Python Contracts in the UK excluding London

Python
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 18 28
Rank change year-on-year -4 +10 -6
Contract jobs citing Python 1,303 1,946 1,972
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.35% 8.28% 6.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.16% 28.53% 22.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 863 1,359 1,311
10th Percentile £363 £400 £386
25th Percentile £425 £461 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% +11.70%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £619
90th Percentile £675 £708 £688
UK median daily rate £551 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.25% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 107 68
10th Percentile £20.77 £21.18 £18.35
25th Percentile £34.63 £46.88 £25.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £57.50 £50.26
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +14.41% +29.70%
75th Percentile £70.63 £70.30 £57.73
90th Percentile £78.00 £75.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £64.38 £49.88
% change year-on-year -6.80% +29.07% +24.69%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,798 6,820 8,829
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.38% 29.02% 28.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,224 4,850 6,148
10th Percentile £315 £350 £336
25th Percentile £400 £413 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% +2.56% +14.71%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £575
90th Percentile £650 £678 £646
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 405 338 330
10th Percentile £38.00 £22.50 £17.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £49.76 £26.98
Median hourly rate £62.50 £60.94 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +22.49% +19.88%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.58 £65.03
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £60.63 £50.00
% change year-on-year +2.27% +21.25% +14.94%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in the UK excluding London

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Python in the UK excluding London

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python in the UK excluding London

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Python in the UK excluding London

Python
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Python in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Python in the UK excluding London

Python
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
North of England -1 349 £500 -13.04% 269
South East -13 314 £525 -4.55% 324
Scotland -5 214 £500 - 105
South West -9 183 £600 +3.49% 227
North West -6 177 £500 -11.97% 152
Yorkshire +15 144 £500 -16.67% 91
Midlands +16 134 £450 -14.29% 216
East of England -12 92 £450 -10.00% 206
West Midlands +5 76 £425 -24.44% 142
East Midlands +19 57 £475 -5.00% 74
North East +5 30 £516 -23.63% 26
Wales +10 18 £525 +5.00% 36
Northern Ireland +7 13 £435 -13.00% 49
Python
UK

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 78 (5.99%) Confluence
2 53 (4.07%) Apache Airflow
3 48 (3.68%) Apache
4 39 (2.99%) Apache Spark
5 31 (2.38%) SAS
6 8 (0.61%) nginx
7 6 (0.46%) IIS
7 6 (0.46%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.38%) JBoss
8 5 (0.38%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.31%) GeoServer
10 3 (0.23%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.23%) CMS
11 2 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
11 2 (0.15%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.15%) IBM Domino
11 2 (0.15%) Traefik
12 1 (0.077%) Appian
12 1 (0.077%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.077%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 109 (8.37%) Chatbot
2 16 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.77%) Sketch
3 10 (0.77%) SPSS
4 8 (0.61%) Simulink
5 1 (0.077%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.077%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (0.69%) Odoo
2 8 (0.61%) Maximo
3 4 (0.31%) Adobe Campaign
3 4 (0.31%) FastStats
3 4 (0.31%) Unica
4 3 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.15%) Shopify
6 1 (0.077%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.077%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.077%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 349 (26.78%) AWS
2 269 (20.64%) Azure
3 115 (8.83%) Serverless
4 96 (7.37%) Power Platform
5 86 (6.60%) Amazon S3
6 74 (5.68%) AWS Lambda
6 74 (5.68%) GitHub
7 72 (5.53%) GCP
8 57 (4.37%) OpenShift
9 56 (4.30%) Snowflake
10 54 (4.14%) AWS CloudFormation
11 53 (4.07%) Amazon EC2
11 53 (4.07%) Azure Data Factory
11 53 (4.07%) Azure DevOps
12 32 (2.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 29 (2.23%) Entra ID
14 27 (2.07%) Azure Monitor
15 24 (1.84%) IaaS
16 22 (1.69%) Azure Functions
16 22 (1.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 54 (4.14%) TCP/IP
2 46 (3.53%) Firewall
3 38 (2.92%) SAN
4 35 (2.69%) VPN
5 30 (2.30%) DNS
6 29 (2.23%) BGP
7 24 (1.84%) Radio Access Network
8 20 (1.53%) Network Security
9 17 (1.30%) OSPF
9 17 (1.30%) Wireless
10 16 (1.23%) Cisco ASA
10 16 (1.23%) HTTP
10 16 (1.23%) NetScaler
10 16 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
11 13 (1.00%) MPLS
11 13 (1.00%) SNMP
12 12 (0.92%) Cisco ISE
12 12 (0.92%) EIGRP
12 12 (0.92%) HSRP
12 12 (0.92%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (6.83%) Power BI
2 77 (5.91%) PostgreSQL
3 58 (4.45%) NoSQL
4 57 (4.37%) Data Warehouse
5 55 (4.22%) MongoDB
6 52 (3.99%) Big Data
7 50 (3.84%) Relational Database
8 49 (3.76%) Tableau
9 46 (3.53%) Data Lake
10 39 (2.99%) SQL Server
11 30 (2.30%) MySQL
12 29 (2.23%) Hadoop
13 26 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
13 26 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
14 24 (1.84%) Amazon RDS
15 21 (1.61%) BigQuery
15 21 (1.61%) GIS
16 18 (1.38%) Amazon Aurora
16 18 (1.38%) Data Mining
17 16 (1.23%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 180 (13.81%) Jenkins
2 172 (13.20%) Git
3 136 (10.44%) JIRA
4 89 (6.83%) GitLab
5 49 (3.76%) Bitbucket
6 33 (2.53%) Robot Framework
7 30 (2.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 28 (2.15%) Selenium
9 26 (2.00%) Sonatype Nexus
10 17 (1.30%) SonarQube
11 16 (1.23%) Artifactory
12 15 (1.15%) Maven
13 14 (1.07%) Subversion
14 13 (1.00%) Gradle
15 12 (0.92%) TestRail
15 12 (0.92%) Visual Studio
16 9 (0.69%) Travis CI
17 8 (0.61%) Burp Suite
17 8 (0.61%) GoogleTest
17 8 (0.61%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 241 (18.50%) Social Skills
2 154 (11.82%) Analytical Skills
3 114 (8.75%) Finance
4 83 (6.37%) Public Sector
5 52 (3.99%) Banking
6 34 (2.61%) Telecoms
7 29 (2.23%) Pharmaceutical
8 26 (2.00%) Aerospace
9 25 (1.92%) Marketing
10 22 (1.69%) Manufacturing
11 20 (1.53%) Retail
12 15 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
13 14 (1.07%) Multimedia
13 14 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
14 13 (1.00%) Electronics
14 13 (1.00%) Investment Banking
15 9 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
15 9 (0.69%) Legal
16 6 (0.46%) Military
17 5 (0.38%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 399 (30.62%) Developer
2 133 (10.21%) Software Developer
3 128 (9.82%) Python Developer
4 113 (8.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 107 (8.21%) Data Engineer
6 99 (7.60%) Analyst
7 98 (7.52%) Senior
8 68 (5.22%) Software Engineer
9 62 (4.76%) Python Engineer
10 58 (4.45%) Data Analyst
11 54 (4.14%) Full Stack Developer
12 52 (3.99%) Architect
13 51 (3.91%) AWS Engineer
14 49 (3.76%) Linux Engineer
15 47 (3.61%) Lead
16 46 (3.53%) Network Engineer
17 36 (2.76%) Platform Engineer
18 33 (2.53%) Azure Engineer
18 33 (2.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
19 32 (2.46%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (10.82%) HTML
2 91 (6.98%) React
3 71 (5.45%) REST
4 49 (3.76%) PySpark
5 48 (3.68%) .NET
6 37 (2.84%) AWS CDK
7 35 (2.69%) AngularJS
7 35 (2.69%) JSON
8 34 (2.61%) YAML
9 33 (2.53%) XML
10 32 (2.46%) Node.js
11 31 (2.38%) CSS
12 30 (2.30%) Django
13 28 (2.15%) Flask
13 28 (2.15%) Kafka
13 28 (2.15%) RESTful
14 25 (1.92%) Spring
15 24 (1.84%) .NET Core
16 20 (1.53%) Elastic Stack
17 18 (1.38%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 45 (3.45%) Product Ownership
2 42 (3.22%) PKI
3 36 (2.76%) Linux Command Line
4 35 (2.69%) Algorithms
5 29 (2.23%) Data Centre
6 26 (2.00%) Data Structures
6 26 (2.00%) Public Cloud
7 25 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
8 23 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
9 22 (1.69%) Client/Server
9 22 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
10 16 (1.23%) Cloud Native
10 16 (1.23%) Management Information System
11 15 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
12 14 (1.07%) Mobile App
13 13 (1.00%) Onboarding
14 12 (0.92%) Renewable Energy
15 11 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
16 10 (0.77%) FPGA
16 10 (0.77%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 314 (24.10%) Linux
2 129 (9.90%) Windows
3 77 (5.91%) Unix
4 71 (5.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 57 (4.37%) Windows Server
6 35 (2.69%) Ubuntu
7 25 (1.92%) Debian
8 19 (1.46%) Android
9 16 (1.23%) Windows Server 2019
10 15 (1.15%) zOS
11 13 (1.00%) Apple iOS
12 11 (0.84%) Embedded Linux
13 9 (0.69%) CentOS
14 8 (0.61%) VMS
15 6 (0.46%) Mac OS
16 4 (0.31%) Data ONTAP
16 4 (0.31%) Solaris
16 4 (0.31%) Windows 10
17 3 (0.23%) Kali Linux
18 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 364 (27.94%) Agile
2 354 (27.17%) DevOps
3 277 (21.26%) CI/CD
4 258 (19.80%) Software Engineering
5 181 (13.89%) Artificial Intelligence
5 181 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
6 138 (10.59%) Code Quality
7 129 (9.90%) Data Modelling
8 118 (9.06%) Test Automation
9 113 (8.67%) Infrastructure as Code
10 112 (8.60%) Conversational UI
11 108 (8.29%) Computer Science
11 108 (8.29%) Scrum
12 106 (8.14%) Analytics
13 105 (8.06%) Containerisation
14 99 (7.60%) Business Intelligence
15 92 (7.06%) Data Engineering
16 87 (6.68%) ETL
17 85 (6.52%) Configuration Management
18 84 (6.45%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 385 (29.55%) SQL
2 237 (18.19%) JavaScript
3 224 (17.19%) Java
4 184 (14.12%) PowerShell
5 174 (13.35%) C#
6 152 (11.67%) Bash
7 100 (7.67%) C++
8 85 (6.52%) Perl
9 74 (5.68%) C
10 50 (3.84%) Shell Script
11 48 (3.68%) Scala
12 42 (3.22%) Go
13 41 (3.15%) R
14 34 (2.61%) TypeScript
15 28 (2.15%) Groovy
16 27 (2.07%) Ruby
17 20 (1.53%) VBScript
18 17 (1.30%) Tcl
19 16 (1.23%) MATLAB
20 15 (1.15%) REXX
Qualifications
1 304 (23.33%) Security Cleared
2 219 (16.81%) Degree
3 178 (13.66%) SC Cleared
4 123 (9.44%) DV Cleared
5 55 (4.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
6 25 (1.92%) Master's Degree
7 23 (1.77%) CCNP
8 22 (1.69%) AWS Certification
9 19 (1.46%) CCNA
10 12 (0.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 12 (0.92%) PhD
11 10 (0.77%) Azure Certification
11 10 (0.77%) OSCP
12 7 (0.54%) CEH
12 7 (0.54%) CREST Certified
12 7 (0.54%) GIAC
13 6 (0.46%) GPEN
14 5 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 5 (0.38%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (4.45%) QA
2 51 (3.91%) Data Quality
3 21 (1.61%) Accessibility
4 16 (1.23%) GDPR
5 12 (0.92%) Disclosure Scotland
6 10 (0.77%) NIST
7 8 (0.61%) MISRA
8 7 (0.54%) GxP
8 7 (0.54%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.54%) RMADS
9 6 (0.46%) Good Clinical Practice
9 6 (0.46%) JTAG
10 4 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 3 (0.23%) ISO 22301
11 3 (0.23%) NCSC
12 2 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.15%) IEC 61508
13 1 (0.077%) DO-178B
13 1 (0.077%) ISO 26262
13 1 (0.077%) MISRA C
System Software
1 173 (13.28%) Docker
2 70 (5.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 65 (4.99%) Active Directory
4 26 (2.00%) Firmware
5 22 (1.69%) NFS
6 20 (1.53%) vSphere
7 18 (1.38%) VMware NSX
8 15 (1.15%) Time Sharing Option
9 14 (1.07%) VMware ESXi
10 13 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
11 11 (0.84%) Hyper-V
12 7 (0.54%) HDFS
13 6 (0.46%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 6 (0.46%) Embedded Firmware
14 4 (0.31%) GPFS
14 4 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.31%) VirtualBox
15 3 (0.23%) KVM
16 2 (0.15%) Varnish
16 2 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 246 (18.88%) Ansible
2 228 (17.50%) Terraform
3 206 (15.81%) Kubernetes
4 65 (4.99%) Grafana
5 45 (3.45%) Prometheus
6 37 (2.84%) Progress Chef
7 32 (2.46%) Puppet
8 25 (1.92%) PowerCLI
9 22 (1.69%) Kibana
10 17 (1.30%) Packer
11 15 (1.15%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 14 (1.07%) Docker Swarm
13 13 (1.00%) SCCM
13 13 (1.00%) vRealize
14 11 (0.84%) HP Fortify
15 10 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
16 8 (0.61%) Red Hat Satellite
17 7 (0.54%) Nessus
18 6 (0.46%) logstash
18 6 (0.46%) Nagios
Vendors
1 119 (9.13%) VMware
2 108 (8.29%) PayPal
3 101 (7.75%) Microsoft
4 63 (4.83%) Splunk
5 57 (4.37%) Databricks
6 56 (4.30%) Red Hat
7 53 (4.07%) Google
8 42 (3.22%) Atlassian
9 40 (3.07%) Cisco
9 40 (3.07%) Dell
10 33 (2.53%) Oracle
11 29 (2.23%) IBM
12 25 (1.92%) HP
13 20 (1.53%) Brocade
13 20 (1.53%) SAP
14 19 (1.46%) Palo Alto
14 19 (1.46%) SolarWinds
15 18 (1.38%) Informatica
16 16 (1.23%) Veritas
17 15 (1.15%) CA