Python Contracts

Python
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Python skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Python over the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 13 12
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Python 4,166 4,744 9,103
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 11.41% 10.03% 11.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.56% 32.04% 29.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,763 3,410 6,463
10th Percentile £373 £400 £428
25th Percentile £463 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.87% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £704
90th Percentile £825 £800 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £507 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -3.43% -2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 135 116
10th Percentile £20.12 £37.50 £35.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £46.18 £46.70
Median hourly rate £52.50 £60.00 £64.63
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -7.16% +57.62%
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.70 £70.30
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £61.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +2.04% -5.77% +58.54%

All Programming Languages
UK

Python falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 11,716 14,805 30,704
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.10% 31.31% 37.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 10,548 22,082
10th Percentile £350 £363 £400
25th Percentile £425 £435 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.65% +7.62%
75th Percentile £645 £656 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -1.35% -2.44% +10.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 278 446 510
10th Percentile £22.00 £32.15 £25.50
25th Percentile £38.31 £47.50 £46.94
Median hourly rate £62.25 £60.75 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.47% -0.41% +28.42%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £67.30
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +40.21%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Python in the UK

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python.

Daily rate trend for Python in the UK

Python
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python over the 6 months to 8 November 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python in the UK

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python.

Hourly rate trend for Python in the UK

Python
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Python over the 6 months to 8 November 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Python in the UK

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 8 November 2024. 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
England +2 3,625 £585 -1.39% 2,421
London +3 2,333 £625 +4.17% 1,069
Work from Home +5 1,551 £550 -4.35% 3,994
UK excluding London +8 1,382 £507 -3.43% 1,494
South East +10 372 £525 - 323
North of England +9 296 £500 -4.76% 356
South West +3 251 £625 +13.64% 196
Scotland -3 164 £484 -7.81% 77
Midlands +10 145 £475 -5.00% 183
North West 0 144 £486 -7.43% 195
Yorkshire +22 137 £510 -7.32% 111
West Midlands +9 99 £500 -9.09% 99
East of England +1 93 £475 -3.06% 259
Wales +18 54 £500 -2.44% 32
East Midlands +7 46 £400 -9.09% 84
North East 0 21 £598 +19.50% 50
Northern Ireland -1 19 £525 +31.25% 79

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 296 (7.11%) Apache
2 291 (6.99%) Apache Airflow
3 211 (5.06%) Apache Spark
4 186 (4.46%) Confluence
5 79 (1.90%) SAS
6 32 (0.77%) Jupyter
7 26 (0.62%) SharePoint
8 18 (0.43%) nginx
9 15 (0.36%) ArcGIS
10 10 (0.24%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 10 (0.24%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.14%) CMS
11 6 (0.14%) Ethereum
11 6 (0.14%) JBoss
11 6 (0.14%) WebSphere
12 5 (0.12%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.096%) BizTalk Server
13 4 (0.096%) CICS
13 4 (0.096%) IIS
13 4 (0.096%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 84 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.29%) Chatbot
3 12 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (0.29%) SPSS
4 9 (0.22%) Sketch
5 8 (0.19%) CANalyzer
6 7 (0.17%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.12%) Revit
9 4 (0.096%) Maya
9 4 (0.096%) NUKE
9 4 (0.096%) Simulink
9 4 (0.096%) Trello
10 3 (0.072%) AutoCAD
10 3 (0.072%) InVision
10 3 (0.072%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.072%) SketchUp
11 2 (0.048%) CPLEX
11 2 (0.048%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 36 (0.86%) Aladdin
2 10 (0.24%) Misys Opics
3 7 (0.17%) Shopify
4 6 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
4 6 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.096%) Endur
6 4 (0.096%) Global One
7 3 (0.072%) ION MarketView
7 3 (0.072%) SAP S/4HANA
7 3 (0.072%) Siebel CRM
8 2 (0.048%) Eagle PACE
8 2 (0.048%) FINCAD Analytics
8 2 (0.048%) Markit EDM
9 1 (0.024%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.024%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.024%) SAP Hybris
9 1 (0.024%) SmartPlant
9 1 (0.024%) Sprinklr
9 1 (0.024%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,553 (37.28%) AWS
2 1,079 (25.90%) Azure
3 629 (15.10%) GCP
4 342 (8.21%) Serverless
5 312 (7.49%) GitHub
6 311 (7.47%) Power Platform
7 296 (7.11%) dbt
8 284 (6.82%) Amazon S3
9 255 (6.12%) Snowflake
10 235 (5.64%) AWS Lambda
11 209 (5.02%) Amazon EC2
12 171 (4.10%) Azure DevOps
13 140 (3.36%) Azure Data Factory
14 137 (3.29%) OpenShift
15 115 (2.76%) AWS CloudFormation
16 111 (2.66%) Amazon ECS
17 95 (2.28%) GitHub Actions
18 93 (2.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 93 (2.23%) Amazon EKS
19 90 (2.16%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 126 (3.02%) Firewall
2 118 (2.83%) DNS
3 100 (2.40%) TCP/IP
4 84 (2.02%) VPN
5 80 (1.92%) BGP
6 65 (1.56%) MPLS
7 51 (1.22%) DHCP
8 50 (1.20%) Network Security
9 46 (1.10%) SSL
10 43 (1.03%) HTTP
11 39 (0.94%) OSPF
11 39 (0.94%) WAN
12 38 (0.91%) SAN
13 37 (0.89%) Wireless
14 35 (0.84%) 5G
15 34 (0.82%) LAN
16 33 (0.79%) Internet
17 31 (0.74%) Ethernet
18 27 (0.65%) 4G
18 27 (0.65%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 304 (7.30%) Power BI
2 290 (6.96%) Data Lake
3 257 (6.17%) Big Data
4 244 (5.86%) Data Warehouse
5 240 (5.76%) Amazon Athena
6 222 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
7 207 (4.97%) Tableau
8 180 (4.32%) Dremio
9 168 (4.03%) NoSQL
10 155 (3.72%) Apache Arrow
11 146 (3.50%) Apache Ignite
12 144 (3.46%) Relational Database
13 140 (3.36%) SQL Server
14 139 (3.34%) MongoDB
15 134 (3.22%) Hadoop
16 110 (2.64%) Amazon Redshift
17 105 (2.52%) MySQL
18 97 (2.33%) BigQuery
19 82 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
20 67 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 552 (13.25%) Git
2 391 (9.39%) Jenkins
3 273 (6.55%) JIRA
4 235 (5.64%) GitLab
5 107 (2.57%) Selenium
6 96 (2.30%) Bitbucket
7 75 (1.80%) Artifactory
8 54 (1.30%) Robot Framework
9 45 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
10 41 (0.98%) TeamCity
11 38 (0.91%) JMeter
12 36 (0.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 31 (0.74%) CircleCI
13 31 (0.74%) Maven
14 28 (0.67%) JUnit
15 26 (0.62%) Cucumber
16 23 (0.55%) Cypress.io
16 23 (0.55%) Liquibase
16 23 (0.55%) Postman
16 23 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,053 (25.28%) Finance
2 895 (21.48%) Social Skills
3 592 (14.21%) Analytical Skills
4 549 (13.18%) Banking
5 412 (9.89%) Front Office
6 274 (6.58%) Public Sector
7 264 (6.34%) Investment Banking
8 127 (3.05%) Telecoms
9 85 (2.04%) Retail
10 81 (1.94%) Marketing
11 65 (1.56%) Electronics
12 51 (1.22%) Manufacturing
12 51 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
13 44 (1.06%) Financial Institution
14 39 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
15 32 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
16 28 (0.67%) Legal
17 23 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 20 (0.48%) Aerospace
19 19 (0.46%) Military
Job Titles
1 969 (23.26%) Developer
2 581 (13.95%) Senior
3 495 (11.88%) Data Engineer
4 465 (11.16%) Python Developer
5 367 (8.81%) Analyst
6 329 (7.90%) DevOps Engineer
7 328 (7.87%) Software Engineer
8 304 (7.30%) Lead
9 297 (7.13%) Python Engineer
10 274 (6.58%) Architect
11 245 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
12 163 (3.91%) Data Scientist
13 152 (3.65%) Azure Engineer
14 140 (3.36%) Data Analyst
15 139 (3.34%) Senior Developer
16 115 (2.76%) Python Software Engineer
17 106 (2.54%) Java Engineer
18 97 (2.33%) Automation Engineer
18 97 (2.33%) Java Developer
19 95 (2.28%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 289 (6.94%) PySpark
2 280 (6.72%) React
3 255 (6.12%) Kafka
4 254 (6.10%) Pandas
5 207 (4.97%) NumPy
6 178 (4.27%) SciPy
7 175 (4.20%) REST
8 168 (4.03%) gRPC
9 167 (4.01%) Node.js
10 158 (3.79%) Protocol Buffers
11 148 (3.55%) Django
12 109 (2.62%) .NET
13 93 (2.23%) RESTful
14 88 (2.11%) HTML
15 85 (2.04%) AngularJS
16 82 (1.97%) JSON
17 78 (1.87%) TensorFlow
18 75 (1.80%) PyTorch
19 71 (1.70%) FastAPI
20 68 (1.63%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 280 (6.72%) Fixed Income
2 249 (5.98%) Hedge funds
3 231 (5.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 223 (5.35%) Derivative
5 215 (5.16%) Equities
6 168 (4.03%) Algorithms
7 159 (3.82%) Product Ownership
8 124 (2.98%) Data Structures
9 92 (2.21%) Cloud Native
10 78 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
10 78 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
11 65 (1.56%) Management Information System
12 62 (1.49%) Data Centre
13 61 (1.46%) Public Cloud
14 54 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
15 53 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
16 50 (1.20%) PKI
17 48 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
18 40 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
19 38 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 679 (16.30%) Linux
2 273 (6.55%) Windows
3 262 (6.29%) Unix
4 110 (2.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 69 (1.66%) Windows Server
6 47 (1.13%) CentOS
7 34 (0.82%) Android
8 27 (0.65%) Apple iOS
9 24 (0.58%) Ubuntu
10 20 (0.48%) Solaris
10 20 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
11 13 (0.31%) Mac OS
12 11 (0.26%) VMS
13 9 (0.22%) Windows 10
14 7 (0.17%) zOS
15 6 (0.14%) Debian
15 6 (0.14%) Oracle Linux
16 5 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
16 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
17 4 (0.096%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,077 (25.85%) Agile
2 1,045 (25.08%) DevOps
3 1,024 (24.58%) CI/CD
4 694 (16.66%) Software Engineering
5 683 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
6 554 (13.30%) Analytics
7 489 (11.74%) Machine Learning
8 450 (10.80%) Data Science
9 439 (10.54%) ETL
10 417 (10.01%) Data Modelling
11 406 (9.75%) Test Automation
12 401 (9.63%) Artificial Intelligence
13 394 (9.46%) Computer Science
14 369 (8.86%) Infrastructure as Code
15 342 (8.21%) Business Intelligence
15 342 (8.21%) Data Pipeline
16 339 (8.14%) Containerisation
17 338 (8.11%) Asset Management
18 316 (7.59%) Visualisation
19 297 (7.13%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1,350 (32.41%) SQL
2 969 (23.26%) Java
3 545 (13.08%) JavaScript
4 386 (9.27%) Bash
5 381 (9.15%) PowerShell
6 355 (8.52%) TypeScript
7 247 (5.93%) C++
8 224 (5.38%) R
9 190 (4.56%) Go
10 175 (4.20%) C#
11 168 (4.03%) Perl
12 148 (3.55%) Shell Script
13 138 (3.31%) C
14 124 (2.98%) Scala
15 106 (2.54%) Ruby
16 61 (1.46%) Groovy
17 48 (1.15%) T-SQL
18 41 (0.98%) PL/SQL
19 33 (0.79%) PHP
19 33 (0.79%) VBA
Qualifications
1 665 (15.96%) Security Cleared
2 493 (11.83%) Degree
3 487 (11.69%) SC Cleared
4 228 (5.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 171 (4.10%) DV Cleared
6 108 (2.59%) Master's Degree
7 82 (1.97%) AWS Certification
8 67 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
9 45 (1.08%) PhD
10 44 (1.06%) CCNP
11 39 (0.94%) Azure Certification
12 30 (0.72%) CCIE
13 29 (0.70%) CISSP
14 28 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
14 28 (0.67%) Numerate Degree
15 19 (0.46%) OSCP
16 18 (0.43%) CEH
17 17 (0.41%) CCNA
18 14 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 14 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 275 (6.60%) Data Quality
2 146 (3.50%) QA
3 52 (1.25%) Accessibility
4 39 (0.94%) GDPR
5 30 (0.72%) NIST
6 21 (0.50%) MISRA
7 14 (0.34%) PCI DSS
8 13 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
8 13 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 13 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 9 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
10 8 (0.19%) HIPAA
11 7 (0.17%) SLA
12 5 (0.12%) RMADS
13 4 (0.096%) JTAG
13 4 (0.096%) NCSC
14 3 (0.072%) Government Security Classifications
14 3 (0.072%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 3 (0.072%) Software Quality Assurance
15 2 (0.048%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 577 (13.85%) Docker
2 117 (2.81%) Active Directory
3 114 (2.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 45 (1.08%) VMware ESXi
5 28 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
6 27 (0.65%) vSphere
7 25 (0.60%) VMware NSX
8 22 (0.53%) HDFS
8 22 (0.53%) NFS
9 19 (0.46%) Firmware
10 13 (0.31%) Hyper-V
11 10 (0.24%) Veritas Volume Manager
12 9 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
13 8 (0.19%) KVM
13 8 (0.19%) SRDF
14 7 (0.17%) Ceph
14 7 (0.17%) Veritas File System
15 6 (0.14%) VirtualBox
15 6 (0.14%) XenApp
15 6 (0.14%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 711 (17.07%) Kubernetes
2 639 (15.34%) Terraform
3 539 (12.94%) Ansible
4 171 (4.10%) Grafana
5 135 (3.24%) Prometheus
6 83 (1.99%) Puppet
7 52 (1.25%) Progress Chef
8 51 (1.22%) Kibana
9 33 (0.79%) Rancher
10 29 (0.70%) logstash
11 26 (0.62%) vRealize Orchestrator
12 21 (0.50%) Argo
12 21 (0.50%) Packer
13 19 (0.46%) vRealize
14 17 (0.41%) ZABBIX
15 15 (0.36%) Podman
15 15 (0.36%) Red Hat Satellite
16 14 (0.34%) NetBackup
16 14 (0.34%) Netcool
16 14 (0.34%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 329 (7.90%) Microsoft
2 304 (7.30%) Databricks
3 269 (6.46%) Google
4 220 (5.28%) Oracle
5 168 (4.03%) VMware
6 143 (3.43%) Splunk
7 132 (3.17%) Cisco
8 123 (2.95%) Red Hat
9 79 (1.90%) IBM
10 71 (1.70%) Atlassian
11 69 (1.66%) Bloomberg
11 69 (1.66%) SAP
12 46 (1.10%) F5
13 40 (0.96%) CyberArk
14 39 (0.94%) Salesforce
14 39 (0.94%) ServiceNow
15 37 (0.89%) Alteryx
16 36 (0.86%) Juniper
17 32 (0.77%) Palo Alto
18 31 (0.74%) EMC