The first table below looks at the demand for Python skills in IT contracts advertised for the Docklands, London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Python over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the Docklands, London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Python
Rank 28 24 25
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +1
Contract jobs citing Python 3 8 38
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Docklands, London 1.744% 3.704% 6.463%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.615% 11.94% 13.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 20
Average daily rate £475 £475 £625
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -24.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £318 £300
% change year-on-year
-0.78% +5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £36.50 £34.50
% change year-on-year
+9.58% +5.79%
All Programming Languages
Docklands, London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
65 67 286
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Docklands, London 37.79% 31.02% 48.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 38 126
Average daily rate £450 £488 £506
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -3.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £236 £355 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £503 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
Average hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% +6.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
Python
London

Python
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Python across the Docklands, London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Docklands, London Python Jobs Demand Trend

Python
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Python across the Docklands, London region.

Docklands, London Python Daily Rate Trend

Python
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, London region citing Python also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Python.

1 5 (100.00%) Banking
2 4 (80.00%) Investment Banking
3 3 (60.00%) Finance
4 2 (40.00%) Front Office
4 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
4 2 (40.00%) Perl
4 2 (40.00%) UNIX
4 2 (40.00%) Windows
4 2 (40.00%) Solaris
4 2 (40.00%) Linux
4 2 (40.00%) LDAP
4 2 (40.00%) NFS
4 2 (40.00%) DNS
4 2 (40.00%) SAN
4 2 (40.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (40.00%) Red Hat
4 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
4 2 (40.00%) SUSE
4 2 (40.00%) Grid Computing
4 2 (40.00%) Equities
4 2 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (40.00%) Ruby
4 2 (40.00%) Derivative
4 2 (40.00%) Degree
4 2 (40.00%) Mathematics
4 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
4 2 (40.00%) Multithreading
4 2 (40.00%) System Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 1 (20.00%) Silverlight

Python
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, London region citing Python also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Python. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (20.00%) Silverlight
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
1 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) LDAP
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) SAN
General
1 5 (100.00%) Banking
2 4 (80.00%) Investment Banking
3 3 (60.00%) Finance
4 2 (40.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Front Office Developer
2 2 (40.00%) UNIX Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Silverlight Developer
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (40.00%) Grid Computing
1 2 (40.00%) Equities
1 2 (40.00%) Derivative
1 2 (40.00%) Mathematics
1 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) UNIX
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Solaris
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (40.00%) Multithreading
1 2 (40.00%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Perl
1 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
1 2 (40.00%) Ruby
2 1 (20.00%) C
2 1 (20.00%) C++
2 1 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) NFS
1 2 (40.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Sybase