Python Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Python Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Python Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 262 256 333
Rank change year-on-year -6 +77 -49
Contract jobs requiring a Python Developer 130 215 185
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.63% 0.89% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% 0.95% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 169 146
10th Percentile £400 £425 £413
25th Percentile £450 £460 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.67%
75th Percentile £575 £628 £600
90th Percentile £641 £825 £675
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £50.00 -
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £65.00 £50.43
% change year-on-year +3.08% +28.90% +75.98%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,262 22,750 29,627
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.67% 94.10% 95.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,825 15,940 20,711
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £391 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £594 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,216 1,193 1,496
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.07
25th Percentile £15.67 £18.09 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%

Python Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Python Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Python Developer in the UK excluding London

Python Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python Developer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Python Developer in the UK excluding London

Python Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python Developer in the UK excluding London

Python Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python Developer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Python Developer in the UK excluding London

Python Developer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
South East +4 41 £525 -8.06% 4
North of England +22 30 £511 +2.25% 3
East of England +22 19 £430 -18.10% 6
North West +14 18 £481 -8.38% 2
Scotland -33 18 £624 +26.14% 10
Midlands +28 13 £550 +10.00% 1
Yorkshire +23 12 £610 +20.49% 1
West Midlands +28 7 £275 -50.00%
South West +8 7 £525 -12.50% 2
East Midlands +21 6 £550 +10.00% 1
Northern Ireland +9 4 £500 -
Python Developer
UK

Python Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Python Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Python Developer in the job title.

1 130 (100.00%) Python
2 38 (29.23%) Linux
3 33 (25.38%) Data Modelling
3 33 (25.38%) TCP/IP
3 33 (25.38%) Agile
4 31 (23.85%) Security Cleared
4 31 (23.85%) VMware
5 29 (22.31%) SC Cleared
6 25 (19.23%) Prototyping
7 24 (18.46%) Data Engineering
7 24 (18.46%) AWS
7 24 (18.46%) Software Engineering
7 24 (18.46%) Ubuntu
8 23 (17.69%) Debian
8 23 (17.69%) Red Hat
8 23 (17.69%) SQL
9 21 (16.15%) SAN
10 20 (15.38%) Configuration Management
10 20 (15.38%) Microsoft
10 20 (15.38%) ITIL
11 18 (13.85%) Kubernetes
11 18 (13.85%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 18 (13.85%) CI/CD
12 17 (13.08%) Git
12 17 (13.08%) Django
13 16 (12.31%) Unix
13 16 (12.31%) Customer Service
14 15 (11.54%) DV Cleared
14 15 (11.54%) Matrix Organization
15 14 (10.77%) Azure

Python Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 8 (6.15%) Apache
2 6 (4.62%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.54%) SAS
4 1 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.77%) Luigi
Business Applications
1 5 (3.85%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 24 (18.46%) AWS
2 14 (10.77%) Azure
3 12 (9.23%) Serverless
4 6 (4.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 6 (4.62%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (4.62%) Azure Functions
4 6 (4.62%) Entra ID
5 5 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
5 5 (3.85%) SaaS
6 4 (3.08%) GCP
7 3 (2.31%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.31%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (1.54%) Amazon SageMaker
8 2 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.54%) Azure AKS
8 2 (1.54%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.54%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.54%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 33 (25.38%) TCP/IP
2 21 (16.15%) SAN
3 9 (6.92%) 5G
3 9 (6.92%) Radio Access Network
4 6 (4.62%) SSL
5 5 (3.85%) 4G
6 4 (3.08%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 4 (3.08%) HTTP
6 4 (3.08%) NAS
6 4 (3.08%) NetScaler
7 3 (2.31%) Wireshark
8 2 (1.54%) Fibre Channel
8 2 (1.54%) iSCSI
9 1 (0.77%) DHCP
9 1 (0.77%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.92%) Big Data
2 8 (6.15%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (5.38%) Flink
3 7 (5.38%) NoSQL
4 4 (3.08%) Apache Hive
4 4 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.08%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.31%) Impala
5 3 (2.31%) Parquet
6 2 (1.54%) CockroachDB
6 2 (1.54%) GIS
6 2 (1.54%) Neo4j
6 2 (1.54%) Redis
6 2 (1.54%) Tableau
7 1 (0.77%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.77%) DB2
7 1 (0.77%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.77%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 17 (13.08%) Git
2 6 (4.62%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.31%) gcov
3 3 (2.31%) GDB
3 3 (2.31%) Gradle
3 3 (2.31%) JIRA
3 3 (2.31%) Subversion
4 1 (0.77%) Selenium
4 1 (0.77%) Terragrunt
General
1 11 (8.46%) Social Skills
2 9 (6.92%) Banking
3 8 (6.15%) Telecoms
4 7 (5.38%) Finance
5 5 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.85%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (3.08%) Investment Banking
6 4 (3.08%) Multimedia
6 4 (3.08%) Urdu Language
7 3 (2.31%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.54%) Local Government
9 1 (0.77%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.77%) Military
9 1 (0.77%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (13.08%) Django
2 14 (10.77%) Flask
3 12 (9.23%) FastAPI
4 10 (7.69%) React
5 9 (6.92%) REST
6 6 (4.62%) AngularJS
7 5 (3.85%) Lambda Expressions
7 5 (3.85%) PySpark
8 4 (3.08%) Celery
8 4 (3.08%) Twisted
9 3 (2.31%) Apache Avro
9 3 (2.31%) NumPy
9 3 (2.31%) Pandas
10 2 (1.54%) CSS
10 2 (1.54%) GeoPandas
10 2 (1.54%) HTML
10 2 (1.54%) Kafka
10 2 (1.54%) OpenLayers
10 2 (1.54%) PostGIS
10 2 (1.54%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.62%) Product Ownership
2 5 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (2.31%) Distributed Computing
3 3 (2.31%) Private Cloud
3 3 (2.31%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.77%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.77%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.77%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.77%) Data Fabric
5 1 (0.77%) Device Driver
5 1 (0.77%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (0.77%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (0.77%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 38 (29.23%) Linux
2 24 (18.46%) Ubuntu
3 23 (17.69%) Debian
4 16 (12.31%) Unix
5 7 (5.38%) Windows
6 2 (1.54%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.77%) Android
7 1 (0.77%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (25.38%) Agile
1 33 (25.38%) Data Modelling
2 25 (19.23%) Prototyping
3 24 (18.46%) Data Engineering
3 24 (18.46%) Software Engineering
4 20 (15.38%) Configuration Management
4 20 (15.38%) ITIL
5 18 (13.85%) CI/CD
5 18 (13.85%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 16 (12.31%) Customer Service
7 15 (11.54%) Matrix Organization
8 12 (9.23%) Microservices
9 11 (8.46%) Containerisation
9 11 (8.46%) Data Pipeline
10 10 (7.69%) DevOps
10 10 (7.69%) Infrastructure Automation
11 9 (6.92%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (6.92%) TDD
12 8 (6.15%) Full Stack Development
12 8 (6.15%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 130 (100.00%) Python
2 23 (17.69%) SQL
3 11 (8.46%) C++
4 10 (7.69%) JavaScript
5 8 (6.15%) Java
6 6 (4.62%) Scala
7 5 (3.85%) C
7 5 (3.85%) Perl
8 4 (3.08%) Bash
9 1 (0.77%) C#
9 1 (0.77%) Go
9 1 (0.77%) R
9 1 (0.77%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 31 (23.85%) Security Cleared
2 29 (22.31%) SC Cleared
3 15 (11.54%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.54%) BC Cleared
5 1 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.77%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.08%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.77%) QA
System Software
1 12 (9.23%) Docker
2 5 (3.85%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.77%) Firmware
4 1 (0.77%) NFS
4 1 (0.77%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 18 (13.85%) Kubernetes
2 11 (8.46%) Terraform
3 9 (6.92%) Ansible
4 6 (4.62%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.77%) Puppet
Vendors
1 31 (23.85%) VMware
2 23 (17.69%) Red Hat
3 20 (15.38%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.08%) F5
4 4 (3.08%) Splunk
5 3 (2.31%) Klocwork
5 3 (2.31%) Oracle
5 3 (2.31%) Perforce
6 2 (1.54%) Google
6 2 (1.54%) Remedy
6 2 (1.54%) Sage
7 1 (0.77%) SAP