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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 13 13
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 0
Contract jobs citing Python 3,528 5,459 7,118
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 9.69% 11.27% 10.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.36% 32.29% 27.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,580 3,984 5,113
10th Percentile £388 £425 £425
25th Percentile £463 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £700
90th Percentile £838 £825 £788
UK median daily rate £560 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 109 99
10th Percentile £22.00 £22.06 £25.50
25th Percentile £42.38 £47.50 £42.16
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +21.50% +33.75%
75th Percentile £72.19 £70.30 £61.50
90th Percentile £78.00 £78.00 £65.15
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £60.63 £50.81
% change year-on-year -1.03% +19.32% +27.03%

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 10,903 16,906 25,969
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.95% 34.89% 36.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,919 12,370 19,191
10th Percentile £350 £385 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £775
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 446 404 450
10th Percentile £37.59 £25.85 £20.00
25th Percentile £49.53 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.64
Median % change year-on-year - +23.43% +19.14%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £61.75
90th Percentile £79.59 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.36 £60.70 £50.10
% change year-on-year +2.73% +21.16% +17.03%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 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
London -2 2,286 £600 -4.00% 1,988
North of England +2 371 £500 -13.04% 322
South East -7 326 £520 -5.45% 726
South West -12 185 £600 +2.65% 253
North West -6 178 £500 -9.09% 184
Yorkshire +16 166 £500 -16.67% 101
Midlands +9 136 £450 -14.29% 241
East of England -16 84 £450 -10.00% 223
West Midlands +1 81 £450 -20.00% 171
East Midlands +15 54 £425 -15.00% 69
North East +5 29 £600 -11.11% 37
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
1 315 (8.93%) Apache Airflow
2 291 (8.25%) Apache
3 128 (3.63%) Apache Spark
4 118 (3.34%) Confluence
5 40 (1.13%) SAS
6 34 (0.96%) OpenStack
7 29 (0.82%) SharePoint
8 27 (0.77%) nginx
9 14 (0.40%) Jupyter
10 12 (0.34%) ArcGIS
11 9 (0.26%) CMS
11 9 (0.26%) Site Server
12 8 (0.23%) BizTalk Server
12 8 (0.23%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 6 (0.17%) IIS
13 6 (0.17%) JBoss
14 5 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
14 5 (0.14%) Gunicorn
15 4 (0.11%) Luigi
15 4 (0.11%) Tornado
Applications
1 113 (3.20%) Chatbot
2 66 (1.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (0.40%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.28%) Simulink
6 8 (0.23%) SPSS
7 7 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 4 (0.11%) CANalyzer
10 2 (0.057%) Sketch
10 2 (0.057%) Stata
11 1 (0.028%) CPLEX
11 1 (0.028%) Trello
Business Applications
1 23 (0.65%) Aladdin
2 9 (0.26%) Odoo
3 8 (0.23%) Distributed Ledger
4 7 (0.20%) Endur
4 7 (0.20%) SimCorp Dimension
5 6 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.17%) NEC Housing
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 (0.085%) Global One
7 3 (0.085%) ION MarketView
7 3 (0.085%) Orchestrade
7 3 (0.085%) Primavera
8 2 (0.057%) Advent Geneva
8 2 (0.057%) Front Arena
8 2 (0.057%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,233 (34.95%) AWS
2 927 (26.28%) Azure
3 469 (13.29%) GCP
4 311 (8.82%) Serverless
5 230 (6.52%) Power Platform
6 215 (6.09%) GitHub
7 201 (5.70%) AWS Lambda
8 191 (5.41%) Amazon S3
9 178 (5.05%) Snowflake
10 171 (4.85%) Azure DevOps
11 166 (4.71%) dbt
12 132 (3.74%) Amazon EC2
12 132 (3.74%) Azure Data Factory
13 73 (2.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 70 (1.98%) AWS CloudFormation
15 66 (1.87%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 66 (1.87%) PaaS
16 64 (1.81%) GitHub Actions
17 62 (1.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 62 (1.76%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 129 (3.66%) Firewall
2 81 (2.30%) DNS
2 81 (2.30%) TCP/IP
3 59 (1.67%) VPN
4 52 (1.47%) Network Security
5 51 (1.45%) BGP
6 40 (1.13%) DHCP
7 34 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
8 33 (0.94%) HTTP
8 33 (0.94%) MPLS
8 33 (0.94%) Wireless
9 31 (0.88%) Radio Access Network
10 29 (0.82%) OSPF
11 28 (0.79%) 5G
12 27 (0.77%) Cisco ASA
12 27 (0.77%) Cisco Nexus
12 27 (0.77%) SAN
13 25 (0.71%) Internet
13 25 (0.71%) VLAN
14 22 (0.62%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 244 (6.92%) Data Lake
2 219 (6.21%) Power BI
3 211 (5.98%) PostgreSQL
4 206 (5.84%) Big Data
5 181 (5.13%) Apache Ignite
6 176 (4.99%) Amazon Athena
6 176 (4.99%) Data Warehouse
7 174 (4.93%) NoSQL
8 145 (4.11%) Tableau
9 135 (3.83%) SQL Server
10 132 (3.74%) Apache Arrow
10 132 (3.74%) Dremio
11 114 (3.23%) Relational Database
12 107 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
13 100 (2.83%) Amazon RDS
14 91 (2.58%) MongoDB
15 85 (2.41%) BigQuery
16 76 (2.15%) MySQL
17 66 (1.87%) Hadoop
18 63 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 426 (12.07%) Git
2 380 (10.77%) Jenkins
3 239 (6.77%) JIRA
4 154 (4.37%) GitLab
5 79 (2.24%) Cypress.io
6 73 (2.07%) Bitbucket
7 57 (1.62%) Selenium
8 44 (1.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 39 (1.11%) Sonatype Nexus
10 33 (0.94%) JMeter
10 33 (0.94%) Robot Framework
10 33 (0.94%) TeamCity
11 32 (0.91%) Artifactory
12 27 (0.77%) Subversion
13 26 (0.74%) Cucumber
14 24 (0.68%) Postman
15 21 (0.60%) Visual Studio
16 20 (0.57%) SonarQube
17 19 (0.54%) Burp Suite
17 19 (0.54%) CircleCI
General
1 892 (25.28%) Finance
2 645 (18.28%) Social Skills
3 466 (13.21%) Banking
4 418 (11.85%) Front Office
5 394 (11.17%) Analytical Skills
6 199 (5.64%) Investment Banking
7 178 (5.05%) Public Sector
8 73 (2.07%) Marketing
8 73 (2.07%) Retail
9 67 (1.90%) Telecoms
10 53 (1.50%) Back Office
11 51 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
12 40 (1.13%) Manufacturing
12 40 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
13 32 (0.91%) Aerospace
14 29 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 27 (0.77%) Electronics
16 26 (0.74%) Financial Institution
17 19 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
18 16 (0.45%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 970 (27.49%) Developer
2 435 (12.33%) Python Developer
3 432 (12.24%) Senior
4 375 (10.63%) Data Engineer
5 310 (8.79%) Analyst
6 297 (8.42%) Software Engineer
7 263 (7.45%) Python Engineer
8 248 (7.03%) DevOps Engineer
9 226 (6.41%) Architect
10 203 (5.75%) Lead
11 202 (5.73%) Software Developer
12 193 (5.47%) AWS Engineer
13 150 (4.25%) Python Software Engineer
14 139 (3.94%) Azure Engineer
15 136 (3.85%) Data Analyst
16 134 (3.80%) Full Stack Developer
17 128 (3.63%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 106 (3.00%) Data Scientist
19 103 (2.92%) React Developer
20 87 (2.47%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 275 (7.79%) React
2 219 (6.21%) HTML
3 218 (6.18%) gRPC
4 216 (6.12%) Pandas
5 207 (5.87%) Protocol Buffers
6 185 (5.24%) NumPy
7 173 (4.90%) Kafka
8 163 (4.62%) PySpark
9 141 (4.00%) SciPy
10 134 (3.80%) REST
11 130 (3.68%) .NET
12 122 (3.46%) Node.js
13 100 (2.83%) JSON
14 96 (2.72%) RESTful
15 93 (2.64%) Redux
16 90 (2.55%) CSS
17 81 (2.30%) Material-UI
18 75 (2.13%) Django
19 71 (2.01%) Elastic Stack
20 70 (1.98%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 299 (8.48%) Hedge funds
2 267 (7.57%) Fixed Income
3 261 (7.40%) Derivative
4 206 (5.84%) Equities
5 184 (5.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 152 (4.31%) Algorithms
7 105 (2.98%) Product Ownership
8 95 (2.69%) Distributed Systems
9 82 (2.32%) Data Structures
10 68 (1.93%) Data Protection Act
11 65 (1.84%) Public Cloud
12 62 (1.76%) Linux Command Line
13 57 (1.62%) Data Centre
14 56 (1.59%) Management Information System
15 52 (1.47%) Cloud Native
16 50 (1.42%) PKI
17 45 (1.28%) Onboarding
18 37 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
19 36 (1.02%) Clustering
20 33 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 520 (14.74%) Linux
2 243 (6.89%) Windows
3 157 (4.45%) Unix
4 93 (2.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 91 (2.58%) Windows Server
6 31 (0.88%) CentOS
7 26 (0.74%) Ubuntu
8 22 (0.62%) Android
9 21 (0.60%) Debian
10 18 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
11 16 (0.45%) Apple iOS
11 16 (0.45%) zOS
12 14 (0.40%) VMS
13 10 (0.28%) Solaris
14 9 (0.26%) Embedded Linux
15 7 (0.20%) Kali Linux
15 7 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
16 6 (0.17%) Mac OS
16 6 (0.17%) Windows 10
17 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 964 (27.32%) Agile
2 871 (24.69%) DevOps
3 757 (21.46%) CI/CD
4 678 (19.22%) Software Engineering
5 473 (13.41%) Problem-Solving
6 420 (11.90%) Analytics
7 406 (11.51%) Artificial Intelligence
8 369 (10.46%) Machine Learning
9 341 (9.67%) Asset Management
10 324 (9.18%) Data Modelling
11 314 (8.90%) ETL
12 300 (8.50%) Test Automation
13 295 (8.36%) Computer Science
14 292 (8.28%) Data Pipeline
15 284 (8.05%) Infrastructure as Code
16 278 (7.88%) Investment Management
17 270 (7.65%) Business Intelligence
18 269 (7.62%) Data Science
19 250 (7.09%) Full Stack Development
20 234 (6.63%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 1,191 (33.76%) SQL
2 753 (21.34%) Java
3 589 (16.70%) JavaScript
4 398 (11.28%) PowerShell
5 369 (10.46%) C#
6 304 (8.62%) Bash
7 264 (7.48%) TypeScript
8 263 (7.45%) C++
9 183 (5.19%) Go
10 138 (3.91%) R
11 134 (3.80%) Shell Script
12 124 (3.51%) C
13 120 (3.40%) Perl
14 113 (3.20%) Scala
15 62 (1.76%) Ruby
16 42 (1.19%) T-SQL
17 35 (0.99%) Rust
18 32 (0.91%) VBA
19 28 (0.79%) Groovy
20 25 (0.71%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 579 (16.41%) Security Cleared
2 453 (12.84%) Degree
3 406 (11.51%) SC Cleared
4 169 (4.79%) DV Cleared
5 162 (4.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 87 (2.47%) Master's Degree
7 59 (1.67%) AWS Certification
7 59 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
8 49 (1.39%) CCNP
9 41 (1.16%) PhD
10 35 (0.99%) CCNA
11 32 (0.91%) Azure Certification
12 30 (0.85%) Numerate Degree
13 22 (0.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 20 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 18 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
15 18 (0.51%) OSCP
16 17 (0.48%) CISSP
17 13 (0.37%) ISTQB
18 12 (0.34%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 182 (5.16%) Data Quality
2 146 (4.14%) QA
3 29 (0.82%) GDPR
4 21 (0.60%) Accessibility
5 20 (0.57%) NIST
6 18 (0.51%) PCI DSS
7 15 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.31%) MISRA
9 10 (0.28%) SLA
10 8 (0.23%) GxP
11 7 (0.20%) Good Clinical Practice
11 7 (0.20%) JTAG
11 7 (0.20%) RMADS
11 7 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.14%) NCSC
13 4 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.11%) HIPAA
14 3 (0.085%) Actionable Recommendations
14 3 (0.085%) ISO 22301
14 3 (0.085%) PMO
System Software
1 428 (12.13%) Docker
2 115 (3.26%) Active Directory
3 92 (2.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 47 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
5 30 (0.85%) vSphere
6 27 (0.77%) VMware NSX
7 25 (0.71%) Firmware
8 21 (0.60%) NFS
9 19 (0.54%) Hyper-V
10 16 (0.45%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 16 (0.45%) Time Sharing Option
11 15 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
12 9 (0.26%) KVM
13 8 (0.23%) HDFS
13 8 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
14 6 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
15 5 (0.14%) Veritas Cluster Server
16 4 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 4 (0.11%) VirtualBox
17 2 (0.057%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 584 (16.55%) Terraform
2 521 (14.77%) Kubernetes
3 443 (12.56%) Ansible
4 136 (3.85%) Prometheus
5 135 (3.83%) Grafana
6 89 (2.52%) Puppet
7 64 (1.81%) Progress Chef
8 40 (1.13%) Kibana
9 29 (0.82%) logstash
10 25 (0.71%) PowerCLI
11 24 (0.68%) Packer
11 24 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
12 23 (0.65%) ITRS Geneos
13 22 (0.62%) Consul
14 21 (0.60%) Docker Swarm
14 21 (0.60%) Tivoli Storage Manager
15 18 (0.51%) Argo
16 14 (0.40%) Nagios
17 13 (0.37%) vRealize
18 11 (0.31%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 263 (7.45%) Microsoft
2 212 (6.01%) Google
3 200 (5.67%) Databricks
4 149 (4.22%) VMware
5 142 (4.02%) Oracle
6 128 (3.63%) Splunk
7 110 (3.12%) PayPal
8 95 (2.69%) Cisco
9 74 (2.10%) Red Hat
10 71 (2.01%) SAP
11 62 (1.76%) IBM
12 54 (1.53%) Dell
13 46 (1.30%) Palo Alto
14 42 (1.19%) F5
15 41 (1.16%) Atlassian
16 36 (1.02%) Dynatrace
17 35 (0.99%) Bloomberg
17 35 (0.99%) ServiceNow
18 33 (0.94%) Citrix
18 33 (0.94%) Salesforce