Python Contracts in Central London

Python
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 8 15
Rank change year-on-year -2 +7 -2
Contract jobs citing Python 282 532 498
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 11.51% 13.78% 10.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.98% 32.24% 24.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 314 341
10th Percentile £425 £451 £450
25th Percentile £495 £513 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £638 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% +9.09%
75th Percentile £744 £743 £738
90th Percentile £838 £834 £813
London median daily rate £588 £625 £605
% change year-on-year -6.00% +3.31% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 6
10th Percentile - £75.63 £40.25
25th Percentile £46.75 £76.56 £45.00
Median hourly rate £48.50 £81.25 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.31% +49.08% -12.80%
75th Percentile £50.25 £84.69 £61.75
90th Percentile - £84.88 £69.63
London median hourly rate £51.50 £75.00 £48.58
% change year-on-year -31.33% +54.38% +12.98%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 830 1,650 1,997
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 33.89% 42.75% 43.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 604 1,094 1,561
10th Percentile £413 £420 £413
25th Percentile £463 £506 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £619 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.66% +3.10% +9.09%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £700
90th Percentile £800 £825 £800
London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 10
10th Percentile - £35.00 £43.45
25th Percentile £46.75 £47.19 £46.50
Median hourly rate £48.50 £57.50 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% +2.68% +138.81%
75th Percentile £50.25 £65.00 £69.25
90th Percentile - £84.13 £77.63
London median hourly rate £50.25 £57.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -12.61% +15.00% +9.39%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in Central London

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Python in Central London

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Central London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python in Central London

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Python in Central London

Python
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 28 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
City of London -1 267 £600 -5.88% 92
City of Westminster +4 7 £750 -6.25%
West End of London +4 4 £500 -35.48% 4
Southwark +4 2 £600 +29.78%
Camden - 1 £500 - 2
Python
London

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 11 (3.90%) Apache Spark
2 8 (2.84%) Apache
3 7 (2.48%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.48%) SharePoint
4 6 (2.13%) BizTalk Server
5 5 (1.77%) Site Server
6 3 (1.06%) Confluence
6 3 (1.06%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.71%) Gunicorn
7 2 (0.71%) IIS
7 2 (0.71%) Luigi
7 2 (0.71%) nginx
8 1 (0.35%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.35%) CMS
8 1 (0.35%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.35%) Tornado
Applications
1 6 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.71%) Primavera
2 1 (0.35%) Advent Geneva
2 1 (0.35%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.35%) Endur
2 1 (0.35%) Front Arena
2 1 (0.35%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 95 (33.69%) AWS
2 83 (29.43%) Azure
3 35 (12.41%) Serverless
4 28 (9.93%) AWS Lambda
5 24 (8.51%) GitHub
6 21 (7.45%) Amazon S3
7 20 (7.09%) Power Platform
8 17 (6.03%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (6.03%) GCP
9 15 (5.32%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (4.26%) Amazon EKS
11 11 (3.90%) Azure Functions
12 9 (3.19%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (3.19%) Azure AKS
12 9 (3.19%) Azure Data Factory
13 8 (2.84%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (2.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 7 (2.48%) Amazon MSK
14 7 (2.48%) AWS Step Functions
14 7 (2.48%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.42%) DNS
2 3 (1.06%) Firewall
2 3 (1.06%) Internet
2 3 (1.06%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.71%) DHCP
3 2 (0.71%) Network Security
4 1 (0.35%) BGP
4 1 (0.35%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (0.35%) IOS XR
4 1 (0.35%) IPv4
4 1 (0.35%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.35%) MPLS
4 1 (0.35%) MQTT
4 1 (0.35%) SAN
4 1 (0.35%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.35%) VLAN
4 1 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (8.16%) NoSQL
2 22 (7.80%) SQL Server
3 20 (7.09%) Power BI
4 19 (6.74%) MongoDB
5 18 (6.38%) Relational Database
6 16 (5.67%) PostgreSQL
7 15 (5.32%) Tableau
8 13 (4.61%) Amazon Redshift
8 13 (4.61%) Azure SQL Database
9 12 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
9 12 (4.26%) DynamoDB
10 11 (3.90%) Data Warehouse
11 10 (3.55%) Parquet
12 9 (3.19%) Big Data
12 9 (3.19%) RDBMS
13 8 (2.84%) Data Lake
14 6 (2.13%) Hadoop
14 6 (2.13%) MySQL
15 5 (1.77%) GIS
15 5 (1.77%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 25 (8.87%) Git
1 25 (8.87%) Jenkins
2 14 (4.96%) GitLab
3 8 (2.84%) JIRA
4 7 (2.48%) JMeter
4 7 (2.48%) Selenium
5 6 (2.13%) Cypress.io
6 5 (1.77%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.77%) CircleCI
6 5 (1.77%) TeamCity
7 4 (1.42%) JUnit
7 4 (1.42%) Mercurial
7 4 (1.42%) REST Assured
7 4 (1.42%) TestNG
8 3 (1.06%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.06%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.71%) Appium
9 2 (0.71%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.71%) Deequ
9 2 (0.71%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 78 (27.66%) Finance
2 65 (23.05%) Social Skills
3 33 (11.70%) Banking
4 30 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (7.45%) Front Office
6 19 (6.74%) Public Sector
7 14 (4.96%) Investment Banking
8 7 (2.48%) Retail Banking
9 6 (2.13%) Retail
10 5 (1.77%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.77%) Marketing
11 4 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.42%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.06%) Agriculture
12 3 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.71%) Corporate Banking
14 1 (0.35%) Electronics
14 1 (0.35%) Law
14 1 (0.35%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 77 (27.30%) Developer
2 31 (10.99%) Data Engineer
3 30 (10.64%) Python Developer
3 30 (10.64%) Senior
4 28 (9.93%) Analyst
5 26 (9.22%) Architect
6 18 (6.38%) Python Engineer
7 17 (6.03%) Platform Engineer
8 16 (5.67%) Quantitative Developer
8 16 (5.67%) Software Engineer
9 15 (5.32%) Data Analyst
10 13 (4.61%) Full Stack Developer
10 13 (4.61%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 12 (4.26%) Site Engineer
12 9 (3.19%) AWS Engineer
12 9 (3.19%) Cloud Engineer
12 9 (3.19%) Data Scientist
12 9 (3.19%) DevOps Engineer
12 9 (3.19%) Senior Developer
13 8 (2.84%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (13.83%) Kafka
2 15 (5.32%) RESTful
3 14 (4.96%) HTML
4 13 (4.61%) .NET
4 13 (4.61%) React
5 12 (4.26%) JSON
5 12 (4.26%) Pandas
5 12 (4.26%) REST
6 10 (3.55%) Apache Avro
6 10 (3.55%) RabbitMQ
7 9 (3.19%) Node.js
8 8 (2.84%) .NET Core
8 8 (2.84%) CSS
8 8 (2.84%) PySpark
9 7 (2.48%) Elastic Stack
9 7 (2.48%) NumPy
9 7 (2.48%) OpenID
9 7 (2.48%) pytest
9 7 (2.48%) SAML
10 6 (2.13%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.38%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (5.32%) Algorithms
3 13 (4.61%) Cloud Native
4 10 (3.55%) Market Risk
5 9 (3.19%) Data Structures
5 9 (3.19%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (3.19%) Public Cloud
6 8 (2.84%) Fixed Income
6 8 (2.84%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (2.84%) Hedge funds
7 7 (2.48%) Derivative
7 7 (2.48%) Linux Command Line
8 6 (2.13%) Equities
8 6 (2.13%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (1.77%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.42%) Machine to Machine
10 4 (1.42%) Replication
11 3 (1.06%) Onboarding
12 2 (0.71%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 49 (17.38%) Linux
2 35 (12.41%) Windows
3 12 (4.26%) Windows Server
4 10 (3.55%) Unix
5 3 (1.06%) CentOS
5 3 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.71%) Android
6 2 (0.71%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (29.79%) DevOps
2 74 (26.24%) CI/CD
3 55 (19.50%) Agile
4 51 (18.09%) Problem-Solving
5 44 (15.60%) Software Engineering
6 33 (11.70%) ETL
7 32 (11.35%) Microservices
8 30 (10.64%) Data Pipeline
9 28 (9.93%) Infrastructure as Code
10 26 (9.22%) Analytics
10 26 (9.22%) Visualisation
11 24 (8.51%) SDLC
11 24 (8.51%) Test Automation
12 23 (8.16%) Data Modelling
13 20 (7.09%) Business Intelligence
13 20 (7.09%) Computer Science
13 20 (7.09%) Full Stack Development
14 19 (6.74%) Containerisation
15 18 (6.38%) Platform Engineering
16 17 (6.03%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 112 (39.72%) SQL
2 69 (24.47%) Java
3 38 (13.48%) PowerShell
4 33 (11.70%) C#
5 29 (10.28%) C++
6 27 (9.57%) JavaScript
7 20 (7.09%) Go
8 18 (6.38%) T-SQL
9 17 (6.03%) Bash
9 17 (6.03%) Shell Script
10 13 (4.61%) R
11 11 (3.90%) Perl
12 7 (2.48%) PL/SQL
12 7 (2.48%) Rust
12 7 (2.48%) Scala
13 6 (2.13%) TypeScript
14 5 (1.77%) Korn
15 4 (1.42%) C
16 3 (1.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 3 (1.06%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 30 (10.64%) Security Cleared
2 28 (9.93%) SC Cleared
3 17 (6.03%) Degree
4 10 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.84%) AWS Certification
6 6 (2.13%) ISTQB
6 6 (2.13%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.06%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.06%) PhD
9 2 (0.71%) CCNA
9 2 (0.71%) CCNP
9 2 (0.71%) CIMA
9 2 (0.71%) ISEB
9 2 (0.71%) SANS
10 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.26%) QA
2 8 (2.84%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.71%) MiFID
3 2 (0.71%) PMO
4 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.35%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.35%) NIST
4 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (12.77%) Docker
2 10 (3.55%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 6 (2.13%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.77%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.42%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 2 (0.71%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.35%) Ceph
7 1 (0.35%) HDFS
7 1 (0.35%) iptables
7 1 (0.35%) KVM
7 1 (0.35%) NFS
Systems Management
1 65 (23.05%) Kubernetes
2 48 (17.02%) Terraform
3 27 (9.57%) Ansible
4 18 (6.38%) Grafana
5 17 (6.03%) Prometheus
6 12 (4.26%) Consul
7 9 (3.19%) Puppet
8 6 (2.13%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.77%) Argo
9 5 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.42%) CSIRT
11 3 (1.06%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (1.06%) Kibana
11 3 (1.06%) logstash
11 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.71%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.71%) Graylog
12 2 (0.71%) Nagios
12 2 (0.71%) Opsgenie
12 2 (0.71%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 33 (11.70%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.16%) Oracle
3 14 (4.96%) Databricks
4 12 (4.26%) IBM
5 10 (3.55%) SaltStack
5 10 (3.55%) SAP
6 9 (3.19%) Google
7 7 (2.48%) Splunk
8 6 (2.13%) MuleSoft
8 6 (2.13%) Sybase
9 5 (1.77%) Alteryx
9 5 (1.77%) ESRI
9 5 (1.77%) Okta
9 5 (1.77%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.77%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.77%) Sun
10 4 (1.42%) Palo Alto
10 4 (1.42%) Veritas
11 3 (1.06%) PagerDuty
11 3 (1.06%) Red Hat