Python Contracts in England

Python
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 13 13
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 0
Contract jobs citing Python 3,479 5,516 7,061
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 9.46% 11.26% 10.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.01% 32.05% 27.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,538 4,020 5,069
10th Percentile £388 £425 £425
25th Percentile £463 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £567 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.46% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £695 £725 £700
90th Percentile £825 £825 £782
UK median daily rate £553 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -7.92% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 117 99
10th Percentile £25.65 £22.16 £25.50
25th Percentile £46.18 £47.50 £40.28
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +26.21% +28.75%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.30 £60.31
90th Percentile £78.25 £78.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £60.25 £64.38 £50.00
% change year-on-year -6.41% +28.75% +25.00%

All Programming Languages
England

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 England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,868 17,213 25,806
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.56% 35.15% 36.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,897 12,563 19,043
10th Percentile £350 £385 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £763
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 443 423 453
10th Percentile £37.78 £26.09 £20.05
25th Percentile £50.38 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.85
Median % change year-on-year - +22.91% +18.26%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £80.00 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.43 £61.84 £50.50
% change year-on-year +0.95% +22.45% +16.09%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Python in England

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python in England.

Daily rate trend for Python in England

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python in England

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python in England.

Hourly rate trend for Python in England

Python
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Python in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Python in England

Python
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the England region over the 6 months to 10 May 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 -2 2,262 £600 -4.00% 1,397
North of England -2 353 £500 -13.04% 255
South East -11 315 £525 -4.55% 309
South West -10 184 £600 +3.49% 220
North West -10 179 £500 -11.63% 144
Yorkshire +14 147 £500 -16.67% 86
Midlands +16 133 £450 -14.29% 217
East of England -12 87 £450 -10.00% 193
West Midlands 0 75 £425 -24.44% 143
East Midlands +19 57 £475 -5.00% 74
North East +4 29 £600 -11.11% 26
Python
UK

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 290 (8.34%) Apache Airflow
2 273 (7.85%) Apache
3 123 (3.54%) Apache Spark
4 116 (3.33%) Confluence
5 35 (1.01%) OpenStack
5 35 (1.01%) SAS
6 27 (0.78%) nginx
6 27 (0.78%) SharePoint
7 12 (0.34%) ArcGIS
8 10 (0.29%) Jupyter
9 9 (0.26%) BizTalk Server
9 9 (0.26%) CMS
10 8 (0.23%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 8 (0.23%) Site Server
11 7 (0.20%) Tornado
12 6 (0.17%) IIS
12 6 (0.17%) JBoss
13 5 (0.14%) Gunicorn
14 4 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
14 4 (0.11%) Luigi
Applications
1 113 (3.25%) Chatbot
2 65 (1.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (0.40%) MS Visio
5 11 (0.32%) Simulink
6 8 (0.23%) SPSS
7 7 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 2 (0.057%) Sketch
10 1 (0.029%) CPLEX
10 1 (0.029%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 23 (0.66%) Aladdin
2 9 (0.26%) Odoo
3 8 (0.23%) Distributed Ledger
4 7 (0.20%) Endur
5 6 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.17%) NEC Housing
5 6 (0.17%) SimCorp Dimension
6 4 (0.11%) Adobe Campaign
6 4 (0.11%) FastStats
6 4 (0.11%) Maximo
6 4 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
6 4 (0.11%) Unica
7 3 (0.086%) Global One
7 3 (0.086%) ION MarketView
7 3 (0.086%) Orchestrade
7 3 (0.086%) Primavera
7 3 (0.086%) Shopify
8 2 (0.057%) Advent Geneva
8 2 (0.057%) Front Arena
8 2 (0.057%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,193 (34.29%) AWS
2 902 (25.93%) Azure
3 442 (12.70%) GCP
4 311 (8.94%) Serverless
5 229 (6.58%) Power Platform
6 216 (6.21%) GitHub
7 208 (5.98%) AWS Lambda
8 183 (5.26%) Amazon S3
9 168 (4.83%) Azure DevOps
10 164 (4.71%) Snowflake
11 148 (4.25%) dbt
12 130 (3.74%) Azure Data Factory
13 128 (3.68%) Amazon EC2
14 73 (2.10%) AWS CloudFormation
15 72 (2.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 67 (1.93%) PaaS
17 65 (1.87%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 65 (1.87%) GitHub Actions
18 62 (1.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 61 (1.75%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 128 (3.68%) Firewall
2 82 (2.36%) TCP/IP
3 79 (2.27%) DNS
4 58 (1.67%) VPN
5 54 (1.55%) BGP
5 54 (1.55%) Network Security
6 40 (1.15%) DHCP
7 36 (1.03%) MPLS
8 34 (0.98%) Wireless
9 33 (0.95%) HTTP
9 33 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
10 32 (0.92%) SAN
11 31 (0.89%) Radio Access Network
12 30 (0.86%) 5G
13 29 (0.83%) OSPF
14 27 (0.78%) Cisco ASA
14 27 (0.78%) VLAN
15 25 (0.72%) Cisco Nexus
16 24 (0.69%) Internet
17 22 (0.63%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 219 (6.29%) Data Lake
2 217 (6.24%) Power BI
3 203 (5.84%) PostgreSQL
4 198 (5.69%) Big Data
5 179 (5.15%) Data Warehouse
6 171 (4.92%) NoSQL
7 158 (4.54%) Apache Ignite
8 153 (4.40%) Amazon Athena
9 140 (4.02%) Tableau
10 137 (3.94%) SQL Server
11 114 (3.28%) Relational Database
12 112 (3.22%) Apache Arrow
12 112 (3.22%) Dremio
13 103 (2.96%) Amazon Redshift
14 95 (2.73%) MongoDB
15 92 (2.64%) Amazon RDS
16 81 (2.33%) BigQuery
17 75 (2.16%) MySQL
18 62 (1.78%) Azure SQL Database
18 62 (1.78%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 408 (11.73%) Git
2 364 (10.46%) Jenkins
3 236 (6.78%) JIRA
4 152 (4.37%) GitLab
5 72 (2.07%) Bitbucket
5 72 (2.07%) Cypress.io
6 53 (1.52%) Selenium
7 41 (1.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 38 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
9 35 (1.01%) Robot Framework
10 33 (0.95%) JMeter
10 33 (0.95%) TeamCity
11 31 (0.89%) Artifactory
12 27 (0.78%) Subversion
13 25 (0.72%) Cucumber
14 22 (0.63%) Visual Studio
15 21 (0.60%) Postman
16 20 (0.57%) SonarQube
16 20 (0.57%) TestRail
17 19 (0.55%) Burp Suite
General
1 851 (24.46%) Finance
2 644 (18.51%) Social Skills
3 432 (12.42%) Banking
4 396 (11.38%) Front Office
5 389 (11.18%) Analytical Skills
6 186 (5.35%) Investment Banking
7 180 (5.17%) Public Sector
8 71 (2.04%) Marketing
9 70 (2.01%) Retail
10 67 (1.93%) Telecoms
11 53 (1.52%) Back Office
11 53 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
12 46 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
13 37 (1.06%) Manufacturing
14 30 (0.86%) Aerospace
15 29 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 25 (0.72%) Electronics
17 21 (0.60%) Financial Institution
18 18 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
19 17 (0.49%) Legal
Job Titles
1 955 (27.45%) Developer
2 422 (12.13%) Python Developer
3 413 (11.87%) Senior
4 384 (11.04%) Data Engineer
5 297 (8.54%) Analyst
6 279 (8.02%) Software Engineer
7 247 (7.10%) Python Engineer
8 240 (6.90%) DevOps Engineer
9 217 (6.24%) Architect
10 200 (5.75%) Lead
11 198 (5.69%) Software Developer
12 185 (5.32%) AWS Engineer
13 135 (3.88%) Azure Engineer
13 135 (3.88%) Python Software Engineer
14 133 (3.82%) Full Stack Developer
15 129 (3.71%) Data Analyst
16 115 (3.31%) Developer/Software Engineer
17 108 (3.10%) Data Scientist
18 95 (2.73%) React Developer
19 90 (2.59%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 269 (7.73%) React
2 220 (6.32%) HTML
3 210 (6.04%) Pandas
4 187 (5.38%) gRPC
5 180 (5.17%) Protocol Buffers
6 174 (5.00%) NumPy
7 167 (4.80%) Kafka
8 163 (4.69%) PySpark
9 138 (3.97%) REST
10 130 (3.74%) .NET
11 128 (3.68%) SciPy
12 124 (3.56%) Node.js
13 105 (3.02%) JSON
14 94 (2.70%) CSS
15 92 (2.64%) RESTful
16 84 (2.41%) Redux
17 78 (2.24%) Django
18 75 (2.16%) YAML
19 74 (2.13%) Material-UI
20 71 (2.04%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 272 (7.82%) Hedge funds
2 247 (7.10%) Derivative
3 246 (7.07%) Fixed Income
4 184 (5.29%) Equities
5 167 (4.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 156 (4.48%) Algorithms
7 100 (2.87%) Product Ownership
8 93 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
9 81 (2.33%) Data Structures
10 67 (1.93%) Data Protection Act
11 65 (1.87%) Public Cloud
12 62 (1.78%) Linux Command Line
13 60 (1.72%) Data Centre
14 56 (1.61%) Cloud Native
15 54 (1.55%) Management Information System
16 48 (1.38%) Onboarding
16 48 (1.38%) PKI
17 39 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
18 37 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
19 34 (0.98%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 525 (15.09%) Linux
2 249 (7.16%) Windows
3 154 (4.43%) Unix
4 97 (2.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 93 (2.67%) Windows Server
6 32 (0.92%) CentOS
7 31 (0.89%) Ubuntu
8 24 (0.69%) Debian
9 22 (0.63%) Android
10 16 (0.46%) Apple iOS
10 16 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
10 16 (0.46%) zOS
11 14 (0.40%) VMS
12 12 (0.34%) Solaris
13 10 (0.29%) Embedded Linux
14 9 (0.26%) Oracle Linux
15 7 (0.20%) Kali Linux
16 6 (0.17%) Windows 10
17 5 (0.14%) Mac OS
18 4 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 940 (27.02%) Agile
2 841 (24.17%) DevOps
3 736 (21.16%) CI/CD
4 658 (18.91%) Software Engineering
5 467 (13.42%) Problem-Solving
6 403 (11.58%) Analytics
7 402 (11.56%) Artificial Intelligence
8 365 (10.49%) Machine Learning
9 318 (9.14%) Data Modelling
10 315 (9.05%) Asset Management
11 306 (8.80%) ETL
12 295 (8.48%) Data Pipeline
13 293 (8.42%) Test Automation
14 290 (8.34%) Computer Science
15 281 (8.08%) Infrastructure as Code
16 272 (7.82%) Business Intelligence
17 269 (7.73%) Data Science
18 260 (7.47%) Investment Management
19 243 (6.98%) Full Stack Development
20 234 (6.73%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1,187 (34.12%) SQL
2 714 (20.52%) Java
3 573 (16.47%) JavaScript
4 391 (11.24%) PowerShell
5 376 (10.81%) C#
6 301 (8.65%) Bash
7 257 (7.39%) C++
8 249 (7.16%) TypeScript
9 175 (5.03%) Go
10 137 (3.94%) R
11 128 (3.68%) Shell Script
12 121 (3.48%) Perl
13 119 (3.42%) Scala
14 118 (3.39%) C
15 61 (1.75%) Ruby
16 42 (1.21%) T-SQL
17 35 (1.01%) Rust
18 27 (0.78%) Groovy
19 26 (0.75%) Kotlin
20 25 (0.72%) VBA
Qualifications
1 580 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 447 (12.85%) Degree
3 413 (11.87%) SC Cleared
4 164 (4.71%) DV Cleared
5 159 (4.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 90 (2.59%) Master's Degree
7 58 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
8 55 (1.58%) AWS Certification
9 49 (1.41%) CCNP
10 41 (1.18%) PhD
11 33 (0.95%) CCNA
12 30 (0.86%) Azure Certification
13 28 (0.80%) Numerate Degree
14 22 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 20 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 19 (0.55%) OSCP
17 17 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
18 16 (0.46%) CISSP
19 14 (0.40%) ISTQB
20 13 (0.37%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 181 (5.20%) Data Quality
2 150 (4.31%) QA
3 27 (0.78%) GDPR
4 21 (0.60%) NIST
5 20 (0.57%) Accessibility
6 17 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (0.49%) PCI DSS
7 11 (0.32%) SLA
8 10 (0.29%) MISRA
9 9 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (0.23%) GxP
11 7 (0.20%) Good Clinical Practice
11 7 (0.20%) JTAG
11 7 (0.20%) RMADS
12 5 (0.14%) NCSC
13 4 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
14 3 (0.086%) ISO 22301
14 3 (0.086%) PMO
15 2 (0.057%) Actionable Recommendations
15 2 (0.057%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 413 (11.87%) Docker
2 108 (3.10%) Active Directory
3 92 (2.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 47 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
5 30 (0.86%) VMware NSX
6 28 (0.80%) vSphere
7 27 (0.78%) Firmware
8 21 (0.60%) NFS
9 18 (0.52%) Hyper-V
9 18 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
10 16 (0.46%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 16 (0.46%) Time Sharing Option
11 9 (0.26%) KVM
12 8 (0.23%) HDFS
13 6 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
13 6 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
14 4 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 4 (0.11%) Veritas Cluster Server
14 4 (0.11%) VirtualBox
15 2 (0.057%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 560 (16.10%) Terraform
2 505 (14.52%) Kubernetes
3 430 (12.36%) Ansible
4 129 (3.71%) Prometheus
5 128 (3.68%) Grafana
6 83 (2.39%) Puppet
7 64 (1.84%) Progress Chef
8 40 (1.15%) Kibana
9 29 (0.83%) logstash
10 25 (0.72%) PowerCLI
11 23 (0.66%) Packer
11 23 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
11 23 (0.66%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 22 (0.63%) Consul
12 22 (0.63%) ITRS Geneos
13 20 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
14 17 (0.49%) vRealize
15 16 (0.46%) Argo
16 13 (0.37%) Nagios
17 11 (0.32%) Netcool
Vendors
1 263 (7.56%) Microsoft
2 200 (5.75%) Databricks
3 194 (5.58%) Google
4 157 (4.51%) VMware
5 140 (4.02%) Oracle
6 124 (3.56%) Splunk
7 110 (3.16%) PayPal
8 98 (2.82%) Cisco
9 80 (2.30%) Red Hat
10 70 (2.01%) SAP
11 64 (1.84%) IBM
12 57 (1.64%) Dell
13 44 (1.26%) Palo Alto
14 41 (1.18%) Atlassian
14 41 (1.18%) F5
15 36 (1.03%) Dynatrace
15 36 (1.03%) ServiceNow
16 35 (1.01%) Bloomberg
17 34 (0.98%) HP
18 33 (0.95%) Informatica