Python Contracts in England

Python
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 13 13
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 0
Contract jobs citing Python 3,564 5,359 7,086
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 9.66% 11.29% 10.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.02% 32.79% 27.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,607 3,911 5,113
10th Percentile £380 £425 £425
25th Percentile £463 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £731 £700
90th Percentile £843 £835 £799
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 113 93
10th Percentile £21.44 £22.17 £25.50
25th Percentile £41.88 £47.50 £41.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% +41.03%
75th Percentile £71.88 £73.75 £61.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £81.60 £65.60
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £51.25
% change year-on-year -7.69% +26.83% +34.87%

All Programming Languages
England

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 England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 11,129 16,345 25,688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.16% 34.43% 36.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,036 11,979 19,056
10th Percentile £350 £381 £385
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £564 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +2.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 471 395 437
10th Percentile £35.50 £26.48 £20.14
25th Percentile £48.84 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +19.05% +20.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £62.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £79.19 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £51.75
% change year-on-year -0.80% +20.77% +17.21%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in England

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Python in England

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python in England

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Python in England

Python
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Python in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Python in England

Python
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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
London -2 2,285 £600 -4.00% 1,535
North of England -2 386 £503 -12.61% 285
South East -3 348 £525 -4.55% 355
South West -12 192 £600 +2.65% 195
Yorkshire +17 182 £507 -16.37% 76
North West -6 176 £500 -9.91% 164
Midlands +4 130 £450 -14.29% 196
East of England -19 88 £450 -10.00% 157
West Midlands -6 77 £450 -19.10% 138
East Midlands +5 52 £438 -12.50% 57
North East +4 30 £600 -11.11% 46
Python
UK

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 331 (9.29%) Apache Airflow
2 305 (8.56%) Apache
3 138 (3.87%) Apache Spark
4 118 (3.31%) Confluence
5 43 (1.21%) SAS
6 28 (0.79%) SharePoint
7 27 (0.76%) OpenStack
8 21 (0.59%) nginx
9 16 (0.45%) Jupyter
10 12 (0.34%) ArcGIS
11 9 (0.25%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 9 (0.25%) CMS
12 8 (0.22%) Site Server
13 7 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
13 7 (0.20%) IIS
14 6 (0.17%) JBoss
15 5 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
15 5 (0.14%) Gunicorn
16 4 (0.11%) GeoServer
16 4 (0.11%) Luigi
Applications
1 113 (3.17%) Chatbot
2 72 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (0.39%) MS Visio
5 11 (0.31%) SPSS
6 10 (0.28%) Simulink
7 9 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.17%) CANalyzer
8 6 (0.17%) Sketch
9 5 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 3 (0.084%) InVision
11 2 (0.056%) Stata
11 2 (0.056%) Trello
12 1 (0.028%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 23 (0.65%) Aladdin
2 8 (0.22%) Odoo
3 7 (0.20%) Distributed Ledger
3 7 (0.20%) Endur
3 7 (0.20%) SimCorp Dimension
4 6 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.17%) NEC Housing
5 5 (0.14%) ION MarketView
6 4 (0.11%) Adobe Campaign
6 4 (0.11%) FastStats
6 4 (0.11%) Maximo
6 4 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
6 4 (0.11%) Shopify
6 4 (0.11%) Unica
7 3 (0.084%) Global One
7 3 (0.084%) Orchestrade
7 3 (0.084%) Primavera
8 2 (0.056%) Advent Geneva
8 2 (0.056%) Front Arena
8 2 (0.056%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,253 (35.16%) AWS
2 934 (26.21%) Azure
3 475 (13.33%) GCP
4 312 (8.75%) Serverless
5 219 (6.14%) GitHub
6 216 (6.06%) Power Platform
7 199 (5.58%) Amazon S3
8 198 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
9 196 (5.50%) Snowflake
10 185 (5.19%) dbt
11 169 (4.74%) Azure DevOps
12 133 (3.73%) Amazon EC2
13 123 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
14 70 (1.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 65 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
16 64 (1.80%) GitHub Actions
17 63 (1.77%) Entra ID
18 62 (1.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 62 (1.74%) Azure Functions
19 61 (1.71%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 132 (3.70%) Firewall
2 75 (2.10%) DNS
3 72 (2.02%) TCP/IP
4 56 (1.57%) VPN
5 50 (1.40%) Network Security
6 46 (1.29%) BGP
7 39 (1.09%) DHCP
8 37 (1.04%) Wireless
9 32 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
10 30 (0.84%) HTTP
11 29 (0.81%) MPLS
12 28 (0.79%) Radio Access Network
13 27 (0.76%) 5G
14 26 (0.73%) Cisco Nexus
14 26 (0.73%) Internet
14 26 (0.73%) OSPF
15 25 (0.70%) SAN
16 24 (0.67%) Cisco ASA
16 24 (0.67%) VLAN
17 23 (0.65%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 267 (7.49%) Data Lake
2 209 (5.86%) PostgreSQL
3 208 (5.84%) Big Data
4 205 (5.75%) Power BI
5 196 (5.50%) Apache Ignite
6 191 (5.36%) Amazon Athena
7 180 (5.05%) Data Warehouse
8 172 (4.83%) NoSQL
9 151 (4.24%) Dremio
10 149 (4.18%) Apache Arrow
11 147 (4.12%) Tableau
12 133 (3.73%) SQL Server
13 117 (3.28%) Relational Database
14 108 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
15 99 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
16 90 (2.53%) MongoDB
17 84 (2.36%) BigQuery
18 76 (2.13%) MySQL
19 71 (1.99%) Hadoop
20 63 (1.77%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 430 (12.07%) Git
2 385 (10.80%) Jenkins
3 241 (6.76%) JIRA
4 156 (4.38%) GitLab
5 78 (2.19%) Bitbucket
6 75 (2.10%) Cypress.io
7 62 (1.74%) Selenium
8 43 (1.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 38 (1.07%) Sonatype Nexus
10 37 (1.04%) JMeter
11 36 (1.01%) TeamCity
12 33 (0.93%) Artifactory
13 32 (0.90%) Robot Framework
14 29 (0.81%) Cucumber
15 26 (0.73%) Subversion
16 24 (0.67%) Postman
17 23 (0.65%) Visual Studio
18 21 (0.59%) CircleCI
19 19 (0.53%) Burp Suite
20 18 (0.51%) SonarQube
General
1 916 (25.70%) Finance
2 639 (17.93%) Social Skills
3 494 (13.86%) Banking
4 426 (11.95%) Front Office
5 409 (11.48%) Analytical Skills
6 223 (6.26%) Investment Banking
7 176 (4.94%) Public Sector
8 75 (2.10%) Retail
9 73 (2.05%) Marketing
10 62 (1.74%) Telecoms
11 47 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
12 44 (1.23%) Back Office
12 44 (1.23%) Manufacturing
13 36 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
14 33 (0.93%) Aerospace
15 30 (0.84%) Electronics
16 28 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 27 (0.76%) Financial Institution
18 18 (0.51%) Legal
19 16 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 995 (27.92%) Developer
2 461 (12.93%) Python Developer
3 431 (12.09%) Senior
4 368 (10.33%) Data Engineer
5 328 (9.20%) Analyst
6 315 (8.84%) Software Engineer
7 277 (7.77%) Python Engineer
8 253 (7.10%) DevOps Engineer
9 230 (6.45%) Architect
10 208 (5.84%) Lead
11 202 (5.67%) AWS Engineer
12 199 (5.58%) Software Developer
13 158 (4.43%) Python Software Engineer
14 139 (3.90%) Data Analyst
15 137 (3.84%) Azure Engineer
16 130 (3.65%) Full Stack Developer
17 129 (3.62%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 105 (2.95%) React Developer
19 91 (2.55%) Data Scientist
20 84 (2.36%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 279 (7.83%) React
2 234 (6.57%) gRPC
3 226 (6.34%) Pandas
4 222 (6.23%) Protocol Buffers
5 221 (6.20%) HTML
6 198 (5.56%) NumPy
7 182 (5.11%) Kafka
8 175 (4.91%) PySpark
9 155 (4.35%) SciPy
10 132 (3.70%) REST
11 128 (3.59%) .NET
12 122 (3.42%) Node.js
13 101 (2.83%) RESTful
14 98 (2.75%) JSON
15 96 (2.69%) Redux
16 90 (2.53%) CSS
17 79 (2.22%) Material-UI
18 78 (2.19%) Django
19 72 (2.02%) AngularJS
19 72 (2.02%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 312 (8.75%) Hedge funds
2 288 (8.08%) Fixed Income
3 276 (7.74%) Derivative
4 221 (6.20%) Equities
5 211 (5.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 148 (4.15%) Algorithms
7 115 (3.23%) Product Ownership
8 95 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
9 86 (2.41%) Data Structures
10 68 (1.91%) Linux Command Line
11 67 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
12 60 (1.68%) Public Cloud
13 59 (1.66%) Data Centre
14 58 (1.63%) Management Information System
15 56 (1.57%) PKI
16 52 (1.46%) Cloud Native
17 44 (1.23%) Onboarding
18 43 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
19 35 (0.98%) Clustering
20 32 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 524 (14.70%) Linux
2 235 (6.59%) Windows
3 164 (4.60%) Unix
4 93 (2.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 92 (2.58%) Windows Server
6 24 (0.67%) CentOS
7 23 (0.65%) Android
8 21 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
9 20 (0.56%) Ubuntu
10 19 (0.53%) Debian
11 17 (0.48%) Apple iOS
12 16 (0.45%) zOS
13 10 (0.28%) VMS
14 9 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
14 9 (0.25%) Solaris
15 7 (0.20%) Kali Linux
16 6 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
16 6 (0.17%) Windows 10
17 5 (0.14%) Mac OS
17 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 994 (27.89%) Agile
2 880 (24.69%) DevOps
3 753 (21.13%) CI/CD
4 704 (19.75%) Software Engineering
5 480 (13.47%) Problem-Solving
6 431 (12.09%) Analytics
7 413 (11.59%) Artificial Intelligence
8 360 (10.10%) Machine Learning
9 352 (9.88%) Asset Management
10 316 (8.87%) Data Modelling
11 304 (8.53%) ETL
12 303 (8.50%) Computer Science
12 303 (8.50%) Test Automation
13 291 (8.16%) Data Pipeline
13 291 (8.16%) Infrastructure as Code
13 291 (8.16%) Investment Management
14 263 (7.38%) Data Science
15 262 (7.35%) Business Intelligence
16 253 (7.10%) Full Stack Development
17 243 (6.82%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 1,167 (32.74%) SQL
2 781 (21.91%) Java
3 605 (16.98%) JavaScript
4 407 (11.42%) PowerShell
5 343 (9.62%) C#
6 303 (8.50%) Bash
7 280 (7.86%) C++
8 277 (7.77%) TypeScript
9 178 (4.99%) Go
10 138 (3.87%) Shell Script
11 136 (3.82%) C
12 131 (3.68%) R
13 126 (3.54%) Perl
14 106 (2.97%) Scala
15 65 (1.82%) Ruby
16 45 (1.26%) T-SQL
17 35 (0.98%) VBA
18 33 (0.93%) Groovy
18 33 (0.93%) Rust
19 26 (0.73%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 579 (16.25%) Security Cleared
2 470 (13.19%) Degree
3 398 (11.17%) SC Cleared
4 175 (4.91%) DV Cleared
5 164 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 91 (2.55%) Master's Degree
7 62 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
8 61 (1.71%) AWS Certification
9 52 (1.46%) CCNP
10 39 (1.09%) PhD
11 36 (1.01%) Numerate Degree
12 35 (0.98%) CCNA
13 32 (0.90%) Azure Certification
14 22 (0.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 20 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 18 (0.51%) CISSP
17 17 (0.48%) OSCP
18 15 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
19 14 (0.39%) CCIE
20 13 (0.36%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 200 (5.61%) Data Quality
2 151 (4.24%) QA
3 31 (0.87%) GDPR
4 21 (0.59%) NIST
5 19 (0.53%) PCI DSS
6 18 (0.51%) Accessibility
7 15 (0.42%) MISRA
8 13 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 9 (0.25%) SLA
10 8 (0.22%) JTAG
11 7 (0.20%) Good Clinical Practice
11 7 (0.20%) GxP
11 7 (0.20%) RMADS
12 6 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
12 6 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 5 (0.14%) HIPAA
14 4 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
14 4 (0.11%) NCSC
15 3 (0.084%) ISO 22301
15 3 (0.084%) PMO
System Software
1 443 (12.43%) Docker
2 120 (3.37%) Active Directory
3 102 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 42 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
5 33 (0.93%) vSphere
6 31 (0.87%) VMware NSX
7 27 (0.76%) Firmware
8 20 (0.56%) Hyper-V
8 20 (0.56%) NFS
9 16 (0.45%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 16 (0.45%) Time Sharing Option
10 15 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
11 10 (0.28%) HDFS
12 9 (0.25%) KVM
13 7 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
13 7 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
14 5 (0.14%) Veritas Cluster Server
15 4 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 4 (0.11%) VirtualBox
16 2 (0.056%) iptables
Systems Management
1 599 (16.81%) Terraform
2 534 (14.98%) Kubernetes
3 439 (12.32%) Ansible
4 133 (3.73%) Grafana
5 132 (3.70%) Prometheus
6 89 (2.50%) Puppet
7 61 (1.71%) Progress Chef
8 39 (1.09%) Kibana
9 30 (0.84%) logstash
10 27 (0.76%) PowerCLI
11 25 (0.70%) Packer
12 24 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
13 22 (0.62%) Docker Swarm
13 22 (0.62%) ITRS Geneos
14 20 (0.56%) Consul
14 20 (0.56%) Tivoli Storage Manager
15 19 (0.53%) Argo
16 16 (0.45%) vRealize
17 12 (0.34%) Nagios
18 11 (0.31%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 264 (7.41%) Microsoft
2 221 (6.20%) Google
3 190 (5.33%) Databricks
4 152 (4.26%) VMware
5 142 (3.98%) Oracle
6 139 (3.90%) Splunk
7 110 (3.09%) PayPal
8 96 (2.69%) Cisco
9 71 (1.99%) Red Hat
10 70 (1.96%) SAP
11 62 (1.74%) IBM
12 53 (1.49%) Dell
13 47 (1.32%) Palo Alto
14 46 (1.29%) Atlassian
15 43 (1.21%) F5
16 36 (1.01%) Bloomberg
16 36 (1.01%) Sybase
17 35 (0.98%) Dynatrace
17 35 (0.98%) Salesforce
18 34 (0.95%) ServiceNow