Python Contracts in South London

Python
London > South London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South 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 7 9 7
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 +5
Contract jobs citing Python 41 55 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 18.72% 14.71% 20.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 50.00% 36.18% 48.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 44 59
10th Percentile £363 £475 £459
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £567 £640 £681
90th Percentile £679 £688 £710
London median daily rate £600 £625 £615
% change year-on-year -4.00% +1.63% +11.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.63 - -
Median hourly rate £68.75 - -
75th Percentile £71.88 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £50.50 £81.25 £49.88
% change year-on-year -37.85% +62.91% +34.80%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 82 152 158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 37.44% 40.64% 42.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 120 129
10th Percentile £379 £450 £388
25th Percentile £426 £481 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +17.95%
75th Percentile £550 £678 £638
90th Percentile £599 £900 £700
London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 3
10th Percentile £43.30 £49.51 £40.12
25th Percentile £47.02 - £42.70
Median hourly rate £56.30 £50.42 £49.99
Median % change year-on-year +11.65% +0.87% -0.03%
75th Percentile £65.62 £52.33 £54.24
90th Percentile £69.37 £54.38 £55.90
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 South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in South London

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for Python in South London

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

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

Daily rate histogram for Python in South London

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South London

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

Hourly rate trend for Python in South London

Python
Contract Job Locations in South 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 South 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
Croydon 0 31 £513 +2.50% 4
Bromley +4 7 £625 -3.85% 3
Kingston Upon Thames - 2 £500 - 3
Python
London

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 1 (2.44%) Confluence
1 1 (2.44%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (4.88%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 25 (60.98%) AWS
2 13 (31.71%) Amazon S3
3 11 (26.83%) Amazon EC2
4 10 (24.39%) Serverless
5 8 (19.51%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (19.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 7 (17.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (17.07%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (14.63%) Azure
7 6 (14.63%) Route 53
8 5 (12.20%) AWS Step Functions
9 4 (9.76%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (9.76%) GCP
9 4 (9.76%) OCI
10 2 (4.88%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (4.88%) Amazon MSK
10 2 (4.88%) GitHub
10 2 (4.88%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (2.44%) Amazon Kinesis
11 1 (2.44%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.20%) Network Security
2 1 (2.44%) 4G
2 1 (2.44%) 5G
2 1 (2.44%) IPv4
2 1 (2.44%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (21.95%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (9.76%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (7.32%) DynamoDB
4 2 (4.88%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (4.88%) Parquet
4 2 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (4.88%) Tableau
5 1 (2.44%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.44%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (39.02%) Git
2 12 (29.27%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.88%) GitLab
3 2 (4.88%) JIRA
4 1 (2.44%) JMeter
4 1 (2.44%) JUnit
4 1 (2.44%) Mockito
General
1 6 (14.63%) Public Sector
2 3 (7.32%) Banking
2 3 (7.32%) Finance
3 2 (4.88%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.44%) Front Office
4 1 (2.44%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.44%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 17 (41.46%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (21.95%) Developer
3 6 (14.63%) Data Engineer
3 6 (14.63%) Senior
4 5 (12.20%) AWS Engineer
4 5 (12.20%) Senior DevOps
5 4 (9.76%) AWS DevOps
5 4 (9.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 4 (9.76%) Scrum Master
5 4 (9.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 3 (7.32%) Lead
6 3 (7.32%) Project Manager
6 3 (7.32%) Python Developer
6 3 (7.32%) ScrumMaster Project Manager
6 3 (7.32%) Software Developer
7 2 (4.88%) Agile Scrum Master
7 2 (4.88%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (14.63%) HTML
1 6 (14.63%) JSON
2 5 (12.20%) CSS
2 5 (12.20%) React
3 4 (9.76%) YAML
4 3 (7.32%) Kafka
5 2 (4.88%) .NET
5 2 (4.88%) .NET Core
5 2 (4.88%) Apache Avro
5 2 (4.88%) Flask
5 2 (4.88%) OAuth
5 2 (4.88%) OAuth2
5 2 (4.88%) REST
5 2 (4.88%) RESTful
6 1 (2.44%) Apache Camel
6 1 (2.44%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (2.44%) Hibernate
6 1 (2.44%) Spring Boot
6 1 (2.44%) Web Services
6 1 (2.44%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.76%) Public Cloud
2 2 (4.88%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (4.88%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (4.88%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.44%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.44%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.44%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.44%) Derivative
3 1 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.44%) Fixed Income
3 1 (2.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (14.63%) Unix
2 1 (2.44%) Linux
2 1 (2.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (53.66%) DevOps
2 16 (39.02%) CI/CD
3 15 (36.59%) Agile
4 8 (19.51%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (17.07%) Scrum
6 5 (12.20%) Containerisation
6 5 (12.20%) Requirements Gathering
6 5 (12.20%) Service Design
7 4 (9.76%) Data Pipeline
7 4 (9.76%) ETL
7 4 (9.76%) Front End Development
7 4 (9.76%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (7.32%) BDD
8 3 (7.32%) Collaborative Working
8 3 (7.32%) Data Modelling
8 3 (7.32%) Kanban
8 3 (7.32%) Platform Engineering
8 3 (7.32%) Project Delivery
8 3 (7.32%) TDD
8 3 (7.32%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (31.71%) SQL
2 12 (29.27%) Bash
3 9 (21.95%) JavaScript
4 8 (19.51%) Java
5 6 (14.63%) Go
6 3 (7.32%) C
6 3 (7.32%) C++
6 3 (7.32%) Perl
7 2 (4.88%) Lua
7 2 (4.88%) PHP
7 2 (4.88%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.44%) C#
8 1 (2.44%) Rust
8 1 (2.44%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (60.98%) Security Cleared
2 23 (56.10%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.88%) Degree
3 2 (4.88%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.44%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.44%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (2.44%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.20%) QA
2 1 (2.44%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.44%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (36.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (53.66%) Terraform
2 18 (43.90%) Kubernetes
3 7 (17.07%) Grafana
3 7 (17.07%) Prometheus
4 3 (7.32%) Ansible
5 1 (2.44%) Consul
5 1 (2.44%) Karpenter
5 1 (2.44%) Kibana
5 1 (2.44%) Packer
5 1 (2.44%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (9.76%) Oracle
1 4 (9.76%) Splunk
2 2 (4.88%) Dynatrace
2 2 (4.88%) NEC
3 1 (2.44%) Darktrace
3 1 (2.44%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.44%) Qualys