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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 23 April 2018 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
23 Apr 2018 |
Same period 2017 |
Same period 2016 |
| Rank |
25 |
32 |
45 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
+7 |
+13 |
+19 |
| Contract jobs citing Python |
6,997 |
5,399 |
4,273 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
6.92% |
5.87% |
4.03% |
| As % of the Programming Languages category |
16.09% |
14.32% |
10.52% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
4,853 |
3,729 |
2,971 |
| UK median daily rate |
£525 |
£475 |
£463 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+10.53% |
+2.70% |
+2.78% |
| 10th Percentile |
£363 |
£325 |
£313 |
| 90th Percentile |
£675 |
£638 |
£638 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£463 |
£425 |
£413 |
| % change year-on-year |
+8.82% |
+3.03% |
+10.00% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
144 |
91 |
87 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£40.00 |
£40.00 |
£38.00 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
- |
+5.26% |
+4.11% |
| 10th Percentile |
£13.90 |
£28.75 |
£22.77 |
| 90th Percentile |
£51.98 |
£47.83 |
£57.50 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£40.00 |
£37.50 |
£37.50 |
| % change year-on-year |
+6.67% |
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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 |
43,493 |
37,692 |
40,633 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
43.02% |
40.97% |
38.36% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
30,426 |
25,832 |
27,738 |
| UK median daily rate |
£463 |
£425 |
£415 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+8.82% |
+2.41% |
+3.75% |
| 10th Percentile |
£313 |
£295 |
£275 |
| 90th Percentile |
£638 |
£613 |
£600 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£403 |
£380 |
£375 |
| % change year-on-year |
+5.92% |
+1.33% |
+7.14% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
775 |
841 |
982 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£40.00 |
£40.50 |
£38.50 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
-1.23% |
+5.19% |
+10.00% |
| 10th Percentile |
£16.61 |
£16.17 |
£14.13 |
| 90th Percentile |
£51.85 |
£53.75 |
£51.25 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£40.00 |
£40.00 |
£38.75 |
| % change year-on-year |
- |
+3.23% |
+10.71% |
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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 23 April 2018.
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 23 April 2018.
Python
Top 16 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 23 April 2018. 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 23 April 2018, 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 |
2,640 (37.73%) |
Linux |
| 2 |
2,421 (34.60%) |
DevOps |
| 3 |
2,363 (33.77%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 4 |
2,348 (33.56%) |
Java |
| 5 |
2,102 (30.04%) |
Amazon AWS |
| 6 |
1,651 (23.60%) |
Jenkins |
| 7 |
1,575 (22.51%) |
Ansible |
| 8 |
1,554 (22.21%) |
SQL |
| 9 |
1,552 (22.18%) |
Docker |
| 10 |
1,457 (20.82%) |
Git (software) |
| 11 |
1,447 (20.68%) |
Ruby |
| 12 |
1,377 (19.68%) |
Bash Shell |
| 13 |
1,256 (17.95%) |
Finance |
| 14 |
1,178 (16.84%) |
Puppet |
| 15 |
1,174 (16.78%) |
JavaScript |
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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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