Python Developer Contracts

The median contractor rate for a Python Developer was £500 per day in advertised job vacancies during the 3 months to 27 June 2017.

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

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Python Developer UK
Location	3 months to 27 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	214	375	368
Rank change year-on-year	+161	-7
Contract jobs requiring a Python Developer	550	302	305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	1.17%	0.56%	0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category	1.23%	0.59%	0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted	410	220	232
Median daily rate	£500	£450	£444
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+11.11%	+1.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£400	£340	£326
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£650	£600	£625
UK excluding London median daily rate	£425	£375	£375
% change year-on-year	+13.33%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	3	2	0
Median hourly rate	£45.00	£45.50	-
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-1.09%	-
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£45.00	£40.00	-
% change year-on-year	+12.50%	-

The next table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all job roles in contract job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title. As such, the figures in the first row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract IT Job Roles UK
Contract job vacancies with a job title containing a recognized job role	44656	51218	52310
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	94.78%	94.87%	94.84%
Number of daily rates quoted	28833	33387	32903
Median daily rate	£438	£425	£400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+2.94%	+6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£275	£260	£245
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£600	£568
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£400	£370
% change year-on-year	-	+8.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1389	1533	1989
Median hourly rate	£18.10	£17.50	£16.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+3.42%	+6.06%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£11.44	£11.00	£11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£47.50	£44.00	£40.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£17.50	£17.50	£16.14
% change year-on-year	-	+8.42%

Python Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised that featured Python Developer in the job title.

Job vacancy trend for Python Developer in the UK

Python Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Python Developer.

Contractor daily rate trend for Python Developer in the UK

Python Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Python Developer over the 3 months to 27 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Python Developer in the UK

Python Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python Developer.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Python Developer in the UK

Python Developer
Top 30 Contract Locations

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 over the 3 months to 27 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	+140	520	£495	+10.00%	133
London	+81	363	£525	+5.00%	94
City of London	+44	72	£619	+42.24%	19
South East	+54	54	£425	+9.67%	11
South West	+32	37	£400	+14.28%	7
Surrey	+37	30	£425	+30.76%	1
Yorkshire	+33	26	£400	+6.66%	5
Leeds	+24	26	£400	+6.66%	1
West Yorkshire	+20	26	£400	+6.66%	3
Redhill	-	25	£425	-
Devon	-	20	£400	-	1
Wales	+13	18	£550	-
South Wales	+13	17	£550	-
Oxfordshire	+8	15	£356	+4.77%	4
Bristol	+10	14	£425	-	3
East of England	+2	14	£419	-7.45%	8
Plymouth	-	14	£400	-
Newport	-	13	£550	-
Scotland	+37	11	£500	+43.88%	3
North West	+23	11	£413	+21.32%	6
West Midlands	+29	10	£475	-	2
Edinburgh	+26	10	£500	+31.14%	2
Oxford	+5	8	£356	-	3
Cambridgeshire	-1	8	£463	+2.20%	8
West Sussex	-	8	£450	-
Cambridge	+3	6	£463	+15.62%	7
Birmingham	-	6	£475	-	2
Gatwick	-	5	-	-
East Midlands	-3	4	£436	-
Suffolk	-	4	£381	-

Python Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 27 June 2017, Python Developer contract jobs required the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads featuring Python Developer in the job title.

1	1013 (100.00%)	Python
2	414 (40.87%)	Agile Software Development
3	298 (29.42%)	Django
4	241 (23.79%)	SQL
5	234 (23.10%)	JavaScript
6	201 (19.84%)	Finance
7	192 (18.95%)	Java
8	183 (18.07%)	Linux
9	166 (16.39%)	TDD
10	150 (14.81%)	Flask
11	141 (13.92%)	Banking
12	134 (13.23%)	PostgreSQL
12	134 (13.23%)	HTML
13	120 (11.85%)	Web Development
14	117 (11.55%)	Relational Database

15	113 (11.15%)	Git (software)
15	113 (11.15%)	CSS
16	108 (10.66%)	DevOps
17	99 (9.77%)	OO
18	98 (9.67%)	MySQL
19	96 (9.48%)	Unix
20	93 (9.18%)	C++
20	93 (9.18%)	Node.js
20	93 (9.18%)	Big Data
21	90 (8.88%)	Investment Banking
22	89 (8.79%)	Continuous Integration
23	87 (8.59%)	Front Office
24	86 (8.49%)	Analytics
25	85 (8.39%)	REST
26	84 (8.29%)	Oracle

Python Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	54 (5.33%)	Apache Spark
2	40 (3.95%)	Elasticsearch
3	32 (3.16%)	Apache
4	27 (2.67%)	Cloud Foundry
5	17 (1.68%)	CMS
6	12 (1.18%)	Confluence
7	10 (0.99%)	nginx
8	9 (0.89%)	Jupyter
9	7 (0.69%)	OpenStack
10	6 (0.59%)	Apache Airflow
10	6 (0.59%)	SAS
11	5 (0.49%)	Apache Solr
11	5 (0.49%)	Tornado
12	4 (0.39%)	DataSynapse
13	3 (0.30%)	GeoServer
14	2 (0.20%)	IIS
14	2 (0.20%)	Luigi
14	2 (0.20%)	Tomcat
14	2 (0.20%)	WebLogic
14	2 (0.20%)	WebSphere

Applications
1	28 (2.76%)	Spreadsheet
2	27 (2.67%)	Microsoft Excel
3	1 (0.099%)	Chatbot

Business Applications
1	8 (0.79%)	SAP Oil and Gas
2	4 (0.39%)	FINCAD Analytics

Cloud Services
1	72 (7.11%)	Amazon AWS
2	21 (2.07%)	PaaS
3	17 (1.68%)	GitHub
3	17 (1.68%)	Microsoft Azure
4	10 (0.99%)	AWS CloudFormation
4	10 (0.99%)	Cloud Computing
4	10 (0.99%)	Heroku
5	5 (0.49%)	Amazon S3
5	5 (0.49%)	IaaS
5	5 (0.49%)	Responsys
6	4 (0.39%)	Amazon EC2
6	4 (0.39%)	AWS Lambda
7	3 (0.30%)	Google Analytics
7	3 (0.30%)	Google Cloud Platform
7	3 (0.30%)	SaaS
8	2 (0.20%)	Amazon EMR
8	2 (0.20%)	Amazon Kinesis
8	2 (0.20%)	Amazon SQS
9	1 (0.099%)	Google App Engine
9	1 (0.099%)	Virtual Private Cloud

Communications & Networking
1	17 (1.68%)	HTTP
2	13 (1.28%)	TCP/IP
3	10 (0.99%)	Internet
4	7 (0.69%)	Skype
5	6 (0.59%)	DHCP
5	6 (0.59%)	DNS
5	6 (0.59%)	ICMP
5	6 (0.59%)	SSH
6	2 (0.20%)	Bluetooth
6	2 (0.20%)	SMS
6	2 (0.20%)	SSL
7	1 (0.099%)	FIX Connectivity
7	1 (0.099%)	SNMP
7	1 (0.099%)	Wireless
7	1 (0.099%)	X.509

Database & Business Intelligence
1	134 (13.23%)	PostgreSQL
2	117 (11.55%)	Relational Database
3	98 (9.67%)	MySQL
4	93 (9.18%)	Big Data
5	72 (7.11%)	NoSQL
6	69 (6.81%)	Hadoop
7	58 (5.73%)	MongoDB
8	52 (5.13%)	SQL Server
9	23 (2.27%)	Apache Cassandra
10	21 (2.07%)	RDBMS
10	21 (2.07%)	Redis
11	19 (1.88%)	Data Warehouse
12	12 (1.18%)	Apache Hive
12	12 (1.18%)	HBase
13	9 (0.89%)	Oracle Database
14	8 (0.79%)	Power BI
15	7 (0.69%)	Blockchain
15	7 (0.69%)	Data Mining
16	6 (0.59%)	Couchbase
16	6 (0.59%)	SQL Server Integration Services

Development Applications
1	113 (11.15%)	Git (software)
2	57 (5.63%)	Jenkins
3	45 (4.44%)	JIRA
4	20 (1.97%)	Selenium
5	17 (1.68%)	Atlassian Bamboo
6	15 (1.48%)	Bitbucket
7	13 (1.28%)	Subversion
8	12 (1.18%)	Vagrant
9	9 (0.89%)	Visual Studio
10	8 (0.79%)	Team Foundation Server
11	5 (0.49%)	Gradle
11	5 (0.49%)	Karma Test Runner
11	5 (0.49%)	TeamCity
11	5 (0.49%)	Travis CI
12	4 (0.39%)	Bower
12	4 (0.39%)	GoCD
12	4 (0.39%)	RSpec
13	3 (0.30%)	Cucumber
13	3 (0.30%)	JBehave
13	3 (0.30%)	Mockito

General
1	201 (19.84%)	Finance
2	141 (13.92%)	Banking
3	90 (8.88%)	Investment Banking
4	87 (8.59%)	Front Office
5	34 (3.36%)	Telecoms
6	21 (2.07%)	Electronics
7	14 (1.38%)	Billing
8	13 (1.28%)	Games
9	9 (0.89%)	Marketing
9	9 (0.89%)	Retail
10	8 (0.79%)	Manufacturing
11	6 (0.59%)	Financial Institution
12	2 (0.20%)	Back Office
12	2 (0.20%)	Law
12	2 (0.20%)	Legal
12	2 (0.20%)	Pharmaceutical
13	1 (0.099%)	Digital Economy
13	1 (0.099%)	Publishing

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	298 (29.42%)	Django
2	150 (14.81%)	Flask
3	134 (13.23%)	HTML
4	113 (11.15%)	CSS
5	93 (9.18%)	Node.js
6	85 (8.39%)	REST
7	83 (8.19%)	Web Services
8	69 (6.81%)	AngularJS
9	53 (5.23%)	RESTful
10	47 (4.64%)	Pandas
11	43 (4.24%)	XML
12	42 (4.15%)	jQuery
13	41 (4.05%)	NumPy
13	41 (4.05%)	RabbitMQ
14	40 (3.95%)	HTML5
15	39 (3.85%)	JSON
16	35 (3.46%)	.NET
17	27 (2.67%)	OAuth2
18	21 (2.07%)	SQLAlchemy
19	20 (1.97%)	Celery

Miscellaneous
1	76 (7.50%)	Analytical Skills
2	51 (5.03%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
3	50 (4.94%)	Fixed Income
4	48 (4.74%)	Derivative
5	46 (4.54%)	Greenfield Project
6	44 (4.34%)	Computer Science
7	36 (3.55%)	Enterprise Software
8	31 (3.06%)	Algorithms
9	21 (2.07%)	Data Structures
9	21 (2.07%)	User Experience
10	18 (1.78%)	Market Risk
11	16 (1.58%)	Fintech
12	15 (1.48%)	Mobile App
13	14 (1.38%)	Equities
14	13 (1.28%)	STB
15	11 (1.09%)	Equity Derivative
16	9 (0.89%)	Credit Risk
16	9 (0.89%)	Interest Rate Derivative
16	9 (0.89%)	Swaptions
17	8 (0.79%)	Hedge funds

Operating Systems
1	183 (18.07%)	Linux
2	96 (9.48%)	Unix
3	40 (3.95%)	Windows
4	15 (1.48%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4	15 (1.48%)	Ubuntu
5	13 (1.28%)	Mac OS
6	10 (0.99%)	CentOS
7	8 (0.79%)	Android
7	8 (0.79%)	Apple iOS
8	7 (0.69%)	Solaris
9	6 (0.59%)	Debian
10	5 (0.49%)	Mac OS X
11	2 (0.20%)	Windows Server
12	1 (0.099%)	Windows 7
12	1 (0.099%)	Windows Mobile

Processes & Methodologies
1	414 (40.87%)	Agile Software Development
2	166 (16.39%)	TDD
3	120 (11.85%)	Web Development
4	108 (10.66%)	DevOps
5	99 (9.77%)	OO
6	89 (8.79%)	Continuous Integration
7	86 (8.49%)	Analytics
8	81 (8.00%)	Test Automation
9	70 (6.91%)	Scrum
10	65 (6.42%)	Microservices
11	62 (6.12%)	BDD
12	50 (4.94%)	Software Engineering
13	48 (4.74%)	Mathematics
14	47 (4.64%)	Open Source
15	46 (4.54%)	OOP
16	44 (4.34%)	Pair Programming
17	41 (4.05%)	Machine Learning
18	40 (3.95%)	Front End Development
19	37 (3.65%)	Business Intelligence
20	36 (3.55%)	Visualisation

Programming Languages
1	1013 (100.00%)	Python
2	241 (23.79%)	SQL
3	234 (23.10%)	JavaScript
4	192 (18.95%)	Java
5	93 (9.18%)	C++
6	64 (6.32%)	C#
7	55 (5.43%)	Scala
8	44 (4.34%)	R
9	40 (3.95%)	Go
10	36 (3.55%)	Ruby
11	33 (3.26%)	C
12	30 (2.96%)	PHP
13	24 (2.37%)	Perl
14	20 (1.97%)	VBA
15	14 (1.38%)	Bash Shell
16	13 (1.28%)	Embedded C
17	6 (0.59%)	MATLAB
17	6 (0.59%)	TypeScript
18	5 (0.49%)	PL/SQL
19	4 (0.39%)	T-SQL

Qualifications
1	61 (6.02%)	Degree
2	38 (3.75%)	Security Cleared
3	27 (2.67%)	SC Cleared
4	17 (1.68%)	PhD
5	16 (1.58%)	Computer Science Degree
6	9 (0.89%)	BPSS Clearance
7	3 (0.30%)	DBS Check
8	2 (0.20%)	BC Cleared
8	2 (0.20%)	Postgraduate
9	1 (0.099%)	DV Cleared

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	25 (2.47%)	QA
2	13 (1.28%)	MiFID
3	5 (0.49%)	Data Quality
3	5 (0.49%)	Disclosure Scotland
4	2 (0.20%)	EMIR

System Software
1	74 (7.31%)	Docker
2	11 (1.09%)	HDFS
3	6 (0.59%)	NFS
4	4 (0.39%)	LXC
4	4 (0.39%)	VirtualBox
5	3 (0.30%)	Apache ZooKeeper
6	1 (0.099%)	Cronacle

Systems Management
1	32 (3.16%)	Ansible
2	18 (1.78%)	Kubernetes
3	14 (1.38%)	logstash
3	14 (1.38%)	Terraform
4	12 (1.18%)	Puppet
5	11 (1.09%)	Opscode Chef
6	7 (0.69%)	Kibana
7	6 (0.59%)	Oozie
7	6 (0.59%)	SELinux
8	3 (0.30%)	Control-M
8	3 (0.30%)	Grafana
9	2 (0.20%)	Docker Swarm
9	2 (0.20%)	ITRS Geneos
10	1 (0.099%)	Prometheus

Vendors
1	84 (8.29%)	Oracle
2	33 (3.26%)	Microsoft
3	22 (2.17%)	Bloomberg
4	16 (1.58%)	Reuters
5	14 (1.38%)	Cloudera
5	14 (1.38%)	Red Hat
6	9 (0.89%)	SaltStack
7	8 (0.79%)	SAP
8	7 (0.69%)	Google
9	6 (0.59%)	Apple
9	6 (0.59%)	Splunk
10	5 (0.49%)	Sybase
10	5 (0.49%)	Tableau
11	4 (0.39%)	AppDynamics
11	4 (0.39%)	FactSet
12	3 (0.30%)	ESRI
13	2 (0.20%)	Facebook
13	2 (0.20%)	Hortonworks
13	2 (0.20%)	ServiceNow
13	2 (0.20%)	Sun