Python Contracts in the City of London

Python
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 7 13
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 -1
Contract jobs citing Python 267 506 463
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 12.42% 14.51% 10.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.77% 34.78% 25.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 270 310
10th Percentile £413 £456 £450
25th Percentile £488 £525 £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £734 £738 £734
90th Percentile £834 £838 £813
Central London median daily rate £600 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 6
10th Percentile - £75.63 £41.75
25th Percentile £46.75 £76.56 £45.00
Median hourly rate £48.50 £81.25 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.31% +59.31% +77.39%
75th Percentile £50.25 £84.69 £60.13
90th Percentile - £84.88 £61.75
Central London median hourly rate £48.50 £81.25 £51.00
% change year-on-year -40.31% +59.31% +59.38%

All Programming Languages
City of London

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 advertised in the City of London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 768 1,455 1,835
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 35.74% 41.71% 43.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 539 949 1,421
10th Percentile £400 £425 £419
25th Percentile £469 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +6.67%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £713
90th Percentile £790 £825 £813
Central London median daily rate £563 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -10.00% +4.17% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 11
10th Percentile - £21.35 £39.25
25th Percentile £46.75 £35.00 £45.25
Median hourly rate £48.50 £52.50 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% -1.87% +94.55%
75th Percentile £50.25 £83.75 £66.75
90th Percentile - £84.50 £77.00
Central London median hourly rate £48.50 £52.50 £53.50
% change year-on-year -7.62% -1.87% +101.89%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Python in the City of London

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Python in the City of London

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in the City of London over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python in the City of London

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Python in the City of London

Python
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the City of London region over the 6 months to 3 June 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
London Bridge +2 2 £600 +29.78%
Python
Central London

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 10 (3.75%) Apache Spark
2 8 (3.00%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.87%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.87%) BizTalk Server
4 4 (1.50%) Site Server
5 3 (1.12%) Apache
5 3 (1.12%) Confluence
6 2 (0.75%) Gunicorn
6 2 (0.75%) IIS
6 2 (0.75%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.75%) Luigi
7 1 (0.37%) CMS
7 1 (0.37%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.37%) nginx
7 1 (0.37%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (3.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.75%) Primavera
2 1 (0.37%) Advent Geneva
2 1 (0.37%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.37%) Endur
2 1 (0.37%) Front Arena
2 1 (0.37%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (0.37%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.37%) Sprinklr
2 1 (0.37%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 92 (34.46%) AWS
2 82 (30.71%) Azure
3 34 (12.73%) Serverless
4 26 (9.74%) AWS Lambda
5 22 (8.24%) GitHub
6 21 (7.87%) Power Platform
7 20 (7.49%) Amazon S3
8 19 (7.12%) GCP
9 18 (6.74%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (5.24%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (4.12%) Azure Functions
12 9 (3.37%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (3.37%) Amazon EKS
12 9 (3.37%) Azure AKS
13 7 (2.62%) Amazon MSK
13 7 (2.62%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (2.62%) AWS Step Functions
13 7 (2.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 7 (2.62%) Azure Data Factory
13 7 (2.62%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.62%) Firewall
2 3 (1.12%) DNS
2 3 (1.12%) Kerberos
2 3 (1.12%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.75%) Internet
3 2 (0.75%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.75%) SSL
3 2 (0.75%) WAN
4 1 (0.37%) DHCP
4 1 (0.37%) IPv4
4 1 (0.37%) MQTT
4 1 (0.37%) Network Security
4 1 (0.37%) SAN
4 1 (0.37%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.24%) NoSQL
1 22 (8.24%) SQL Server
2 21 (7.87%) Power BI
3 19 (7.12%) MongoDB
4 16 (5.99%) Relational Database
5 13 (4.87%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (4.87%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (4.87%) Tableau
6 12 (4.49%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (4.49%) Amazon Redshift
6 12 (4.49%) DynamoDB
7 11 (4.12%) RDBMS
8 9 (3.37%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (3.37%) Big Data
9 8 (3.00%) Parquet
10 7 (2.62%) Data Lake
11 6 (2.25%) Sybase ASE
12 5 (1.87%) DB2
12 5 (1.87%) Hadoop
12 5 (1.87%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 25 (9.36%) Jenkins
2 23 (8.61%) Git
3 15 (5.62%) GitLab
4 7 (2.62%) JIRA
5 6 (2.25%) CircleCI
5 6 (2.25%) JMeter
6 5 (1.87%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.87%) Cypress.io
6 5 (1.87%) Selenium
6 5 (1.87%) TeamCity
7 4 (1.50%) Mercurial
8 3 (1.12%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.75%) Appium
9 2 (0.75%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.75%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.75%) IBM UrbanCode
9 2 (0.75%) JUnit
9 2 (0.75%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.75%) Subversion
9 2 (0.75%) TestNG
General
1 81 (30.34%) Finance
2 63 (23.60%) Social Skills
3 32 (11.99%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (11.24%) Banking
5 17 (6.37%) Public Sector
6 15 (5.62%) Investment Banking
7 13 (4.87%) Front Office
8 7 (2.62%) Retail Banking
9 6 (2.25%) Financial Institution
9 6 (2.25%) Marketing
10 4 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.50%) Retail
11 3 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.75%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.75%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.37%) Aviation
13 1 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.37%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 71 (26.59%) Developer
2 31 (11.61%) Analyst
3 30 (11.24%) Data Engineer
3 30 (11.24%) Senior
4 27 (10.11%) Python Developer
5 23 (8.61%) Architect
6 20 (7.49%) Data Analyst
7 17 (6.37%) Python Engineer
8 14 (5.24%) DevOps Engineer
8 14 (5.24%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 13 (4.87%) Platform Engineer
9 13 (4.87%) Site Engineer
9 13 (4.87%) Software Engineer
10 12 (4.49%) Quantitative Developer
11 11 (4.12%) Full Stack Developer
12 9 (3.37%) AWS Engineer
12 9 (3.37%) Lead
13 8 (3.00%) Azure Engineer
13 8 (3.00%) Senior Analyst
13 8 (3.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (16.85%) Kafka
2 20 (7.49%) RESTful
3 14 (5.24%) HTML
4 12 (4.49%) React
5 11 (4.12%) RabbitMQ
6 10 (3.75%) .NET
6 10 (3.75%) Pandas
6 10 (3.75%) PySpark
6 10 (3.75%) pytest
7 9 (3.37%) REST
8 8 (3.00%) Apache Avro
8 8 (3.00%) CSS
8 8 (3.00%) JSON
9 7 (2.62%) Node.js
9 7 (2.62%) OpenID
9 7 (2.62%) SAML
10 6 (2.25%) Elastic Stack
10 6 (2.25%) GraphQL
10 6 (2.25%) XACML
11 5 (1.87%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.87%) Distributed Systems
2 18 (6.74%) Algorithms
3 13 (4.87%) Data Structures
4 9 (3.37%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.00%) Linux Command Line
5 8 (3.00%) Market Risk
5 8 (3.00%) Public Cloud
6 7 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.62%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.25%) Derivative
8 5 (1.87%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.87%) Replication
9 4 (1.50%) Equities
9 4 (1.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.50%) Machine to Machine
10 3 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.75%) Blockchain
11 2 (0.75%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.75%) Renewable Energy
11 2 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 49 (18.35%) Linux
2 31 (11.61%) Windows
3 13 (4.87%) Unix
4 11 (4.12%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.75%) Android
6 2 (0.75%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.37%) CentOS
7 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (31.46%) DevOps
2 68 (25.47%) CI/CD
3 52 (19.48%) Problem-Solving
4 41 (15.36%) Agile
5 34 (12.73%) Software Engineering
6 30 (11.24%) Analytics
7 29 (10.86%) Data Pipeline
7 29 (10.86%) Microservices
8 28 (10.49%) ETL
9 25 (9.36%) Business Intelligence
10 24 (8.99%) Infrastructure as Code
11 23 (8.61%) Containerisation
12 22 (8.24%) Computer Science
12 22 (8.24%) Data Modelling
12 22 (8.24%) Test Automation
13 21 (7.87%) Visualisation
14 20 (7.49%) Data Analysis
14 20 (7.49%) Task Automation
15 19 (7.12%) Machine Learning
15 19 (7.12%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 107 (40.07%) SQL
2 59 (22.10%) Java
3 35 (13.11%) PowerShell
4 27 (10.11%) C#
4 27 (10.11%) C++
5 22 (8.24%) Shell Script
6 21 (7.87%) JavaScript
7 17 (6.37%) Bash
8 16 (5.99%) Go
9 14 (5.24%) T-SQL
10 13 (4.87%) Perl
11 11 (4.12%) R
12 6 (2.25%) PL/SQL
12 6 (2.25%) Rust
12 6 (2.25%) Scala
13 5 (1.87%) TypeScript
14 4 (1.50%) C
14 4 (1.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (1.50%) Korn
14 4 (1.50%) VBA
Qualifications
1 28 (10.49%) Security Cleared
2 25 (9.36%) SC Cleared
3 21 (7.87%) Degree
4 10 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.62%) AWS Certification
6 6 (2.25%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.87%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.12%) CCNP
9 3 (1.12%) PhD
10 2 (0.75%) CCIE
10 2 (0.75%) CIMA
10 2 (0.75%) CISA
10 2 (0.75%) CRISC
10 2 (0.75%) ISEB
10 2 (0.75%) SANS
11 1 (0.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.24%) QA
2 8 (3.00%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.50%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (0.75%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.75%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.75%) PMO
5 1 (0.37%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.37%) NIST
5 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 44 (16.48%) Docker
2 11 (4.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 8 (3.00%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.87%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 3 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.75%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.37%) Ceph
7 1 (0.37%) HDFS
7 1 (0.37%) iptables
7 1 (0.37%) NFS
Systems Management
1 65 (24.34%) Kubernetes
2 42 (15.73%) Terraform
3 25 (9.36%) Ansible
4 19 (7.12%) Grafana
4 19 (7.12%) Prometheus
5 12 (4.49%) Consul
6 8 (3.00%) Puppet
7 5 (1.87%) Argo
7 5 (1.87%) Progress Chef
7 5 (1.87%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.12%) CSIRT
8 3 (1.12%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.75%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.75%) Graylog
9 2 (0.75%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (0.75%) Kibana
9 2 (0.75%) logstash
9 2 (0.75%) Nagios
9 2 (0.75%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 32 (11.99%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.87%) Oracle
3 16 (5.99%) Databricks
4 14 (5.24%) IBM
5 11 (4.12%) SaltStack
6 10 (3.75%) SAP
7 8 (3.00%) Google
8 7 (2.62%) Splunk
8 7 (2.62%) Sybase
9 6 (2.25%) Alteryx
9 6 (2.25%) ServiceNow
9 6 (2.25%) Sun
10 5 (1.87%) Cisco
10 5 (1.87%) MuleSoft
10 5 (1.87%) Okta
10 5 (1.87%) Veritas
11 4 (1.50%) ESRI
11 4 (1.50%) Palo Alto
11 4 (1.50%) Salesforce
11 4 (1.50%) VMware