Python Contract Job Trends in Tower Hamlets

Python
East London > Tower Hamlets

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets requiring Python skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 10 15
Rank change year-on-year +6 +5 -5
Contract jobs citing Python 10 8 7
As % of all contract jobs in Tower Hamlets 16.67% 12.31% 8.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.67% 32.00% 21.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 6
10th Percentile £337 £450 £450
25th Percentile £388 £488 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £585 £460
Median % change year-on-year -23.25% +27.17% -35.44%
75th Percentile £450 £630 £678
90th Percentile £494 £675 £775
East London median daily rate £450 £585 £460
% change year-on-year -23.08% +27.17% -34.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
East London median hourly rate - £62.50 -

All Programming Languages
Tower Hamlets

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 Tower Hamlets.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 24 25 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets 40.00% 38.46% 39.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 18 31
10th Percentile £378 £303 £436
25th Percentile £421 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £545 £540
Median % change year-on-year -17.43% +0.93% -6.09%
75th Percentile £585 £585 £585
90th Percentile £723 £675 £765
East London median daily rate £450 £516 £538
% change year-on-year -12.83% -3.95% +0.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
East London median hourly rate - £62.50 -

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Tower Hamlets

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Python relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets.

Python job vacancy trend in Tower Hamlets

Python
Daily Rate Trend in Tower Hamlets

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tower Hamlets citing Python.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tower Hamlets citing Python

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Tower Hamlets

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Tower Hamlets over the 6 months to 28 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Python in Tower Hamlets

Python
Contract Job Locations in Tower Hamlets

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Tower Hamlets region over the 6 months to 28 July 2026. 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
Canary Wharf +4 9 £450 -23.16% 1
Python
East London

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tower Hamlets by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Apache
1 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (10.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) Azure
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon MSK
4 1 (10.00%) AWS IoT
4 1 (10.00%) Azure AI
4 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) dbt
4 1 (10.00%) GCP
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
4 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) MQTT
1 2 (20.00%) VXLAN
2 1 (10.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (20.00%) BigQuery
1 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Base SAS
2 1 (10.00%) Big Data
2 1 (10.00%) Data Mart
2 1 (10.00%) Flink
2 1 (10.00%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) GitLab
General
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Operations Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Python Data Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Python Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) DataOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Network Operations Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Python Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) CSS
1 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (10.00%) HTML
1 1 (10.00%) Kafka
1 1 (10.00%) NumPy
1 1 (10.00%) Pandas
1 1 (10.00%) Plotly
1 1 (10.00%) Polars
1 1 (10.00%) PySpark
1 1 (10.00%) pytest
1 1 (10.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) IoT
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (10.00%) Pricing Data
2 1 (10.00%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Agile
1 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
1 4 (40.00%) Validation
2 3 (30.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (30.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (30.00%) Data Validation
2 3 (30.00%) ETL
2 3 (30.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Backlog Refinement
3 2 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (20.00%) Data Architecture
3 2 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (20.00%) Microservices
3 2 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (10.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) SQL
2 3 (30.00%) Java
3 2 (20.00%) Bash
3 2 (20.00%) C
3 2 (20.00%) C++
4 1 (10.00%) Ruby
4 1 (10.00%) SAS Macro
4 1 (10.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) Data Quality
1 3 (30.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
1 1 (10.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Ansible
1 2 (20.00%) Grafana
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (10.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Cisco
1 2 (20.00%) Databricks
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Cloudera
2 1 (10.00%) Confluent
2 1 (10.00%) SaltStack