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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 6 9
Rank change year-on-year 0 +3 +1
Contract jobs citing Python 2,338 3,581 5,311
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 14.16% 14.62% 13.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.83% 37.31% 31.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,814 2,686 3,890
10th Percentile £400 £450 £463
25th Percentile £500 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.41%
75th Percentile £788 £750 £738
90th Percentile £875 £863 £825
England median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 20 28
10th Percentile £22.98 £51.25 £33.28
25th Percentile £40.06 £64.00 £40.75
Median hourly rate £49.00 £80.00 £52.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.75% +53.85% +21.92%
75th Percentile £68.22 £90.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £74.25 - £78.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +18.18% +41.03%

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 6,526 9,599 16,922
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 39.52% 39.18% 42.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,924 7,234 12,922
10th Percentile £375 £400 £419
25th Percentile £463 £481 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £713 £725 £725
90th Percentile £850 £825 £800
England median daily rate £550 £550 £563
% change year-on-year - -2.22% +9.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 79 99
10th Percentile £23.80 £24.78 £31.20
25th Percentile £33.07 £41.63 £36.25
Median hourly rate £49.50 £60.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +14.29% +9.38%
75th Percentile £62.50 £75.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £85.31 £78.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% +25.00%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 -4 279 £625 -2.53% 74
West London -2 33 £500 -16.67% 23
South London -3 27 £513 -6.82% 7
East London -15 7 £460 -34.87% 22
North London +2 1 £550 -4.35% 3
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
1 373 (15.95%) Apache Airflow
2 347 (14.84%) Apache
3 115 (4.92%) Apache Spark
4 40 (1.71%) Confluence
5 20 (0.86%) Jupyter
5 20 (0.86%) SharePoint
6 19 (0.81%) OpenStack
6 19 (0.81%) SAS
7 16 (0.68%) ArcGIS
8 9 (0.38%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 9 (0.38%) nginx
9 8 (0.34%) Site Server
10 5 (0.21%) Gunicorn
11 4 (0.17%) BizTalk Server
11 4 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
11 4 (0.17%) IIS
11 4 (0.17%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.13%) CMS
12 3 (0.13%) JBoss
12 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 48 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.51%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
4 7 (0.30%) SPSS
5 3 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.086%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.086%) Maya
6 2 (0.086%) NUKE
7 1 (0.043%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 34 (1.45%) Aladdin
2 8 (0.34%) Distributed Ledger
3 7 (0.30%) SimCorp Dimension
4 6 (0.26%) Global One
4 6 (0.26%) ION MarketView
4 6 (0.26%) NEC Housing
5 5 (0.21%) Endur
5 5 (0.21%) Shopify
6 3 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.13%) Orchestrade
7 2 (0.086%) Advent Geneva
7 2 (0.086%) Eagle PACE
7 2 (0.086%) FINCAD Analytics
7 2 (0.086%) Front Arena
7 2 (0.086%) Magento
7 2 (0.086%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.086%) Siebel CRM
8 1 (0.043%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 1 (0.043%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 991 (42.39%) AWS
2 626 (26.78%) Azure
3 420 (17.96%) GCP
4 280 (11.98%) dbt
5 241 (10.31%) Snowflake
6 176 (7.53%) Serverless
7 159 (6.80%) Power Platform
8 151 (6.46%) Amazon S3
9 150 (6.42%) GitHub
10 127 (5.43%) AWS Lambda
11 119 (5.09%) Amazon EC2
12 114 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
13 71 (3.04%) Azure Data Factory
14 68 (2.91%) Amazon EKS
15 54 (2.31%) Amazon ECS
16 50 (2.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 47 (2.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 44 (1.88%) GitHub Actions
19 36 (1.54%) PaaS
20 33 (1.41%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 71 (3.04%) Firewall
2 42 (1.80%) DNS
3 33 (1.41%) TCP/IP
4 22 (0.94%) Network Security
5 20 (0.86%) Internet
6 18 (0.77%) HTTP
7 16 (0.68%) 5G
7 16 (0.68%) DHCP
8 14 (0.60%) VPN
9 13 (0.56%) Kerberos
10 12 (0.51%) BGP
10 12 (0.51%) SSL
11 11 (0.47%) WAN
12 10 (0.43%) Cisco Nexus
12 10 (0.43%) SSH
13 9 (0.38%) MPLS
13 9 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
14 8 (0.34%) Radio Access Network
14 8 (0.34%) Wireless
15 7 (0.30%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 300 (12.83%) Data Lake
2 269 (11.51%) Apache Ignite
3 266 (11.38%) Amazon Athena
4 244 (10.44%) Dremio
5 233 (9.97%) Apache Arrow
6 169 (7.23%) PostgreSQL
7 155 (6.63%) Data Warehouse
8 154 (6.59%) Power BI
9 150 (6.42%) Big Data
10 143 (6.12%) Tableau
11 117 (5.00%) NoSQL
12 95 (4.06%) SQL Server
13 73 (3.12%) Relational Database
14 68 (2.91%) MongoDB
15 64 (2.74%) Azure SQL Database
16 62 (2.65%) Amazon Redshift
17 56 (2.40%) Hadoop
18 54 (2.31%) MySQL
19 51 (2.18%) BigQuery
20 40 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 263 (11.25%) Git
2 198 (8.47%) Jenkins
3 104 (4.45%) JIRA
4 92 (3.93%) GitLab
5 56 (2.40%) Cypress.io
6 28 (1.20%) Bitbucket
6 28 (1.20%) TeamCity
7 21 (0.90%) Postman
7 21 (0.90%) Selenium
8 18 (0.77%) Cucumber
8 18 (0.77%) JMeter
9 17 (0.73%) Artifactory
10 14 (0.60%) JUnit
10 14 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
11 13 (0.56%) Visual Studio
12 11 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 11 (0.47%) CircleCI
13 10 (0.43%) TestRail
14 8 (0.34%) MLflow
14 8 (0.34%) Subversion
General
1 912 (39.01%) Finance
2 541 (23.14%) Banking
3 494 (21.13%) Front Office
4 433 (18.52%) Social Skills
5 307 (13.13%) Investment Banking
6 244 (10.44%) Analytical Skills
7 85 (3.64%) Public Sector
8 66 (2.82%) Retail
9 39 (1.67%) Marketing
10 31 (1.33%) Financial Institution
11 18 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 18 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
12 17 (0.73%) Telecoms
13 13 (0.56%) Back Office
13 13 (0.56%) Legal
14 12 (0.51%) Retail Banking
15 11 (0.47%) Games
16 10 (0.43%) Advertising
16 10 (0.43%) Manufacturing
17 9 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 624 (26.69%) Developer
2 348 (14.88%) Python Developer
3 346 (14.80%) Senior
4 279 (11.93%) Software Engineer
5 264 (11.29%) Data Engineer
6 260 (11.12%) Python Engineer
7 244 (10.44%) Analyst
8 208 (8.90%) AWS Engineer
9 207 (8.85%) Lead
10 171 (7.31%) Architect
10 171 (7.31%) Python Software Engineer
11 149 (6.37%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 148 (6.33%) DevOps Engineer
13 102 (4.36%) Azure Engineer
14 97 (4.15%) React Developer
15 92 (3.93%) Java Engineer
16 91 (3.89%) Data Analyst
17 87 (3.72%) AWS Software Engineer
18 84 (3.59%) Software Developer
19 82 (3.51%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 301 (12.87%) gRPC
2 295 (12.62%) Protocol Buffers
3 273 (11.68%) Pandas
4 247 (10.56%) NumPy
5 223 (9.54%) SciPy
6 187 (8.00%) React
7 165 (7.06%) PySpark
8 148 (6.33%) Kafka
9 94 (4.02%) Redux
10 93 (3.98%) REST
11 77 (3.29%) .NET
12 75 (3.21%) HTML
12 75 (3.21%) Material-UI
12 75 (3.21%) Node.js
13 60 (2.57%) CSS
13 60 (2.57%) RESTful
14 51 (2.18%) Django
15 47 (2.01%) Elastic Stack
16 43 (1.84%) JSON
17 39 (1.67%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 392 (16.77%) Fixed Income
2 387 (16.55%) Hedge funds
3 321 (13.73%) Derivative
4 300 (12.83%) Equities
5 291 (12.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 103 (4.41%) Algorithms
7 97 (4.15%) Product Ownership
8 78 (3.34%) Distributed Systems
9 62 (2.65%) Data Structures
10 60 (2.57%) Data Protection Act
11 43 (1.84%) Cloud Native
12 34 (1.45%) Management Information System
13 28 (1.20%) Clustering
13 28 (1.20%) Public Cloud
14 27 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
15 25 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
15 25 (1.07%) Linux Command Line
15 25 (1.07%) Onboarding
16 24 (1.03%) Pricing Data
17 21 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 263 (11.25%) Linux
2 128 (5.47%) Unix
3 120 (5.13%) Windows
4 40 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 29 (1.24%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.51%) Android
6 12 (0.51%) CentOS
7 11 (0.47%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.17%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.086%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.086%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.086%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.043%) Debian
12 1 (0.043%) Fedora
12 1 (0.043%) Solaris
12 1 (0.043%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.043%) VMS
12 1 (0.043%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 755 (32.29%) Agile
2 551 (23.57%) DevOps
3 506 (21.64%) Software Engineering
4 473 (20.23%) CI/CD
5 415 (17.75%) Asset Management
6 364 (15.57%) Analytics
7 316 (13.52%) Investment Management
8 308 (13.17%) Machine Learning
9 290 (12.40%) Problem-Solving
10 273 (11.68%) Artificial Intelligence
11 230 (9.84%) ETL
12 226 (9.67%) Data Pipeline
13 219 (9.37%) Computer Science
14 205 (8.77%) Data Modelling
15 204 (8.73%) Data Science
16 200 (8.55%) Business Intelligence
17 192 (8.21%) Infrastructure as Code
18 179 (7.66%) Test Automation
19 158 (6.76%) Full Stack Development
20 144 (6.16%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 831 (35.54%) SQL
2 629 (26.90%) Java
3 437 (18.69%) JavaScript
4 338 (14.46%) TypeScript
5 209 (8.94%) PowerShell
6 166 (7.10%) Bash
7 156 (6.67%) C++
8 141 (6.03%) Go
9 133 (5.69%) C#
10 92 (3.93%) Shell Script
11 83 (3.55%) Scala
12 77 (3.29%) R
13 72 (3.08%) Perl
14 59 (2.52%) Ruby
15 49 (2.10%) C
16 40 (1.71%) T-SQL
17 34 (1.45%) VBA
18 32 (1.37%) Groovy
19 31 (1.33%) Rust
20 16 (0.68%) PHP
Qualifications
1 265 (11.33%) Degree
2 241 (10.31%) Security Cleared
3 210 (8.98%) SC Cleared
4 120 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 61 (2.61%) Master's Degree
6 33 (1.41%) DV Cleared
7 31 (1.33%) Numerate Degree
8 30 (1.28%) AWS Certification
9 27 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
10 25 (1.07%) PhD
11 21 (0.90%) CCNP
12 16 (0.68%) Azure Certification
13 11 (0.47%) CCNA
14 10 (0.43%) CISSP
14 10 (0.43%) ISTQB
15 9 (0.38%) CCIE
16 8 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 7 (0.30%) CEH
18 6 (0.26%) GCIH
18 6 (0.26%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 191 (8.17%) Data Quality
2 78 (3.34%) QA
3 15 (0.64%) Accessibility
4 11 (0.47%) NIST
5 10 (0.43%) PCI DSS
6 8 (0.34%) GDPR
7 7 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
8 6 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.21%) SLA
10 3 (0.13%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.086%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.043%) Basel II
12 1 (0.043%) COPPA
12 1 (0.043%) Government Security Classifications
12 1 (0.043%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.043%) IFRS
12 1 (0.043%) IFRS 17
12 1 (0.043%) PMO
12 1 (0.043%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 279 (11.93%) Docker
2 45 (1.92%) Active Directory
3 27 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (0.64%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (0.38%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 9 (0.38%) Firmware
7 8 (0.34%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.26%) HDFS
9 5 (0.21%) XenApp
9 5 (0.21%) XenDesktop
10 3 (0.13%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.13%) vSphere
11 2 (0.086%) Apache Flume
11 2 (0.086%) iptables
11 2 (0.086%) KVM
11 2 (0.086%) LXC
11 2 (0.086%) NFS
11 2 (0.086%) Samba
11 2 (0.086%) Snort
Systems Management
1 377 (16.12%) Terraform
2 368 (15.74%) Kubernetes
3 203 (8.68%) Ansible
4 89 (3.81%) Grafana
5 87 (3.72%) Prometheus
6 44 (1.88%) Puppet
7 18 (0.77%) Kibana
7 18 (0.77%) logstash
8 15 (0.64%) Progress Chef
9 14 (0.60%) Consul
9 14 (0.60%) ITRS Geneos
10 12 (0.51%) Argo
10 12 (0.51%) Packer
10 12 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
11 10 (0.43%) Opsgenie
12 9 (0.38%) Podman
13 8 (0.34%) Control-M
14 7 (0.30%) ArcSight ESM
14 7 (0.30%) vCenter Server
15 4 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 164 (7.01%) Databricks
2 163 (6.97%) Google
3 159 (6.80%) Microsoft
4 108 (4.62%) Oracle
5 65 (2.78%) Bloomberg
6 60 (2.57%) Splunk
7 47 (2.01%) VMware
8 38 (1.63%) SAP
9 36 (1.54%) Cisco
9 36 (1.54%) Red Hat
10 31 (1.33%) IBM
11 30 (1.28%) F5
12 25 (1.07%) Dynatrace
13 24 (1.03%) BISAM
13 24 (1.03%) Salesforce
14 23 (0.98%) Reuters
14 23 (0.98%) Sybase
15 21 (0.90%) Confluent
16 19 (0.81%) Adobe
17 18 (0.77%) Palantir