PyCharm Contract Job Trends

JetBrains PyCharm
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring PyCharm skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 560 536 607
Rank change year-on-year -24 +71 +191
Contract jobs citing PyCharm 22 7 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.061% 0.020% 0.002%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.40% 0.15% 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 6 1
10th Percentile £363 £203 -
25th Percentile £391 £238 £343
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £347 £345
Median % change year-on-year +43.97% +0.67% -36.11%
75th Percentile £550 £349 £348
90th Percentile £575 £409 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £516 £463 -
% change year-on-year +11.62% - -

All Development Application Skills
UK

PyCharm falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,481 4,716 5,917
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.11% 13.21% 13.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,793 2,957 4,102
10th Percentile £331 £340 £363
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% -2.70%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £638
90th Percentile £693 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £514
% change year-on-year -2.56% -5.07% -2.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 109 224
10th Percentile £30.35 £34.30 £45.88
25th Percentile £50.50 £50.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.00 £89.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

PyCharm
Job Vacancy Trend

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

PyCharm job vacancy trend in the UK

PyCharm
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PyCharm

PyCharm
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PyCharm over the 6 months to 10 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PyCharm in the UK

PyCharm
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PyCharm.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PyCharm

PyCharm
Top 10 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PyCharm within the UK over the 6 months to 10 December 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
UK excluding London -21 19 £516 +11.62%
England -31 12 £384 +11.11% 2
Scotland +14 10 £550 +18.92%
North of England - 6 £516 -
Yorkshire - 6 £516 -
Work from Home +2 5 £393 -
London -7 3 £375 +8.51% 2
West Midlands - 2 £402 -
Midlands - 2 £402 -
South East - 1 £384 -

PyCharm
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 2 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (9.09%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 19 (86.36%) GitHub
2 10 (45.45%) AWS
2 10 (45.45%) Azure
2 10 (45.45%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (36.36%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (13.64%) SaaS
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon S3
5 2 (9.09%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (18.18%) Internet
2 2 (9.09%) DNS
2 2 (9.09%) SSH
2 2 (9.09%) SSL
2 2 (9.09%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (36.36%) NoSQL
1 8 (36.36%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (27.27%) MySQL
2 6 (27.27%) RDBMS
2 6 (27.27%) Relational Database
3 3 (13.64%) MSDE
4 2 (9.09%) Big Data
4 2 (9.09%) Delta Lake
4 2 (9.09%) Hadoop
4 2 (9.09%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 18 (81.82%) Jenkins
2 13 (59.09%) Visual Studio Code
3 10 (45.45%) Bitbucket
3 10 (45.45%) IntelliJ
3 10 (45.45%) JIRA
3 10 (45.45%) Visual Studio
4 8 (36.36%) Git
5 3 (13.64%) Poetry
5 3 (13.64%) PyUnit
5 3 (13.64%) SonarQube
6 2 (9.09%) MLflow
6 2 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (54.55%) Finance
2 7 (31.82%) Banking
3 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
4 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (13.64%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Developer
2 6 (27.27%) Python Developer
2 6 (27.27%) Python Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Data Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (9.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Java Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Automation Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Django Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Python/Django Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Python Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (40.91%) NumPy
1 9 (40.91%) Pandas
2 6 (27.27%) TensorFlow
3 3 (13.64%) Django
3 3 (13.64%) Flask
3 3 (13.64%) pytest
4 2 (9.09%) Apache Avro
4 2 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) Public Cloud
2 5 (22.73%) Algorithms
3 4 (18.18%) Clustering
3 4 (18.18%) Online Banking
4 3 (13.64%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (13.64%) Virtual Team
5 2 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 16 (72.73%) Linux
2 10 (45.45%) Windows
3 3 (13.64%) Android
3 3 (13.64%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (81.82%) DevOps
2 15 (68.18%) Agile
3 10 (45.45%) SDLC
4 7 (31.82%) CI/CD
4 7 (31.82%) Deployment Automation
4 7 (31.82%) Issue Tracking
5 6 (27.27%) AI
5 6 (27.27%) Computer Science
5 6 (27.27%) Data Modelling
5 6 (27.27%) Data Munging
5 6 (27.27%) Data Science
5 6 (27.27%) Deep Learning
5 6 (27.27%) Machine Learning
5 6 (27.27%) Natural Language Processing
6 5 (22.73%) Build Automation
6 5 (22.73%) Containerisation
6 5 (22.73%) Conversational UI
6 5 (22.73%) Data Security
6 5 (22.73%) Microservices
6 5 (22.73%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 22 (100.00%) Python
2 13 (59.09%) Java
3 10 (45.45%) C#
3 10 (45.45%) TypeScript
4 4 (18.18%) SQL
5 3 (13.64%) Bash
5 3 (13.64%) Groovy
5 3 (13.64%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (27.27%) Degree
2 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (54.55%) Kubernetes
2 10 (45.45%) Ansible
2 10 (45.45%) Terraform
3 2 (9.09%) Argo
3 2 (9.09%) Istio
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Red Hat
2 2 (9.09%) Cloudera