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 22 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 10 8
Rank change year-on-year -4 -2 0
Contract jobs citing Python 14 28 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Croydon 16.67% 24.35% 21.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 25.93% 50.91% 49.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 20 28
10th Percentile - £362 £468
25th Percentile £463 £413 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £511 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.09% +2.25% -16.67%
75th Percentile £738 £541 £575
90th Percentile £739 £567 £590
South London median daily rate £635 £511 £550
% change year-on-year +24.21% -7.05% -8.33%

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 54 55 67
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 64.29% 47.83% 43.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 42 50
10th Percentile £455 £363 £453
25th Percentile £463 £410 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -13.04%
75th Percentile £569 £525 £575
90th Percentile £684 £567 £650
South London median daily rate £523 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +4.50% -9.09% -2.22%

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 22 June 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 10 (71.43%) AWS
2 7 (50.00%) Serverless
3 5 (35.71%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (35.71%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (28.57%) Power Platform
5 3 (21.43%) Amazon S3
5 3 (21.43%) IaaS
5 3 (21.43%) PaaS
5 3 (21.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (14.29%) Amazon MSK
6 2 (14.29%) AWS Step Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) Amazon Redshift
2 4 (28.57%) Power BI
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (14.29%) DynamoDB
3 2 (14.29%) Parquet
3 2 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (14.29%) RDBMS
3 2 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Git
1 3 (21.43%) GitLab
2 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 2 (14.29%) JMeter
2 2 (14.29%) JUnit
2 2 (14.29%) Mockito
General
1 4 (28.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Analyst
1 4 (28.57%) Data Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) AWS DevOps
2 3 (21.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Lead
3 2 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) Kafka
2 4 (28.57%) JSON
3 2 (14.29%) ActiveMQ
3 2 (14.29%) Apache Avro
3 2 (14.29%) Apache Camel
3 2 (14.29%) Hibernate
3 2 (14.29%) HTML
3 2 (14.29%) jQuery
3 2 (14.29%) REST
3 2 (14.29%) Spring
3 2 (14.29%) Spring Boot
3 2 (14.29%) Web Services
3 2 (14.29%) WireMock
3 2 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Onboarding
2 2 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Microservices
2 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
3 4 (28.57%) Agile
3 4 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (21.43%) Cloud Security
4 3 (21.43%) Code Quality
4 3 (21.43%) Containerisation
4 3 (21.43%) Data Protection
4 3 (21.43%) Data Transformation
4 3 (21.43%) DevOps
4 3 (21.43%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (21.43%) Load Balancing
4 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (21.43%) Refactoring
4 3 (21.43%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (21.43%) Task Automation
4 3 (21.43%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) SQL
2 3 (21.43%) Bash
2 3 (21.43%) JavaScript
3 2 (14.29%) Java
3 2 (14.29%) Shell Script
4 1 (7.14%) Lua
4 1 (7.14%) Perl
4 1 (7.14%) PHP
Qualifications
1 8 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 6 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 3 (21.43%) AWS Certification
3 3 (21.43%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 3 (21.43%) Ansible
2 3 (21.43%) Grafana
2 3 (21.43%) Prometheus
2 3 (21.43%) Terraform
3 2 (14.29%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Dynatrace
1 2 (14.29%) Splunk