Python Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Python Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Python Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 271 263 334
Rank change year-on-year -8 +71 -42
Contract jobs requiring a Python Developer 115 188 177
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.57% 0.82% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.87% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 150 139
10th Percentile £379 £424 £415
25th Percentile £450 £453 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +16.76%
75th Percentile £598 £635 £600
90th Percentile £650 £750 £688
UK median daily rate £610 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +1.67% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £50.00 -
UK median hourly rate £71.00 £65.00 £50.43
% change year-on-year +9.23% +28.90% +75.98%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,796 21,663 29,128
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.29% 95.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,463 15,116 20,427
10th Percentile £213 £225 £203
25th Percentile £363 £393 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,267 1,107 1,446
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.73 £18.02 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £44.92
90th Percentile £73.85 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Python Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Python Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Python Developer in the UK excluding London

Python Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python Developer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Python Developer in the UK excluding London

Python Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python Developer in the UK excluding London

Python Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python Developer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Python Developer in the UK excluding London

Python Developer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 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
South East +18 42 £525 -8.22% 34
North of England +20 25 £550 +4.76% 5
East of England +18 15 £430 -16.10% 7
Scotland -14 14 £575 +16.16% 10
Midlands +30 13 £550 +10.00% 11
Yorkshire +9 13 £610 +19.02% 3
North West +15 12 £475 -11.63% 2
South West -11 8 £525 -8.70% 7
West Midlands +22 7 £275 -47.62% 9
East Midlands +17 6 £550 +10.00% 2
Python Developer
UK

Python Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 17 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 UK excluding London region featuring Python Developer in the job title.

1 115 (100.00%) Python
2 28 (24.35%) Agile
3 25 (21.74%) VMware
3 25 (21.74%) Linux
3 25 (21.74%) Data Modelling
3 25 (21.74%) SC Cleared
3 25 (21.74%) Security Cleared
4 23 (20.00%) TCP/IP
5 21 (18.26%) AWS
5 21 (18.26%) Prototyping
6 20 (17.39%) Data Engineering
7 19 (16.52%) CI/CD
7 19 (16.52%) Software Engineering
8 18 (15.65%) Kubernetes
9 17 (14.78%) DevOps
9 17 (14.78%) Serverless
9 17 (14.78%) Ubuntu
9 17 (14.78%) Git
9 17 (14.78%) Red Hat
9 17 (14.78%) Debian
10 16 (13.91%) Configuration Management
10 16 (13.91%) SQL
10 16 (13.91%) Azure
11 15 (13.04%) Microservices
11 15 (13.04%) SAN
12 14 (12.17%) Microsoft
12 14 (12.17%) ITIL
12 14 (12.17%) Django
12 14 (12.17%) React
12 14 (12.17%) User-Centered Design (UCD)

Python Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 7 (6.09%) Apache
2 1 (0.87%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.87%) SAS
Business Applications
1 5 (4.35%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 21 (18.26%) AWS
2 17 (14.78%) Serverless
3 16 (13.91%) Azure
4 11 (9.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 11 (9.57%) Azure Data Factory
4 11 (9.57%) Azure Functions
4 11 (9.57%) Entra ID
5 9 (7.83%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (2.61%) Amazon S3
6 3 (2.61%) AWS Step Functions
6 3 (2.61%) GCP
7 2 (1.74%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (1.74%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (1.74%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.74%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.74%) Azure AKS
7 2 (1.74%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.74%) Power Automate
7 2 (1.74%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 23 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 15 (13.04%) SAN
3 8 (6.96%) 5G
3 8 (6.96%) Radio Access Network
4 4 (3.48%) 4G
4 4 (3.48%) NAS
5 3 (2.61%) Wireshark
6 2 (1.74%) SSL
7 1 (0.87%) DHCP
7 1 (0.87%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.70%) NoSQL
2 8 (6.96%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (6.09%) Flink
4 4 (3.48%) Big Data
5 3 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.61%) Parquet
6 2 (1.74%) GIS
6 2 (1.74%) Redis
6 2 (1.74%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.87%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.87%) CockroachDB
7 1 (0.87%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.87%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.87%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 17 (14.78%) Git
2 4 (3.48%) Selenium
3 3 (2.61%) gcov
3 3 (2.61%) GDB
3 3 (2.61%) Gradle
3 3 (2.61%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.61%) JIRA
3 3 (2.61%) Subversion
4 1 (0.87%) Terragrunt
General
1 8 (6.96%) Finance
1 8 (6.96%) Telecoms
2 7 (6.09%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (6.09%) Banking
3 6 (5.22%) Social Skills
4 4 (3.48%) Multimedia
4 4 (3.48%) Urdu Language
5 3 (2.61%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.74%) Front Office
6 2 (1.74%) Local Government
7 1 (0.87%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.87%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.87%) Military
7 1 (0.87%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (12.17%) Django
1 14 (12.17%) React
2 10 (8.70%) Flask
3 9 (7.83%) FastAPI
4 7 (6.09%) PySpark
5 5 (4.35%) Lambda Expressions
5 5 (4.35%) REST
6 4 (3.48%) Celery
7 3 (2.61%) Apache Avro
7 3 (2.61%) SQLAlchemy
8 2 (1.74%) GeoPandas
8 2 (1.74%) Kafka
8 2 (1.74%) NumPy
8 2 (1.74%) OpenLayers
8 2 (1.74%) Pandas
8 2 (1.74%) PostGIS
9 1 (0.87%) AngularJS
9 1 (0.87%) Keycloak
9 1 (0.87%) SciPy
9 1 (0.87%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.09%) Product Ownership
2 3 (2.61%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (2.61%) Distributed Computing
2 3 (2.61%) Private Cloud
2 3 (2.61%) Public Cloud
3 2 (1.74%) Derivative
3 2 (1.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (0.87%) Algorithms
4 1 (0.87%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.87%) Device Driver
4 1 (0.87%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (0.87%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 25 (21.74%) Linux
2 17 (14.78%) Debian
2 17 (14.78%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.87%) Unix
3 1 (0.87%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (24.35%) Agile
2 25 (21.74%) Data Modelling
3 21 (18.26%) Prototyping
4 20 (17.39%) Data Engineering
5 19 (16.52%) CI/CD
5 19 (16.52%) Software Engineering
6 17 (14.78%) DevOps
7 16 (13.91%) Configuration Management
8 15 (13.04%) Microservices
9 14 (12.17%) ITIL
9 14 (12.17%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 12 (10.43%) Full Stack Development
11 11 (9.57%) Customer Service
11 11 (9.57%) Matrix Organization
12 9 (7.83%) Containerisation
13 8 (6.96%) Continuous Improvement
13 8 (6.96%) Problem-Solving
13 8 (6.96%) TDD
13 8 (6.96%) Test Automation
14 7 (6.09%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 115 (100.00%) Python
2 16 (13.91%) SQL
3 9 (7.83%) C++
4 6 (5.22%) C
5 4 (3.48%) Java
6 3 (2.61%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.61%) Scala
7 1 (0.87%) C#
7 1 (0.87%) Go
7 1 (0.87%) Perl
7 1 (0.87%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.87%) R
7 1 (0.87%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.87%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (21.74%) SC Cleared
1 25 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 11 (9.57%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.61%) Data Quality
System Software
1 13 (11.30%) Docker
2 9 (7.83%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.87%) Firmware
4 1 (0.87%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 18 (15.65%) Kubernetes
2 7 (6.09%) Terraform
3 6 (5.22%) Ansible
4 2 (1.74%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.74%) Puppet
Vendors
1 25 (21.74%) VMware
2 17 (14.78%) Red Hat
3 14 (12.17%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.48%) Splunk
5 3 (2.61%) Klocwork
5 3 (2.61%) Oracle
5 3 (2.61%) Perforce
6 2 (1.74%) Sage
7 1 (0.87%) Google
7 1 (0.87%) Remedy
7 1 (0.87%) SAP