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 8 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
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 428 622 666
Rank change year-on-year +194 +44 -33
Contract jobs requiring a Python Software Engineer 172 69 189
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.12% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.13% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 50 167
10th Percentile £538 £438 £510
25th Percentile £550 £511 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £683 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.23% +13.75% +14.29%
75th Percentile £850 £788 £675
90th Percentile £881 - £738
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 40,208 52,661 84,090
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.53% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,884 36,729 59,270
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,897 1,486 1,961
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.60
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.75 £65.75 £49.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +6.20%

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 8 June 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 8 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
England +213 168 £725 +7.41% 52
London +179 154 £725 +7.41% 31
Work from Home +127 77 £800 +18.52% 32
UK excluding London +45 10 £488 - 19
East of England - 5 £425 - 4
North West - 2 - -
North of England - 2 - -
South West - 2 £550 - 5
South East - 1 - - 5

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

For the 6 months to 8 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 featuring Python Software Engineer in the job title.

1 172 (100.00%) Python
1 172 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 149 (86.63%) AWS
3 138 (80.23%) Finance
4 132 (76.74%) TypeScript
5 131 (76.16%) Front Office
5 131 (76.16%) Asset Management
6 129 (75.00%) Fixed Income
6 129 (75.00%) Protocol Buffers
6 129 (75.00%) gRPC
6 129 (75.00%) Apache Airflow
7 125 (72.67%) Agile
8 123 (71.51%) Apache
8 123 (71.51%) Apache Ignite
9 117 (68.02%) Banking
10 114 (66.28%) Investment Management
11 110 (63.95%) Hedge funds
12 101 (58.72%) GCP
13 85 (49.42%) Equities
14 84 (48.84%) React
15 77 (44.77%) Redux
15 77 (44.77%) Azure
16 74 (43.02%) Artificial Intelligence
16 74 (43.02%) Full Stack Development
17 73 (42.44%) Material-UI
18 72 (41.86%) Machine Learning
19 70 (40.70%) JavaScript
20 68 (39.53%) PostgreSQL
21 66 (38.37%) Google
21 66 (38.37%) Pandas

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
1 129 (75.00%) Apache Airflow
2 123 (71.51%) Apache
3 1 (0.58%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 149 (86.63%) AWS
2 101 (58.72%) GCP
3 77 (44.77%) Azure
4 58 (33.72%) dbt
5 43 (25.00%) Snowflake
6 6 (3.49%) Serverless
7 5 (2.91%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (2.91%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (2.33%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (2.33%) Pulumi
9 3 (1.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (1.74%) SaaS
10 2 (1.16%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.16%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (1.16%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.58%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (0.58%) Amazon SageMaker
11 1 (0.58%) Cloud Run
11 1 (0.58%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.33%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (1.16%) Wireless
3 1 (0.58%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (71.51%) Apache Ignite
2 68 (39.53%) PostgreSQL
3 58 (33.72%) Amazon Athena
3 58 (33.72%) Apache Arrow
3 58 (33.72%) Dremio
4 43 (25.00%) Data Lake
5 5 (2.91%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.16%) 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 (28.49%) Cypress.io
2 2 (1.16%) webpack
3 1 (0.58%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.58%) Git
3 1 (0.58%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.58%) JUnit
3 1 (0.58%) Selenium
General
1 138 (80.23%) Finance
2 131 (76.16%) Front Office
3 117 (68.02%) Banking
4 48 (27.91%) Investment Banking
5 4 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.33%) Games
5 4 (2.33%) Social Skills
6 3 (1.74%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.16%) Law
8 1 (0.58%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.58%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (75.00%) gRPC
1 129 (75.00%) Protocol Buffers
2 84 (48.84%) React
3 77 (44.77%) Redux
4 73 (42.44%) Material-UI
5 66 (38.37%) Pandas
6 60 (34.88%) NumPy
7 58 (33.72%) SciPy
8 19 (11.05%) AngularJS
9 17 (9.88%) Vue
10 13 (7.56%) Node.js
11 6 (3.49%) Flask
12 5 (2.91%) Kafka
13 4 (2.33%) FastAPI
13 4 (2.33%) SQLAlchemy
14 3 (1.74%) REST
14 3 (1.74%) RESTful
14 3 (1.74%) WebSockets
15 2 (1.16%) Lambda Expressions
15 2 (1.16%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 129 (75.00%) Fixed Income
2 110 (63.95%) Hedge funds
3 85 (49.42%) Equities
4 51 (29.65%) Derivative
4 51 (29.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 16 (9.30%) Pricing Data
6 5 (2.91%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.33%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.74%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.58%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.58%) NHS
9 1 (0.58%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 131 (76.16%) Asset Management
3 125 (72.67%) Agile
4 114 (66.28%) Investment Management
5 74 (43.02%) Artificial Intelligence
5 74 (43.02%) Full Stack Development
6 72 (41.86%) Machine Learning
7 65 (37.79%) Automated Trading
8 17 (9.88%) Analytics
9 15 (8.72%) Line Management
10 12 (6.98%) Greeks
11 11 (6.40%) Fintech
12 10 (5.81%) Credit Risk Analysis
12 10 (5.81%) Performance Attribution
13 7 (4.07%) Mentoring
14 6 (3.49%) ETL
15 5 (2.91%) End-to-End Testing
15 5 (2.91%) Integration Testing
15 5 (2.91%) Unit Testing
16 4 (2.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 172 (100.00%) Python
2 132 (76.74%) TypeScript
3 70 (40.70%) JavaScript
4 49 (28.49%) Java
5 25 (14.53%) SQL
6 6 (3.49%) Rust
7 5 (2.91%) C++
8 3 (1.74%) C#
8 3 (1.74%) Clojure
8 3 (1.74%) Haskell
9 2 (1.16%) Ruby
9 2 (1.16%) Scala
10 1 (0.58%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (2.91%) SC Cleared
1 5 (2.91%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.16%) Degree
3 1 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.98%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.58%) QA
System Software
1 4 (2.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (4.07%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.74%) Terraform
Vendors
1 66 (38.37%) Google
2 1 (0.58%) Bloomberg
2 1 (0.58%) Brio
2 1 (0.58%) NVIDIA
2 1 (0.58%) Oracle
2 1 (0.58%) Reuters