Python Data Engineer Contracts

Python Data Engineer
UK

The median Python Data Engineer daily rate in the UK is £550, 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 539 590 690
Rank change year-on-year +51 +100 -103
Contract jobs requiring a Python Data Engineer 45 107 158
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.19% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.20% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 92 140
10th Percentile £438 £428 £449
25th Percentile £486 £461 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £615
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -2.44% +6.96%
75th Percentile £725 £705 £688
90th Percentile £825 £788 £739
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £540
% change year-on-year +11.11% -16.63% +13.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.50
Median hourly rate - - £19.00
75th Percentile - - £19.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
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% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

Python Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Python Data Engineer in the UK

Python Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Python Data Engineer in the UK

Python Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Python Data Engineer in the UK

Python Data Engineer
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python Data Engineer within the UK 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
England +32 39 £575 -4.17% 11
London +44 29 £600 -7.69% 9
Work from Home +76 21 £530 -11.67% 4
UK excluding London +23 8 £500 +11.11% 2
North of England +11 3 £495 +3.13%
West Midlands +19 2 £550 +37.50%
Midlands +18 2 £550 +37.50%
North West +14 2 £500 -
Yorkshire +9 1 £490 +2.08%
East of England +5 1 £650 +44.44%
Scotland - 1 £450 -
South East - 1 £500 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Python Data 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 Data Engineer in the job title.

1 45 (100.00%) Python
2 25 (55.56%) Azure
3 24 (53.33%) PySpark
4 18 (40.00%) SQL
5 16 (35.56%) AWS
6 15 (33.33%) Data Engineering
7 13 (28.89%) Databricks
8 11 (24.44%) Data Pipeline
8 11 (24.44%) Big Data
8 11 (24.44%) Analytics
8 11 (24.44%) Finance
9 10 (22.22%) ETL
9 10 (22.22%) Apache Airflow
10 9 (20.00%) CI/CD
10 9 (20.00%) Agile
10 9 (20.00%) Banking
10 9 (20.00%) Pandas
11 8 (17.78%) Kafka
11 8 (17.78%) NumPy
11 8 (17.78%) Java
11 8 (17.78%) Investment Management
11 8 (17.78%) Data Modelling
11 8 (17.78%) dbt
11 8 (17.78%) Dagster
11 8 (17.78%) DevOps
12 7 (15.56%) Data Lake
12 7 (15.56%) Power Platform
12 7 (15.56%) Git
12 7 (15.56%) Data Governance
12 7 (15.56%) Kubernetes

Python Data 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 10 (22.22%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (11.11%) Apache Spark
3 3 (6.67%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 25 (55.56%) Azure
2 16 (35.56%) AWS
3 8 (17.78%) Dagster
3 8 (17.78%) dbt
4 7 (15.56%) Power Platform
5 6 (13.33%) GCP
6 5 (11.11%) Amazon S3
6 5 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (11.11%) Serverless
7 4 (8.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (4.44%) Azure Stack
8 2 (4.44%) Azure Storage
8 2 (4.44%) Snowflake
9 1 (2.22%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (2.22%) Azure API Management
9 1 (2.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (2.22%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (2.22%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (2.22%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (24.44%) Big Data
2 7 (15.56%) Data Lake
2 7 (15.56%) Power BI
3 5 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (8.89%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (8.89%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (8.89%) Dremio
4 4 (8.89%) Hadoop
4 4 (8.89%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (6.67%) NoSQL
6 2 (4.44%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 2 (4.44%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (4.44%) MySQL
6 2 (4.44%) SQL Server
6 2 (4.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (4.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (2.22%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (2.22%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (2.22%) Data Mining
7 1 (2.22%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (15.56%) Git
2 1 (2.22%) Ant
2 1 (2.22%) GitLab
2 1 (2.22%) Gradle
2 1 (2.22%) IBM UrbanCode
2 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.22%) JUnit
2 1 (2.22%) Maven
2 1 (2.22%) RStudio
2 1 (2.22%) TeamCity
General
1 11 (24.44%) Finance
2 9 (20.00%) Banking
3 6 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 4 (8.89%) Front Office
5 2 (4.44%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.22%) Health Technology
6 1 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.22%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (53.33%) PySpark
2 9 (20.00%) Pandas
3 8 (17.78%) Kafka
3 8 (17.78%) NumPy
4 5 (11.11%) REST
5 4 (8.89%) SciPy
6 2 (4.44%) Flask
6 2 (4.44%) Lambda Expressions
6 2 (4.44%) YAML
7 1 (2.22%) ADO
7 1 (2.22%) AWS CDK
7 1 (2.22%) Django
7 1 (2.22%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (2.22%) Algorithms
2 1 (2.22%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.22%) Hedge funds
2 1 (2.22%) NHS
2 1 (2.22%) Omics
2 1 (2.22%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.67%) Linux
2 1 (2.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 11 (24.44%) Analytics
2 11 (24.44%) Data Pipeline
3 10 (22.22%) ETL
4 9 (20.00%) Agile
4 9 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 8 (17.78%) Data Modelling
5 8 (17.78%) DevOps
5 8 (17.78%) Investment Management
6 7 (15.56%) Data Governance
7 6 (13.33%) Asset Management
7 6 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (13.33%) Data Transformation
7 6 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (13.33%) Software Engineering
8 5 (11.11%) Data Analytics
8 5 (11.11%) Microservices
9 4 (8.89%) Data Integration
9 4 (8.89%) Fintech
9 4 (8.89%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 45 (100.00%) Python
2 18 (40.00%) SQL
3 8 (17.78%) Java
4 4 (8.89%) Scala
5 2 (4.44%) Bash
5 2 (4.44%) C++
5 2 (4.44%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.22%) C
6 1 (2.22%) Go
6 1 (2.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (4.44%) Degree
1 2 (4.44%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.22%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.22%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (15.56%) Kubernetes
2 5 (11.11%) Terraform
3 4 (8.89%) Argo
4 1 (2.22%) Grafana
4 1 (2.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (28.89%) Databricks
2 5 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.44%) Oracle
4 1 (2.22%) Foundry
4 1 (2.22%) Google
4 1 (2.22%) IBM
4 1 (2.22%) Palantir
4 1 (2.22%) Sage
4 1 (2.22%) SAP
4 1 (2.22%) Splunk