Python Contract Job Trends in Richmond upon Thames

Python
West London > Richmond upon Thames

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Richmond upon Thames requiring Python skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 5 15
Rank change year-on-year +4 +10 -11
Contract jobs citing Python 24 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in Richmond upon Thames 77.42% 10.00% 6.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 100.00% 100.00% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £204 £385 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £603 £390 £525
Median % change year-on-year +54.49% -25.71% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £395 £541
90th Percentile - - £546
West London median daily rate £603 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +26.84% -9.52% -0.47%

All Programming Languages
Richmond upon Thames

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 Richmond upon Thames.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 24 1 16
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Richmond upon Thames 77.42% 10.00% 25.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 1 16
10th Percentile - - £498
25th Percentile £204 £385 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £603 £390 £544
Median % change year-on-year +54.49% -28.28% -1.14%
75th Percentile £625 £395 £582
90th Percentile - - £601
West London median daily rate £525 £445 £508
% change year-on-year +17.98% -12.32% -6.02%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Richmond upon Thames

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

Python job vacancy trend in Richmond upon Thames

Python
Daily Rate Trend in Richmond upon Thames

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Richmond upon Thames citing Python.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Richmond upon Thames citing Python

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Richmond upon Thames

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Richmond upon Thames over the 6 months to 28 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Python in Richmond upon Thames

Python
Hourly Rate Trend in Richmond upon Thames

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Richmond upon Thames citing Python.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Richmond upon Thames citing Python

Python
Contract Job Locations in Richmond upon Thames

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Richmond upon Thames region over the 6 months to 28 January 2026. 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
Twickenham - 8 £208 - 2
Python
West London

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Richmond upon Thames 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:

Application Platforms
1 13 (54.17%) Apache Spark
2 9 (37.50%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 16 (66.67%) AWS
2 13 (54.17%) Azure
2 13 (54.17%) GCP
3 12 (50.00%) Power Platform
4 9 (37.50%) Amazon S3
4 9 (37.50%) Amazon SQS
4 9 (37.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 9 (37.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 9 (37.50%) Collibra
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (66.67%) Data Lake
2 12 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
2 12 (50.00%) Mixpanel
2 12 (50.00%) Power BI
3 9 (37.50%) BigQuery
3 9 (37.50%) OLAP
3 9 (37.50%) OLTP
4 8 (33.33%) MySQL
4 8 (33.33%) Relational Database
5 7 (29.17%) Metadata
General
1 4 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (66.67%) Principal Engineer
2 14 (58.33%) Data Analytics Engineer
2 14 (58.33%) Principal Software Engineer
2 14 (58.33%) Software Engineer
3 12 (50.00%) Data Engineer
3 12 (50.00%) Principal Data Engineer
4 8 (33.33%) Technical Support
5 4 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (16.67%) AWS Software Engineer
5 4 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (16.67%) Azure Software Engineer
5 4 (16.67%) GCP Engineer
5 4 (16.67%) GCP Software Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Lead
6 2 (8.33%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (54.17%) Kafka
2 9 (37.50%) Great Expectations
3 7 (29.17%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 12 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 8 (33.33%) Linux
1 8 (33.33%) Unix
1 8 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (66.67%) Analytics
1 16 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 16 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 14 (58.33%) Software Engineering
3 13 (54.17%) Data Architecture
3 13 (54.17%) Observability
4 12 (50.00%) AI
4 12 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
4 12 (50.00%) Data Governance
4 12 (50.00%) LLM
5 10 (41.67%) Data Analytics
6 9 (37.50%) Batch Processing
6 9 (37.50%) Data Modelling
6 9 (37.50%) Data Privacy
6 9 (37.50%) DevOps
6 9 (37.50%) Dimensional Modelling
6 9 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
6 9 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (37.50%) Machine Learning
6 9 (37.50%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 20 (83.33%) SQL
2 9 (37.50%) C#
3 8 (33.33%) Java
3 8 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 8 (33.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (54.17%) Data Quality
2 9 (37.50%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 13 (54.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (66.67%) Databricks
2 9 (37.50%) Google
3 8 (33.33%) Oracle