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 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 8 6
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 +4
Contract jobs citing Python 2,157 2,245 3,869
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 17.19% 12.59% 14.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 43.50% 34.91% 35.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,565 1,705 2,877
10th Percentile £405 £413 £456
25th Percentile £463 £490 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £588 £625
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% -6.00% +3.31%
75th Percentile £756 £750 £750
90th Percentile £850 £850 £857
England median daily rate £550 £563 £600
% change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 32 16
10th Percentile £35.00 £25.35 £47.44
25th Percentile £40.25 £42.00 £61.56
Median hourly rate £52.50 £51.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -31.33% +54.51%
75th Percentile £61.00 £65.15 £83.19
90th Percentile £93.75 £72.50 £87.50
England median hourly rate £40.91 £62.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -34.02% -4.62% +27.83%

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 4,959 6,430 11,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 39.52% 36.06% 40.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,479 4,906 8,206
10th Percentile £380 £380 £413
25th Percentile £449 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £712 £700 £738
90th Percentile £825 £825 £825
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 57 85
10th Percentile £29.07 £23.80 £34.55
25th Percentile £35.00 £36.25 £49.25
Median hourly rate £44.50 £50.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.88% -12.17% +15.00%
75th Percentile £60.81 £61.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £69.38 £70.75 £83.45
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

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 1 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 1 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 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
Central London +4 320 £577 -3.92% 267
South London +4 46 £600 +15.66% 16
West London +17 22 £475 - 82
East London +6 4 £625 +4.17% 44
North London - 2 £270 - 1
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
1 175 (8.11%) Apache Airflow
2 168 (7.79%) Apache Spark
3 167 (7.74%) Apache
4 40 (1.85%) Confluence
5 25 (1.16%) SAS
6 19 (0.88%) nginx
7 18 (0.83%) SharePoint
8 17 (0.79%) Jupyter
9 10 (0.46%) OpenStack
10 9 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
11 6 (0.28%) BizTalk Server
12 5 (0.23%) Traefik
13 4 (0.19%) ArcGIS
13 4 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
13 4 (0.19%) Tomcat
14 3 (0.14%) CMS
14 3 (0.14%) JBoss
14 3 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
14 3 (0.14%) WebSphere
15 2 (0.093%) WordPress
Applications
1 81 (3.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 11 (0.51%) MS Visio
3 10 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.14%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.093%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.093%) CPLEX
6 2 (0.093%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.093%) Sketch
7 1 (0.046%) EViews
7 1 (0.046%) Siemens NX
7 1 (0.046%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 38 (1.76%) Aladdin
2 15 (0.70%) Endur
3 14 (0.65%) thinkFolio
4 5 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.19%) Fidessa
6 3 (0.14%) Bankmaster
7 2 (0.093%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.093%) Infor SunSystems
7 2 (0.093%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.093%) SAP BPC
8 1 (0.046%) Distributed Ledger
8 1 (0.046%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.046%) R3 Corda
8 1 (0.046%) Shopify
8 1 (0.046%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 857 (39.73%) AWS
2 551 (25.54%) Azure
3 298 (13.82%) GCP
4 187 (8.67%) dbt
5 176 (8.16%) Serverless
6 158 (7.32%) Power Platform
7 157 (7.28%) GitHub
8 147 (6.82%) AWS Lambda
9 137 (6.35%) Snowflake
10 129 (5.98%) Amazon S3
11 90 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
12 89 (4.13%) AWS CloudFormation
13 88 (4.08%) GitHub Actions
14 76 (3.52%) Amazon ECS
15 75 (3.48%) OpenShift
16 69 (3.20%) Amazon EC2
17 59 (2.74%) Azure Data Factory
18 53 (2.46%) Amazon EKS
19 42 (1.95%) Entra ID
20 40 (1.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 91 (4.22%) Firewall
2 79 (3.66%) DNS
3 54 (2.50%) TCP/IP
4 47 (2.18%) Network Security
5 46 (2.13%) VPN
6 31 (1.44%) BGP
6 31 (1.44%) DHCP
7 29 (1.34%) HTTP
8 27 (1.25%) OSPF
9 19 (0.88%) WAN
10 16 (0.74%) MPLS
11 15 (0.70%) SSL
12 13 (0.60%) LAN
13 12 (0.56%) 4G
13 12 (0.56%) 5G
13 12 (0.56%) Radio Access Network
14 11 (0.51%) Multicast
14 11 (0.51%) SSH
14 11 (0.51%) Wireless
15 10 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (7.00%) Power BI
2 140 (6.49%) Amazon Athena
3 128 (5.93%) PostgreSQL
4 126 (5.84%) Data Warehouse
5 116 (5.38%) Apache Iceberg
6 105 (4.87%) Dremio
7 102 (4.73%) Data Lake
8 95 (4.40%) Big Data
9 94 (4.36%) Apache Arrow
9 94 (4.36%) SQL Server
10 91 (4.22%) Tableau
11 78 (3.62%) NoSQL
11 78 (3.62%) Relational Database
12 73 (3.38%) Amazon Redshift
13 68 (3.15%) Apache Ignite
14 65 (3.01%) Hadoop
15 59 (2.74%) Amazon RDS
16 54 (2.50%) MongoDB
17 41 (1.90%) DynamoDB
18 40 (1.85%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 205 (9.50%) Git
2 184 (8.53%) Jenkins
3 107 (4.96%) GitLab
4 90 (4.17%) JIRA
5 45 (2.09%) Selenium
6 42 (1.95%) Artifactory
7 26 (1.21%) JUnit
8 25 (1.16%) JMeter
9 22 (1.02%) SonarQube
10 21 (0.97%) Postman
11 18 (0.83%) LoadRunner
12 15 (0.70%) TeamCity
13 13 (0.60%) Bitbucket
13 13 (0.60%) CircleCI
13 13 (0.60%) Cypress.io
13 13 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
14 12 (0.56%) Cucumber
14 12 (0.56%) MLflow
15 11 (0.51%) Appium
15 11 (0.51%) REST Assured
General
1 771 (35.74%) Finance
2 473 (21.93%) Social Skills
3 371 (17.20%) Banking
4 345 (15.99%) Front Office
5 326 (15.11%) Analytical Skills
6 193 (8.95%) Investment Banking
7 129 (5.98%) Public Sector
8 53 (2.46%) Financial Institution
9 45 (2.09%) Telecoms
10 40 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
11 37 (1.72%) Marketing
12 31 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
13 28 (1.30%) Retail
14 26 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 23 (1.07%) Legal
16 18 (0.83%) Back Office
17 16 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
18 14 (0.65%) Retail Banking
19 12 (0.56%) Advertising
20 11 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 542 (25.13%) Developer
2 318 (14.74%) Data Engineer
3 301 (13.95%) Senior
4 249 (11.54%) Analyst
5 237 (10.99%) Python Developer
6 220 (10.20%) AWS Engineer
7 212 (9.83%) Python Engineer
8 186 (8.62%) Software Engineer
9 166 (7.70%) DevOps Engineer
10 139 (6.44%) Lead
11 103 (4.78%) Architect
12 87 (4.03%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 81 (3.76%) Data Scientist
14 79 (3.66%) Data Analyst
15 77 (3.57%) AWS DevOps
16 75 (3.48%) Business Analyst
16 75 (3.48%) Senior Developer
17 74 (3.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 70 (3.25%) AWS Software Engineer
19 67 (3.11%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 204 (9.46%) React
2 154 (7.14%) Kafka
3 153 (7.09%) PySpark
4 138 (6.40%) Pandas
5 123 (5.70%) NumPy
6 98 (4.54%) REST
7 97 (4.50%) Node.js
8 88 (4.08%) .NET
8 88 (4.08%) FastAPI
9 82 (3.80%) SciPy
10 79 (3.66%) AngularJS
11 65 (3.01%) Django
12 58 (2.69%) Redux
13 56 (2.60%) Vue
14 50 (2.32%) pytest
15 45 (2.09%) gRPC
16 44 (2.04%) Spring
17 43 (1.99%) RESTful
17 43 (1.99%) TensorFlow
18 42 (1.95%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 182 (8.44%) Fixed Income
2 162 (7.51%) Hedge funds
3 139 (6.44%) Derivative
4 123 (5.70%) Equities
5 109 (5.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 88 (4.08%) Algorithms
7 86 (3.99%) Distributed Systems
8 83 (3.85%) Cloud Native
9 58 (2.69%) Data Structures
10 43 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
11 38 (1.76%) Public Cloud
12 37 (1.72%) Onboarding
13 35 (1.62%) Distributed Computing
14 33 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
14 33 (1.53%) Market Risk
15 30 (1.39%) Product Ownership
16 28 (1.30%) Data Centre
17 27 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
18 22 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
19 21 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 272 (12.61%) Linux
2 103 (4.78%) Windows
3 71 (3.29%) Unix
4 33 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 33 (1.53%) Windows Server
5 21 (0.97%) CentOS
6 12 (0.56%) Solaris
7 9 (0.42%) Rocky
8 7 (0.32%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.32%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.28%) Android
9 6 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.23%) SUSE
10 5 (0.23%) VMS
11 3 (0.14%) Debian
11 3 (0.14%) Oracle Linux
11 3 (0.14%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.093%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.093%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.093%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 603 (27.96%) CI/CD
2 562 (26.05%) Agile
3 520 (24.11%) DevOps
4 448 (20.77%) Problem-Solving
5 372 (17.25%) Software Engineering
6 362 (16.78%) Analytics
7 261 (12.10%) Machine Learning
8 254 (11.78%) Artificial Intelligence
9 234 (10.85%) Asset Management
10 225 (10.43%) Data Science
10 225 (10.43%) Infrastructure as Code
11 213 (9.87%) Data Pipeline
12 210 (9.74%) Data Engineering
13 207 (9.60%) Business Intelligence
14 192 (8.90%) Test Automation
15 191 (8.85%) ETL
16 183 (8.48%) Containerisation
17 172 (7.97%) Data Modelling
18 160 (7.42%) Computer Science
19 152 (7.05%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 748 (34.68%) SQL
2 442 (20.49%) Java
3 275 (12.75%) JavaScript
4 201 (9.32%) Bash
5 197 (9.13%) TypeScript
6 160 (7.42%) PowerShell
7 155 (7.19%) C#
8 136 (6.31%) C++
9 125 (5.80%) Go
10 87 (4.03%) Scala
11 74 (3.43%) R
12 68 (3.15%) Shell Script
13 43 (1.99%) C
13 43 (1.99%) Perl
14 33 (1.53%) Ruby
15 28 (1.30%) Rust
16 27 (1.25%) VBA
17 25 (1.16%) T-SQL
18 22 (1.02%) Groovy
18 22 (1.02%) PHP
Qualifications
1 267 (12.38%) Security Cleared
2 221 (10.25%) Degree
2 221 (10.25%) SC Cleared
3 92 (4.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 65 (3.01%) AWS Certification
5 54 (2.50%) Master's Degree
6 46 (2.13%) DV Cleared
7 28 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
8 24 (1.11%) PhD
9 22 (1.02%) CCNP
10 19 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 18 (0.83%) Numerate Degree
12 16 (0.74%) CEH
12 16 (0.74%) CISSP
13 14 (0.65%) Azure Certification
14 11 (0.51%) CCNA
15 10 (0.46%) OSCP
16 9 (0.42%) CCIE
16 9 (0.42%) GIAC
16 9 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (5.98%) Data Quality
2 98 (4.54%) QA
3 57 (2.64%) GDPR
4 33 (1.53%) NIST
5 31 (1.44%) Accessibility
6 30 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 29 (1.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 14 (0.65%) PCI DSS
9 12 (0.56%) HIPAA
10 8 (0.37%) NCSC
11 6 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.28%) EMIR
11 6 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 6 (0.28%) MiFID
11 6 (0.28%) SLA
11 6 (0.28%) WCAG
12 5 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
12 5 (0.23%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.14%) Dodd-Frank
System Software
1 310 (14.37%) Docker
2 39 (1.81%) Active Directory
3 23 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (0.32%) VMware NSX
7 6 (0.28%) OpenAM
7 6 (0.28%) OpenDJ
7 6 (0.28%) OpenIDM
8 5 (0.23%) Firmware
9 4 (0.19%) Platform Symphony
9 4 (0.19%) vSphere
10 3 (0.14%) FreeRADIUS
10 3 (0.14%) HDFS
10 3 (0.14%) iptables
10 3 (0.14%) NFS
10 3 (0.14%) Veritas File System
10 3 (0.14%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 2 (0.093%) Ceph
11 2 (0.093%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 429 (19.89%) Kubernetes
2 403 (18.68%) Terraform
3 266 (12.33%) Ansible
4 63 (2.92%) Grafana
5 47 (2.18%) Prometheus
6 44 (2.04%) Puppet
7 29 (1.34%) Progress Chef
8 21 (0.97%) Kibana
9 14 (0.65%) ZABBIX
10 13 (0.60%) Rancher
11 12 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
11 12 (0.56%) Packer
11 12 (0.56%) Red Hat Satellite
12 11 (0.51%) Istio
12 11 (0.51%) Jamf Pro
12 11 (0.51%) QRadar
13 9 (0.42%) Nagios
14 8 (0.37%) Consul
14 8 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
14 8 (0.37%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 152 (7.05%) Microsoft
2 118 (5.47%) Databricks
3 114 (5.29%) Oracle
4 78 (3.62%) Google
5 69 (3.20%) Splunk
6 62 (2.87%) Cisco
7 50 (2.32%) VMware
8 42 (1.95%) Red Hat
9 37 (1.72%) BISAM
10 36 (1.67%) IBM
11 31 (1.44%) Informatica
11 31 (1.44%) ServiceNow
12 24 (1.11%) F5
13 23 (1.07%) Sybase
14 22 (1.02%) Fortinet
15 21 (0.97%) SAP
16 19 (0.88%) CheckPoint
16 19 (0.88%) CyberArk
17 17 (0.79%) Arista
17 17 (0.79%) Charles River