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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 6 10
Rank change year-on-year -2 +4 0
Contract jobs citing Python 2,306 3,679 5,003
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 13.20% 14.43% 12.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.43% 35.94% 30.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,778 2,739 3,719
10th Percentile £400 £456 £463
25th Percentile £500 £520 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £613
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +2.04% +11.36%
75th Percentile £763 £760 £725
90th Percentile £850 £863 £800
England median daily rate £567 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -5.50% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 17 31
10th Percentile £24.93 £51.25 £32.50
25th Percentile £41.56 £70.00 £36.25
Median hourly rate £50.50 £80.00 £48.58
Median % change year-on-year -36.88% +64.68% +29.55%
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% +37.50%

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 6,509 10,237 16,207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.26% 40.15% 41.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,980 7,695 12,475
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% - +12.15%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £713
90th Percentile £838 £825 £800
England median daily rate £545 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -3.37% +2.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 77 104
10th Percentile £23.80 £25.75 £29.08
25th Percentile £36.91 £48.60 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.50 £60.00 £49.28
Median % change year-on-year -15.83% +21.75% +9.52%
75th Percentile £63.52 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £90.00 £76.65
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +21.39%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -2 285 £600 -7.69% 106
South London +5 43 £525 -4.55% 22
West London -6 28 £525 -10.64% 42
East London -10 12 £600 -17.95% 43
North London 0 1 £550 -4.35% 7
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
1 303 (13.14%) Apache Airflow
2 266 (11.54%) Apache
3 96 (4.16%) Apache Spark
4 41 (1.78%) Confluence
5 28 (1.21%) OpenStack
6 23 (1.00%) SharePoint
7 13 (0.56%) nginx
8 11 (0.48%) Jupyter
9 10 (0.43%) ArcGIS
10 9 (0.39%) SAS
10 9 (0.39%) Site Server
11 8 (0.35%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 7 (0.30%) BizTalk Server
13 5 (0.22%) CMS
13 5 (0.22%) Gunicorn
14 4 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
14 4 (0.17%) Luigi
15 3 (0.13%) IIS
16 2 (0.087%) IBM Domino
16 2 (0.087%) Tomcat
Applications
1 53 (2.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.65%) Chatbot
3 14 (0.61%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.13%) SPSS
8 2 (0.087%) Simulink
9 1 (0.043%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 23 (1.00%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.30%) Distributed Ledger
2 7 (0.30%) Endur
2 7 (0.30%) 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 (0.043%) Magento
7 1 (0.043%) OPENHousing
7 1 (0.043%) Oracle BPM
7 1 (0.043%) R3 Corda
7 1 (0.043%) SAP CX
7 1 (0.043%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.043%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 924 (40.07%) AWS
2 621 (26.93%) Azure
3 370 (16.05%) GCP
4 206 (8.93%) Serverless
5 172 (7.46%) dbt
6 156 (6.76%) Snowflake
7 148 (6.42%) AWS Lambda
8 142 (6.16%) Power Platform
9 133 (5.77%) Amazon S3
10 129 (5.59%) GitHub
11 106 (4.60%) Azure DevOps
12 86 (3.73%) Amazon EC2
13 72 (3.12%) Azure Data Factory
14 52 (2.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 49 (2.12%) GitHub Actions
16 46 (1.99%) PaaS
17 44 (1.91%) Amazon EKS
18 43 (1.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 40 (1.73%) AWS CloudFormation
20 33 (1.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 85 (3.69%) Firewall
2 51 (2.21%) DNS
3 33 (1.43%) DHCP
4 31 (1.34%) TCP/IP
5 28 (1.21%) Network Security
6 24 (1.04%) Internet
7 23 (1.00%) BGP
8 21 (0.91%) MPLS
8 21 (0.91%) VLAN
9 20 (0.87%) Cisco Nexus
10 18 (0.78%) 5G
10 18 (0.78%) LAN
11 17 (0.74%) VPN
12 16 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
13 15 (0.65%) Wireless
14 13 (0.56%) HTTP
14 13 (0.56%) Kerberos
15 11 (0.48%) WAN
16 10 (0.43%) IPv4
16 10 (0.43%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 205 (8.89%) Data Lake
2 197 (8.54%) Apache Ignite
3 169 (7.33%) Amazon Athena
4 159 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
5 153 (6.63%) Big Data
6 150 (6.50%) Dremio
7 148 (6.42%) Apache Arrow
8 139 (6.03%) Power BI
9 128 (5.55%) Data Warehouse
10 115 (4.99%) NoSQL
11 101 (4.38%) Tableau
12 96 (4.16%) SQL Server
13 69 (2.99%) Amazon Redshift
14 66 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
14 66 (2.86%) Relational Database
15 59 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
16 54 (2.34%) BigQuery
17 49 (2.12%) MongoDB
18 40 (1.73%) MySQL
19 37 (1.60%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 251 (10.88%) Git
2 207 (8.98%) Jenkins
3 107 (4.64%) JIRA
4 76 (3.30%) GitLab
5 68 (2.95%) Cypress.io
6 31 (1.34%) TeamCity
7 27 (1.17%) JMeter
8 25 (1.08%) Artifactory
9 24 (1.04%) Bitbucket
9 24 (1.04%) Selenium
10 23 (1.00%) Postman
11 18 (0.78%) Cucumber
12 14 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
13 13 (0.56%) JUnit
14 12 (0.52%) Burp Suite
14 12 (0.52%) Subversion
15 11 (0.48%) MLflow
15 11 (0.48%) Visual Studio
16 10 (0.43%) CircleCI
17 9 (0.39%) TestRail
General
1 822 (35.65%) Finance
2 455 (19.73%) Banking
3 429 (18.60%) Front Office
4 414 (17.95%) Social Skills
5 235 (10.19%) Analytical Skills
6 216 (9.37%) Investment Banking
7 101 (4.38%) Public Sector
8 51 (2.21%) Retail
9 45 (1.95%) Back Office
10 38 (1.65%) Marketing
11 26 (1.13%) Financial Institution
11 26 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 25 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
13 17 (0.74%) Telecoms
14 14 (0.61%) Advertising
15 13 (0.56%) Retail Banking
16 11 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
17 9 (0.39%) Law
17 9 (0.39%) Pharmaceutical
18 8 (0.35%) Legal
Job Titles
1 622 (26.97%) Developer
2 332 (14.40%) Senior
3 324 (14.05%) Python Developer
4 271 (11.75%) Data Engineer
5 239 (10.36%) Software Engineer
6 237 (10.28%) Python Engineer
7 227 (9.84%) Analyst
8 170 (7.37%) AWS Engineer
9 161 (6.98%) Architect
10 160 (6.94%) Lead
11 145 (6.29%) DevOps Engineer
12 143 (6.20%) Python Software Engineer
13 132 (5.72%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 101 (4.38%) React Developer
15 94 (4.08%) Azure Engineer
16 91 (3.95%) Software Developer
17 88 (3.82%) Data Analyst
18 83 (3.60%) Data Scientist
19 75 (3.25%) Full Stack Developer
20 69 (2.99%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 230 (9.97%) gRPC
2 223 (9.67%) Protocol Buffers
3 216 (9.37%) Pandas
4 199 (8.63%) React
5 190 (8.24%) NumPy
6 152 (6.59%) SciPy
7 145 (6.29%) Kafka
8 130 (5.64%) PySpark
9 98 (4.25%) HTML
10 95 (4.12%) Redux
11 90 (3.90%) REST
12 82 (3.56%) Node.js
13 79 (3.43%) Material-UI
14 72 (3.12%) .NET
15 68 (2.95%) CSS
16 62 (2.69%) RESTful
17 59 (2.56%) JSON
18 49 (2.12%) TensorFlow
19 45 (1.95%) Elastic Stack
20 43 (1.86%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 308 (13.36%) Hedge funds
2 284 (12.32%) Fixed Income
3 269 (11.67%) Derivative
4 219 (9.50%) Equities
5 187 (8.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 110 (4.77%) Algorithms
7 83 (3.60%) Distributed Systems
8 74 (3.21%) Product Ownership
9 54 (2.34%) Data Protection Act
10 49 (2.12%) Data Structures
11 44 (1.91%) Cloud Native
12 40 (1.73%) Management Information System
13 33 (1.43%) Clustering
14 32 (1.39%) Onboarding
15 31 (1.34%) Linux Command Line
16 27 (1.17%) Public Cloud
17 24 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
18 23 (1.00%) Data Centre
18 23 (1.00%) Replication
19 22 (0.95%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 269 (11.67%) Linux
2 137 (5.94%) Windows
3 132 (5.72%) Unix
4 45 (1.95%) Windows Server
5 40 (1.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 17 (0.74%) CentOS
7 12 (0.52%) Android
7 12 (0.52%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
9 6 (0.26%) Solaris
10 4 (0.17%) Kali Linux
10 4 (0.17%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.13%) VMS
11 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.043%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.043%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 668 (28.97%) Agile
2 530 (22.98%) DevOps
3 468 (20.29%) CI/CD
4 459 (19.90%) Software Engineering
5 343 (14.87%) Asset Management
6 322 (13.96%) Analytics
7 288 (12.49%) Problem-Solving
8 287 (12.45%) Investment Management
9 278 (12.06%) Machine Learning
10 241 (10.45%) Artificial Intelligence
11 225 (9.76%) ETL
12 223 (9.67%) Data Pipeline
13 206 (8.93%) Data Science
14 198 (8.59%) Computer Science
15 186 (8.07%) Data Modelling
16 185 (8.02%) Test Automation
17 183 (7.94%) Infrastructure as Code
18 172 (7.46%) Business Intelligence
19 167 (7.24%) Full Stack Development
20 148 (6.42%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 817 (35.43%) SQL
2 553 (23.98%) Java
3 374 (16.22%) JavaScript
4 260 (11.27%) TypeScript
5 196 (8.50%) PowerShell
6 193 (8.37%) C#
7 160 (6.94%) Bash
8 156 (6.76%) C++
9 131 (5.68%) Go
10 101 (4.38%) Shell Script
11 88 (3.82%) R
11 88 (3.82%) Scala
12 85 (3.69%) Perl
13 47 (2.04%) C
14 43 (1.86%) Ruby
15 38 (1.65%) T-SQL
16 30 (1.30%) Rust
17 27 (1.17%) VBA
18 19 (0.82%) Groovy
18 19 (0.82%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 251 (10.88%) Degree
2 243 (10.54%) Security Cleared
3 206 (8.93%) SC Cleared
4 109 (4.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 63 (2.73%) Master's Degree
6 36 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
7 35 (1.52%) AWS Certification
7 35 (1.52%) DV Cleared
8 31 (1.34%) CCNP
9 30 (1.30%) Numerate Degree
10 26 (1.13%) PhD
11 17 (0.74%) Azure Certification
11 17 (0.74%) CCNA
12 14 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 13 (0.56%) CISSP
14 12 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
15 10 (0.43%) ISTQB
16 7 (0.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 7 (0.30%) CCIE
16 7 (0.30%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (6.68%) Data Quality
2 84 (3.64%) QA
3 10 (0.43%) Accessibility
3 10 (0.43%) GDPR
3 10 (0.43%) PCI DSS
4 9 (0.39%) NIST
5 8 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (0.35%) SLA
6 7 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.13%) PMO
9 2 (0.087%) MiFID
9 2 (0.087%) NCSC
9 2 (0.087%) WCAG
10 1 (0.043%) Basel II
10 1 (0.043%) Basel III
10 1 (0.043%) COPPA
10 1 (0.043%) Good Clinical Practice
10 1 (0.043%) GxP
10 1 (0.043%) JTAG
System Software
1 280 (12.14%) Docker
2 45 (1.95%) Active Directory
3 31 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.48%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 8 (0.35%) Firmware
6 8 (0.35%) vSphere
7 7 (0.30%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.30%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.26%) KVM
8 6 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.22%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 4 (0.17%) HDFS
11 3 (0.13%) NFS
12 2 (0.087%) Ceph
12 2 (0.087%) iptables
12 2 (0.087%) PowerDNS
12 2 (0.087%) Virtual Desktop
13 1 (0.043%) Embedded Firmware
13 1 (0.043%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 355 (15.39%) Terraform
2 341 (14.79%) Kubernetes
3 200 (8.67%) Ansible
4 89 (3.86%) Prometheus
5 88 (3.82%) Grafana
6 47 (2.04%) Puppet
7 22 (0.95%) ITRS Geneos
7 22 (0.95%) Progress Chef
8 21 (0.91%) Kibana
9 18 (0.78%) logstash
10 17 (0.74%) Consul
11 16 (0.69%) Argo
12 12 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
13 9 (0.39%) BladeLogic
13 9 (0.39%) Opsgenie
13 9 (0.39%) Packer
14 7 (0.30%) ArcSight ESM
14 7 (0.30%) Podman
15 6 (0.26%) EMC NetWorker
15 6 (0.26%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 154 (6.68%) Microsoft
2 146 (6.33%) Databricks
3 143 (6.20%) Google
4 113 (4.90%) Oracle
5 69 (2.99%) Splunk
6 54 (2.34%) Cisco
7 45 (1.95%) VMware
8 40 (1.73%) SAP
9 36 (1.56%) Bloomberg
9 36 (1.56%) IBM
10 35 (1.52%) F5
10 35 (1.52%) Sybase
11 30 (1.30%) ServiceNow
12 29 (1.26%) Dynatrace
13 27 (1.17%) Red Hat
14 25 (1.08%) Palo Alto
15 19 (0.82%) Salesforce
16 18 (0.78%) Adobe
16 18 (0.78%) ESRI
16 18 (0.78%) Palantir