £16.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.45 £20.24 £22.75
Median hourly rate £32.00 £27.81 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year +15.07% -25.52% +6.69%
75th Percentile £50.50 £46.68 £65.00
90th Percentile £64.00 £68.30 £82.40
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year -30.00% -8.57% +76.02%

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 5 July 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 5 July 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 +8 2 - - 6
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 5 July 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 27 (100.00%) Python
2 19 (70.37%) Azure
3 17 (62.96%) Data Pipeline
4 16 (59.26%) AWS
5 14 (51.85%) SQL
5 14 (51.85%) Data Engineering
6 10 (37.04%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (37.04%) Databricks
6 10 (37.04%) Data Modelling
7 9 (33.33%) PySpark
8 8 (29.63%) Apache Spark
8 8 (29.63%) Analytics
8 8 (29.63%) Finance
8 8 (29.63%) Banking
8 8 (29.63%) Machine Learning
8 8 (29.63%) CI/CD
9 7 (25.93%) GCP
10 6 (22.22%) Terraform
10 6 (22.22%) Data Science
10 6 (22.22%) Data Governance
10 6 (22.22%) Agile
10 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
11 5 (18.52%) Power Platform
11 5 (18.52%) dbt
11 5 (18.52%) Software Engineering
11 5 (18.52%) GIS
11 5 (18.52%) Business Intelligence
11 5 (18.52%) Visualisation
11 5 (18.52%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (18.52%) Algorithms

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 8 (29.63%) Apache Spark
2 5 (18.52%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.70%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 19 (70.37%) Azure
2 16 (59.26%) AWS
3 7 (25.93%) GCP
4 5 (18.52%) dbt
4 5 (18.52%) Power Platform
5 4 (14.81%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (14.81%) Dagster
6 3 (11.11%) Snowflake
7 2 (7.41%) Amazon S3
7 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (3.70%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (3.70%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (3.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (3.70%) GitHub
8 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (3.70%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) Amazon Athena
1 5 (18.52%) Geospatial Data
1 5 (18.52%) GIS
1 5 (18.52%) Power BI
2 4 (14.81%) Apache Iceberg
2 4 (14.81%) Data Lake
2 4 (14.81%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (14.81%) Dremio
2 4 (14.81%) QGIS
2 4 (14.81%) Relational Database
2 4 (14.81%) Tableau
3 2 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.70%) Big Data
4 1 (3.70%) DynamoDB
4 1 (3.70%) Hadoop
4 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (14.81%) Git
2 1 (3.70%) GitLab
2 1 (3.70%) Poetry
2 1 (3.70%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 10 (37.04%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (29.63%) Banking
2 8 (29.63%) Finance
3 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 4 (14.81%) Front Office
4 4 (14.81%) Investment Banking
4 4 (14.81%) Telecoms
5 2 (7.41%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (7.41%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
5 2 (7.41%) Retail
5 2 (7.41%) Retail Banking
6 1 (3.70%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.70%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (33.33%) PySpark
2 4 (14.81%) GeoPandas
2 4 (14.81%) NumPy
2 4 (14.81%) Pandas
2 4 (14.81%) PostGIS
2 4 (14.81%) SciPy
3 3 (11.11%) Kafka
4 2 (7.41%) Jinja
5 1 (3.70%) ADO
5 1 (3.70%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (3.70%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Algorithms
2 4 (14.81%) Distributed Computing
3 3 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (7.41%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (3.70%) Data Structures
5 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.70%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (62.96%) Data Pipeline
2 14 (51.85%) Data Engineering
3 10 (37.04%) Data Modelling
4 8 (29.63%) Analytics
4 8 (29.63%) CI/CD
4 8 (29.63%) Machine Learning
5 6 (22.22%) Agile
5 6 (22.22%) Data Governance
5 6 (22.22%) Data Science
6 5 (18.52%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (18.52%) Mentoring
6 5 (18.52%) Software Engineering
6 5 (18.52%) Visualisation
7 4 (14.81%) Actionable Insight
7 4 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (14.81%) Customer-Centric Approach
7 4 (14.81%) Data Visualisation
7 4 (14.81%) Fintech
7 4 (14.81%) Investment Management
7 4 (14.81%) Spatial Analysis
Programming Languages
1 27 (100.00%) Python
2 14 (51.85%) SQL
3 4 (14.81%) Java
4 3 (11.11%) Scala
5 1 (3.70%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (22.22%) Terraform
2 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (37.04%) Databricks
2 4 (14.81%) Microsoft