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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 6 10
Rank change year-on-year -2 +4 0
Contract jobs citing Python 2,262 3,789 4,980
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 12.82% 14.36% 12.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.28% 35.57% 30.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,727 2,831 3,681
10th Percentile £413 £455 £463
25th Percentile £500 £520 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £605
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +3.31% +10.00%
75th Percentile £750 £750 £725
90th Percentile £850 £863 £800
England median daily rate £567 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -5.50% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 17 34
10th Percentile £25.25 £51.25 £31.45
25th Percentile £42.38 £70.00 £36.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 £75.00 £48.54
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +54.51% +27.74%
75th Percentile £71.88 £85.00 £60.78
90th Percentile £75.00 £90.00 £75.06
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £51.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +26.21% +28.75%

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 6,411 10,653 16,203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.33% 40.38% 41.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,898 7,976 12,427
10th Percentile £381 £413 £419
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £700
90th Percentile £825 £825 £800
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 83 112
10th Percentile £23.80 £34.40 £28.53
25th Percentile £40.79 £50.21 £35.00
Median hourly rate £51.75 £60.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.75% +20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63.52 £75.00 £67.81
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £78.75
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.77
% change year-on-year - +23.10% +18.59%

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 12 May 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 12 May 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 12 May 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 -2 274 £600 -5.88% 93
South London +4 45 £519 -5.68% 11
West London -10 25 £513 -12.77% 30
East London -2 12 £600 -11.11% 33
North London 0 1 £550 -4.35% 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
1 251 (11.10%) Apache Airflow
2 226 (9.99%) Apache
3 88 (3.89%) Apache Spark
4 41 (1.81%) Confluence
5 35 (1.55%) OpenStack
6 20 (0.88%) SharePoint
7 18 (0.80%) nginx
8 10 (0.44%) ArcGIS
9 9 (0.40%) BizTalk Server
10 8 (0.35%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 8 (0.35%) SAS
10 8 (0.35%) Site Server
11 7 (0.31%) Tornado
12 6 (0.27%) Jupyter
13 5 (0.22%) CMS
13 5 (0.22%) Gunicorn
14 4 (0.18%) Luigi
15 3 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
15 3 (0.13%) Drupal
15 3 (0.13%) IIS
Applications
1 51 (2.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.66%) Chatbot
3 14 (0.62%) MS Visio
4 9 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.13%) Simulink
8 1 (0.044%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.044%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 23 (1.02%) Aladdin
2 8 (0.35%) Distributed Ledger
3 7 (0.31%) Endur
4 6 (0.27%) NEC Housing
4 6 (0.27%) SimCorp Dimension
5 3 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.13%) Global One
5 3 (0.13%) ION MarketView
5 3 (0.13%) Orchestrade
5 3 (0.13%) Primavera
6 2 (0.088%) Advent Geneva
6 2 (0.088%) Front Arena
7 1 (0.044%) Magento
7 1 (0.044%) OPENHousing
7 1 (0.044%) Oracle BPM
7 1 (0.044%) R3 Corda
7 1 (0.044%) SAP CX
7 1 (0.044%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.044%) Shopify
7 1 (0.044%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 874 (38.64%) AWS
2 613 (27.10%) Azure
3 350 (15.47%) GCP
4 213 (9.42%) Serverless
5 155 (6.85%) AWS Lambda
6 136 (6.01%) Power Platform
7 135 (5.97%) dbt
8 126 (5.57%) GitHub
9 123 (5.44%) Snowflake
10 121 (5.35%) Amazon S3
11 101 (4.47%) Azure DevOps
12 81 (3.58%) Amazon EC2
13 74 (3.27%) Azure Data Factory
14 51 (2.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 49 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
16 48 (2.12%) PaaS
17 47 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
18 45 (1.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 42 (1.86%) Amazon EKS
20 37 (1.64%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 83 (3.67%) Firewall
2 52 (2.30%) DNS
3 35 (1.55%) DHCP
4 32 (1.41%) TCP/IP
5 30 (1.33%) Network Security
6 26 (1.15%) BGP
7 23 (1.02%) MPLS
7 23 (1.02%) VLAN
8 21 (0.93%) 5G
8 21 (0.93%) Internet
9 19 (0.84%) VPN
10 17 (0.75%) Cisco Nexus
10 17 (0.75%) HTTP
10 17 (0.75%) LAN
10 17 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
11 16 (0.71%) Wireless
12 13 (0.57%) Kerberos
13 11 (0.49%) Cisco ASA
13 11 (0.49%) OSPF
14 10 (0.44%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (7.29%) Data Lake
2 158 (6.98%) Apache Ignite
3 148 (6.54%) PostgreSQL
4 146 (6.45%) Big Data
5 136 (6.01%) Amazon Athena
6 132 (5.84%) Power BI
7 125 (5.53%) Data Warehouse
8 114 (5.04%) NoSQL
9 112 (4.95%) Apache Arrow
9 112 (4.95%) Dremio
10 101 (4.47%) SQL Server
11 90 (3.98%) Tableau
12 71 (3.14%) Amazon Redshift
13 67 (2.96%) Amazon RDS
14 64 (2.83%) Relational Database
15 57 (2.52%) Azure SQL Database
16 55 (2.43%) BigQuery
17 54 (2.39%) MongoDB
18 40 (1.77%) MySQL
19 33 (1.46%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 251 (11.10%) Git
2 204 (9.02%) Jenkins
3 101 (4.47%) JIRA
4 73 (3.23%) GitLab
5 64 (2.83%) Cypress.io
6 27 (1.19%) JMeter
6 27 (1.19%) TeamCity
7 23 (1.02%) Artifactory
7 23 (1.02%) Selenium
8 21 (0.93%) Bitbucket
9 20 (0.88%) Cucumber
9 20 (0.88%) Postman
10 14 (0.62%) JUnit
11 13 (0.57%) Subversion
12 12 (0.53%) Burp Suite
12 12 (0.53%) Maven
12 12 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
13 11 (0.49%) MLflow
14 10 (0.44%) Visual Studio
15 9 (0.40%) CircleCI
General
1 758 (33.51%) Finance
2 415 (18.35%) Social Skills
3 406 (17.95%) Banking
4 395 (17.46%) Front Office
5 234 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
6 184 (8.13%) Investment Banking
7 107 (4.73%) Public Sector
8 52 (2.30%) Back Office
9 47 (2.08%) Retail
10 39 (1.72%) Marketing
11 32 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
12 27 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 23 (1.02%) Telecoms
14 19 (0.84%) Financial Institution
15 14 (0.62%) Advertising
16 13 (0.57%) Retail Banking
17 12 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
18 11 (0.49%) Law
18 11 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
19 8 (0.35%) Games
Job Titles
1 603 (26.66%) Developer
2 313 (13.84%) Senior
3 306 (13.53%) Python Developer
4 269 (11.89%) Data Engineer
5 211 (9.33%) Python Engineer
6 209 (9.24%) Software Engineer
7 198 (8.75%) Analyst
8 161 (7.12%) Architect
9 150 (6.63%) AWS Engineer
9 150 (6.63%) Lead
10 140 (6.19%) DevOps Engineer
11 120 (5.31%) Python Software Engineer
12 115 (5.08%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 93 (4.11%) React Developer
14 91 (4.02%) Azure Engineer
15 86 (3.80%) Software Developer
16 84 (3.71%) Data Scientist
17 77 (3.40%) Full Stack Developer
18 72 (3.18%) Data Analyst
19 66 (2.92%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (8.62%) Pandas
2 194 (8.58%) React
3 187 (8.27%) gRPC
4 180 (7.96%) Protocol Buffers
5 162 (7.16%) NumPy
6 141 (6.23%) Kafka
7 123 (5.44%) SciPy
8 122 (5.39%) PySpark
9 97 (4.29%) HTML
10 91 (4.02%) REST
11 87 (3.85%) Node.js
12 84 (3.71%) Redux
13 77 (3.40%) .NET
14 74 (3.27%) Material-UI
15 70 (3.09%) CSS
16 65 (2.87%) JSON
17 59 (2.61%) RESTful
18 50 (2.21%) Elastic Stack
19 47 (2.08%) Django
20 45 (1.99%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 271 (11.98%) Hedge funds
2 246 (10.88%) Derivative
2 246 (10.88%) Fixed Income
3 184 (8.13%) Equities
4 157 (6.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 114 (5.04%) Algorithms
6 82 (3.63%) Distributed Systems
7 62 (2.74%) Product Ownership
8 53 (2.34%) Data Protection Act
9 48 (2.12%) Cloud Native
9 48 (2.12%) Data Structures
10 39 (1.72%) Management Information System
11 36 (1.59%) Onboarding
12 34 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
12 34 (1.50%) Public Cloud
13 31 (1.37%) Clustering
14 28 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
15 25 (1.11%) Data Centre
16 23 (1.02%) Replication
17 22 (0.97%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 272 (12.02%) Linux
2 150 (6.63%) Windows
3 115 (5.08%) Unix
4 48 (2.12%) Windows Server
5 44 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 23 (1.02%) CentOS
7 10 (0.44%) Android
7 10 (0.44%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.40%) Oracle Linux
9 8 (0.35%) Solaris
10 6 (0.27%) VMS
11 5 (0.22%) Ubuntu
12 4 (0.18%) Kali Linux
13 3 (0.13%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.044%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 628 (27.76%) Agile
2 521 (23.03%) DevOps
3 467 (20.65%) CI/CD
4 422 (18.66%) Software Engineering
5 305 (13.48%) Asset Management
6 300 (13.26%) Analytics
7 295 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
8 274 (12.11%) Machine Learning
9 259 (11.45%) Investment Management
10 235 (10.39%) Artificial Intelligence
11 225 (9.95%) ETL
12 218 (9.64%) Data Pipeline
13 200 (8.84%) Data Science
14 193 (8.53%) Computer Science
15 189 (8.36%) Data Modelling
15 189 (8.36%) Test Automation
16 180 (7.96%) Infrastructure as Code
17 169 (7.47%) Business Intelligence
18 163 (7.21%) Full Stack Development
19 139 (6.15%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 811 (35.85%) SQL
2 510 (22.55%) Java
3 347 (15.34%) JavaScript
4 233 (10.30%) TypeScript
5 215 (9.50%) C#
6 202 (8.93%) PowerShell
7 168 (7.43%) Bash
8 149 (6.59%) C++
9 129 (5.70%) Go
10 93 (4.11%) Shell Script
11 88 (3.89%) Scala
12 86 (3.80%) R
13 80 (3.54%) Perl
14 43 (1.90%) C
15 42 (1.86%) Ruby
16 34 (1.50%) T-SQL
17 30 (1.33%) Rust
18 24 (1.06%) VBA
19 22 (0.97%) Kotlin
20 17 (0.75%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 252 (11.14%) Security Cleared
2 239 (10.57%) Degree
3 216 (9.55%) SC Cleared
4 105 (4.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 64 (2.83%) Master's Degree
6 37 (1.64%) DV Cleared
7 33 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
8 31 (1.37%) AWS Certification
9 29 (1.28%) PhD
10 28 (1.24%) CCNP
11 24 (1.06%) Numerate Degree
12 17 (0.75%) Azure Certification
13 16 (0.71%) CCNA
14 13 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 13 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
15 12 (0.53%) CISSP
16 11 (0.49%) ISTQB
17 9 (0.40%) OSCP
18 8 (0.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
19 6 (0.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (5.79%) Data Quality
2 88 (3.89%) QA
3 12 (0.53%) GDPR
4 11 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (0.49%) NIST
5 10 (0.44%) SLA
6 9 (0.40%) Accessibility
6 9 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 8 (0.35%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.13%) PMO
9 2 (0.088%) MiFID
9 2 (0.088%) NCSC
9 2 (0.088%) WCAG
10 1 (0.044%) Basel II
10 1 (0.044%) Basel III
10 1 (0.044%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.044%) GLBA
10 1 (0.044%) Good Clinical Practice
10 1 (0.044%) GxP
10 1 (0.044%) JTAG
System Software
1 265 (11.72%) Docker
2 42 (1.86%) Active Directory
3 32 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.53%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 9 (0.40%) VMware NSX
7 8 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.35%) vSphere
8 7 (0.31%) Firmware
8 7 (0.31%) Hyper-V
9 6 (0.27%) KVM
10 4 (0.18%) NFS
10 4 (0.18%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 4 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.13%) HDFS
12 2 (0.088%) Ceph
12 2 (0.088%) iptables
12 2 (0.088%) PowerDNS
13 1 (0.044%) Embedded Firmware
13 1 (0.044%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 345 (15.25%) Terraform
2 335 (14.81%) Kubernetes
3 200 (8.84%) Ansible
4 90 (3.98%) Prometheus
5 88 (3.89%) Grafana
6 47 (2.08%) Puppet
7 26 (1.15%) Progress Chef
8 24 (1.06%) Kibana
9 22 (0.97%) ITRS Geneos
10 20 (0.88%) Consul
10 20 (0.88%) logstash
11 15 (0.66%) Argo
12 11 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
13 9 (0.40%) BladeLogic
13 9 (0.40%) Opsgenie
13 9 (0.40%) Packer
14 8 (0.35%) EMC NetWorker
14 8 (0.35%) Netcool
14 8 (0.35%) Tivoli
14 8 (0.35%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 160 (7.07%) Microsoft
2 151 (6.68%) Databricks
3 135 (5.97%) Google
4 114 (5.04%) Oracle
5 64 (2.83%) Splunk
6 53 (2.34%) Cisco
7 50 (2.21%) VMware
8 41 (1.81%) SAP
9 38 (1.68%) IBM
10 35 (1.55%) Bloomberg
11 32 (1.41%) F5
11 32 (1.41%) Sybase
12 31 (1.37%) ServiceNow
13 30 (1.33%) Dynatrace
13 30 (1.33%) Red Hat
14 22 (0.97%) Palo Alto
15 18 (0.80%) Palantir
16 17 (0.75%) ESRI
16 17 (0.75%) Foundry
16 17 (0.75%) Salesforce