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Aug 24, 2026
up to 6 Months
Senior Python Engineer (Agentic AI) at Hedgehog Lab, Remote, £Contract Rate (Outside IR35)
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Senior Python Engineer (Agentic AI) | UK | Contract | Outside IR35 Start date: 1st September (7th September at the very latest). Please only apply if you can start by the 7th. A short, high-ownership contract building a production agentic AI product for a name that matters in cyber security. The role You'll help build an AI-powered MCP server for a well-established cyber security organisation. You'll own a self-contained area of the build end to end, working in Python across FastAPI, Django or Flask, integrating LLMs to make the client's frameworks accessible through an agentic interface. The work runs as a prioritised backlog, refined with the client each week, so priorities shift as things progress. You'll pick up your area, run with it, and keep the team in the loop. What's in it for you A genuine agentic AI build headed for production, not a proof of concept Real ownership of your own area. You'll make the technical calls, not close...
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Aug 18, 2026
Hourly/Freelance
Senior Python Engineer - AI Coding Agent Evaluation at Mindrift, Remote, £Freelance Rate
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Please submit your CV in English and indicate your level of English proficiency. Mindrift connects specialists with project-based AI opportunities for leading tech companies, focused on testing, evaluating, and improving AI systems. Participation is project-based, not permanent employment.   What this opportunity involves: We 're building a dataset to evaluate AI coding agents - how well a model handles real-world developer tasks. You 'll create challenging tasks and evaluation criteria within realistic simulated environments: Build realistic developer environments - a virtual company with codebase, infrastructure, and context (tickets, docs, conversations) that forms a believable development history Design tasks from intermediate states of these environments - craft the prompt, define what ʺsolved ʺ means, and ensure the task is solvable by an AI agent Write tests that verify agent solutions - accept all valid approaches and reject incorrect ones,...
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Aug 11, 2026
Hourly/Freelance
Senior Python Engineer - AI Coding Agent Evaluation at Mindrift, Remote, £Freelance Rate
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Please submit your CV in English and indicate your level of English proficiency. Mindrift connects specialists with project-based AI opportunities for leading tech companies, focused on testing, evaluating, and improving AI systems. Participation is project-based, not permanent employment.What this opportunity involves: We 're building a dataset to evaluate AI coding agents - how well a model handles real-world developer tasks. You 'll create challenging tasks and evaluation criteria within realistic simulated environments: Build realistic developer environments - a virtual company with codebase, infrastructure, and context (tickets, docs, conversations) that forms a believable development history Design tasks from intermediate states of these environments - craft the prompt, define what ʺsolved ʺ means, and ensure the task is solvable by an AI agent Write tests that verify agent solutions - accept all valid approaches and reject incorrect ones, neither too...
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Aug 24, 2026
Hourly/Freelance
Senior Python Data Scraping Engineer at Mindrift, Remote, £Freelance Rate
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Mindrift is looking for highly skilled Vibecode specialists to join the Tendem project (https://tendem.ai/) and drive specialized data scraping workflows for real-world use cases. Mindrift is looking for highly skilled Senior Python Data Scraping Engineers to join the Tendem project and drive specialized data scraping workflows for real-world applications. In this role, you 'll apply your expertise in web scraping, data extraction, and data processing to deliver accurate, reliable, and high-quality results. This part-time remote opportunity is ideal for technical professionals with hands-on experience in web scraping, data extraction and processing.   What We Do The Mindrift platform connects specialists with innovative technology projects. Our mission is to help develop high-quality AI technologies by combining real-world expertise from professionals across the globe with advanced AI development efforts.   About the Role This is a freelance role for a...
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Aug 14, 2026
Hourly/Freelance
Senior Python Data Scraping Engineer at Mindrift, Remote, £Freelance Rate
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Mindrift is looking for highly skilled Vibecode specialists to join the Tendem project (https://tendem.ai/) and drive specialized data scraping workflows for real-world use cases. Mindrift is looking for highly skilled Senior Python Data Scraping Engineers to join the Tendem project and drive specialized data scraping workflows for real-world applications. In this role, you 'll apply your expertise in web scraping, data extraction, and data processing to deliver accurate, reliable, and high-quality results. This part-time remote opportunity is ideal for technical professionals with hands-on experience in web scraping, data extraction and processing.   What We Do The Mindrift platform connects specialists with innovative technology projects. Our mission is to help develop high-quality AI technologies by combining real-world expertise from professionals across the globe with advanced AI development efforts.   About the Role This is a freelance role for a...
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Aug 06, 2026
Hourly/Freelance
Senior Python Data Scraping Engineer at Mindrift, Remote, £Freelance Rate
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Mindrift is looking for highly skilled Vibecode specialists to join the Tendem project (https://tendem.ai/) and drive specialized data scraping workflows for real-world use cases. Mindrift is looking for highly skilled Senior Python Data Scraping Engineers to join the Tendem project and drive specialized data scraping workflows for real-world applications. In this role, you 'll apply your expertise in web scraping, data extraction, and data processing to deliver accurate, reliable, and high-quality results. This part-time remote opportunity is ideal for technical professionals with hands-on experience in web scraping, data extraction and processing.   What We Do The Mindrift platform connects specialists with innovative technology projects. Our mission is to help develop high-quality AI technologies by combining real-world expertise from professionals across the globe with advanced AI development efforts.   About the Role This is a freelance role for a...
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Aug 24, 2026
Duration not stated
Senior Software Engineer at Softwire, London Area, £500-£600 per day (Outside IR35)
£500 - £600 per day
Contract Spy London Area, United Kingdom
Senior Software Engineer - Outside IR35 - Contract (Energy)   About the role   We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer (ideally with some Data Engineering experience) to join our client team in the energy trading sector.   End date is not certain, but likely to be December 2026 or early Q1 2027.   We are looking for experience in the following technologies:   Microsoft Azure ecosystem Understanding of networking & security options in Microsoft Azure Infrastructure-as-code (preferably Bicep) Python   Experience in the below would also be beneficial:   Azure DevOps (pipelines) SQL   We generally spend 2 days per week on-site with the client in central London (Monday & Thursday).   £500-600 per day outside IR35   Start date: 10/08/2026 End date: December 2026 or early Q1 2027   About Softwire  ...
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Aug 24, 2026
Duration not stated
Linux Engineering Lead at Xoriant, London Canary Wharf, £Contract Rate
Contract Spy Canary Wharf, London, UK
Senior Red Hat Systems Engineer / Linux Engineering Lead Canary Wharf, UK Hybrid (2 days a week) Long Term Contract (Inside IR35)   Professional Summary Expert in end-to-end Linux lifecycle management , including patching, OS upgrades, image creation, and large-scale deployments. Extensive experience with Red Hat Satellite , Ansible Automation Platform , and enterprise tooling to automate infrastructure, reduce operational overhead, and improve system reliability. Strong background in performance engineering, vulnerability management, disaster recovery, and business continuity , with hands-on expertise in VMware and AWS architecture , including networking, storage, and compute optimization. Proven ability to lead initiatives, troubleshoot complex cross-domain issues (OS, network, virtualization, cloud), and collaborate effectively with DevOps, Security, and Application teams.   Core Technical Expertise Linux / Red Hat...
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Aug 24, 2026
Duration not stated
Principal Engineer at Mindera, Central London, £Contract Rate (Outside IR35)
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Principal Engineer - Contract - Outside IR35 We are currently looking for an experience Principal Engineer to join us on a contract basis. This is a hybrid position and will require 3 days per week on client site in Central London. Requirements Role responsibilities:   Define and drive technical strategy, architecture, and engineering standards across the Personalisation domain Design and deliver scalable systems supporting personalisation, search, recommendations, and ML-powered features Partner closely with Product, Data Science, and Design to deliver customer-centric solutions Lead and influence technical decision-making across multiple teams and platforms Mentor and support senior engineers, helping to raise the overall engineering capability Improve engineering quality, reliability, and productivity through best practices, tooling, and platform enhancemen   Who you are:   An experienced technical...
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Aug 21, 2026
Duration not stated
Linux Engineering Lead at Xoriant, London Canary Wharf, £Contract Rate
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Senior Red Hat Systems Engineer / Linux Engineering Lead Canary Wharf, UK Hybrid (2 days a week) Long Term Contract (Inside IR35)   Professional Summary Expert in end-to-end Linux lifecycle management , including patching, OS upgrades, image creation, and large-scale deployments. Extensive experience with Red Hat Satellite , Ansible Automation Platform , and enterprise tooling to automate infrastructure, reduce operational overhead, and improve system reliability. Strong background in performance engineering, vulnerability management, disaster recovery, and business continuity , with hands-on expertise in VMware and AWS architecture , including networking, storage, and compute optimization. Proven ability to lead initiatives, troubleshoot complex cross-domain issues (OS, network, virtualization, cloud), and collaborate effectively with DevOps, Security, and Application teams.   Core Technical Expertise Linux / Red Hat...
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Aug 21, 2026
Duration not stated
Senior Software Engineer - Release & Triage at Sky, London, £Contract Rate
Contract Spy London, Middlesex, UK
We don't just believe in better. We make it happen. ? Better content. Better products. And better careers.? Working in Tech, Product or Data at Sky is about building the next and the new. From broadband to broadcast, streaming to mobile, Sky Stream to Sky Glass, we never stand still. We optimise and innovate. We turn big ideas into the products, content and services millions of people love. And we do it all right here at Sky.? Sky is looking for a talented and dedicated Senior Software Engineer in RDK Triage Engineering team to support the release cycles associated with deployed software on CPE devices. These devices use Reference Design Kit (RDK), which is deployed on over 100+ million devices spanning video, broadband and home security. The Release Triage Software Engineer function is critical to the successful development and deployment of new features and fixes as the function ensures that these changes get deployed to the field. Sky's development environment is...
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Aug 20, 2026
Duration not stated
Senior Full Stack Data Quality Engineer at Tokio Marine, London St Botolph, £Contract Rate (Outside IR35)
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Senior Full Stack Data Quality Engineer Assignment type: Outside IR35   The supplier will be engaged to provide specialist hands-on data quality engineering services to the Finance & Data Reporting Product Team across TMHCC’s modern data platform testing, data quality engineering, and test automation.   The engagement is focused on delivering agreed testing and automation outcomes across defined operational assurance priorities and initiative delivery outcomes. The supplier will validate data across the full data lifecycle, including ingestion, transformation, data lake, data warehouse, reporting and BI, APIs, metadata, lineage, and reconciliation.   Assignment Tasks / Deliverables   Full Stack Data Quality Engineering: Design and execute data quality testing across ingestion, transformation, warehouse, reporting/BI, APIs, metadata, lineage, and reconciliation layers. Validate Snowflake data lake and data...
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Aug 19, 2026
Duration not stated
Senior Full Stack Developer at Deloitte, London/Remote, £Contract Rate
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Job description   Job Title: Senior Full Stack Developer (contract) Location: London Hybrid. Travel to the London office 3 days a week Duration: 11 months Contract Start Date: ASAP *note client onboarding takes 6 weeks from offer Day Rate: Competitive (Inside IR35)   Deloitte Working with the Deloitte Associate (Contractor) Programme means we can offer you the opportunity to work on a variation of industry and client related projects. Our aim is to retain the best talent and so when your project end date nears our team of Talent Community Advisors will be working with you to look at alternative projects within the firm that suit your experience should you wish to continue with Deloitte.   The Role We are looking for Senior Full Stack Developers to work in the Technology and Transformation Team at Deloitte. You will work with one of our global financial services clients. This...
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Aug 19, 2026
Duration not stated
Senior Cloud Engineer at Deloitte, London, £Contract Rate
Contract Spy London, UK
Job description   Job Title: Senior Cloud Engineer (contract) Location: London Hybrid. Travel to the London office 3 days a week Duration: 11 months Contract Start Date: ASAP *note client onboarding takes 6 weeks from offer Day Rate: Competitive (Inside IR35)   Deloitte Working with the Deloitte Associate (Contractor) Programme means we can offer you the opportunity to work on a variation of industry and client related projects. Our aim is to retain the best talent and so when your project end date nears our team of Talent Community Advisors will be working with you to look at alternative projects within the firm that suit your experience should you wish to continue with Deloitte.   The Role We are looking for experienced Senior Cloud Engineers to work in the Technology and Transformation Team at Deloitte. You will work with one of our global financial services clients. This...
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Aug 19, 2026
6 Months or more
Senior Data Engineer at LTM Limited, Sheffield, 6 Months, £65 per hour
Contract Spy Sheffield, UK
Role description Role Senior Data Engineer Sheffield, UK 6 Months contract Rate: 65 GBP per hour inside IR35     Experience 7 to 11     Responsibilities Design build and maintain largescale data pipelines and ETL workflows across enterprise datasets Ingest provision and manage raw enriched and curated data assets for analytics platforms Improve reliability scalability and realtime data ingestion capabilities Support and enhance cloudbased data ingestion infrastructure and platform services Acquire transport clean transform and integrate data from internal and external sources Perform exploratory data analysis and onboard new data sources Develop automated data engineering workflows and optimize data processing pipelines Manage data modelling data warehousing data integration and data cataloguing activities Support realtime analytics and streaming data platforms Contribute to cloud...
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Aug 19, 2026
Hourly/Freelance
Senior GCP DevSecOps Engineer at LTM, Sheffield, 6 Months, £55 per hour
Contract Spy Sheffield, UK
Role description Role: Senior GCP DevSecOps Engineer Sheffield, UK 6 Months contract     Rate: 55 GBP per hour Inside IR35     Experience 5 to 7     Responsibilities Build deploy and manage GCP foundation platform components using GKE BigQuery Cloud Build Cloud Run and cloudnative services Engineer repeatable cloud platform capabilities using Infrastructure as Code IaC approaches Implement preventive security controls and security guardrails to improve cloud security posture Integrate and manage cloud services including IAM networking logging monitoring operating systems and container platforms Build and maintain CICD and continuous testing capabilities Embed security controls into software delivery pipelines and platform engineering processes Ensure compliance with Cloud Security Standards and governance requirements Support audit readiness control mapping documentation and...
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Aug 18, 2026
Duration not stated
AI Engineer at Attercop, Remote Europe, £Contract Rate
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Skills & Experience Job roles: AI Engineer Experience level: Mid, Senior Core skills considered: Artificial Intelligence, Python, APIs, Cloud Computing, Docker Other skills considered: Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, Data Pipelines Logistics Base salary: Undisclosed Employment type: Freelance/Contract Remote working: Remote Work from: Within Europe Visa sponsorship: Not available Job Description You 9ll design, build, and integrate advanced AI models into real software systems. This role sits at the intersection of software engineering, data science, and MLOps, turning research into robust, scalable, production-ready AI services. Core Responsibilities Model Engineering Build functional AI services from architectural designs Orchestrate data ingestion, inference flows, and output pipelines Optimise...
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Aug 18, 2026
Duration not stated
Senior Data Engineer at VCCP, London/Remote, £Contract Rate
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Posted 4 hours ago   Checked 4 hours ago   Skills & Experience Job roles: Data Engineer Experience level: Senior Core skills considered: Python, SQL, APIs, CI/CD, Data Pipelines Other skills considered: Data Architecture, Data Modeling, Automated Testing, Git Logistics Base salary: Undisclosed Employment type: Freelance/Contract Remote working: Hybrid (up to 2 remote days p/w) Visa sponsorship: Not available Job Description VCCP is looking for an exceptionally sharp, hands-on Senior Data Engineer to join us on a contract basis to help architect and build our core data platform capabilities. The successful candidate must be able to start immediately. This is a senior, execution-focused role requiring a candidate who can hit the ground running immediately. You will take ownership of building...
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Aug 18, 2026
Duration not stated
kdb+ Contractor (Capital Markets) at Data Intellect, London, £Contract Rate
Contract Spy London, UK
Company Description Join the world’s largest kdb+ Consultancy where every query matters, every millisecond counts and every system you build shapes the future of data-driven finance. At Data Intellect , we thrive on solving complex data challenges in high-stakes environments. We’re a team of engineers, problem-solvers and collaborators who believe in pushing boundaries, not egos. If you're a proficient kdb+ developer ready to lead, innovate and make an impact, we want to hear from you. Job Description As a Senior kdb+ Engineer at [DI] you’ll be at the forefront of delivering high-performance, scalable solutions for some of the world’s most data-intensive financial institutions. You’ll: Lead technical delivery on client projects, setting the standard for quality and performance. Design and implement robust kdb+ architectures that handle billions of rows of time-series data. Collaborate with quants, traders, and analysts to...
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Aug 18, 2026
Duration not stated
AI Solutions Architect at Keyrus, London, £Contract Option
Contract Spy London, UK
Why Keyrus, Why Now! Keyrus is an international group of 2,800 consultants and experts across 28 countries, built on a single conviction: AI does not transform businesses. Architected intelligence does. For more than 30 years, we have been building the data foundations that make intelligent systems work — designing the Operating System of the intelligent enterprise, where intelligence is embedded into the core of business processes to create sustainable value: we operationalise intelligence. AI does not replace humans. It repositions us to a place no system can follow: understanding, deciding, designing, and creating. At Keyrus, you will not just develop skills — you will develop judgment. Your expertise sharpens with every system you architect, every client challenge you solve, and every deployment that compounds on the last. Over time, you grow into one of the rarest professionals of the intelligence era: someone who bridges data, AI, and human...
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