Python Contracts in Croydon

Python
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Croydon 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 7 9
Rank change year-on-year +2 +2 +3
Contract jobs citing Python 24 34 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Croydon 26.37% 23.45% 22.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 46.15% 49.28% 51.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 23 33
10th Percentile - £363 £470
25th Percentile £463 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% -6.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £538 £559 £625
90th Percentile £738 £567 £649
South London median daily rate £600 £519 £550
% change year-on-year +15.66% -5.68% -12.00%

All Programming Languages
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 52 69 78
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 57.14% 47.59% 44.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 47 58
10th Percentile £425 £362 £453
25th Percentile £463 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £513 £544 £625
90th Percentile £538 £583 £650
South London median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

Job vacancy trend for Python in Croydon

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python in Croydon.

Daily rate trend for Python in Croydon

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Croydon

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

Daily rate histogram for Python in Croydon

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Croydon 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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (50.00%) AWS
1 12 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 9 (37.50%) Serverless
3 7 (29.17%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (16.67%) Amazon S3
5 4 (16.67%) IaaS
5 4 (16.67%) PaaS
5 4 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (12.50%) Amazon MSK
6 3 (12.50%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (50.00%) Power BI
2 7 (29.17%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (12.50%) DynamoDB
3 3 (12.50%) Parquet
4 2 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (8.33%) RDBMS
4 2 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Git
1 4 (16.67%) GitLab
2 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.33%) JMeter
2 2 (8.33%) JUnit
2 2 (8.33%) Mockito
General
1 5 (20.83%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (50.00%) Analyst
2 7 (29.17%) Data Analyst
3 5 (20.83%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 5 (20.83%) Security Analyst
4 4 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
4 4 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Data Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Lead
6 2 (8.33%) Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Java Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Senior
6 2 (8.33%) Senior Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (25.00%) Kafka
2 5 (20.83%) JSON
3 3 (12.50%) Apache Avro
4 2 (8.33%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (8.33%) Apache Camel
4 2 (8.33%) Hibernate
4 2 (8.33%) HTML
4 2 (8.33%) jQuery
4 2 (8.33%) REST
4 2 (8.33%) Spring
4 2 (8.33%) Spring Boot
4 2 (8.33%) Web Services
4 2 (8.33%) WireMock
4 2 (8.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 2 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 12 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (37.50%) Microservices
3 6 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 5 (20.83%) Agile
4 5 (20.83%) Asset Management
5 4 (16.67%) Cloud Security
5 4 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 4 (16.67%) DevOps
5 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (16.67%) Refactoring
5 4 (16.67%) Task Automation
6 3 (12.50%) Code Quality
6 3 (12.50%) Data Ingestion
6 3 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (12.50%) Data Transformation
6 3 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (12.50%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) SQL
2 4 (16.67%) Bash
2 4 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 2 (8.33%) Java
3 2 (8.33%) Lua
3 2 (8.33%) Perl
3 2 (8.33%) PHP
3 2 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 8 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 4 (16.67%) AWS Certification
3 4 (16.67%) Degree
System Software
1 6 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 4 (16.67%) Ansible
2 4 (16.67%) Grafana
2 4 (16.67%) Prometheus
2 4 (16.67%) Terraform
3 2 (8.33%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (8.33%) Dynatrace
1 2 (8.33%) Splunk