Python Contracts in Surrey

Python
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Surrey 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 12 18 11
Rank change year-on-year +6 -7 +6
Contract jobs citing Python 29 42 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 9.73% 7.16% 12.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.94% 30.00% 45.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 35 74
10th Percentile £314 £347 £463
25th Percentile £413 £429 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +4.35% -2.34%
75th Percentile £543 £650 £600
90th Percentile £585 £686 £668
South East median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - £36.13 £50.25
25th Percentile - £43.44 £50.63
Median hourly rate - £56.25 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% +150.00%
75th Percentile - £68.44 £55.63
90th Percentile - £75.38 £56.75
South East median hourly rate £56.25 £65.00 £43.50
% change year-on-year -13.46% +49.43% +19.18%

All Programming Languages
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 83 140 181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 27.85% 23.85% 26.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 114 148
10th Percentile £344 £255 £396
25th Percentile £406 £376 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -18.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £540 £619 £594
90th Percentile £641 £675 £638
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.80% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 3
10th Percentile - £41.00 £50.50
25th Percentile - £55.63 £51.25
Median hourly rate £28.00 £80.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -65.00% +45.45% +161.90%
75th Percentile - - £60.63
90th Percentile - - £62.50
South East median hourly rate £56.75 £60.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -5.42% +9.09% +26.03%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in Surrey

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Daily rate trend for Python in Surrey

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

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

Daily rate histogram for Python in Surrey

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Hourly rate trend for Python in Surrey

Python
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Surrey 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
Reigate +2 5 £475 -9.52% 1
Staines +1 5 £365 -43.85% 7
Redhill +9 4 £525 +16.67% 1
Leatherhead +10 2 £475 -20.83% 7
Guildford +4 2 £482 -3.60% 20
Woking +1 2 £550 - 10
Camberley - 2 £595 - 1
Chertsey +5 1 £300 -2.44%
Tadworth - 1 - -
Python
South East

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 11 (37.93%) Power Platform
2 8 (27.59%) Azure
3 5 (17.24%) SaaS
4 4 (13.79%) AWS
5 2 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (6.90%) Azure Machine Learning
5 2 (6.90%) Entra ID
5 2 (6.90%) Snowflake
6 1 (3.45%) Adobe Analytics
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.45%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (3.45%) Contentsquare
6 1 (3.45%) Datadog
6 1 (3.45%) GitHub
6 1 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (3.45%) Pulumi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (37.93%) Power BI
2 2 (6.90%) Data Lake
2 2 (6.90%) MongoDB
2 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.90%) Tableau
3 1 (3.45%) Big Data
3 1 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.45%) Hadoop
3 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.45%) Qlik Sense
3 1 (3.45%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Git
2 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.45%) JIRA
2 1 (3.45%) Maven
General
1 7 (24.14%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.79%) Finance
3 3 (10.34%) Aerospace
4 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Manufacturing
4 2 (6.90%) Marketing
4 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.45%) Electronics
5 1 (3.45%) Retail
5 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (34.48%) Analyst
2 6 (20.69%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 6 (20.69%) Security Analyst
3 5 (17.24%) Developer
4 4 (13.79%) Data Scientist
4 4 (13.79%) Senior
5 3 (10.34%) ABAP Developer
6 2 (6.90%) DBA
6 2 (6.90%) Report Analyst
6 2 (6.90%) Senior ABAP Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Technical Specialist
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Technical Support
6 2 (6.90%) Software Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Support Specialist
6 2 (6.90%) Sybase DBA
6 2 (6.90%) Technical Specialist
6 2 (6.90%) Technical Support
6 2 (6.90%) Technical Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.79%) React
2 3 (10.34%) Node.js
3 1 (3.45%) .NET
3 1 (3.45%) .NET Core
3 1 (3.45%) ADO
3 1 (3.45%) AngularJS
3 1 (3.45%) ARM Templates
3 1 (3.45%) CSS
3 1 (3.45%) Google Maps API
3 1 (3.45%) HTML
3 1 (3.45%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (3.45%) Java EE
3 1 (3.45%) OAuth
3 1 (3.45%) OAuth2
3 1 (3.45%) PySpark
3 1 (3.45%) Vaadin
3 1 (3.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (6.90%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (6.90%) Replication
2 2 (6.90%) Virtual Team
3 1 (3.45%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.45%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.45%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.45%) FMCG
3 1 (3.45%) NHS
3 1 (3.45%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Unix
1 2 (6.90%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (41.38%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (24.14%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (20.69%) Analytics
3 6 (20.69%) Asset Management
3 6 (20.69%) Data Science
4 5 (17.24%) Decision-Making
5 4 (13.79%) Data Analysis
5 4 (13.79%) Data Modelling
5 4 (13.79%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (13.79%) ITIL
5 4 (13.79%) ITSM
5 4 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (10.34%) Actionable Insight
6 3 (10.34%) Computer Science
6 3 (10.34%) DevOps
6 3 (10.34%) Machine Learning
6 3 (10.34%) Mathematics
6 3 (10.34%) Mentoring
6 3 (10.34%) Workflow
7 2 (6.90%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (51.72%) SQL
2 7 (24.14%) Java
3 6 (20.69%) JavaScript
4 5 (17.24%) Perl
5 4 (13.79%) PowerShell
6 3 (10.34%) ABAP
6 3 (10.34%) R
6 3 (10.34%) TypeScript
7 2 (6.90%) T-SQL
8 1 (3.45%) Bash
8 1 (3.45%) C#
8 1 (3.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (3.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (24.14%) SC Cleared
1 7 (24.14%) Security Cleared
2 4 (13.79%) Degree
3 2 (6.90%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (6.90%) DV Cleared
3 2 (6.90%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) GMP
2 1 (3.45%) GDPR
2 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 3 (10.34%) Docker
2 2 (6.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (10.34%) Ansible
1 3 (10.34%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.90%) Foglight
2 2 (6.90%) Terraform
3 1 (3.45%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (17.24%) SAP
2 4 (13.79%) Adobe
3 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.90%) Databricks
4 2 (6.90%) Oracle
4 2 (6.90%) ServiceNow
4 2 (6.90%) Splunk
4 2 (6.90%) Sybase
5 1 (3.45%) Google
5 1 (3.45%) NEC
5 1 (3.45%) PagerDuty