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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 26 June 2019 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 UK |
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6 months to
26 Jun 2019 |
Same period 2018 |
Same period 2017 |
| Rank |
15 |
25 |
29 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
+10 |
+4 |
+16 |
| Contract jobs citing Python |
7,562 |
7,214 |
5,632 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
8.30% |
7.16% |
6.14% |
| As % of the Programming Languages category |
19.41% |
16.48% |
14.77% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
5,039 |
4,949 |
3,908 |
| UK median daily rate |
£525 |
£525 |
£488 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
- |
+7.69% |
+3.72% |
| 10th Percentile |
£381 |
£363 |
£328 |
| 90th Percentile |
£700 |
£675 |
£648 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£475 |
£450 |
£425 |
| % change year-on-year |
+5.56% |
+5.88% |
- |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
143 |
136 |
114 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£45.00 |
£41.25 |
£41.00 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+9.09% |
+0.61% |
+7.89% |
| 10th Percentile |
£20.35 |
£12.50 |
£28.40 |
| 90th Percentile |
£53.75 |
£53.13 |
£50.00 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£45.00 |
£40.00 |
£40.00 |
| % change year-on-year |
+12.50% |
- |
+6.67% |
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.
| All Programming Languages UK |
| Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills |
38,958 |
43,763 |
38,131 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
42.74% |
43.44% |
41.54% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
26,986 |
30,525 |
26,137 |
| UK median daily rate |
£475 |
£460 |
£438 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+3.26% |
+5.14% |
+4.17% |
| 10th Percentile |
£325 |
£313 |
£300 |
| 90th Percentile |
£650 |
£638 |
£615 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£425 |
£407 |
£395 |
| % change year-on-year |
+4.42% |
+3.04% |
+5.33% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
713 |
776 |
814 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£43.00 |
£40.88 |
£41.50 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+5.20% |
-1.51% |
+9.21% |
| 10th Percentile |
£19.70 |
£16.38 |
£17.08 |
| 90th Percentile |
£55.00 |
£52.50 |
£53.75 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£43.50 |
£40.00 |
£41.50 |
| % change year-on-year |
+8.75% |
-3.61% |
+9.21% |
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Python
Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings citing Python as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised.
Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend
This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Python.
Python
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram
The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Python over the 6 months to 26 June 2019.
Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend
This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python.
Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram
The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Python over the 6 months to 26 June 2019.
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 26 June 2019. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.
For the 6 months to 26 June 2019, 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.
| 1 |
2,801 (37.04%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 2 |
2,767 (36.59%) |
Amazon AWS |
| 3 |
2,536 (33.54%) |
DevOps |
| 4 |
2,488 (32.90%) |
Java |
| 5 |
2,097 (27.73%) |
Linux |
| 6 |
2,007 (26.54%) |
SQL |
| 7 |
1,694 (22.40%) |
Docker |
| 8 |
1,559 (20.62%) |
Jenkins |
| 9 |
1,484 (19.62%) |
Finance |
| 10 |
1,382 (18.28%) |
Ansible |
| 11 |
1,371 (18.13%) |
Git (software) |
| 12 |
1,354 (17.91%) |
Microsoft Azure |
| 13 |
1,260 (16.66%) |
Kubernetes |
| 14 |
1,166 (15.42%) |
JavaScript |
| 15 |
1,120 (14.81%) |
Bash Shell |
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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:
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