Python Developer Contracts in the South East

Python Developer
England > South East

The median Python Developer daily rate in the South East is £530 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 157 174 217
Rank change year-on-year +17 +43 -14
Contract jobs requiring a Python Developer 41 42 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.75% 0.75% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.81% 0.79% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 38 42
10th Percentile £463 £409 £425
25th Percentile £506 £451 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £571 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.18% +3.82% +22.22%
75th Percentile £600 £825 £619
90th Percentile £661 £1,025 £686
England median daily rate £625 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +4.17% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £50.00 -
England median hourly rate £71.00 £65.00 £50.43
% change year-on-year +9.23% +28.90% +75.98%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the South East with a recognized job title 5,045 5,292 7,401
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.31% 94.58% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,031 3,691 5,067
10th Percentile £215 £220 £205
25th Percentile £400 £390 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% +10.00%
75th Percentile £619 £601 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 488 234 319
10th Percentile £12.81 £16.25 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.20 £21.95 £15.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.70 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.46% +143.49% -20.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £43.25
90th Percentile £77.14 £75.00 £58.46
England median hourly rate £36.65 £44.77 £23.03
% change year-on-year -18.13% +94.40% +5.92%

Python Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured Python Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Python Developer in the South East

Python Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python Developer in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Python Developer in the South East

Python Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python Developer in the South East over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python Developer in the South East

Python Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python Developer in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Python Developer in the South East

Python Developer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python Developer within the South East region over the 6 months to 21 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
Thames Valley +23 38 £535 +15.05% 6
Buckinghamshire +42 20 £525 +16.67% 3
Berkshire -10 16 £650 +40.54% 1
Surrey +10 2 - -
Oxfordshire +4 2 £575 +19.17% 2
Hampshire +2 1 £450 - 2
Python Developer
England

Python Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 21 May 2024, Python Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South East region featuring Python Developer in the job title.

1 41 (100.00%) Python
2 19 (46.34%) SC Cleared
2 19 (46.34%) Security Cleared
3 17 (41.46%) TCP/IP
3 17 (41.46%) VMware
4 15 (36.59%) Linux
4 15 (36.59%) Azure
4 15 (36.59%) Agile
5 12 (29.27%) Ubuntu
5 12 (29.27%) Debian
5 12 (29.27%) Red Hat
6 11 (26.83%) DevOps
6 11 (26.83%) Entra ID
6 11 (26.83%) Azure Data Factory
6 11 (26.83%) Serverless
6 11 (26.83%) Azure Functions
6 11 (26.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 10 (24.39%) CI/CD
7 10 (24.39%) SAN
7 10 (24.39%) Data Modelling
8 9 (21.95%) Microsoft
8 9 (21.95%) Active Directory
8 9 (21.95%) ITIL
8 9 (21.95%) Configuration Management
8 9 (21.95%) Software Engineering
8 9 (21.95%) React
8 9 (21.95%) Microservices
8 9 (21.95%) NoSQL
8 9 (21.95%) Git
8 9 (21.95%) Full Stack Development

Python Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 15 (36.59%) Azure
2 11 (26.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 11 (26.83%) Azure Data Factory
2 11 (26.83%) Azure Functions
2 11 (26.83%) Entra ID
2 11 (26.83%) Serverless
3 9 (21.95%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (4.88%) Azure AKS
4 2 (4.88%) Power Automate
4 2 (4.88%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 17 (41.46%) TCP/IP
2 10 (24.39%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (21.95%) NoSQL
2 2 (4.88%) GIS
2 2 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.88%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (21.95%) Git
2 4 (9.76%) Selenium
General
1 6 (14.63%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (4.88%) Banking
2 2 (4.88%) Finance
2 2 (4.88%) Front Office
2 2 (4.88%) Local Government
3 1 (2.44%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (21.95%) React
2 6 (14.63%) Django
3 4 (9.76%) Celery
4 2 (4.88%) Flask
4 2 (4.88%) GeoPandas
4 2 (4.88%) OpenLayers
4 2 (4.88%) PostGIS
4 2 (4.88%) SQLAlchemy
5 1 (2.44%) Keycloak
5 1 (2.44%) OpenID
5 1 (2.44%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.63%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.88%) Derivative
2 2 (4.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 15 (36.59%) Linux
2 12 (29.27%) Debian
2 12 (29.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (36.59%) Agile
2 11 (26.83%) DevOps
3 10 (24.39%) CI/CD
3 10 (24.39%) Data Modelling
4 9 (21.95%) Configuration Management
4 9 (21.95%) Data Engineering
4 9 (21.95%) Full Stack Development
4 9 (21.95%) ITIL
4 9 (21.95%) Microservices
4 9 (21.95%) Prototyping
4 9 (21.95%) Software Engineering
4 9 (21.95%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 6 (14.63%) Change Management
5 6 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (14.63%) Customer Service
5 6 (14.63%) Matrix Organization
5 6 (14.63%) Product Backlog
5 6 (14.63%) SDLC
5 6 (14.63%) Unit Testing
6 4 (9.76%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 41 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (9.76%) Java
3 3 (7.32%) C
4 1 (2.44%) C#
4 1 (2.44%) C++
4 1 (2.44%) Go
Qualifications
1 19 (46.34%) SC Cleared
1 19 (46.34%) Security Cleared
2 6 (14.63%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 9 (21.95%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.44%) Ansible
1 1 (2.44%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (41.46%) VMware
2 12 (29.27%) Red Hat
3 9 (21.95%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.44%) Remedy