Python Contract Job Trends in Paddington

Python
City of Westminster > Paddington

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Paddington requiring Python skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Python 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Paddington 5.56% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 50.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
City of Westminster median daily rate £475 £520 £838
% change year-on-year -8.65% -37.91% +15.52%

All Programming Languages
Paddington

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 Paddington.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 2 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Paddington 11.11% 18.18% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £255 - -
25th Percentile £291 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £353 - -
75th Percentile £414 - -
90th Percentile £451 - -
City of Westminster median daily rate £475 £523 £800
% change year-on-year -9.09% -34.69% +18.52%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Paddington

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Python relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Paddington.

Python job vacancy trend in Paddington

Python
Daily Rate Trend in Paddington

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Paddington citing Python.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Paddington citing Python

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Paddington by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Mocha
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Fastify
1 1 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (100.00%) Jest
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Swagger
1 1 (100.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Asynchronous Programming
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Blocking Code
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk