Python Contract Job Trends in Central London

Python
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Python skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 10 9
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing Python 280 269 298
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 13.63% 12.54% 11.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.42% 36.30% 34.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 178 209
10th Percentile £341 £413 £413
25th Percentile £413 £463 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £580 £625
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% -7.20% -
75th Percentile £670 £696 £745
90th Percentile £779 £772 £875
London median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £26.28 - -
25th Percentile £26.31 - -
Median hourly rate £27.75 - -
75th Percentile £29.31 - -
90th Percentile £29.43 - -
London median hourly rate £55.00 £59.00 £59.00
% change year-on-year -6.78% - +2.61%

All Programming Languages
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 660 741 864
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 32.12% 34.55% 33.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 479 476 649
10th Percentile £362 £412 £413
25th Percentile £436 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £669 £688 £704
90th Percentile £777 £769 £825
London median daily rate £535 £563 £575
% change year-on-year -4.89% -2.17% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 1
10th Percentile £26.33 £38.10 -
25th Percentile £26.44 £40.13 £46.25
Median hourly rate £31.00 £76.75 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -59.61% +61.58% -5.47%
75th Percentile £38.50 £112.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £43.90 - -
London median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year +4.76% +3.96% -12.17%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Python job vacancy trend in Central London

Python
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Python.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Python

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Central London over the 6 months to 22 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Python in Central London

Python
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Python.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Python

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 22 January 2026. 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 -1 259 £538 -10.42% 264
City of Westminster +6 7 £538 +13.76% 31
West End of London +3 4 £625 +38.89% 9
Python
London

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 16 (5.71%) Apache Spark
2 15 (5.36%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (3.57%) Apache
4 5 (1.79%) Confluence
5 3 (1.07%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.36%) Appian
6 1 (0.36%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.36%) Mattermost
6 1 (0.36%) SAS
6 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.43%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.71%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.36%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.36%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.36%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.36%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 109 (38.93%) AWS
2 83 (29.64%) Azure
3 44 (15.71%) Power Platform
4 40 (14.29%) GitHub
5 38 (13.57%) GCP
6 34 (12.14%) Serverless
7 29 (10.36%) Amazon S3
7 29 (10.36%) AWS Lambda
8 23 (8.21%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (6.43%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (6.43%) Snowflake
10 15 (5.36%) Amazon ECS
11 12 (4.29%) Azure Data Factory
12 11 (3.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 11 (3.93%) Amazon EKS
13 9 (3.21%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (3.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 9 (3.21%) dbt
14 7 (2.50%) Amazon SageMaker
14 7 (2.50%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.50%) DNS
2 6 (2.14%) Firewall
3 4 (1.43%) Internet
3 4 (1.43%) Network Security
3 4 (1.43%) SSL
3 4 (1.43%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.71%) BGP
4 2 (0.71%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (0.71%) Ethernet VPN
4 2 (0.71%) HTTP
4 2 (0.71%) MPLS
4 2 (0.71%) NX-OS
4 2 (0.71%) OSPF
4 2 (0.71%) VXLAN
5 1 (0.36%) Cisco Wireless
5 1 (0.36%) DHCP
5 1 (0.36%) DKIM
5 1 (0.36%) SNMP
5 1 (0.36%) VPN
5 1 (0.36%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (13.57%) Power BI
2 22 (7.86%) Tableau
3 17 (6.07%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (5.71%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (4.64%) Metadata
5 13 (4.64%) Relational Database
6 12 (4.29%) Data Lake
7 11 (3.93%) NoSQL
8 10 (3.57%) Big Data
9 9 (3.21%) SQL Server
10 8 (2.86%) DynamoDB
11 7 (2.50%) MySQL
12 6 (2.14%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (2.14%) Snowflake Schema
13 5 (1.79%) Delta Lake
13 5 (1.79%) Hadoop
13 5 (1.79%) MongoDB
13 5 (1.79%) Pinecone
13 5 (1.79%) Redis
14 4 (1.43%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 49 (17.50%) Git
2 24 (8.57%) Jenkins
3 14 (5.00%) GitLab
4 12 (4.29%) JIRA
5 6 (2.14%) Cucumber
6 5 (1.79%) Cypress.io
6 5 (1.79%) Selenium
6 5 (1.79%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.43%) MLflow
7 4 (1.43%) SpecFlow
7 4 (1.43%) TeamCity
8 3 (1.07%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.07%) Maven
8 3 (1.07%) Robot Framework
8 3 (1.07%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.71%) Gradle
9 2 (0.71%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.36%) ERwin
10 1 (0.36%) Mocha
10 1 (0.36%) Zephyr
General
1 83 (29.64%) Finance
2 64 (22.86%) Social Skills
3 46 (16.43%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (15.36%) Banking
5 18 (6.43%) Public Sector
6 16 (5.71%) Front Office
7 12 (4.29%) Investment Banking
8 8 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.79%) Financial Institution
9 5 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (1.43%) Back Office
10 4 (1.43%) Law
10 4 (1.43%) Retail
11 3 (1.07%) Games
11 3 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.07%) Legal
11 3 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.07%) Retail Banking
11 3 (1.07%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 49 (17.50%) Developer
2 46 (16.43%) Senior
3 42 (15.00%) Data Engineer
4 24 (8.57%) Python Engineer
5 20 (7.14%) Analyst
6 19 (6.79%) DevOps Engineer
7 18 (6.43%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 18 (6.43%) Lead
8 14 (5.00%) Data Scientist
9 12 (4.29%) Data Analyst
9 12 (4.29%) Python Developer
10 10 (3.57%) Architect
10 10 (3.57%) Senior Developer
11 9 (3.21%) AWS Engineer
11 9 (3.21%) Consultant
11 9 (3.21%) Java Developer
12 8 (2.86%) Machine Learning Engineer
13 7 (2.50%) Senior Data Engineer
13 7 (2.50%) Snowflake Data Engineer
13 7 (2.50%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.43%) scikit-learn
2 17 (6.07%) Node.js
3 16 (5.71%) NumPy
3 16 (5.71%) Pandas
3 16 (5.71%) PySpark
4 15 (5.36%) PyTorch
5 14 (5.00%) .NET
6 13 (4.64%) React
6 13 (4.64%) REST
6 13 (4.64%) TensorFlow
7 12 (4.29%) RESTful
8 11 (3.93%) FastAPI
8 11 (3.93%) LangChain
9 10 (3.57%) Kafka
9 10 (3.57%) LangGraph
10 9 (3.21%) OAuth
11 6 (2.14%) AngularJS
11 6 (2.14%) HTML
11 6 (2.14%) JWT
11 6 (2.14%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 26 (9.29%) Cloud Native
2 16 (5.71%) Algorithms
3 14 (5.00%) AI Agents
3 14 (5.00%) Derivative
4 10 (3.57%) Equities
5 9 (3.21%) Onboarding
6 8 (2.86%) Data Structures
6 8 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (2.50%) Virtual Team
8 6 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.14%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.14%) Replication
9 5 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.79%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (1.79%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.79%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.43%) Hedge funds
10 4 (1.43%) Life Science
11 3 (1.07%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 23 (8.21%) Linux
2 10 (3.57%) Unix
3 7 (2.50%) Windows
4 4 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.07%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.71%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.36%) Android
7 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.36%) Solaris
7 1 (0.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (33.57%) CI/CD
2 76 (27.14%) DevOps
3 67 (23.93%) AI
4 66 (23.57%) Analytics
5 56 (20.00%) Agile
6 55 (19.64%) Problem-Solving
7 53 (18.93%) Data Pipeline
7 53 (18.93%) Machine Learning
8 42 (15.00%) ETL
9 41 (14.64%) Data Science
9 41 (14.64%) Test Automation
10 40 (14.29%) Data Modelling
10 40 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
11 38 (13.57%) Software Engineering
12 36 (12.86%) Data Engineering
13 35 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
13 35 (12.50%) Generative AI
14 33 (11.79%) Containerisation
15 30 (10.71%) LLM
16 27 (9.64%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 123 (43.93%) SQL
2 51 (18.21%) Java
3 27 (9.64%) JavaScript
4 23 (8.21%) C#
5 20 (7.14%) PowerShell
6 17 (6.07%) Bash
7 14 (5.00%) C++
8 10 (3.57%) TypeScript
9 8 (2.86%) R
10 7 (2.50%) Scala
11 6 (2.14%) Go
11 6 (2.14%) Perl
12 5 (1.79%) Ruby
13 4 (1.43%) PL/SQL
14 3 (1.07%) Bicep
14 3 (1.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (1.07%) MATLAB
14 3 (1.07%) PHP
14 3 (1.07%) Shell Script
14 3 (1.07%) VBA
Qualifications
1 44 (15.71%) Security Cleared
2 34 (12.14%) SC Cleared
3 25 (8.93%) Degree
4 12 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.86%) MCP
6 7 (2.50%) Master's Degree
7 6 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (2.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 5 (1.79%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.43%) PhD
10 3 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.71%) CBAP
11 2 (0.71%) CCIE
11 2 (0.71%) CCNP
11 2 (0.71%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.71%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.71%) ISEB
11 2 (0.71%) SnowPro
12 1 (0.36%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (11.43%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.29%) GDPR
3 7 (2.50%) QA
4 4 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.07%) NIST
6 2 (0.71%) EMIR
6 2 (0.71%) EU AI Act
6 2 (0.71%) NCSC
7 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.36%) Dodd-Frank
7 1 (0.36%) GRC
7 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.36%) MiFID
7 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.36%) SOC 2
System Software
1 47 (16.79%) Docker
2 5 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.36%) HDFS
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 48 (17.14%) Terraform
2 46 (16.43%) Kubernetes
3 32 (11.43%) Ansible
4 10 (3.57%) Grafana
5 9 (3.21%) Prometheus
6 8 (2.86%) vRealize
7 6 (2.14%) Argo
8 5 (1.79%) Istio
9 3 (1.07%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (1.07%) Karpenter
9 3 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.07%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
10 2 (0.71%) Kibana
10 2 (0.71%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.71%) Puppet
10 2 (0.71%) vRealize Orchestrator
11 1 (0.36%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.36%) Icinga
11 1 (0.36%) logstash
11 1 (0.36%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 37 (13.21%) Microsoft
2 34 (12.14%) Databricks
3 22 (7.86%) Google
4 18 (6.43%) Oracle
5 12 (4.29%) VMware
6 9 (3.21%) Splunk
7 8 (2.86%) OpenAI
8 6 (2.14%) Foundry
9 5 (1.79%) F5
10 4 (1.43%) AppDynamics
10 4 (1.43%) Cisco
10 4 (1.43%) IBM
10 4 (1.43%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.43%) SAP
10 4 (1.43%) Solace
10 4 (1.43%) Symantec
11 3 (1.07%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.07%) Okta
11 3 (1.07%) Workday
11 3 (1.07%) Zscaler