Python Contracts in the UK excluding London

Python
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 18 29
Rank change year-on-year -5 +11 -7
Contract jobs citing Python 1,295 1,919 1,940
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.32% 8.21% 6.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.00% 28.37% 22.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 861 1,336 1,300
10th Percentile £363 £400 £389
25th Percentile £425 £460 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.09% +4.76% +12.90%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £625
90th Percentile £675 £712 £695
UK median daily rate £553 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -7.92% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 107 67
10th Percentile £20.77 £21.18 £18.30
25th Percentile £36.31 £46.25 £25.50
Median hourly rate £63.75 £57.50 £50.77
Median % change year-on-year +10.87% +13.26% +31.02%
75th Percentile £70.31 £70.30 £57.97
90th Percentile £77.75 £75.50 £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
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,797 6,763 8,788
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.42% 28.95% 28.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,229 4,783 6,123
10th Percentile £318 £350 £337
25th Percentile £400 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% +2.04% +15.29%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £575
90th Percentile £650 £676 £650
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 405 340 339
10th Percentile £38.00 £22.50 £17.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £49.92 £30.38
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.20
Median % change year-on-year - +24.50% +22.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £76.00 £67.99
UK median hourly rate £62.43 £62.50 £50.64
% change year-on-year -0.12% +23.43% +17.08%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in the UK excluding London

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Python in the UK excluding London

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python in the UK excluding London

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Python in the UK excluding London

Python
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Python in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Python in the UK excluding London

Python
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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
North of England -2 353 £500 -13.04% 236
South East -11 315 £525 -4.55% 315
Scotland -6 212 £500 - 104
South West -11 184 £600 +4.35% 212
North West -7 179 £500 -11.16% 136
Yorkshire +13 147 £500 -16.67% 76
Midlands +16 133 £450 -14.29% 197
East of England -13 86 £450 -10.00% 175
West Midlands -4 75 £425 -23.60% 133
East Midlands +18 57 £475 -5.00% 64
North East +3 29 £600 -11.11% 24
Wales +11 17 £550 +7.32% 31
Northern Ireland +3 9 £413 -17.50% 40
Python
UK

Python
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 80 (6.18%) Confluence
2 51 (3.94%) Apache Airflow
3 46 (3.55%) Apache
4 34 (2.63%) Apache Spark
5 30 (2.32%) SAS
6 8 (0.62%) nginx
7 6 (0.46%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.39%) IIS
8 5 (0.39%) JBoss
8 5 (0.39%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.31%) GeoServer
10 3 (0.23%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.23%) CMS
11 2 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
11 2 (0.15%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.15%) IBM Domino
11 2 (0.15%) Traefik
12 1 (0.077%) Appian
12 1 (0.077%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.077%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 109 (8.42%) Chatbot
2 16 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (0.93%) Sketch
4 10 (0.77%) SPSS
5 9 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
6 8 (0.62%) Simulink
7 1 (0.077%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.077%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (0.69%) Odoo
2 8 (0.62%) Maximo
3 4 (0.31%) Adobe Campaign
3 4 (0.31%) FastStats
3 4 (0.31%) Unica
4 3 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.15%) Shopify
6 1 (0.077%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.077%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.077%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 350 (27.03%) AWS
2 277 (21.39%) Azure
3 114 (8.80%) Serverless
4 95 (7.34%) Power Platform
5 85 (6.56%) Amazon S3
6 78 (6.02%) GitHub
7 77 (5.95%) GCP
8 72 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
9 57 (4.40%) OpenShift
10 55 (4.25%) Azure Data Factory
10 55 (4.25%) Snowflake
11 54 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
11 54 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
12 51 (3.94%) Amazon EC2
13 32 (2.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 29 (2.24%) Entra ID
15 27 (2.08%) Azure Monitor
16 24 (1.85%) IaaS
17 22 (1.70%) Azure Functions
17 22 (1.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 53 (4.09%) TCP/IP
2 47 (3.63%) Firewall
3 36 (2.78%) VPN
4 35 (2.70%) SAN
5 32 (2.47%) DNS
6 28 (2.16%) BGP
7 23 (1.78%) Radio Access Network
8 20 (1.54%) Network Security
9 17 (1.31%) HTTP
9 17 (1.31%) OSPF
10 16 (1.24%) Cisco ASA
10 16 (1.24%) Wi-Fi
10 16 (1.24%) Wireless
11 15 (1.16%) NetScaler
12 13 (1.00%) SNMP
13 12 (0.93%) EIGRP
13 12 (0.93%) IPsec
13 12 (0.93%) MPLS
13 12 (0.93%) NAS
13 12 (0.93%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (6.80%) Power BI
2 78 (6.02%) PostgreSQL
3 58 (4.48%) Data Warehouse
3 58 (4.48%) MongoDB
4 57 (4.40%) NoSQL
5 49 (3.78%) Relational Database
6 48 (3.71%) Big Data
7 47 (3.63%) Data Lake
8 46 (3.55%) Tableau
9 38 (2.93%) SQL Server
10 32 (2.47%) MySQL
11 28 (2.16%) Elasticsearch
11 28 (2.16%) Hadoop
12 27 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
13 25 (1.93%) Amazon RDS
14 22 (1.70%) BigQuery
15 21 (1.62%) GIS
16 18 (1.39%) Amazon Aurora
16 18 (1.39%) Data Mining
17 17 (1.31%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 184 (14.21%) Jenkins
2 170 (13.13%) Git
3 138 (10.66%) JIRA
4 90 (6.95%) GitLab
5 50 (3.86%) Bitbucket
6 33 (2.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 32 (2.47%) Robot Framework
8 27 (2.08%) Selenium
9 26 (2.01%) Sonatype Nexus
10 17 (1.31%) SonarQube
11 16 (1.24%) Artifactory
12 14 (1.08%) Subversion
13 13 (1.00%) Gradle
13 13 (1.00%) Maven
14 12 (0.93%) Visual Studio
15 11 (0.85%) TestRail
15 11 (0.85%) Travis CI
16 10 (0.77%) GoogleTest
17 9 (0.69%) CircleCI
18 8 (0.62%) Burp Suite
General
1 241 (18.61%) Social Skills
2 155 (11.97%) Analytical Skills
3 112 (8.65%) Finance
4 78 (6.02%) Public Sector
5 48 (3.71%) Banking
6 35 (2.70%) Telecoms
7 29 (2.24%) Pharmaceutical
8 26 (2.01%) Aerospace
9 25 (1.93%) Marketing
10 21 (1.62%) Manufacturing
11 20 (1.54%) Retail
12 15 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
13 14 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
14 13 (1.00%) Electronics
15 12 (0.93%) Multimedia
16 10 (0.77%) Investment Banking
17 9 (0.69%) Legal
18 8 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
19 6 (0.46%) Military
20 5 (0.39%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 389 (30.04%) Developer
2 127 (9.81%) Software Developer
3 115 (8.88%) DevOps Engineer
4 114 (8.80%) Python Developer
5 107 (8.26%) Data Engineer
6 97 (7.49%) Analyst
7 95 (7.34%) Senior
8 68 (5.25%) Software Engineer
9 62 (4.79%) Python Engineer
10 58 (4.48%) Data Analyst
11 55 (4.25%) Full Stack Developer
12 52 (4.02%) Architect
13 51 (3.94%) AWS Engineer
14 48 (3.71%) Linux Engineer
15 46 (3.55%) Lead
16 45 (3.47%) Network Engineer
17 36 (2.78%) Platform Engineer
18 34 (2.63%) Azure Engineer
19 33 (2.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
20 32 (2.47%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (11.04%) HTML
2 92 (7.10%) React
3 69 (5.33%) REST
4 51 (3.94%) PySpark
5 48 (3.71%) .NET
6 37 (2.86%) AWS CDK
7 35 (2.70%) JSON
7 35 (2.70%) XML
7 35 (2.70%) YAML
8 34 (2.63%) AngularJS
8 34 (2.63%) Node.js
9 32 (2.47%) CSS
10 29 (2.24%) Django
11 28 (2.16%) RESTful
12 27 (2.08%) Flask
12 27 (2.08%) Kafka
12 27 (2.08%) Spring
13 24 (1.85%) .NET Core
14 21 (1.62%) Elastic Stack
15 16 (1.24%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 46 (3.55%) Product Ownership
2 43 (3.32%) PKI
3 38 (2.93%) Linux Command Line
4 34 (2.63%) Algorithms
5 30 (2.32%) Data Centre
6 28 (2.16%) Data Structures
7 26 (2.01%) Public Cloud
8 25 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
9 22 (1.70%) Client/Server
9 22 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
9 22 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
10 16 (1.24%) Cloud Native
10 16 (1.24%) Management Information System
11 15 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
11 15 (1.16%) Mobile App
12 12 (0.93%) Onboarding
12 12 (0.93%) Renewable Energy
13 11 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
14 10 (0.77%) FPGA
14 10 (0.77%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 309 (23.86%) Linux
2 123 (9.50%) Windows
3 70 (5.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 69 (5.33%) Unix
5 54 (4.17%) Windows Server
6 33 (2.55%) Ubuntu
7 23 (1.78%) Debian
8 22 (1.70%) Android
9 16 (1.24%) Apple iOS
9 16 (1.24%) Windows Server 2019
10 15 (1.16%) zOS
11 10 (0.77%) Embedded Linux
12 9 (0.69%) CentOS
13 8 (0.62%) VMS
14 6 (0.46%) Mac OS
15 4 (0.31%) Data ONTAP
15 4 (0.31%) Solaris
15 4 (0.31%) Windows 10
16 3 (0.23%) Kali Linux
17 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 364 (28.11%) Agile
2 361 (27.88%) DevOps
3 278 (21.47%) CI/CD
4 255 (19.69%) Software Engineering
5 183 (14.13%) Problem-Solving
6 179 (13.82%) Artificial Intelligence
7 136 (10.50%) Code Quality
8 127 (9.81%) Data Modelling
9 115 (8.88%) Test Automation
10 114 (8.80%) Infrastructure as Code
11 112 (8.65%) Conversational UI
12 109 (8.42%) Scrum
13 107 (8.26%) Analytics
14 106 (8.19%) Computer Science
15 105 (8.11%) Containerisation
16 97 (7.49%) Business Intelligence
17 90 (6.95%) Data Engineering
18 87 (6.72%) ETL
19 84 (6.49%) Configuration Management
19 84 (6.49%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 378 (29.19%) SQL
2 235 (18.15%) JavaScript
3 228 (17.61%) Java
4 183 (14.13%) PowerShell
5 174 (13.44%) C#
6 151 (11.66%) Bash
7 101 (7.80%) C++
8 84 (6.49%) Perl
9 74 (5.71%) C
10 49 (3.78%) Shell Script
11 43 (3.32%) Go
11 43 (3.32%) Scala
12 40 (3.09%) R
13 34 (2.63%) TypeScript
14 28 (2.16%) Groovy
15 27 (2.08%) Ruby
16 20 (1.54%) VBScript
17 17 (1.31%) Tcl
18 16 (1.24%) MATLAB
19 15 (1.16%) JCL
Qualifications
1 303 (23.40%) Security Cleared
2 217 (16.76%) Degree
3 176 (13.59%) SC Cleared
4 124 (9.58%) DV Cleared
5 53 (4.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (1.93%) Master's Degree
7 24 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
8 22 (1.70%) AWS Certification
8 22 (1.70%) CCNP
9 18 (1.39%) CCNA
10 12 (0.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 12 (0.93%) PhD
11 11 (0.85%) Azure Certification
12 10 (0.77%) OSCP
13 7 (0.54%) CEH
13 7 (0.54%) CREST Certified
13 7 (0.54%) GIAC
14 6 (0.46%) GPEN
15 5 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 5 (0.39%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (4.56%) QA
2 51 (3.94%) Data Quality
3 21 (1.62%) Accessibility
4 16 (1.24%) GDPR
5 13 (1.00%) Disclosure Scotland
6 10 (0.77%) MISRA
6 10 (0.77%) NIST
7 7 (0.54%) GxP
7 7 (0.54%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.54%) RMADS
8 6 (0.46%) Good Clinical Practice
8 6 (0.46%) JTAG
9 4 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.23%) ISO 22301
10 3 (0.23%) NCSC
11 2 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.15%) IEC 61508
12 1 (0.077%) DO-178B
12 1 (0.077%) GRC
12 1 (0.077%) SLA
System Software
1 173 (13.36%) Docker
2 69 (5.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 64 (4.94%) Active Directory
4 25 (1.93%) Firmware
5 21 (1.62%) NFS
6 20 (1.54%) vSphere
7 17 (1.31%) VMware NSX
8 15 (1.16%) Time Sharing Option
9 13 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
10 12 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
11 11 (0.85%) Hyper-V
12 6 (0.46%) HDFS
13 5 (0.39%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 5 (0.39%) Embedded Firmware
14 4 (0.31%) GPFS
14 4 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.31%) VirtualBox
15 3 (0.23%) KVM
16 2 (0.15%) LXC
16 2 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 249 (19.23%) Ansible
2 230 (17.76%) Terraform
3 208 (16.06%) Kubernetes
4 66 (5.10%) Grafana
5 47 (3.63%) Prometheus
6 38 (2.93%) Progress Chef
7 34 (2.63%) Puppet
8 25 (1.93%) PowerCLI
9 24 (1.85%) Kibana
10 17 (1.31%) Packer
11 16 (1.24%) Docker Swarm
12 15 (1.16%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 12 (0.93%) SCCM
13 12 (0.93%) vRealize
14 11 (0.85%) HP Fortify
15 10 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
16 8 (0.62%) logstash
16 8 (0.62%) Red Hat Satellite
17 7 (0.54%) Nessus
18 6 (0.46%) Nagios
Vendors
1 115 (8.88%) VMware
2 108 (8.34%) PayPal
3 99 (7.64%) Microsoft
4 65 (5.02%) Splunk
5 58 (4.48%) Google
6 57 (4.40%) Databricks
7 54 (4.17%) Red Hat
8 42 (3.24%) Atlassian
9 40 (3.09%) Cisco
9 40 (3.09%) Dell
10 34 (2.63%) Oracle
11 29 (2.24%) IBM
12 25 (1.93%) HP
13 21 (1.62%) SAP
14 20 (1.54%) Brocade
15 19 (1.47%) Palo Alto
15 19 (1.47%) SolarWinds
16 17 (1.31%) Informatica
17 16 (1.24%) Veritas
18 15 (1.16%) CA