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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 January 2020 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 Jan 2020 |
Same period 2019 |
Same period 2018 |
| Rank |
14 |
20 |
30 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
+6 |
+10 |
+5 |
| Contract jobs citing Python |
6,313 |
7,541 |
6,485 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
8.67% |
7.58% |
6.46% |
| As % of the Programming Languages category |
21.24% |
17.10% |
15.36% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
4,200 |
5,046 |
4,707 |
| UK median daily rate |
£525 |
£525 |
£520 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
- |
+0.96% |
+9.47% |
| 10th Percentile |
£375 |
£363 |
£363 |
| 90th Percentile |
£700 |
£688 |
£675 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£483 |
£475 |
£463 |
| % change year-on-year |
+1.58% |
+2.70% |
+8.82% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
119 |
120 |
141 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£44.02 |
£42.50 |
£40.00 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+3.58% |
+6.25% |
+4.58% |
| 10th Percentile |
£19.18 |
£23.49 |
£24.50 |
| 90th Percentile |
£53.75 |
£52.50 |
£52.50 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£44.00 |
£42.50 |
£40.00 |
| % change year-on-year |
+3.53% |
+6.25% |
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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 |
29,725 |
44,092 |
42,222 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
40.82% |
44.35% |
42.09% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
20,374 |
30,942 |
29,786 |
| UK median daily rate |
£475 |
£475 |
£450 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
- |
+5.56% |
+5.88% |
| 10th Percentile |
£325 |
£320 |
£308 |
| 90th Percentile |
£650 |
£650 |
£638 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£430 |
£425 |
£400 |
| % change year-on-year |
+1.18% |
+6.25% |
+6.67% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
602 |
679 |
758 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£42.50 |
£42.19 |
£40.00 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+0.73% |
+5.48% |
- |
| 10th Percentile |
£17.25 |
£17.00 |
£16.58 |
| 90th Percentile |
£55.00 |
£52.50 |
£52.50 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£42.50 |
£42.50 |
£40.00 |
| % change year-on-year |
- |
+6.25% |
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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 January 2020.
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 January 2020.
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 17 January 2020. 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 January 2020, 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 |
2,248 (35.61%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 2 |
2,057 (32.58%) |
AWS |
| 3 |
1,946 (30.83%) |
Java |
| 4 |
1,899 (30.08%) |
DevOps |
| 5 |
1,635 (25.90%) |
Linux |
| 6 |
1,573 (24.92%) |
SQL |
| 7 |
1,322 (20.94%) |
Docker |
| 8 |
1,189 (18.83%) |
Azure |
| 9 |
1,186 (18.79%) |
Finance |
| 10 |
1,077 (17.06%) |
Kubernetes |
| 11 |
1,027 (16.27%) |
Ansible |
| 12 |
1,022 (16.19%) |
Jenkins |
| 13 |
1,016 (16.09%) |
JavaScript |
| 14 |
997 (15.79%) |
Git (software) |
| 15 |
911 (14.43%) |
Software Engineering |
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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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