Python Contracts in England

Python
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Python skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Python over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 12 13
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Python 3,650 5,332 7,133
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 9.73% 11.34% 10.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.11% 32.95% 27.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,673 3,909 5,142
10th Percentile £375 £425 £425
25th Percentile £463 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £567 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% - +13.53%
75th Percentile £700 £731 £708
90th Percentile £850 £835 £800
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 115 94
10th Percentile £21.73 £22.34 £25.50
25th Percentile £46.25 £47.50 £41.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £54.25
Median % change year-on-year - +19.82% +44.67%
75th Percentile £71.25 £73.75 £61.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £81.50 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £64.69 £50.81
% change year-on-year -4.15% +27.31% +35.49%

All Programming Languages
England

Python falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 11,366 16,181 25,623
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.30% 34.40% 36.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,149 11,851 18,996
10th Percentile £350 £375 £388
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +2.27% +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 481 398 445
10th Percentile £35.52 £29.13 £20.00
25th Percentile £49.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +19.05% +19.12%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £63.25
90th Percentile £77.50 £79.65 £73.70
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.25
% change year-on-year - +19.62% +16.76%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 -1 2,344 £600 -4.00% 1,489
North of England -2 385 £503 -12.61% 285
South East 0 370 £513 -6.73% 333
South West -10 198 £588 +4.44% 222
Yorkshire +16 183 £506 -16.54% 76
North West -6 175 £500 -11.63% 177
Midlands +5 135 £450 -14.29% 203
East of England -23 84 £445 -11.00% 157
West Midlands -5 81 £450 -18.18% 134
East Midlands +2 53 £410 -18.00% 67
North East +1 30 £625 -3.85% 32
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
1 362 (9.92%) Apache Airflow
2 335 (9.18%) Apache
3 151 (4.14%) Apache Spark
4 119 (3.26%) Confluence
5 46 (1.26%) SAS
6 28 (0.77%) SharePoint
7 27 (0.74%) OpenStack
8 20 (0.55%) nginx
9 18 (0.49%) Jupyter
10 11 (0.30%) ArcGIS
11 9 (0.25%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 9 (0.25%) CMS
12 8 (0.22%) Site Server
13 7 (0.19%) IIS
14 6 (0.16%) JBoss
15 5 (0.14%) BizTalk Server
15 5 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
15 5 (0.14%) Gunicorn
16 4 (0.11%) GeoServer
16 4 (0.11%) Luigi
Applications
1 113 (3.10%) Chatbot
2 71 (1.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (0.38%) MS Visio
5 11 (0.30%) SPSS
6 10 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.25%) Simulink
8 7 (0.19%) CANalyzer
8 7 (0.19%) Sketch
9 4 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 3 (0.082%) InVision
11 2 (0.055%) Maya
11 2 (0.055%) NUKE
11 2 (0.055%) Stata
11 2 (0.055%) Trello
12 1 (0.027%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 24 (0.66%) Aladdin
2 9 (0.25%) Distributed Ledger
3 7 (0.19%) Endur
3 7 (0.19%) SimCorp Dimension
4 6 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.16%) ION MarketView
4 6 (0.16%) NEC Housing
4 6 (0.16%) Odoo
5 4 (0.11%) Adobe Campaign
5 4 (0.11%) FastStats
5 4 (0.11%) Global One
5 4 (0.11%) Maximo
5 4 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.11%) Shopify
5 4 (0.11%) Unica
6 3 (0.082%) Orchestrade
6 3 (0.082%) Primavera
7 2 (0.055%) Advent Geneva
7 2 (0.055%) Front Arena
7 2 (0.055%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,314 (36.00%) AWS
2 945 (25.89%) Azure
3 504 (13.81%) GCP
4 312 (8.55%) Serverless
5 230 (6.30%) GitHub
6 223 (6.11%) Snowflake
7 219 (6.00%) dbt
8 215 (5.89%) Power Platform
9 210 (5.75%) Amazon S3
10 195 (5.34%) AWS Lambda
11 169 (4.63%) Azure DevOps
12 141 (3.86%) Amazon EC2
13 121 (3.32%) Azure Data Factory
14 69 (1.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 66 (1.81%) Amazon EKS
15 66 (1.81%) AWS CloudFormation
15 66 (1.81%) Cloud Computing
15 66 (1.81%) GitHub Actions
16 65 (1.78%) PaaS
17 64 (1.75%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 135 (3.70%) Firewall
2 74 (2.03%) DNS
3 71 (1.95%) TCP/IP
4 54 (1.48%) VPN
5 47 (1.29%) Network Security
6 45 (1.23%) BGP
7 39 (1.07%) Wireless
8 38 (1.04%) DHCP
9 32 (0.88%) HTTP
9 32 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
10 28 (0.77%) 5G
10 28 (0.77%) MPLS
11 26 (0.71%) Cisco Nexus
11 26 (0.71%) OSPF
11 26 (0.71%) Radio Access Network
12 25 (0.68%) Internet
13 24 (0.66%) Cisco ASA
13 24 (0.66%) SAN
13 24 (0.66%) VLAN
14 23 (0.63%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 301 (8.25%) Data Lake
2 222 (6.08%) Apache Ignite
3 219 (6.00%) Amazon Athena
4 215 (5.89%) Big Data
5 213 (5.84%) PostgreSQL
6 204 (5.59%) Power BI
7 196 (5.37%) Data Warehouse
8 181 (4.96%) NoSQL
9 180 (4.93%) Dremio
10 176 (4.82%) Apache Arrow
11 155 (4.25%) Tableau
12 131 (3.59%) SQL Server
13 116 (3.18%) Relational Database
14 113 (3.10%) Amazon Redshift
15 100 (2.74%) Amazon RDS
16 94 (2.58%) MongoDB
17 89 (2.44%) BigQuery
18 81 (2.22%) Hadoop
19 79 (2.16%) MySQL
20 62 (1.70%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 443 (12.14%) Git
2 393 (10.77%) Jenkins
3 258 (7.07%) JIRA
4 156 (4.27%) GitLab
5 75 (2.05%) Bitbucket
6 74 (2.03%) Cypress.io
7 63 (1.73%) Selenium
8 40 (1.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 39 (1.07%) Sonatype Nexus
10 37 (1.01%) JMeter
11 36 (0.99%) Artifactory
11 36 (0.99%) TeamCity
12 35 (0.96%) Robot Framework
13 31 (0.85%) Cucumber
14 27 (0.74%) Subversion
15 26 (0.71%) Postman
16 23 (0.63%) Visual Studio
17 22 (0.60%) GoogleTest
18 21 (0.58%) CircleCI
19 20 (0.55%) SonarQube
General
1 956 (26.19%) Finance
2 645 (17.67%) Social Skills
3 521 (14.27%) Banking
4 453 (12.41%) Front Office
5 420 (11.51%) Analytical Skills
6 244 (6.68%) Investment Banking
7 176 (4.82%) Public Sector
8 79 (2.16%) Marketing
9 76 (2.08%) Retail
10 69 (1.89%) Telecoms
11 48 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
12 47 (1.29%) Manufacturing
13 39 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
14 36 (0.99%) Back Office
14 36 (0.99%) Electronics
15 35 (0.96%) Aerospace
16 31 (0.85%) Financial Institution
17 28 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 21 (0.58%) Legal
19 18 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,004 (27.51%) Developer
2 472 (12.93%) Python Developer
3 455 (12.47%) Senior
4 379 (10.38%) Data Engineer
5 346 (9.48%) Software Engineer
6 333 (9.12%) Analyst
7 291 (7.97%) Python Engineer
8 258 (7.07%) DevOps Engineer
9 250 (6.85%) Architect
10 225 (6.16%) Lead
11 222 (6.08%) AWS Engineer
12 201 (5.51%) Software Developer
13 171 (4.68%) Python Software Engineer
14 139 (3.81%) Data Analyst
15 138 (3.78%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 135 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
17 120 (3.29%) Full Stack Developer
18 104 (2.85%) React Developer
19 96 (2.63%) Data Scientist
20 91 (2.49%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 273 (7.48%) React
2 261 (7.15%) gRPC
3 254 (6.96%) Pandas
4 249 (6.82%) Protocol Buffers
5 225 (6.16%) NumPy
6 219 (6.00%) HTML
7 196 (5.37%) PySpark
8 194 (5.32%) Kafka
9 184 (5.04%) SciPy
10 137 (3.75%) REST
11 125 (3.42%) .NET
12 124 (3.40%) Node.js
13 109 (2.99%) RESTful
14 105 (2.88%) JSON
15 98 (2.68%) Redux
16 91 (2.49%) CSS
17 86 (2.36%) Django
18 78 (2.14%) Material-UI
19 71 (1.95%) Elastic Stack
20 66 (1.81%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 336 (9.21%) Hedge funds
2 320 (8.77%) Fixed Income
3 297 (8.14%) Derivative
4 253 (6.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 245 (6.71%) Equities
6 151 (4.14%) Algorithms
7 117 (3.21%) Product Ownership
8 95 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
9 94 (2.58%) Data Structures
10 77 (2.11%) Linux Command Line
11 63 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
12 62 (1.70%) Public Cloud
13 57 (1.56%) Management Information System
13 57 (1.56%) PKI
14 54 (1.48%) Data Centre
15 53 (1.45%) Cloud Native
16 44 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
17 43 (1.18%) Onboarding
18 34 (0.93%) Clustering
19 33 (0.90%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 524 (14.36%) Linux
2 237 (6.49%) Windows
3 171 (4.68%) Unix
4 94 (2.58%) Windows Server
5 91 (2.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 24 (0.66%) Android
7 23 (0.63%) CentOS
7 23 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
8 19 (0.52%) Ubuntu
9 17 (0.47%) Apple iOS
9 17 (0.47%) Debian
10 10 (0.27%) Solaris
11 9 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
12 8 (0.22%) VMS
12 8 (0.22%) zOS
13 6 (0.16%) Oracle Linux
13 6 (0.16%) Windows 10
14 5 (0.14%) Mac OS
14 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
15 4 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,025 (28.08%) Agile
2 906 (24.82%) DevOps
3 779 (21.34%) CI/CD
4 759 (20.79%) Software Engineering
5 489 (13.40%) Problem-Solving
6 459 (12.58%) Analytics
7 432 (11.84%) Artificial Intelligence
8 378 (10.36%) Machine Learning
9 376 (10.30%) Asset Management
10 324 (8.88%) Data Modelling
11 323 (8.85%) ETL
12 317 (8.68%) Computer Science
13 314 (8.60%) Test Automation
14 307 (8.41%) Data Pipeline
15 301 (8.25%) Infrastructure as Code
15 301 (8.25%) Investment Management
16 277 (7.59%) Data Science
17 267 (7.32%) Business Intelligence
18 246 (6.74%) Full Stack Development
19 244 (6.68%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 1,205 (33.01%) SQL
2 842 (23.07%) Java
3 632 (17.32%) JavaScript
4 416 (11.40%) PowerShell
5 339 (9.29%) C#
6 312 (8.55%) Bash
7 308 (8.44%) TypeScript
8 293 (8.03%) C++
9 182 (4.99%) Go
10 141 (3.86%) Shell Script
11 140 (3.84%) R
12 136 (3.73%) C
13 128 (3.51%) Perl
14 110 (3.01%) Scala
15 68 (1.86%) Ruby
16 47 (1.29%) T-SQL
17 42 (1.15%) Groovy
18 37 (1.01%) Rust
19 36 (0.99%) VBA
20 26 (0.71%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 589 (16.14%) Security Cleared
2 485 (13.29%) Degree
3 401 (10.99%) SC Cleared
4 180 (4.93%) DV Cleared
5 171 (4.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 93 (2.55%) Master's Degree
7 61 (1.67%) AWS Certification
8 60 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
9 50 (1.37%) CCNP
10 39 (1.07%) PhD
11 37 (1.01%) Numerate Degree
12 34 (0.93%) Azure Certification
13 32 (0.88%) CCNA
14 23 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 19 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 18 (0.49%) CISSP
17 15 (0.41%) CCIE
17 15 (0.41%) GIAC
18 13 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
18 13 (0.36%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 223 (6.11%) Data Quality
2 146 (4.00%) QA
3 35 (0.96%) GDPR
4 25 (0.68%) MISRA
4 25 (0.68%) NIST
5 17 (0.47%) Accessibility
5 17 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (0.44%) PCI DSS
7 9 (0.25%) SLA
8 8 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
8 8 (0.22%) JTAG
9 7 (0.19%) Good Clinical Practice
9 7 (0.19%) GxP
9 7 (0.19%) RMADS
10 6 (0.16%) HIPAA
10 6 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.082%) ISO 22301
12 3 (0.082%) NCSC
12 3 (0.082%) PMO
System Software
1 454 (12.44%) Docker
2 123 (3.37%) Active Directory
3 103 (2.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 44 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
5 35 (0.96%) vSphere
6 32 (0.88%) VMware NSX
7 28 (0.77%) Firmware
8 20 (0.55%) Hyper-V
9 16 (0.44%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 15 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
11 12 (0.33%) NFS
12 11 (0.30%) HDFS
13 9 (0.25%) KVM
14 8 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
14 8 (0.22%) Time Sharing Option
14 8 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
15 5 (0.14%) Veritas Cluster Server
16 4 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 4 (0.11%) VirtualBox
17 2 (0.055%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 611 (16.74%) Terraform
2 552 (15.12%) Kubernetes
3 436 (11.95%) Ansible
4 133 (3.64%) Grafana
4 133 (3.64%) Prometheus
5 86 (2.36%) Puppet
6 59 (1.62%) Progress Chef
7 40 (1.10%) Kibana
8 33 (0.90%) logstash
9 24 (0.66%) Packer
9 24 (0.66%) PowerCLI
9 24 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
10 23 (0.63%) Docker Swarm
11 22 (0.60%) ITRS Geneos
12 20 (0.55%) Argo
13 19 (0.52%) Consul
14 17 (0.47%) vRealize
15 12 (0.33%) Nagios
15 12 (0.33%) Tivoli Storage Manager
16 11 (0.30%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 264 (7.23%) Microsoft
2 241 (6.60%) Google
3 200 (5.48%) Databricks
4 152 (4.16%) VMware
5 139 (3.81%) Oracle
5 139 (3.81%) Splunk
6 110 (3.01%) PayPal
7 96 (2.63%) Cisco
8 76 (2.08%) Red Hat
9 74 (2.03%) SAP
10 54 (1.48%) IBM
11 47 (1.29%) Palo Alto
12 44 (1.21%) Atlassian
12 44 (1.21%) Bloomberg
12 44 (1.21%) F5
13 41 (1.12%) Dell
14 37 (1.01%) Sybase
15 35 (0.96%) Citrix
15 35 (0.96%) Dynatrace
16 34 (0.93%) SolarWinds