Python Contracts in the City of London

Python
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 8 15
Rank change year-on-year -1 +7 -1
Contract jobs citing Python 262 513 471
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 12.06% 14.21% 11.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.12% 33.10% 25.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 294 319
10th Percentile £413 £453 £463
25th Percentile £488 £514 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £641 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.43% +6.88% +9.09%
75th Percentile £738 £749 £738
90th Percentile £838 £834 £813
Central London median daily rate £600 £638 £600
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 7
10th Percentile - £75.63 £41.05
25th Percentile £46.75 £76.56 £45.75
Median hourly rate £48.50 £81.25 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.31% +51.87% -
75th Percentile £50.25 £84.69 £61.75
90th Percentile - £84.88 £68.05
Central London median hourly rate £48.50 £81.25 £53.50
% change year-on-year -40.31% +51.87% -14.40%

All Programming Languages
City of 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 City of London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 746 1,550 1,882
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 34.33% 42.92% 44.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 532 1,017 1,463
10th Percentile £400 £425 £425
25th Percentile £463 £513 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £712
90th Percentile £799 £825 £800
Central London median daily rate £563 £617 £600
% change year-on-year -8.86% +2.86% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 11
10th Percentile - £35.00 £44.25
25th Percentile £46.75 £47.19 £46.75
Median hourly rate £48.50 £57.50 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% -4.96% +120.00%
75th Percentile £50.25 £65.00 £74.38
90th Percentile - £84.13 £77.50
Central London median hourly rate £48.50 £57.50 £60.50
% change year-on-year -15.65% -4.96% +137.49%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in the City of London

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Python in the City of London

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in the City of London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python in the City of London

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Python in the City of London

Python
Contract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 5 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
London Bridge +2 2 £600 +31.56%
Python
Central London

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 9 (3.44%) Apache Spark
2 7 (2.67%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.29%) BizTalk Server
4 5 (1.91%) Apache
4 5 (1.91%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.91%) Site Server
5 3 (1.15%) Confluence
6 2 (0.76%) Gunicorn
6 2 (0.76%) IIS
6 2 (0.76%) Luigi
6 2 (0.76%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.38%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.38%) CMS
7 1 (0.38%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.38%) nginx
7 1 (0.38%) Tornado
Applications
1 4 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.76%) Primavera
2 1 (0.38%) Advent Geneva
2 1 (0.38%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.38%) Endur
2 1 (0.38%) Front Arena
2 1 (0.38%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 90 (34.35%) AWS
2 80 (30.53%) Azure
3 36 (13.74%) Serverless
4 28 (10.69%) AWS Lambda
5 23 (8.78%) GitHub
6 21 (8.02%) Amazon S3
6 21 (8.02%) Power Platform
7 17 (6.49%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (5.73%) GCP
8 15 (5.73%) GitHub Actions
9 12 (4.58%) Azure Functions
10 11 (4.20%) Amazon EKS
11 10 (3.82%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (3.44%) Azure AKS
13 8 (3.05%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (3.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 8 (3.05%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (2.67%) Amazon MSK
14 7 (2.67%) AWS Step Functions
14 7 (2.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.53%) Firewall
2 3 (1.15%) DNS
2 3 (1.15%) Internet
2 3 (1.15%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.76%) DHCP
3 2 (0.76%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.76%) Network Security
3 2 (0.76%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.76%) WAN
4 1 (0.38%) IPv4
4 1 (0.38%) MQTT
4 1 (0.38%) SAN
4 1 (0.38%) SSL
4 1 (0.38%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.40%) SQL Server
2 21 (8.02%) NoSQL
2 21 (8.02%) Power BI
3 19 (7.25%) MongoDB
4 16 (6.11%) Relational Database
5 14 (5.34%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (5.34%) Tableau
6 12 (4.58%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (4.58%) Amazon Redshift
6 12 (4.58%) DynamoDB
7 10 (3.82%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (3.44%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (3.44%) RDBMS
9 8 (3.05%) Big Data
9 8 (3.05%) Parquet
10 6 (2.29%) Data Lake
10 6 (2.29%) Hadoop
10 6 (2.29%) MySQL
11 5 (1.91%) GIS
11 5 (1.91%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 24 (9.16%) Jenkins
2 22 (8.40%) Git
3 13 (4.96%) GitLab
4 7 (2.67%) JIRA
4 7 (2.67%) JMeter
5 6 (2.29%) Cypress.io
5 6 (2.29%) Selenium
6 5 (1.91%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.91%) CircleCI
6 5 (1.91%) TeamCity
7 4 (1.53%) Mercurial
8 3 (1.15%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.15%) JUnit
8 3 (1.15%) REST Assured
8 3 (1.15%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.15%) TestNG
9 2 (0.76%) Appium
9 2 (0.76%) IBM UrbanCode
9 2 (0.76%) Maven
9 2 (0.76%) Subversion
General
1 75 (28.63%) Finance
2 61 (23.28%) Social Skills
3 29 (11.07%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (11.07%) Banking
4 19 (7.25%) Public Sector
5 15 (5.73%) Front Office
6 12 (4.58%) Investment Banking
7 7 (2.67%) Retail Banking
8 5 (1.91%) Financial Institution
8 5 (1.91%) Marketing
8 5 (1.91%) Retail
9 4 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.15%) Agriculture
10 3 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.76%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.76%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.38%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 70 (26.72%) Developer
2 29 (11.07%) Senior
3 28 (10.69%) Data Engineer
4 26 (9.92%) Architect
4 26 (9.92%) Python Developer
5 25 (9.54%) Analyst
6 17 (6.49%) Python Engineer
7 15 (5.73%) Data Analyst
8 14 (5.34%) Platform Engineer
8 14 (5.34%) Quantitative Developer
8 14 (5.34%) Software Engineer
9 12 (4.58%) Full Stack Developer
9 12 (4.58%) Site Engineer
9 12 (4.58%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 10 (3.82%) DevOps Engineer
11 9 (3.44%) AWS Engineer
11 9 (3.44%) Data Scientist
11 9 (3.44%) Senior Developer
12 8 (3.05%) Cloud Engineer
12 8 (3.05%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (14.50%) Kafka
2 15 (5.73%) RESTful
3 14 (5.34%) HTML
4 13 (4.96%) .NET
4 13 (4.96%) React
5 12 (4.58%) REST
6 10 (3.82%) RabbitMQ
7 9 (3.44%) JSON
7 9 (3.44%) Node.js
7 9 (3.44%) Pandas
8 8 (3.05%) .NET Core
8 8 (3.05%) Apache Avro
8 8 (3.05%) CSS
9 7 (2.67%) OpenID
9 7 (2.67%) pytest
9 7 (2.67%) SAML
10 6 (2.29%) Blazor
10 6 (2.29%) Elastic Stack
10 6 (2.29%) XACML
11 5 (1.91%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.87%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (5.73%) Algorithms
3 13 (4.96%) Cloud Native
4 10 (3.82%) Market Risk
5 9 (3.44%) Data Structures
6 8 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (3.05%) Public Cloud
7 7 (2.67%) Linux Command Line
8 6 (2.29%) Derivative
8 6 (2.29%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.91%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.53%) Equities
10 4 (1.53%) Machine to Machine
10 4 (1.53%) Replication
11 3 (1.15%) Fixed Income
11 3 (1.15%) Onboarding
12 2 (0.76%) Renewable Energy
12 2 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 47 (17.94%) Linux
2 34 (12.98%) Windows
3 11 (4.20%) Unix
3 11 (4.20%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.76%) Android
5 2 (0.76%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.76%) CentOS
6 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (30.92%) DevOps
2 66 (25.19%) CI/CD
3 53 (20.23%) Agile
4 50 (19.08%) Problem-Solving
5 39 (14.89%) Software Engineering
6 30 (11.45%) Microservices
7 28 (10.69%) ETL
8 27 (10.31%) Data Pipeline
9 24 (9.16%) Infrastructure as Code
9 24 (9.16%) Visualisation
10 23 (8.78%) Analytics
10 23 (8.78%) Test Automation
11 22 (8.40%) SDLC
12 21 (8.02%) Business Intelligence
12 21 (8.02%) Data Modelling
13 18 (6.87%) Computer Science
13 18 (6.87%) Containerisation
13 18 (6.87%) Full Stack Development
14 16 (6.11%) Data Analysis
14 16 (6.11%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 102 (38.93%) SQL
2 61 (23.28%) Java
3 38 (14.50%) PowerShell
4 32 (12.21%) C#
5 28 (10.69%) C++
6 26 (9.92%) JavaScript
7 19 (7.25%) Go
8 18 (6.87%) Shell Script
9 16 (6.11%) Bash
10 15 (5.73%) T-SQL
11 13 (4.96%) R
12 10 (3.82%) Perl
13 7 (2.67%) PL/SQL
13 7 (2.67%) Rust
13 7 (2.67%) Scala
14 5 (1.91%) Korn
14 5 (1.91%) TypeScript
15 4 (1.53%) C
16 3 (1.15%) Haskell
16 3 (1.15%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 29 (11.07%) Security Cleared
2 27 (10.31%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.73%) Degree
4 8 (3.05%) AWS Certification
4 8 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.29%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.91%) ISTQB
7 4 (1.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.15%) PhD
9 2 (0.76%) CIMA
9 2 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.76%) ISEB
9 2 (0.76%) SANS
10 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.38%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.38%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.58%) QA
2 6 (2.29%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.76%) PMO
4 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.38%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.38%) NIST
4 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (13.74%) Docker
2 10 (3.82%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 7 (2.67%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.53%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 4 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.76%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.38%) Ceph
6 1 (0.38%) HDFS
6 1 (0.38%) iptables
6 1 (0.38%) NFS
Systems Management
1 64 (24.43%) Kubernetes
2 43 (16.41%) Terraform
3 24 (9.16%) Ansible
4 18 (6.87%) Grafana
5 17 (6.49%) Prometheus
6 12 (4.58%) Consul
7 9 (3.44%) Puppet
8 6 (2.29%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.91%) Argo
9 5 (1.91%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.53%) CSIRT
11 3 (1.15%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (1.15%) Kibana
11 3 (1.15%) logstash
11 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.76%) Graylog
12 2 (0.76%) Nagios
12 2 (0.76%) Opsgenie
12 2 (0.76%) Packer
Vendors
1 32 (12.21%) Microsoft
2 22 (8.40%) Oracle
3 13 (4.96%) Databricks
4 12 (4.58%) IBM
5 10 (3.82%) SaltStack
5 10 (3.82%) SAP
6 8 (3.05%) Google
7 7 (2.67%) Splunk
8 6 (2.29%) MuleSoft
8 6 (2.29%) Sybase
9 5 (1.91%) Alteryx
9 5 (1.91%) ESRI
9 5 (1.91%) Okta
9 5 (1.91%) Palo Alto
9 5 (1.91%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.91%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.91%) Sun
10 4 (1.53%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.53%) Veritas
11 3 (1.15%) Murex