Python Contracts in the City of Westminster

Python
Central London > City of Westminster

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of Westminster 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 4 10
Rank change year-on-year -1 +6 0
Contract jobs citing Python 7 9 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 15.91% 20.45% 5.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 46.67% 32.14% 22.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 2
10th Percentile £406 £550 -
25th Percentile £437 £600 £750
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £750 £800
Median % change year-on-year -28.67% -6.25% +8.47%
75th Percentile £579 £900 £850
90th Percentile £621 £1,090 -
Central London median daily rate £577 £600 £638
% change year-on-year -3.92% -5.88% +6.25%

All Programming Languages
City of Westminster

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 Westminster.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 15 28 9
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 34.09% 63.64% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 22 9
10th Percentile £413 £453 £393
25th Percentile £486 £491 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £638 £650
Median % change year-on-year -13.73% -1.92% -6.14%
75th Percentile £578 £825 £850
90th Percentile £663 £1,069 £856
Central London median daily rate £575 £565 £620
% change year-on-year +1.77% -8.87% +3.33%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in the City of Westminster

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

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

Daily rate trend for Python in the City of Westminster

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of Westminster

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in the City of Westminster over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python in the City of Westminster

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Contract Job Locations in the City of Westminster

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 Westminster region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Mayfair +1 4 £565 -24.67% 2
Westminster - 2 £473 - 1
Paddington -4 1 - - 1
Python
Central London

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of Westminster 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 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (14.29%) AWS CodeCommit
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud9 IDE
3 1 (14.29%) Datadog
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (14.29%) SaaS
3 1 (14.29%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) SonarCloud
3 1 (14.29%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) BGP
1 1 (14.29%) HTTP
1 1 (14.29%) Network Security
1 1 (14.29%) SSL
1 1 (14.29%) WAN
1 1 (14.29%) WebEx
1 1 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
1 1 (14.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Snyk
1 1 (14.29%) Terragrunt
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Front Office
3 1 (14.29%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Python Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Collaboration Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Data Scientist
2 1 (14.29%) Development Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Front Office Developer
2 1 (14.29%) GCP DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) GCP DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Product Owner
2 1 (14.29%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) NumPy
1 2 (28.57%) Pandas
2 1 (14.29%) gRPC
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (14.29%) Next.js
2 1 (14.29%) OAuth
2 1 (14.29%) OAuth2
2 1 (14.29%) OpenCV
2 1 (14.29%) OpenID
2 1 (14.29%) Polars
2 1 (14.29%) pydantic
2 1 (14.29%) PyTorch
2 1 (14.29%) React
2 1 (14.29%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) scikit-learn
2 1 (14.29%) SciPy
2 1 (14.29%) TensorFlow
2 1 (14.29%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Hedge funds
2 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Fixed Income
2 1 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) Data Science
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) API Development
3 1 (14.29%) Computer Vision
3 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (14.29%) Customer Experience
3 1 (14.29%) Data Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Data Munging
3 1 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (14.29%) Data Sharing
3 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
3 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (14.29%) Statistical Inference
3 1 (14.29%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) R
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) Arista
2 1 (14.29%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) Meraki
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) New Relic
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow
2 1 (14.29%) Sun