Python Contracts in South London

Python
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 8 11
Rank change year-on-year +4 +3 -5
Contract jobs citing Python 46 44 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 24.86% 18.18% 14.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 55.42% 47.31% 35.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 28 45
10th Percentile £463 £363 £475
25th Percentile £466 £453 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year +15.66% -5.68% -12.00%
75th Percentile £938 £567 £649
90th Percentile - £671 £695
London median daily rate £600 £588 £625
% change year-on-year +2.13% -6.00% +3.31%

All Programming Languages
South 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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 83 93 160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 44.86% 38.43% 41.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 64 123
10th Percentile £425 £367 £453
25th Percentile £463 £430 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £738 £554 £713
90th Percentile £938 £600 £900
London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 5
10th Percentile - £37.45 -
25th Percentile - £38.01 -
Median hourly rate - £41.00 £50.42
Median % change year-on-year - -18.69% +3.79%
75th Percentile - £44.95 -
90th Percentile - £46.10 £51.95
London median hourly rate £44.50 £50.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.88% -12.17% +15.00%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in South London

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for Python in South London

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in South London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python in South London

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South London

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

Hourly rate trend for Python in South London

Python
Contract Job Locations in South 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 South London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Croydon +2 24 £481 -6.10% 4
Bromley -3 10 £638 +2.00% 4
Python
London

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 2 (4.35%) Jupyter
2 1 (2.17%) Apache
2 1 (2.17%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (4.35%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 14 (30.43%) AWS
2 13 (28.26%) Power Platform
3 9 (19.57%) Serverless
4 7 (15.22%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (13.04%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (8.70%) Amazon S3
6 4 (8.70%) IaaS
6 4 (8.70%) PaaS
6 4 (8.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (6.52%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (6.52%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (6.52%) Amazon MSK
7 3 (6.52%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (2.17%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.17%) AWS KMS
8 1 (2.17%) Azure
8 1 (2.17%) GitHub
8 1 (2.17%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.35%) BGP
1 2 (4.35%) Cisco IOS
1 2 (4.35%) DMZ
1 2 (4.35%) DNS
1 2 (4.35%) DWDM
1 2 (4.35%) Firewall
1 2 (4.35%) Internet
1 2 (4.35%) IPsec
1 2 (4.35%) L2TP
1 2 (4.35%) MPLS
1 2 (4.35%) Multicast
1 2 (4.35%) Network Security
1 2 (4.35%) OSPF
1 2 (4.35%) SSL
1 2 (4.35%) VPN
1 2 (4.35%) WAN
1 2 (4.35%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (4.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (28.26%) Power BI
2 7 (15.22%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (6.52%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (6.52%) DynamoDB
3 3 (6.52%) MongoDB
3 3 (6.52%) Parquet
3 3 (6.52%) RDBMS
3 3 (6.52%) Relational Database
4 2 (4.35%) Impala
4 2 (4.35%) KDB
4 2 (4.35%) Kdb+
4 2 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (4.35%) Redis
4 2 (4.35%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.17%) Data Mart
5 1 (2.17%) Data Vault
5 1 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.17%) Delta Lake
5 1 (2.17%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (15.22%) Git
2 6 (13.04%) Jenkins
3 5 (10.87%) GitLab
4 3 (6.52%) Artifactory
4 3 (6.52%) JIRA
5 2 (4.35%) Bitbucket
5 2 (4.35%) JMeter
5 2 (4.35%) JUnit
5 2 (4.35%) Mockito
5 2 (4.35%) SonarQube
5 2 (4.35%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 18 (39.13%) Banking
1 18 (39.13%) Finance
2 13 (28.26%) Social Skills
3 11 (23.91%) Front Office
4 5 (10.87%) Financial Institution
4 5 (10.87%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (36.96%) Developer
2 13 (28.26%) Senior
3 12 (26.09%) Analyst
3 12 (26.09%) Python Developer
3 12 (26.09%) Senior Developer
4 10 (21.74%) Senior Python Developer
5 7 (15.22%) Data Analyst
6 5 (10.87%) AWS DevOps
6 5 (10.87%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 5 (10.87%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (10.87%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 5 (10.87%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (10.87%) Security Analyst
7 4 (8.70%) Data Engineer
7 4 (8.70%) Lead
8 3 (6.52%) Java Developer
8 3 (6.52%) Software Engineer
9 2 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (4.35%) Network Engineer
9 2 (4.35%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.22%) Kafka
2 5 (10.87%) JSON
3 3 (6.52%) Apache Avro
3 3 (6.52%) XML
4 2 (4.35%) 802.1X
4 2 (4.35%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (4.35%) Apache Camel
4 2 (4.35%) FastAPI
4 2 (4.35%) Hibernate
4 2 (4.35%) HTML
4 2 (4.35%) jQuery
4 2 (4.35%) pytest
4 2 (4.35%) React
4 2 (4.35%) REST
4 2 (4.35%) Spring
4 2 (4.35%) Spring Boot
4 2 (4.35%) Web Services
4 2 (4.35%) WireMock
5 1 (2.17%) Middleware
5 1 (2.17%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 10 (21.74%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (6.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (6.52%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.35%) Equities
4 1 (2.17%) Blackberry
4 1 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.17%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (2.17%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.17%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.35%) Linux
1 2 (4.35%) Unix
2 1 (2.17%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (28.26%) Business Intelligence
2 12 (26.09%) Cybersecurity
3 11 (23.91%) CI/CD
4 10 (21.74%) Agile
4 10 (21.74%) OO
5 9 (19.57%) Microservices
6 8 (17.39%) DevOps
7 7 (15.22%) Containerisation
7 7 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (13.04%) Code Quality
9 5 (10.87%) Asset Management
9 5 (10.87%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (10.87%) Investment Management
9 5 (10.87%) Risk Management
9 5 (10.87%) Technical Debt
10 4 (8.70%) Data Ingestion
10 4 (8.70%) Data Modelling
10 4 (8.70%) Data Protection
10 4 (8.70%) ETL
10 4 (8.70%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 10 (21.74%) SQL
2 5 (10.87%) Perl
3 4 (8.70%) Bash
3 4 (8.70%) Java
3 4 (8.70%) JavaScript
4 3 (6.52%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.35%) Lua
5 2 (4.35%) PHP
5 2 (4.35%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.17%) Go
6 1 (2.17%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.17%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 11 (23.91%) Security Cleared
2 9 (19.57%) SC Cleared
3 6 (13.04%) Degree
4 4 (8.70%) AWS Certification
5 2 (4.35%) CCIE
5 2 (4.35%) CCNP
5 2 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.17%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.17%) QA
1 1 (2.17%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 7 (15.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (23.91%) Kubernetes
2 9 (19.57%) Ansible
3 5 (10.87%) Grafana
3 5 (10.87%) Terraform
4 4 (8.70%) Prometheus
5 2 (4.35%) Kibana
6 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (8.70%) Splunk
2 2 (4.35%) Arista
2 2 (4.35%) Cisco
2 2 (4.35%) Dynatrace
2 2 (4.35%) Fortinet
2 2 (4.35%) McAfee
3 1 (2.17%) Apple
3 1 (2.17%) Google
3 1 (2.17%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.17%) Oracle