Python Developer Contracts in the City of London

Python Developer
Central London > City of London

The median Python Developer daily rate in the City of London is £775 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 114 120
Rank change year-on-year +9 +6 -10
Contract jobs requiring a Python Developer 26 62 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.17% 1.68% 1.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.23% 1.76% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 44 48
10th Percentile £460 £481 £513
25th Percentile £550 £593 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £696 £675
Median % change year-on-year +11.31% +3.15% +17.39%
75th Percentile £838 £825 £713
90th Percentile £883 £875 £775
Central London median daily rate £775 £700 £675
% change year-on-year +10.71% +3.70% +17.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
Central London median hourly rate - £80.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the City of London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the City of London with a recognized job title 2,111 3,519 4,037
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.05% 95.24% 94.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,504 2,375 3,064
10th Percentile £350 £350 £365
25th Percentile £450 £469 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £789 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £560
% change year-on-year -4.35% +2.68% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 28 50
10th Percentile £16.46 £15.50 £13.74
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.49 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -6.04% +77.47%
75th Percentile £27.50 £58.75 £51.50
90th Percentile £44.10 £85.99 £62.83
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £35.00 £37.25
% change year-on-year -24.11% -6.04% +77.47%

Python Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings that featured Python Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Python Developer in the City of London

Python Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Python Developer in the City of London

Python Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python Developer in the City of London over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python Developer in the City of London

Python Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Python Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the City of London region featuring Python Developer in the job title.

1 26 (100.00%) Python
2 15 (57.69%) SQL
3 9 (34.62%) Finance
3 9 (34.62%) Agile
3 9 (34.62%) Banking
4 8 (30.77%) Azure
4 8 (30.77%) AWS
4 8 (30.77%) DevOps
5 7 (26.92%) Market Risk
6 6 (23.08%) Visualisation
6 6 (23.08%) Software Engineering
6 6 (23.08%) SQL Server
6 6 (23.08%) SDLC
7 5 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (19.23%) CI/CD
7 5 (19.23%) Investment Banking
7 5 (19.23%) Computer Science
7 5 (19.23%) Django
8 4 (15.38%) Waterfall
8 4 (15.38%) User Acceptance Testing
8 4 (15.38%) Retail Banking
8 4 (15.38%) Degree
8 4 (15.38%) C#
8 4 (15.38%) Front Office
8 4 (15.38%) Data Analysis
8 4 (15.38%) End-to-End Testing
8 4 (15.38%) pytest
8 4 (15.38%) Kubernetes
8 4 (15.38%) Pandas
8 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills

Python Developer Skill Set
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 1 (3.85%) Gunicorn
1 1 (3.85%) Tornado
Cloud Services
1 8 (30.77%) AWS
1 8 (30.77%) Azure
2 3 (11.54%) Amazon ECR
2 3 (11.54%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (11.54%) GitHub
2 3 (11.54%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.85%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (3.85%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (3.85%) GCP
3 1 (3.85%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (23.08%) SQL Server
2 3 (11.54%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (11.54%) DynamoDB
2 3 (11.54%) NoSQL
3 2 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) CircleCI
1 3 (11.54%) Git
1 3 (11.54%) Mercurial
2 1 (3.85%) GitLab
2 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.85%) JIRA
General
1 9 (34.62%) Banking
1 9 (34.62%) Finance
2 5 (19.23%) Investment Banking
3 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (15.38%) Front Office
3 4 (15.38%) Retail Banking
4 2 (7.69%) Social Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Electronics
5 1 (3.85%) Retail
5 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (19.23%) Django
2 4 (15.38%) Pandas
2 4 (15.38%) pytest
3 3 (11.54%) NumPy
3 3 (11.54%) REST
3 3 (11.54%) RESTful
3 3 (11.54%) Web Services
4 2 (7.69%) Flask
4 2 (7.69%) Matplotlib
5 1 (3.85%) Bokeh
5 1 (3.85%) CSS
5 1 (3.85%) FastAPI
5 1 (3.85%) HTML
5 1 (3.85%) jQuery
5 1 (3.85%) Kafka
5 1 (3.85%) Node.js
5 1 (3.85%) OAuth
5 1 (3.85%) OAuth2
5 1 (3.85%) React
5 1 (3.85%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 7 (26.92%) Market Risk
2 3 (11.54%) Derivative
2 3 (11.54%) Equities
3 2 (7.69%) Algorithms
3 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.69%) Fixed Income
3 2 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (34.62%) Agile
2 8 (30.77%) DevOps
3 6 (23.08%) SDLC
3 6 (23.08%) Software Engineering
3 6 (23.08%) Visualisation
4 5 (19.23%) CI/CD
4 5 (19.23%) Computer Science
4 5 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (15.38%) Data Analysis
5 4 (15.38%) End-to-End Testing
5 4 (15.38%) User Acceptance Testing
5 4 (15.38%) Waterfall
6 3 (11.54%) Mathematics
6 3 (11.54%) Microservices
6 3 (11.54%) Open Source
6 3 (11.54%) Project Delivery
6 3 (11.54%) TDD
6 3 (11.54%) Test Automation
6 3 (11.54%) Unit Testing
7 2 (7.69%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 26 (100.00%) Python
2 15 (57.69%) SQL
3 4 (15.38%) C#
4 3 (11.54%) Java
5 2 (7.69%) JavaScript
5 2 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) Degree
2 2 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (7.69%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 3 (11.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (15.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) Databricks
2 1 (3.85%) Confluent