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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 8 15
Rank change year-on-year -2 +7 -1
Contract jobs citing Python 272 528 479
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 11.34% 14.14% 10.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.57% 34.04% 24.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 301 323
10th Percentile £415 £450 £428
25th Percentile £490 £513 £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £638 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% +9.09%
75th Percentile £750 £738 £731
90th Percentile £838 £838 £813
London median daily rate £600 £625 £610
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.46% +10.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 8
10th Percentile - £75.63 £38.35
25th Percentile £46.75 £76.56 £43.00
Median hourly rate £48.50 £81.25 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.31% +59.31% -18.40%
75th Percentile £50.25 £84.69 £61.75
90th Percentile - £84.88 £66.48
London median hourly rate £50.50 £77.50 £49.29
% change year-on-year -34.84% +57.23% +24.31%

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 835 1,551 1,954
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 34.82% 41.54% 43.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 603 1,032 1,532
10th Percentile £400 £425 £413
25th Percentile £463 £510 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £713
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 7 12
10th Percentile - £35.00 £39.75
25th Percentile £46.75 £43.13 £45.75
Median hourly rate £48.50 £57.50 £57.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% +0.88% +123.75%
75th Percentile £50.25 £71.25 £73.06
90th Percentile - £84.25 £77.45
London median hourly rate £51.13 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -14.79% +20.00% +11.11%

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 15 May 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 15 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
City of London -4 254 £600 -7.69% 82
City of Westminster +5 10 £738 +9.26% 4
West End of London +7 4 £500 -35.48% 4
Southwark +6 2 £600 +31.56% 2
Camden - 1 £500 - 5
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 (4.04%) Apache Spark
2 7 (2.57%) Apache
2 7 (2.57%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.21%) BizTalk Server
3 6 (2.21%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.47%) Site Server
5 3 (1.10%) Confluence
6 2 (0.74%) Gunicorn
6 2 (0.74%) IIS
6 2 (0.74%) Luigi
6 2 (0.74%) nginx
6 2 (0.74%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.37%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.37%) CMS
7 1 (0.37%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.37%) Tornado
Applications
1 7 (2.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.74%) Primavera
2 1 (0.37%) Advent Geneva
2 1 (0.37%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.37%) Endur
2 1 (0.37%) Front Arena
2 1 (0.37%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.37%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 96 (35.29%) AWS
2 78 (28.68%) Azure
3 36 (13.24%) Serverless
4 28 (10.29%) AWS Lambda
5 24 (8.82%) GitHub
6 20 (7.35%) Amazon S3
6 20 (7.35%) Power Platform
7 15 (5.51%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (5.15%) GCP
8 14 (5.15%) GitHub Actions
9 12 (4.41%) Amazon EKS
9 12 (4.41%) Azure Functions
10 9 (3.31%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (3.31%) Azure AKS
11 8 (2.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 8 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
11 8 (2.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 7 (2.57%) Amazon MSK
12 7 (2.57%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (2.57%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.47%) Firewall
2 3 (1.10%) DNS
2 3 (1.10%) Internet
2 3 (1.10%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.74%) DHCP
3 2 (0.74%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.74%) Network Security
3 2 (0.74%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.74%) WAN
4 1 (0.37%) IPv4
4 1 (0.37%) MQTT
4 1 (0.37%) SAN
4 1 (0.37%) SSL
4 1 (0.37%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (8.82%) NoSQL
2 22 (8.09%) SQL Server
3 20 (7.35%) MongoDB
3 20 (7.35%) Power BI
4 19 (6.99%) Relational Database
5 14 (5.15%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (4.78%) Tableau
7 12 (4.41%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (4.41%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (4.41%) Azure SQL Database
7 12 (4.41%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (4.41%) DynamoDB
8 11 (4.04%) Big Data
9 10 (3.68%) Parquet
9 10 (3.68%) RDBMS
10 8 (2.94%) Data Lake
11 6 (2.21%) Hadoop
11 6 (2.21%) MySQL
11 6 (2.21%) Sybase ASE
12 5 (1.84%) KDB
Development Applications
1 24 (8.82%) Jenkins
2 23 (8.46%) Git
3 14 (5.15%) GitLab
4 7 (2.57%) JIRA
4 7 (2.57%) JMeter
5 6 (2.21%) Cypress.io
5 6 (2.21%) Selenium
6 5 (1.84%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.84%) CircleCI
6 5 (1.84%) TeamCity
7 4 (1.47%) Mercurial
8 3 (1.10%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.10%) JUnit
8 3 (1.10%) REST Assured
8 3 (1.10%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.10%) TestNG
9 2 (0.74%) Deequ
9 2 (0.74%) IBM UrbanCode
9 2 (0.74%) Maven
9 2 (0.74%) Subversion
General
1 73 (26.84%) Finance
2 63 (23.16%) Social Skills
3 29 (10.66%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (10.66%) Banking
4 20 (7.35%) Front Office
5 18 (6.62%) Public Sector
6 12 (4.41%) Investment Banking
7 7 (2.57%) Retail Banking
8 5 (1.84%) Financial Institution
8 5 (1.84%) Retail
9 4 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.10%) Marketing
10 3 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.10%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.74%) Agriculture
11 2 (0.74%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 75 (27.57%) Developer
2 29 (10.66%) Analyst
2 29 (10.66%) Data Engineer
2 29 (10.66%) Python Developer
3 27 (9.93%) Senior
4 25 (9.19%) Architect
5 18 (6.62%) Python Engineer
6 16 (5.88%) Data Analyst
6 16 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
7 15 (5.51%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 15 (5.51%) Software Engineer
8 14 (5.15%) Quantitative Developer
9 13 (4.78%) Site Engineer
10 12 (4.41%) DevOps Engineer
10 12 (4.41%) Full Stack Developer
11 10 (3.68%) AWS Engineer
12 9 (3.31%) Lead
13 8 (2.94%) Software Developer
14 7 (2.57%) Cloud Engineer
14 7 (2.57%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (15.81%) Kafka
2 16 (5.88%) RESTful
3 15 (5.51%) HTML
4 14 (5.15%) React
5 12 (4.41%) .NET
6 11 (4.04%) JSON
6 11 (4.04%) Pandas
6 11 (4.04%) RabbitMQ
7 10 (3.68%) Apache Avro
7 10 (3.68%) REST
8 9 (3.31%) CSS
8 9 (3.31%) Node.js
9 8 (2.94%) PySpark
10 7 (2.57%) .NET Core
10 7 (2.57%) OpenID
10 7 (2.57%) pytest
10 7 (2.57%) SAML
11 6 (2.21%) Flask
11 6 (2.21%) NumPy
11 6 (2.21%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.35%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (5.88%) Algorithms
3 11 (4.04%) Cloud Native
3 11 (4.04%) Data Structures
4 10 (3.68%) Market Risk
5 9 (3.31%) Hedge funds
5 9 (3.31%) Public Cloud
6 8 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (2.21%) Derivative
7 6 (2.21%) Fixed Income
7 6 (2.21%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.84%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.84%) Replication
9 4 (1.47%) Equities
9 4 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.47%) Machine to Machine
10 2 (0.74%) Social Media
10 2 (0.74%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 48 (17.65%) Linux
2 33 (12.13%) Windows
3 12 (4.41%) Unix
4 11 (4.04%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.74%) Android
5 2 (0.74%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.74%) CentOS
5 2 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.37%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (29.78%) DevOps
2 71 (26.10%) CI/CD
3 51 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
4 48 (17.65%) Agile
5 40 (14.71%) Software Engineering
6 32 (11.76%) Microservices
7 30 (11.03%) Data Pipeline
8 29 (10.66%) ETL
9 25 (9.19%) Infrastructure as Code
9 25 (9.19%) Visualisation
10 23 (8.46%) Test Automation
11 22 (8.09%) Analytics
11 22 (8.09%) Business Intelligence
11 22 (8.09%) SDLC
12 20 (7.35%) Data Modelling
13 19 (6.99%) Computer Science
13 19 (6.99%) Full Stack Development
13 19 (6.99%) Platform Engineering
13 19 (6.99%) Task Automation
14 18 (6.62%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 106 (38.97%) SQL
2 64 (23.53%) Java
3 35 (12.87%) PowerShell
4 30 (11.03%) C#
5 27 (9.93%) C++
5 27 (9.93%) JavaScript
6 20 (7.35%) Go
7 18 (6.62%) Shell Script
8 17 (6.25%) Bash
9 16 (5.88%) T-SQL
10 11 (4.04%) Perl
11 10 (3.68%) R
12 9 (3.31%) Scala
13 7 (2.57%) PL/SQL
13 7 (2.57%) Rust
14 5 (1.84%) C
14 5 (1.84%) TypeScript
15 4 (1.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (1.47%) Korn
16 3 (1.10%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 28 (10.29%) Security Cleared
2 26 (9.56%) SC Cleared
3 16 (5.88%) Degree
4 8 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.57%) AWS Certification
6 6 (2.21%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.84%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.10%) PhD
9 2 (0.74%) CCNA
9 2 (0.74%) CCNP
9 2 (0.74%) CIMA
9 2 (0.74%) ISEB
9 2 (0.74%) SANS
10 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.15%) QA
2 9 (3.31%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.74%) PMO
4 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.37%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.37%) MiFID
4 1 (0.37%) NIST
4 1 (0.37%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 37 (13.60%) Docker
2 11 (4.04%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 7 (2.57%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.84%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 4 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.74%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.37%) Ceph
7 1 (0.37%) HDFS
7 1 (0.37%) iptables
7 1 (0.37%) NFS
Systems Management
1 66 (24.26%) Kubernetes
2 46 (16.91%) Terraform
3 26 (9.56%) Ansible
4 20 (7.35%) Grafana
5 19 (6.99%) Prometheus
6 13 (4.78%) Consul
7 9 (3.31%) Puppet
8 6 (2.21%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.84%) Argo
9 5 (1.84%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.47%) CSIRT
11 3 (1.10%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (1.10%) Nagios
12 2 (0.74%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.74%) Graylog
12 2 (0.74%) Kibana
12 2 (0.74%) logstash
12 2 (0.74%) Opsgenie
12 2 (0.74%) Packer
Vendors
1 31 (11.40%) Microsoft
2 22 (8.09%) Oracle
3 13 (4.78%) IBM
4 12 (4.41%) Databricks
5 11 (4.04%) SaltStack
5 11 (4.04%) SAP
6 8 (2.94%) Splunk
7 7 (2.57%) Sybase
8 6 (2.21%) MuleSoft
8 6 (2.21%) ServiceNow
8 6 (2.21%) Sun
9 5 (1.84%) Alteryx
9 5 (1.84%) Google
9 5 (1.84%) Okta
9 5 (1.84%) Palo Alto
9 5 (1.84%) Veritas
10 4 (1.47%) ESRI
11 3 (1.10%) Cisco
11 3 (1.10%) Murex
11 3 (1.10%) Salesforce