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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 11 13
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing Python 3,976 6,050 9,214
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 9.90% 11.13% 10.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.87% 33.57% 28.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,893 4,345 6,549
10th Percentile £375 £413 £425
25th Percentile £463 £488 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +13.21%
75th Percentile £706 £713 £700
90th Percentile £850 £813 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £507 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.43% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 138 104
10th Percentile £20.50 £33.88 £20.01
25th Percentile £31.25 £47.50 £38.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £63.44 £52.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +22.00% +36.84%
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £59.94
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.75 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.25 £58.75 £55.00
% change year-on-year +12.77% +6.82% +35.80%

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 12,475 18,024 32,537
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.06% 33.17% 36.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,818 12,845 23,729
10th Percentile £350 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £670
90th Percentile £775 £788 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.40% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 431 443 491
10th Percentile £30.00 £30.15 £19.16
25th Percentile £46.25 £48.16 £35.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.55 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.35% +12.13% +24.14%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £78.75 £74.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% +29.41%

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 26 July 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 26 July 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 26 July 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 3,533 £575 -4.17% 952
London 0 2,338 £625 - 380
Work from Home 0 1,484 £575 -3.08% 575
UK excluding London -4 1,240 £507 -3.43% 749
South East -1 351 £500 -9.09% 190
North of England -5 299 £507 -11.83% 141
South West -2 224 £600 +14.29% 120
Yorkshire +11 155 £507 -11.83% 31
Scotland -11 152 £500 - 53
North West -10 133 £500 -13.04% 75
Midlands -3 112 £450 -10.00% 102
East of England -13 82 £500 +1.27% 69
West Midlands -8 68 £450 -18.18% 67
East Midlands +1 43 £405 -19.00% 33
Wales +2 19 £500 +5.26% 13
North East -7 15 £625 +11.11% 35
Northern Ireland -2 9 £400 - 72

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
1 449 (11.29%) Apache Airflow
2 410 (10.31%) Apache
3 174 (4.38%) Apache Spark
4 159 (4.00%) Confluence
5 52 (1.31%) SAS
6 31 (0.78%) SharePoint
7 28 (0.70%) Jupyter
8 22 (0.55%) OpenStack
9 19 (0.48%) ArcGIS
10 17 (0.43%) nginx
11 12 (0.30%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 12 (0.30%) Drupal
12 11 (0.28%) CMS
12 11 (0.28%) JBoss
13 9 (0.23%) WordPress
14 8 (0.20%) Site Server
15 6 (0.15%) Tomcat
16 5 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
16 5 (0.13%) Gunicorn
16 5 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 76 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.33%) MS Visio
3 13 (0.33%) Sketch
4 12 (0.30%) SPSS
5 11 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
6 9 (0.23%) Chatbot
6 9 (0.23%) Simulink
7 7 (0.18%) CANalyzer
8 6 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 5 (0.13%) CPLEX
10 3 (0.075%) InVision
11 2 (0.050%) Maya
11 2 (0.050%) NUKE
11 2 (0.050%) Stata
11 2 (0.050%) Trello
12 1 (0.025%) Doxygen
12 1 (0.025%) Houdini
12 1 (0.025%) Revit
Business Applications
1 34 (0.86%) Aladdin
2 10 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.20%) Distributed Ledger
4 7 (0.18%) Maximo
4 7 (0.18%) NEC Housing
4 7 (0.18%) Shopify
4 7 (0.18%) SimCorp Dimension
5 6 (0.15%) Global One
5 6 (0.15%) ION MarketView
5 6 (0.15%) Magento
6 5 (0.13%) Endur
6 5 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.10%) Adobe Campaign
7 4 (0.10%) FastStats
7 4 (0.10%) Unica
8 3 (0.075%) Orchestrade
9 2 (0.050%) Advent Geneva
9 2 (0.050%) Markit EDM
9 2 (0.050%) Siebel CRM
9 2 (0.050%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,513 (38.05%) AWS
2 1,059 (26.63%) Azure
3 602 (15.14%) GCP
4 317 (7.97%) Serverless
5 311 (7.82%) dbt
6 309 (7.77%) GitHub
7 302 (7.60%) Snowflake
8 280 (7.04%) Power Platform
9 256 (6.44%) Amazon S3
10 214 (5.38%) AWS Lambda
11 185 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
12 180 (4.53%) Amazon EC2
13 131 (3.29%) Azure Data Factory
14 106 (2.67%) OpenShift
15 98 (2.46%) Amazon EKS
16 86 (2.16%) AWS CloudFormation
17 82 (2.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 78 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
19 74 (1.86%) Cloud Computing
20 69 (1.74%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 151 (3.80%) Firewall
2 80 (2.01%) TCP/IP
3 71 (1.79%) DNS
4 63 (1.58%) VPN
5 49 (1.23%) Network Security
6 45 (1.13%) BGP
7 40 (1.01%) HTTP
8 38 (0.96%) WAN
8 38 (0.96%) Wireless
9 32 (0.80%) OSPF
10 31 (0.78%) 5G
11 29 (0.73%) DHCP
11 29 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
12 27 (0.68%) Cisco ASA
13 24 (0.60%) Internet
14 22 (0.55%) SSL
15 21 (0.53%) Cisco Nexus
15 21 (0.53%) Radio Access Network
16 19 (0.48%) MPLS
16 19 (0.48%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 358 (9.00%) Data Lake
2 302 (7.60%) Amazon Athena
3 269 (6.77%) Apache Ignite
4 262 (6.59%) Power BI
5 261 (6.56%) PostgreSQL
6 244 (6.14%) Data Warehouse
6 244 (6.14%) Dremio
7 235 (5.91%) Big Data
8 233 (5.86%) Apache Arrow
9 206 (5.18%) Tableau
10 184 (4.63%) NoSQL
11 146 (3.67%) SQL Server
12 140 (3.52%) Relational Database
13 127 (3.19%) MongoDB
14 123 (3.09%) Amazon Redshift
15 109 (2.74%) Hadoop
16 108 (2.72%) MySQL
17 96 (2.41%) BigQuery
18 76 (1.91%) Amazon RDS
19 71 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 516 (12.98%) Git
2 436 (10.97%) Jenkins
3 291 (7.32%) JIRA
4 200 (5.03%) GitLab
5 103 (2.59%) Bitbucket
6 73 (1.84%) Selenium
7 62 (1.56%) Cypress.io
8 52 (1.31%) Sonatype Nexus
9 49 (1.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 47 (1.18%) Robot Framework
11 40 (1.01%) TeamCity
12 38 (0.96%) Artifactory
13 33 (0.83%) Cucumber
14 26 (0.65%) GoogleTest
15 25 (0.63%) CircleCI
15 25 (0.63%) JMeter
16 24 (0.60%) Maven
16 24 (0.60%) Postman
16 24 (0.60%) Visual Studio
17 23 (0.58%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,076 (27.06%) Finance
2 759 (19.09%) Social Skills
3 615 (15.47%) Banking
4 505 (12.70%) Front Office
5 491 (12.35%) Analytical Skills
6 312 (7.85%) Investment Banking
7 207 (5.21%) Public Sector
8 97 (2.44%) Retail
9 80 (2.01%) Marketing
10 79 (1.99%) Telecoms
11 51 (1.28%) Manufacturing
12 45 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
13 43 (1.08%) Electronics
14 41 (1.03%) Aerospace
15 37 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
16 36 (0.91%) Financial Institution
17 24 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 23 (0.58%) Legal
18 23 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
19 18 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 974 (24.50%) Developer
2 501 (12.60%) Python Developer
3 497 (12.50%) Senior
4 428 (10.76%) Data Engineer
5 371 (9.33%) Software Engineer
6 359 (9.03%) Analyst
7 323 (8.12%) Python Engineer
8 305 (7.67%) DevOps Engineer
9 290 (7.29%) Architect
10 289 (7.27%) Lead
11 276 (6.94%) AWS Engineer
12 184 (4.63%) Python Software Engineer
13 153 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
13 153 (3.85%) Data Analyst
14 149 (3.75%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 120 (3.02%) Data Scientist
15 120 (3.02%) Full Stack Developer
16 118 (2.97%) Java Engineer
17 112 (2.82%) Solutions Architect
18 108 (2.72%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 312 (7.85%) gRPC
2 306 (7.70%) React
3 305 (7.67%) Pandas
4 301 (7.57%) Protocol Buffers
5 268 (6.74%) NumPy
6 265 (6.66%) PySpark
7 230 (5.78%) SciPy
8 206 (5.18%) Kafka
9 155 (3.90%) REST
10 146 (3.67%) Node.js
11 132 (3.32%) .NET
12 102 (2.57%) Django
12 102 (2.57%) RESTful
13 99 (2.49%) HTML
14 96 (2.41%) Redux
15 94 (2.36%) Elastic Stack
16 85 (2.14%) JSON
17 79 (1.99%) CSS
18 75 (1.89%) Material-UI
19 64 (1.61%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 392 (9.86%) Fixed Income
2 387 (9.73%) Hedge funds
3 328 (8.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 327 (8.22%) Derivative
5 300 (7.55%) Equities
6 161 (4.05%) Algorithms
7 150 (3.77%) Product Ownership
8 105 (2.64%) Distributed Systems
9 96 (2.41%) Data Structures
10 81 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
11 76 (1.91%) Linux Command Line
12 72 (1.81%) Public Cloud
13 67 (1.69%) Cloud Native
14 65 (1.63%) Data Centre
14 65 (1.63%) PKI
15 56 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
16 47 (1.18%) Management Information System
17 39 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
18 38 (0.96%) Onboarding
19 37 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 610 (15.34%) Linux
2 268 (6.74%) Windows
3 207 (5.21%) Unix
4 92 (2.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 76 (1.91%) Windows Server
6 30 (0.75%) Windows Server 2019
7 28 (0.70%) Android
8 21 (0.53%) Apple iOS
8 21 (0.53%) CentOS
9 15 (0.38%) Ubuntu
10 13 (0.33%) Mac OS
11 12 (0.30%) zOS
12 7 (0.18%) Debian
12 7 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
13 6 (0.15%) VMS
13 6 (0.15%) Windows 10
14 4 (0.10%) Oracle Linux
14 4 (0.10%) Solaris
14 4 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
14 4 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,184 (29.78%) Agile
2 1,073 (26.99%) DevOps
3 876 (22.03%) CI/CD
4 715 (17.98%) Software Engineering
5 545 (13.71%) Problem-Solving
6 536 (13.48%) Analytics
7 445 (11.19%) Machine Learning
8 423 (10.64%) Asset Management
9 397 (9.98%) Artificial Intelligence
10 385 (9.68%) Computer Science
11 368 (9.26%) Data Modelling
11 368 (9.26%) Test Automation
12 362 (9.10%) ETL
13 345 (8.68%) Data Pipeline
14 341 (8.58%) Data Science
15 331 (8.32%) Infrastructure as Code
16 323 (8.12%) Business Intelligence
17 317 (7.97%) Investment Management
18 263 (6.61%) Full Stack Development
19 261 (6.56%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 1,200 (30.18%) SQL
2 952 (23.94%) Java
3 605 (15.22%) JavaScript
4 464 (11.67%) PowerShell
5 390 (9.81%) TypeScript
6 355 (8.93%) Bash
7 292 (7.34%) C++
8 201 (5.06%) C#
9 197 (4.95%) Go
10 174 (4.38%) R
11 151 (3.80%) Shell Script
12 136 (3.42%) C
12 136 (3.42%) Perl
13 135 (3.40%) Scala
14 102 (2.57%) Ruby
15 62 (1.56%) Groovy
16 48 (1.21%) T-SQL
17 42 (1.06%) VBA
18 39 (0.98%) Rust
19 27 (0.68%) PHP
Qualifications
1 628 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 459 (11.54%) Degree
3 434 (10.92%) SC Cleared
4 205 (5.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 177 (4.45%) DV Cleared
6 95 (2.39%) Master's Degree
7 62 (1.56%) AWS Certification
8 59 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
9 50 (1.26%) PhD
10 44 (1.11%) CCNP
11 41 (1.03%) Numerate Degree
12 37 (0.93%) Azure Certification
13 30 (0.75%) CCNA
14 23 (0.58%) CCIE
15 20 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
16 16 (0.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 16 (0.40%) CEH
17 14 (0.35%) CISSP
17 14 (0.35%) GIAC
17 14 (0.35%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 248 (6.24%) Data Quality
2 144 (3.62%) QA
3 35 (0.88%) GDPR
4 30 (0.75%) Accessibility
5 29 (0.73%) MISRA
6 27 (0.68%) NIST
7 17 (0.43%) PCI DSS
8 12 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 11 (0.28%) RMADS
10 10 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
10 10 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
11 8 (0.20%) GxP
12 7 (0.18%) Good Clinical Practice
12 7 (0.18%) JTAG
13 6 (0.15%) CDISC
13 6 (0.15%) HIPAA
14 5 (0.13%) SLA
15 4 (0.10%) ISO 20022
16 3 (0.075%) Cyber Essentials
16 3 (0.075%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 528 (13.28%) Docker
2 136 (3.42%) Active Directory
3 115 (2.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 42 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
5 39 (0.98%) VMware NSX
6 36 (0.91%) Firmware
7 32 (0.80%) vSphere
8 29 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
9 18 (0.45%) HDFS
10 17 (0.43%) NFS
11 16 (0.40%) Hyper-V
12 13 (0.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 12 (0.30%) Time Sharing Option
14 9 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
14 9 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
15 6 (0.15%) XenApp
15 6 (0.15%) XenDesktop
16 5 (0.13%) VirtualBox
17 4 (0.10%) KVM
17 4 (0.10%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 695 (17.48%) Kubernetes
1 695 (17.48%) Terraform
2 504 (12.68%) Ansible
3 168 (4.23%) Grafana
4 149 (3.75%) Prometheus
5 92 (2.31%) Puppet
6 63 (1.58%) Progress Chef
7 56 (1.41%) Kibana
8 43 (1.08%) logstash
9 24 (0.60%) Packer
10 23 (0.58%) PowerCLI
11 22 (0.55%) Docker Swarm
12 21 (0.53%) Rancher
12 21 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
12 21 (0.53%) vRealize
13 20 (0.50%) vRealize Orchestrator
14 18 (0.45%) Argo
15 15 (0.38%) Consul
16 14 (0.35%) ITRS Geneos
16 14 (0.35%) Nagios
Vendors
1 298 (7.49%) Microsoft
2 292 (7.34%) Google
3 249 (6.26%) Databricks
4 170 (4.28%) Oracle
5 166 (4.18%) VMware
6 150 (3.77%) Splunk
7 101 (2.54%) Cisco
8 79 (1.99%) Red Hat
9 69 (1.74%) Atlassian
10 68 (1.71%) SAP
11 65 (1.63%) Bloomberg
12 59 (1.48%) IBM
13 55 (1.38%) F5
14 52 (1.31%) Palo Alto
15 48 (1.21%) Salesforce
16 42 (1.06%) Dell
17 35 (0.88%) Citrix
18 33 (0.83%) Dynatrace
19 29 (0.73%) Informatica
20 27 (0.68%) Adobe