Python Software Engineer Contracts in England

Python Software Engineer
UK > England

The median Python Software Engineer daily rate in England is £725, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 380 586 609
Rank change year-on-year +206 +23 -27
Contract jobs requiring a Python Software Engineer 171 50 178
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.46% 0.11% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.11% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 44 159
10th Percentile £538 £438 £513
25th Percentile £556 £447 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% +12.50% +12.15%
75th Percentile £850 £788 £675
90th Percentile £888 - £738
UK median daily rate £725 £683 £600
% change year-on-year +6.23% +13.75% +14.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,808 44,443 66,953
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.49% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,757 31,614 47,944
10th Percentile £288 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,654 1,321 1,753
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.80
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.90
Median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Python Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Python Software Engineer in England

Python Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Python Software Engineer in England

Python Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python Software Engineer in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python Software Engineer in England

Python Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Python Software Engineer in England

Python Software Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 12 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
London +186 157 £725 +7.41% 30
East of England - 5 £425 - 4
North West - 2 - -
North of England - 2 - -
South West - 2 £550 - 5
South East - 1 - - 3
Python Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 England region featuring Python Software Engineer in the job title.

1 171 (100.00%) Python
1 171 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 150 (87.72%) AWS
3 139 (81.29%) Finance
4 134 (78.36%) Asset Management
4 134 (78.36%) TypeScript
5 132 (77.19%) Protocol Buffers
5 132 (77.19%) Fixed Income
5 132 (77.19%) Front Office
5 132 (77.19%) gRPC
5 132 (77.19%) Apache Airflow
6 127 (74.27%) Agile
7 126 (73.68%) Apache
7 126 (73.68%) Apache Ignite
8 120 (70.18%) Banking
9 115 (67.25%) Investment Management
10 113 (66.08%) Hedge funds
11 103 (60.23%) GCP
12 88 (51.46%) Equities
13 84 (49.12%) React
14 77 (45.03%) Redux
15 76 (44.44%) Azure
16 74 (43.27%) Artificial Intelligence
17 73 (42.69%) Material-UI
17 73 (42.69%) Full Stack Development
18 72 (42.11%) JavaScript
18 72 (42.11%) Machine Learning
19 69 (40.35%) Pandas
20 67 (39.18%) PostgreSQL
21 66 (38.60%) Google

Python Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 132 (77.19%) Apache Airflow
2 126 (73.68%) Apache
3 1 (0.58%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 150 (87.72%) AWS
2 103 (60.23%) GCP
3 76 (44.44%) Azure
4 61 (35.67%) dbt
5 46 (26.90%) Snowflake
6 5 (2.92%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (2.92%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (2.92%) Serverless
7 4 (2.34%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (2.34%) Pulumi
8 3 (1.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (1.75%) SaaS
9 2 (1.17%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.17%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.17%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.58%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (0.58%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (0.58%) Cloud Run
10 1 (0.58%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.34%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (1.17%) Wireless
3 1 (0.58%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (73.68%) Apache Ignite
2 67 (39.18%) PostgreSQL
3 61 (35.67%) Amazon Athena
3 61 (35.67%) Apache Arrow
3 61 (35.67%) Dremio
4 46 (26.90%) Data Lake
5 5 (2.92%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.58%) Big Data
7 1 (0.58%) Metadata
7 1 (0.58%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.58%) MySQL
7 1 (0.58%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 49 (28.65%) Cypress.io
2 2 (1.17%) webpack
3 1 (0.58%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.58%) Git
3 1 (0.58%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.58%) JUnit
General
1 139 (81.29%) Finance
2 132 (77.19%) Front Office
3 120 (70.18%) Banking
4 51 (29.82%) Investment Banking
5 4 (2.34%) Games
6 3 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.17%) Law
7 2 (1.17%) Social Skills
8 1 (0.58%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.58%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.58%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (77.19%) gRPC
1 132 (77.19%) Protocol Buffers
2 84 (49.12%) React
3 77 (45.03%) Redux
4 73 (42.69%) Material-UI
5 69 (40.35%) Pandas
6 63 (36.84%) NumPy
7 61 (35.67%) SciPy
8 18 (10.53%) AngularJS
9 17 (9.94%) Vue
10 13 (7.60%) Node.js
11 6 (3.51%) Flask
12 5 (2.92%) Kafka
13 4 (2.34%) FastAPI
13 4 (2.34%) SQLAlchemy
14 3 (1.75%) PySpark
14 3 (1.75%) REST
14 3 (1.75%) RESTful
14 3 (1.75%) WebSockets
15 2 (1.17%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 132 (77.19%) Fixed Income
2 113 (66.08%) Hedge funds
3 88 (51.46%) Equities
4 54 (31.58%) Derivative
4 54 (31.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 16 (9.36%) Pricing Data
6 4 (2.34%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.75%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.58%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.58%) NHS
8 1 (0.58%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 134 (78.36%) Asset Management
3 127 (74.27%) Agile
4 115 (67.25%) Investment Management
5 74 (43.27%) Artificial Intelligence
6 73 (42.69%) Full Stack Development
7 72 (42.11%) Machine Learning
8 65 (38.01%) Automated Trading
9 17 (9.94%) Analytics
9 17 (9.94%) Line Management
10 13 (7.60%) Greeks
11 11 (6.43%) Fintech
12 10 (5.85%) Credit Risk Analysis
12 10 (5.85%) Performance Attribution
13 7 (4.09%) Mentoring
14 5 (2.92%) End-to-End Testing
14 5 (2.92%) ETL
14 5 (2.92%) Integration Testing
14 5 (2.92%) Unit Testing
15 4 (2.34%) ETL Development
Programming Languages
1 171 (100.00%) Python
2 134 (78.36%) TypeScript
3 72 (42.11%) JavaScript
4 52 (30.41%) Java
5 26 (15.20%) SQL
6 6 (3.51%) Rust
7 5 (2.92%) C++
8 3 (1.75%) C#
8 3 (1.75%) Clojure
8 3 (1.75%) Haskell
9 2 (1.17%) Ruby
9 2 (1.17%) Scala
10 1 (0.58%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (2.34%) SC Cleared
1 4 (2.34%) Security Cleared
2 1 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.60%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (2.34%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (4.09%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 66 (38.60%) Google
2 2 (1.17%) Bloomberg
2 2 (1.17%) Reuters
3 1 (0.58%) Brio
3 1 (0.58%) NVIDIA
3 1 (0.58%) Oracle