Python Engineer Contracts in England

Python Engineer
UK > England

The median Python Engineer daily rate in England is £700, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 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
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 283 393 339
Rank change year-on-year +110 -54 +8
Contract jobs requiring a Python Engineer 291 259 568
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.78% 0.55% 0.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.84% 0.58% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 226 494
10th Percentile £460 £450 £500
25th Percentile £538 £500 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £644 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.74% +7.29% +4.35%
75th Percentile £825 £750 £700
90th Percentile £850 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £655 £625 £600
% change year-on-year +4.80% +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £62.81 - £21.78
25th Percentile £63.28 - £26.69
Median hourly rate £65.63 - £35.75
75th Percentile £69.53 - £45.19
90th Percentile £70.94 - £50.33
UK median hourly rate £65.63 £57.50 £35.75
% change year-on-year +14.13% +60.84% +30.00%

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 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Python Engineer in England

Python Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Python Engineer in England

Python Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python Engineer in England over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python Engineer in England

Python Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Python Engineer in England

Python 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 Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 13 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 +118 251 £700 +3.70% 63
South East +21 8 £600 +9.09% 4
North of England +14 8 £500 +1.52% 2
East of England +1 8 £425 -12.82% 6
North West +16 6 £500 -4.76%
South West 0 6 £550 +4.76% 10
West Midlands +17 2 £550 +10.00% 4
Midlands +16 2 £550 +10.00% 7
Yorkshire +10 2 £475 -1.04% 1
Python Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 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 England region featuring Python Engineer in the job title.

1 291 (100.00%) Python
2 186 (63.92%) Software Engineering
3 177 (60.82%) AWS
4 164 (56.36%) Finance
5 144 (49.48%) Agile
6 142 (48.80%) Apache Airflow
7 141 (48.45%) Asset Management
8 137 (47.08%) TypeScript
9 136 (46.74%) Front Office
10 133 (45.70%) Banking
11 132 (45.36%) Fixed Income
11 132 (45.36%) Protocol Buffers
11 132 (45.36%) gRPC
12 127 (43.64%) Apache
13 126 (43.30%) Apache Ignite
14 124 (42.61%) Investment Management
15 115 (39.52%) Hedge funds
16 111 (38.14%) Azure
17 109 (37.46%) GCP
18 92 (31.62%) Artificial Intelligence
19 91 (31.27%) Pandas
20 88 (30.24%) React
20 88 (30.24%) Equities
21 86 (29.55%) Java
22 83 (28.52%) NumPy
23 82 (28.18%) Full Stack Development
24 79 (27.15%) Machine Learning
25 77 (26.46%) SciPy
25 77 (26.46%) Redux
26 76 (26.12%) JavaScript

Python 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
1 142 (48.80%) Apache Airflow
2 127 (43.64%) Apache
3 4 (1.37%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.34%) nginx
4 1 (0.34%) SAS
4 1 (0.34%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 177 (60.82%) AWS
2 111 (38.14%) Azure
3 109 (37.46%) GCP
4 67 (23.02%) dbt
5 46 (15.81%) Snowflake
6 17 (5.84%) Serverless
7 9 (3.09%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (3.09%) Dagster
8 8 (2.75%) Amazon S3
8 8 (2.75%) GitHub
9 7 (2.41%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (2.06%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (2.06%) Power Platform
11 5 (1.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (1.37%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (1.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (1.37%) Pulumi
13 3 (1.03%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (1.03%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.37%) Radio Access Network
2 3 (1.03%) Firewall
2 3 (1.03%) Wireless
3 1 (0.34%) 5G
3 1 (0.34%) BGP
3 1 (0.34%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (0.34%) HTTP
3 1 (0.34%) IOS XR
3 1 (0.34%) MQTT
3 1 (0.34%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.34%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.34%) WAN
3 1 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (43.30%) Apache Ignite
2 72 (24.74%) PostgreSQL
3 65 (22.34%) Amazon Athena
3 65 (22.34%) Dremio
4 61 (20.96%) Apache Arrow
5 54 (18.56%) Data Lake
6 12 (4.12%) Big Data
7 11 (3.78%) MongoDB
7 11 (3.78%) NoSQL
8 6 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (2.06%) Power BI
9 5 (1.72%) SQL Server
9 5 (1.72%) Sybase ASE
10 4 (1.37%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (1.37%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (1.03%) MySQL
12 2 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 51 (17.53%) Cypress.io
2 22 (7.56%) Git
3 20 (6.87%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.72%) Artifactory
5 4 (1.37%) TeamCity
6 3 (1.03%) Maven
6 3 (1.03%) Selenium
7 2 (0.69%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.69%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.69%) git-flow
7 2 (0.69%) Gradle
7 2 (0.69%) JUnit
7 2 (0.69%) Subversion
7 2 (0.69%) webpack
8 1 (0.34%) IBM UrbanCode
8 1 (0.34%) kappa
8 1 (0.34%) Poetry
8 1 (0.34%) PyCharm
8 1 (0.34%) Pylint
8 1 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 164 (56.36%) Finance
2 136 (46.74%) Front Office
3 133 (45.70%) Banking
4 54 (18.56%) Investment Banking
5 24 (8.25%) Social Skills
6 17 (5.84%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (1.37%) Games
7 4 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.03%) Law
9 2 (0.69%) Electronics
9 2 (0.69%) Health Technology
9 2 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.69%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.34%) Aviation
10 1 (0.34%) Dutch Language
10 1 (0.34%) Music Industry
10 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.34%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (45.36%) gRPC
1 132 (45.36%) Protocol Buffers
2 91 (31.27%) Pandas
3 88 (30.24%) React
4 83 (28.52%) NumPy
5 77 (26.46%) Redux
5 77 (26.46%) SciPy
6 73 (25.09%) Material-UI
7 28 (9.62%) PySpark
8 25 (8.59%) Kafka
9 18 (6.19%) AngularJS
10 17 (5.84%) Vue
11 15 (5.15%) Node.js
12 12 (4.12%) RESTful
13 11 (3.78%) REST
14 10 (3.44%) Flask
15 8 (2.75%) FastAPI
15 8 (2.75%) RabbitMQ
16 5 (1.72%) Django
17 4 (1.37%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 132 (45.36%) Fixed Income
2 115 (39.52%) Hedge funds
3 88 (30.24%) Equities
4 54 (18.56%) Derivative
4 54 (18.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 16 (5.50%) Pricing Data
6 15 (5.15%) Distributed Systems
7 13 (4.47%) Algorithms
8 10 (3.44%) Data Structures
9 8 (2.75%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (2.41%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (2.06%) Renewable Energy
12 4 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (1.37%) Public Cloud
13 3 (1.03%) Management Information System
14 2 (0.69%) Animation
14 2 (0.69%) Augmented Reality
14 2 (0.69%) Hackathon
14 2 (0.69%) NHS
14 2 (0.69%) Photography
Operating Systems
1 23 (7.90%) Linux
2 8 (2.75%) Android
3 5 (1.72%) Windows
4 4 (1.37%) Unix
5 3 (1.03%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.69%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.34%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.34%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (63.92%) Software Engineering
2 144 (49.48%) Agile
3 141 (48.45%) Asset Management
4 124 (42.61%) Investment Management
5 92 (31.62%) Artificial Intelligence
6 82 (28.18%) Full Stack Development
7 79 (27.15%) Machine Learning
8 65 (22.34%) Automated Trading
9 41 (14.09%) CI/CD
10 36 (12.37%) DevOps
11 30 (10.31%) Analytics
12 19 (6.53%) Problem-Solving
13 18 (6.19%) Data Engineering
13 18 (6.19%) Mathematics
14 17 (5.84%) Line Management
14 17 (5.84%) Microservices
15 15 (5.15%) Fintech
15 15 (5.15%) Test Automation
16 14 (4.81%) Data Pipeline
16 14 (4.81%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 291 (100.00%) Python
2 137 (47.08%) TypeScript
3 86 (29.55%) Java
4 76 (26.12%) JavaScript
5 52 (17.87%) SQL
6 25 (8.59%) C++
7 19 (6.53%) Shell Script
8 9 (3.09%) C#
9 8 (2.75%) Go
10 7 (2.41%) Bash
10 7 (2.41%) PowerShell
10 7 (2.41%) Scala
11 6 (2.06%) Perl
11 6 (2.06%) Rust
12 4 (1.37%) Kotlin
13 3 (1.03%) Clojure
13 3 (1.03%) Haskell
13 3 (1.03%) Ruby
14 2 (0.69%) GLSL
14 2 (0.69%) HLSL
Qualifications
1 8 (2.75%) Degree
2 6 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.37%) Master's Degree
3 4 (1.37%) SC Cleared
3 4 (1.37%) Security Cleared
4 2 (0.69%) PhD
5 1 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.34%) CCNP
5 1 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.19%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.03%) QA
3 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.34%) NIST
3 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 22 (7.56%) Docker
2 8 (2.75%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.34%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.34%) iptables
3 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 36 (12.37%) Kubernetes
2 18 (6.19%) Ansible
3 17 (5.84%) Terraform
4 11 (3.78%) Grafana
5 10 (3.44%) Prometheus
6 8 (2.75%) Consul
7 7 (2.41%) Puppet
8 4 (1.37%) Argo
9 2 (0.69%) BladeLogic
9 2 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.69%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 67 (23.02%) Google
2 14 (4.81%) Microsoft
3 12 (4.12%) Databricks
4 8 (2.75%) SaltStack
5 6 (2.06%) Sybase
6 3 (1.03%) Oracle
7 2 (0.69%) Altiris
7 2 (0.69%) Bloomberg
7 2 (0.69%) Cisco
7 2 (0.69%) Citrix
7 2 (0.69%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.69%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.69%) Reuters
7 2 (0.69%) VMware
8 1 (0.34%) Brio
8 1 (0.34%) Confluent
8 1 (0.34%) NVIDIA
8 1 (0.34%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.34%) Solace
8 1 (0.34%) TOWER Software