Python Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Python Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Python Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 330 394 422
Rank change year-on-year +64 +28 -74
Contract jobs requiring a Python Engineer 64 52 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.32% 0.22% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.24% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 35 68
10th Percentile £440 £425 £400
25th Percentile £500 £459 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £528
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -5.21% +14.05%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £640
90th Percentile £655 £684 £697
UK median daily rate £650 £625 £600
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
UK median hourly rate £65.63 £57.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year +14.13% +202.63% -30.91%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,742 21,812 29,390
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 94.30% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,456 15,203 20,621
10th Percentile £213 £225 £205
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,269 1,109 1,458
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.36
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.03 £14.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +4.19%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Python Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Python Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Python Engineer in the UK excluding London

Python Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Python Engineer in the UK excluding London

Python Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python Engineer in the UK excluding London

Python Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Python Engineer in the UK excluding London

Python Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. 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
Scotland +60 33 £563 +25.00%
North of England +27 8 £500 - 4
South East +27 8 £600 +9.09% 28
East of England +7 8 £425 -15.00% 10
North West +17 6 £500 -4.76% 3
South West +5 5 £550 +2.33% 4
West Midlands +19 2 £550 -3.51% 4
Midlands +16 2 £550 -3.51% 7
Yorkshire +15 2 £475 -5.00% 1
Python Engineer
UK

Python Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, Python 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 UK excluding London region featuring Python Engineer in the job title.

1 64 (100.00%) Python
2 27 (42.19%) DevOps
3 26 (40.63%) Linux
4 22 (34.38%) Perl
5 19 (29.69%) AWS
6 18 (28.13%) Software Engineering
7 16 (25.00%) Java
8 15 (23.44%) Kubernetes
9 14 (21.88%) OO
10 13 (20.31%) Azure
10 13 (20.31%) Social Skills
10 13 (20.31%) CI/CD
11 12 (18.75%) Banking
11 12 (18.75%) Computer Science
12 11 (17.19%) Agile
12 11 (17.19%) Unix
12 11 (17.19%) Docker
13 10 (15.63%) C++
14 9 (14.06%) VMware
14 9 (14.06%) SDLC
15 8 (12.50%) Ansible
15 8 (12.50%) OpenShift
15 8 (12.50%) Jenkins
15 8 (12.50%) Terraform
15 8 (12.50%) SQL
15 8 (12.50%) Observability
15 8 (12.50%) Containerisation
16 7 (10.94%) Windows
16 7 (10.94%) Finance
16 7 (10.94%) SAN

Python Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 4 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (6.25%) SAS
2 1 (1.56%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 19 (29.69%) AWS
2 13 (20.31%) Azure
3 8 (12.50%) OpenShift
4 4 (6.25%) GitHub
5 2 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (3.13%) dbt
5 2 (3.13%) GCP
5 2 (3.13%) Pulumi
5 2 (3.13%) Serverless
5 2 (3.13%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.56%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (1.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (1.56%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.56%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.56%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.94%) SAN
2 4 (6.25%) Fibre Channel
2 4 (6.25%) iSCSI
2 4 (6.25%) Radio Access Network
3 3 (4.69%) NAS
3 3 (4.69%) Wireless
4 2 (3.13%) DHCP
4 2 (3.13%) DNS
5 1 (1.56%) BGP
5 1 (1.56%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (1.56%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.25%) DB2
2 2 (3.13%) MySQL
2 2 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.56%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (1.56%) Big Data
3 1 (1.56%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (1.56%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.56%) Data Mining
3 1 (1.56%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.56%) HBase
3 1 (1.56%) Metadata
3 1 (1.56%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.56%) Power BI
3 1 (1.56%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 6 (9.38%) Git
3 2 (3.13%) Cypress.io
3 2 (3.13%) Selenium
4 1 (1.56%) GitLab
General
1 13 (20.31%) Social Skills
2 12 (18.75%) Banking
3 7 (10.94%) Finance
4 5 (7.81%) Investment Banking
5 3 (4.69%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.13%) Electronics
6 2 (3.13%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.56%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.38%) Middleware
1 6 (9.38%) REST
2 4 (6.25%) DirectX
2 4 (6.25%) Flash
2 4 (6.25%) OpenGL
2 4 (6.25%) OpenGL ES
2 4 (6.25%) POSIX
2 4 (6.25%) PySpark
2 4 (6.25%) Vulkan
3 3 (4.69%) Flask
3 3 (4.69%) Unity (Game Engine)
4 2 (3.13%) CSS3
4 2 (3.13%) HTML
4 2 (3.13%) HTML5
4 2 (3.13%) Jest
4 2 (3.13%) Node.js
4 2 (3.13%) React
4 2 (3.13%) React Native
4 2 (3.13%) SQLAlchemy
4 2 (3.13%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.25%) Algorithms
1 4 (6.25%) Client/Server
1 4 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
1 4 (6.25%) NVMe
2 3 (4.69%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.13%) Animation
3 2 (3.13%) Augmented Reality
3 2 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.13%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (3.13%) Mixed Reality
3 2 (3.13%) Photography
3 2 (3.13%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (3.13%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.56%) NHS
4 1 (1.56%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.56%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 26 (40.63%) Linux
2 11 (17.19%) Unix
3 7 (10.94%) Windows
4 6 (9.38%) Windows Server
5 4 (6.25%) Android
5 4 (6.25%) Data ONTAP
5 4 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (42.19%) DevOps
2 18 (28.13%) Software Engineering
3 14 (21.88%) OO
4 13 (20.31%) CI/CD
5 12 (18.75%) Computer Science
6 11 (17.19%) Agile
7 9 (14.06%) SDLC
8 8 (12.50%) Containerisation
8 8 (12.50%) Observability
9 7 (10.94%) Test Automation
10 6 (9.38%) Artificial Intelligence
10 6 (9.38%) Machine Learning
10 6 (9.38%) Task Automation
11 5 (7.81%) Data Protection
11 5 (7.81%) Platform Engineering
11 5 (7.81%) Problem-Solving
12 4 (6.25%) Data Pipeline
12 4 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 4 (6.25%) MLOps
12 4 (6.25%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 64 (100.00%) Python
2 22 (34.38%) Perl
3 16 (25.00%) Java
4 10 (15.63%) C++
5 8 (12.50%) SQL
6 4 (6.25%) C#
6 4 (6.25%) Kotlin
7 3 (4.69%) Scala
7 3 (4.69%) TypeScript
8 2 (3.13%) Bash
8 2 (3.13%) C
8 2 (3.13%) GLSL
8 2 (3.13%) HLSL
8 2 (3.13%) JavaScript
8 2 (3.13%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.56%) Elixir
9 1 (1.56%) Go
9 1 (1.56%) Ruby
9 1 (1.56%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (6.25%) Degree
2 2 (3.13%) Master's Degree
2 2 (3.13%) PhD
3 1 (1.56%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.13%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.56%) NIST
2 1 (1.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (17.19%) Docker
2 7 (10.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (6.25%) GPFS
3 4 (6.25%) NFS
4 1 (1.56%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (23.44%) Kubernetes
2 8 (12.50%) Ansible
2 8 (12.50%) Terraform
3 4 (6.25%) Grafana
3 4 (6.25%) Prometheus
3 4 (6.25%) Veritas Storage Foundation
4 3 (4.69%) Dell DRAC
5 2 (3.13%) NetBackup
6 1 (1.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (14.06%) VMware
2 6 (9.38%) Veritas
3 5 (7.81%) Google
4 4 (6.25%) Brocade
4 4 (6.25%) EMC
4 4 (6.25%) IBM
4 4 (6.25%) NetApp
4 4 (6.25%) Sybase
5 3 (4.69%) BMC
5 3 (4.69%) Databricks
6 2 (3.13%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.56%) Cisco
7 1 (1.56%) Dell
7 1 (1.56%) HP
7 1 (1.56%) NVIDIA
7 1 (1.56%) Oracle
7 1 (1.56%) Sage
7 1 (1.56%) TOWER Software