Python Contracts in South London

Python
London > South London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 11 7
Rank change year-on-year +4 -4 +6
Contract jobs citing Python 45 54 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 18.44% 13.92% 17.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 47.87% 33.54% 42.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 43 46
10th Percentile £363 £475 £459
25th Percentile £453 £500 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £550 £613
Median % change year-on-year -5.68% -10.20% +6.52%
75th Percentile £567 £649 £700
90th Percentile £671 £685 £725
London median daily rate £588 £625 £605
% change year-on-year -6.00% +3.31% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.63 - -
Median hourly rate £68.75 - £48.58
75th Percentile £71.88 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £51.50 £75.00 £48.58
% change year-on-year -31.33% +54.38% +10.41%

All Programming Languages
South 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 South London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 94 161 152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 38.52% 41.49% 40.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 125 120
10th Percentile £367 £453 £340
25th Percentile £430 £481 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £554 £700 £638
90th Percentile £600 £900 £700
London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 6
10th Percentile £37.83 - £41.77
25th Percentile £38.95 - £45.61
Median hourly rate £43.84 £50.42 £48.58
Median % change year-on-year -13.05% +3.79% +0.77%
75th Percentile £59.37 - £54.07
90th Percentile £66.87 £51.95 £56.45
London median hourly rate £50.50 £57.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -12.17% +15.00% +11.11%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in South London

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for Python in South London

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in South London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python in South London

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South London

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

Hourly rate trend for Python in South London

Python
Contract Job Locations in South 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 South London region over the 6 months to 3 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
Croydon +2 34 £513 -6.82% 5
Bromley +5 8 £625 -3.85% 3
Kingston Upon Thames - 2 £500 - 7
Python
London

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 1 (2.22%) Confluence
1 1 (2.22%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (4.44%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 28 (62.22%) AWS
2 13 (28.89%) Amazon S3
3 11 (24.44%) Amazon EC2
4 10 (22.22%) Serverless
5 9 (20.00%) Azure
6 8 (17.78%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (17.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 7 (15.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (15.56%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (15.56%) GCP
8 6 (13.33%) Route 53
9 5 (11.11%) AWS Step Functions
10 4 (8.89%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (8.89%) OCI
11 2 (4.44%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (4.44%) Amazon MSK
11 2 (4.44%) GitHub
11 2 (4.44%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (2.22%) Amazon Kinesis
12 1 (2.22%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.11%) Network Security
2 1 (2.22%) 4G
2 1 (2.22%) 5G
2 1 (2.22%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (2.22%) IPv4
2 1 (2.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (8.89%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (6.67%) DynamoDB
4 2 (4.44%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (4.44%) Parquet
4 2 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (4.44%) Tableau
5 1 (2.22%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.22%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (35.56%) Git
2 12 (26.67%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.44%) GitLab
3 2 (4.44%) JIRA
4 1 (2.22%) JMeter
4 1 (2.22%) JUnit
4 1 (2.22%) Mockito
General
1 7 (15.56%) Public Sector
2 4 (8.89%) Finance
3 3 (6.67%) Banking
4 2 (4.44%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Front Office
5 1 (2.22%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.22%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 17 (37.78%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (20.00%) Developer
3 8 (17.78%) Data Engineer
4 6 (13.33%) Senior
5 5 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (11.11%) Scrum Master
5 5 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
6 4 (8.89%) AWS DevOps
6 4 (8.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) Project Manager
6 4 (8.89%) ScrumMaster Project Manager
6 4 (8.89%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) Agile Project Manager
7 3 (6.67%) Agile Scrum Master
7 3 (6.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 3 (6.67%) Lead
7 3 (6.67%) Python Developer
7 3 (6.67%) Software Developer
7 3 (6.67%) Technical Manager
7 3 (6.67%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.33%) HTML
1 6 (13.33%) JSON
2 5 (11.11%) CSS
2 5 (11.11%) React
3 4 (8.89%) YAML
4 3 (6.67%) Kafka
5 2 (4.44%) .NET
5 2 (4.44%) .NET Core
5 2 (4.44%) Apache Avro
5 2 (4.44%) Flask
5 2 (4.44%) OAuth
5 2 (4.44%) OAuth2
5 2 (4.44%) REST
5 2 (4.44%) RESTful
6 1 (2.22%) Django
6 1 (2.22%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (2.22%) jQuery
6 1 (2.22%) Spring Boot
6 1 (2.22%) Web Services
6 1 (2.22%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.89%) Public Cloud
2 3 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.44%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.44%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.22%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.22%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.22%) Derivative
4 1 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.22%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.33%) Unix
2 1 (2.22%) Linux
2 1 (2.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (51.11%) DevOps
2 17 (37.78%) CI/CD
3 16 (35.56%) Agile
4 9 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (17.78%) Scrum
6 6 (13.33%) Containerisation
6 6 (13.33%) Data Pipeline
6 6 (13.33%) ETL
7 5 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
7 5 (11.11%) Service Design
8 4 (8.89%) Analytics
8 4 (8.89%) Data Engineering
8 4 (8.89%) Front End Development
8 4 (8.89%) Project Delivery
9 3 (6.67%) BDD
9 3 (6.67%) Collaborative Working
9 3 (6.67%) Full Stack Development
9 3 (6.67%) Platform Engineering
9 3 (6.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 16 (35.56%) SQL
2 12 (26.67%) Bash
3 9 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 8 (17.78%) Java
5 6 (13.33%) Go
6 3 (6.67%) C
6 3 (6.67%) C++
6 3 (6.67%) Perl
6 3 (6.67%) PowerShell
7 2 (4.44%) Lua
7 2 (4.44%) PHP
8 1 (2.22%) C#
8 1 (2.22%) Ruby
8 1 (2.22%) Rust
8 1 (2.22%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (62.22%) Security Cleared
2 26 (57.78%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.44%) Degree
3 2 (4.44%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.22%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.22%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (2.22%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.11%) QA
2 2 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.44%) NIST
3 1 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 16 (35.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (51.11%) Terraform
2 19 (42.22%) Kubernetes
3 7 (15.56%) Grafana
3 7 (15.56%) Prometheus
4 4 (8.89%) Ansible
5 2 (4.44%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.22%) Consul
6 1 (2.22%) Kibana
6 1 (2.22%) Packer
Vendors
1 5 (11.11%) Splunk
2 4 (8.89%) Oracle
3 2 (4.44%) Dynatrace
3 2 (4.44%) NEC
4 1 (2.22%) Darktrace
4 1 (2.22%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.22%) Qualys