Python Developer Contracts in the City of London

Python Developer
Central London > City of London

The median Python Developer daily rate in the City of London is £775 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 101 106 124
Rank change year-on-year +5 +18 -19
Contract jobs requiring a Python Developer 27 62 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.24% 1.75% 1.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.30% 1.84% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 46 44
10th Percentile £455 £465 £516
25th Percentile £463 £588 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £684 £675
Median % change year-on-year +13.35% +1.30% +17.39%
75th Percentile £838 £825 £713
90th Percentile £875 £875 £828
Central London median daily rate £800 £696 £675
% change year-on-year +14.90% +3.15% +17.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
Central London median hourly rate - £80.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the City of London. 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 City of London with a recognized job title 2,070 3,363 4,023
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.00% 94.97% 94.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,459 2,286 3,033
10th Percentile £350 £361 £363
25th Percentile £443 £475 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £568
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.73% +8.10%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £688
90th Percentile £790 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £560
% change year-on-year -8.33% +7.14% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 23 56
10th Percentile £15.62 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £19.46
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -2.78% +105.71%
75th Percentile £28.44 £58.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £40.00 £87.64 £64.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.41 £35.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year -24.56% -5.41% +108.60%

Python Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings that featured Python Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Python Developer in the City of London

Python Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python Developer in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Python Developer in the City of London

Python Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python Developer in the City of London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python Developer in the City of London

Python Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, Python Developer 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 across the City of London region featuring Python Developer in the job title.

1 27 (100.00%) Python
2 16 (59.26%) SQL
3 8 (29.63%) Finance
3 8 (29.63%) Banking
3 8 (29.63%) Market Risk
4 7 (25.93%) AWS
5 6 (22.22%) Azure
5 6 (22.22%) Data Analysis
5 6 (22.22%) Agile
5 6 (22.22%) SQL Server
5 6 (22.22%) SDLC
6 5 (18.52%) DevOps
6 5 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (18.52%) Visualisation
6 5 (18.52%) Investment Banking
7 4 (14.81%) Software Engineering
7 4 (14.81%) Retail Banking
7 4 (14.81%) User Acceptance Testing
7 4 (14.81%) Django
7 4 (14.81%) RESTful
7 4 (14.81%) C#
7 4 (14.81%) End-to-End Testing
7 4 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (14.81%) Analytics
7 4 (14.81%) Docker
8 3 (11.11%) Kafka
8 3 (11.11%) GitHub
8 3 (11.11%) DynamoDB
8 3 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (11.11%) REST

Python Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 1 (3.70%) Gunicorn
Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (25.93%) AWS
2 6 (22.22%) Azure
3 3 (11.11%) Amazon ECR
3 3 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (11.11%) GitHub
3 3 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (7.41%) GCP
4 2 (7.41%) Power Platform
4 2 (7.41%) Serverless
5 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 3 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (11.11%) DynamoDB
2 3 (11.11%) NoSQL
3 2 (7.41%) Big Data
3 2 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (7.41%) Metadata
3 2 (7.41%) Power BI
3 2 (7.41%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) CircleCI
1 3 (11.11%) Git
1 3 (11.11%) Mercurial
General
1 8 (29.63%) Banking
1 8 (29.63%) Finance
2 5 (18.52%) Investment Banking
3 4 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (14.81%) Retail Banking
4 3 (11.11%) Front Office
5 1 (3.70%) Social Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.81%) Django
1 4 (14.81%) RESTful
2 3 (11.11%) Kafka
2 3 (11.11%) pytest
2 3 (11.11%) REST
2 3 (11.11%) Web Services
3 2 (7.41%) Flask
3 2 (7.41%) Matplotlib
3 2 (7.41%) NumPy
3 2 (7.41%) Pandas
4 1 (3.70%) CSS
4 1 (3.70%) FastAPI
4 1 (3.70%) HTML
4 1 (3.70%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 8 (29.63%) Market Risk
2 2 (7.41%) Algorithms
2 2 (7.41%) Data Structures
2 2 (7.41%) Derivative
2 2 (7.41%) Equities
3 1 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (22.22%) Agile
1 6 (22.22%) Data Analysis
1 6 (22.22%) SDLC
2 5 (18.52%) DevOps
2 5 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (18.52%) Visualisation
3 4 (14.81%) Analytics
3 4 (14.81%) End-to-End Testing
3 4 (14.81%) Software Engineering
3 4 (14.81%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (11.11%) Code Quality
4 3 (11.11%) Computer Science
4 3 (11.11%) Microservices
4 3 (11.11%) Open Source
4 3 (11.11%) TDD
4 3 (11.11%) Test Automation
4 3 (11.11%) Unit Testing
5 2 (7.41%) OO
5 2 (7.41%) OOP
5 2 (7.41%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (100.00%) Python
2 16 (59.26%) SQL
3 4 (14.81%) C#
4 2 (7.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (7.41%) Java
4 2 (7.41%) VBA
5 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.70%) Jython
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) Degree
1 2 (7.41%) Master's Degree
2 1 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) QA
System Software
1 4 (14.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (11.11%) Kubernetes