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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 17 February 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
17 Feb 2019 |
Same period 2018 |
Same period 2017 |
| Rank |
20 |
27 |
34 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
+7 |
+7 |
+15 |
| Contract jobs citing Python |
7,519 |
6,649 |
5,331 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
7.70% |
6.61% |
5.56% |
| As % of the Programming Languages category |
17.53% |
15.74% |
13.67% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
5,047 |
4,755 |
3,688 |
| UK median daily rate |
£525 |
£525 |
£475 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
- |
+10.53% |
+2.15% |
| 10th Percentile |
£363 |
£363 |
£325 |
| 90th Percentile |
£688 |
£675 |
£625 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£475 |
£475 |
£425 |
| % change year-on-year |
- |
+11.76% |
+2.41% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
114 |
162 |
77 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£43.50 |
£40.00 |
£40.00 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+8.75% |
- |
-0.62% |
| 10th Percentile |
£21.25 |
£24.50 |
£22.76 |
| 90th Percentile |
£51.25 |
£52.50 |
£47.50 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£44.25 |
£40.00 |
£40.00 |
| % change year-on-year |
+10.63% |
- |
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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 |
42,890 |
42,247 |
38,999 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
43.92% |
41.99% |
40.64% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
30,059 |
29,686 |
26,814 |
| UK median daily rate |
£475 |
£455 |
£425 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+4.40% |
+7.06% |
+3.03% |
| 10th Percentile |
£323 |
£310 |
£288 |
| 90th Percentile |
£650 |
£638 |
£600 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£425 |
£400 |
£380 |
| % change year-on-year |
+6.25% |
+5.26% |
+1.33% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
694 |
771 |
866 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£42.38 |
£40.00 |
£40.00 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+5.96% |
- |
+6.67% |
| 10th Percentile |
£17.08 |
£16.75 |
£14.93 |
| 90th Percentile |
£52.50 |
£52.50 |
£52.50 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£42.50 |
£40.00 |
£40.00 |
| % change year-on-year |
+6.25% |
- |
+6.67% |
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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 17 February 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 17 February 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 17 February 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 17 February 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 |
2,629 (34.96%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 2 |
2,594 (34.50%) |
DevOps |
| 3 |
2,519 (33.50%) |
Linux |
| 4 |
2,497 (33.21%) |
Amazon AWS |
| 5 |
2,390 (31.79%) |
Java |
| 6 |
1,820 (24.21%) |
Jenkins |
| 7 |
1,814 (24.13%) |
Docker |
| 8 |
1,789 (23.79%) |
SQL |
| 9 |
1,645 (21.88%) |
Ansible |
| 10 |
1,432 (19.05%) |
Git (software) |
| 11 |
1,402 (18.65%) |
Finance |
| 12 |
1,222 (16.25%) |
JavaScript |
| 13 |
1,216 (16.17%) |
Bash Shell |
| 14 |
1,159 (15.41%) |
Kubernetes |
| 15 |
1,134 (15.08%) |
Terraform |
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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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