Python Data Engineer Contracts

Python Data Engineer
UK

The median Python Data Engineer daily rate in the UK is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 539 573 682
Rank change year-on-year +34 +109 -144
Contract jobs requiring a Python Data Engineer 37 111 167
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.087% 0.19% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.094% 0.21% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 95 148
10th Percentile £438 £433 £459
25th Percentile £463 £456 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £614
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -2.24% +6.74%
75th Percentile £600 £708 £678
90th Percentile £740 £788 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £491
% change year-on-year +11.11% -8.26% +0.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.50
Median hourly rate - - £19.00
75th Percentile - - £19.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 39,484 53,902 83,447
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.62% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,682 37,660 58,636
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,662 1,503 2,044
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.38 £15.76
Median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.44 £76.20 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Python Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Python Data Engineer in the UK

Python Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python Data Engineer.

Daily rate trend for Python Data Engineer in the UK

Python Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python Data Engineer over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python Data Engineer in the UK

Python Data Engineer
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 16 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
England +53 30 £515 -14.17% 7
London +60 22 £538 -21.82% 7
Work from Home +77 18 £513 -14.58% 7
UK excluding London +44 7 £500 +11.11%
North of England +21 3 £495 +3.13%
Midlands +27 2 £550 +0.46%
West Midlands +26 2 £550 +0.46%
North West +18 2 £500 -
Scotland +32 1 £450 -
Yorkshire +10 1 £490 +2.08%
East of England - 1 £650 -

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 2024, 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 featuring Python Data Engineer in the job title.

1 37 (100.00%) Python
2 20 (54.05%) SQL
2 20 (54.05%) Azure
3 18 (48.65%) PySpark
4 13 (35.14%) Databricks
4 13 (35.14%) AWS
5 11 (29.73%) Data Pipeline
6 10 (27.03%) Data Engineering
6 10 (27.03%) Big Data
7 9 (24.32%) Apache Airflow
8 8 (21.62%) CI/CD
9 7 (18.92%) Power BI
9 7 (18.92%) Kafka
9 7 (18.92%) Git
9 7 (18.92%) Data Modelling
9 7 (18.92%) ETL
9 7 (18.92%) Finance
9 7 (18.92%) Power Platform
10 6 (16.22%) dbt
10 6 (16.22%) Serverless
10 6 (16.22%) Social Skills
10 6 (16.22%) Business Intelligence
10 6 (16.22%) Data Transformation
10 6 (16.22%) DevOps
10 6 (16.22%) Pandas
10 6 (16.22%) Terraform
10 6 (16.22%) Kubernetes
11 5 (13.51%) Amazon S3
11 5 (13.51%) Microservices
11 5 (13.51%) Analytics

Python Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (24.32%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (10.81%) Apache Spark
3 3 (8.11%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 20 (54.05%) Azure
2 13 (35.14%) AWS
3 7 (18.92%) Power Platform
4 6 (16.22%) dbt
4 6 (16.22%) Serverless
5 5 (13.51%) Amazon S3
5 5 (13.51%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (10.81%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (10.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (10.81%) Dagster
7 3 (8.11%) Snowflake
8 2 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (5.41%) Azure Stack
8 2 (5.41%) Azure Storage
8 2 (5.41%) GCP
9 1 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (2.70%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (2.70%) AWS Step Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (27.03%) Big Data
2 7 (18.92%) Power BI
3 4 (10.81%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (10.81%) Data Lake
3 4 (10.81%) NoSQL
4 3 (8.11%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (5.41%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 2 (5.41%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (5.41%) Hadoop
5 2 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (5.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (5.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (2.70%) Delta Lake
6 1 (2.70%) Flink
6 1 (2.70%) HBase
6 1 (2.70%) Metadata
6 1 (2.70%) Presto
6 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.70%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 7 (18.92%) Git
2 1 (2.70%) Ant
2 1 (2.70%) GitLab
2 1 (2.70%) Gradle
2 1 (2.70%) JUnit
2 1 (2.70%) Maven
2 1 (2.70%) RStudio
General
1 7 (18.92%) Finance
2 6 (16.22%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.41%) Banking
5 1 (2.70%) Health Technology
5 1 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.70%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (48.65%) PySpark
2 7 (18.92%) Kafka
3 6 (16.22%) Pandas
4 5 (13.51%) NumPy
4 5 (13.51%) REST
5 3 (8.11%) Lambda Expressions
6 2 (5.41%) Flask
6 2 (5.41%) YAML
7 1 (2.70%) ADO
7 1 (2.70%) AWS CDK
7 1 (2.70%) Django
7 1 (2.70%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.11%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (2.70%) Algorithms
2 1 (2.70%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.70%) Hedge funds
2 1 (2.70%) NHS
2 1 (2.70%) Omics
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (29.73%) Data Pipeline
2 10 (27.03%) Data Engineering
3 8 (21.62%) CI/CD
4 7 (18.92%) Data Modelling
4 7 (18.92%) ETL
5 6 (16.22%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (16.22%) Data Transformation
5 6 (16.22%) DevOps
6 5 (13.51%) Agile
6 5 (13.51%) Analytics
6 5 (13.51%) Data Governance
6 5 (13.51%) Microservices
6 5 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (13.51%) Workflow
7 4 (10.81%) Data Integration
7 4 (10.81%) Data Science
7 4 (10.81%) Investment Management
8 3 (8.11%) Asset Management
8 3 (8.11%) Migration
8 3 (8.11%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 37 (100.00%) Python
2 20 (54.05%) SQL
3 4 (10.81%) Scala
4 3 (8.11%) Java
5 2 (5.41%) Bash
5 2 (5.41%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.70%) C
6 1 (2.70%) C++
6 1 (2.70%) R
6 1 (2.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (2.70%) Azure Certification
1 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (2.70%) Degree
1 1 (2.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.81%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (5.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (16.22%) Kubernetes
1 6 (16.22%) Terraform
2 4 (10.81%) Argo
3 1 (2.70%) Grafana
3 1 (2.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (35.14%) Databricks
2 5 (13.51%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.70%) Bloomberg
3 1 (2.70%) Foundry
3 1 (2.70%) Oracle
3 1 (2.70%) Palantir
3 1 (2.70%) Sage
3 1 (2.70%) SAP
3 1 (2.70%) Splunk