The first table below looks at the demand for the Python Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Python Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 Job Titles advertised for the England 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Python Developer
Rank 407 428 415
Rank change year-on-year
+21 -13
Contract jobs requiring a Python Developer 106 131 160
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.255% 0.246% 0.285%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.276% 0.265% 0.307%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 106 110
Average daily rate £500 £417 £600
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+19.90% -30.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £295 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £313 £400
% change year-on-year
-0.80% -21.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Average hourly rate £50.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £50.00 £20.00 -
% change year-on-year
+150.00% -
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
38421 49352 52077
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.41% 92.53% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22588 27902 28893
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £246 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1983 2412 2765
Average hourly rate £19.00 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.70% -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.21 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.86 £40.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Python Developer
UK

Python Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Python Developer across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

England Python Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Python Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Python Developer Daily Rate Trend

Python Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Python Developer across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England Python Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Python Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Python Developer across the England region.

England Python Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Python Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python Developer within the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London +24 93 £500 -
East of England +22 5 £310 -4.61%
South East +8 5 £450 +44.00%
Yorkshire +3 2 £275 -
West Midlands +7 1 - -
Python Developer
UK

Python Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Python Developer in their job title 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 with Python Developer in their job title.

1 165 (100.00%) Python
2 58 (35.15%) Django
3 50 (30.30%) Finance
4 49 (29.70%) Java
5 38 (23.03%) SQL
6 37 (22.42%) JavaScript
7 36 (21.82%) C++
8 32 (19.39%) Banking
9 29 (17.58%) Linux
10 28 (16.97%) Agile Software Development
11 25 (15.15%) CSS
12 24 (14.55%) OO
13 22 (13.33%) Front Office
14 21 (12.73%) Investment Banking
14 21 (12.73%) Web Services
14 21 (12.73%) HTML
14 21 (12.73%) MySQL
15 20 (12.12%) Degree
15 20 (12.12%) MongoDB
16 18 (10.91%) C#
17 17 (10.30%) UNIX
17 17 (10.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 16 (9.697%) PHP
18 16 (9.697%) TDD
19 15 (9.091%) PostgreSQL
19 15 (9.091%) XML
20 14 (8.485%) Oracle
20 14 (8.485%) Scrum
20 14 (8.485%) Credit Risk
21 13 (7.879%) HTTP

Python Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Python Developer in their job title 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 with Python Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 58 (35.15%) Django
2 25 (15.15%) CSS
3 21 (12.73%) Web Services
3 21 (12.73%) HTML
4 15 (9.091%) XML
5 11 (6.667%) HTML5
5 11 (6.667%) jQuery
5 11 (6.667%) XSLT
6 8 (4.848%) RESTful
7 7 (4.242%) STL
7 7 (4.242%) J2EE
8 6 (3.636%) XHTML
9 5 (3.030%) SOAP
10 4 (2.424%) CSS3
10 4 (2.424%) WSDL
11 3 (1.818%) Spring
11 3 (1.818%) Hibernate
11 3 (1.818%) LAMP
11 3 (1.818%) Middleware
12 2 (1.212%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 12 (7.273%) Amazon AWS
2 10 (6.061%) Apache
3 9 (5.455%) nginx
4 5 (3.030%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (2.424%) Amazon S3
6 3 (1.818%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (1.818%) Google App Engine
7 2 (1.212%) Gunicorn
7 2 (1.212%) Magento
7 2 (1.212%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.606%) CMS
8 1 (0.606%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.606%) Route 53
8 1 (0.606%) Oracle Coherence
Business Applications
1 5 (3.030%) Front Arena
2 2 (1.212%) SunGard GMI
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.879%) HTTP
2 4 (2.424%) FTP
2 4 (2.424%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.818%) Internet
4 1 (0.606%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.606%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (12.73%) MySQL
2 20 (12.12%) MongoDB
3 15 (9.091%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (4.242%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.212%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.212%) Redis
5 2 (1.212%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.606%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.606%) Big Data
6 1 (0.606%) CouchDB
6 1 (0.606%) SimpleDB
6 1 (0.606%) Amazon DynamoDB
6 1 (0.606%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.606%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 6 (3.636%) Git (software)
2 4 (2.424%) Eclipse
2 4 (2.424%) Subversion
3 2 (1.212%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.212%) Hudson
3 2 (1.212%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.212%) Ant
4 1 (0.606%) WebDriver
4 1 (0.606%) Selenium
4 1 (0.606%) JIRA
General
1 50 (30.30%) Finance
2 32 (19.39%) Banking
3 22 (13.33%) Front Office
4 21 (12.73%) Investment Banking
5 8 (4.848%) Retail
6 6 (3.636%) Music
7 5 (3.030%) Marketing
7 5 (3.030%) Legal
7 5 (3.030%) Advertising
8 4 (2.424%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.818%) Back Office
10 2 (1.212%) Publishing
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 14 (8.485%) Credit Risk
3 12 (7.273%) Grid Computing
3 12 (7.273%) Derivative
4 8 (4.848%) Open Source
5 7 (4.242%) Hedge funds
5 7 (4.242%) Computer Science
6 6 (3.636%) Mathematics
7 5 (3.030%) Mobile App
8 4 (2.424%) Equities
9 3 (1.818%) Equity Derivative
9 3 (1.818%) Handset
10 2 (1.212%) Client/Server
10 2 (1.212%) Fixed Income
11 1 (0.606%) Streaming Media
11 1 (0.606%) Economics
11 1 (0.606%) Social Network
11 1 (0.606%) Physics
11 1 (0.606%) Market Risk
11 1 (0.606%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 29 (17.58%) Linux
2 17 (10.30%) UNIX
3 10 (6.061%) Windows
4 4 (2.424%) Windows 7
4 4 (2.424%) Windows XP
4 4 (2.424%) Debian
5 1 (0.606%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.606%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (16.97%) Agile Software Development
2 24 (14.55%) OO
3 16 (9.697%) TDD
4 14 (8.485%) Scrum
5 11 (6.667%) Continuous Integration
6 9 (5.455%) Risk Management
6 9 (5.455%) Automated Testing
7 8 (4.848%) Multithreading
7 8 (4.848%) MVC
7 8 (4.848%) Risk Assessment
8 7 (4.242%) SOA
8 7 (4.242%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (4.242%) BDD
9 6 (3.636%) Test Scripting
10 5 (3.030%) Asset Management
10 5 (3.030%) Software Engineering
10 5 (3.030%) Workflow
10 5 (3.030%) System Testing
10 5 (3.030%) Web Development
11 4 (2.424%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 165 (100.00%) Python
2 49 (29.70%) Java
3 38 (23.03%) SQL
4 37 (22.42%) JavaScript
5 36 (21.82%) C++
6 18 (10.91%) C#
7 16 (9.697%) PHP
8 6 (3.636%) Erlang
8 6 (3.636%) Perl
9 5 (3.030%) VB
9 5 (3.030%) Bash shell
10 4 (2.424%) VC++
11 2 (1.212%) Scala
11 2 (1.212%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.212%) C
11 2 (1.212%) IronPython
12 1 (0.606%) Ruby
12 1 (0.606%) VBA
12 1 (0.606%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.606%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 20 (12.12%) Degree
2 1 (0.606%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.636%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (1.212%) Puppet
2 1 (0.606%) Nagios
Vendors
1 14 (8.485%) Oracle
2 4 (2.424%) Google
3 3 (1.818%) DataSynapse
3 3 (1.818%) SunGard
4 2 (1.212%) Sybase
5 1 (0.606%) Perforce
5 1 (0.606%) Twitter
London
Python Developer Hedge Fund Finance London Investment Bank java My High-Profile Buy Side client is looking for a top of class Python Developer to join their team...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £550 - £700 per day + dependant on candiate
Posted: 16 May 2013
City of London
Key Requirements: The suitable candidate will possess expert Python knowledge supported with a secondary programming language (C/C++, Java). You must also have a strong knowledge of database...
Real Staffing
Rate: £550 per day
Posted: 24 May 2013
London
Python Developer with Django, HTML 5, CSS is required by a financial services organisation experiencing growth in this key business area... My client operate a particularly contemporary agile...
ARC IT Recruitment Ltd
Rate: Highly competitive day rate, 6 month contract
Posted: 24 May 2013
London
The successful candidate will have depth experience in Java, API and SOA in developing and implementing a Python infrastructure... The successful Python Developer (Java / API / SOA) will be: -...
ANSON MCCADE
Rate: Up to £400 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013
City, London
Essential Strong Python development experience Numerate degree or equivalent preferred Good investment banking experience - including an understanding of the time value of money Strong commercial software development experience...
Nicoll Curtin
Rate: £500 - £700 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013
City, London
FX Options Python Developer - Vice President - Investment Bank - Front Office - London. FX Options VP Python Developer required to join the FX Options team, to support all technology delivery.....
McGregor Boyall
Rate: £500 - £700 per day
Posted: 24 May 2013
London
They are looking for a Python Developer (Java / MySQL / UNIX) with a strong background in software development with focus around HTTP-based API integration and SOA to assist...
ANSON MCCADE
Rate: From £300 to £400 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013
City, London
Requirements analysis, software design, peer review, software development... Essential Numerate degree or equivalent preferred Good investment banking experience - including an understanding of the time value of money Strong...
Nicoll Curtin
Rate: £500 - £700 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
London
Global financial institution requires a highly skilled Python developer who is comfortable working close with Quants. You must also have a strong infrastructure background working on High Performance...
Scope AT Ltd
Rate: £550 - £800 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
City of London
Python SQL Developer Finance London Investment Bank Market Risk My Tier 1 Investment Banking Client is looking for a solid Python/ SQL Developer to set up a new...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £450 - £600 per day + dependant on candiate
Posted: 15 May 2013
West Midlands
A West Midlands based client specialising in the automotive industry are currently on the market for a Java Software Engineer to join their team. As a software engineer...
Computer Futures
Rate: £300 - £350 per day + Negotiable
Posted: 15 May 2013
London
Strong Python with vast experience with Amazon Web Services. - experience of python/ Twisted/ SQL*Alchemy for writing robust, scalable systems- practical, deep exposure to Amazon Web Services - presentation...
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £350 - £400 per annum
Posted: 24 May 2013
London
Strong Python with vast experience with Amazon Web Services. - experience of python/ Twisted/ SQL*Alchemy for writing robust, scalable systems - practical, deep exposure to Amazon Web Services - presentation...
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £350 - £400 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013