Python Engineer Contracts in London

Python Engineer
England > London

The median Python Engineer daily rate in London is £700 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 June 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 179 291 233
Rank change year-on-year +112 -58 +18
Contract jobs requiring a Python Engineer 247 199 456
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.41% 0.79% 1.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.50% 0.83% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 174 394
10th Percentile £488 £452 £515
25th Percentile £550 £538 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +12.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £850 £785 £700
90th Percentile £863 £788 £800
England median daily rate £700 £640 £600
% change year-on-year +9.38% +6.67% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £62.81 - -
25th Percentile £63.28 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.63 - £52.50
75th Percentile £69.53 - £53.75
90th Percentile £70.94 - -
England median hourly rate £65.63 - £35.75
% change year-on-year - - +12.60%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 16,438 23,913 36,894
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.64% 95.07% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,847 17,448 27,145
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.19% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 279 411
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.88 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.22 £22.57 £23.24
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +6.54%
75th Percentile £46.68 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.40 £80.45 £67.50
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -12.22% +88.21% +13.59%

Python Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Python Engineer in London

Python Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Python Engineer in London

Python Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python Engineer in London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python Engineer in London

Python Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Python Engineer in London

Python 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 Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 9 June 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
Central London +40 17 £655 +11.49% 6
West London +24 1 £425 -45.16% 2
Python Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 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 London region featuring Python Engineer in the job title.

1 247 (100.00%) Python
2 164 (66.40%) Software Engineering
3 161 (65.18%) AWS
4 158 (63.97%) Finance
5 137 (55.47%) Apache Airflow
6 136 (55.06%) Agile
6 136 (55.06%) Asset Management
7 132 (53.44%) Front Office
8 129 (52.23%) Fixed Income
8 129 (52.23%) Protocol Buffers
8 129 (52.23%) TypeScript
8 129 (52.23%) gRPC
9 127 (51.42%) Banking
10 124 (50.20%) Apache
11 123 (49.80%) Apache Ignite
12 121 (48.99%) Investment Management
13 112 (45.34%) Hedge funds
14 105 (42.51%) GCP
15 99 (40.08%) Azure
16 86 (34.82%) Pandas
16 86 (34.82%) React
17 85 (34.41%) Artificial Intelligence
17 85 (34.41%) Equities
18 79 (31.98%) NumPy
19 77 (31.17%) Redux
19 77 (31.17%) Full Stack Development
20 73 (29.55%) Material-UI
20 73 (29.55%) SciPy
21 72 (29.15%) Machine Learning
22 70 (28.34%) Java

Python 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
1 137 (55.47%) Apache Airflow
2 124 (50.20%) Apache
3 3 (1.21%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.40%) nginx
4 1 (0.40%) SAS
4 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 161 (65.18%) AWS
2 105 (42.51%) GCP
3 99 (40.08%) Azure
4 61 (24.70%) dbt
5 43 (17.41%) Snowflake
6 12 (4.86%) Serverless
7 7 (2.83%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (2.83%) Dagster
8 6 (2.43%) Amazon S3
9 5 (2.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (2.02%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (2.02%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.62%) GitHub
10 4 (1.62%) Power Platform
11 3 (1.21%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (1.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (1.21%) SaaS
12 2 (0.81%) Azure Storage
12 2 (0.81%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.21%) Firewall
2 1 (0.40%) 5G
2 1 (0.40%) MQTT
2 1 (0.40%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.40%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.40%) WAN
2 1 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (49.80%) Apache Ignite
2 69 (27.94%) PostgreSQL
3 61 (24.70%) Amazon Athena
3 61 (24.70%) Dremio
4 58 (23.48%) Apache Arrow
5 48 (19.43%) Data Lake
6 11 (4.45%) NoSQL
7 10 (4.05%) Big Data
8 9 (3.64%) MongoDB
9 5 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (2.02%) Sybase ASE
10 4 (1.62%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (1.62%) Power BI
11 3 (1.21%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (1.21%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.81%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.81%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.81%) SQL Server
12 2 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 49 (19.84%) Cypress.io
2 19 (7.69%) Git
3 16 (6.48%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.02%) Artifactory
5 4 (1.62%) TeamCity
6 3 (1.21%) Maven
7 2 (0.81%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.81%) git-flow
7 2 (0.81%) Gradle
7 2 (0.81%) Subversion
7 2 (0.81%) webpack
8 1 (0.40%) Ant
8 1 (0.40%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.40%) GitLab
8 1 (0.40%) IBM UrbanCode
8 1 (0.40%) JIRA
8 1 (0.40%) Pylint
8 1 (0.40%) RStudio
8 1 (0.40%) Selenium
8 1 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 158 (63.97%) Finance
2 132 (53.44%) Front Office
3 127 (51.42%) Banking
4 51 (20.65%) Investment Banking
5 18 (7.29%) Social Skills
6 14 (5.67%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (1.62%) Games
8 3 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.21%) Law
8 3 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.40%) Aviation
10 1 (0.40%) Dutch Language
10 1 (0.40%) Music Industry
10 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (52.23%) gRPC
1 129 (52.23%) Protocol Buffers
2 86 (34.82%) Pandas
2 86 (34.82%) React
3 79 (31.98%) NumPy
4 77 (31.17%) Redux
5 73 (29.55%) Material-UI
5 73 (29.55%) SciPy
6 23 (9.31%) Kafka
7 21 (8.50%) PySpark
8 17 (6.88%) Vue
9 16 (6.48%) AngularJS
10 12 (4.86%) Node.js
11 10 (4.05%) RESTful
12 8 (3.24%) RabbitMQ
12 8 (3.24%) REST
13 7 (2.83%) Flask
14 6 (2.43%) FastAPI
15 4 (1.62%) Lambda Expressions
15 4 (1.62%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 129 (52.23%) Fixed Income
2 112 (45.34%) Hedge funds
3 85 (34.41%) Equities
4 51 (20.65%) Derivative
4 51 (20.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 16 (6.48%) Pricing Data
6 15 (6.07%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (4.05%) Data Structures
8 9 (3.64%) Algorithms
9 7 (2.83%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (2.43%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.62%) Renewable Energy
12 3 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (1.21%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.21%) Public Cloud
13 2 (0.81%) Hackathon
13 2 (0.81%) Product Ownership
13 2 (0.81%) Solar Panel
14 1 (0.40%) Cloud Native
14 1 (0.40%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 22 (8.91%) Linux
2 5 (2.02%) Windows
3 4 (1.62%) Unix
4 3 (1.21%) Android
4 3 (1.21%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.81%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.40%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (66.40%) Software Engineering
2 136 (55.06%) Agile
2 136 (55.06%) Asset Management
3 121 (48.99%) Investment Management
4 85 (34.41%) Artificial Intelligence
5 77 (31.17%) Full Stack Development
6 72 (29.15%) Machine Learning
7 66 (26.72%) Automated Trading
8 33 (13.36%) CI/CD
9 29 (11.74%) DevOps
10 28 (11.34%) Analytics
11 15 (6.07%) Line Management
11 15 (6.07%) Mathematics
11 15 (6.07%) Microservices
12 14 (5.67%) Data Engineering
13 13 (5.26%) Fintech
13 13 (5.26%) Problem-Solving
14 12 (4.86%) Greeks
14 12 (4.86%) Mathematical Modelling
15 11 (4.45%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 247 (100.00%) Python
2 129 (52.23%) TypeScript
3 70 (28.34%) Java
3 70 (28.34%) JavaScript
4 49 (19.84%) SQL
5 17 (6.88%) Shell Script
6 15 (6.07%) C++
7 8 (3.24%) Go
8 6 (2.43%) Bash
8 6 (2.43%) Perl
8 6 (2.43%) PowerShell
8 6 (2.43%) Rust
8 6 (2.43%) Scala
9 5 (2.02%) C#
10 3 (1.21%) Clojure
10 3 (1.21%) Haskell
10 3 (1.21%) Ruby
11 2 (0.81%) C
12 1 (0.40%) Groovy
12 1 (0.40%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (1.62%) Degree
1 4 (1.62%) SC Cleared
1 4 (1.62%) Security Cleared
2 2 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (0.81%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.40%) CCNP
3 1 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.07%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.21%) QA
3 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
System Software
1 20 (8.10%) Docker
2 8 (3.24%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.40%) iptables
4 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 33 (13.36%) Kubernetes
2 16 (6.48%) Ansible
3 13 (5.26%) Terraform
4 11 (4.45%) Grafana
5 10 (4.05%) Prometheus
6 8 (3.24%) Consul
7 6 (2.43%) Puppet
8 4 (1.62%) Argo
9 2 (0.81%) BladeLogic
9 2 (0.81%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.81%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 67 (27.13%) Google
2 12 (4.86%) Microsoft
3 10 (4.05%) Databricks
4 8 (3.24%) SaltStack
5 6 (2.43%) Sybase
6 3 (1.21%) Oracle
7 2 (0.81%) Altiris
7 2 (0.81%) Citrix
7 2 (0.81%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.81%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.81%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.81%) VMware
8 1 (0.40%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.40%) Cisco
8 1 (0.40%) Foundry
8 1 (0.40%) IBM
8 1 (0.40%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.40%) Reuters
8 1 (0.40%) SAP
8 1 (0.40%) Splunk