Python Contracts in London

Python
England > London

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 6 10
Rank change year-on-year -2 +4 0
Contract jobs citing Python 2,246 3,860 5,055
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 12.62% 14.34% 12.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.88% 35.23% 30.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,710 2,870 3,733
10th Percentile £413 £456 £463
25th Percentile £490 £519 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £589 £625 £601
Median % change year-on-year -5.80% +4.08% +9.18%
75th Percentile £750 £750 £725
90th Percentile £850 £858 £800
England median daily rate £563 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -6.25% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 16 35
10th Percentile £24.93 £47.44 £31.60
25th Percentile £42.31 £61.56 £36.25
Median hourly rate £51.50 £75.00 £48.58
Median % change year-on-year -31.33% +54.38% +12.98%
75th Percentile £69.25 £83.19 £58.44
90th Percentile £72.50 £87.50 £72.40
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £50.85
% change year-on-year -3.85% +27.83% +27.13%

All Programming Languages
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 London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 6,440 10,956 16,358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.18% 40.69% 42.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,917 8,156 12,510
10th Percentile £380 £413 £416
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £700
90th Percentile £825 £825 £800
England median daily rate £540 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -4.36% +2.66% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 85 115
10th Percentile £23.80 £34.55 £29.35
25th Percentile £34.42 £49.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.50 £57.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.17% +15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £62.50 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £71.88 £83.45 £79.20
England median hourly rate £62.50 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +4.17% +20.00% +14.94%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in London

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Python in London

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python in London

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Python in London

Python
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Python in London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Python in London

Python
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Central London -2 281 £600 -7.69% 103
South London +4 45 £519 -5.68% 23
West London -20 16 £475 -19.15% 39
East London -5 13 £600 -11.11% 53
Python
England

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 230 (10.24%) Apache Airflow
2 209 (9.31%) Apache
3 86 (3.83%) Apache Spark
4 44 (1.96%) Confluence
5 39 (1.74%) OpenStack
6 22 (0.98%) SharePoint
7 17 (0.76%) nginx
8 11 (0.49%) ArcGIS
9 10 (0.45%) Site Server
10 9 (0.40%) BizTalk Server
11 7 (0.31%) SAS
11 7 (0.31%) Tornado
12 6 (0.27%) Jupyter
13 5 (0.22%) CMS
14 4 (0.18%) Luigi
15 3 (0.13%) Drupal
15 3 (0.13%) IIS
16 2 (0.089%) Apache Solr
16 2 (0.089%) Gunicorn
16 2 (0.089%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 51 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.62%) Chatbot
2 14 (0.62%) MS Visio
3 9 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.13%) Simulink
7 1 (0.045%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.045%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 22 (0.98%) Aladdin
2 8 (0.36%) Distributed Ledger
3 7 (0.31%) Endur
4 6 (0.27%) NEC Housing
5 5 (0.22%) SimCorp Dimension
6 3 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.13%) Global One
6 3 (0.13%) Primavera
7 2 (0.089%) Advent Geneva
7 2 (0.089%) Front Arena
7 2 (0.089%) ION MarketView
8 1 (0.045%) Aareon QL
8 1 (0.045%) IntelliMatch
8 1 (0.045%) Magento
8 1 (0.045%) MIS ActiveH
8 1 (0.045%) OPENHousing
8 1 (0.045%) Orchestrade
8 1 (0.045%) SAP Hybris
8 1 (0.045%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.045%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 851 (37.89%) AWS
2 599 (26.67%) Azure
3 338 (15.05%) GCP
4 213 (9.48%) Serverless
5 155 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
6 133 (5.92%) Power Platform
7 127 (5.65%) GitHub
8 124 (5.52%) dbt
9 121 (5.39%) Amazon S3
10 109 (4.85%) Snowflake
11 107 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
12 79 (3.52%) Amazon EC2
13 76 (3.38%) Azure Data Factory
14 49 (2.18%) GitHub Actions
15 48 (2.14%) PaaS
16 46 (2.05%) AWS CloudFormation
16 46 (2.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 42 (1.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 42 (1.87%) Amazon EKS
18 40 (1.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 78 (3.47%) Firewall
2 53 (2.36%) DNS
3 35 (1.56%) DHCP
4 34 (1.51%) BGP
4 34 (1.51%) Network Security
5 33 (1.47%) TCP/IP
6 28 (1.25%) MPLS
7 25 (1.11%) VLAN
8 23 (1.02%) 5G
8 23 (1.02%) Internet
9 22 (0.98%) VPN
10 20 (0.89%) HTTP
10 20 (0.89%) LAN
10 20 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
11 17 (0.76%) Wireless
12 16 (0.71%) Cisco Nexus
13 15 (0.67%) OSPF
14 14 (0.62%) Cisco ASA
15 12 (0.53%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 12 (0.53%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (6.90%) Data Lake
2 147 (6.54%) PostgreSQL
3 144 (6.41%) Big Data
4 140 (6.23%) Apache Ignite
5 129 (5.74%) Power BI
6 124 (5.52%) Amazon Athena
7 118 (5.25%) Data Warehouse
8 114 (5.08%) NoSQL
9 101 (4.50%) Apache Arrow
9 101 (4.50%) Dremio
9 101 (4.50%) SQL Server
10 88 (3.92%) Tableau
11 71 (3.16%) Amazon Redshift
12 69 (3.07%) Amazon RDS
13 61 (2.72%) Relational Database
14 55 (2.45%) Azure SQL Database
14 55 (2.45%) BigQuery
15 53 (2.36%) MongoDB
16 38 (1.69%) MySQL
17 37 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 253 (11.26%) Git
2 207 (9.22%) Jenkins
3 100 (4.45%) JIRA
4 77 (3.43%) GitLab
5 59 (2.63%) Cypress.io
6 28 (1.25%) TeamCity
7 27 (1.20%) Selenium
8 26 (1.16%) JMeter
9 21 (0.93%) Artifactory
10 20 (0.89%) Bitbucket
10 20 (0.89%) Cucumber
10 20 (0.89%) Postman
11 17 (0.76%) JUnit
12 13 (0.58%) Maven
12 13 (0.58%) Subversion
13 12 (0.53%) Burp Suite
13 12 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
14 11 (0.49%) MLflow
15 10 (0.45%) CircleCI
15 10 (0.45%) Visual Studio
General
1 730 (32.50%) Finance
2 420 (18.70%) Social Skills
3 386 (17.19%) Banking
4 375 (16.70%) Front Office
5 231 (10.28%) Analytical Skills
6 178 (7.93%) Investment Banking
7 117 (5.21%) Public Sector
8 54 (2.40%) Back Office
9 42 (1.87%) Retail
10 40 (1.78%) Marketing
11 33 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
12 28 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 25 (1.11%) Telecoms
14 17 (0.76%) Financial Institution
15 13 (0.58%) Advertising
15 13 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
15 13 (0.58%) Retail Banking
16 12 (0.53%) Law
17 11 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
18 8 (0.36%) Legal
Job Titles
1 601 (26.76%) Developer
2 313 (13.94%) Senior
3 300 (13.36%) Python Developer
4 269 (11.98%) Data Engineer
5 199 (8.86%) Python Engineer
5 199 (8.86%) Software Engineer
6 186 (8.28%) Analyst
7 152 (6.77%) Architect
8 148 (6.59%) Lead
9 140 (6.23%) AWS Engineer
10 135 (6.01%) DevOps Engineer
11 109 (4.85%) Python Software Engineer
12 106 (4.72%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 93 (4.14%) Azure Engineer
14 85 (3.78%) Software Developer
15 84 (3.74%) Data Scientist
15 84 (3.74%) React Developer
16 73 (3.25%) Full Stack Developer
17 70 (3.12%) Senior Developer
18 65 (2.89%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (8.50%) Pandas
2 188 (8.37%) React
3 168 (7.48%) gRPC
4 161 (7.17%) Protocol Buffers
5 156 (6.95%) NumPy
6 138 (6.14%) Kafka
7 115 (5.12%) SciPy
8 114 (5.08%) PySpark
9 100 (4.45%) HTML
10 93 (4.14%) REST
11 92 (4.10%) Node.js
12 76 (3.38%) .NET
13 75 (3.34%) Redux
14 73 (3.25%) CSS
15 69 (3.07%) JSON
16 68 (3.03%) Material-UI
17 57 (2.54%) RESTful
18 54 (2.40%) Elastic Stack
19 53 (2.36%) Django
20 47 (2.09%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 244 (10.86%) Hedge funds
2 237 (10.55%) Derivative
3 225 (10.02%) Fixed Income
4 169 (7.52%) Equities
5 145 (6.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 113 (5.03%) Algorithms
7 81 (3.61%) Distributed Systems
8 60 (2.67%) Product Ownership
9 51 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
10 49 (2.18%) Cloud Native
11 44 (1.96%) Data Structures
12 38 (1.69%) Management Information System
13 37 (1.65%) Onboarding
14 34 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
14 34 (1.51%) Public Cloud
15 31 (1.38%) Data Centre
16 29 (1.29%) Clustering
16 29 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
17 23 (1.02%) Replication
18 22 (0.98%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 279 (12.42%) Linux
2 155 (6.90%) Windows
3 112 (4.99%) Unix
4 53 (2.36%) Windows Server
5 49 (2.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 27 (1.20%) CentOS
7 11 (0.49%) Android
8 10 (0.45%) Apple iOS
9 9 (0.40%) Oracle Linux
10 8 (0.36%) Solaris
11 6 (0.27%) VMS
12 5 (0.22%) Ubuntu
13 4 (0.18%) Kali Linux
14 3 (0.13%) Mac OS
15 1 (0.045%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 609 (27.11%) Agile
2 526 (23.42%) DevOps
3 473 (21.06%) CI/CD
4 412 (18.34%) Software Engineering
5 299 (13.31%) Problem-Solving
6 293 (13.05%) Analytics
7 285 (12.69%) Asset Management
8 263 (11.71%) Machine Learning
9 241 (10.73%) Investment Management
10 221 (9.84%) Artificial Intelligence
11 219 (9.75%) ETL
12 214 (9.53%) Data Pipeline
13 205 (9.13%) Data Science
14 191 (8.50%) Test Automation
15 189 (8.41%) Data Modelling
16 187 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
17 184 (8.19%) Computer Science
18 162 (7.21%) Business Intelligence
19 154 (6.86%) Full Stack Development
20 138 (6.14%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 799 (35.57%) SQL
2 498 (22.17%) Java
3 344 (15.32%) JavaScript
4 224 (9.97%) C#
5 218 (9.71%) TypeScript
6 208 (9.26%) PowerShell
7 167 (7.44%) Bash
8 144 (6.41%) C++
9 124 (5.52%) Go
10 93 (4.14%) Shell Script
11 90 (4.01%) Scala
12 88 (3.92%) R
13 80 (3.56%) Perl
14 47 (2.09%) Ruby
15 36 (1.60%) T-SQL
16 35 (1.56%) C
17 31 (1.38%) Rust
18 23 (1.02%) Kotlin
18 23 (1.02%) VBA
19 19 (0.85%) Korn
Qualifications
1 252 (11.22%) Security Cleared
2 233 (10.37%) Degree
3 213 (9.48%) SC Cleared
4 103 (4.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 66 (2.94%) Master's Degree
6 41 (1.83%) DV Cleared
7 36 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
8 31 (1.38%) AWS Certification
8 31 (1.38%) CCNP
9 29 (1.29%) PhD
10 25 (1.11%) Numerate Degree
11 18 (0.80%) Azure Certification
12 16 (0.71%) CCNA
13 14 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
13 14 (0.62%) ISTQB
14 13 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 11 (0.49%) CISSP
16 10 (0.45%) OSCP
17 8 (0.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 7 (0.31%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (5.48%) Data Quality
2 85 (3.78%) QA
3 12 (0.53%) GDPR
3 12 (0.53%) NIST
4 11 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (0.45%) SLA
6 9 (0.40%) Accessibility
6 9 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (0.31%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.22%) WCAG
9 3 (0.13%) PMO
10 2 (0.089%) MiFID
10 2 (0.089%) NCSC
11 1 (0.045%) Basel II
11 1 (0.045%) Basel III
11 1 (0.045%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.045%) GLBA
11 1 (0.045%) Good Clinical Practice
11 1 (0.045%) GxP
11 1 (0.045%) JTAG
System Software
1 259 (11.53%) Docker
2 40 (1.78%) Active Directory
3 33 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 32 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.49%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 10 (0.45%) VMware NSX
7 9 (0.40%) vSphere
8 8 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
9 7 (0.31%) Hyper-V
10 6 (0.27%) Firmware
10 6 (0.27%) KVM
11 4 (0.18%) NFS
11 4 (0.18%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 4 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (0.13%) HDFS
13 2 (0.089%) Ceph
13 2 (0.089%) iptables
13 2 (0.089%) PowerDNS
14 1 (0.045%) Lustre
14 1 (0.045%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 332 (14.78%) Terraform
2 329 (14.65%) Kubernetes
3 200 (8.90%) Ansible
4 93 (4.14%) Grafana
5 90 (4.01%) Prometheus
6 48 (2.14%) Puppet
7 30 (1.34%) Kibana
8 26 (1.16%) Progress Chef
9 24 (1.07%) logstash
10 23 (1.02%) ITRS Geneos
11 19 (0.85%) Consul
12 15 (0.67%) Argo
13 10 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
14 9 (0.40%) BladeLogic
14 9 (0.40%) Opsgenie
15 8 (0.36%) EMC NetWorker
15 8 (0.36%) Netcool
15 8 (0.36%) Packer
15 8 (0.36%) Tivoli
15 8 (0.36%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 161 (7.17%) Microsoft
2 147 (6.54%) Databricks
3 131 (5.83%) Google
4 111 (4.94%) Oracle
5 66 (2.94%) Splunk
6 56 (2.49%) Cisco
7 52 (2.32%) VMware
8 41 (1.83%) SAP
9 37 (1.65%) IBM
10 35 (1.56%) Red Hat
11 34 (1.51%) Bloomberg
12 32 (1.42%) F5
13 31 (1.38%) Dynatrace
14 30 (1.34%) ServiceNow
14 30 (1.34%) Sybase
15 24 (1.07%) Palo Alto
16 20 (0.89%) Salesforce
17 19 (0.85%) ESRI
17 19 (0.85%) Nokia
18 18 (0.80%) Informatica