Lead Python Developer Contracts in London

Lead Python Developer
England > London

The median Lead Python Developer daily rate in London is £825, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 370 473 589
Rank change year-on-year +103 +116 -101
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Python Developer 30 9 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.17% 0.036% 0.039%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.038% 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 3 14
10th Percentile £713 £560 -
25th Percentile £722 £575 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £825 £600 £606
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -1.03% -26.52%
75th Percentile £888 £609 £672
90th Percentile - £615 £801
England median daily rate £825 £588 £625
% change year-on-year +40.43% -6.00% -10.71%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 16,560 23,906 36,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.67% 95.05% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,921 17,459 27,030
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 281 404
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.98 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.17 £22.63 £23.75
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.12%
75th Percentile £46.59 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

Lead Python Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Lead Python Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Lead Python Developer in London

Lead Python Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Python Developer in London

Lead Python Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Python Developer in London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Python Developer in London

Lead Python Developer
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Python Developer within the London 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
West London - 1 £600 -
Lead Python Developer
England

Lead Python Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Lead Python Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Lead Python Developer in the job title.

1 30 (100.00%) Python
2 27 (90.00%) Finance
3 26 (86.67%) Agile
4 25 (83.33%) Software Engineering
5 20 (66.67%) Front Office
5 20 (66.67%) JavaScript
5 20 (66.67%) AWS
5 20 (66.67%) GCP
6 19 (63.33%) Apache Airflow
7 18 (60.00%) Amazon Athena
7 18 (60.00%) Apache Ignite
7 18 (60.00%) Dremio
7 18 (60.00%) Pandas
7 18 (60.00%) dbt
7 18 (60.00%) gRPC
7 18 (60.00%) Apache Arrow
7 18 (60.00%) Hedge funds
7 18 (60.00%) SciPy
7 18 (60.00%) NumPy
7 18 (60.00%) Protocol Buffers
7 18 (60.00%) TypeScript
7 18 (60.00%) Derivative
7 18 (60.00%) Java
7 18 (60.00%) Apache
7 18 (60.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 18 (60.00%) Fixed Income
7 18 (60.00%) Equities
7 18 (60.00%) Investment Banking
7 18 (60.00%) Banking
7 18 (60.00%) Asset Management

Lead Python Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 19 (63.33%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (60.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 20 (66.67%) AWS
1 20 (66.67%) GCP
2 18 (60.00%) dbt
3 17 (56.67%) Snowflake
4 4 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (6.67%) Azure
5 2 (6.67%) Azure API Management
5 2 (6.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (6.67%) Azure Storage
5 2 (6.67%) Entra ID
5 2 (6.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 2 (6.67%) PaaS
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (60.00%) Amazon Athena
1 18 (60.00%) Apache Arrow
1 18 (60.00%) Apache Ignite
1 18 (60.00%) Dremio
2 17 (56.67%) Data Lake
3 2 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Postman
2 2 (6.67%) GitLab
2 2 (6.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.33%) Git
General
1 27 (90.00%) Finance
2 20 (66.67%) Front Office
3 18 (60.00%) Banking
3 18 (60.00%) Investment Banking
4 2 (6.67%) Retail
4 2 (6.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (60.00%) gRPC
1 18 (60.00%) NumPy
1 18 (60.00%) Pandas
1 18 (60.00%) Protocol Buffers
1 18 (60.00%) SciPy
2 7 (23.33%) Web Services
3 4 (13.33%) Swagger
4 3 (10.00%) Django
5 2 (6.67%) CSS
5 2 (6.67%) HTML
5 2 (6.67%) PySpark
5 2 (6.67%) React
6 1 (3.33%) Flask
6 1 (3.33%) Kafka
6 1 (3.33%) scikit-learn
6 1 (3.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 18 (60.00%) Derivative
1 18 (60.00%) Equities
1 18 (60.00%) Fixed Income
1 18 (60.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 18 (60.00%) Hedge funds
2 3 (10.00%) Data Structures
3 2 (6.67%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (86.67%) Agile
2 25 (83.33%) Software Engineering
3 18 (60.00%) Asset Management
4 17 (56.67%) Line Management
5 10 (33.33%) CI/CD
6 8 (26.67%) Investment Management
6 8 (26.67%) TDD
7 7 (23.33%) Continuous Deployment
7 7 (23.33%) Continuous Integration
8 6 (20.00%) Coaching
9 5 (16.67%) Pair Programming
10 4 (13.33%) Data Science
11 3 (10.00%) Computer Science
11 3 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 3 (10.00%) Machine Learning
11 3 (10.00%) Software Testing
12 2 (6.67%) Analytics
12 2 (6.67%) Mentoring
12 2 (6.67%) Migration
12 2 (6.67%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 30 (100.00%) Python
2 20 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 18 (60.00%) Java
3 18 (60.00%) TypeScript
4 8 (26.67%) SQL
5 1 (3.33%) Ruby
5 1 (3.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (3.33%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (6.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.67%) Bloomberg
2 2 (6.67%) Reuters