The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 2 March 2021 with a comparison to the 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 is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.
Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills
19,802
27,192
42,903
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK
41.19%
40.88%
43.76%
Number of daily rates quoted
13,801
19,046
30,417
Median daily rate
£483
£475
£475
Median daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.58%
-
+3.26%
10th Percentile
£313
£325
£323
90th Percentile
£675
£650
£650
UK excluding London median daily rate
£425
£433
£425
% change year-on-year
-1.73%
+1.76%
+6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted
462
505
661
Median hourly rate
£42.50
£43.50
£42.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.30%
+2.35%
+6.25%
10th Percentile
£15.46
£17.08
£17.00
90th Percentile
£60.90
£55.00
£52.50
Median hourly rate
£40.00
£42.50
£42.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88%
-
+6.25%
Python Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.
Python Contractor Daily Rate Trend
3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python.
Python Daily Rate Histogram
Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python over the 6 months to 2 March 2021.
Python Contractor Hourly Rate Trend
3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python.
Python Hourly Rate Histogram
Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Python over the 6 months to 2 March 2021.
Python Top 17 Contract Locations
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 over the 6 months to 2 March 2021. 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
For the 6 months to 2 March 2021, IT contractor jobs citing Python also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity.
The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads with a requirement for Python.
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:
