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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 21 October 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
21 Oct 2018 |
Same period 2017 |
Same period 2016 |
| Rank |
22 |
30 |
41 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
+8 |
+11 |
+25 |
| Contract jobs citing Python |
7,466 |
6,335 |
4,945 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
7.30% |
6.38% |
4.66% |
| As % of the Programming Languages category |
16.38% |
15.21% |
11.61% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
5,066 |
4,539 |
3,317 |
| UK median daily rate |
£525 |
£500 |
£475 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+5.00% |
+5.26% |
+5.56% |
| 10th Percentile |
£363 |
£350 |
£325 |
| 90th Percentile |
£675 |
£663 |
£625 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£450 |
£430 |
£425 |
| % change year-on-year |
+4.65% |
+1.18% |
+4.94% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
132 |
125 |
75 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£42.50 |
£40.50 |
£39.00 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+4.94% |
+3.85% |
-2.50% |
| 10th Percentile |
£18.99 |
£26.08 |
£17.78 |
| 90th Percentile |
£52.50 |
£54.86 |
£48.60 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£41.50 |
£42.50 |
£40.00 |
| % change year-on-year |
-2.35% |
+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 |
45,580 |
41,660 |
42,607 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
44.54% |
41.93% |
40.12% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
31,986 |
28,938 |
29,274 |
| UK median daily rate |
£475 |
£450 |
£425 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+5.56% |
+5.88% |
+6.25% |
| 10th Percentile |
£314 |
£306 |
£281 |
| 90th Percentile |
£638 |
£625 |
£588 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£418 |
£400 |
£375 |
| % change year-on-year |
+4.38% |
+6.67% |
+3.45% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
692 |
783 |
907 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£42.00 |
£40.00 |
£37.50 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+5.00% |
+6.67% |
+2.74% |
| 10th Percentile |
£16.29 |
£15.83 |
£14.20 |
| 90th Percentile |
£52.50 |
£53.00 |
£53.75 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£42.50 |
£40.50 |
£37.50 |
| % change year-on-year |
+4.94% |
+8.00% |
+1.35% |
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Python
Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings citing Python as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised.
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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 21 October 2018.
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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 21 October 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 21 October 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 21 October 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 |
2,561 (34.30%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 2 |
2,522 (33.78%) |
Linux |
| 3 |
2,477 (33.18%) |
DevOps |
| 4 |
2,411 (32.29%) |
Java |
| 5 |
2,268 (30.38%) |
Amazon AWS |
| 6 |
1,844 (24.70%) |
Jenkins |
| 7 |
1,790 (23.98%) |
SQL |
| 8 |
1,748 (23.41%) |
Docker |
| 9 |
1,695 (22.70%) |
Ansible |
| 10 |
1,486 (19.90%) |
Git (software) |
| 11 |
1,453 (19.46%) |
Finance |
| 12 |
1,276 (17.09%) |
Bash Shell |
| 13 |
1,271 (17.02%) |
Puppet |
| 14 |
1,224 (16.39%) |
JavaScript |
| 15 |
1,207 (16.17%) |
Continuous Integration |
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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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