Python Contracts in England

Python
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 9 14 13
Rank change year-on-year +5 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Python 3,235 3,466 5,670
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 13.28% 9.32% 11.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.35% 31.74% 31.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,340 2,514 4,136
10th Percentile £393 £400 £425
25th Percentile £458 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% -
75th Percentile £700 £688 £725
90th Percentile £838 £813 £825
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 87 125
10th Percentile £21.25 £25.40 £22.16
25th Percentile £26.05 £41.75 £47.50
Median hourly rate £40.91 £62.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% -4.62% +27.83%
75th Percentile £58.75 £70.63 £70.30
90th Percentile £73.88 £77.50 £77.20
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £57.50 £64.38
% change year-on-year -39.13% -10.68% +29.40%

All Programming Languages
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 8,221 10,920 17,806
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.76% 29.36% 35.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,687 7,931 13,003
10th Percentile £363 £350 £388
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £565
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
75th Percentile £650 £652 £688
90th Percentile £788 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 441 430
10th Percentile £25.25 £35.52 £26.24
25th Percentile £37.65 £48.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
Median % change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in England

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Python in England

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Python in England

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python in England.

Hourly rate trend for Python in England

Python
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Python in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Python in England

Python
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the England 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
London +3 2,157 £600 +2.13% 3,864
North of England -2 282 £492 -1.60% 816
South East +13 257 £525 - 1,463
South West +8 150 £550 -8.33% 407
North West +1 144 £475 -5.00% 485
Midlands +13 132 £467 +3.78% 405
Yorkshire +7 122 £500 - 231
West Midlands +18 94 £506 +19.06% 221
East of England +13 85 £503 +11.67% 482
East Midlands -1 37 £425 -17.07% 147
North East -8 19 £481 -6.64% 103
Python
UK

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 221 (6.83%) Apache Spark
2 208 (6.43%) Apache Airflow
3 207 (6.40%) Apache
4 85 (2.63%) Confluence
5 35 (1.08%) SAS
6 26 (0.80%) nginx
7 25 (0.77%) SharePoint
8 19 (0.59%) Jupyter
9 12 (0.37%) JBoss
9 12 (0.37%) Traefik
10 10 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
10 10 (0.31%) OpenStack
11 8 (0.25%) BizTalk Server
12 7 (0.22%) Tomcat
13 5 (0.15%) WebSphere
14 4 (0.12%) ArcGIS
14 4 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
15 3 (0.093%) CMS
15 3 (0.093%) Oracle Workflow
16 2 (0.062%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 94 (2.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (0.46%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.37%) Chatbot
4 12 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.15%) Maya
5 5 (0.15%) NUKE
5 5 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.062%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.062%) CPLEX
6 2 (0.062%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.062%) Simulink
6 2 (0.062%) Sketch
7 1 (0.031%) CATIA
7 1 (0.031%) EViews
7 1 (0.031%) Revit
7 1 (0.031%) Siemens NX
7 1 (0.031%) SOLIDWORKS
7 1 (0.031%) Trello
Business Applications
1 38 (1.17%) Aladdin
2 15 (0.46%) Endur
3 14 (0.43%) thinkFolio
4 7 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.15%) Kondor
6 4 (0.12%) Fidessa
7 3 (0.093%) Bankmaster
7 3 (0.093%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.062%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (0.062%) Infor SunSystems
8 2 (0.062%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.062%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.062%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.062%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.062%) SAP BPC
9 1 (0.031%) Distributed Ledger
9 1 (0.031%) NEC Housing
9 1 (0.031%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.031%) R3 Corda
9 1 (0.031%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,284 (39.69%) AWS
2 896 (27.70%) Azure
3 427 (13.20%) GCP
4 253 (7.82%) Serverless
5 240 (7.42%) GitHub
6 214 (6.62%) Power Platform
7 207 (6.40%) dbt
8 201 (6.21%) AWS Lambda
9 175 (5.41%) Amazon S3
10 170 (5.26%) Snowflake
11 160 (4.95%) Azure DevOps
12 131 (4.05%) AWS CloudFormation
13 114 (3.52%) GitHub Actions
14 105 (3.25%) OpenShift
15 103 (3.18%) Azure Data Factory
16 100 (3.09%) Amazon EC2
17 91 (2.81%) Amazon ECS
18 74 (2.29%) Entra ID
19 73 (2.26%) Amazon EKS
20 63 (1.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 142 (4.39%) DNS
2 141 (4.36%) Firewall
3 102 (3.15%) TCP/IP
4 77 (2.38%) Network Security
5 67 (2.07%) VPN
6 58 (1.79%) DHCP
7 57 (1.76%) HTTP
8 48 (1.48%) BGP
9 38 (1.17%) OSPF
10 34 (1.05%) WAN
11 28 (0.87%) LAN
11 28 (0.87%) MPLS
11 28 (0.87%) Wireless
12 24 (0.74%) SSL
13 21 (0.65%) VLAN
14 19 (0.59%) Cisco ISE
14 19 (0.59%) SAN
15 18 (0.56%) 5G
16 17 (0.53%) 4G
17 16 (0.49%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 205 (6.34%) Power BI
2 193 (5.97%) PostgreSQL
3 180 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
4 154 (4.76%) Big Data
5 152 (4.70%) Amazon Athena
6 141 (4.36%) SQL Server
7 134 (4.14%) Tableau
8 131 (4.05%) Data Lake
9 123 (3.80%) Relational Database
10 116 (3.59%) Apache Iceberg
11 107 (3.31%) NoSQL
12 105 (3.25%) Dremio
12 105 (3.25%) MongoDB
13 102 (3.15%) Hadoop
14 94 (2.91%) Apache Arrow
15 89 (2.75%) Amazon Redshift
16 83 (2.57%) Amazon RDS
17 68 (2.10%) Apache Ignite
18 62 (1.92%) MySQL
19 58 (1.79%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 392 (12.12%) Git
2 313 (9.68%) Jenkins
3 199 (6.15%) GitLab
4 175 (5.41%) JIRA
5 83 (2.57%) Selenium
6 46 (1.42%) Artifactory
7 44 (1.36%) Bitbucket
8 35 (1.08%) SonarQube
9 29 (0.90%) JMeter
9 29 (0.90%) JUnit
9 29 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
10 25 (0.77%) Postman
10 25 (0.77%) TeamCity
11 22 (0.68%) Cucumber
12 21 (0.65%) LoadRunner
13 17 (0.53%) Cypress.io
13 17 (0.53%) Subversion
14 16 (0.49%) CircleCI
14 16 (0.49%) Visual Studio
15 15 (0.46%) Maven
General
1 877 (27.11%) Finance
2 733 (22.66%) Social Skills
3 470 (14.53%) Analytical Skills
4 405 (12.52%) Banking
5 346 (10.70%) Front Office
6 245 (7.57%) Public Sector
7 195 (6.03%) Investment Banking
8 87 (2.69%) Telecoms
9 63 (1.95%) Financial Institution
10 60 (1.85%) Marketing
11 51 (1.58%) Pharmaceutical
11 51 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
12 39 (1.21%) Legal
13 37 (1.14%) Retail
14 32 (0.99%) Manufacturing
14 32 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
15 29 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 22 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
17 20 (0.62%) Back Office
17 20 (0.62%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 762 (23.55%) Developer
2 448 (13.85%) Data Engineer
2 448 (13.85%) Senior
3 310 (9.58%) Python Developer
4 286 (8.84%) Analyst
5 261 (8.07%) Python Engineer
6 258 (7.98%) AWS Engineer
7 250 (7.73%) DevOps Engineer
8 231 (7.14%) Software Engineer
9 183 (5.66%) Lead
10 143 (4.42%) Architect
11 129 (3.99%) Data Scientist
12 109 (3.37%) Senior Developer
13 105 (3.25%) Full-Stack Developer
14 97 (3.00%) Data Analyst
15 94 (2.91%) AWS DevOps
16 87 (2.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 87 (2.69%) Developer/Software Engineer
17 85 (2.63%) Azure Engineer
18 80 (2.47%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 265 (8.19%) React
2 208 (6.43%) PySpark
3 206 (6.37%) Kafka
4 171 (5.29%) Pandas
5 152 (4.70%) NumPy
6 144 (4.45%) REST
7 141 (4.36%) Node.js
8 129 (3.99%) .NET
9 113 (3.49%) AngularJS
9 113 (3.49%) FastAPI
10 92 (2.84%) Django
11 87 (2.69%) HTML
12 84 (2.60%) SciPy
13 79 (2.44%) TensorFlow
14 75 (2.32%) CSS
15 74 (2.29%) RESTful
16 73 (2.26%) PyTorch
17 65 (2.01%) Vue
18 64 (1.98%) pytest
19 58 (1.79%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 183 (5.66%) Fixed Income
2 162 (5.01%) Hedge funds
3 145 (4.48%) Derivative
4 143 (4.42%) Algorithms
5 124 (3.83%) Equities
6 121 (3.74%) Cloud Native
7 115 (3.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 97 (3.00%) Distributed Systems
9 74 (2.29%) Data Structures
10 65 (2.01%) Onboarding
11 60 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
12 59 (1.82%) Public Cloud
13 52 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
13 52 (1.61%) Product Ownership
14 41 (1.27%) Data Centre
15 39 (1.21%) Distributed Computing
15 39 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
16 38 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
16 38 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
17 36 (1.11%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 500 (15.46%) Linux
2 227 (7.02%) Windows
3 137 (4.23%) Unix
4 104 (3.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 83 (2.57%) Windows Server
6 45 (1.39%) CentOS
7 20 (0.62%) Ubuntu
8 19 (0.59%) Solaris
9 15 (0.46%) Mac OS
10 9 (0.28%) Android
10 9 (0.28%) Rocky
11 8 (0.25%) VMS
12 7 (0.22%) AIX
12 7 (0.22%) Debian
13 6 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
14 5 (0.15%) SUSE
14 5 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
15 4 (0.12%) Apple iOS
16 3 (0.093%) Oracle Linux
16 3 (0.093%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 897 (27.73%) CI/CD
2 819 (25.32%) Agile
3 786 (24.30%) DevOps
4 726 (22.44%) Problem-Solving
5 492 (15.21%) Software Engineering
6 490 (15.15%) Analytics
7 378 (11.68%) Artificial Intelligence
8 372 (11.50%) Machine Learning
9 344 (10.63%) Containerisation
10 332 (10.26%) Data Science
11 329 (10.17%) Infrastructure as Code
12 327 (10.11%) Data Pipeline
13 311 (9.61%) ETL
14 303 (9.37%) Test Automation
15 294 (9.09%) Data Engineering
16 284 (8.78%) Business Intelligence
17 270 (8.35%) Data Modelling
18 243 (7.51%) Asset Management
19 242 (7.48%) Computer Science
20 228 (7.05%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1,045 (32.30%) SQL
2 605 (18.70%) Java
3 388 (11.99%) JavaScript
4 381 (11.78%) Bash
5 333 (10.29%) PowerShell
6 241 (7.45%) TypeScript
7 218 (6.74%) C#
8 171 (5.29%) C++
9 156 (4.82%) Go
10 128 (3.96%) R
11 114 (3.52%) Shell Script
12 102 (3.15%) Scala
13 81 (2.50%) Perl
14 58 (1.79%) Ruby
15 55 (1.70%) C
16 36 (1.11%) VBA
17 35 (1.08%) PHP
18 34 (1.05%) Rust
19 33 (1.02%) T-SQL
20 30 (0.93%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 563 (17.40%) Security Cleared
2 434 (13.42%) SC Cleared
3 338 (10.45%) Degree
4 141 (4.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 108 (3.34%) DV Cleared
6 90 (2.78%) AWS Certification
7 80 (2.47%) Master's Degree
8 61 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
9 48 (1.48%) CCNP
10 44 (1.36%) PhD
11 32 (0.99%) CISSP
12 29 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 28 (0.87%) Azure Certification
14 26 (0.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 24 (0.74%) CEH
16 21 (0.65%) Numerate Degree
17 20 (0.62%) Oracle Certification
18 18 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
18 18 (0.56%) CCIE
19 17 (0.53%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 198 (6.12%) Data Quality
2 158 (4.88%) QA
3 93 (2.87%) GDPR
4 46 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 43 (1.33%) NIST
6 42 (1.30%) Accessibility
7 38 (1.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 31 (0.96%) HIPAA
9 22 (0.68%) PCI DSS
10 21 (0.65%) NCSC
11 11 (0.34%) MiFID
11 11 (0.34%) SLA
12 8 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
12 8 (0.25%) Basel III
13 7 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 6 (0.19%) EMIR
14 6 (0.19%) SOC 2
14 6 (0.19%) WCAG
15 5 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 5 (0.15%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 512 (15.83%) Docker
2 89 (2.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 86 (2.66%) Active Directory
4 24 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
5 22 (0.68%) vSphere
6 20 (0.62%) Hyper-V
7 18 (0.56%) VMware NSX
8 17 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
9 15 (0.46%) Firmware
10 6 (0.19%) OpenAM
10 6 (0.19%) OpenDJ
10 6 (0.19%) OpenIDM
11 5 (0.15%) HDFS
11 5 (0.15%) NFS
12 4 (0.12%) Platform Symphony
12 4 (0.12%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 4 (0.12%) Veritas File System
12 4 (0.12%) Veritas Volume Manager
13 3 (0.093%) iptables
13 3 (0.093%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 659 (20.37%) Kubernetes
2 608 (18.79%) Terraform
3 463 (14.31%) Ansible
4 107 (3.31%) Puppet
5 103 (3.18%) Grafana
6 85 (2.63%) Prometheus
7 73 (2.26%) Progress Chef
8 35 (1.08%) Kibana
9 33 (1.02%) Packer
10 27 (0.83%) ZABBIX
11 25 (0.77%) Jamf Pro
12 22 (0.68%) Istio
12 22 (0.68%) Rancher
13 20 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
13 20 (0.62%) vCenter Server
14 18 (0.56%) Consul
15 16 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
16 15 (0.46%) Red Hat Satellite
17 14 (0.43%) HAProxy
17 14 (0.43%) linkerd
Vendors
1 254 (7.85%) Microsoft
2 188 (5.81%) Databricks
3 176 (5.44%) Oracle
4 138 (4.27%) Google
5 137 (4.23%) VMware
6 114 (3.52%) Cisco
7 112 (3.46%) Splunk
8 100 (3.09%) Red Hat
9 52 (1.61%) F5
9 52 (1.61%) IBM
10 46 (1.42%) SAP
11 44 (1.36%) ServiceNow
12 37 (1.14%) BISAM
13 36 (1.11%) Fortinet
14 34 (1.05%) Informatica
15 32 (0.99%) Sybase
16 30 (0.93%) CheckPoint
17 28 (0.87%) Okta
18 25 (0.77%) Apple
19 24 (0.74%) Atlassian