Python Contracts in the UK excluding London

Python
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 15 23 18
Rank change year-on-year +8 -5 +10
Contract jobs citing Python 1,215 1,320 1,997
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.52% 6.36% 8.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.37% 27.13% 28.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 818 875 1,395
10th Percentile £357 £375 £405
25th Percentile £420 £425 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% +2.86%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £638
90th Percentile £654 £683 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 61 117
10th Percentile £20.12 £20.77 £21.96
25th Percentile £28.18 £31.25 £47.50
Median hourly rate £45.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% +4.17% +19.38%
75th Percentile £58.75 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £72.38 £77.50 £75.20
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £57.50 £64.38
% change year-on-year -39.13% -10.68% +29.40%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,641 4,865 6,991
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.52% 23.42% 29.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,400 3,277 4,996
10th Percentile £325 £319 £338
25th Percentile £402 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £575 £584 £594
90th Percentile £650 £650 £676
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 397 346
10th Percentile £22.38 £37.58 £23.61
25th Percentile £42.00 £50.75 £50.00
Median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% - +26.21%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £69.31
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Python in the UK excluding London

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Python in the UK excluding London

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Python in the UK excluding London

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Python in the UK excluding London

Python
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Python in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Python in the UK excluding London

Python
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 within the UK excluding 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
Scotland +4 284 £475 -5.00% 230
North of England -2 282 £492 -1.60% 816
South East +13 257 £525 - 1,463
South West +8 150 £550 -8.33% 407
North West +1 144 £475 -5.00% 485
Midlands +13 132 £467 +3.78% 405
Yorkshire +7 122 £500 - 231
West Midlands +18 94 £506 +19.06% 221
East of England +13 85 £503 +11.67% 482
East Midlands -1 37 £425 -17.07% 147
Wales +10 29 £525 +5.00% 72
North East -8 19 £481 -6.64% 103
Northern Ireland -12 9 £525 +20.69% 58
Python
UK

Python
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 49 (4.03%) Apache Spark
2 47 (3.87%) Confluence
3 37 (3.05%) Apache
4 30 (2.47%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (0.82%) Jupyter
6 9 (0.74%) JBoss
6 9 (0.74%) SAS
7 8 (0.66%) nginx
7 8 (0.66%) SharePoint
8 7 (0.58%) Traefik
9 3 (0.25%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.16%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.16%) Oracle Service Bus
10 2 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
10 2 (0.16%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.16%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.16%) WebSphere Application Server
11 1 (0.082%) Gunicorn
Applications
1 20 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.74%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.41%) Maya
4 5 (0.41%) NUKE
5 4 (0.33%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.25%) Sketch
7 1 (0.082%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.082%) CATIA
7 1 (0.082%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.082%) Revit
7 1 (0.082%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (0.41%) Kondor
2 2 (0.16%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.16%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.082%) Maximo
3 1 (0.082%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.082%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 443 (36.46%) AWS
2 348 (28.64%) Azure
3 123 (10.12%) GCP
4 108 (8.89%) Serverless
5 90 (7.41%) GitHub
6 83 (6.83%) Amazon S3
7 76 (6.26%) AWS Lambda
8 73 (6.01%) Azure DevOps
9 68 (5.60%) Power Platform
10 62 (5.10%) OpenShift
11 50 (4.12%) AWS CloudFormation
12 40 (3.29%) Cloud Computing
12 40 (3.29%) Snowflake
13 39 (3.21%) Azure Data Factory
14 33 (2.72%) Amazon EC2
14 33 (2.72%) SaaS
15 29 (2.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 29 (2.39%) Amazon ECS
16 23 (1.89%) Amazon EKS
17 22 (1.81%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 60 (4.94%) DNS
2 48 (3.95%) Firewall
3 46 (3.79%) TCP/IP
4 36 (2.96%) Network Security
5 27 (2.22%) DHCP
5 27 (2.22%) HTTP
6 25 (2.06%) SAN
7 21 (1.73%) NAS
7 21 (1.73%) VPN
8 17 (1.40%) Wireless
9 16 (1.32%) BGP
10 14 (1.15%) LAN
10 14 (1.15%) VLAN
11 13 (1.07%) Cisco ISE
12 12 (0.99%) WAN
13 11 (0.91%) MPLS
14 10 (0.82%) OSPF
15 8 (0.66%) SSL
16 7 (0.58%) Cisco IOS
17 6 (0.49%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (6.58%) Relational Database
2 75 (6.17%) MongoDB
3 70 (5.76%) PostgreSQL
4 62 (5.10%) Power BI
5 58 (4.77%) Data Warehouse
6 57 (4.69%) Big Data
7 51 (4.20%) Tableau
8 45 (3.70%) SQL Server
9 41 (3.37%) Hadoop
10 34 (2.80%) NoSQL
11 32 (2.63%) MySQL
12 30 (2.47%) DB2
13 28 (2.30%) Data Lake
14 27 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
15 24 (1.98%) RDBMS
16 22 (1.81%) Amazon Redshift
17 21 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
18 19 (1.56%) DynamoDB
19 18 (1.48%) Azure SQL Database
20 17 (1.40%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 203 (16.71%) Git
2 157 (12.92%) Jenkins
3 102 (8.40%) GitLab
4 99 (8.15%) JIRA
5 51 (4.20%) Bitbucket
6 36 (2.96%) Selenium
7 34 (2.80%) JUnit
8 16 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
9 13 (1.07%) SonarQube
10 10 (0.82%) Subversion
10 10 (0.82%) Visual Studio
11 9 (0.74%) Bitbucket Server
11 9 (0.74%) CA Release Automation
11 9 (0.74%) Cucumber
11 9 (0.74%) TeamCity
12 8 (0.66%) Artifactory
12 8 (0.66%) Robot Framework
13 7 (0.58%) Maven
14 6 (0.49%) JMeter
14 6 (0.49%) MSI
General
1 340 (27.98%) Social Skills
2 188 (15.47%) Finance
3 176 (14.49%) Analytical Skills
4 110 (9.05%) Public Sector
5 91 (7.49%) Banking
6 52 (4.28%) Investment Banking
7 36 (2.96%) Telecoms
8 21 (1.73%) Front Office
9 20 (1.65%) Manufacturing
10 18 (1.48%) Legal
11 17 (1.40%) Financial Institution
12 15 (1.23%) Marketing
13 14 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
13 14 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
14 12 (0.99%) Electronics
15 10 (0.82%) Automotive
16 9 (0.74%) Aerospace
16 9 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
16 9 (0.74%) Retail
17 8 (0.66%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 292 (24.03%) Developer
2 163 (13.42%) Senior
3 140 (11.52%) Data Engineer
4 112 (9.22%) Python Developer
5 86 (7.08%) DevOps Engineer
6 81 (6.67%) Python Engineer
7 61 (5.02%) Analyst
8 54 (4.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 51 (4.20%) Software Engineer
10 49 (4.03%) Senior Developer
11 48 (3.95%) Java Developer
12 43 (3.54%) AWS Engineer
12 43 (3.54%) Lead
13 37 (3.05%) Architect
13 37 (3.05%) Data Scientist
13 37 (3.05%) Platform Engineer
14 36 (2.96%) Cloud Engineer
15 33 (2.72%) Linux Engineer
16 30 (2.47%) Full-Stack Developer
17 29 (2.39%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (6.91%) Kafka
2 60 (4.94%) React
2 60 (4.94%) REST
3 59 (4.86%) PySpark
4 46 (3.79%) Spring
5 45 (3.70%) HTML
6 39 (3.21%) Node.js
7 36 (2.96%) .NET
8 35 (2.88%) CSS
8 35 (2.88%) Pandas
8 35 (2.88%) RESTful
9 34 (2.80%) PyTorch
9 34 (2.80%) TensorFlow
10 30 (2.47%) AngularJS
10 30 (2.47%) NumPy
11 28 (2.30%) AWS CDK
12 27 (2.22%) Spring Boot
13 26 (2.14%) scikit-learn
14 25 (2.06%) JSON
15 24 (1.98%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 60 (4.94%) Algorithms
2 51 (4.20%) Cloud Native
3 47 (3.87%) Data Protection Act
4 43 (3.54%) Management Information System
5 39 (3.21%) Data Structures
6 33 (2.72%) Distributed Systems
6 33 (2.72%) Enterprise Software
7 30 (2.47%) Public Cloud
8 29 (2.39%) Onboarding
9 27 (2.22%) Product Ownership
10 23 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
11 22 (1.81%) Equities
12 19 (1.56%) FPGA
13 17 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
14 16 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
14 16 (1.32%) Verilog
15 15 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
15 15 (1.23%) Virtual Team
16 12 (0.99%) PKI
16 12 (0.99%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 337 (27.74%) Linux
2 169 (13.91%) Windows
3 122 (10.04%) Unix
4 79 (6.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 64 (5.27%) Windows Server
6 26 (2.14%) CentOS
7 14 (1.15%) Ubuntu
8 10 (0.82%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.58%) AIX
10 5 (0.41%) Android
10 5 (0.41%) Solaris
11 4 (0.33%) Apple iOS
11 4 (0.33%) Debian
11 4 (0.33%) VMS
12 3 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.16%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.16%) HPUX
14 1 (0.082%) Alpine Linux
14 1 (0.082%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 336 (27.65%) CI/CD
2 325 (26.75%) Problem-Solving
3 309 (25.43%) Agile
4 277 (22.80%) DevOps
5 192 (15.80%) Containerisation
6 139 (11.44%) Analytics
7 136 (11.19%) Software Engineering
8 126 (10.37%) Infrastructure as Code
8 126 (10.37%) Test Automation
9 124 (10.21%) Artificial Intelligence
9 124 (10.21%) Data Science
10 121 (9.96%) ETL
11 113 (9.30%) Machine Learning
12 112 (9.22%) SDLC
13 110 (9.05%) Data Pipeline
14 99 (8.15%) Computer Science
14 99 (8.15%) Decision-Making
15 93 (7.65%) Data Modelling
16 91 (7.49%) Data Engineering
17 90 (7.41%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 360 (29.63%) SQL
2 213 (17.53%) Java
3 177 (14.57%) Bash
4 162 (13.33%) PowerShell
5 120 (9.88%) JavaScript
6 78 (6.42%) Shell Script
7 72 (5.93%) Perl
8 68 (5.60%) C#
9 66 (5.43%) TypeScript
10 53 (4.36%) R
11 48 (3.95%) C++
12 29 (2.39%) Go
13 26 (2.14%) Tcl
14 21 (1.73%) Ruby
15 17 (1.40%) Scala
16 13 (1.07%) SystemVerilog
17 12 (0.99%) Bicep
17 12 (0.99%) C
17 12 (0.99%) VBA
18 11 (0.91%) PHP
Qualifications
1 256 (21.07%) Security Cleared
2 171 (14.07%) SC Cleared
3 127 (10.45%) Degree
4 62 (5.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 61 (5.02%) DV Cleared
6 47 (3.87%) AWS Certification
7 34 (2.80%) Cisco Certification
8 32 (2.63%) Master's Degree
9 26 (2.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 25 (2.06%) CCNP
11 21 (1.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 21 (1.73%) PhD
12 19 (1.56%) CISSP
13 18 (1.48%) Azure Certification
14 15 (1.23%) Oracle Certification
14 15 (1.23%) RHCE
15 14 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
16 12 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
17 11 (0.91%) OCA
18 10 (0.82%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (5.43%) Data Quality
2 53 (4.36%) QA
3 27 (2.22%) GDPR
4 18 (1.48%) Disclosure Scotland
5 16 (1.32%) Accessibility
6 14 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (1.07%) NCSC
8 10 (0.82%) HIPAA
9 8 (0.66%) NIST
10 7 (0.58%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.49%) Basel III
12 5 (0.41%) MiFID
12 5 (0.41%) SLA
13 3 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.16%) COSHH
14 2 (0.16%) GMP
14 2 (0.16%) ISO 14001
14 2 (0.16%) WCAG
15 1 (0.082%) IFRS
System Software
1 238 (19.59%) Docker
2 76 (6.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (3.54%) Active Directory
4 20 (1.65%) Hyper-V
5 18 (1.48%) vSphere
6 11 (0.91%) Firmware
6 11 (0.91%) VMware NSX
7 9 (0.74%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 8 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (0.41%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 5 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.25%) KVM
10 3 (0.25%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.16%) GPFS
11 2 (0.16%) NFS
11 2 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.082%) Samba
Systems Management
1 289 (23.79%) Kubernetes
2 213 (17.53%) Ansible
3 207 (17.04%) Terraform
4 63 (5.19%) Puppet
5 55 (4.53%) Grafana
6 47 (3.87%) Progress Chef
7 46 (3.79%) Prometheus
8 21 (1.73%) Packer
9 20 (1.65%) vCenter Server
10 19 (1.56%) Kibana
11 15 (1.23%) NetBackup
12 13 (1.07%) Jamf Pro
12 13 (1.07%) ZABBIX
13 11 (0.91%) Istio
13 11 (0.91%) Oracle RMAN
14 10 (0.82%) HAProxy
14 10 (0.82%) linkerd
15 9 (0.74%) Consul
15 9 (0.74%) Rancher
16 8 (0.66%) vRealize
Vendors
1 99 (8.15%) VMware
2 98 (8.07%) Microsoft
3 71 (5.84%) Oracle
4 66 (5.43%) Databricks
5 60 (4.94%) Red Hat
6 54 (4.44%) Google
6 54 (4.44%) Splunk
7 53 (4.36%) Cisco
8 37 (3.05%) Sybase
9 26 (2.14%) Veritas
10 24 (1.98%) F5
11 22 (1.81%) SAP
12 20 (1.65%) IBM
13 16 (1.32%) ServiceNow
14 14 (1.15%) Atlassian
15 13 (1.07%) Apple
15 13 (1.07%) Citrix
15 13 (1.07%) OpenAI
15 13 (1.07%) Xilinx
16 12 (0.99%) AppDynamics