Python Contracts in London

Python
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 8 6
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 +4
Contract jobs citing Python 2,065 2,289 3,713
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 17.02% 13.15% 14.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 43.42% 35.49% 35.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,510 1,762 2,759
10th Percentile £402 £406 £456
25th Percentile £463 £500 £521
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -4.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £750 £763 £750
90th Percentile £838 £850 £863
England median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 30 17
10th Percentile £35.30 £24.93 £51.25
25th Percentile £37.00 £41.56 £70.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £50.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -36.88% +62.30%
75th Percentile £57.50 £71.88 £90.00
90th Percentile £84.60 £75.00 -
England median hourly rate £42.25 £63.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year -33.73% -1.92% +22.58%

All Programming Languages
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,756 6,450 10,352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 39.21% 37.05% 40.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,352 4,937 7,756
10th Percentile £375 £375 £413
25th Percentile £440 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £713 £700 £738
90th Percentile £825 £838 £825
England median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 50 80
10th Percentile £29.07 £23.80 £26.20
25th Percentile £33.25 £40.77 £49.65
Median hourly rate £38.11 £50.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.53% -15.83% +20.02%
75th Percentile £53.75 £64.02 £75.00
90th Percentile £66.65 £72.50 £90.00
England median hourly rate £61.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -1.60% - +23.10%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in London

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Python in London

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in London over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python in London

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Python in London

Python
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Python in London over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Python in London

Python
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the London region over the 6 months to 23 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
Central London +4 309 £578 -3.67% 387
South London 0 35 £575 +10.84% 26
West London +11 21 £402 -21.51% 463
East London +11 6 £630 +5.00% 59
Python
England

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 162 (7.85%) Apache Airflow
2 151 (7.31%) Apache Spark
3 146 (7.07%) Apache
4 35 (1.69%) Confluence
5 17 (0.82%) Jupyter
5 17 (0.82%) SAS
6 12 (0.58%) nginx
7 11 (0.53%) SharePoint
8 9 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
9 7 (0.34%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.19%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
10 4 (0.19%) JBoss
11 3 (0.15%) CMS
11 3 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.15%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.15%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.097%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.097%) Luigi
12 2 (0.097%) Traefik
Applications
1 78 (3.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (0.44%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.29%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.097%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.097%) Sketch
8 1 (0.048%) EViews
8 1 (0.048%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.048%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.048%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 44 (2.13%) Aladdin
2 19 (0.92%) thinkFolio
3 17 (0.82%) Endur
4 5 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.19%) Fidessa
6 3 (0.15%) Bankmaster
7 2 (0.097%) Infor SunSystems
7 2 (0.097%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.097%) SAP BPC
8 1 (0.048%) Dynamics CRM
8 1 (0.048%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.048%) R3 Corda
8 1 (0.048%) Shopify
8 1 (0.048%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 828 (40.10%) AWS
2 573 (27.75%) Azure
3 295 (14.29%) GCP
4 171 (8.28%) dbt
5 162 (7.85%) Serverless
6 156 (7.55%) Power Platform
7 149 (7.22%) GitHub
8 129 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
9 123 (5.96%) Snowflake
10 117 (5.67%) Amazon S3
11 95 (4.60%) Azure DevOps
12 83 (4.02%) GitHub Actions
13 69 (3.34%) AWS CloudFormation
14 67 (3.24%) Azure Data Factory
15 61 (2.95%) OpenShift
16 53 (2.57%) Amazon ECS
17 52 (2.52%) Amazon EC2
18 45 (2.18%) Amazon EKS
19 41 (1.99%) Entra ID
20 40 (1.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 90 (4.36%) Firewall
2 72 (3.49%) DNS
3 47 (2.28%) VPN
4 46 (2.23%) Network Security
5 45 (2.18%) TCP/IP
6 34 (1.65%) BGP
7 29 (1.40%) HTTP
7 29 (1.40%) OSPF
8 27 (1.31%) DHCP
9 21 (1.02%) WAN
10 18 (0.87%) MPLS
11 15 (0.73%) LAN
12 14 (0.68%) Multicast
13 11 (0.53%) SSH
14 10 (0.48%) Cisco Nexus
14 10 (0.48%) Wireshark
15 9 (0.44%) Internet
15 9 (0.44%) IPsec
15 9 (0.44%) Kerberos
15 9 (0.44%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (7.12%) Power BI
2 129 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
3 124 (6.00%) Amazon Athena
4 113 (5.47%) Data Warehouse
5 105 (5.08%) Data Lake
6 104 (5.04%) Apache Iceberg
7 96 (4.65%) Big Data
7 96 (4.65%) SQL Server
8 95 (4.60%) Dremio
9 94 (4.55%) Tableau
10 87 (4.21%) Apache Arrow
11 80 (3.87%) NoSQL
11 80 (3.87%) Relational Database
12 60 (2.91%) Hadoop
13 58 (2.81%) Apache Ignite
14 45 (2.18%) MongoDB
15 44 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
16 43 (2.08%) BigQuery
17 42 (2.03%) Amazon Redshift
18 40 (1.94%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 207 (10.02%) Git
2 173 (8.38%) Jenkins
3 105 (5.08%) GitLab
4 84 (4.07%) JIRA
5 46 (2.23%) Selenium
6 34 (1.65%) Artifactory
7 30 (1.45%) JUnit
8 23 (1.11%) JMeter
8 23 (1.11%) Postman
9 19 (0.92%) SonarQube
9 19 (0.92%) Sonatype Nexus
10 17 (0.82%) LoadRunner
11 15 (0.73%) Cypress.io
11 15 (0.73%) MLflow
11 15 (0.73%) TeamCity
12 13 (0.63%) Cucumber
12 13 (0.63%) REST Assured
13 12 (0.58%) CircleCI
14 11 (0.53%) Bitbucket
14 11 (0.53%) Terragrunt
General
1 751 (36.37%) Finance
2 462 (22.37%) Social Skills
3 346 (16.76%) Banking
4 318 (15.40%) Front Office
5 309 (14.96%) Analytical Skills
6 184 (8.91%) Investment Banking
7 116 (5.62%) Public Sector
8 46 (2.23%) Financial Institution
9 36 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
9 36 (1.74%) Telecoms
10 34 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
11 32 (1.55%) Marketing
12 31 (1.50%) Retail
13 25 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 20 (0.97%) Legal
15 18 (0.87%) Back Office
16 15 (0.73%) Retail Banking
17 14 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
18 12 (0.58%) Corporate Banking
18 12 (0.58%) Police
Job Titles
1 529 (25.62%) Developer
2 297 (14.38%) Data Engineer
3 283 (13.70%) Senior
4 261 (12.64%) Analyst
5 231 (11.19%) Python Developer
6 192 (9.30%) AWS Engineer
7 187 (9.06%) Python Engineer
8 180 (8.72%) Software Engineer
9 136 (6.59%) DevOps Engineer
10 121 (5.86%) Lead
11 115 (5.57%) Architect
12 88 (4.26%) Data Analyst
13 85 (4.12%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 84 (4.07%) Business Analyst
15 77 (3.73%) Data Scientist
16 69 (3.34%) AWS Software Engineer
16 69 (3.34%) Senior Developer
17 67 (3.24%) Full-Stack Developer
18 65 (3.15%) Python Software Engineer
19 60 (2.91%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 199 (9.64%) React
2 149 (7.22%) Kafka
3 139 (6.73%) Pandas
4 135 (6.54%) PySpark
5 118 (5.71%) NumPy
6 101 (4.89%) REST
7 97 (4.70%) Node.js
8 87 (4.21%) FastAPI
9 85 (4.12%) .NET
9 85 (4.12%) AngularJS
10 76 (3.68%) SciPy
11 59 (2.86%) Django
11 59 (2.86%) Vue
12 58 (2.81%) Redux
13 48 (2.32%) TensorFlow
14 47 (2.28%) Spring
15 46 (2.23%) JSON
16 45 (2.18%) pytest
17 44 (2.13%) RESTful
18 40 (1.94%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 185 (8.96%) Fixed Income
2 169 (8.18%) Hedge funds
3 137 (6.63%) Derivative
4 125 (6.05%) Equities
5 109 (5.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 85 (4.12%) Algorithms
7 84 (4.07%) Distributed Systems
8 81 (3.92%) Cloud Native
9 59 (2.86%) Data Structures
10 43 (2.08%) Onboarding
11 42 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
12 36 (1.74%) Public Cloud
13 35 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
14 33 (1.60%) Distributed Computing
15 31 (1.50%) Market Risk
16 28 (1.36%) Data Centre
16 28 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
17 27 (1.31%) Product Ownership
18 25 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
19 22 (1.07%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 257 (12.45%) Linux
2 97 (4.70%) Windows
3 65 (3.15%) Unix
4 29 (1.40%) Windows Server
5 28 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 16 (0.77%) CentOS
7 12 (0.58%) Solaris
8 9 (0.44%) Mac OS
9 8 (0.39%) Rocky
10 7 (0.34%) Android
11 6 (0.29%) Ubuntu
11 6 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
12 5 (0.24%) Apple iOS
12 5 (0.24%) SUSE
12 5 (0.24%) VMS
13 3 (0.15%) Oracle Linux
13 3 (0.15%) Windows 10
14 2 (0.097%) AIX
14 2 (0.097%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.097%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 556 (26.92%) CI/CD
2 545 (26.39%) Agile
3 488 (23.63%) DevOps
4 399 (19.32%) Problem-Solving
5 345 (16.71%) Software Engineering
6 338 (16.37%) Analytics
7 264 (12.78%) Artificial Intelligence
8 252 (12.20%) Machine Learning
9 221 (10.70%) Asset Management
10 220 (10.65%) Data Science
11 219 (10.61%) Infrastructure as Code
12 216 (10.46%) Data Pipeline
13 208 (10.07%) Business Intelligence
14 198 (9.59%) Data Engineering
15 187 (9.06%) Test Automation
16 183 (8.86%) ETL
17 175 (8.47%) Data Modelling
18 165 (7.99%) Containerisation
19 152 (7.36%) Investment Management
20 146 (7.07%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 731 (35.40%) SQL
2 405 (19.61%) Java
3 276 (13.37%) JavaScript
4 196 (9.49%) TypeScript
5 194 (9.39%) Bash
6 156 (7.55%) C#
7 152 (7.36%) PowerShell
8 132 (6.39%) C++
9 101 (4.89%) Go
10 75 (3.63%) Scala
11 72 (3.49%) R
12 65 (3.15%) Shell Script
13 46 (2.23%) Perl
14 32 (1.55%) C
15 30 (1.45%) Rust
16 29 (1.40%) Ruby
17 27 (1.31%) VBA
18 22 (1.07%) T-SQL
19 21 (1.02%) Groovy
20 18 (0.87%) PHP
Qualifications
1 254 (12.30%) Security Cleared
2 211 (10.22%) SC Cleared
3 210 (10.17%) Degree
4 84 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 62 (3.00%) AWS Certification
6 58 (2.81%) Master's Degree
7 33 (1.60%) DV Cleared
8 28 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
9 25 (1.21%) PhD
10 21 (1.02%) CCNP
11 18 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 17 (0.82%) CISSP
13 16 (0.77%) Azure Certification
13 16 (0.77%) Numerate Degree
14 14 (0.68%) CEH
15 10 (0.48%) CCNA
15 10 (0.48%) ISTQB
16 9 (0.44%) AWS Certified Developer
16 9 (0.44%) CompTIA Security+
16 9 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (6.00%) Data Quality
2 98 (4.75%) QA
3 54 (2.62%) GDPR
4 36 (1.74%) NIST
5 32 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 29 (1.40%) Accessibility
6 29 (1.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 16 (0.77%) PCI DSS
8 12 (0.58%) HIPAA
9 8 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 8 (0.39%) SOC 2
10 7 (0.34%) WCAG
11 6 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.29%) SLA
12 5 (0.24%) EMIR
12 5 (0.24%) Government Security Classifications
12 5 (0.24%) MiFID
12 5 (0.24%) NCSC
13 3 (0.15%) Basel III
13 3 (0.15%) HL7
System Software
1 288 (13.95%) Docker
2 40 (1.94%) Active Directory
3 20 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (0.34%) Firmware
7 5 (0.24%) OpenAM
7 5 (0.24%) OpenDJ
7 5 (0.24%) OpenIDM
7 5 (0.24%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.19%) Platform Symphony
8 4 (0.19%) vSphere
9 3 (0.15%) FreeRADIUS
9 3 (0.15%) iptables
9 3 (0.15%) NFS
9 3 (0.15%) Veritas File System
9 3 (0.15%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 2 (0.097%) Ceph
10 2 (0.097%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.097%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 389 (18.84%) Kubernetes
2 364 (17.63%) Terraform
3 254 (12.30%) Ansible
4 51 (2.47%) Grafana
5 47 (2.28%) Puppet
6 41 (1.99%) Prometheus
7 29 (1.40%) Progress Chef
8 19 (0.92%) Kibana
9 13 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
9 13 (0.63%) Rancher
10 11 (0.53%) Red Hat Satellite
11 10 (0.48%) ITRS Geneos
11 10 (0.48%) QRadar
11 10 (0.48%) ZABBIX
12 9 (0.44%) Packer
12 9 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
13 8 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
13 8 (0.39%) Tivoli
14 7 (0.34%) Istio
14 7 (0.34%) Nagios
Vendors
1 155 (7.51%) Microsoft
2 134 (6.49%) Databricks
3 96 (4.65%) Oracle
4 91 (4.41%) Google
5 59 (2.86%) Cisco
6 58 (2.81%) Splunk
7 45 (2.18%) VMware
8 43 (2.08%) BISAM
9 36 (1.74%) Red Hat
10 31 (1.50%) ServiceNow
11 29 (1.40%) IBM
11 29 (1.40%) Informatica
12 26 (1.26%) Arista
13 23 (1.11%) F5
13 23 (1.11%) Fortinet
14 22 (1.07%) Charles River
15 20 (0.97%) Calypso
15 20 (0.97%) CheckPoint
15 20 (0.97%) CyberArk
15 20 (0.97%) Sybase