Python Developer Contracts in the South East

Python Developer
England > South East

The median Python Developer daily rate in the South East is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 161 179 208
Rank change year-on-year +18 +29 -15
Contract jobs requiring a Python Developer 42 42 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.76% 0.72% 0.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.82% 0.76% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 37 46
10th Percentile £475 £450 £413
25th Percentile £506 £500 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £560 £538
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +4.19% +26.47%
75th Percentile £560 £825 £608
90th Percentile £650 £1,025 £681
England median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £50.00 -
England median hourly rate £67.00 £65.00 £50.43
% change year-on-year +3.08% +28.90% +75.98%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the South East with a recognized job title 5,140 5,495 7,438
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 94.56% 95.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,084 3,832 5,042
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £400 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £489
Median % change year-on-year - +2.16% +8.76%
75th Percentile £615 £604 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 479 240 336
10th Percentile £12.78 £18.04 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.16 £15.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% +130.48% -16.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.16 £43.80
90th Percentile £76.89 £75.00 £60.75
England median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.09% +100.00% +0.36%

Python Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured Python Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Python Developer in the South East

Python Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python Developer in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Python Developer in the South East

Python Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python Developer in the South East over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python Developer in the South East

Python Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python Developer in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Python Developer in the South East

Python Developer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python Developer within the South East region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Thames Valley +32 41 £530 +6.00% 6
Buckinghamshire +50 26 £525 -2.33% 4
Berkshire +1 13 £625 +31.58% 1
Oxfordshire -4 2 £575 +15.00% 1
Hampshire +1 1 £500 -
Python Developer
England

Python Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, Python Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South East region featuring Python Developer in the job title.

1 42 (100.00%) Python
2 24 (57.14%) SC Cleared
2 24 (57.14%) Security Cleared
3 23 (54.76%) VMware
3 23 (54.76%) TCP/IP
4 21 (50.00%) Agile
5 19 (45.24%) Ubuntu
5 19 (45.24%) Linux
6 18 (42.86%) Red Hat
6 18 (42.86%) Debian
7 16 (38.10%) Data Modelling
7 16 (38.10%) SAN
8 15 (35.71%) ITIL
8 15 (35.71%) Microsoft
9 13 (30.95%) Configuration Management
9 13 (30.95%) Data Engineering
9 13 (30.95%) Prototyping
9 13 (30.95%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 11 (26.19%) Customer Service
11 10 (23.81%) Matrix Organization
11 10 (23.81%) DV Cleared
11 10 (23.81%) Azure
12 9 (21.43%) Software Engineering
13 8 (19.05%) Full Stack Development
14 7 (16.67%) CI/CD
14 7 (16.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 7 (16.67%) Entra ID
14 7 (16.67%) DevOps
14 7 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (16.67%) Serverless

Python Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (23.81%) Azure
2 7 (16.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 7 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 7 (16.67%) Azure Functions
2 7 (16.67%) Entra ID
2 7 (16.67%) Serverless
3 6 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (4.76%) Azure AKS
4 2 (4.76%) Power Automate
4 2 (4.76%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 23 (54.76%) TCP/IP
2 16 (38.10%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 2 (4.76%) GIS
2 2 (4.76%) Neo4j
2 2 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.76%) Redis
3 1 (2.38%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.38%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (2.38%) Selenium
General
1 5 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (4.76%) Local Government
2 2 (4.76%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.38%) Military
3 1 (2.38%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.38%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (14.29%) Django
1 6 (14.29%) React
2 4 (9.52%) Celery
3 2 (4.76%) Flask
3 2 (4.76%) GeoPandas
3 2 (4.76%) OpenLayers
3 2 (4.76%) PostGIS
3 2 (4.76%) SQLAlchemy
4 1 (2.38%) .NET
4 1 (2.38%) CSS
4 1 (2.38%) HTML
4 1 (2.38%) jQuery
4 1 (2.38%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 19 (45.24%) Linux
1 19 (45.24%) Ubuntu
2 18 (42.86%) Debian
3 1 (2.38%) Android
3 1 (2.38%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (50.00%) Agile
2 16 (38.10%) Data Modelling
3 15 (35.71%) ITIL
4 13 (30.95%) Configuration Management
4 13 (30.95%) Data Engineering
4 13 (30.95%) Prototyping
4 13 (30.95%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 11 (26.19%) Customer Service
6 10 (23.81%) Matrix Organization
7 9 (21.43%) Software Engineering
8 8 (19.05%) Full Stack Development
9 7 (16.67%) CI/CD
9 7 (16.67%) DevOps
10 6 (14.29%) Microservices
10 6 (14.29%) Unit Testing
11 5 (11.90%) Change Management
11 5 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (11.90%) Product Backlog
11 5 (11.90%) SDLC
12 3 (7.14%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 42 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (4.76%) C
3 1 (2.38%) C#
3 1 (2.38%) C++
3 1 (2.38%) Java
3 1 (2.38%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.38%) SQL
3 1 (2.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 24 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 24 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 10 (23.81%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.38%) QA
System Software
1 6 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.38%) Docker
2 1 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 23 (54.76%) VMware
2 18 (42.86%) Red Hat
3 15 (35.71%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.76%) Remedy
5 1 (2.38%) Oracle