Python Contracts in the City of London

Python
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Python skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Python over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 11 7
Rank change year-on-year +4 -4 +6
Contract jobs citing Python 307 263 512
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 16.90% 12.30% 14.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.40% 33.46% 36.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 181 273
10th Percentile £413 £413 £453
25th Percentile £489 £481 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £738
90th Percentile £775 £838 £860
Central London median daily rate £600 £625 £645
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.10% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £75.63
25th Percentile £61.25 £46.75 £76.56
Median hourly rate £62.50 £48.50 £81.25
Median % change year-on-year +28.87% -40.31% +67.53%
75th Percentile £63.75 £50.25 £84.69
90th Percentile - - £84.88
Central London median hourly rate £56.97 £48.50 £81.25
% change year-on-year +17.46% -40.31% +67.53%

All Programming Languages
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 724 786 1,422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.85% 36.75% 40.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 487 547 914
10th Percentile £404 £406 £420
25th Percentile £467 £475 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £698 £689 £738
90th Percentile £775 £805 £838
Central London median daily rate £575 £565 £625
% change year-on-year +1.77% -9.60% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 4
10th Percentile £20.20 - £23.95
25th Percentile £25.75 £46.75 £41.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £48.50 £66.25
Median % change year-on-year +28.87% -26.79% +26.19%
75th Percentile £63.75 £50.25 £84.06
90th Percentile £78.75 - £84.63
Central London median hourly rate £51.44 £48.50 £66.25
% change year-on-year +6.06% -26.79% +26.19%

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 July 2025.

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 July 2025. 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
Moorgate - 1 £300 - 1
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 29 (9.45%) Apache Spark
2 16 (5.21%) Apache
3 10 (3.26%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (2.61%) Confluence
5 3 (0.98%) Luigi
5 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.65%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.65%) SAS
6 2 (0.65%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.33%) IIS
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.33%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 11 (3.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.33%) EViews
4 1 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (1.63%) Endur
2 2 (0.65%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.33%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 99 (32.25%) AWS
2 95 (30.94%) Azure
3 36 (11.73%) GCP
4 29 (9.45%) Power Platform
5 24 (7.82%) GitHub
6 20 (6.51%) Amazon S3
7 16 (5.21%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (5.21%) Serverless
8 14 (4.56%) GitHub Actions
9 13 (4.23%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (3.26%) OpenShift
11 9 (2.93%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (2.93%) Snowflake
12 7 (2.28%) Amazon Cognito
13 6 (1.95%) Azure Data Factory
13 6 (1.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 6 (1.95%) Collibra
13 6 (1.95%) Datadog
13 6 (1.95%) Entra ID
13 6 (1.95%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.91%) DNS
2 11 (3.58%) Firewall
3 6 (1.95%) Network Security
4 5 (1.63%) DHCP
4 5 (1.63%) HTTP
4 5 (1.63%) VPN
5 3 (0.98%) BGP
5 3 (0.98%) Multicast
5 3 (0.98%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.65%) Ethernet VPN
6 2 (0.65%) IGMP
6 2 (0.65%) OSPF
6 2 (0.65%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (0.65%) SSH
6 2 (0.65%) VLAN
6 2 (0.65%) VXLAN
6 2 (0.65%) WAN
7 1 (0.33%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.33%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.33%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (9.45%) Big Data
2 27 (8.79%) Power BI
3 21 (6.84%) Hadoop
4 20 (6.51%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (6.51%) SQL Server
5 19 (6.19%) Relational Database
6 18 (5.86%) Data Lake
7 16 (5.21%) Data Warehouse
7 16 (5.21%) NoSQL
8 13 (4.23%) Tableau
9 11 (3.58%) Apache Hive
10 10 (3.26%) Metadata
11 9 (2.93%) BigQuery
11 9 (2.93%) DynamoDB
11 9 (2.93%) MongoDB
12 8 (2.61%) Delta Lake
13 7 (2.28%) MySQL
14 6 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
14 6 (1.95%) Elasticsearch
15 5 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 38 (12.38%) Git
2 33 (10.75%) Jenkins
3 23 (7.49%) JIRA
4 13 (4.23%) GitLab
5 8 (2.61%) Postman
6 7 (2.28%) Selenium
7 5 (1.63%) REST Assured
8 4 (1.30%) LoadRunner
9 3 (0.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.98%) MLflow
9 3 (0.98%) ScriptRunner
9 3 (0.98%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.65%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.65%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.65%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.65%) JMeter
10 2 (0.65%) Maven
10 2 (0.65%) RStudio
10 2 (0.65%) Zephyr
11 1 (0.33%) JIRA Agile
General
1 122 (39.74%) Finance
2 84 (27.36%) Social Skills
3 63 (20.52%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (16.61%) Banking
5 21 (6.84%) Front Office
6 19 (6.19%) Public Sector
7 16 (5.21%) Investment Banking
8 14 (4.56%) Financial Institution
9 8 (2.61%) Police
9 8 (2.61%) Retail
10 7 (2.28%) Corporate Banking
11 6 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.95%) Retail Banking
12 4 (1.30%) Back Office
12 4 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.30%) Legal
13 3 (0.98%) Advertising
14 2 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 80 (26.06%) Developer
2 46 (14.98%) Data Engineer
3 37 (12.05%) Analyst
4 33 (10.75%) Senior
5 25 (8.14%) Python Developer
6 19 (6.19%) Lead
7 17 (5.54%) Software Engineer
8 16 (5.21%) Architect
8 16 (5.21%) Business Analyst
8 16 (5.21%) Data Analyst
9 15 (4.89%) Java Developer
10 14 (4.56%) Data Scientist
10 14 (4.56%) Full-Stack Developer
11 13 (4.23%) Python Engineer
12 12 (3.91%) DevOps Engineer
13 10 (3.26%) Azure Engineer
14 9 (2.93%) AWS Engineer
14 9 (2.93%) Senior Developer
15 8 (2.61%) Data Business Analyst
16 6 (1.95%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (9.45%) Kafka
2 25 (8.14%) REST
3 20 (6.51%) PySpark
4 18 (5.86%) React
5 16 (5.21%) .NET
6 14 (4.56%) Pandas
7 13 (4.23%) GraphQL
7 13 (4.23%) TensorFlow
8 12 (3.91%) HTML
8 12 (3.91%) RESTful
8 12 (3.91%) Spring
9 11 (3.58%) Web Services
10 10 (3.26%) AngularJS
11 9 (2.93%) CSS
11 9 (2.93%) Elastic Stack
11 9 (2.93%) OAuth
11 9 (2.93%) OpenTelemetry
12 8 (2.61%) Node.js
13 7 (2.28%) FastAPI
13 7 (2.28%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 17 (5.54%) Cloud Native
2 16 (5.21%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (3.91%) Credit Risk
3 12 (3.91%) Distributed Computing
4 11 (3.58%) Algorithms
4 11 (3.58%) Market Risk
5 10 (3.26%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (2.93%) Fixed Income
6 9 (2.93%) Reference Data
7 8 (2.61%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (2.28%) Data Structures
8 7 (2.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (1.95%) Data Centre
9 6 (1.95%) Hedge funds
9 6 (1.95%) Product Ownership
9 6 (1.95%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.63%) Equities
10 5 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.30%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.30%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 50 (16.29%) Linux
2 16 (5.21%) Unix
2 16 (5.21%) Windows
3 5 (1.63%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.98%) Rocky
5 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.33%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.33%) Solaris
5 1 (0.33%) VMS
5 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (29.32%) CI/CD
2 83 (27.04%) Problem-Solving
3 81 (26.38%) DevOps
4 79 (25.73%) Agile
5 50 (16.29%) Analytics
6 41 (13.36%) Data Science
6 41 (13.36%) Infrastructure as Code
6 41 (13.36%) Software Engineering
7 40 (13.03%) Data Modelling
8 38 (12.38%) Machine Learning
9 36 (11.73%) Data Pipeline
10 32 (10.42%) Containerisation
11 30 (9.77%) Business Intelligence
12 29 (9.45%) Computer Science
12 29 (9.45%) Data Engineering
13 28 (9.12%) Data Analysis
13 28 (9.12%) Decision-Making
13 28 (9.12%) Microservices
14 27 (8.79%) ETL
15 26 (8.47%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 119 (38.76%) SQL
2 60 (19.54%) Java
3 34 (11.07%) JavaScript
4 30 (9.77%) Bash
5 28 (9.12%) PowerShell
6 26 (8.47%) C#
7 19 (6.19%) C++
8 16 (5.21%) Scala
9 13 (4.23%) R
9 13 (4.23%) Shell Script
9 13 (4.23%) TypeScript
10 12 (3.91%) Go
11 9 (2.93%) Perl
12 6 (1.95%) C
12 6 (1.95%) Groovy
13 4 (1.30%) Bicep
13 4 (1.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (1.30%) Ruby
13 4 (1.30%) VBA
14 3 (0.98%) DAML
Qualifications
1 39 (12.70%) Degree
2 31 (10.10%) Security Cleared
3 22 (7.17%) SC Cleared
4 14 (4.56%) Master's Degree
5 10 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (3.26%) PhD
6 8 (2.61%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (1.63%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (0.98%) CISSP
8 3 (0.98%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.98%) OCP
8 3 (0.98%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (0.65%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.65%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 2 (0.65%) CBAP
9 2 (0.65%) CEH
9 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.65%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.82%) Data Quality
2 10 (3.26%) NIST
3 9 (2.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (2.93%) QA
4 6 (1.95%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.63%) GDPR
6 4 (1.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.65%) EMIR
8 2 (0.65%) MiFID
9 1 (0.33%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.33%) SEPA
9 1 (0.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 36 (11.73%) Docker
2 8 (2.61%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.33%) Firmware
4 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.33%) NFS
4 1 (0.33%) OpenAM
4 1 (0.33%) OpenDJ
4 1 (0.33%) OpenIDM
4 1 (0.33%) Platform Symphony
4 1 (0.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.33%) Veritas File System
4 1 (0.33%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 1 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 59 (19.22%) Kubernetes
2 48 (15.64%) Terraform
3 28 (9.12%) Ansible
4 13 (4.23%) Prometheus
5 12 (3.91%) Grafana
6 8 (2.61%) Kibana
6 8 (2.61%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.95%) ITRS Geneos
7 6 (1.95%) Puppet
8 5 (1.63%) logstash
9 3 (0.98%) Argo
9 3 (0.98%) Consul
10 2 (0.65%) Control-M
10 2 (0.65%) Istio
10 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.65%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.65%) QRadar
10 2 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.33%) Nagios
11 1 (0.33%) WMI
Vendors
1 29 (9.45%) Microsoft
2 21 (6.84%) Oracle
3 20 (6.51%) Databricks
4 11 (3.58%) Google
5 9 (2.93%) Splunk
6 8 (2.61%) VMware
7 6 (1.95%) Informatica
8 5 (1.63%) Cisco
8 5 (1.63%) CyberArk
8 5 (1.63%) OpenLink
8 5 (1.63%) SAP
9 4 (1.30%) Dataiku
9 4 (1.30%) IBM
9 4 (1.30%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.30%) Solace
10 3 (0.98%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.98%) Bloomberg
10 3 (0.98%) Palo Alto
10 3 (0.98%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.98%) Sybase