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

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 6 10
Rank change year-on-year -2 +4 0
Contract jobs citing Python 2,294 3,678 4,966
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 13.12% 14.46% 12.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.25% 36.02% 30.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,772 2,740 3,692
10th Percentile £400 £454 £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 £751 £725
90th Percentile £850 £863 £800
England median daily rate £566 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -5.71% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 16 30
10th Percentile £24.60 £51.25 £32.35
25th Percentile £41.25 £68.75 £36.25
Median hourly rate £50.50 £81.25 £49.88
Median % change year-on-year -37.85% +62.91% +33.00%
75th Percentile £71.88 £90.00 £61.13
90th Percentile £75.00 - £70.31
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +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 6,508 10,210 16,083
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.23% 40.13% 41.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,974 7,676 12,384
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% - +11.63%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £713
90th Percentile £838 £825 £800
England median daily rate £545 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -3.48% +2.66% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 76 102
10th Percentile £23.80 £25.75 £31.03
25th Percentile £36.91 £43.94 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.50 £60.00 £49.99
Median % change year-on-year -15.83% +20.02% +11.09%
75th Percentile £62.50 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £90.00 £76.88
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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -2 283 £600 -7.69% 105
South London +4 42 £525 -4.55% 22
West London -7 28 £525 -10.64% 42
East London -11 11 £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
1 299 (13.03%) Apache Airflow
2 262 (11.42%) Apache
3 96 (4.18%) Apache Spark
4 40 (1.74%) Confluence
5 26 (1.13%) OpenStack
6 22 (0.96%) SharePoint
7 13 (0.57%) nginx
8 11 (0.48%) Jupyter
9 10 (0.44%) ArcGIS
10 9 (0.39%) SAS
11 8 (0.35%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 8 (0.35%) Site Server
12 7 (0.31%) BizTalk Server
13 5 (0.22%) CMS
13 5 (0.22%) Gunicorn
14 4 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
14 4 (0.17%) IIS
14 4 (0.17%) Luigi
15 2 (0.087%) IBM Domino
15 2 (0.087%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 53 (2.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.65%) 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 (1.00%) 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%) Aareon QL
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
1 916 (39.93%) AWS
2 617 (26.90%) Azure
3 364 (15.87%) GCP
4 205 (8.94%) Serverless
5 169 (7.37%) dbt
6 156 (6.80%) Snowflake
7 148 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
8 143 (6.23%) Power Platform
9 134 (5.84%) Amazon S3
10 129 (5.62%) GitHub
11 105 (4.58%) Azure DevOps
12 88 (3.84%) Amazon EC2
13 73 (3.18%) Azure Data Factory
14 53 (2.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 49 (2.14%) GitHub Actions
16 44 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
16 44 (1.92%) PaaS
17 43 (1.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 40 (1.74%) AWS CloudFormation
19 33 (1.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 84 (3.66%) Firewall
2 50 (2.18%) DNS
3 32 (1.39%) DHCP
4 28 (1.22%) Network Security
4 28 (1.22%) TCP/IP
5 23 (1.00%) Internet
6 22 (0.96%) BGP
7 20 (0.87%) MPLS
7 20 (0.87%) VLAN
8 19 (0.83%) Cisco Nexus
9 18 (0.78%) 5G
9 18 (0.78%) LAN
10 17 (0.74%) VPN
11 15 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
11 15 (0.65%) Wireless
12 13 (0.57%) HTTP
12 13 (0.57%) Kerberos
13 11 (0.48%) WAN
14 10 (0.44%) IPv4
15 9 (0.39%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 205 (8.94%) Data Lake
2 194 (8.46%) Apache Ignite
3 166 (7.24%) Amazon Athena
4 156 (6.80%) PostgreSQL
5 151 (6.58%) Big Data
6 147 (6.41%) Dremio
7 145 (6.32%) Apache Arrow
8 140 (6.10%) Power BI
9 128 (5.58%) Data Warehouse
10 115 (5.01%) NoSQL
11 102 (4.45%) Tableau
12 96 (4.18%) SQL Server
13 70 (3.05%) Amazon Redshift
14 66 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
14 66 (2.88%) Relational Database
15 59 (2.57%) Azure SQL Database
16 53 (2.31%) BigQuery
17 50 (2.18%) MongoDB
18 41 (1.79%) MySQL
19 37 (1.61%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 248 (10.81%) Git
2 205 (8.94%) Jenkins
3 106 (4.62%) JIRA
4 75 (3.27%) GitLab
5 68 (2.96%) Cypress.io
6 30 (1.31%) TeamCity
7 27 (1.18%) JMeter
8 25 (1.09%) Artifactory
9 24 (1.05%) Bitbucket
9 24 (1.05%) Selenium
10 23 (1.00%) Postman
11 18 (0.78%) Cucumber
12 13 (0.57%) JUnit
12 13 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
13 12 (0.52%) Burp Suite
13 12 (0.52%) Subversion
14 11 (0.48%) MLflow
14 11 (0.48%) Visual Studio
15 10 (0.44%) CircleCI
16 9 (0.39%) TestRail
General
1 819 (35.70%) Finance
2 451 (19.66%) Banking
3 425 (18.53%) Front Office
4 415 (18.09%) Social Skills
5 234 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
6 213 (9.29%) Investment Banking
7 99 (4.32%) Public Sector
8 51 (2.22%) Retail
9 45 (1.96%) Back Office
10 38 (1.66%) Marketing
11 26 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 24 (1.05%) Financial Institution
12 24 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
13 16 (0.70%) Telecoms
14 14 (0.61%) Advertising
15 13 (0.57%) Retail Banking
16 10 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
17 9 (0.39%) Law
17 9 (0.39%) Pharmaceutical
18 8 (0.35%) Legal
Job Titles
1 619 (26.98%) Developer
2 331 (14.43%) Senior
3 323 (14.08%) Python Developer
4 265 (11.55%) Data Engineer
5 236 (10.29%) Software Engineer
6 235 (10.24%) Python Engineer
7 225 (9.81%) Analyst
8 167 (7.28%) AWS Engineer
9 160 (6.97%) Architect
10 158 (6.89%) Lead
11 144 (6.28%) DevOps Engineer
12 142 (6.19%) Python Software Engineer
13 129 (5.62%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 101 (4.40%) React Developer
15 95 (4.14%) Azure Engineer
16 89 (3.88%) Software Developer
17 87 (3.79%) Data Analyst
18 83 (3.62%) Data Scientist
19 75 (3.27%) Full Stack Developer
20 69 (3.01%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 227 (9.90%) gRPC
2 220 (9.59%) Protocol Buffers
3 213 (9.29%) Pandas
4 199 (8.67%) React
5 187 (8.15%) NumPy
6 149 (6.50%) SciPy
7 146 (6.36%) Kafka
8 130 (5.67%) PySpark
9 98 (4.27%) HTML
10 95 (4.14%) Redux
11 90 (3.92%) REST
12 82 (3.57%) Node.js
13 79 (3.44%) Material-UI
14 72 (3.14%) .NET
15 68 (2.96%) CSS
16 62 (2.70%) RESTful
17 59 (2.57%) JSON
18 48 (2.09%) TensorFlow
19 44 (1.92%) Django
20 43 (1.87%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 308 (13.43%) Hedge funds
2 284 (12.38%) Fixed Income
3 269 (11.73%) Derivative
4 218 (9.50%) Equities
5 187 (8.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 109 (4.75%) Algorithms
7 84 (3.66%) Distributed Systems
8 74 (3.23%) Product Ownership
9 55 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
10 49 (2.14%) Data Structures
11 44 (1.92%) Cloud Native
12 40 (1.74%) Management Information System
13 33 (1.44%) Onboarding
14 32 (1.39%) Clustering
15 31 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
16 26 (1.13%) Public Cloud
17 24 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
18 22 (0.96%) Data Centre
18 22 (0.96%) Distributed Computing
18 22 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 263 (11.46%) Linux
2 135 (5.88%) Windows
3 131 (5.71%) Unix
4 43 (1.87%) Windows Server
5 38 (1.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 15 (0.65%) 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
1 663 (28.90%) Agile
2 528 (23.02%) DevOps
3 463 (20.18%) CI/CD
4 458 (19.97%) Software Engineering
5 340 (14.82%) Asset Management
6 318 (13.86%) Analytics
7 287 (12.51%) Investment Management
8 286 (12.47%) Problem-Solving
9 275 (11.99%) Machine Learning
10 239 (10.42%) Artificial Intelligence
11 221 (9.63%) ETL
12 220 (9.59%) Data Pipeline
13 208 (9.07%) Data Science
14 194 (8.46%) Computer Science
15 184 (8.02%) Test Automation
16 183 (7.98%) Data Modelling
17 182 (7.93%) Infrastructure as Code
18 174 (7.59%) Business Intelligence
19 166 (7.24%) Full Stack Development
20 147 (6.41%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 809 (35.27%) SQL
2 545 (23.76%) Java
3 372 (16.22%) JavaScript
4 258 (11.25%) TypeScript
5 194 (8.46%) PowerShell
6 189 (8.24%) C#
7 157 (6.84%) Bash
7 157 (6.84%) C++
8 130 (5.67%) Go
9 101 (4.40%) Shell Script
10 87 (3.79%) R
10 87 (3.79%) Scala
11 84 (3.66%) Perl
12 48 (2.09%) C
13 42 (1.83%) Ruby
14 38 (1.66%) T-SQL
15 28 (1.22%) Rust
16 27 (1.18%) VBA
17 19 (0.83%) Groovy
17 19 (0.83%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 249 (10.85%) Degree
2 240 (10.46%) Security Cleared
3 203 (8.85%) SC Cleared
4 108 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 63 (2.75%) Master's Degree
6 36 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
7 35 (1.53%) AWS Certification
8 34 (1.48%) DV Cleared
9 31 (1.35%) CCNP
10 30 (1.31%) Numerate Degree
11 25 (1.09%) PhD
12 17 (0.74%) Azure Certification
12 17 (0.74%) CCNA
13 14 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 13 (0.57%) CISSP
15 12 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
16 10 (0.44%) ISTQB
17 7 (0.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 7 (0.31%) CCIE
17 7 (0.31%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (6.71%) Data Quality
2 85 (3.71%) QA
3 11 (0.48%) PCI DSS
4 10 (0.44%) Accessibility
4 10 (0.44%) GDPR
4 10 (0.44%) NIST
5 9 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (0.35%) SLA
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
1 278 (12.12%) Docker
2 46 (2.01%) Active Directory
3 30 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.48%) 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%) 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 (0.044%) Embedded Firmware
13 1 (0.044%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 358 (15.61%) Terraform
2 338 (14.73%) Kubernetes
3 196 (8.54%) Ansible
4 87 (3.79%) Grafana
4 87 (3.79%) Prometheus
5 47 (2.05%) Puppet
6 22 (0.96%) ITRS Geneos
6 22 (0.96%) Progress Chef
7 19 (0.83%) Kibana
8 17 (0.74%) Consul
8 17 (0.74%) logstash
9 16 (0.70%) Argo
10 12 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
11 10 (0.44%) Packer
12 9 (0.39%) BladeLogic
12 9 (0.39%) Opsgenie
13 7 (0.31%) ArcSight ESM
13 7 (0.31%) Podman
14 6 (0.26%) Kubeflow
15 5 (0.22%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 152 (6.63%) Microsoft
2 146 (6.36%) Databricks
3 142 (6.19%) Google
4 112 (4.88%) Oracle
5 68 (2.96%) Splunk
6 52 (2.27%) Cisco
7 42 (1.83%) VMware
8 40 (1.74%) SAP
9 36 (1.57%) Bloomberg
9 36 (1.57%) Sybase
10 35 (1.53%) IBM
11 34 (1.48%) F5
12 29 (1.26%) Dynatrace
12 29 (1.26%) ServiceNow
13 26 (1.13%) Red Hat
14 25 (1.09%) Palo Alto
15 19 (0.83%) Salesforce
16 18 (0.78%) Adobe
16 18 (0.78%) Okta
16 18 (0.78%) Palantir