Python Software Engineer Contracts

Python Software Engineer
UK

The median Python Software Engineer daily rate in the UK is £725 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 427 632 679
Rank change year-on-year +205 +47 -67
Contract jobs requiring a Python Software Engineer 154 62 184
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.11% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.11% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 45 164
10th Percentile £538 £438 £500
25th Percentile £550 £600 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £725 £600
Median % change year-on-year - +20.83% +14.29%
75th Percentile £850 £788 £650
90th Percentile £879 - £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 - £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%

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 39,468 54,175 84,246
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.61% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,716 37,826 59,224
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% +8.47%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.20% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,674 1,504 2,051
10th Percentile £12.83 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.82
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +4.19%

Python Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Python Software Engineer in the UK

Python Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Python Software Engineer in the UK

Python Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python Software Engineer over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python Software Engineer in the UK

Python Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Python Software Engineer in the UK

Python Software Engineer
Top 9 Contract Locations

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 UK 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
England +223 150 £725 +6.23% 57
London +191 135 £725 +6.23% 41
Work from Home +122 64 £800 +13.07% 37
UK excluding London +60 10 £488 - 27
East of England - 5 £425 - 7
North West - 2 - - 1
North of England - 2 - - 2
South West - 2 £550 - 1
South East - 1 - - 14

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 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 featuring Python Software Engineer in the job title.

1 154 (100.00%) Python
1 154 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 135 (87.66%) AWS
3 123 (79.87%) Finance
4 117 (75.97%) Front Office
4 117 (75.97%) Asset Management
4 117 (75.97%) TypeScript
5 115 (74.68%) Protocol Buffers
5 115 (74.68%) gRPC
5 115 (74.68%) Apache Airflow
6 114 (74.03%) Fixed Income
7 112 (72.73%) Agile
8 109 (70.78%) Apache
8 109 (70.78%) Apache Ignite
9 105 (68.18%) Banking
10 102 (66.23%) Investment Management
11 98 (63.64%) Hedge funds
12 96 (62.34%) GCP
13 81 (52.60%) React
14 78 (50.65%) Azure
15 74 (48.05%) Redux
16 73 (47.40%) Material-UI
16 73 (47.40%) Equities
17 71 (46.10%) Artificial Intelligence
17 71 (46.10%) Full Stack Development
18 70 (45.45%) Machine Learning
19 67 (43.51%) PostgreSQL
20 66 (42.86%) Google
21 65 (42.21%) Automated Trading
22 54 (35.06%) JavaScript

Python Software 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
1 115 (74.68%) Apache Airflow
2 109 (70.78%) Apache
3 1 (0.65%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 135 (87.66%) AWS
2 96 (62.34%) GCP
3 78 (50.65%) Azure
4 44 (28.57%) dbt
5 31 (20.13%) Snowflake
6 6 (3.90%) Serverless
7 5 (3.25%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (2.60%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (2.60%) Pulumi
9 3 (1.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (1.95%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (1.95%) SaaS
10 2 (1.30%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.30%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (1.30%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.65%) Amazon SageMaker
11 1 (0.65%) Cloud Run
11 1 (0.65%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.60%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (1.30%) Wireless
3 1 (0.65%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (70.78%) Apache Ignite
2 67 (43.51%) PostgreSQL
3 44 (28.57%) Amazon Athena
3 44 (28.57%) Apache Arrow
3 44 (28.57%) Dremio
4 31 (20.13%) Data Lake
5 5 (3.25%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.65%) Big Data
7 1 (0.65%) Metadata
7 1 (0.65%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.65%) MySQL
7 1 (0.65%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 49 (31.82%) Cypress.io
2 2 (1.30%) webpack
3 1 (0.65%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.65%) Git
3 1 (0.65%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.65%) JUnit
3 1 (0.65%) Selenium
General
1 123 (79.87%) Finance
2 117 (75.97%) Front Office
3 105 (68.18%) Banking
4 37 (24.03%) Investment Banking
5 4 (2.60%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.60%) Social Skills
6 3 (1.95%) Games
6 3 (1.95%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.30%) Law
7 2 (1.30%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.65%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (74.68%) gRPC
1 115 (74.68%) Protocol Buffers
2 81 (52.60%) React
3 74 (48.05%) Redux
4 73 (47.40%) Material-UI
5 52 (33.77%) Pandas
6 46 (29.87%) NumPy
7 44 (28.57%) SciPy
8 16 (10.39%) AngularJS
9 13 (8.44%) Vue
10 10 (6.49%) Node.js
11 4 (2.60%) FastAPI
11 4 (2.60%) Flask
11 4 (2.60%) Kafka
11 4 (2.60%) SQLAlchemy
12 3 (1.95%) RESTful
12 3 (1.95%) WebSockets
13 2 (1.30%) Lambda Expressions
13 2 (1.30%) REST
14 1 (0.65%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 114 (74.03%) Fixed Income
2 98 (63.64%) Hedge funds
3 73 (47.40%) Equities
4 39 (25.32%) Derivative
4 39 (25.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 10 (6.49%) Pricing Data
6 4 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (2.60%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.30%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.65%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.65%) NHS
8 1 (0.65%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 117 (75.97%) Asset Management
3 112 (72.73%) Agile
4 102 (66.23%) Investment Management
5 71 (46.10%) Artificial Intelligence
5 71 (46.10%) Full Stack Development
6 70 (45.45%) Machine Learning
7 65 (42.21%) Automated Trading
8 17 (11.04%) Analytics
9 12 (7.79%) Line Management
10 9 (5.84%) Greeks
11 8 (5.19%) Fintech
11 8 (5.19%) Mentoring
12 7 (4.55%) Credit Risk Analysis
12 7 (4.55%) Performance Attribution
13 6 (3.90%) ETL
14 5 (3.25%) End-to-End Testing
14 5 (3.25%) Integration Testing
14 5 (3.25%) Unit Testing
15 4 (2.60%) ETL Development
Programming Languages
1 154 (100.00%) Python
2 117 (75.97%) TypeScript
3 54 (35.06%) JavaScript
4 37 (24.03%) Java
5 23 (14.94%) SQL
6 5 (3.25%) C++
6 5 (3.25%) Rust
7 2 (1.30%) C#
7 2 (1.30%) Clojure
7 2 (1.30%) Haskell
7 2 (1.30%) Ruby
7 2 (1.30%) Scala
8 1 (0.65%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (3.25%) SC Cleared
1 5 (3.25%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.30%) Degree
3 1 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.84%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.65%) QA
System Software
1 4 (2.60%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (3.90%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.95%) Terraform
Vendors
1 66 (42.86%) Google
2 1 (0.65%) Brio
2 1 (0.65%) NVIDIA
2 1 (0.65%) Oracle