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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 13 9
Rank change year-on-year -2 -4 -2
Contract jobs citing Python 22 31 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 12.15% 15.42% 15.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.35% 40.26% 38.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 22 46
10th Percentile £518 £363 £475
25th Percentile £605 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £635 £511 £550
Median % change year-on-year +24.21% -7.05% -8.33%
75th Percentile £741 £547 £647
90th Percentile £875 £567 £688
London median daily rate £575 £613 £625
% change year-on-year -6.12% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Median hourly rate - £68.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% -
London median hourly rate £52.50 £48.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year +9.38% -40.00% +56.10%

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 68 77 148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 37.57% 38.31% 39.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 60 112
10th Percentile £446 £398 £428
25th Percentile £463 £429 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £638 £550 £650
90th Percentile £738 £726 £798
London median daily rate £550 £570 £600
% change year-on-year -3.51% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 11
10th Percentile - £43.30 -
25th Percentile - £47.02 £50.42
Median hourly rate - £56.30 £52.97
Median % change year-on-year - +6.28% +20.09%
75th Percentile - £65.62 £55.00
90th Percentile - £69.37 £55.79
London median hourly rate £43.50 £48.00 £60.21
% change year-on-year -9.38% -20.28% +15.79%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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
Bromley +2 10 £630 -21.25% 13
Croydon -10 10 £675 +31.98% 13
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 1 (4.55%) Confluence
1 1 (4.55%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (9.09%) MS Visio
2 1 (4.55%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 9 (40.91%) AWS
2 5 (22.73%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (18.18%) Serverless
4 3 (13.64%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (13.64%) Amazon S3
4 3 (13.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (9.09%) Azure
5 2 (9.09%) Power Platform
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (4.55%) AWS KMS
6 1 (4.55%) GitHub
6 1 (4.55%) IaaS
6 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (4.55%) PaaS
6 1 (4.55%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 4 (18.18%) TCP/IP
2 3 (13.64%) DNS
2 3 (13.64%) Firewall
3 2 (9.09%) BGP
3 2 (9.09%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (9.09%) DMZ
3 2 (9.09%) DWDM
3 2 (9.09%) Internet
3 2 (9.09%) IPsec
3 2 (9.09%) L2TP
3 2 (9.09%) MPLS
3 2 (9.09%) Multicast
3 2 (9.09%) Network Security
3 2 (9.09%) OSPF
3 2 (9.09%) SSL
3 2 (9.09%) VPN
3 2 (9.09%) WAN
3 2 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (9.09%) Wireless
4 1 (4.55%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) NoSQL
2 3 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (13.64%) RDBMS
2 3 (13.64%) Relational Database
3 2 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (9.09%) Power BI
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 3 (13.64%) Git
2 3 (13.64%) GitLab
3 2 (9.09%) JMeter
3 2 (9.09%) JUnit
3 2 (9.09%) Mockito
4 1 (4.55%) Artifactory
4 1 (4.55%) Bitbucket
4 1 (4.55%) JIRA
4 1 (4.55%) Vagrant
General
1 7 (31.82%) Finance
2 6 (27.27%) Front Office
3 5 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
4 4 (18.18%) Banking
5 3 (13.64%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (13.64%) Public Sector
6 2 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (9.09%) Financial Institution
7 1 (4.55%) Investment Banking
7 1 (4.55%) Retail
7 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Developer
2 5 (22.73%) Python Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Lead
4 3 (13.64%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (13.64%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Java Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Senior
4 3 (13.64%) Senior Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Cisco Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Data Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Implementation Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Network Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Network Implementation Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (22.73%) Middleware
2 4 (18.18%) FIX Protocol
2 4 (18.18%) FpML
2 4 (18.18%) Kafka
3 3 (13.64%) XML
4 2 (9.09%) 802.1X
4 2 (9.09%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (9.09%) Apache Camel
4 2 (9.09%) Hibernate
4 2 (9.09%) HTML
4 2 (9.09%) jQuery
4 2 (9.09%) JSON
4 2 (9.09%) REST
4 2 (9.09%) Spring
4 2 (9.09%) Spring Boot
4 2 (9.09%) Web Services
4 2 (9.09%) WireMock
5 1 (4.55%) LDAP
5 1 (4.55%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (4.55%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Fixed Income
1 5 (22.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (18.18%) Algorithms
2 4 (18.18%) Data Structures
2 4 (18.18%) Derivative
3 2 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.55%) Blackberry
4 1 (4.55%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (4.55%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.55%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Amazon Linux
1 1 (4.55%) Android
1 1 (4.55%) Linux
1 1 (4.55%) Ubuntu
1 1 (4.55%) VMS
1 1 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) CI/CD
1 8 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (31.82%) Agile
3 6 (27.27%) Microservices
4 5 (22.73%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (22.73%) Data Protection
4 5 (22.73%) Design Patterns
4 5 (22.73%) High Availability
4 5 (22.73%) Kanban
4 5 (22.73%) OO
4 5 (22.73%) Scrum
5 4 (18.18%) Code Quality
5 4 (18.18%) Computer Science
5 4 (18.18%) DevOps
5 4 (18.18%) Mathematics
5 4 (18.18%) Physics
5 4 (18.18%) Process Improvement
5 4 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (13.64%) Data Transformation
6 3 (13.64%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 10 (45.45%) SQL
2 8 (36.36%) Java
3 4 (18.18%) C#
3 4 (18.18%) C++
3 4 (18.18%) PowerShell
4 3 (13.64%) Perl
5 2 (9.09%) Bash
5 2 (9.09%) JavaScript
5 2 (9.09%) Shell Script
6 1 (4.55%) Groovy
6 1 (4.55%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 6 (27.27%) Degree
1 6 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 2 (9.09%) AWS Certification
3 2 (9.09%) CCIE
3 2 (9.09%) CCNP
3 2 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) QA
1 1 (4.55%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 5 (22.73%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) DFS Replication
2 1 (4.55%) Dovecot
2 1 (4.55%) Postfix
2 1 (4.55%) Squid
Systems Management
1 8 (36.36%) Kubernetes
2 5 (22.73%) Ansible
3 4 (18.18%) Terraform
4 2 (9.09%) Grafana
4 2 (9.09%) Kibana
4 2 (9.09%) Prometheus
5 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (4.55%) Nessus
5 1 (4.55%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Splunk
2 3 (13.64%) Dynatrace
3 2 (9.09%) Arista
3 2 (9.09%) Cisco
3 2 (9.09%) Fortinet
3 2 (9.09%) McAfee
4 1 (4.55%) Agilent
4 1 (4.55%) Apple
4 1 (4.55%) Google
4 1 (4.55%) Jaspersoft
4 1 (4.55%) Keysight
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow