Python Contracts in the UK excluding London

Python
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Python skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Python over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 18 28
Rank change year-on-year -5 +10 -6
Contract jobs citing Python 1,296 1,934 1,951
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.33% 8.24% 6.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.07% 28.37% 22.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 864 1,346 1,297
10th Percentile £363 £400 £388
25th Percentile £425 £460 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.95% +4.76% +11.70%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £625
90th Percentile £675 £710 £688
UK median daily rate £551 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.25% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 107 67
10th Percentile £20.77 £21.18 £18.30
25th Percentile £32.94 £46.88 £25.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £57.50 £50.77
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +13.26% +35.39%
75th Percentile £70.94 £70.30 £57.97
90th Percentile £78.25 £75.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £64.38 £50.00
% change year-on-year -6.80% +28.75% +25.00%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

Python is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,787 6,816 8,773
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.37% 29.05% 28.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,225 4,837 6,106
10th Percentile £316 £350 £335
25th Percentile £400 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% +2.56% +14.71%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £575
90th Percentile £650 £678 £644
UK median daily rate £528 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 402 340 327
10th Percentile £38.00 £22.50 £17.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £49.92 £26.98
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year +1.07% +24.30% +19.88%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £76.00 £65.10
UK median hourly rate £62.18 £60.94 £50.00
% change year-on-year +2.03% +21.88% +14.94%

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 9 May 2024.

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 9 May 2024.

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 9 May 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
North of England -2 349 £500 -13.04% 276
South East -10 315 £525 -4.55% 332
Scotland -6 215 £500 - 106
South West -10 182 £600 +3.49% 232
North West -6 177 £500 -11.66% 155
Yorkshire +14 144 £500 -16.67% 94
Midlands +17 133 £450 -14.29% 221
East of England -14 88 £450 -10.00% 202
West Midlands 0 75 £425 -24.44% 144
East Midlands +23 57 £475 -5.00% 77
North East +3 30 £516 -23.63% 27
Wales +10 18 £525 +5.00% 36
Northern Ireland +2 10 £425 -15.00% 48
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 78 (6.02%) Confluence
2 51 (3.94%) Apache Airflow
3 47 (3.63%) Apache
4 35 (2.70%) Apache Spark
5 31 (2.39%) SAS
6 8 (0.62%) nginx
7 6 (0.46%) IIS
7 6 (0.46%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.39%) JBoss
8 5 (0.39%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.31%) GeoServer
10 3 (0.23%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.23%) CMS
11 2 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
11 2 (0.15%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.15%) IBM Domino
11 2 (0.15%) Traefik
12 1 (0.077%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.077%) Appian
12 1 (0.077%) Drupal
Applications
1 109 (8.41%) Chatbot
2 16 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (0.93%) Sketch
4 10 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (0.77%) SPSS
5 8 (0.62%) Simulink
6 1 (0.077%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.077%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (0.69%) Odoo
2 8 (0.62%) Maximo
3 4 (0.31%) Adobe Campaign
3 4 (0.31%) FastStats
3 4 (0.31%) Unica
4 3 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.15%) Shopify
6 1 (0.077%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.077%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.077%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 346 (26.70%) AWS
2 271 (20.91%) Azure
3 114 (8.80%) Serverless
4 96 (7.41%) Power Platform
5 85 (6.56%) Amazon S3
6 74 (5.71%) GitHub
7 73 (5.63%) AWS Lambda
8 72 (5.56%) GCP
9 57 (4.40%) OpenShift
10 56 (4.32%) Snowflake
11 54 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
11 54 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
12 53 (4.09%) Azure Data Factory
13 52 (4.01%) Amazon EC2
14 32 (2.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 29 (2.24%) Entra ID
16 27 (2.08%) Azure Monitor
17 24 (1.85%) IaaS
18 22 (1.70%) Azure Functions
18 22 (1.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 53 (4.09%) TCP/IP
2 46 (3.55%) Firewall
3 38 (2.93%) SAN
4 34 (2.62%) VPN
5 30 (2.31%) DNS
6 28 (2.16%) BGP
7 23 (1.77%) Radio Access Network
8 20 (1.54%) Network Security
9 17 (1.31%) OSPF
10 16 (1.23%) Cisco ASA
10 16 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
10 16 (1.23%) Wireless
11 15 (1.16%) HTTP
11 15 (1.16%) NetScaler
12 13 (1.00%) SNMP
13 12 (0.93%) Cisco ISE
13 12 (0.93%) EIGRP
13 12 (0.93%) HSRP
13 12 (0.93%) IPsec
13 12 (0.93%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (6.87%) Power BI
2 77 (5.94%) PostgreSQL
3 57 (4.40%) Data Warehouse
3 57 (4.40%) MongoDB
3 57 (4.40%) NoSQL
4 50 (3.86%) Relational Database
5 48 (3.70%) Big Data
6 47 (3.63%) Tableau
7 45 (3.47%) Data Lake
8 39 (3.01%) SQL Server
9 31 (2.39%) MySQL
10 29 (2.24%) Hadoop
11 26 (2.01%) Amazon Redshift
11 26 (2.01%) Elasticsearch
12 24 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
13 21 (1.62%) BigQuery
13 21 (1.62%) GIS
14 18 (1.39%) Amazon Aurora
14 18 (1.39%) Data Mining
15 16 (1.23%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 178 (13.73%) Jenkins
2 169 (13.04%) Git
3 134 (10.34%) JIRA
4 88 (6.79%) GitLab
5 49 (3.78%) Bitbucket
6 32 (2.47%) Robot Framework
7 30 (2.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 27 (2.08%) Selenium
9 26 (2.01%) Sonatype Nexus
10 17 (1.31%) SonarQube
11 16 (1.23%) Artifactory
12 14 (1.08%) Maven
12 14 (1.08%) Subversion
13 13 (1.00%) Gradle
14 12 (0.93%) Visual Studio
15 11 (0.85%) TestRail
16 9 (0.69%) Travis CI
17 8 (0.62%) Burp Suite
17 8 (0.62%) Eclipse
17 8 (0.62%) GoogleTest
General
1 240 (18.52%) Social Skills
2 154 (11.88%) Analytical Skills
3 113 (8.72%) Finance
4 82 (6.33%) Public Sector
5 51 (3.94%) Banking
6 34 (2.62%) Telecoms
7 29 (2.24%) Pharmaceutical
8 26 (2.01%) Aerospace
9 25 (1.93%) Marketing
10 22 (1.70%) Manufacturing
11 20 (1.54%) Retail
12 15 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
13 14 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
14 13 (1.00%) Electronics
14 13 (1.00%) Multimedia
15 11 (0.85%) Investment Banking
16 9 (0.69%) Legal
17 8 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
18 6 (0.46%) Military
19 5 (0.39%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 394 (30.40%) Developer
2 130 (10.03%) Software Developer
3 121 (9.34%) Python Developer
4 113 (8.72%) DevOps Engineer
5 106 (8.18%) Data Engineer
6 98 (7.56%) Analyst
7 97 (7.48%) Senior
8 67 (5.17%) Software Engineer
9 61 (4.71%) Python Engineer
10 58 (4.48%) Data Analyst
11 55 (4.24%) Full Stack Developer
12 52 (4.01%) Architect
13 51 (3.94%) AWS Engineer
14 49 (3.78%) Linux Engineer
15 47 (3.63%) Lead
16 45 (3.47%) Network Engineer
17 36 (2.78%) Platform Engineer
18 33 (2.55%) Azure Engineer
18 33 (2.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
19 32 (2.47%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (10.96%) HTML
2 93 (7.18%) React
3 70 (5.40%) REST
4 49 (3.78%) PySpark
5 48 (3.70%) .NET
6 37 (2.85%) AWS CDK
7 35 (2.70%) AngularJS
7 35 (2.70%) JSON
8 34 (2.62%) XML
8 34 (2.62%) YAML
9 33 (2.55%) Node.js
10 32 (2.47%) CSS
11 30 (2.31%) Django
12 28 (2.16%) Flask
12 28 (2.16%) RESTful
13 27 (2.08%) Kafka
14 25 (1.93%) Spring
15 24 (1.85%) .NET Core
16 19 (1.47%) Elastic Stack
17 17 (1.31%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 47 (3.63%) Product Ownership
2 43 (3.32%) PKI
3 36 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
4 35 (2.70%) Algorithms
5 29 (2.24%) Data Centre
6 26 (2.01%) Data Structures
6 26 (2.01%) Public Cloud
7 25 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
8 22 (1.70%) Client/Server
8 22 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
8 22 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
9 16 (1.23%) Cloud Native
9 16 (1.23%) Management Information System
10 15 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
10 15 (1.16%) Mobile App
11 13 (1.00%) Onboarding
12 12 (0.93%) Renewable Energy
13 11 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
14 10 (0.77%) FPGA
14 10 (0.77%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 311 (24.00%) Linux
2 128 (9.88%) Windows
3 73 (5.63%) Unix
4 71 (5.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 57 (4.40%) Windows Server
6 35 (2.70%) Ubuntu
7 25 (1.93%) Debian
8 22 (1.70%) Android
9 16 (1.23%) Apple iOS
9 16 (1.23%) Windows Server 2019
10 15 (1.16%) zOS
11 10 (0.77%) Embedded Linux
12 9 (0.69%) CentOS
13 8 (0.62%) VMS
14 6 (0.46%) Mac OS
15 4 (0.31%) Data ONTAP
15 4 (0.31%) Solaris
15 4 (0.31%) Windows 10
16 3 (0.23%) Kali Linux
17 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 361 (27.85%) Agile
2 355 (27.39%) DevOps
3 274 (21.14%) CI/CD
4 256 (19.75%) Software Engineering
5 181 (13.97%) Problem-Solving
6 180 (13.89%) Artificial Intelligence
7 137 (10.57%) Code Quality
8 128 (9.88%) Data Modelling
9 115 (8.87%) Test Automation
10 112 (8.64%) Conversational UI
11 111 (8.56%) Infrastructure as Code
12 108 (8.33%) Computer Science
13 106 (8.18%) Analytics
13 106 (8.18%) Scrum
14 102 (7.87%) Containerisation
15 98 (7.56%) Business Intelligence
16 92 (7.10%) Data Engineering
17 86 (6.64%) ETL
18 85 (6.56%) Configuration Management
18 85 (6.56%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 381 (29.40%) SQL
2 235 (18.13%) JavaScript
3 223 (17.21%) Java
4 184 (14.20%) PowerShell
5 174 (13.43%) C#
6 150 (11.57%) Bash
7 99 (7.64%) C++
8 84 (6.48%) Perl
9 74 (5.71%) C
10 49 (3.78%) Shell Script
11 45 (3.47%) Scala
12 43 (3.32%) Go
13 41 (3.16%) R
14 34 (2.62%) TypeScript
15 28 (2.16%) Groovy
16 27 (2.08%) Ruby
17 20 (1.54%) VBScript
18 17 (1.31%) Tcl
19 16 (1.23%) MATLAB
20 15 (1.16%) JCL
Qualifications
1 305 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 219 (16.90%) Degree
3 179 (13.81%) SC Cleared
4 124 (9.57%) DV Cleared
5 55 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (1.93%) Cisco Certification
6 25 (1.93%) Master's Degree
7 23 (1.77%) CCNP
8 22 (1.70%) AWS Certification
9 19 (1.47%) CCNA
10 12 (0.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 12 (0.93%) PhD
11 11 (0.85%) Azure Certification
12 10 (0.77%) OSCP
13 7 (0.54%) CEH
13 7 (0.54%) CREST Certified
13 7 (0.54%) GIAC
14 6 (0.46%) GPEN
15 5 (0.39%) CCIE
15 5 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (4.48%) QA
2 51 (3.94%) Data Quality
3 21 (1.62%) Accessibility
4 16 (1.23%) GDPR
5 12 (0.93%) Disclosure Scotland
6 10 (0.77%) NIST
7 8 (0.62%) MISRA
8 7 (0.54%) GxP
8 7 (0.54%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.54%) RMADS
9 6 (0.46%) Good Clinical Practice
9 6 (0.46%) JTAG
10 4 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 3 (0.23%) ISO 22301
11 3 (0.23%) NCSC
12 2 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.15%) IEC 61508
13 1 (0.077%) CDISC
13 1 (0.077%) DO-178B
13 1 (0.077%) JSP 440
System Software
1 172 (13.27%) Docker
2 70 (5.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 65 (5.02%) Active Directory
4 25 (1.93%) Firmware
5 22 (1.70%) NFS
6 20 (1.54%) vSphere
7 18 (1.39%) VMware NSX
8 15 (1.16%) Time Sharing Option
9 14 (1.08%) VMware ESXi
10 13 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
11 11 (0.85%) Hyper-V
12 6 (0.46%) HDFS
13 5 (0.39%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 5 (0.39%) Embedded Firmware
14 4 (0.31%) GPFS
14 4 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.31%) VirtualBox
15 3 (0.23%) KVM
16 2 (0.15%) LXC
16 2 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 248 (19.14%) Ansible
2 228 (17.59%) Terraform
3 207 (15.97%) Kubernetes
4 65 (5.02%) Grafana
5 45 (3.47%) Prometheus
6 37 (2.85%) Progress Chef
7 32 (2.47%) Puppet
8 25 (1.93%) PowerCLI
9 22 (1.70%) Kibana
10 17 (1.31%) Packer
11 15 (1.16%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 14 (1.08%) Docker Swarm
13 13 (1.00%) SCCM
13 13 (1.00%) vRealize
14 11 (0.85%) HP Fortify
15 10 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
16 8 (0.62%) Red Hat Satellite
17 7 (0.54%) Nessus
18 6 (0.46%) logstash
18 6 (0.46%) Nagios
Vendors
1 119 (9.18%) VMware
2 108 (8.33%) PayPal
3 101 (7.79%) Microsoft
4 63 (4.86%) Splunk
5 57 (4.40%) Databricks
6 56 (4.32%) Red Hat
7 53 (4.09%) Google
8 42 (3.24%) Atlassian
9 40 (3.09%) Cisco
9 40 (3.09%) Dell
10 33 (2.55%) Oracle
11 29 (2.24%) IBM
12 25 (1.93%) HP
13 20 (1.54%) Brocade
14 19 (1.47%) Palo Alto
14 19 (1.47%) SAP
14 19 (1.47%) SolarWinds
15 17 (1.31%) Informatica
16 16 (1.23%) Veritas
17 15 (1.16%) CA