Python Contracts in England

Python
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 13 13
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 0
Contract jobs citing Python 3,429 5,690 7,185
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 9.28% 11.26% 10.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.69% 31.84% 27.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,485 4,157 5,152
10th Percentile £400 £425 £425
25th Percentile £463 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £700
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 127 96
10th Percentile £25.38 £22.16 £25.63
25th Percentile £41.50 £47.50 £38.73
Median hourly rate £62.18 £65.00 £51.38
Median % change year-on-year -4.34% +26.52% +28.44%
75th Percentile £70.94 £70.30 £61.38
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -11.54% +30.00% +25.00%

All Programming Languages
England

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 England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,821 17,871 26,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.28% 35.36% 36.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,859 13,059 19,322
10th Percentile £350 £388 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £670
90th Percentile £775 £798 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 434 434 455
10th Percentile £35.51 £26.25 £20.00
25th Percentile £47.63 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +14.94%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £77.00 £69.05
UK median hourly rate £60.07 £60.70 £50.00
% change year-on-year -1.04% +21.40% +13.64%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Python in England

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python in England.

Daily rate trend for Python in England

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python in England

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python in England.

Hourly rate trend for Python in England

Python
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Python in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Python in England

Python
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
London -2 2,212 £586 -6.20% 1,335
North of England -1 357 £500 -13.04% 233
South East -15 302 £525 -4.55% 314
North West -7 186 £500 -12.28% 147
South West -9 180 £600 +4.35% 209
Yorkshire +15 143 £500 -16.67% 64
Midlands +13 127 £450 -14.29% 156
East of England -10 99 £450 -10.00% 206
West Midlands +12 75 £425 -22.73% 99
East Midlands +17 52 £513 +2.50% 57
North East +9 30 £516 -23.63% 22
Python
UK

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 254 (7.41%) Apache Airflow
2 239 (6.97%) Apache
3 118 (3.44%) Apache Spark
4 115 (3.35%) Confluence
5 39 (1.14%) OpenStack
6 31 (0.90%) SAS
7 28 (0.82%) SharePoint
8 27 (0.79%) nginx
9 13 (0.38%) ArcGIS
10 11 (0.32%) Site Server
11 9 (0.26%) BizTalk Server
11 9 (0.26%) Jupyter
12 8 (0.23%) CMS
13 7 (0.20%) IIS
13 7 (0.20%) Tornado
14 5 (0.15%) JBoss
14 5 (0.15%) Luigi
15 4 (0.12%) GeoServer
15 4 (0.12%) IBM Domino
16 3 (0.087%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 112 (3.27%) Chatbot
2 57 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (0.38%) MS Visio
5 11 (0.32%) Simulink
6 8 (0.23%) SPSS
7 6 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 1 (0.029%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.029%) Sketch
9 1 (0.029%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 21 (0.61%) Aladdin
2 9 (0.26%) Odoo
3 8 (0.23%) Distributed Ledger
4 7 (0.20%) Endur
5 6 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.17%) NEC Housing
6 5 (0.15%) SimCorp Dimension
7 4 (0.12%) Adobe Campaign
7 4 (0.12%) FastStats
7 4 (0.12%) Maximo
7 4 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
7 4 (0.12%) Unica
8 3 (0.087%) Global One
8 3 (0.087%) Primavera
8 3 (0.087%) Shopify
9 2 (0.058%) Advent Geneva
9 2 (0.058%) Front Arena
9 2 (0.058%) ION MarketView
9 2 (0.058%) SAP Hybris
9 2 (0.058%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,162 (33.89%) AWS
2 864 (25.20%) Azure
3 411 (11.99%) GCP
4 307 (8.95%) Serverless
5 214 (6.24%) Power Platform
6 213 (6.21%) AWS Lambda
7 209 (6.10%) GitHub
8 191 (5.57%) Amazon S3
9 173 (5.05%) Azure DevOps
10 139 (4.05%) Snowflake
11 129 (3.76%) dbt
12 127 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
13 118 (3.44%) Azure Data Factory
14 74 (2.16%) AWS CloudFormation
15 66 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
16 65 (1.90%) PaaS
17 64 (1.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 58 (1.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 57 (1.66%) Azure Cosmos DB
20 56 (1.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 122 (3.56%) Firewall
2 86 (2.51%) TCP/IP
3 83 (2.42%) DNS
4 65 (1.90%) BGP
5 60 (1.75%) VPN
6 57 (1.66%) Network Security
7 43 (1.25%) MPLS
8 42 (1.22%) DHCP
9 39 (1.14%) Wireless
10 36 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
11 35 (1.02%) OSPF
11 35 (1.02%) SAN
12 34 (0.99%) HTTP
13 33 (0.96%) Radio Access Network
14 31 (0.90%) 5G
14 31 (0.90%) Cisco ASA
15 30 (0.87%) Internet
15 30 (0.87%) VLAN
16 26 (0.76%) LAN
17 24 (0.70%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 202 (5.89%) Power BI
2 191 (5.57%) PostgreSQL
3 190 (5.54%) Data Lake
4 186 (5.42%) Big Data
5 168 (4.90%) Data Warehouse
6 163 (4.75%) NoSQL
7 138 (4.02%) Tableau
8 137 (4.00%) SQL Server
9 134 (3.91%) Amazon Athena
10 125 (3.65%) Apache Ignite
11 114 (3.32%) Relational Database
12 108 (3.15%) Amazon Redshift
13 92 (2.68%) Amazon RDS
13 92 (2.68%) Apache Arrow
13 92 (2.68%) Dremio
14 91 (2.65%) MongoDB
15 80 (2.33%) BigQuery
16 68 (1.98%) MySQL
17 59 (1.72%) Hadoop
18 58 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 400 (11.67%) Git
2 358 (10.44%) Jenkins
3 228 (6.65%) JIRA
4 155 (4.52%) GitLab
5 67 (1.95%) Bitbucket
6 61 (1.78%) Cypress.io
7 54 (1.57%) Selenium
8 37 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
9 36 (1.05%) Robot Framework
10 35 (1.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 34 (0.99%) TeamCity
12 29 (0.85%) JMeter
13 28 (0.82%) Artifactory
14 26 (0.76%) Cucumber
14 26 (0.76%) Subversion
15 21 (0.61%) JUnit
15 21 (0.61%) Postman
16 20 (0.58%) SonarQube
17 19 (0.55%) Burp Suite
17 19 (0.55%) TestRail
General
1 792 (23.10%) Finance
2 637 (18.58%) Social Skills
3 389 (11.34%) Banking
4 370 (10.79%) Analytical Skills
5 361 (10.53%) Front Office
6 203 (5.92%) Public Sector
7 175 (5.10%) Investment Banking
8 70 (2.04%) Marketing
9 65 (1.90%) Telecoms
10 64 (1.87%) Retail
11 58 (1.69%) Back Office
12 53 (1.55%) Pharmaceutical
13 50 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
14 37 (1.08%) Manufacturing
15 29 (0.85%) Aerospace
15 29 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 25 (0.73%) Electronics
17 19 (0.55%) Financial Institution
18 18 (0.52%) Legal
18 18 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 937 (27.33%) Developer
2 410 (11.96%) Senior
3 409 (11.93%) Python Developer
4 384 (11.20%) Data Engineer
5 282 (8.22%) Analyst
6 253 (7.38%) Software Engineer
7 235 (6.85%) DevOps Engineer
8 228 (6.65%) Python Engineer
9 203 (5.92%) Architect
10 198 (5.77%) Software Developer
11 190 (5.54%) Lead
12 175 (5.10%) AWS Engineer
13 131 (3.82%) Azure Engineer
14 122 (3.56%) Full Stack Developer
15 113 (3.30%) Data Analyst
15 113 (3.30%) Python Software Engineer
16 109 (3.18%) Data Scientist
17 101 (2.95%) Network Engineer
18 98 (2.86%) Developer/Software Engineer
19 86 (2.51%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 245 (7.14%) React
2 216 (6.30%) HTML
3 202 (5.89%) Pandas
4 169 (4.93%) Kafka
5 165 (4.81%) NumPy
6 151 (4.40%) gRPC
7 146 (4.26%) PySpark
8 144 (4.20%) Protocol Buffers
9 137 (4.00%) REST
10 126 (3.67%) .NET
11 124 (3.62%) Node.js
12 116 (3.38%) SciPy
13 107 (3.12%) JSON
14 92 (2.68%) RESTful
15 91 (2.65%) CSS
16 86 (2.51%) Django
17 73 (2.13%) Elastic Stack
17 73 (2.13%) YAML
18 71 (2.07%) Flask
19 67 (1.95%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 227 (6.62%) Derivative
2 224 (6.53%) Hedge funds
3 207 (6.04%) Fixed Income
4 161 (4.70%) Algorithms
5 153 (4.46%) Equities
6 139 (4.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 94 (2.74%) Product Ownership
8 91 (2.65%) Distributed Systems
9 73 (2.13%) Data Structures
10 67 (1.95%) Data Centre
11 64 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
12 61 (1.78%) Public Cloud
13 57 (1.66%) Cloud Native
14 55 (1.60%) Linux Command Line
14 55 (1.60%) Management Information System
15 50 (1.46%) Onboarding
16 45 (1.31%) PKI
17 39 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
18 33 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
19 31 (0.90%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 533 (15.54%) Linux
2 271 (7.90%) Windows
3 153 (4.46%) Unix
4 103 (3.00%) Windows Server
5 102 (2.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 36 (1.05%) CentOS
7 34 (0.99%) Ubuntu
8 28 (0.82%) Debian
9 21 (0.61%) Android
10 16 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
10 16 (0.47%) zOS
11 14 (0.41%) Apple iOS
11 14 (0.41%) VMS
12 13 (0.38%) Solaris
13 12 (0.35%) Embedded Linux
14 10 (0.29%) Oracle Linux
15 7 (0.20%) Kali Linux
16 6 (0.17%) Mac OS
16 6 (0.17%) Windows 10
17 4 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 905 (26.39%) Agile
2 826 (24.09%) DevOps
3 728 (21.23%) CI/CD
4 638 (18.61%) Software Engineering
5 469 (13.68%) Problem-Solving
6 390 (11.37%) Analytics
7 375 (10.94%) Artificial Intelligence
8 343 (10.00%) Machine Learning
9 321 (9.36%) Data Modelling
10 306 (8.92%) ETL
11 297 (8.66%) Test Automation
12 293 (8.54%) Data Pipeline
13 292 (8.52%) Infrastructure as Code
14 279 (8.14%) Computer Science
15 278 (8.11%) Asset Management
16 276 (8.05%) Data Science
17 252 (7.35%) Business Intelligence
18 227 (6.62%) Investment Management
19 226 (6.59%) Data Engineering
20 222 (6.47%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 1,162 (33.89%) SQL
2 682 (19.89%) Java
3 561 (16.36%) JavaScript
4 396 (11.55%) PowerShell
5 386 (11.26%) C#
6 289 (8.43%) Bash
7 252 (7.35%) C++
8 219 (6.39%) TypeScript
9 168 (4.90%) Go
10 138 (4.02%) R
11 129 (3.76%) Shell Script
12 125 (3.65%) Perl
13 116 (3.38%) Scala
14 110 (3.21%) C
15 66 (1.92%) Ruby
16 42 (1.22%) T-SQL
17 34 (0.99%) Rust
18 28 (0.82%) MATLAB
19 27 (0.79%) Kotlin
20 26 (0.76%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 589 (17.18%) Security Cleared
2 439 (12.80%) Degree
3 421 (12.28%) SC Cleared
4 165 (4.81%) DV Cleared
5 158 (4.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 86 (2.51%) Master's Degree
7 65 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
8 58 (1.69%) AWS Certification
9 54 (1.57%) CCNP
10 37 (1.08%) PhD
11 34 (0.99%) CCNA
12 32 (0.93%) Azure Certification
13 30 (0.87%) Numerate Degree
14 23 (0.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 22 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 21 (0.61%) OSCP
17 18 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
18 17 (0.50%) ISTQB
19 15 (0.44%) CISSP
19 15 (0.44%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 172 (5.02%) Data Quality
2 147 (4.29%) QA
3 25 (0.73%) GDPR
4 23 (0.67%) NIST
5 20 (0.58%) Accessibility
6 17 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (0.50%) PCI DSS
7 11 (0.32%) SLA
8 9 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (0.23%) GxP
10 7 (0.20%) Good Clinical Practice
10 7 (0.20%) JTAG
10 7 (0.20%) RMADS
11 5 (0.15%) MISRA
11 5 (0.15%) NCSC
11 5 (0.15%) WCAG
12 4 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.12%) MiFID
13 3 (0.087%) ISO 22301
13 3 (0.087%) PMO
System Software
1 407 (11.87%) Docker
2 102 (2.97%) Active Directory
3 93 (2.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 49 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
5 31 (0.90%) VMware NSX
6 29 (0.85%) vSphere
7 27 (0.79%) Firmware
8 21 (0.61%) NFS
9 19 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
10 17 (0.50%) Hyper-V
11 16 (0.47%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 16 (0.47%) Time Sharing Option
12 10 (0.29%) KVM
13 9 (0.26%) HDFS
14 6 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
14 6 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
15 4 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 4 (0.12%) Veritas Cluster Server
15 4 (0.12%) VirtualBox
16 2 (0.058%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 547 (15.95%) Terraform
2 493 (14.38%) Kubernetes
3 430 (12.54%) Ansible
4 132 (3.85%) Grafana
5 125 (3.65%) Prometheus
6 82 (2.39%) Puppet
7 67 (1.95%) Progress Chef
8 43 (1.25%) Kibana
9 31 (0.90%) logstash
10 24 (0.70%) ITRS Geneos
10 24 (0.70%) PowerCLI
11 23 (0.67%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 22 (0.64%) Packer
13 21 (0.61%) Consul
13 21 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
14 18 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
14 18 (0.52%) vRealize
15 16 (0.47%) Argo
16 14 (0.41%) Nagios
17 11 (0.32%) Netcool
Vendors
1 263 (7.67%) Microsoft
2 190 (5.54%) Databricks
3 170 (4.96%) Google
4 164 (4.78%) VMware
5 140 (4.08%) Oracle
6 122 (3.56%) Splunk
7 110 (3.21%) PayPal
8 104 (3.03%) Cisco
9 91 (2.65%) Red Hat
10 68 (1.98%) SAP
11 64 (1.87%) IBM
12 57 (1.66%) Dell
13 46 (1.34%) Palo Alto
14 38 (1.11%) Atlassian
15 37 (1.08%) F5
16 36 (1.05%) Dynatrace
17 34 (0.99%) HP
17 34 (0.99%) Informatica
17 34 (0.99%) ServiceNow
18 33 (0.96%) Bloomberg