Python Contracts in the UK excluding London

Python
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 21 19 28
Rank change year-on-year -2 +9 -5
Contract jobs citing Python 1,351 1,852 1,990
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.49% 8.13% 6.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.35% 29.05% 22.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 898 1,275 1,351
10th Percentile £363 £400 £390
25th Percentile £425 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% +3.71% +10.53%
75th Percentile £605 £638 £625
90th Percentile £675 £713 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 104 64
10th Percentile £20.74 £22.16 £18.15
25th Percentile £38.00 £47.50 £36.66
Median hourly rate £65.00 £59.28 £53.78
Median % change year-on-year +9.66% +10.22% +32.78%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £61.19
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £51.25
% change year-on-year -7.69% +26.83% +34.87%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,940 6,376 8,782
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.72% 27.99% 28.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,306 4,469 6,152
10th Percentile £319 £350 £338
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +14.94%
75th Percentile £583 £594 £575
90th Percentile £650 £680 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 432 323 321
10th Percentile £37.55 £26.48 £17.00
25th Percentile £52.19 £51.25 £32.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +19.05% +28.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £78.00 £68.00
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £51.75
% change year-on-year -0.80% +20.77% +17.21%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Python in the UK excluding London

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Python in the UK excluding London

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Python in the UK excluding London

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Python in the UK excluding London

Python
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Python in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Python in the UK excluding London

Python
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding 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
North of England -2 386 £503 -12.61% 285
South East -3 348 £525 -4.55% 355
Scotland -8 193 £491 -1.85% 121
South West -12 192 £600 +2.65% 195
Yorkshire +17 182 £507 -16.37% 76
North West -6 176 £500 -9.91% 164
Midlands +4 130 £450 -14.29% 196
East of England -19 88 £450 -10.00% 157
West Midlands -6 77 £450 -19.10% 138
East Midlands +5 52 £438 -12.50% 57
North East +4 30 £600 -11.11% 46
Wales +14 20 £550 +4.76% 32
Northern Ireland +2 9 £413 -17.50% 32
Python
UK

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 80 (5.92%) Confluence
2 49 (3.63%) Apache Airflow
3 44 (3.26%) Apache
4 41 (3.03%) Apache Spark
5 33 (2.44%) SAS
6 7 (0.52%) nginx
7 6 (0.44%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.37%) JBoss
8 5 (0.37%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.30%) GeoServer
10 3 (0.22%) CMS
10 3 (0.22%) IIS
11 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.15%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.15%) IBM Domino
11 2 (0.15%) Traefik
12 1 (0.074%) Appian
12 1 (0.074%) Drupal
12 1 (0.074%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.074%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 109 (8.07%) Chatbot
2 20 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (1.18%) Sketch
4 10 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (0.74%) SPSS
5 8 (0.59%) Simulink
6 6 (0.44%) CANalyzer
7 3 (0.22%) InVision
8 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.15%) Trello
9 1 (0.074%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 1 (0.074%) Revit
9 1 (0.074%) Stata
Business Applications
1 8 (0.59%) Maximo
1 8 (0.59%) Odoo
2 4 (0.30%) Adobe Campaign
2 4 (0.30%) FastStats
2 4 (0.30%) Unica
3 3 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.15%) Shopify
5 1 (0.074%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.074%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.074%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 379 (28.05%) AWS
2 294 (21.76%) Azure
3 128 (9.47%) Serverless
4 97 (7.18%) GCP
5 92 (6.81%) Amazon S3
6 87 (6.44%) Power Platform
7 81 (6.00%) GitHub
8 74 (5.48%) AWS Lambda
9 65 (4.81%) OpenShift
10 56 (4.15%) AWS CloudFormation
11 51 (3.77%) Amazon EC2
11 51 (3.77%) Snowflake
12 49 (3.63%) Azure Data Factory
13 47 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
14 32 (2.37%) Entra ID
15 29 (2.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 27 (2.00%) Azure Functions
16 27 (2.00%) Azure Monitor
17 23 (1.70%) Cloud Computing
18 21 (1.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 53 (3.92%) Firewall
2 45 (3.33%) TCP/IP
3 36 (2.66%) VPN
4 28 (2.07%) DNS
5 26 (1.92%) SAN
6 24 (1.78%) BGP
7 20 (1.48%) Network Security
7 20 (1.48%) Radio Access Network
8 19 (1.41%) Wireless
9 17 (1.26%) OSPF
9 17 (1.26%) Wi-Fi
10 16 (1.18%) Cisco ASA
11 14 (1.04%) HTTP
12 12 (0.89%) Cisco ISE
12 12 (0.89%) EIGRP
12 12 (0.89%) HSRP
12 12 (0.89%) IPsec
12 12 (0.89%) NetScaler
12 12 (0.89%) SNMP
12 12 (0.89%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (5.92%) Power BI
2 77 (5.70%) PostgreSQL
3 57 (4.22%) NoSQL
4 54 (4.00%) Big Data
4 54 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
4 54 (4.00%) MongoDB
5 51 (3.77%) Data Lake
6 50 (3.70%) Relational Database
7 47 (3.48%) Tableau
8 36 (2.66%) Elasticsearch
9 35 (2.59%) Hadoop
9 35 (2.59%) SQL Server
10 34 (2.52%) Amazon Redshift
11 33 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
12 32 (2.37%) MySQL
13 29 (2.15%) BigQuery
14 21 (1.55%) Amazon Athena
15 20 (1.48%) Amazon Aurora
15 20 (1.48%) GIS
16 18 (1.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 193 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 185 (13.69%) Git
3 136 (10.07%) JIRA
4 91 (6.74%) GitLab
5 51 (3.77%) Bitbucket
6 35 (2.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 33 (2.44%) Selenium
8 29 (2.15%) Robot Framework
9 27 (2.00%) Sonatype Nexus
10 17 (1.26%) Artifactory
11 16 (1.18%) SonarQube
12 15 (1.11%) Maven
13 14 (1.04%) Subversion
14 12 (0.89%) GoogleTest
14 12 (0.89%) Gradle
14 12 (0.89%) Visual Studio
15 11 (0.81%) Travis CI
16 10 (0.74%) JMeter
17 9 (0.67%) Cucumber
17 9 (0.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 239 (17.69%) Social Skills
2 170 (12.58%) Analytical Skills
3 113 (8.36%) Finance
4 88 (6.51%) Public Sector
5 48 (3.55%) Banking
6 38 (2.81%) Telecoms
7 30 (2.22%) Manufacturing
7 30 (2.22%) Marketing
8 29 (2.15%) Aerospace
9 28 (2.07%) Pharmaceutical
10 22 (1.63%) Electronics
11 20 (1.48%) Retail
12 14 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
13 13 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
14 12 (0.89%) Multimedia
15 9 (0.67%) Legal
16 7 (0.52%) Automotive
17 6 (0.44%) Local Government
18 5 (0.37%) Financial Institution
18 5 (0.37%) Military
Job Titles
1 408 (30.20%) Developer
2 127 (9.40%) Python Developer
3 124 (9.18%) Software Developer
4 117 (8.66%) DevOps Engineer
5 106 (7.85%) Analyst
6 100 (7.40%) Senior
7 98 (7.25%) Data Engineer
8 74 (5.48%) Software Engineer
9 68 (5.03%) Architect
10 58 (4.29%) Data Analyst
11 56 (4.15%) Full Stack Developer
11 56 (4.15%) Python Engineer
12 51 (3.77%) AWS Engineer
13 46 (3.40%) Lead
14 42 (3.11%) Network Engineer
15 41 (3.03%) Linux Engineer
16 38 (2.81%) Platform Engineer
17 37 (2.74%) Security Engineer
18 33 (2.44%) AWS DevOps
19 32 (2.37%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (10.36%) HTML
2 100 (7.40%) React
3 61 (4.52%) REST
4 53 (3.92%) .NET
5 50 (3.70%) PySpark
6 39 (2.89%) AWS CDK
6 39 (2.89%) Kafka
6 39 (2.89%) Node.js
7 35 (2.59%) AngularJS
8 34 (2.52%) JSON
8 34 (2.52%) RESTful
8 34 (2.52%) XML
8 34 (2.52%) YAML
9 29 (2.15%) Django
10 27 (2.00%) CSS
10 27 (2.00%) Elastic Stack
10 27 (2.00%) Flask
10 27 (2.00%) Spring
11 26 (1.92%) .NET Core
12 23 (1.70%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 53 (3.92%) PKI
2 48 (3.55%) Product Ownership
3 41 (3.03%) Linux Command Line
4 33 (2.44%) Data Centre
5 31 (2.29%) Algorithms
6 30 (2.22%) Data Structures
7 29 (2.15%) Public Cloud
8 25 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
9 22 (1.63%) Client/Server
10 21 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
11 18 (1.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 17 (1.26%) Cloud Native
12 17 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
13 16 (1.18%) Management Information System
13 16 (1.18%) Mobile App
14 15 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
15 12 (0.89%) Onboarding
16 11 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
16 11 (0.81%) Renewable Energy
16 11 (0.81%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 303 (22.43%) Linux
2 129 (9.55%) Windows
3 67 (4.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 60 (4.44%) Unix
5 55 (4.07%) Windows Server
6 27 (2.00%) Ubuntu
7 21 (1.55%) Android
8 18 (1.33%) Debian
8 18 (1.33%) Windows Server 2019
9 15 (1.11%) Apple iOS
9 15 (1.11%) zOS
10 9 (0.67%) CentOS
10 9 (0.67%) Embedded Linux
11 8 (0.59%) VMS
12 7 (0.52%) Mac OS
13 4 (0.30%) Solaris
13 4 (0.30%) Windows 10
14 3 (0.22%) Kali Linux
15 2 (0.15%) Data ONTAP
15 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 383 (28.35%) DevOps
2 371 (27.46%) Agile
3 293 (21.69%) CI/CD
4 266 (19.69%) Software Engineering
5 203 (15.03%) Problem-Solving
6 185 (13.69%) Artificial Intelligence
7 138 (10.21%) Data Modelling
8 137 (10.14%) Code Quality
9 123 (9.10%) Test Automation
10 122 (9.03%) Infrastructure as Code
11 121 (8.96%) Containerisation
12 113 (8.36%) Computer Science
13 111 (8.22%) Conversational UI
14 110 (8.14%) Analytics
15 105 (7.77%) Scrum
16 92 (6.81%) Business Intelligence
16 92 (6.81%) ETL
17 85 (6.29%) Configuration Management
17 85 (6.29%) Continuous Integration
18 84 (6.22%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 373 (27.61%) SQL
2 253 (18.73%) Java
3 236 (17.47%) JavaScript
4 204 (15.10%) PowerShell
5 171 (12.66%) C#
6 152 (11.25%) Bash
7 113 (8.36%) C++
8 85 (6.29%) C
9 71 (5.26%) Perl
10 50 (3.70%) Shell Script
11 49 (3.63%) R
12 42 (3.11%) Go
13 37 (2.74%) TypeScript
14 34 (2.52%) Scala
15 28 (2.07%) Ruby
16 26 (1.92%) Groovy
16 26 (1.92%) VBScript
17 18 (1.33%) Tcl
18 15 (1.11%) JCL
18 15 (1.11%) REXX
Qualifications
1 317 (23.46%) Security Cleared
2 224 (16.58%) Degree
3 173 (12.81%) SC Cleared
4 138 (10.21%) DV Cleared
5 54 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (1.92%) Master's Degree
7 23 (1.70%) AWS Certification
7 23 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
8 20 (1.48%) CCNP
9 17 (1.26%) CCNA
10 14 (1.04%) PhD
11 12 (0.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 12 (0.89%) Azure Certification
12 10 (0.74%) OSCP
13 8 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
13 8 (0.59%) CEH
14 7 (0.52%) CREST Certified
14 7 (0.52%) GIAC
15 6 (0.44%) GPEN
16 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (4.66%) QA
2 48 (3.55%) Data Quality
3 22 (1.63%) GDPR
4 18 (1.33%) Accessibility
5 15 (1.11%) MISRA
6 12 (0.89%) Disclosure Scotland
7 11 (0.81%) NIST
8 7 (0.52%) JTAG
8 7 (0.52%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.52%) RMADS
9 6 (0.44%) Good Clinical Practice
9 6 (0.44%) GxP
10 5 (0.37%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 3 (0.22%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.15%) IEC 61508
12 2 (0.15%) NCSC
13 1 (0.074%) CDISC
13 1 (0.074%) DO-178B
System Software
1 187 (13.84%) Docker
2 76 (5.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 69 (5.11%) Active Directory
4 25 (1.85%) vSphere
5 22 (1.63%) Firmware
6 21 (1.55%) VMware NSX
7 19 (1.41%) NFS
8 15 (1.11%) Time Sharing Option
9 13 (0.96%) Hyper-V
9 13 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
10 9 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
11 6 (0.44%) Embedded Firmware
12 5 (0.37%) HDFS
12 5 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
13 4 (0.30%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 4 (0.30%) VirtualBox
14 3 (0.22%) KVM
15 2 (0.15%) GPFS
15 2 (0.15%) LXC
15 2 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 258 (19.10%) Ansible
2 254 (18.80%) Terraform
3 227 (16.80%) Kubernetes
4 69 (5.11%) Grafana
5 48 (3.55%) Prometheus
6 39 (2.89%) Puppet
7 38 (2.81%) Progress Chef
8 29 (2.15%) Kibana
9 27 (2.00%) PowerCLI
10 18 (1.33%) Docker Swarm
11 17 (1.26%) Packer
12 15 (1.11%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 13 (0.96%) logstash
13 13 (0.96%) vRealize
14 11 (0.81%) HP Fortify
15 10 (0.74%) SCCM
15 10 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
16 7 (0.52%) Nagios
16 7 (0.52%) Nessus
16 7 (0.52%) Rancher
Vendors
1 112 (8.29%) VMware
2 111 (8.22%) Microsoft
3 108 (7.99%) PayPal
4 79 (5.85%) Splunk
5 75 (5.55%) Google
6 50 (3.70%) Databricks
7 47 (3.48%) Red Hat
8 44 (3.26%) Atlassian
9 40 (2.96%) Cisco
9 40 (2.96%) Dell
10 38 (2.81%) Oracle
11 27 (2.00%) IBM
12 25 (1.85%) SAP
13 24 (1.78%) HP
14 20 (1.48%) SolarWinds
15 19 (1.41%) Palo Alto
16 18 (1.33%) Brocade
17 17 (1.26%) Citrix
18 16 (1.18%) Salesforce
19 15 (1.11%) CA