Python Contracts in the City of Westminster

Python
Central London > City of Westminster

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of Westminster 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 11 10
Rank change year-on-year +7 -1 -5
Contract jobs citing Python 9 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 20.45% 5.26% 3.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.14% 20.00% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 1
10th Percentile £550 - -
25th Percentile £600 £750 £719
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £738
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +8.47% -1.67%
75th Percentile £900 £850 £756
90th Percentile £1,090 - -
Central London median daily rate £600 £638 £600
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% +9.09%

All Programming Languages
City of Westminster

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 the City of Westminster with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 28 10 4
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 63.64% 26.32% 12.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 10 3
10th Percentile £453 £396 £667
25th Percentile £491 £472 £684
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £625 £723
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -13.49% +22.98%
75th Percentile £825 £850 £745
90th Percentile £1,069 £853 £752
Central London median daily rate £563 £617 £600
% change year-on-year -8.86% +2.86% +9.09%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster.

Job vacancy trend for Python in the City of Westminster

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

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

Daily rate trend for Python in the City of Westminster

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of Westminster

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

Daily rate histogram for Python in the City of Westminster

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Contract Job Locations in the City of Westminster

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the City of Westminster region over the 6 months to 6 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
Mayfair +2 7 £750 -6.25%
Paddington - 2 £550 -
Python
Central London

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of Westminster 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 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) AWS
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
1 2 (22.22%) GitHub
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
2 1 (11.11%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Big Data
2 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
2 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
General
1 4 (44.44%) Front Office
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Python Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Apache Spark Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Applications Support
4 1 (11.11%) Applications Support Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Big Data Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Business Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) ETL Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Front Office Business Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Python Data Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Python Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Quantitative Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Scala Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Business Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Technology Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Technology Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Pandas
2 1 (11.11%) Kafka
2 1 (11.11%) NumPy
2 1 (11.11%) PySpark
2 1 (11.11%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 7 (77.78%) Hedge funds
2 4 (44.44%) Fixed Income
2 4 (44.44%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 3 (33.33%) DevOps
1 3 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
1 3 (33.33%) Systematic Trading
2 2 (22.22%) Backtesting
2 2 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (22.22%) ETL
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (22.22%) Task Automation
2 2 (22.22%) Visualisation
3 1 (11.11%) Asset Management
3 1 (11.11%) Data Development
3 1 (11.11%) Data Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) Microservices
3 1 (11.11%) Order Management
3 1 (11.11%) Release Management
3 1 (11.11%) Re-Platforming
3 1 (11.11%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) Scala
3 1 (11.11%) Java
3 1 (11.11%) Kotlin
3 1 (11.11%) VBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) MiFID
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform