Python Contracts in the South East

Python
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 18 31
Rank change year-on-year -10 +13 -3
Contract jobs citing Python 315 488 477
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 5.72% 8.58% 6.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 26.01% 30.81% 23.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 357 290
10th Percentile £363 £400 £375
25th Percentile £425 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £529
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.97% +11.37%
75th Percentile £624 £638 £636
90th Percentile £675 £738 £713
England median daily rate £567 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -5.46% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 25 5
10th Percentile £47.13 £19.00 £19.50
25th Percentile £62.50 £20.47 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £24.46 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +165.74% +16.48% -53.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £50.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £59.38 £57.25
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £51.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +26.21% +28.75%

All Programming Languages
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,211 1,584 2,041
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 21.99% 27.84% 26.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 843 1,123 1,316
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £617 £588
90th Percentile £686 £694 £650
England median daily rate £550 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -2.54% +2.60% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 89 86
10th Percentile £35.00 £18.85 £16.25
25th Percentile £46.25 £26.08 £20.00
Median hourly rate £60.14 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.35% +57.14% -17.65%
75th Percentile £66.01 £67.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £76.50 £75.00 £62.15
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.35
% change year-on-year - +24.13% +17.09%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Python in the South East

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Python in the South East

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in the South East over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python in the South East

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Python in the South East

Python
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Python in the South East over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Python in the South East

Python
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 within the South East region over the 6 months to 9 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
Thames Valley -8 145 £525 -4.55% 144
Hampshire -4 107 £500 -9.09% 74
Berkshire -13 99 £500 -9.09% 58
Surrey -6 43 £600 +4.35% 54
Buckinghamshire +19 37 £543 -1.36% 28
West Sussex +13 14 £469 -16.67% 7
Oxfordshire -8 9 £575 +15.00% 58
East Sussex 0 3 £530 -7.83% 5
Sussex -2 2 - - 1
Python
England

Python
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:

Application Platforms
1 16 (5.08%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (4.44%) Apache
2 14 (4.44%) Confluence
3 12 (3.81%) SAS
4 2 (0.63%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.63%) GeoServer
4 2 (0.63%) IBM Domino
4 2 (0.63%) nginx
5 1 (0.32%) Appian
5 1 (0.32%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle Spatial
5 1 (0.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (2.22%) SPSS
2 6 (1.90%) Simulink
3 4 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.63%) Sketch
6 1 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.27%) Adobe Campaign
1 4 (1.27%) FastStats
1 4 (1.27%) Unica
2 1 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 89 (28.25%) Azure
2 38 (12.06%) AWS
3 30 (9.52%) Azure Data Factory
4 29 (9.21%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (8.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 28 (8.89%) Serverless
6 25 (7.94%) Entra ID
7 21 (6.67%) Power Platform
8 19 (6.03%) Azure Monitor
9 17 (5.40%) Azure Functions
10 12 (3.81%) GitHub
10 12 (3.81%) IaaS
11 10 (3.17%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (2.86%) Amazon S3
13 7 (2.22%) GCP
13 7 (2.22%) Snowflake
14 6 (1.90%) Azure AKS
14 6 (1.90%) Power Automate
15 5 (1.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 5 (1.59%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 27 (8.57%) TCP/IP
2 18 (5.71%) SAN
3 17 (5.40%) VPN
4 13 (4.13%) BGP
5 11 (3.49%) MPLS
6 10 (3.17%) Ethernet VPN
6 10 (3.17%) Radio Access Network
7 9 (2.86%) Cisco IOS
7 9 (2.86%) DNS
8 7 (2.22%) Firewall
9 6 (1.90%) VSAN
10 5 (1.59%) Network Security
11 4 (1.27%) DHCP
11 4 (1.27%) Junos
11 4 (1.27%) Wireless
12 3 (0.95%) Cisco Nexus
12 3 (0.95%) IOS XR
12 3 (0.95%) NX-OS
12 3 (0.95%) SNA
12 3 (0.95%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (9.84%) NoSQL
2 24 (7.62%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (6.03%) MongoDB
4 15 (4.76%) Power BI
5 12 (3.81%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (3.81%) Relational Database
6 10 (3.17%) Big Data
7 9 (2.86%) GIS
7 9 (2.86%) Tableau
8 8 (2.54%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (2.54%) Data Lake
8 8 (2.54%) Qlik Sense
9 6 (1.90%) Data Mining
9 6 (1.90%) Metadata
9 6 (1.90%) MySQL
9 6 (1.90%) RDBMS
10 4 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.27%) BigQuery
10 4 (1.27%) Redis
10 4 (1.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 55 (17.46%) Git
2 34 (10.79%) JIRA
3 31 (9.84%) Robot Framework
4 22 (6.98%) GitLab
5 18 (5.71%) Jenkins
6 15 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
7 14 (4.44%) Selenium
8 11 (3.49%) TestRail
9 10 (3.17%) Bitbucket
10 6 (1.90%) Subversion
10 6 (1.90%) Visual Studio
11 4 (1.27%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.95%) Hudson
12 3 (0.95%) Rational DOORS
13 2 (0.63%) Eclipse
13 2 (0.63%) GoogleTest
13 2 (0.63%) kappa
14 1 (0.32%) ClearCase
14 1 (0.32%) MLflow
14 1 (0.32%) SonarQube
General
1 47 (14.92%) Analytical Skills
2 37 (11.75%) Social Skills
3 18 (5.71%) Finance
4 16 (5.08%) Telecoms
5 11 (3.49%) Public Sector
6 9 (2.86%) Pharmaceutical
7 8 (2.54%) Marketing
8 6 (1.90%) Aerospace
8 6 (1.90%) Military
8 6 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.27%) Local Government
10 3 (0.95%) Electronics
10 3 (0.95%) Music Industry
11 2 (0.63%) Banking
11 2 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.63%) Retail
12 1 (0.32%) Advertising
12 1 (0.32%) Legal
12 1 (0.32%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 82 (26.03%) Developer
2 46 (14.60%) Python Developer
3 32 (10.16%) Full Stack Developer
4 26 (8.25%) Analyst
5 24 (7.62%) Senior
6 23 (7.30%) Azure Developer
7 22 (6.98%) Security Engineer
8 21 (6.67%) Linux Engineer
9 19 (6.03%) Network Engineer
10 18 (5.71%) Software Engineer
11 16 (5.08%) Architect
11 16 (5.08%) Data Engineer
11 16 (5.08%) DevOps Engineer
12 12 (3.81%) Data Analyst
12 12 (3.81%) Lead
12 12 (3.81%) Security Architect
13 11 (3.49%) Test Engineer
14 10 (3.17%) Full Stack Python Developer
14 10 (3.17%) Platform Engineer
15 9 (2.86%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (9.21%) React
2 21 (6.67%) REST
3 14 (4.44%) Django
3 14 (4.44%) SOAP
4 13 (4.13%) YANG
5 10 (3.17%) NETCONF
5 10 (3.17%) RESTCONF
6 9 (2.86%) CSS
6 9 (2.86%) HTML
7 8 (2.54%) Node.js
7 8 (2.54%) XML
8 7 (2.22%) D3.js
8 7 (2.22%) OpenLayers
8 7 (2.22%) PySpark
8 7 (2.22%) RESTful
8 7 (2.22%) Web Services
9 6 (1.90%) .NET
9 6 (1.90%) Celery
9 6 (1.90%) JSON
9 6 (1.90%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 34 (10.79%) PKI
2 18 (5.71%) Client/Server
3 16 (5.08%) Product Ownership
4 15 (4.76%) Data Centre
5 12 (3.81%) Linux Command Line
6 11 (3.49%) Algorithms
6 11 (3.49%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.59%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.27%) Device Driver
8 4 (1.27%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.27%) Private Cloud
9 3 (0.95%) Biopharmaceutical
9 3 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.95%) Photography
9 3 (0.95%) Smart Meter
10 2 (0.63%) Animation
10 2 (0.63%) Augmented Reality
10 2 (0.63%) FPGA
10 2 (0.63%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 86 (27.30%) Linux
2 52 (16.51%) Windows
3 39 (12.38%) Windows Server
4 33 (10.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 21 (6.67%) Ubuntu
6 20 (6.35%) Debian
7 16 (5.08%) Windows Server 2019
8 12 (3.81%) Unix
9 8 (2.54%) Embedded Linux
9 8 (2.54%) VMS
10 7 (2.22%) Android
11 4 (1.27%) Solaris
12 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.32%) CentOS
13 1 (0.32%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.32%) VxWorks
13 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (39.05%) Agile
2 76 (24.13%) DevOps
3 58 (18.41%) CI/CD
4 57 (18.10%) Test Automation
5 51 (16.19%) Scrum
6 42 (13.33%) Data Modelling
7 36 (11.43%) Full Stack Development
8 32 (10.16%) Software Engineering
9 30 (9.52%) Computer Science
10 29 (9.21%) Data Engineering
10 29 (9.21%) SDLC
11 28 (8.89%) Continuous Improvement
11 28 (8.89%) Microservices
11 28 (8.89%) Unit Testing
12 27 (8.57%) Problem-Solving
12 27 (8.57%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 26 (8.25%) Analytics
14 25 (7.94%) Containerisation
15 21 (6.67%) ITIL
16 18 (5.71%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 77 (24.44%) PowerShell
2 63 (20.00%) SQL
3 44 (13.97%) Java
4 38 (12.06%) Bash
5 34 (10.79%) C++
6 22 (6.98%) JavaScript
7 20 (6.35%) C
8 18 (5.71%) VBScript
9 16 (5.08%) C#
10 12 (3.81%) Shell Script
11 11 (3.49%) Perl
12 10 (3.17%) MATLAB
13 9 (2.86%) R
14 8 (2.54%) Scala
15 6 (1.90%) Ruby
16 5 (1.59%) Assembly Language
16 5 (1.59%) Go
17 4 (1.27%) T-SQL
18 3 (0.95%) PHP
19 2 (0.63%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 124 (39.37%) Security Cleared
2 61 (19.37%) DV Cleared
3 59 (18.73%) SC Cleared
4 36 (11.43%) Degree
5 18 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (4.76%) Master's Degree
7 7 (2.22%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (1.90%) PhD
9 5 (1.59%) CCNP
10 4 (1.27%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.63%) CCIE
12 2 (0.63%) VCAP
12 2 (0.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 1 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.32%) CTC Cleared
13 1 (0.32%) HP ASE
13 1 (0.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.54%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.22%) RMADS
3 6 (1.90%) GDPR
4 5 (1.59%) QA
5 4 (1.27%) JTAG
6 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.32%) CDISC
6 1 (0.32%) GxP
6 1 (0.32%) IEC 61508
6 1 (0.32%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.32%) MISRA
6 1 (0.32%) MISRA C
6 1 (0.32%) NCSC
6 1 (0.32%) NIST
6 1 (0.32%) SLA
System Software
1 49 (15.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 43 (13.65%) Active Directory
3 29 (9.21%) Docker
4 16 (5.08%) vSphere
5 11 (3.49%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (2.86%) VMware NSX
7 8 (2.54%) Hyper-V
8 6 (1.90%) Firmware
8 6 (1.90%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (1.27%) Embedded Firmware
9 4 (1.27%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.63%) KVM
10 2 (0.63%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.63%) Varnish
10 2 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.32%) HDFS
11 1 (0.32%) NFS
Systems Management
1 77 (24.44%) Ansible
2 63 (20.00%) Terraform
3 35 (11.11%) Kubernetes
4 13 (4.13%) vRealize
5 8 (2.54%) Packer
6 7 (2.22%) Puppet
7 6 (1.90%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.27%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (1.27%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.95%) Nagios
9 3 (0.95%) Netcool
9 3 (0.95%) SCCM
9 3 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.95%) WSUS
10 2 (0.63%) HAProxy
10 2 (0.63%) Nessus
10 2 (0.63%) Rundeck
10 2 (0.63%) SELinux
10 2 (0.63%) vRealize Orchestrator
10 2 (0.63%) VxRail
Vendors
1 85 (26.98%) VMware
2 30 (9.52%) Red Hat
3 28 (8.89%) Microsoft
4 15 (4.76%) Cisco
5 13 (4.13%) Oracle
6 11 (3.49%) Databricks
7 8 (2.54%) Google
8 7 (2.22%) Veritas
9 6 (1.90%) SolarWinds
10 5 (1.59%) Arqiva
10 5 (1.59%) Dynatrace
10 5 (1.59%) Splunk
11 4 (1.27%) Adobe
11 4 (1.27%) CheckPoint
11 4 (1.27%) Facebook
11 4 (1.27%) IBM
11 4 (1.27%) Juniper
11 4 (1.27%) Nokia
11 4 (1.27%) Salesforce
11 4 (1.27%) Snapchat