Beautiful Soup Contract Job Trends

Beautiful Soup (bs4)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Beautiful Soup skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 575 554 -
Rank change year-on-year -21 - -
Contract jobs citing Beautiful Soup 2 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.006% 0.011% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.024% 0.050% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Beautiful Soup falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,233 7,997 10,056
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.79% 21.80% 22.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,463 5,033 7,178
10th Percentile £350 £353 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £724 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 122 186
10th Percentile £30.80 £22.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £43.00 £37.13 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £54.78
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.66% -13.05%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -1.54% +23.81% -19.23%

Beautiful Soup
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Beautiful Soup relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Beautiful Soup job vacancy trend in the UK

Beautiful Soup
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Beautiful Soup.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Beautiful Soup

Beautiful Soup
Top 2 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Beautiful Soup within the UK over the 6 months to 27 November 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
London -4 2 £600 +33.33% 1
England -16 2 £600 +33.33% 1

Beautiful Soup
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) OneDrive
1 1 (50.00%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Graph
1 1 (50.00%) Pandas
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
1 1 (50.00%) Scrapy
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
1 1 (50.00%) API Integration
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Complex ETL
1 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
1 1 (50.00%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) C
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (50.00%) MiFID
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Bloomberg
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Proofpoint
1 1 (50.00%) Refinitiv
1 1 (50.00%) Veritas