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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 13 13
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 0
Contract jobs citing Python 3,466 5,538 7,112
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 9.48% 11.26% 10.04%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.05% 32.13% 27.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,529 4,046 5,109
10th Percentile £388 £425 £425
25th Percentile £463 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £700
90th Percentile £825 £825 £788
UK median daily rate £560 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 118 100
10th Percentile £25.45 £22.16 £25.50
25th Percentile £46.22 £47.50 £39.48
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £51.38
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +26.52% +28.44%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.30 £59.84
90th Percentile £78.50 £78.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £61.25 £64.38 £49.88
% change year-on-year -4.85% +29.07% +24.69%

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 10,816 17,235 26,034
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.59% 35.04% 36.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,855 12,595 19,239
10th Percentile £350 £385 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £564 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.48% +2.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £659 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £768
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 441 424 456
10th Percentile £38.39 £26.09 £20.13
25th Percentile £50.75 £49.92 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.77
Median % change year-on-year - +23.10% +18.59%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £61.56
90th Percentile £80.00 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
% change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +16.63%

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 13 May 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 13 May 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 13 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
London -2 2,261 £600 -4.00% 1,402
North of England -2 353 £500 -13.04% 236
South East -13 309 £523 -5.00% 323
South West -10 182 £600 +4.35% 221
North West -7 179 £500 -10.71% 140
Yorkshire +13 147 £500 -16.67% 75
Midlands +12 133 £450 -14.29% 195
East of England -17 85 £450 -10.00% 174
West Midlands +2 75 £425 -24.44% 133
East Midlands +21 57 £475 -5.00% 61
North East +2 29 £600 -11.11% 21
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
1 300 (8.66%) Apache Airflow
2 279 (8.05%) Apache
3 120 (3.46%) Apache Spark
4 115 (3.32%) Confluence
5 35 (1.01%) OpenStack
5 35 (1.01%) SAS
6 27 (0.78%) nginx
6 27 (0.78%) SharePoint
7 12 (0.35%) ArcGIS
8 10 (0.29%) Jupyter
9 9 (0.26%) BizTalk Server
9 9 (0.26%) CMS
10 8 (0.23%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 8 (0.23%) Site Server
11 7 (0.20%) Tornado
12 6 (0.17%) IIS
12 6 (0.17%) JBoss
13 5 (0.14%) Gunicorn
14 4 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
14 4 (0.12%) Drupal
Applications
1 113 (3.26%) Chatbot
2 65 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (0.40%) MS Visio
5 11 (0.32%) Simulink
6 8 (0.23%) SPSS
7 7 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 2 (0.058%) Sketch
10 1 (0.029%) CPLEX
10 1 (0.029%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 23 (0.66%) 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
5 6 (0.17%) SimCorp Dimension
6 4 (0.12%) Adobe Campaign
6 4 (0.12%) FastStats
6 4 (0.12%) Maximo
6 4 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
6 4 (0.12%) Unica
7 3 (0.087%) Global One
7 3 (0.087%) ION MarketView
7 3 (0.087%) Orchestrade
7 3 (0.087%) Primavera
7 3 (0.087%) Shopify
8 2 (0.058%) Advent Geneva
8 2 (0.058%) Front Arena
8 2 (0.058%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,195 (34.48%) AWS
2 899 (25.94%) Azure
3 448 (12.93%) GCP
4 308 (8.89%) Serverless
5 227 (6.55%) Power Platform
6 215 (6.20%) GitHub
7 205 (5.91%) AWS Lambda
8 179 (5.16%) Amazon S3
9 170 (4.90%) Snowflake
10 166 (4.79%) Azure DevOps
11 154 (4.44%) dbt
12 129 (3.72%) Azure Data Factory
13 126 (3.64%) Amazon EC2
14 72 (2.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 72 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
15 67 (1.93%) PaaS
16 65 (1.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 65 (1.88%) GitHub Actions
17 62 (1.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 61 (1.76%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 129 (3.72%) Firewall
2 80 (2.31%) TCP/IP
3 79 (2.28%) DNS
4 58 (1.67%) VPN
5 54 (1.56%) BGP
5 54 (1.56%) Network Security
6 40 (1.15%) DHCP
7 36 (1.04%) MPLS
8 34 (0.98%) Wireless
9 33 (0.95%) HTTP
9 33 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
10 31 (0.89%) Radio Access Network
11 30 (0.87%) 5G
11 30 (0.87%) SAN
12 29 (0.84%) OSPF
13 27 (0.78%) Cisco ASA
13 27 (0.78%) VLAN
14 26 (0.75%) Cisco Nexus
15 25 (0.72%) Internet
16 22 (0.63%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 225 (6.49%) Data Lake
2 216 (6.23%) Power BI
3 207 (5.97%) PostgreSQL
4 197 (5.68%) Big Data
5 179 (5.16%) Data Warehouse
6 171 (4.93%) NoSQL
7 166 (4.79%) Apache Ignite
8 158 (4.56%) Amazon Athena
9 139 (4.01%) Tableau
10 137 (3.95%) SQL Server
11 118 (3.40%) Apache Arrow
11 118 (3.40%) Dremio
12 111 (3.20%) Relational Database
13 102 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
14 94 (2.71%) MongoDB
15 92 (2.65%) Amazon RDS
16 81 (2.34%) BigQuery
17 75 (2.16%) MySQL
18 61 (1.76%) Azure SQL Database
19 60 (1.73%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 404 (11.66%) Git
2 363 (10.47%) Jenkins
3 233 (6.72%) JIRA
4 152 (4.39%) GitLab
5 76 (2.19%) Cypress.io
6 70 (2.02%) Bitbucket
7 53 (1.53%) Selenium
8 41 (1.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 39 (1.13%) Sonatype Nexus
10 34 (0.98%) Robot Framework
11 33 (0.95%) JMeter
11 33 (0.95%) TeamCity
12 31 (0.89%) Artifactory
13 27 (0.78%) Subversion
14 25 (0.72%) Cucumber
15 21 (0.61%) Postman
15 21 (0.61%) Visual Studio
16 20 (0.58%) SonarQube
17 19 (0.55%) Burp Suite
17 19 (0.55%) TestRail
General
1 859 (24.78%) Finance
2 641 (18.49%) Social Skills
3 441 (12.72%) Banking
4 401 (11.57%) Front Office
5 389 (11.22%) Analytical Skills
6 189 (5.45%) Investment Banking
7 178 (5.14%) Public Sector
8 71 (2.05%) Marketing
8 71 (2.05%) Retail
9 67 (1.93%) Telecoms
10 53 (1.53%) Back Office
10 53 (1.53%) Pharmaceutical
11 46 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
12 37 (1.07%) Manufacturing
13 30 (0.87%) Aerospace
14 29 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 25 (0.72%) Electronics
16 22 (0.63%) Financial Institution
17 18 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
18 17 (0.49%) Legal
Job Titles
1 951 (27.44%) Developer
2 420 (12.12%) Python Developer
3 408 (11.77%) Senior
4 380 (10.96%) Data Engineer
5 297 (8.57%) Analyst
6 283 (8.17%) Software Engineer
7 252 (7.27%) Python Engineer
8 240 (6.92%) DevOps Engineer
9 219 (6.32%) Architect
10 202 (5.83%) Lead
11 200 (5.77%) Software Developer
12 185 (5.34%) AWS Engineer
13 140 (4.04%) Python Software Engineer
14 134 (3.87%) Azure Engineer
14 134 (3.87%) Full Stack Developer
15 129 (3.72%) Data Analyst
16 121 (3.49%) Developer/Software Engineer
17 108 (3.12%) Data Scientist
18 99 (2.86%) React Developer
19 91 (2.63%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 271 (7.82%) React
2 218 (6.29%) HTML
3 211 (6.09%) Pandas
4 197 (5.68%) gRPC
5 190 (5.48%) Protocol Buffers
6 175 (5.05%) NumPy
7 167 (4.82%) Kafka
8 162 (4.67%) PySpark
9 134 (3.87%) REST
10 132 (3.81%) SciPy
11 128 (3.69%) .NET
12 124 (3.58%) Node.js
13 102 (2.94%) JSON
14 92 (2.65%) CSS
14 92 (2.65%) RESTful
15 88 (2.54%) Redux
16 78 (2.25%) Django
16 78 (2.25%) Material-UI
17 73 (2.11%) YAML
18 71 (2.05%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 282 (8.14%) Hedge funds
2 253 (7.30%) Fixed Income
3 250 (7.21%) Derivative
4 192 (5.54%) Equities
5 171 (4.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 154 (4.44%) Algorithms
7 100 (2.89%) Product Ownership
8 93 (2.68%) Distributed Systems
9 80 (2.31%) Data Structures
10 67 (1.93%) Data Protection Act
11 64 (1.85%) Public Cloud
12 62 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
13 59 (1.70%) Data Centre
14 56 (1.62%) Cloud Native
15 54 (1.56%) Management Information System
16 48 (1.38%) PKI
17 46 (1.33%) Onboarding
18 38 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
19 36 (1.04%) Clustering
19 36 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 519 (14.97%) Linux
2 246 (7.10%) Windows
3 152 (4.39%) Unix
4 97 (2.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 92 (2.65%) Windows Server
6 32 (0.92%) CentOS
7 28 (0.81%) Ubuntu
8 22 (0.63%) Android
8 22 (0.63%) Debian
9 16 (0.46%) Apple iOS
9 16 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
9 16 (0.46%) zOS
10 14 (0.40%) VMS
11 12 (0.35%) Solaris
12 9 (0.26%) Embedded Linux
12 9 (0.26%) Oracle Linux
13 7 (0.20%) Kali Linux
14 6 (0.17%) Windows 10
15 5 (0.14%) Mac OS
16 4 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 939 (27.09%) Agile
2 840 (24.24%) DevOps
3 734 (21.18%) CI/CD
4 663 (19.13%) Software Engineering
5 464 (13.39%) Problem-Solving
6 405 (11.68%) Artificial Intelligence
7 402 (11.60%) Analytics
8 367 (10.59%) Machine Learning
9 324 (9.35%) Asset Management
10 314 (9.06%) Data Modelling
11 303 (8.74%) ETL
12 292 (8.42%) Data Pipeline
13 291 (8.40%) Test Automation
14 288 (8.31%) Computer Science
15 279 (8.05%) Infrastructure as Code
16 271 (7.82%) Business Intelligence
17 267 (7.70%) Data Science
18 265 (7.65%) Investment Management
19 245 (7.07%) Full Stack Development
20 231 (6.66%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1,180 (34.05%) SQL
2 714 (20.60%) Java
3 572 (16.50%) JavaScript
4 386 (11.14%) PowerShell
5 370 (10.68%) C#
6 301 (8.68%) Bash
7 257 (7.41%) TypeScript
8 255 (7.36%) C++
9 177 (5.11%) Go
10 136 (3.92%) R
11 127 (3.66%) Shell Script
12 122 (3.52%) Perl
13 117 (3.38%) C
13 117 (3.38%) Scala
14 61 (1.76%) Ruby
15 43 (1.24%) T-SQL
16 35 (1.01%) Rust
17 27 (0.78%) Groovy
18 26 (0.75%) Kotlin
19 25 (0.72%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 574 (16.56%) Security Cleared
2 444 (12.81%) Degree
3 408 (11.77%) SC Cleared
4 161 (4.65%) DV Cleared
5 158 (4.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 88 (2.54%) Master's Degree
7 58 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
8 56 (1.62%) AWS Certification
9 49 (1.41%) CCNP
10 40 (1.15%) PhD
11 33 (0.95%) CCNA
12 30 (0.87%) Azure Certification
13 28 (0.81%) Numerate Degree
14 22 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 20 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 19 (0.55%) OSCP
17 17 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
18 16 (0.46%) CISSP
19 13 (0.38%) GIAC
19 13 (0.38%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 180 (5.19%) Data Quality
2 147 (4.24%) QA
3 27 (0.78%) GDPR
4 21 (0.61%) NIST
5 20 (0.58%) Accessibility
6 17 (0.49%) PCI DSS
7 16 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.32%) SLA
9 10 (0.29%) MISRA
10 9 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 8 (0.23%) GxP
12 7 (0.20%) Good Clinical Practice
12 7 (0.20%) JTAG
12 7 (0.20%) RMADS
13 5 (0.14%) NCSC
14 4 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
15 3 (0.087%) ISO 22301
15 3 (0.087%) PMO
16 2 (0.058%) IEC 61508
16 2 (0.058%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 411 (11.86%) Docker
2 108 (3.12%) Active Directory
3 92 (2.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 47 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
5 29 (0.84%) VMware NSX
6 28 (0.81%) vSphere
7 25 (0.72%) Firmware
8 21 (0.61%) NFS
9 18 (0.52%) Hyper-V
10 17 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
11 16 (0.46%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 16 (0.46%) Time Sharing Option
12 9 (0.26%) KVM
13 8 (0.23%) HDFS
14 6 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
14 6 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
15 5 (0.14%) Veritas Cluster Server
16 4 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 4 (0.12%) VirtualBox
17 2 (0.058%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 561 (16.19%) Terraform
2 505 (14.57%) Kubernetes
3 430 (12.41%) Ansible
4 131 (3.78%) Prometheus
5 128 (3.69%) Grafana
6 84 (2.42%) Puppet
7 64 (1.85%) Progress Chef
8 40 (1.15%) Kibana
9 29 (0.84%) logstash
10 25 (0.72%) PowerCLI
11 23 (0.66%) Packer
11 23 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
11 23 (0.66%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 22 (0.63%) Consul
12 22 (0.63%) ITRS Geneos
13 20 (0.58%) Docker Swarm
14 16 (0.46%) Argo
14 16 (0.46%) vRealize
15 13 (0.38%) Nagios
16 11 (0.32%) Netcool
Vendors
1 258 (7.44%) Microsoft
2 198 (5.71%) Databricks
3 196 (5.65%) Google
4 154 (4.44%) VMware
5 141 (4.07%) Oracle
6 124 (3.58%) Splunk
7 110 (3.17%) PayPal
8 99 (2.86%) Cisco
9 77 (2.22%) Red Hat
10 71 (2.05%) SAP
11 65 (1.88%) IBM
12 57 (1.64%) Dell
13 45 (1.30%) Palo Alto
14 42 (1.21%) F5
15 40 (1.15%) Atlassian
16 37 (1.07%) ServiceNow
17 36 (1.04%) Dynatrace
18 35 (1.01%) Bloomberg
19 34 (0.98%) HP
20 33 (0.95%) Informatica