Python Contracts in Central London

Python
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central 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 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 10 8 15
Rank change year-on-year -2 +7 -3
Contract jobs citing Python 284 524 477
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 11.86% 14.13% 10.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.10% 34.61% 25.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 284 324
10th Percentile £413 £455 £425
25th Percentile £488 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £738 £738 £725
90th Percentile £838 £838 £813
London median daily rate £600 £625 £615
% change year-on-year -4.00% +1.63% +11.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 6
10th Percentile - £75.63 £41.75
25th Percentile £46.75 £76.56 £45.00
Median hourly rate £48.50 £81.25 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.31% +59.31% +59.38%
75th Percentile £50.25 £84.69 £60.13
90th Percentile - £84.88 £61.75
London median hourly rate £50.50 £81.25 £49.88
% change year-on-year -37.85% +62.91% +34.80%

All Programming Languages
Central 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 Central London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 858 1,514 1,904
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 35.82% 40.82% 42.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 617 1,001 1,490
10th Percentile £406 £425 £413
25th Percentile £463 £512 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +4.17% +7.14%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £713
90th Percentile £788 £825 £800
London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 11
10th Percentile - £21.35 £39.25
25th Percentile £46.75 £35.00 £45.25
Median hourly rate £48.50 £52.50 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% -1.87% +101.89%
75th Percentile £50.25 £83.75 £66.75
90th Percentile - £84.50 £77.00
London median hourly rate £50.50 £60.00 £49.24
% change year-on-year -15.83% +21.85% +3.67%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in Central London

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Python in Central London

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

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

Daily rate histogram for Python in Central London

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Python in Central London

Python
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London 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
City of London -3 268 £600 -7.69% 70
City of Westminster +2 8 £713 +26.67% 2
West End of London +5 5 £463 -40.32% 2
Southwark +8 2 £600 +29.78%
Camden - 1 £500 - 2
Python
London

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 13 (4.58%) Apache Spark
2 8 (2.82%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.46%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.76%) Apache
4 5 (1.76%) BizTalk Server
5 4 (1.41%) Site Server
6 3 (1.06%) Confluence
7 2 (0.70%) Gunicorn
7 2 (0.70%) IIS
7 2 (0.70%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.70%) Luigi
8 1 (0.35%) CMS
8 1 (0.35%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.35%) nginx
8 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (3.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.70%) Primavera
2 1 (0.35%) Advent Geneva
2 1 (0.35%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.35%) Endur
2 1 (0.35%) Front Arena
2 1 (0.35%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (0.35%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.35%) Sprinklr
2 1 (0.35%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 98 (34.51%) AWS
2 86 (30.28%) Azure
3 35 (12.32%) Serverless
4 27 (9.51%) AWS Lambda
5 24 (8.45%) GitHub
6 22 (7.75%) Amazon S3
6 22 (7.75%) Power Platform
7 20 (7.04%) GCP
8 18 (6.34%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (4.93%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (3.87%) Azure Functions
11 10 (3.52%) Amazon EKS
12 9 (3.17%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (3.17%) Azure AKS
12 9 (3.17%) Azure Data Factory
13 8 (2.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 8 (2.82%) Snowflake
14 7 (2.46%) Amazon MSK
14 7 (2.46%) AWS Step Functions
14 7 (2.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.46%) Firewall
2 3 (1.06%) DNS
2 3 (1.06%) Kerberos
2 3 (1.06%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.70%) Internet
3 2 (0.70%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.70%) SSL
3 2 (0.70%) WAN
4 1 (0.35%) DHCP
4 1 (0.35%) IPv4
4 1 (0.35%) MQTT
4 1 (0.35%) Network Security
4 1 (0.35%) SAN
4 1 (0.35%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (8.45%) NoSQL
2 22 (7.75%) Power BI
2 22 (7.75%) SQL Server
3 19 (6.69%) MongoDB
3 19 (6.69%) Relational Database
4 16 (5.63%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (4.93%) Tableau
6 13 (4.58%) DynamoDB
6 13 (4.58%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (4.23%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (4.23%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (3.87%) Azure SQL Database
8 11 (3.87%) Big Data
8 11 (3.87%) RDBMS
9 10 (3.52%) Data Lake
9 10 (3.52%) Parquet
10 6 (2.11%) Sybase ASE
11 5 (1.76%) DB2
11 5 (1.76%) Hadoop
11 5 (1.76%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 26 (9.15%) Jenkins
2 23 (8.10%) Git
3 16 (5.63%) GitLab
4 7 (2.46%) JIRA
5 6 (2.11%) CircleCI
5 6 (2.11%) JMeter
6 5 (1.76%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.76%) Cypress.io
6 5 (1.76%) Selenium
6 5 (1.76%) TeamCity
7 4 (1.41%) Mercurial
8 3 (1.06%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.70%) Appium
9 2 (0.70%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.70%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.70%) Deequ
9 2 (0.70%) IBM UrbanCode
9 2 (0.70%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.70%) Subversion
9 2 (0.70%) TestNG
General
1 84 (29.58%) Finance
2 65 (22.89%) Social Skills
3 32 (11.27%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (10.56%) Banking
5 17 (5.99%) Public Sector
6 16 (5.63%) Front Office
7 15 (5.28%) Investment Banking
8 7 (2.46%) Retail Banking
9 6 (2.11%) Financial Institution
9 6 (2.11%) Marketing
10 4 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.41%) Retail
11 3 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.70%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.70%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.35%) Aviation
13 1 (0.35%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.35%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 79 (27.82%) Developer
2 33 (11.62%) Analyst
2 33 (11.62%) Data Engineer
3 31 (10.92%) Senior
4 30 (10.56%) Python Developer
5 23 (8.10%) Architect
6 21 (7.39%) Data Analyst
7 18 (6.34%) Python Engineer
8 15 (5.28%) DevOps Engineer
8 15 (5.28%) Platform Engineer
8 15 (5.28%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 14 (4.93%) Quantitative Developer
9 14 (4.93%) Software Engineer
10 13 (4.58%) Site Engineer
11 11 (3.87%) Full Stack Developer
12 10 (3.52%) AWS Engineer
12 10 (3.52%) Lead
13 9 (3.17%) Senior Analyst
14 8 (2.82%) Data Scientist
14 8 (2.82%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (16.90%) Kafka
2 20 (7.04%) RESTful
3 15 (5.28%) HTML
4 13 (4.58%) PySpark
4 13 (4.58%) React
5 12 (4.23%) Pandas
6 11 (3.87%) RabbitMQ
7 10 (3.52%) .NET
7 10 (3.52%) Apache Avro
7 10 (3.52%) JSON
7 10 (3.52%) pytest
8 9 (3.17%) CSS
8 9 (3.17%) REST
9 7 (2.46%) Node.js
9 7 (2.46%) OpenID
9 7 (2.46%) SAML
10 6 (2.11%) Elastic Stack
10 6 (2.11%) GraphQL
10 6 (2.11%) NumPy
10 6 (2.11%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.39%) Distributed Systems
2 18 (6.34%) Algorithms
3 13 (4.58%) Data Structures
4 9 (3.17%) Cloud Native
5 8 (2.82%) Linux Command Line
5 8 (2.82%) Market Risk
5 8 (2.82%) Public Cloud
6 7 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.46%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.11%) Derivative
7 6 (2.11%) Hedge funds
8 5 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.76%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.76%) Replication
9 4 (1.41%) Equities
9 4 (1.41%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.41%) Machine to Machine
10 2 (0.70%) Social Media
10 2 (0.70%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 50 (17.61%) Linux
2 31 (10.92%) Windows
3 13 (4.58%) Unix
4 11 (3.87%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.70%) Android
6 2 (0.70%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.35%) CentOS
7 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (30.63%) DevOps
2 75 (26.41%) CI/CD
3 52 (18.31%) Problem-Solving
4 44 (15.49%) Agile
5 39 (13.73%) Software Engineering
6 33 (11.62%) Data Pipeline
7 32 (11.27%) Analytics
7 32 (11.27%) ETL
7 32 (11.27%) Microservices
8 28 (9.86%) Infrastructure as Code
9 26 (9.15%) Business Intelligence
10 25 (8.80%) Visualisation
11 24 (8.45%) Data Modelling
12 23 (8.10%) Computer Science
12 23 (8.10%) Containerisation
12 23 (8.10%) Task Automation
12 23 (8.10%) Test Automation
13 22 (7.75%) SDLC
14 21 (7.39%) Data Analysis
15 19 (6.69%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 111 (39.08%) SQL
2 64 (22.54%) Java
3 35 (12.32%) PowerShell
4 28 (9.86%) C#
4 28 (9.86%) C++
5 23 (8.10%) JavaScript
6 22 (7.75%) Shell Script
7 17 (5.99%) Bash
8 16 (5.63%) Go
8 16 (5.63%) T-SQL
9 13 (4.58%) Perl
10 11 (3.87%) R
11 9 (3.17%) Scala
12 6 (2.11%) PL/SQL
12 6 (2.11%) Rust
13 5 (1.76%) TypeScript
14 4 (1.41%) C
14 4 (1.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (1.41%) Korn
14 4 (1.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 28 (9.86%) Security Cleared
2 25 (8.80%) SC Cleared
3 22 (7.75%) Degree
4 10 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.46%) AWS Certification
5 7 (2.46%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.76%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (1.76%) ISTQB
7 4 (1.41%) CCNP
7 4 (1.41%) PhD
8 3 (1.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.70%) CCIE
9 2 (0.70%) CCNA
9 2 (0.70%) CIMA
9 2 (0.70%) CISA
9 2 (0.70%) CRISC
9 2 (0.70%) ISEB
9 2 (0.70%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.93%) QA
2 11 (3.87%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.41%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (0.70%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.70%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.70%) PMO
5 1 (0.35%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.35%) MiFID
5 1 (0.35%) NIST
5 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 45 (15.85%) Docker
2 11 (3.87%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 8 (2.82%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.76%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 3 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.70%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.35%) Ceph
7 1 (0.35%) HDFS
7 1 (0.35%) iptables
7 1 (0.35%) NFS
Systems Management
1 66 (23.24%) Kubernetes
2 47 (16.55%) Terraform
3 26 (9.15%) Ansible
4 20 (7.04%) Grafana
4 20 (7.04%) Prometheus
5 12 (4.23%) Consul
6 8 (2.82%) Puppet
7 5 (1.76%) Argo
7 5 (1.76%) Progress Chef
7 5 (1.76%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.06%) CSIRT
8 3 (1.06%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (1.06%) Nagios
9 2 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.70%) Graylog
9 2 (0.70%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (0.70%) Kibana
9 2 (0.70%) logstash
9 2 (0.70%) Packer
Vendors
1 32 (11.27%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.39%) Oracle
3 18 (6.34%) Databricks
4 14 (4.93%) IBM
5 11 (3.87%) SaltStack
6 10 (3.52%) SAP
7 8 (2.82%) Google
7 8 (2.82%) Splunk
8 7 (2.46%) Sybase
9 6 (2.11%) Alteryx
9 6 (2.11%) ServiceNow
9 6 (2.11%) Sun
10 5 (1.76%) Cisco
10 5 (1.76%) MuleSoft
10 5 (1.76%) Okta
10 5 (1.76%) Veritas
11 4 (1.41%) ESRI
11 4 (1.41%) Palo Alto
11 4 (1.41%) Salesforce
11 4 (1.41%) VMware