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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 8 6
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 +4
Contract jobs citing Python 2,279 2,379 3,734
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 17.16% 13.50% 14.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 43.58% 34.86% 36.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,618 1,859 2,799
10th Percentile £400 £400 £450
25th Percentile £460 £490 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +0.73%
75th Percentile £738 £775 £750
90th Percentile £838 £875 £863
England median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 28 18
10th Percentile £35.80 £24.28 £51.25
25th Percentile £37.75 £41.25 £57.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 £50.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -36.88% +64.95%
75th Percentile £58.88 £71.88 £90.00
90th Percentile £63.35 £75.00 -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £65.25
% change year-on-year -23.08% -0.38% +18.64%

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 5,230 6,824 10,190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 39.38% 38.73% 39.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,669 5,172 7,665
10th Percentile £370 £375 £406
25th Percentile £431 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £700 £700 £738
90th Percentile £825 £850 £835
England median daily rate £520 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -4.15% -1.36% -0.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 50 78
10th Percentile £27.18 £23.80 £25.60
25th Percentile £33.25 £34.82 £48.95
Median hourly rate £42.82 £49.75 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.94% -19.11% +21.48%
75th Percentile £59.00 £62.23 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £72.75 £87.59
England median hourly rate £56.38 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -13.27% +4.00% +18.42%

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 5 July 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 5 July 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 5 July 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 +3 332 £600 -4.00% 1,452
West London +11 33 £415 -21.70% 188
South London -2 26 £630 +23.23% 64
East London +14 9 £585 +27.17% 112
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
1 181 (7.94%) Apache Airflow
2 149 (6.54%) Apache Spark
3 146 (6.41%) Apache
4 35 (1.54%) Confluence
5 17 (0.75%) Jupyter
5 17 (0.75%) SAS
6 14 (0.61%) SharePoint
7 10 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
8 7 (0.31%) nginx
9 5 (0.22%) JBoss
10 4 (0.18%) IIS
10 4 (0.18%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.13%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.13%) BizTalk Server
11 3 (0.13%) CMS
11 3 (0.13%) Luigi
11 3 (0.13%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.13%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.088%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 73 (3.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (0.31%) Chatbot
4 7 (0.31%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.088%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.088%) GNU Octave
6 2 (0.088%) Sketch
7 1 (0.044%) EViews
7 1 (0.044%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.044%) Siemens NX
7 1 (0.044%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 43 (1.89%) Aladdin
2 19 (0.83%) thinkFolio
3 16 (0.70%) Endur
4 5 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.13%) Bankmaster
6 2 (0.088%) Infor SunSystems
6 2 (0.088%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.088%) Temenos T24
7 1 (0.044%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.044%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.044%) Fidessa
7 1 (0.044%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.044%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.044%) R3 Corda
7 1 (0.044%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.044%) Shopify
7 1 (0.044%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 935 (41.03%) AWS
2 649 (28.48%) Azure
3 355 (15.58%) GCP
4 184 (8.07%) GitHub
5 177 (7.77%) dbt
6 166 (7.28%) Power Platform
7 147 (6.45%) Serverless
8 138 (6.06%) Snowflake
9 127 (5.57%) Amazon S3
10 121 (5.31%) Azure DevOps
11 111 (4.87%) AWS Lambda
12 87 (3.82%) GitHub Actions
13 75 (3.29%) AWS CloudFormation
14 73 (3.20%) Azure Data Factory
15 54 (2.37%) Amazon EC2
16 53 (2.33%) OpenShift
17 48 (2.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 43 (1.89%) Amazon EKS
19 42 (1.84%) Amazon ECS
20 35 (1.54%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 93 (4.08%) Firewall
2 65 (2.85%) DNS
3 54 (2.37%) Network Security
4 49 (2.15%) VPN
5 42 (1.84%) TCP/IP
6 39 (1.71%) BGP
7 32 (1.40%) OSPF
8 27 (1.18%) HTTP
9 21 (0.92%) DHCP
10 19 (0.83%) WAN
11 18 (0.79%) Multicast
12 16 (0.70%) MPLS
13 14 (0.61%) IPsec
13 14 (0.61%) LAN
14 11 (0.48%) Ethernet VPN
14 11 (0.48%) SSH
15 10 (0.44%) SSL
15 10 (0.44%) VXLAN
16 9 (0.39%) Internet
16 9 (0.39%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (6.80%) Power BI
2 147 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
3 121 (5.31%) Data Warehouse
4 115 (5.05%) Amazon Athena
5 113 (4.96%) Data Lake
6 106 (4.65%) Big Data
7 99 (4.34%) SQL Server
8 96 (4.21%) Apache Iceberg
9 92 (4.04%) Tableau
10 91 (3.99%) Dremio
10 91 (3.99%) Relational Database
11 87 (3.82%) Apache Arrow
12 81 (3.55%) NoSQL
13 59 (2.59%) Hadoop
14 55 (2.41%) BigQuery
15 53 (2.33%) MongoDB
16 51 (2.24%) Apache Ignite
17 41 (1.80%) DynamoDB
18 40 (1.76%) Amazon RDS
19 38 (1.67%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 236 (10.36%) Git
2 186 (8.16%) Jenkins
3 106 (4.65%) GitLab
4 91 (3.99%) JIRA
5 43 (1.89%) Selenium
6 35 (1.54%) JUnit
6 35 (1.54%) SonarQube
7 34 (1.49%) Artifactory
8 23 (1.01%) JMeter
9 21 (0.92%) Sonatype Nexus
10 19 (0.83%) LoadRunner
10 19 (0.83%) MLflow
11 18 (0.79%) Bitbucket
12 17 (0.75%) Maven
12 17 (0.75%) Postman
13 15 (0.66%) Burp Suite
13 15 (0.66%) Cucumber
13 15 (0.66%) Metasploit
14 12 (0.53%) Cypress.io
15 11 (0.48%) CircleCI
General
1 843 (36.99%) Finance
2 570 (25.01%) Social Skills
3 377 (16.54%) Banking
4 340 (14.92%) Analytical Skills
5 335 (14.70%) Front Office
6 206 (9.04%) Investment Banking
7 120 (5.27%) Public Sector
8 52 (2.28%) Financial Institution
9 40 (1.76%) Telecoms
10 39 (1.71%) Marketing
11 38 (1.67%) Retail
12 37 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 34 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
14 28 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
15 25 (1.10%) Legal
16 23 (1.01%) Back Office
17 19 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
17 19 (0.83%) Retail Banking
18 16 (0.70%) Corporate Banking
18 16 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 623 (27.34%) Developer
2 310 (13.60%) Senior
3 284 (12.46%) Data Engineer
4 275 (12.07%) Analyst
5 253 (11.10%) Python Developer
6 217 (9.52%) Software Engineer
7 203 (8.91%) Python Engineer
8 196 (8.60%) AWS Engineer
9 123 (5.40%) Architect
9 123 (5.40%) DevOps Engineer
10 118 (5.18%) Lead
11 104 (4.56%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 98 (4.30%) Data Analyst
13 97 (4.26%) Business Analyst
14 79 (3.47%) AWS Software Engineer
14 79 (3.47%) Full-Stack Developer
15 77 (3.38%) Python Software Engineer
16 74 (3.25%) Java Developer
17 73 (3.20%) Senior Developer
18 72 (3.16%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 239 (10.49%) React
2 169 (7.42%) Kafka
3 148 (6.49%) Pandas
4 130 (5.70%) PySpark
5 124 (5.44%) REST
6 123 (5.40%) NumPy
7 118 (5.18%) Node.js
8 107 (4.70%) AngularJS
9 96 (4.21%) .NET
10 80 (3.51%) SciPy
11 76 (3.33%) FastAPI
12 70 (3.07%) Redux
13 68 (2.98%) Vue
14 63 (2.76%) Spring
15 56 (2.46%) GraphQL
16 55 (2.41%) Django
17 50 (2.19%) JSON
18 48 (2.11%) gRPC
19 47 (2.06%) TensorFlow
20 46 (2.02%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 224 (9.83%) Fixed Income
2 183 (8.03%) Hedge funds
3 150 (6.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 149 (6.54%) Derivative
4 149 (6.54%) Equities
5 106 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
6 105 (4.61%) Cloud Native
7 93 (4.08%) Algorithms
8 72 (3.16%) Data Structures
9 54 (2.37%) Data Protection Act
10 49 (2.15%) Onboarding
11 45 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
12 39 (1.71%) Distributed Computing
12 39 (1.71%) Product Ownership
13 36 (1.58%) Public Cloud
14 32 (1.40%) Market Risk
15 30 (1.32%) Data Centre
15 30 (1.32%) Pricing Data
15 30 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
15 30 (1.32%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 297 (13.03%) Linux
2 99 (4.34%) Windows
3 70 (3.07%) Unix
4 26 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 26 (1.14%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.44%) CentOS
6 9 (0.39%) Solaris
7 8 (0.35%) Android
8 7 (0.31%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.31%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.31%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.26%) Rocky
9 6 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.22%) VMS
11 4 (0.18%) SUSE
12 3 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
12 3 (0.13%) Debian
12 3 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.088%) Windows 10
13 2 (0.088%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 633 (27.78%) CI/CD
2 618 (27.12%) Agile
3 523 (22.95%) DevOps
4 449 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
5 374 (16.41%) Software Engineering
6 349 (15.31%) Analytics
7 298 (13.08%) Infrastructure as Code
8 278 (12.20%) Artificial Intelligence
9 275 (12.07%) Machine Learning
10 246 (10.79%) Data Pipeline
11 226 (9.92%) Data Science
12 221 (9.70%) Asset Management
13 217 (9.52%) ETL
14 216 (9.48%) Data Engineering
15 214 (9.39%) Business Intelligence
16 195 (8.56%) Data Modelling
17 186 (8.16%) Containerisation
18 185 (8.12%) Investment Management
19 183 (8.03%) Test Automation
20 182 (7.99%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 787 (34.53%) SQL
2 486 (21.33%) Java
3 327 (14.35%) JavaScript
4 246 (10.79%) Bash
5 242 (10.62%) TypeScript
6 187 (8.21%) C#
6 187 (8.21%) PowerShell
7 181 (7.94%) C++
8 121 (5.31%) Go
9 81 (3.55%) Scala
10 80 (3.51%) R
11 75 (3.29%) Shell Script
12 51 (2.24%) Perl
13 46 (2.02%) C
14 35 (1.54%) Ruby
15 34 (1.49%) Rust
16 28 (1.23%) VBA
17 27 (1.18%) PHP
18 25 (1.10%) Groovy
19 23 (1.01%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 279 (12.24%) Security Cleared
2 239 (10.49%) Degree
3 237 (10.40%) SC Cleared
4 99 (4.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 70 (3.07%) Master's Degree
6 60 (2.63%) AWS Certification
7 37 (1.62%) PhD
8 34 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
9 31 (1.36%) DV Cleared
10 26 (1.14%) CCNP
11 21 (0.92%) Azure Certification
11 21 (0.92%) OSCP
12 17 (0.75%) CREST Certified
13 16 (0.70%) CISSP
14 15 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 15 (0.66%) CEH
15 14 (0.61%) Numerate Degree
16 13 (0.57%) Tigerscheme
17 11 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
17 11 (0.48%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (5.35%) Data Quality
2 104 (4.56%) QA
3 47 (2.06%) GDPR
4 40 (1.76%) NIST
5 34 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 32 (1.40%) Accessibility
7 22 (0.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 20 (0.88%) PCI DSS
9 13 (0.57%) HIPAA
9 13 (0.57%) NCSC
10 10 (0.44%) SOC 2
11 8 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 8 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 8 (0.35%) SLA
12 6 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.22%) EMIR
13 5 (0.22%) MiFID
13 5 (0.22%) WCAG
14 4 (0.18%) NIST 800
System Software
1 309 (13.56%) Docker
2 37 (1.62%) Active Directory
3 22 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (0.39%) Firmware
7 7 (0.31%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.18%) iptables
8 4 (0.18%) OpenAM
8 4 (0.18%) OpenDJ
8 4 (0.18%) OpenIDM
8 4 (0.18%) Platform Symphony
9 3 (0.13%) FreeRADIUS
10 2 (0.088%) Ceph
10 2 (0.088%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.088%) zsh
11 1 (0.044%) HDFS
11 1 (0.044%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.044%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
11 1 (0.044%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 413 (18.12%) Kubernetes
2 387 (16.98%) Terraform
3 264 (11.58%) Ansible
4 71 (3.12%) Grafana
4 71 (3.12%) Prometheus
5 58 (2.54%) Puppet
6 33 (1.45%) Progress Chef
7 20 (0.88%) Kibana
8 15 (0.66%) ITRS Geneos
8 15 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
9 14 (0.61%) Nmap
10 11 (0.48%) Rancher
11 9 (0.39%) Nagios
11 9 (0.39%) Podman
11 9 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
12 8 (0.35%) Argo
12 8 (0.35%) logstash
12 8 (0.35%) Packer
12 8 (0.35%) Red Hat Satellite
13 7 (0.31%) QRadar
Vendors
1 174 (7.63%) Microsoft
2 139 (6.10%) Databricks
3 105 (4.61%) Google
4 85 (3.73%) Oracle
5 69 (3.03%) Splunk
6 57 (2.50%) Cisco
7 49 (2.15%) VMware
8 46 (2.02%) ServiceNow
9 39 (1.71%) BISAM
10 36 (1.58%) Arista
11 29 (1.27%) SAP
12 28 (1.23%) Informatica
13 24 (1.05%) IBM
13 24 (1.05%) Red Hat
14 22 (0.97%) Charles River
15 21 (0.92%) Calypso
15 21 (0.92%) Fortinet
16 20 (0.88%) F5
16 20 (0.88%) Sybase
17 19 (0.83%) CyberArk