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 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 12 13
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Python 3,603 5,359 7,173
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 9.65% 11.35% 10.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.94% 33.00% 27.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,636 3,916 5,173
10th Percentile £375 £425 £425
25th Percentile £463 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £731 £704
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 98 113 95
10th Percentile £21.59 £22.28 £25.50
25th Percentile £46.20 £47.50 £41.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +18.18% +46.67%
75th Percentile £71.72 £73.75 £61.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £81.60 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £61.00 £64.69 £51.25
% change year-on-year -5.70% +26.22% +36.67%

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 11,280 16,240 25,899
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.22% 34.38% 36.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,117 11,885 19,196
10th Percentile £350 £381 £385
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% +2.36% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £694 £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 475 399 445
10th Percentile £35.52 £29.42 £20.00
25th Percentile £49.25 £50.21 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +19.05% +18.91%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £62.50
90th Percentile £77.80 £79.19 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.00
% change year-on-year - +20.19% +15.56%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 -2 2,307 £600 -4.00% 1,384
North of England -2 387 £500 -13.04% 260
South East -1 361 £515 -6.36% 352
South West -9 195 £600 +4.35% 202
Yorkshire +19 184 £500 -17.53% 70
North West -6 175 £500 -11.63% 163
Midlands -1 132 £450 -14.29% 187
East of England -17 86 £440 -12.00% 149
West Midlands -7 79 £450 -19.10% 125
East Midlands +3 52 £425 -15.00% 60
North East +1 31 £600 -7.69% 27
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
1 347 (9.63%) Apache Airflow
2 319 (8.85%) Apache
3 139 (3.86%) Apache Spark
4 119 (3.30%) Confluence
5 46 (1.28%) SAS
6 28 (0.78%) SharePoint
7 27 (0.75%) OpenStack
8 20 (0.56%) nginx
9 17 (0.47%) Jupyter
10 12 (0.33%) 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 (0.17%) 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 (3.14%) Chatbot
2 71 (1.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (0.39%) MS Visio
5 11 (0.31%) SPSS
6 10 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.25%) Simulink
8 7 (0.19%) Sketch
9 6 (0.17%) CANalyzer
10 4 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
11 3 (0.083%) InVision
12 2 (0.056%) Stata
12 2 (0.056%) Trello
13 1 (0.028%) CPLEX
13 1 (0.028%) Maya
13 1 (0.028%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 23 (0.64%) Aladdin
2 9 (0.25%) Distributed Ledger
3 7 (0.19%) Endur
3 7 (0.19%) Odoo
3 7 (0.19%) SimCorp Dimension
4 6 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.17%) ION MarketView
4 6 (0.17%) NEC Housing
5 4 (0.11%) Adobe Campaign
5 4 (0.11%) FastStats
5 4 (0.11%) Maximo
5 4 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.11%) Shopify
5 4 (0.11%) Unica
6 3 (0.083%) Global One
6 3 (0.083%) Orchestrade
6 3 (0.083%) Primavera
7 2 (0.056%) Advent Geneva
7 2 (0.056%) Front Arena
7 2 (0.056%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,276 (35.41%) AWS
2 926 (25.70%) Azure
3 485 (13.46%) GCP
4 312 (8.66%) Serverless
5 225 (6.24%) GitHub
6 212 (5.88%) Power Platform
7 211 (5.86%) Snowflake
8 205 (5.69%) dbt
9 202 (5.61%) Amazon S3
10 196 (5.44%) AWS Lambda
11 170 (4.72%) Azure DevOps
12 137 (3.80%) Amazon EC2
13 120 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
14 69 (1.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 65 (1.80%) Cloud Computing
16 64 (1.78%) AWS CloudFormation
16 64 (1.78%) Entra ID
16 64 (1.78%) GitHub Actions
17 63 (1.75%) PaaS
18 62 (1.72%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 131 (3.64%) Firewall
2 75 (2.08%) DNS
3 71 (1.97%) TCP/IP
4 54 (1.50%) VPN
5 49 (1.36%) Network Security
6 45 (1.25%) BGP
7 38 (1.05%) DHCP
7 38 (1.05%) Wireless
8 32 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
9 31 (0.86%) HTTP
10 28 (0.78%) 5G
10 28 (0.78%) MPLS
11 27 (0.75%) Radio Access Network
12 26 (0.72%) Cisco Nexus
12 26 (0.72%) OSPF
13 25 (0.69%) Internet
14 24 (0.67%) Cisco ASA
14 24 (0.67%) SAN
14 24 (0.67%) VLAN
15 22 (0.61%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 280 (7.77%) Data Lake
2 211 (5.86%) Apache Ignite
3 210 (5.83%) PostgreSQL
4 207 (5.75%) Amazon Athena
4 207 (5.75%) Big Data
5 201 (5.58%) Power BI
6 180 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
7 174 (4.83%) NoSQL
8 168 (4.66%) Dremio
9 165 (4.58%) Apache Arrow
10 149 (4.14%) Tableau
11 130 (3.61%) SQL Server
12 115 (3.19%) Relational Database
13 106 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
14 98 (2.72%) Amazon RDS
15 91 (2.53%) MongoDB
16 88 (2.44%) BigQuery
17 76 (2.11%) MySQL
18 72 (2.00%) Hadoop
19 60 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 435 (12.07%) Git
2 392 (10.88%) Jenkins
3 248 (6.88%) JIRA
4 152 (4.22%) GitLab
5 78 (2.16%) Bitbucket
6 74 (2.05%) Cypress.io
7 62 (1.72%) Selenium
8 41 (1.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 38 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
10 37 (1.03%) JMeter
11 36 (1.00%) Artifactory
12 35 (0.97%) TeamCity
13 32 (0.89%) Robot Framework
14 30 (0.83%) Cucumber
15 26 (0.72%) Subversion
16 24 (0.67%) Postman
17 22 (0.61%) Visual Studio
18 21 (0.58%) CircleCI
19 19 (0.53%) Burp Suite
19 19 (0.53%) SonarQube
General
1 942 (26.14%) Finance
2 644 (17.87%) Social Skills
3 511 (14.18%) Banking
4 444 (12.32%) Front Office
5 414 (11.49%) Analytical Skills
6 236 (6.55%) Investment Banking
7 174 (4.83%) Public Sector
8 76 (2.11%) Retail
9 75 (2.08%) Marketing
10 64 (1.78%) Telecoms
11 48 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
12 44 (1.22%) Manufacturing
13 39 (1.08%) Back Office
14 36 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
15 34 (0.94%) Aerospace
16 31 (0.86%) Electronics
17 29 (0.80%) Financial Institution
18 28 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 21 (0.58%) Legal
20 18 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,002 (27.81%) Developer
2 471 (13.07%) Python Developer
3 446 (12.38%) Senior
4 368 (10.21%) Data Engineer
5 336 (9.33%) Software Engineer
6 334 (9.27%) Analyst
7 287 (7.97%) Python Engineer
8 257 (7.13%) DevOps Engineer
9 234 (6.49%) Architect
10 218 (6.05%) Lead
11 213 (5.91%) AWS Engineer
12 199 (5.52%) Software Developer
13 168 (4.66%) Python Software Engineer
14 139 (3.86%) Data Analyst
15 134 (3.72%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 133 (3.69%) Azure Engineer
17 121 (3.36%) Full Stack Developer
18 105 (2.91%) React Developer
19 92 (2.55%) Data Scientist
20 84 (2.33%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 278 (7.72%) React
2 249 (6.91%) gRPC
3 243 (6.74%) Pandas
4 237 (6.58%) Protocol Buffers
5 220 (6.11%) HTML
6 215 (5.97%) NumPy
7 186 (5.16%) Kafka
8 184 (5.11%) PySpark
9 172 (4.77%) SciPy
10 130 (3.61%) REST
11 123 (3.41%) Node.js
12 122 (3.39%) .NET
13 103 (2.86%) RESTful
14 99 (2.75%) JSON
15 98 (2.72%) Redux
16 90 (2.50%) CSS
17 83 (2.30%) Django
18 78 (2.16%) Material-UI
19 71 (1.97%) Elastic Stack
20 68 (1.89%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 326 (9.05%) Hedge funds
2 309 (8.58%) Fixed Income
3 290 (8.05%) Derivative
4 237 (6.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 235 (6.52%) Equities
6 150 (4.16%) Algorithms
7 117 (3.25%) Product Ownership
8 96 (2.66%) Distributed Systems
9 89 (2.47%) Data Structures
10 74 (2.05%) Linux Command Line
11 67 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
12 61 (1.69%) Public Cloud
13 60 (1.67%) Data Centre
14 58 (1.61%) Management Information System
15 56 (1.55%) PKI
16 51 (1.42%) Cloud Native
17 42 (1.17%) Onboarding
17 42 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
18 34 (0.94%) Clustering
19 33 (0.92%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 532 (14.77%) Linux
2 233 (6.47%) Windows
3 170 (4.72%) Unix
4 92 (2.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 92 (2.55%) Windows Server
5 23 (0.64%) CentOS
6 22 (0.61%) Android
7 21 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
8 19 (0.53%) Ubuntu
9 17 (0.47%) Debian
10 16 (0.44%) Apple iOS
11 15 (0.42%) zOS
12 10 (0.28%) Solaris
12 10 (0.28%) VMS
13 9 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
14 7 (0.19%) Kali Linux
15 6 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
15 6 (0.17%) Windows 10
16 5 (0.14%) Mac OS
16 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,010 (28.03%) Agile
2 896 (24.87%) DevOps
3 760 (21.09%) CI/CD
4 737 (20.46%) Software Engineering
5 479 (13.29%) Problem-Solving
6 441 (12.24%) Analytics
7 428 (11.88%) Artificial Intelligence
8 369 (10.24%) Machine Learning
9 365 (10.13%) Asset Management
10 314 (8.71%) Data Modelling
11 308 (8.55%) ETL
12 305 (8.47%) Computer Science
13 300 (8.33%) Test Automation
14 299 (8.30%) Infrastructure as Code
15 297 (8.24%) Investment Management
16 294 (8.16%) Data Pipeline
17 262 (7.27%) Data Science
18 257 (7.13%) Business Intelligence
19 248 (6.88%) Full Stack Development
20 246 (6.83%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 1,173 (32.56%) SQL
2 806 (22.37%) Java
3 620 (17.21%) JavaScript
4 406 (11.27%) PowerShell
5 338 (9.38%) C#
6 309 (8.58%) Bash
7 296 (8.22%) TypeScript
8 288 (7.99%) C++
9 180 (5.00%) Go
10 141 (3.91%) Shell Script
11 139 (3.86%) C
12 137 (3.80%) R
13 126 (3.50%) Perl
14 109 (3.03%) Scala
15 67 (1.86%) Ruby
16 44 (1.22%) T-SQL
17 40 (1.11%) Groovy
18 37 (1.03%) Rust
19 35 (0.97%) VBA
20 26 (0.72%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 581 (16.13%) Security Cleared
2 472 (13.10%) Degree
3 400 (11.10%) SC Cleared
4 174 (4.83%) DV Cleared
5 163 (4.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 90 (2.50%) Master's Degree
7 64 (1.78%) AWS Certification
8 60 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
9 50 (1.39%) CCNP
10 37 (1.03%) Numerate Degree
10 37 (1.03%) PhD
11 33 (0.92%) Azure Certification
11 33 (0.92%) CCNA
12 25 (0.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 20 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 18 (0.50%) CISSP
15 17 (0.47%) OSCP
16 14 (0.39%) CCIE
17 13 (0.36%) CEH
17 13 (0.36%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 208 (5.77%) Data Quality
2 146 (4.05%) QA
3 32 (0.89%) GDPR
4 22 (0.61%) NIST
5 21 (0.58%) MISRA
6 20 (0.56%) PCI DSS
7 16 (0.44%) Accessibility
8 14 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 9 (0.25%) SLA
10 7 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
10 7 (0.19%) Good Clinical Practice
10 7 (0.19%) GxP
10 7 (0.19%) JTAG
10 7 (0.19%) RMADS
11 6 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.14%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
14 3 (0.083%) ISO 22301
14 3 (0.083%) NCSC
14 3 (0.083%) PMO
System Software
1 446 (12.38%) Docker
2 121 (3.36%) Active Directory
3 98 (2.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 43 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
5 32 (0.89%) vSphere
6 30 (0.83%) VMware NSX
7 28 (0.78%) Firmware
8 19 (0.53%) Hyper-V
8 19 (0.53%) NFS
9 16 (0.44%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 15 (0.42%) Time Sharing Option
11 14 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
12 10 (0.28%) HDFS
13 9 (0.25%) KVM
14 7 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
15 6 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
16 5 (0.14%) Veritas Cluster Server
17 4 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
17 4 (0.11%) VirtualBox
18 2 (0.056%) iptables
Systems Management
1 609 (16.90%) Terraform
2 544 (15.10%) Kubernetes
3 437 (12.13%) Ansible
4 133 (3.69%) Grafana
5 132 (3.66%) Prometheus
6 86 (2.39%) Puppet
7 60 (1.67%) Progress Chef
8 40 (1.11%) Kibana
9 31 (0.86%) logstash
10 25 (0.69%) Packer
10 25 (0.69%) PowerCLI
11 24 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
12 23 (0.64%) Docker Swarm
13 22 (0.61%) ITRS Geneos
14 20 (0.56%) Argo
15 19 (0.53%) Consul
15 19 (0.53%) Tivoli Storage Manager
16 16 (0.44%) vRealize
17 12 (0.33%) Nagios
18 11 (0.31%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 263 (7.30%) Microsoft
2 232 (6.44%) Google
3 188 (5.22%) Databricks
4 147 (4.08%) VMware
5 142 (3.94%) Oracle
6 135 (3.75%) Splunk
7 110 (3.05%) PayPal
8 95 (2.64%) Cisco
9 70 (1.94%) Red Hat
9 70 (1.94%) SAP
10 61 (1.69%) IBM
11 50 (1.39%) Dell
12 47 (1.30%) Palo Alto
13 45 (1.25%) Atlassian
14 42 (1.17%) F5
15 40 (1.11%) Bloomberg
16 36 (1.00%) Sybase
17 35 (0.97%) Dynatrace
18 34 (0.94%) Salesforce
19 33 (0.92%) Citrix