Python Contracts in the Thames Valley

Python
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 26 38
Rank change year-on-year +1 +12 -12
Contract jobs citing Python 163 215 181
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 6.12% 7.47% 5.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.41% 32.48% 22.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 152 117
10th Percentile £330 £363 £397
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £600
90th Percentile £650 £750 £714
South East median daily rate £520 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -5.45% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 0
10th Percentile £59.38 £15.60 -
25th Percentile - £19.49 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £41.03 -
Median % change year-on-year +58.44% - -
75th Percentile £67.50 £64.41 -
90th Percentile £70.50 £71.21 -
South East median hourly rate £65.00 £23.88 £38.25
% change year-on-year +172.19% -37.57% -19.47%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 536 662 788
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 20.13% 22.99% 21.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 367 481 583
10th Percentile £346 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £606 £588
90th Percentile £650 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.67% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 20 5
10th Percentile £33.94 £25.64 £61.45
25th Percentile £46.25 £32.30 £62.50
Median hourly rate £58.40 £56.88 £67.36
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% -15.57% +68.40%
75th Percentile £65.00 £76.61 £80.40
90th Percentile £67.63 £79.41 £81.66
South East median hourly rate £61.60 £55.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% +57.14% -17.65%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Python in the Thames Valley

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Python in the Thames Valley

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 6 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python in the Thames Valley

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Python in the Thames Valley

Python
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Python in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 6 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Python in the Thames Valley

Python
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 6 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
Berkshire -6 114 £500 -9.09% 70
Buckinghamshire +29 34 £530 -3.64% 43
Oxfordshire -3 15 £500 - 64
Python
South East

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (6.13%) Apache
2 9 (5.52%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (5.52%) SAS
3 2 (1.23%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.61%) Appian
4 1 (0.61%) Confluence
4 1 (0.61%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.61%) Oracle Spatial
4 1 (0.61%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (4.29%) SPSS
2 3 (1.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.84%) Sketch
3 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 60 (36.81%) Azure
2 26 (15.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 26 (15.95%) Azure Data Factory
3 24 (14.72%) Entra ID
4 22 (13.50%) Serverless
5 20 (12.27%) Azure Functions
5 20 (12.27%) Azure Monitor
6 13 (7.98%) AWS
7 11 (6.75%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (6.13%) Power Platform
9 6 (3.68%) GCP
10 5 (3.07%) PaaS
10 5 (3.07%) Power Automate
11 4 (2.45%) Azure AKS
11 4 (2.45%) dbt
11 4 (2.45%) Figma
11 4 (2.45%) OpenShift
11 4 (2.45%) SaaS
11 4 (2.45%) Snowflake
12 3 (1.84%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (9.82%) TCP/IP
2 12 (7.36%) VPN
3 10 (6.13%) SAN
4 7 (4.29%) BGP
4 7 (4.29%) Ethernet VPN
4 7 (4.29%) MPLS
4 7 (4.29%) Radio Access Network
5 4 (2.45%) Firewall
5 4 (2.45%) Network Security
5 4 (2.45%) Wireless
6 3 (1.84%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (1.84%) NX-OS
7 1 (0.61%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.61%) DNS
7 1 (0.61%) InfiniBand
7 1 (0.61%) Internet
7 1 (0.61%) Junos
7 1 (0.61%) RNC
7 1 (0.61%) SGSN
7 1 (0.61%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (17.79%) NoSQL
2 19 (11.66%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (8.59%) MongoDB
4 10 (6.13%) Tableau
5 8 (4.91%) Big Data
6 7 (4.29%) GIS
6 7 (4.29%) Qlik Sense
7 5 (3.07%) Data Lake
7 5 (3.07%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (3.07%) Power BI
7 5 (3.07%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.45%) Data Mining
8 4 (2.45%) MySQL
8 4 (2.45%) Redis
8 4 (2.45%) SQL Server
9 3 (1.84%) PowerPivot
9 3 (1.84%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.84%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (1.23%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.23%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 35 (21.47%) Git
2 17 (10.43%) Selenium
3 16 (9.82%) JIRA
4 10 (6.13%) Robot Framework
5 9 (5.52%) GitLab
6 7 (4.29%) TestRail
7 5 (3.07%) Visual Studio
8 4 (2.45%) Cucumber
8 4 (2.45%) JMeter
8 4 (2.45%) Subversion
9 3 (1.84%) Jenkins
9 3 (1.84%) Maven
10 1 (0.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.61%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.61%) CMake
10 1 (0.61%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.61%) MLflow
10 1 (0.61%) Mockito
10 1 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.61%) SpecFlow
General
1 40 (24.54%) Analytical Skills
2 21 (12.88%) Social Skills
3 16 (9.82%) Telecoms
4 9 (5.52%) Finance
4 9 (5.52%) Pharmaceutical
5 6 (3.68%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.45%) Aerospace
6 4 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.45%) Local Government
6 4 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.61%) Advertising
8 1 (0.61%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.61%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 71 (43.56%) Developer
2 43 (26.38%) Python Developer
3 29 (17.79%) Full Stack Developer
4 23 (14.11%) Analyst
5 20 (12.27%) Azure Developer
6 13 (7.98%) Data Analyst
6 13 (7.98%) Senior
7 12 (7.36%) Full Stack Python Developer
8 10 (6.13%) Network Engineer
9 8 (4.91%) Data Engineer
10 7 (4.29%) Software Engineer
10 7 (4.29%) Test Engineer
11 6 (3.68%) Programmer
12 5 (3.07%) Analyst Developer
12 5 (3.07%) Developer Analyst
12 5 (3.07%) Lead
12 5 (3.07%) Python Programmer
12 5 (3.07%) React Developer
12 5 (3.07%) Security Analyst
13 4 (2.45%) Full Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (19.02%) React
2 10 (6.13%) Django
3 9 (5.52%) REST
4 8 (4.91%) HTML
4 8 (4.91%) Node.js
4 8 (4.91%) YANG
5 7 (4.29%) CSS
5 7 (4.29%) D3.js
5 7 (4.29%) NETCONF
5 7 (4.29%) RESTCONF
5 7 (4.29%) SOAP
6 6 (3.68%) Celery
6 6 (3.68%) PySpark
7 5 (3.07%) AngularJS
7 5 (3.07%) OpenLayers
7 5 (3.07%) XML
8 4 (2.45%) .NET
8 4 (2.45%) Kafka
8 4 (2.45%) PostGIS
8 4 (2.45%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.82%) Product Ownership
2 8 (4.91%) Algorithms
2 8 (4.91%) Client/Server
3 6 (3.68%) Data Centre
4 5 (3.07%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.45%) Biopharmaceutical
5 4 (2.45%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.45%) Device Driver
6 3 (1.84%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.23%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.23%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.23%) NHS
7 2 (1.23%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.61%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.61%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.61%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.61%) Grid Computing
8 1 (0.61%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.61%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 33 (20.25%) Linux
2 15 (9.20%) Windows
3 13 (7.98%) Debian
4 12 (7.36%) Ubuntu
5 10 (6.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (6.13%) Windows Server
6 4 (2.45%) Unix
7 2 (1.23%) VMS
8 1 (0.61%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (38.04%) Agile
2 48 (29.45%) DevOps
3 45 (27.61%) CI/CD
4 33 (20.25%) Full Stack Development
5 29 (17.79%) Microservices
6 28 (17.18%) Data Modelling
7 26 (15.95%) Test Automation
8 24 (14.72%) SDLC
9 20 (12.27%) Software Engineering
9 20 (12.27%) Unit Testing
10 18 (11.04%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (10.43%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (10.43%) Data Engineering
12 16 (9.82%) Containerisation
12 16 (9.82%) ITIL
12 16 (9.82%) Product Backlog
13 15 (9.20%) Scrum
14 14 (8.59%) Analytics
14 14 (8.59%) Change Management
15 12 (7.36%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 33 (20.25%) Java
2 31 (19.02%) SQL
3 18 (11.04%) PowerShell
4 16 (9.82%) JavaScript
5 14 (8.59%) C++
6 13 (7.98%) R
7 11 (6.75%) C
8 10 (6.13%) Bash
9 8 (4.91%) Shell Script
9 8 (4.91%) VBScript
10 7 (4.29%) C#
11 4 (2.45%) Assembly Language
11 4 (2.45%) MATLAB
11 4 (2.45%) Scala
12 3 (1.84%) Go
12 3 (1.84%) PHP
12 3 (1.84%) Ruby
13 2 (1.23%) Groovy
13 2 (1.23%) Perl
14 1 (0.61%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 35 (21.47%) Security Cleared
2 23 (14.11%) SC Cleared
3 19 (11.66%) Degree
4 18 (11.04%) DV Cleared
5 7 (4.29%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.45%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.45%) PhD
7 3 (1.84%) CCNP
7 3 (1.84%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.23%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.61%) CCIE
9 1 (0.61%) CEH
9 1 (0.61%) CISSP
9 1 (0.61%) HP ASE
9 1 (0.61%) JNCIE
9 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.68%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.07%) QA
3 4 (2.45%) JTAG
4 2 (1.23%) GDPR
4 2 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.23%) NIST
5 1 (0.61%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.61%) CDISC
System Software
1 25 (15.34%) Active Directory
2 15 (9.20%) Docker
3 14 (8.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (3.07%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (2.45%) Embedded Firmware
5 4 (2.45%) Firmware
5 4 (2.45%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (1.23%) vSphere
7 1 (0.61%) HDFS
7 1 (0.61%) NFS
Systems Management
1 18 (11.04%) Kubernetes
2 11 (6.75%) Ansible
3 10 (6.13%) Terraform
4 3 (1.84%) Netcool
4 3 (1.84%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.84%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.23%) Argo
5 2 (1.23%) Grafana
5 2 (1.23%) Kustomize
5 2 (1.23%) Packer
5 2 (1.23%) Rundeck
5 2 (1.23%) vRealize
6 1 (0.61%) CFEngine
6 1 (0.61%) Kibana
6 1 (0.61%) Puppet
Vendors
1 30 (18.40%) VMware
2 16 (9.82%) Red Hat
3 15 (9.20%) Microsoft
4 6 (3.68%) Databricks
4 6 (3.68%) Dynatrace
4 6 (3.68%) Oracle
5 5 (3.07%) Google
5 5 (3.07%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.45%) Cisco
6 4 (2.45%) IBM
6 4 (2.45%) Nokia
7 3 (1.84%) CheckPoint
7 3 (1.84%) Infoblox
7 3 (1.84%) Informatica
7 3 (1.84%) Splunk
8 2 (1.23%) Cloudera
8 2 (1.23%) SAP
9 1 (0.61%) Adobe
9 1 (0.61%) Mapinfo
9 1 (0.61%) MuleSoft