Python Contract Job Trends in the City of Westminster

Python
Central London > City of Westminster

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of Westminster requiring Python skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 6 6
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +2
Contract jobs citing Python 10 7 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 22.22% 14.89% 18.97%
As % of the Programming Languages category 52.63% 46.67% 44.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 11
10th Percentile £394 £550 -
25th Percentile £438 £575 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £725 £575
Median % change year-on-year -34.48% +26.09% -20.00%
75th Percentile £580 £938 £850
90th Percentile £613 £1,093 -
Central London median daily rate £600 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +4.17%

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 19 15 25
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 42.22% 31.91% 43.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 15 25
10th Percentile £384 £455 £360
25th Percentile £434 £541 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £576 £744 £850
90th Percentile £631 £968 £918
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £605
% change year-on-year - -4.96% +2.54%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing Python.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing Python

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 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python in the City of Westminster

Python
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 18 September 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 7 £550 -24.14%
Westminster - 2 £475 - 4
Paddington 0 1 £475 -13.64%
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 (10.00%) Mattermost
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) GCP
2 2 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (10.00%) Datadog
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (10.00%) SaaS
3 1 (10.00%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) BGP
1 2 (20.00%) HTTP
1 2 (20.00%) Network Security
1 2 (20.00%) SSL
1 2 (20.00%) WAN
1 2 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (10.00%) DNS
2 1 (10.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) STUN
2 1 (10.00%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (20.00%) Redis
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (10.00%) Big Data
2 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (10.00%) MySQL
2 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (10.00%) GitLab
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (10.00%) Mocha
1 1 (10.00%) Terragrunt
General
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Front Office
3 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Python Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Business Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Business Operations Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Business Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Development Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) ETL Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Front Office Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Operations Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle Data Warehouse Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle Developer
3 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Project Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Site Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Node.js
1 2 (20.00%) OAuth
1 2 (20.00%) OAuth2
1 2 (20.00%) OpenID
2 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (10.00%) Fastify
2 1 (10.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (10.00%) gRPC
2 1 (10.00%) Jest
2 1 (10.00%) Loki
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (10.00%) NumPy
2 1 (10.00%) Pandas
2 1 (10.00%) React
2 1 (10.00%) REST
2 1 (10.00%) RESTful
2 1 (10.00%) Swagger
2 1 (10.00%) WebRTC
2 1 (10.00%) WebSockets
2 1 (10.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (70.00%) Hedge funds
2 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (10.00%) Fixed Income
3 1 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (10.00%) Operational Technology
3 1 (10.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (40.00%) DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) Load Balancing
4 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (20.00%) High Availability
4 2 (20.00%) Network Performance Management
4 2 (20.00%) Performance Management
4 2 (20.00%) Process Improvement
5 1 (10.00%) Application Security
5 1 (10.00%) Architectural Patterns
5 1 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (10.00%) Functional Testing
5 1 (10.00%) GitOps
5 1 (10.00%) Incident Response
5 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (10.00%) Observability
5 1 (10.00%) Open Source
5 1 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (10.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) Bash
2 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (10.00%) C#
3 1 (10.00%) Perl
3 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Ansible
2 3 (30.00%) Grafana
2 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (30.00%) Terraform
3 1 (10.00%) Argo
3 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (10.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Cisco
2 2 (20.00%) Arista
2 2 (20.00%) Meraki
3 1 (10.00%) Google
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) Splunk
3 1 (10.00%) Vertica