Python Contracts in London

Python
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 8 6 10
Rank change year-on-year -2 +4 0
Contract jobs citing Python 2,212 3,878 5,043
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 12.49% 14.32% 12.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.79% 35.09% 30.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,678 2,887 3,732
10th Percentile £413 £456 £463
25th Percentile £488 £519 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £586 £625 £605
Median % change year-on-year -6.20% +3.31% +10.00%
75th Percentile £750 £750 £725
90th Percentile £850 £859 £800
England median daily rate £563 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -6.25% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 17 35
10th Percentile £25.35 £48.20 £31.60
25th Percentile £42.00 £65.00 £36.25
Median hourly rate £51.50 £75.00 £48.58
Median % change year-on-year -31.33% +54.38% +27.84%
75th Percentile £65.15 £83.75 £60.31
90th Percentile £72.50 £90.00 £72.40
England median hourly rate £62.18 £65.00 £51.38
% change year-on-year -4.34% +26.52% +28.44%

All Programming Languages
London

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 London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 6,358 11,052 16,355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.90% 40.82% 42.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,852 8,230 12,504
10th Percentile £380 £413 £418
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £700
90th Percentile £825 £825 £800
England median daily rate £540 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 87 114
10th Percentile £23.80 £34.70 £29.08
25th Percentile £35.19 £49.63 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.25 £57.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.61% +15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.94 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £70.94 £84.25 £79.28
England median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
% change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +14.94%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in London

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Python in London

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Python in London

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Python in London

Python
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

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

Hourly rate histogram for Python in London

Python
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the London 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
Central London -2 282 £600 -5.88% 107
South London +4 44 £519 -5.68% 8
West London -18 16 £475 -18.28% 15
East London -4 13 £600 -11.11% 38
Python
England

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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
1 214 (9.67%) Apache Airflow
2 193 (8.73%) Apache
3 81 (3.66%) Apache Spark
4 43 (1.94%) Confluence
5 39 (1.76%) OpenStack
6 20 (0.90%) SharePoint
7 17 (0.77%) nginx
8 11 (0.50%) ArcGIS
9 10 (0.45%) Site Server
10 9 (0.41%) BizTalk Server
11 7 (0.32%) Tornado
12 5 (0.23%) Jupyter
13 4 (0.18%) CMS
13 4 (0.18%) Luigi
14 3 (0.14%) Apache Solr
14 3 (0.14%) IIS
14 3 (0.14%) SAS
15 2 (0.090%) Drupal
15 2 (0.090%) Gunicorn
15 2 (0.090%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 46 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.63%) Chatbot
3 12 (0.54%) MS Visio
4 9 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.14%) Simulink
7 1 (0.045%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.045%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 21 (0.95%) Aladdin
2 8 (0.36%) Distributed Ledger
3 7 (0.32%) Endur
4 6 (0.27%) NEC Housing
5 5 (0.23%) SimCorp Dimension
6 3 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.14%) Global One
6 3 (0.14%) Primavera
7 2 (0.090%) Advent Geneva
7 2 (0.090%) Front Arena
7 2 (0.090%) ION MarketView
7 2 (0.090%) SAP Hybris
8 1 (0.045%) Aareon QL
8 1 (0.045%) IntelliMatch
8 1 (0.045%) MIS ActiveH
8 1 (0.045%) OPENHousing
8 1 (0.045%) Orchestrade
8 1 (0.045%) SAP CX
8 1 (0.045%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.045%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 840 (37.97%) AWS
2 578 (26.13%) Azure
3 324 (14.65%) GCP
4 214 (9.67%) Serverless
5 159 (7.19%) AWS Lambda
6 127 (5.74%) Amazon S3
7 125 (5.65%) GitHub
8 124 (5.61%) Power Platform
9 115 (5.20%) dbt
10 107 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
11 100 (4.52%) Snowflake
12 81 (3.66%) Amazon EC2
13 71 (3.21%) Azure Data Factory
14 49 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
15 48 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
16 46 (2.08%) PaaS
17 43 (1.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 43 (1.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 41 (1.85%) Amazon EKS
19 40 (1.81%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 77 (3.48%) Firewall
2 56 (2.53%) DNS
3 36 (1.63%) DHCP
4 35 (1.58%) BGP
5 34 (1.54%) Network Security
5 34 (1.54%) TCP/IP
6 28 (1.27%) MPLS
7 26 (1.18%) Internet
7 26 (1.18%) VLAN
8 24 (1.08%) VPN
9 21 (0.95%) 5G
9 21 (0.95%) LAN
10 20 (0.90%) HTTP
10 20 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
11 18 (0.81%) Wireless
12 17 (0.77%) OSPF
13 16 (0.72%) Cisco Nexus
14 15 (0.68%) Cisco ASA
15 12 (0.54%) HSRP
15 12 (0.54%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (6.19%) Data Lake
2 136 (6.15%) PostgreSQL
3 135 (6.10%) Big Data
4 125 (5.65%) Apache Ignite
5 120 (5.42%) Power BI
6 117 (5.29%) Amazon Athena
7 114 (5.15%) Data Warehouse
8 108 (4.88%) NoSQL
9 102 (4.61%) SQL Server
10 92 (4.16%) Apache Arrow
10 92 (4.16%) Dremio
11 87 (3.93%) Tableau
12 76 (3.44%) Amazon Redshift
13 71 (3.21%) Amazon RDS
14 64 (2.89%) Relational Database
15 55 (2.49%) BigQuery
16 53 (2.40%) Azure SQL Database
17 52 (2.35%) MongoDB
18 38 (1.72%) MySQL
19 37 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 249 (11.26%) Git
2 206 (9.31%) Jenkins
3 98 (4.43%) JIRA
4 77 (3.48%) GitLab
5 53 (2.40%) Cypress.io
6 28 (1.27%) TeamCity
7 26 (1.18%) Selenium
8 24 (1.08%) JMeter
9 20 (0.90%) Artifactory
9 20 (0.90%) Cucumber
9 20 (0.90%) Postman
10 18 (0.81%) Bitbucket
11 16 (0.72%) JUnit
12 13 (0.59%) Subversion
13 12 (0.54%) Burp Suite
13 12 (0.54%) Maven
13 12 (0.54%) MLflow
14 11 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
15 10 (0.45%) CircleCI
16 9 (0.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 705 (31.87%) Finance
2 412 (18.63%) Social Skills
3 370 (16.73%) Banking
4 361 (16.32%) Front Office
5 227 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
6 173 (7.82%) Investment Banking
7 118 (5.33%) Public Sector
8 57 (2.58%) Back Office
9 42 (1.90%) Retail
10 40 (1.81%) Marketing
11 35 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
12 27 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 26 (1.18%) Telecoms
14 17 (0.77%) Financial Institution
15 13 (0.59%) Advertising
15 13 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
16 12 (0.54%) Retail Banking
17 11 (0.50%) Law
17 11 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
18 9 (0.41%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 585 (26.45%) Developer
2 307 (13.88%) Senior
3 285 (12.88%) Python Developer
4 265 (11.98%) Data Engineer
5 190 (8.59%) Python Engineer
6 186 (8.41%) Software Engineer
7 183 (8.27%) Analyst
8 151 (6.83%) Architect
9 142 (6.42%) Lead
10 137 (6.19%) AWS Engineer
11 135 (6.10%) DevOps Engineer
12 98 (4.43%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 98 (4.43%) Python Software Engineer
13 88 (3.98%) Azure Engineer
14 84 (3.80%) Data Scientist
15 82 (3.71%) Software Developer
16 74 (3.35%) React Developer
17 71 (3.21%) Senior Developer
18 69 (3.12%) Full Stack Developer
19 61 (2.76%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (8.27%) Pandas
2 175 (7.91%) React
3 151 (6.83%) gRPC
4 149 (6.74%) NumPy
5 144 (6.51%) Protocol Buffers
6 141 (6.37%) Kafka
7 109 (4.93%) PySpark
8 108 (4.88%) SciPy
9 97 (4.39%) HTML
10 90 (4.07%) Node.js
10 90 (4.07%) REST
11 76 (3.44%) .NET
12 70 (3.16%) CSS
13 67 (3.03%) JSON
13 67 (3.03%) Redux
14 60 (2.71%) Material-UI
15 57 (2.58%) RESTful
16 53 (2.40%) Django
16 53 (2.40%) Elastic Stack
17 46 (2.08%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 227 (10.26%) Derivative
2 223 (10.08%) Hedge funds
3 207 (9.36%) Fixed Income
4 153 (6.92%) Equities
5 135 (6.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 114 (5.15%) Algorithms
7 80 (3.62%) Distributed Systems
8 58 (2.62%) Product Ownership
9 49 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
10 48 (2.17%) Cloud Native
11 43 (1.94%) Data Structures
12 37 (1.67%) Management Information System
12 37 (1.67%) Onboarding
13 34 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
14 33 (1.49%) Data Centre
15 32 (1.45%) Public Cloud
16 27 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
17 26 (1.18%) Clustering
18 22 (0.99%) Market Risk
18 22 (0.99%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 282 (12.75%) Linux
2 156 (7.05%) Windows
3 110 (4.97%) Unix
4 54 (2.44%) Windows Server
5 49 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 27 (1.22%) CentOS
7 11 (0.50%) Android
8 10 (0.45%) Apple iOS
9 9 (0.41%) Oracle Linux
10 8 (0.36%) Solaris
11 6 (0.27%) VMS
12 5 (0.23%) Ubuntu
13 4 (0.18%) Kali Linux
14 3 (0.14%) Mac OS
15 1 (0.045%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 589 (26.63%) Agile
2 517 (23.37%) DevOps
3 472 (21.34%) CI/CD
4 396 (17.90%) Software Engineering
5 295 (13.34%) Problem-Solving
6 293 (13.25%) Analytics
7 268 (12.12%) Asset Management
8 252 (11.39%) Machine Learning
9 226 (10.22%) Investment Management
10 220 (9.95%) ETL
11 212 (9.58%) Data Pipeline
12 209 (9.45%) Artificial Intelligence
13 205 (9.27%) Data Science
14 190 (8.59%) Test Automation
15 188 (8.50%) Data Modelling
16 187 (8.45%) Infrastructure as Code
17 186 (8.41%) Computer Science
18 154 (6.96%) Business Intelligence
19 146 (6.60%) Full Stack Development
20 134 (6.06%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 788 (35.62%) SQL
2 489 (22.11%) Java
3 330 (14.92%) JavaScript
4 226 (10.22%) C#
5 206 (9.31%) PowerShell
6 202 (9.13%) TypeScript
7 163 (7.37%) Bash
8 142 (6.42%) C++
9 121 (5.47%) Go
10 93 (4.20%) Shell Script
11 89 (4.02%) R
12 83 (3.75%) Scala
13 82 (3.71%) Perl
14 48 (2.17%) Ruby
15 34 (1.54%) T-SQL
16 32 (1.45%) C
17 31 (1.40%) Rust
18 23 (1.04%) Kotlin
18 23 (1.04%) VBA
19 19 (0.86%) Korn
Qualifications
1 257 (11.62%) Security Cleared
2 234 (10.58%) Degree
3 218 (9.86%) SC Cleared
4 104 (4.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 63 (2.85%) Master's Degree
6 41 (1.85%) DV Cleared
7 37 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
8 32 (1.45%) AWS Certification
9 31 (1.40%) CCNP
10 27 (1.22%) PhD
11 26 (1.18%) Numerate Degree
12 19 (0.86%) Azure Certification
13 16 (0.72%) CCNA
14 14 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 14 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
14 14 (0.63%) ISTQB
15 11 (0.50%) CISSP
15 11 (0.50%) OSCP
16 9 (0.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 8 (0.36%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (5.33%) Data Quality
2 85 (3.84%) QA
3 13 (0.59%) NIST
4 12 (0.54%) GDPR
5 11 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (0.45%) SLA
7 9 (0.41%) Accessibility
7 9 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 7 (0.32%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.23%) WCAG
10 4 (0.18%) MiFID
11 3 (0.14%) PMO
12 2 (0.090%) NCSC
13 1 (0.045%) COPPA
13 1 (0.045%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.045%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.045%) GLBA
13 1 (0.045%) IFRS
13 1 (0.045%) IFRS 17
13 1 (0.045%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 261 (11.80%) Docker
2 39 (1.76%) Active Directory
3 33 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 32 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.50%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 10 (0.45%) VMware NSX
7 9 (0.41%) vSphere
8 8 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
9 7 (0.32%) Hyper-V
9 7 (0.32%) KVM
10 6 (0.27%) Firmware
11 4 (0.18%) NFS
11 4 (0.18%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 4 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (0.14%) HDFS
13 2 (0.090%) Ceph
13 2 (0.090%) iptables
13 2 (0.090%) PowerDNS
14 1 (0.045%) Lustre
14 1 (0.045%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 328 (14.83%) Terraform
2 325 (14.69%) Kubernetes
3 199 (9.00%) Ansible
4 94 (4.25%) Grafana
5 89 (4.02%) Prometheus
6 48 (2.17%) Puppet
7 30 (1.36%) Kibana
8 27 (1.22%) Progress Chef
9 24 (1.08%) ITRS Geneos
9 24 (1.08%) logstash
10 19 (0.86%) Consul
11 15 (0.68%) Argo
12 10 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
13 9 (0.41%) BladeLogic
14 8 (0.36%) EMC NetWorker
14 8 (0.36%) Netcool
14 8 (0.36%) Opsgenie
14 8 (0.36%) Packer
14 8 (0.36%) Tivoli
14 8 (0.36%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 162 (7.32%) Microsoft
2 142 (6.42%) Databricks
3 121 (5.47%) Google
4 111 (5.02%) Oracle
5 65 (2.94%) Splunk
6 57 (2.58%) Cisco
7 52 (2.35%) VMware
8 42 (1.90%) SAP
9 37 (1.67%) IBM
10 36 (1.63%) Red Hat
11 33 (1.49%) Bloomberg
12 30 (1.36%) Dynatrace
12 30 (1.36%) Sybase
13 29 (1.31%) F5
13 29 (1.31%) ServiceNow
14 24 (1.08%) Palo Alto
15 19 (0.86%) ESRI
15 19 (0.86%) Informatica
16 18 (0.81%) Nokia
16 18 (0.81%) Salesforce