Python Contracts in London

Python
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Python skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Python over the 6 months to 2 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 9 8 10
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 -3
Contract jobs citing Python 2,481 5,201 4,954
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 12.83% 14.63% 13.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.13% 33.52% 29.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,865 3,747 3,664
10th Percentile £419 £463 £425
25th Percentile £500 £525 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £738 £750 £695
90th Percentile £838 £849 £760
England median daily rate £580 £600 £565
% change year-on-year -3.33% +6.19% +7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 22 40
10th Percentile £42.30 £35.63 £32.00
25th Percentile £51.25 £41.75 £36.25
Median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 £49.29
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +11.58% +28.03%
75th Percentile £64.52 £72.69 £60.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.38 £65.18
England median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £39.75
% change year-on-year -7.69% +63.52% +13.57%

All Programming Languages
London

Python is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 7,062 15,515 17,012
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.51% 43.63% 44.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,299 11,334 12,906
10th Percentile £395 £425 £406
25th Percentile £463 £513 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £675
90th Percentile £810 £825 £750
England median daily rate £550 £575 £530
% change year-on-year -4.35% +8.49% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 86 102
10th Percentile £26.11 £35.00 £27.50
25th Percentile £36.70 £42.63 £36.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +6.98% +45.27%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £74.06 £76.85 £79.43
England median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -0.80% +31.58% +11.76%

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 2 December 2023.

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 2 December 2023.

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 2 December 2023. 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 +2 328 £625 +4.17% 108
South London +2 39 £600 - 17
West London -4 33 £535 +0.94% 37
East London -9 12 £534 +12.42% 264
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
1 146 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
2 141 (5.68%) Apache
3 119 (4.80%) Confluence
4 76 (3.06%) Apache Spark
5 33 (1.33%) nginx
6 32 (1.29%) Jupyter
7 31 (1.25%) OpenStack
8 30 (1.21%) BizTalk Server
9 19 (0.77%) SAS
10 11 (0.44%) SharePoint
11 8 (0.32%) IIS
12 7 (0.28%) Luigi
12 7 (0.28%) Tornado
13 6 (0.24%) Apache Solr
14 5 (0.20%) Drupal
14 5 (0.20%) MTS
15 4 (0.16%) ArcGIS
15 4 (0.16%) GeoServer
15 4 (0.16%) Site Server
15 4 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 74 (2.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.20%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.16%) Stata
7 2 (0.081%) SPSS
8 1 (0.040%) Mathcad
8 1 (0.040%) Mathematica
8 1 (0.040%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.040%) Simulink
8 1 (0.040%) Stateflow
8 1 (0.040%) Trello
Business Applications
1 17 (0.69%) ION MarketView
2 13 (0.52%) Distributed Ledger
3 11 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.20%) Shopify
5 4 (0.16%) SAP Hybris
6 3 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.081%) Endur
7 2 (0.081%) Fidessa
7 2 (0.081%) Magento
8 1 (0.040%) Advent Geneva
8 1 (0.040%) Aladdin
8 1 (0.040%) Cerner Millennium
8 1 (0.040%) IntelliMatch
8 1 (0.040%) Maximo
8 1 (0.040%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.040%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 1 (0.040%) Quorum
8 1 (0.040%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 869 (35.03%) AWS
2 582 (23.46%) Azure
3 325 (13.10%) GCP
4 200 (8.06%) Serverless
5 157 (6.33%) AWS Lambda
5 157 (6.33%) Power Platform
6 126 (5.08%) GitHub
7 118 (4.76%) Amazon S3
8 107 (4.31%) Azure DevOps
9 83 (3.35%) Azure Data Factory
10 77 (3.10%) AWS CloudFormation
11 74 (2.98%) dbt
12 62 (2.50%) OpenShift
13 60 (2.42%) Amazon EC2
14 53 (2.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 52 (2.10%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 51 (2.06%) SaaS
17 50 (2.02%) Azure Functions
18 49 (1.98%) Azure Storage
19 48 (1.93%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 127 (5.12%) Firewall
2 83 (3.35%) DNS
3 68 (2.74%) TCP/IP
4 58 (2.34%) VPN
5 46 (1.85%) Network Security
6 45 (1.81%) BGP
6 45 (1.81%) HTTP
7 42 (1.69%) Internet
8 38 (1.53%) MPLS
9 32 (1.29%) Multicast
10 29 (1.17%) SAN
10 29 (1.17%) SSL
11 25 (1.01%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 24 (0.97%) DHCP
12 24 (0.97%) OSPF
13 23 (0.93%) NAS
13 23 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
14 22 (0.89%) VLAN
15 19 (0.77%) LAN
16 18 (0.73%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (6.29%) Power BI
2 145 (5.84%) PostgreSQL
3 141 (5.68%) SQL Server
4 138 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
5 131 (5.28%) Big Data
6 112 (4.51%) Tableau
7 105 (4.23%) Relational Database
8 103 (4.15%) MongoDB
9 96 (3.87%) Data Lake
10 89 (3.59%) NoSQL
11 82 (3.31%) Amazon RDS
12 69 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
13 67 (2.70%) MySQL
14 60 (2.42%) Amazon Athena
15 55 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
16 48 (1.93%) Hadoop
17 46 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
18 45 (1.81%) Apache Ignite
19 35 (1.41%) BigQuery
20 31 (1.25%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 325 (13.10%) Git
2 241 (9.71%) Jenkins
3 140 (5.64%) JIRA
4 77 (3.10%) GitLab
5 57 (2.30%) Bitbucket
6 51 (2.06%) Artifactory
7 44 (1.77%) TeamCity
8 42 (1.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 41 (1.65%) Cypress.io
9 41 (1.65%) Selenium
10 31 (1.25%) SonarQube
11 25 (1.01%) Liquibase
11 25 (1.01%) Subversion
12 24 (0.97%) Sonatype Nexus
13 21 (0.85%) Maven
14 18 (0.73%) Cucumber
14 18 (0.73%) Postman
15 17 (0.69%) JUnit
16 13 (0.52%) Gradle
16 13 (0.52%) SoapUI
General
1 858 (34.58%) Finance
2 468 (18.86%) Social Skills
3 403 (16.24%) Banking
4 301 (12.13%) Front Office
5 232 (9.35%) Analytical Skills
6 177 (7.13%) Investment Banking
7 132 (5.32%) Public Sector
8 62 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
9 57 (2.30%) Back Office
10 48 (1.93%) Retail
11 45 (1.81%) Financial Institution
11 45 (1.81%) Marketing
12 32 (1.29%) Telecoms
13 29 (1.17%) Law
14 25 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 19 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
15 19 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
16 15 (0.60%) Legal
17 13 (0.52%) French Language
18 12 (0.48%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 684 (27.57%) Developer
2 309 (12.45%) Python Developer
3 281 (11.33%) Data Engineer
4 227 (9.15%) Senior
5 225 (9.07%) DevOps Engineer
6 193 (7.78%) Analyst
7 178 (7.17%) Python Engineer
8 176 (7.09%) AWS Engineer
9 146 (5.88%) Software Engineer
10 131 (5.28%) Architect
11 122 (4.92%) Lead
12 89 (3.59%) Full Stack Developer
13 83 (3.35%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 81 (3.26%) Cloud Engineer
15 80 (3.22%) Security Engineer
16 78 (3.14%) Azure Engineer
17 75 (3.02%) Data Scientist
18 67 (2.70%) AWS DevOps
19 66 (2.66%) Python Software Engineer
20 64 (2.58%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 198 (7.98%) Kafka
2 164 (6.61%) Pandas
3 139 (5.60%) React
4 137 (5.52%) .NET
5 123 (4.96%) Node.js
6 109 (4.39%) NumPy
7 107 (4.31%) REST
8 94 (3.79%) PySpark
9 89 (3.59%) Django
10 78 (3.14%) JSON
11 66 (2.66%) gRPC
12 65 (2.62%) HTML
13 64 (2.58%) CSS
14 59 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
15 56 (2.26%) Flask
16 52 (2.10%) XML
17 49 (1.98%) Redux
18 48 (1.93%) FIX Protocol
19 47 (1.89%) .NET Core
19 47 (1.89%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 135 (5.44%) Derivative
2 116 (4.68%) Fixed Income
3 115 (4.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 110 (4.43%) Algorithms
5 95 (3.83%) Cloud Native
6 80 (3.22%) Equities
7 69 (2.78%) Market Risk
8 62 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
8 62 (2.50%) Hedge funds
9 60 (2.42%) Distributed Systems
10 56 (2.26%) Data Structures
11 50 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
12 44 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
13 42 (1.69%) Public Cloud
14 40 (1.61%) Product Ownership
15 36 (1.45%) Management Information System
16 32 (1.29%) Onboarding
17 27 (1.09%) Data Centre
18 26 (1.05%) Cyber Threat
19 23 (0.93%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 457 (18.42%) Linux
2 236 (9.51%) Windows
3 158 (6.37%) Unix
4 81 (3.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 76 (3.06%) Windows Server
6 17 (0.69%) Debian
7 14 (0.56%) CentOS
7 14 (0.56%) Solaris
8 13 (0.52%) Android
9 11 (0.44%) Ubuntu
10 10 (0.40%) Oracle Linux
11 9 (0.36%) VMS
12 8 (0.32%) Apple iOS
13 5 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
14 4 (0.16%) AIX
14 4 (0.16%) HPUX
15 3 (0.12%) Windows 10
16 2 (0.081%) FreeRTOS
16 2 (0.081%) Mac OS X
16 2 (0.081%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 621 (25.03%) CI/CD
2 607 (24.47%) DevOps
3 571 (23.01%) Agile
4 366 (14.75%) Analytics
5 340 (13.70%) Software Engineering
6 320 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
7 242 (9.75%) Data Modelling
8 226 (9.11%) Data Science
9 223 (8.99%) Infrastructure as Code
10 221 (8.91%) Test Automation
11 214 (8.63%) ETL
12 194 (7.82%) Computer Science
13 183 (7.38%) Machine Learning
14 180 (7.26%) Visualisation
15 167 (6.73%) Data Pipeline
16 164 (6.61%) Containerisation
17 161 (6.49%) Data Engineering
18 156 (6.29%) Business Intelligence
19 154 (6.21%) Full Stack Development
20 145 (5.84%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 840 (33.86%) SQL
2 511 (20.60%) Java
3 334 (13.46%) JavaScript
4 299 (12.05%) PowerShell
5 291 (11.73%) Bash
6 259 (10.44%) C#
7 226 (9.11%) C++
8 205 (8.26%) Go
9 154 (6.21%) TypeScript
10 129 (5.20%) Perl
11 118 (4.76%) Ruby
12 110 (4.43%) R
13 89 (3.59%) Shell Script
14 80 (3.22%) Scala
15 60 (2.42%) PL/SQL
16 55 (2.22%) T-SQL
17 47 (1.89%) C
18 36 (1.45%) VBA
19 30 (1.21%) Rust
20 29 (1.17%) PHP
Qualifications
1 279 (11.25%) Security Cleared
2 261 (10.52%) Degree
3 248 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 105 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 93 (3.75%) Master's Degree
6 47 (1.89%) CISSP
7 44 (1.77%) AWS Certification
8 40 (1.61%) DV Cleared
8 40 (1.61%) PhD
9 38 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
10 35 (1.41%) Azure Certification
11 28 (1.13%) CCNP
12 25 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 21 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
14 20 (0.81%) Numerate Degree
15 13 (0.52%) CCNA
15 13 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
16 11 (0.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 11 (0.44%) AWS Certified Developer
17 10 (0.40%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (4.92%) QA
2 108 (4.35%) Data Quality
3 27 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (0.93%) GDPR
5 19 (0.77%) NIST
6 13 (0.52%) Accessibility
6 13 (0.52%) SLA
6 13 (0.52%) SOC 2
7 12 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 11 (0.44%) MiFID
8 11 (0.44%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.24%) EMIR
9 6 (0.24%) PMO
9 6 (0.24%) WCAG
10 4 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.081%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.040%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.040%) DICOM
13 1 (0.040%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 349 (14.07%) Docker
2 55 (2.22%) Active Directory
3 46 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (0.56%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 12 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (0.36%) VMware NSX
8 8 (0.32%) Firmware
8 8 (0.32%) KVM
8 8 (0.32%) NFS
9 7 (0.28%) Ceph
10 6 (0.24%) Varnish
10 6 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.20%) HDFS
12 4 (0.16%) Hyper-V
13 3 (0.12%) Apache Flume
13 3 (0.12%) Cronacle
13 3 (0.12%) Veritas Volume Manager
14 2 (0.081%) OpenAM
14 2 (0.081%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 467 (18.82%) Kubernetes
2 367 (14.79%) Terraform
3 304 (12.25%) Ansible
4 92 (3.71%) Grafana
5 87 (3.51%) Prometheus
6 63 (2.54%) Puppet
7 52 (2.10%) Progress Chef
8 47 (1.89%) ITRS Geneos
9 35 (1.41%) Consul
9 35 (1.41%) Kibana
10 24 (0.97%) Packer
11 16 (0.64%) ArcSight ESM
11 16 (0.64%) logstash
11 16 (0.64%) Nagios
12 15 (0.60%) Control-M
13 14 (0.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 14 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
14 13 (0.52%) ZABBIX
15 12 (0.48%) BladeLogic
16 11 (0.44%) linkerd
Vendors
1 200 (8.06%) Microsoft
2 177 (7.13%) Databricks
3 155 (6.25%) Oracle
4 139 (5.60%) Google
5 131 (5.28%) Splunk
6 105 (4.23%) Red Hat
7 61 (2.46%) VMware
8 56 (2.26%) Cisco
9 52 (2.10%) CyberArk
9 52 (2.10%) TOWER Software
10 48 (1.93%) Dynatrace
11 40 (1.61%) F5
12 36 (1.45%) Salesforce
13 35 (1.41%) MuleSoft
14 34 (1.37%) ArcSight
15 33 (1.33%) Nokia
16 32 (1.29%) Informatica
17 30 (1.21%) Bloomberg
18 27 (1.09%) Qualys
19 25 (1.01%) IBM