Python Software Engineer Contracts in London

Python Software Engineer
England > London

The median Python Software Engineer daily rate in London is £725 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 250 437 469
Rank change year-on-year +187 +32 -48
Contract jobs requiring a Python Software Engineer 144 50 147
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.82% 0.20% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.88% 0.21% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 44 133
10th Percentile £538 £438 £538
25th Percentile £606 £447 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% +12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £850 £788 £675
90th Percentile £888 - £738
England median daily rate £725 £675 £600
% change year-on-year +7.41% +12.50% +13.74%

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 16,385 24,202 36,842
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.57% 95.15% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,830 17,663 27,089
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £470
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 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 278 414
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.83 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.22 £22.53 £23.24
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £47.18 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.40 £82.33 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.21%

Python Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Python Software Engineer in London

Python Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Python Software Engineer in London

Python Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python Software Engineer in London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python Software Engineer in London

Python Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Python Software Engineer in London

Python Software 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 Software Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 1 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 - 4 £551 - 1
Python Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Python Software 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 144 (100.00%) Python
1 144 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 134 (93.06%) AWS
3 127 (88.19%) Finance
4 125 (86.81%) Asset Management
5 123 (85.42%) Front Office
5 123 (85.42%) Fixed Income
5 123 (85.42%) gRPC
5 123 (85.42%) Apache Airflow
5 123 (85.42%) Protocol Buffers
6 122 (84.72%) TypeScript
7 117 (81.25%) Apache Ignite
7 117 (81.25%) Agile
7 117 (81.25%) Apache
8 110 (76.39%) Banking
8 110 (76.39%) Investment Management
9 105 (72.92%) Hedge funds
10 98 (68.06%) GCP
11 83 (57.64%) React
12 80 (55.56%) Equities
13 76 (52.78%) Redux
14 74 (51.39%) Azure
15 73 (50.69%) Material-UI
16 69 (47.92%) Artificial Intelligence
16 69 (47.92%) Machine Learning
17 67 (46.53%) Full Stack Development
18 66 (45.83%) Google
19 65 (45.14%) PostgreSQL
19 65 (45.14%) Automated Trading
20 60 (41.67%) Pandas

Python Software 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
1 123 (85.42%) Apache Airflow
2 117 (81.25%) Apache
3 1 (0.69%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 134 (93.06%) AWS
2 98 (68.06%) GCP
3 74 (51.39%) Azure
4 52 (36.11%) dbt
5 38 (26.39%) Snowflake
6 3 (2.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (2.08%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (2.08%) SaaS
6 3 (2.08%) Serverless
7 2 (1.39%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.39%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.39%) Pulumi
8 1 (0.69%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.69%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (0.69%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (0.69%) Cloud Run
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (81.25%) Apache Ignite
2 65 (45.14%) PostgreSQL
3 52 (36.11%) Amazon Athena
3 52 (36.11%) Apache Arrow
3 52 (36.11%) Dremio
4 38 (26.39%) Data Lake
5 5 (3.47%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.69%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 49 (34.03%) Cypress.io
2 2 (1.39%) webpack
3 1 (0.69%) Jenkins
General
1 127 (88.19%) Finance
2 123 (85.42%) Front Office
3 110 (76.39%) Banking
4 43 (29.86%) Investment Banking
5 3 (2.08%) Games
5 3 (2.08%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.39%) Law
7 1 (0.69%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (85.42%) gRPC
1 123 (85.42%) Protocol Buffers
2 83 (57.64%) React
3 76 (52.78%) Redux
4 73 (50.69%) Material-UI
5 60 (41.67%) Pandas
6 54 (37.50%) NumPy
7 52 (36.11%) SciPy
8 15 (10.42%) AngularJS
8 15 (10.42%) Vue
9 11 (7.64%) Node.js
10 4 (2.78%) Kafka
11 3 (2.08%) FastAPI
11 3 (2.08%) WebSockets
12 2 (1.39%) Flask
12 2 (1.39%) Lambda Expressions
12 2 (1.39%) REST
12 2 (1.39%) RESTful
12 2 (1.39%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 123 (85.42%) Fixed Income
2 105 (72.92%) Hedge funds
3 80 (55.56%) Equities
4 46 (31.94%) Derivative
4 46 (31.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 14 (9.72%) Pricing Data
6 2 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.39%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.39%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.69%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 125 (86.81%) Asset Management
3 117 (81.25%) Agile
4 110 (76.39%) Investment Management
5 69 (47.92%) Artificial Intelligence
5 69 (47.92%) Machine Learning
6 67 (46.53%) Full Stack Development
7 65 (45.14%) Automated Trading
8 16 (11.11%) Analytics
9 13 (9.03%) Line Management
10 11 (7.64%) Greeks
11 9 (6.25%) Credit Risk Analysis
11 9 (6.25%) Fintech
11 9 (6.25%) Performance Attribution
12 7 (4.86%) Mentoring
13 5 (3.47%) End-to-End Testing
13 5 (3.47%) Integration Testing
13 5 (3.47%) Unit Testing
14 3 (2.08%) CI/CD
14 3 (2.08%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 144 (100.00%) Python
2 122 (84.72%) TypeScript
3 58 (40.28%) JavaScript
4 42 (29.17%) Java
5 23 (15.97%) SQL
6 5 (3.47%) Rust
7 2 (1.39%) C#
7 2 (1.39%) Clojure
7 2 (1.39%) Haskell
7 2 (1.39%) Ruby
7 2 (1.39%) Scala
8 1 (0.69%) C++
8 1 (0.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (2.78%) SC Cleared
1 4 (2.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.64%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (2.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (4.17%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 66 (45.83%) Google
2 1 (0.69%) Oracle