Python Contracts in London

Python
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Python skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Python over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 6 10
Rank change year-on-year -2 +4 0
Contract jobs citing Python 2,287 3,695 5,000
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 13.05% 14.44% 12.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.04% 36.11% 30.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,764 2,762 3,714
10th Percentile £400 £450 £463
25th Percentile £500 £520 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £615
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +1.63% +11.82%
75th Percentile £763 £761 £738
90th Percentile £850 £863 £800
England median daily rate £565 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -5.83% - +14.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 16 31
10th Percentile £24.60 £51.25 £32.50
25th Percentile £41.25 £68.75 £36.25
Median hourly rate £50.50 £81.25 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.85% +67.53% +31.08%
75th Percentile £71.88 £90.00 £61.00
90th Percentile £75.00 - £69.38
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% +45.70%

All Programming Languages
London

Python is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 6,527 10,232 16,151
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.24% 39.99% 41.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,976 7,713 12,451
10th Percentile £375 £413 £413
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £713
90th Percentile £838 £825 £800
England median daily rate £543 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% +2.36% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 74 103
10th Percentile £23.80 £25.75 £31.05
25th Percentile £33.07 £39.31 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.50 £60.00 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.83% +23.71% +2.11%
75th Percentile £62.50 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £88.50 £76.77
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.75
% change year-on-year - +20.77% +17.61%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Python in London

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Python in London

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python in London

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Python in London

Python
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Python in London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Python in London

Python
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Central London -2 284 £600 -7.69% 92
South London +2 41 £525 -4.55% 10
West London -6 29 £525 -10.64% 29
East London -10 11 £600 -17.95% 22
North London 0 1 £550 -4.35% 1
Python
England

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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
1 296 (12.94%) Apache Airflow
2 263 (11.50%) Apache
3 98 (4.29%) Apache Spark
4 42 (1.84%) Confluence
5 26 (1.14%) OpenStack
6 22 (0.96%) SharePoint
7 13 (0.57%) nginx
8 12 (0.52%) Jupyter
9 11 (0.48%) SAS
10 10 (0.44%) ArcGIS
11 9 (0.39%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 8 (0.35%) Site Server
13 7 (0.31%) BizTalk Server
14 5 (0.22%) CMS
14 5 (0.22%) Gunicorn
15 4 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
15 4 (0.17%) IIS
15 4 (0.17%) Luigi
16 2 (0.087%) IBM Domino
16 2 (0.087%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 54 (2.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.66%) Chatbot
3 14 (0.61%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.13%) SPSS
8 2 (0.087%) Simulink
9 1 (0.044%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 23 (1.01%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.31%) Distributed Ledger
2 7 (0.31%) Endur
2 7 (0.31%) SimCorp Dimension
3 6 (0.26%) NEC Housing
4 5 (0.22%) ION MarketView
5 3 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.13%) Global One
5 3 (0.13%) Orchestrade
5 3 (0.13%) Primavera
6 2 (0.087%) Advent Geneva
6 2 (0.087%) Front Arena
6 2 (0.087%) Shopify
7 1 (0.044%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 1 (0.044%) Magento
7 1 (0.044%) Oracle BPM
7 1 (0.044%) R3 Corda
7 1 (0.044%) SAP CX
7 1 (0.044%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.044%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 917 (40.10%) AWS
2 624 (27.28%) Azure
3 365 (15.96%) GCP
4 205 (8.96%) Serverless
5 171 (7.48%) dbt
6 159 (6.95%) Snowflake
7 148 (6.47%) AWS Lambda
8 135 (5.90%) Amazon S3
9 133 (5.82%) Power Platform
10 128 (5.60%) GitHub
11 108 (4.72%) Azure DevOps
12 89 (3.89%) Amazon EC2
13 73 (3.19%) Azure Data Factory
14 53 (2.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 49 (2.14%) GitHub Actions
16 44 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
16 44 (1.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 43 (1.88%) PaaS
18 40 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
19 33 (1.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 83 (3.63%) Firewall
2 47 (2.06%) DNS
3 32 (1.40%) DHCP
4 27 (1.18%) Network Security
5 25 (1.09%) TCP/IP
6 23 (1.01%) Internet
7 21 (0.92%) BGP
8 20 (0.87%) VLAN
9 19 (0.83%) MPLS
10 18 (0.79%) 5G
10 18 (0.79%) Cisco Nexus
10 18 (0.79%) LAN
11 16 (0.70%) VPN
11 16 (0.70%) Wireless
12 15 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
13 14 (0.61%) HTTP
13 14 (0.61%) Kerberos
14 11 (0.48%) WAN
15 10 (0.44%) IPv4
16 9 (0.39%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 209 (9.14%) Data Lake
2 196 (8.57%) Apache Ignite
3 167 (7.30%) Amazon Athena
4 155 (6.78%) PostgreSQL
5 152 (6.65%) Big Data
6 151 (6.60%) Dremio
7 149 (6.52%) Apache Arrow
8 131 (5.73%) Data Warehouse
9 130 (5.68%) Power BI
10 115 (5.03%) NoSQL
11 100 (4.37%) Tableau
12 96 (4.20%) SQL Server
13 70 (3.06%) Amazon Redshift
14 67 (2.93%) Amazon RDS
14 67 (2.93%) Relational Database
15 58 (2.54%) Azure SQL Database
16 53 (2.32%) BigQuery
17 51 (2.23%) MongoDB
18 40 (1.75%) MySQL
19 36 (1.57%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 247 (10.80%) Git
2 208 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 108 (4.72%) JIRA
4 77 (3.37%) GitLab
5 68 (2.97%) Cypress.io
6 29 (1.27%) TeamCity
7 27 (1.18%) JMeter
8 25 (1.09%) Bitbucket
9 24 (1.05%) Artifactory
9 24 (1.05%) Selenium
10 23 (1.01%) Postman
11 18 (0.79%) Cucumber
12 13 (0.57%) JUnit
13 12 (0.52%) Burp Suite
13 12 (0.52%) Subversion
14 11 (0.48%) CircleCI
14 11 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
14 11 (0.48%) Visual Studio
15 10 (0.44%) MLflow
16 9 (0.39%) TestRail
General
1 818 (35.77%) Finance
2 462 (20.20%) Banking
3 422 (18.45%) Front Office
4 410 (17.93%) Social Skills
5 236 (10.32%) Analytical Skills
6 222 (9.71%) Investment Banking
7 96 (4.20%) Public Sector
8 52 (2.27%) Retail
9 43 (1.88%) Back Office
10 39 (1.71%) Marketing
11 25 (1.09%) Financial Institution
11 25 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 24 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
13 16 (0.70%) Telecoms
14 13 (0.57%) Advertising
14 13 (0.57%) Retail Banking
15 9 (0.39%) Legal
15 9 (0.39%) Pharmaceutical
16 8 (0.35%) Games
16 8 (0.35%) Law
Job Titles
1 624 (27.28%) Developer
2 332 (14.52%) Python Developer
3 329 (14.39%) Senior
4 267 (11.67%) Data Engineer
5 239 (10.45%) Python Engineer
5 239 (10.45%) Software Engineer
6 220 (9.62%) Analyst
7 169 (7.39%) AWS Engineer
8 159 (6.95%) Lead
9 157 (6.86%) Architect
10 145 (6.34%) DevOps Engineer
11 144 (6.30%) Python Software Engineer
12 129 (5.64%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 100 (4.37%) React Developer
14 94 (4.11%) Azure Engineer
15 88 (3.85%) Software Developer
16 82 (3.59%) Data Analyst
17 75 (3.28%) Full Stack Developer
18 69 (3.02%) Senior Developer
19 68 (2.97%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 229 (10.01%) gRPC
2 222 (9.71%) Protocol Buffers
3 212 (9.27%) Pandas
4 197 (8.61%) React
5 186 (8.13%) NumPy
6 150 (6.56%) SciPy
7 147 (6.43%) Kafka
8 132 (5.77%) PySpark
9 98 (4.29%) HTML
10 95 (4.15%) Redux
11 87 (3.80%) REST
12 81 (3.54%) Node.js
13 79 (3.45%) Material-UI
14 70 (3.06%) .NET
15 68 (2.97%) CSS
16 63 (2.75%) RESTful
17 59 (2.58%) JSON
18 47 (2.06%) TensorFlow
19 45 (1.97%) Elastic Stack
20 44 (1.92%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 311 (13.60%) Hedge funds
2 288 (12.59%) Fixed Income
3 272 (11.89%) Derivative
4 221 (9.66%) Equities
5 193 (8.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 110 (4.81%) Algorithms
7 84 (3.67%) Distributed Systems
8 75 (3.28%) Product Ownership
9 55 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
10 51 (2.23%) Data Structures
11 43 (1.88%) Cloud Native
12 42 (1.84%) Management Information System
13 32 (1.40%) Clustering
13 32 (1.40%) Onboarding
14 30 (1.31%) Linux Command Line
15 26 (1.14%) Public Cloud
16 25 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
17 23 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
18 22 (0.96%) Distributed Computing
18 22 (0.96%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 264 (11.54%) Linux
2 130 (5.68%) Windows
3 128 (5.60%) Unix
4 42 (1.84%) Windows Server
5 39 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 15 (0.66%) CentOS
7 12 (0.52%) Android
7 12 (0.52%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.26%) Oracle Linux
9 5 (0.22%) Solaris
10 4 (0.17%) Kali Linux
10 4 (0.17%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.087%) VMS
13 1 (0.044%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 672 (29.38%) Agile
2 530 (23.17%) DevOps
3 466 (20.38%) CI/CD
4 464 (20.29%) Software Engineering
5 342 (14.95%) Asset Management
6 325 (14.21%) Analytics
7 291 (12.72%) Problem-Solving
8 290 (12.68%) Investment Management
9 272 (11.89%) Machine Learning
10 241 (10.54%) Artificial Intelligence
11 221 (9.66%) ETL
12 219 (9.58%) Data Pipeline
13 196 (8.57%) Computer Science
14 191 (8.35%) Data Science
15 185 (8.09%) Infrastructure as Code
16 183 (8.00%) Data Modelling
17 182 (7.96%) Test Automation
18 170 (7.43%) Business Intelligence
19 167 (7.30%) Full Stack Development
20 134 (5.86%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 805 (35.20%) SQL
2 546 (23.87%) Java
3 375 (16.40%) JavaScript
4 260 (11.37%) TypeScript
5 193 (8.44%) PowerShell
6 184 (8.05%) C#
7 161 (7.04%) Bash
8 160 (7.00%) C++
9 133 (5.82%) Go
10 101 (4.42%) Shell Script
11 86 (3.76%) Scala
12 84 (3.67%) Perl
13 73 (3.19%) R
14 49 (2.14%) C
15 43 (1.88%) Ruby
16 38 (1.66%) T-SQL
17 28 (1.22%) Rust
17 28 (1.22%) VBA
18 20 (0.87%) Groovy
19 19 (0.83%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 253 (11.06%) Degree
2 241 (10.54%) Security Cleared
3 207 (9.05%) SC Cleared
4 110 (4.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 65 (2.84%) Master's Degree
6 36 (1.57%) AWS Certification
6 36 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
7 34 (1.49%) DV Cleared
8 31 (1.36%) CCNP
8 31 (1.36%) Numerate Degree
9 25 (1.09%) PhD
10 18 (0.79%) Azure Certification
11 17 (0.74%) CCNA
12 14 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 13 (0.57%) CISSP
14 10 (0.44%) ISTQB
15 9 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
16 8 (0.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 7 (0.31%) CCIE
17 7 (0.31%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (6.73%) Data Quality
2 85 (3.72%) QA
3 11 (0.48%) Accessibility
3 11 (0.48%) PCI DSS
4 10 (0.44%) GDPR
4 10 (0.44%) NIST
5 8 (0.35%) SLA
6 7 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.13%) PMO
10 2 (0.087%) MiFID
10 2 (0.087%) NCSC
10 2 (0.087%) WCAG
11 1 (0.044%) Basel II
11 1 (0.044%) Basel III
11 1 (0.044%) GLBA
11 1 (0.044%) Good Clinical Practice
11 1 (0.044%) GxP
11 1 (0.044%) JTAG
System Software
1 279 (12.20%) Docker
2 48 (2.10%) Active Directory
3 30 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.52%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 8 (0.35%) Firmware
6 8 (0.35%) vSphere
7 7 (0.31%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.31%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.26%) KVM
8 6 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.22%) HDFS
9 5 (0.22%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 3 (0.13%) NFS
11 2 (0.087%) Ceph
11 2 (0.087%) iptables
11 2 (0.087%) PowerDNS
11 2 (0.087%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.044%) Embedded Firmware
12 1 (0.044%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 359 (15.70%) Terraform
2 339 (14.82%) Kubernetes
3 197 (8.61%) Ansible
4 90 (3.94%) Grafana
4 90 (3.94%) Prometheus
5 47 (2.06%) Puppet
6 22 (0.96%) ITRS Geneos
7 21 (0.92%) Progress Chef
8 19 (0.83%) Kibana
9 18 (0.79%) Consul
10 17 (0.74%) logstash
11 16 (0.70%) Argo
12 12 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
13 11 (0.48%) Packer
14 9 (0.39%) BladeLogic
14 9 (0.39%) Opsgenie
15 7 (0.31%) ArcSight ESM
15 7 (0.31%) Podman
16 5 (0.22%) Dell DRAC
16 5 (0.22%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 151 (6.60%) Microsoft
2 148 (6.47%) Databricks
3 145 (6.34%) Google
4 114 (4.98%) Oracle
5 67 (2.93%) Splunk
6 51 (2.23%) Cisco
7 42 (1.84%) VMware
8 39 (1.71%) SAP
9 36 (1.57%) Bloomberg
9 36 (1.57%) IBM
9 36 (1.57%) Sybase
10 33 (1.44%) F5
11 29 (1.27%) Dynatrace
11 29 (1.27%) ServiceNow
12 26 (1.14%) Red Hat
13 25 (1.09%) Palo Alto
14 20 (0.87%) Salesforce
15 18 (0.79%) Okta
15 18 (0.79%) Palantir
16 17 (0.74%) Foundry