Python Contract Job Trends in Canary Wharf

Python
Tower Hamlets > Canary Wharf

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Canary Wharf requiring Python skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 9 14
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 -4
Contract jobs citing Python 9 8 7
As % of all contract jobs in Canary Wharf 17.31% 12.90% 8.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.86% 32.00% 21.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 6
10th Percentile £336 £450 £450
25th Percentile £409 £488 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £585 £460
Median % change year-on-year -23.16% +27.17% -35.44%
75th Percentile £450 £630 £678
90th Percentile £516 £675 £775
Tower Hamlets median daily rate £449 £585 £460
% change year-on-year -23.25% +27.17% -35.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
Tower Hamlets median hourly rate - £62.50 -

All Programming Languages
Canary Wharf

Python falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Canary Wharf.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 21 25 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Canary Wharf 40.38% 40.32% 40.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 18 31
10th Percentile £364 £303 £436
25th Percentile £427 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £545 £540
Median % change year-on-year -17.52% +0.93% -6.09%
75th Percentile £521 £585 £585
90th Percentile £608 £675 £765
Tower Hamlets median daily rate £450 £545 £540
% change year-on-year -17.43% +0.93% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
Tower Hamlets median hourly rate - £62.50 -

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Canary Wharf

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Python relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Canary Wharf.

Python job vacancy trend in Canary Wharf

Python
Daily Rate Trend in Canary Wharf

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Canary Wharf citing Python.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Canary Wharf citing Python

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Canary Wharf

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Canary Wharf over the 6 months to 28 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Python in Canary Wharf

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Canary Wharf by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Apache
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Spark
1 1 (11.11%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) AWS
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon MSK
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
3 1 (11.11%) AWS IoT
3 1 (11.11%) Azure AI
3 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (11.11%) OpenShift
3 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) MQTT
1 2 (22.22%) VXLAN
2 1 (11.11%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) BigQuery
1 2 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (11.11%) Base SAS
2 1 (11.11%) Big Data
2 1 (11.11%) Data Mart
2 1 (11.11%) Flink
2 1 (11.11%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) GitLab
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Data Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Network Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Python Data Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Python Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Senior
1 2 (22.22%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Developer
2 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Lead
2 1 (11.11%) Network Operations Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Python Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) CSS
1 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (11.11%) HTML
1 1 (11.11%) Kafka
1 1 (11.11%) NumPy
1 1 (11.11%) Pandas
1 1 (11.11%) Plotly
1 1 (11.11%) Polars
1 1 (11.11%) PySpark
1 1 (11.11%) pytest
1 1 (11.11%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) IoT
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Agile
1 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 3 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 3 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 3 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (33.33%) ETL
2 3 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (33.33%) Validation
3 2 (22.22%) Backlog Refinement
3 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management
3 2 (22.22%) Data Architecture
3 2 (22.22%) Data Governance
3 2 (22.22%) Data Validation
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (22.22%) Microservices
3 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (22.22%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security
4 1 (11.11%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Java
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) C
2 2 (22.22%) C++
3 1 (11.11%) Bash
3 1 (11.11%) Ruby
3 1 (11.11%) SAS Macro
3 1 (11.11%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
1 1 (11.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) QA
2 2 (22.22%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
1 1 (11.11%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Ansible
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Grafana
2 1 (11.11%) Progress Chef
2 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
2 1 (11.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Cisco
1 2 (22.22%) Databricks
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Cloudera
2 1 (11.11%) Confluent
2 1 (11.11%) SaltStack