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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 15 December 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
15 Dec 2018 |
Same period 2017 |
Same period 2016 |
| Rank |
20 |
30 |
34 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
+10 |
+4 |
+25 |
| Contract jobs citing Python |
7,746 |
6,618 |
5,262 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
7.43% |
6.41% |
5.11% |
| As % of the Programming Languages category |
16.59% |
15.27% |
12.63% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
5,212 |
4,790 |
3,539 |
| UK median daily rate |
£525 |
£513 |
£475 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+2.44% |
+7.89% |
+5.56% |
| 10th Percentile |
£363 |
£363 |
£325 |
| 90th Percentile |
£688 |
£675 |
£625 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£475 |
£450 |
£425 |
| % change year-on-year |
+5.56% |
+5.88% |
+3.03% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
120 |
142 |
76 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£42.50 |
£40.00 |
£37.50 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+6.25% |
+6.67% |
-3.85% |
| 10th Percentile |
£23.49 |
£25.03 |
£19.23 |
| 90th Percentile |
£52.50 |
£52.45 |
£47.50 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£42.50 |
£40.50 |
£40.00 |
| % change year-on-year |
+4.94% |
+1.25% |
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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 |
46,682 |
43,341 |
41,656 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
44.80% |
41.99% |
40.48% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
32,868 |
30,431 |
28,590 |
| UK median daily rate |
£475 |
£450 |
£425 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+5.56% |
+5.88% |
+5.33% |
| 10th Percentile |
£319 |
£308 |
£285 |
| 90th Percentile |
£644 |
£638 |
£590 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£425 |
£400 |
£375 |
| % change year-on-year |
+6.25% |
+6.67% |
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| Number of hourly rates quoted |
698 |
779 |
876 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£42.00 |
£40.00 |
£39.63 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+5.00% |
+0.95% |
+5.67% |
| 10th Percentile |
£16.54 |
£16.25 |
£14.47 |
| 90th Percentile |
£52.50 |
£52.30 |
£52.50 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£42.50 |
£40.00 |
£39.75 |
| % change year-on-year |
+6.25% |
+0.63% |
+6.00% |
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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 15 December 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 15 December 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 15 December 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 15 December 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 |
2,641 (34.10%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 2 |
2,624 (33.88%) |
DevOps |
| 3 |
2,585 (33.37%) |
Linux |
| 4 |
2,481 (32.03%) |
Java |
| 5 |
2,428 (31.35%) |
Amazon AWS |
| 6 |
1,923 (24.83%) |
SQL |
| 7 |
1,857 (23.97%) |
Jenkins |
| 8 |
1,838 (23.73%) |
Docker |
| 9 |
1,699 (21.93%) |
Ansible |
| 10 |
1,492 (19.26%) |
Finance |
| 11 |
1,424 (18.38%) |
Git (software) |
| 12 |
1,247 (16.10%) |
JavaScript |
| 13 |
1,244 (16.06%) |
Bash Shell |
| 14 |
1,218 (15.72%) |
Puppet |
| 15 |
1,139 (14.70%) |
Kubernetes |
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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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