Python Contracts in London

Python
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 6 10
Rank change year-on-year -2 +4 0
Contract jobs citing Python 2,274 3,714 4,968
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 13.01% 14.38% 12.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.43% 35.64% 30.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,737 2,758 3,685
10th Percentile £409 £454 £463
25th Percentile £500 £520 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £613
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +2.04% +11.36%
75th Percentile £763 £750 £725
90th Percentile £850 £863 £800
England median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 17 35
10th Percentile £25.25 £51.25 £32.50
25th Percentile £41.75 £70.00 £36.25
Median hourly rate £50.50 £75.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.67% +50.00% +26.10%
75th Percentile £71.88 £85.00 £61.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £90.00 £74.25
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £53.03
% change year-on-year -3.85% +22.58% +32.57%

All Programming Languages
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 London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 6,419 10,421 16,150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.73% 40.34% 41.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,902 7,798 12,394
10th Percentile £380 £413 £415
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £700
90th Percentile £831 £825 £800
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 80 112
10th Percentile £23.80 £26.20 £31.03
25th Percentile £40.77 £48.01 £35.00
Median hourly rate £51.13 £60.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.79% +20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £64.02 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £78.63
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.77
% change year-on-year - +23.10% +19.46%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in London

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Python in London

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python in London

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Python in London

Python
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Python in London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Python in London

Python
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 Python within the London region over the 6 months to 17 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
Central London -2 277 £600 -7.69% 100
South London +4 45 £519 -5.68% 8
West London -8 25 £513 -11.83% 30
East London -5 13 £600 -13.51% 388
North London 0 1 £550 -4.35% 1
Python
England

Python
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
1 268 (11.79%) Apache Airflow
2 240 (10.55%) Apache
3 89 (3.91%) Apache Spark
4 42 (1.85%) Confluence
5 34 (1.50%) OpenStack
6 19 (0.84%) SharePoint
7 18 (0.79%) nginx
8 10 (0.44%) ArcGIS
8 10 (0.44%) BizTalk Server
8 10 (0.44%) Jupyter
9 9 (0.40%) SAS
10 8 (0.35%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 8 (0.35%) Site Server
11 7 (0.31%) Tornado
12 5 (0.22%) CMS
12 5 (0.22%) Gunicorn
13 4 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
13 4 (0.18%) Luigi
14 3 (0.13%) IIS
15 2 (0.088%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 49 (2.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.66%) Chatbot
3 14 (0.62%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.13%) Simulink
8 1 (0.044%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.044%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 22 (0.97%) Aladdin
2 8 (0.35%) Distributed Ledger
3 7 (0.31%) Endur
4 6 (0.26%) NEC Housing
4 6 (0.26%) SimCorp Dimension
5 3 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.13%) Global One
5 3 (0.13%) ION MarketView
5 3 (0.13%) Orchestrade
5 3 (0.13%) Primavera
6 2 (0.088%) Advent Geneva
6 2 (0.088%) Front Arena
6 2 (0.088%) Shopify
7 1 (0.044%) Magento
7 1 (0.044%) OPENHousing
7 1 (0.044%) Oracle BPM
7 1 (0.044%) R3 Corda
7 1 (0.044%) SAP CX
7 1 (0.044%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.044%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 893 (39.27%) AWS
2 617 (27.13%) Azure
3 355 (15.61%) GCP
4 208 (9.15%) Serverless
5 151 (6.64%) AWS Lambda
6 148 (6.51%) dbt
7 139 (6.11%) Power Platform
8 135 (5.94%) Snowflake
9 123 (5.41%) Amazon S3
10 122 (5.36%) GitHub
11 102 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
12 86 (3.78%) Amazon EC2
13 73 (3.21%) Azure Data Factory
14 51 (2.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 48 (2.11%) GitHub Actions
15 48 (2.11%) PaaS
16 45 (1.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 44 (1.93%) AWS CloudFormation
18 42 (1.85%) Amazon EKS
19 35 (1.54%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 82 (3.61%) Firewall
2 51 (2.24%) DNS
3 33 (1.45%) DHCP
4 31 (1.36%) TCP/IP
5 29 (1.28%) Network Security
6 25 (1.10%) BGP
7 22 (0.97%) Internet
7 22 (0.97%) MPLS
8 21 (0.92%) VLAN
9 20 (0.88%) 5G
10 19 (0.84%) Cisco Nexus
10 19 (0.84%) VPN
11 17 (0.75%) LAN
11 17 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
12 16 (0.70%) HTTP
13 15 (0.66%) Wireless
14 11 (0.48%) Cisco ASA
14 11 (0.48%) Kerberos
14 11 (0.48%) OSPF
15 10 (0.44%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (7.87%) Data Lake
2 173 (7.61%) Apache Ignite
3 150 (6.60%) PostgreSQL
4 148 (6.51%) Big Data
5 147 (6.46%) Amazon Athena
6 136 (5.98%) Power BI
7 126 (5.54%) Apache Arrow
7 126 (5.54%) Dremio
8 125 (5.50%) Data Warehouse
9 117 (5.15%) NoSQL
10 102 (4.49%) SQL Server
11 95 (4.18%) Tableau
12 69 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
13 68 (2.99%) Amazon RDS
14 64 (2.81%) Relational Database
15 60 (2.64%) Azure SQL Database
16 53 (2.33%) BigQuery
16 53 (2.33%) MongoDB
17 39 (1.72%) MySQL
18 33 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 251 (11.04%) Git
2 203 (8.93%) Jenkins
3 104 (4.57%) JIRA
4 73 (3.21%) GitLab
5 67 (2.95%) Cypress.io
6 27 (1.19%) JMeter
7 26 (1.14%) TeamCity
8 25 (1.10%) Selenium
9 24 (1.06%) Artifactory
10 23 (1.01%) Bitbucket
11 21 (0.92%) Postman
12 20 (0.88%) Cucumber
13 14 (0.62%) JUnit
14 13 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
14 13 (0.57%) Subversion
15 12 (0.53%) Burp Suite
16 11 (0.48%) Maven
16 11 (0.48%) MLflow
17 10 (0.44%) Visual Studio
18 9 (0.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 790 (34.74%) Finance
2 427 (18.78%) Banking
3 411 (18.07%) Front Office
4 410 (18.03%) Social Skills
5 230 (10.11%) Analytical Skills
6 194 (8.53%) Investment Banking
7 104 (4.57%) Public Sector
8 52 (2.29%) Back Office
9 50 (2.20%) Retail
10 41 (1.80%) Marketing
11 29 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
12 26 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 23 (1.01%) Telecoms
14 22 (0.97%) Financial Institution
15 14 (0.62%) Advertising
16 13 (0.57%) Retail Banking
17 12 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
17 12 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
18 9 (0.40%) Law
19 8 (0.35%) Games
Job Titles
1 615 (27.04%) Developer
2 326 (14.34%) Senior
3 318 (13.98%) Python Developer
4 263 (11.57%) Data Engineer
5 221 (9.72%) Python Engineer
5 221 (9.72%) Software Engineer
6 202 (8.88%) Analyst
7 161 (7.08%) Architect
8 159 (6.99%) AWS Engineer
9 151 (6.64%) Lead
10 141 (6.20%) DevOps Engineer
11 130 (5.72%) Python Software Engineer
12 122 (5.36%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 97 (4.27%) React Developer
14 92 (4.05%) Azure Engineer
15 88 (3.87%) Software Developer
16 82 (3.61%) Data Scientist
17 79 (3.47%) Full Stack Developer
18 76 (3.34%) Data Analyst
19 68 (2.99%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 204 (8.97%) gRPC
2 200 (8.80%) Pandas
3 198 (8.71%) React
4 197 (8.66%) Protocol Buffers
5 169 (7.43%) NumPy
6 144 (6.33%) Kafka
7 132 (5.80%) SciPy
8 120 (5.28%) PySpark
9 100 (4.40%) HTML
10 89 (3.91%) Redux
10 89 (3.91%) REST
11 87 (3.83%) Node.js
12 78 (3.43%) .NET
13 77 (3.39%) Material-UI
14 70 (3.08%) CSS
15 61 (2.68%) JSON
16 59 (2.59%) RESTful
17 49 (2.15%) Elastic Stack
17 49 (2.15%) TensorFlow
18 46 (2.02%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 288 (12.66%) Hedge funds
2 260 (11.43%) Fixed Income
3 257 (11.30%) Derivative
4 199 (8.75%) Equities
5 168 (7.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 111 (4.88%) Algorithms
7 85 (3.74%) Distributed Systems
8 66 (2.90%) Product Ownership
9 54 (2.37%) Data Protection Act
10 48 (2.11%) Data Structures
11 47 (2.07%) Cloud Native
12 39 (1.72%) Management Information System
13 33 (1.45%) Onboarding
13 33 (1.45%) Public Cloud
14 31 (1.36%) Clustering
15 29 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
15 29 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
16 22 (0.97%) Data Centre
16 22 (0.97%) Market Risk
16 22 (0.97%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 272 (11.96%) Linux
2 145 (6.38%) Windows
3 120 (5.28%) Unix
4 45 (1.98%) Windows Server
5 39 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 22 (0.97%) CentOS
7 11 (0.48%) Android
7 11 (0.48%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.31%) Oracle Linux
9 6 (0.26%) Solaris
9 6 (0.26%) VMS
10 5 (0.22%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.18%) Kali Linux
11 4 (0.18%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.088%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.088%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.044%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 648 (28.50%) Agile
2 523 (23.00%) DevOps
3 475 (20.89%) CI/CD
4 438 (19.26%) Software Engineering
5 321 (14.12%) Asset Management
6 307 (13.50%) Analytics
7 290 (12.75%) Problem-Solving
8 277 (12.18%) Machine Learning
9 272 (11.96%) Investment Management
10 234 (10.29%) Artificial Intelligence
11 227 (9.98%) ETL
12 214 (9.41%) Data Pipeline
13 200 (8.80%) Data Science
14 195 (8.58%) Computer Science
15 187 (8.22%) Test Automation
16 186 (8.18%) Data Modelling
17 175 (7.70%) Infrastructure as Code
18 170 (7.48%) Business Intelligence
19 167 (7.34%) Full Stack Development
20 139 (6.11%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 816 (35.88%) SQL
2 530 (23.31%) Java
3 363 (15.96%) JavaScript
4 244 (10.73%) TypeScript
5 209 (9.19%) C#
6 194 (8.53%) PowerShell
7 168 (7.39%) Bash
8 155 (6.82%) C++
9 138 (6.07%) Go
10 96 (4.22%) Shell Script
11 86 (3.78%) Scala
12 84 (3.69%) R
13 82 (3.61%) Perl
14 45 (1.98%) C
15 43 (1.89%) Ruby
16 37 (1.63%) T-SQL
17 30 (1.32%) Rust
18 24 (1.06%) VBA
19 21 (0.92%) Kotlin
20 18 (0.79%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 248 (10.91%) Security Cleared
2 240 (10.55%) Degree
3 211 (9.28%) SC Cleared
4 107 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 63 (2.77%) Master's Degree
6 37 (1.63%) DV Cleared
7 34 (1.50%) AWS Certification
8 33 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
9 28 (1.23%) CCNP
9 28 (1.23%) PhD
10 25 (1.10%) Numerate Degree
11 17 (0.75%) Azure Certification
11 17 (0.75%) CCNA
12 13 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 13 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
12 13 (0.57%) CISSP
13 11 (0.48%) ISTQB
14 8 (0.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 8 (0.35%) OSCP
15 6 (0.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (5.80%) Data Quality
2 85 (3.74%) QA
3 10 (0.44%) GDPR
3 10 (0.44%) NIST
4 9 (0.40%) Accessibility
4 9 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (0.40%) SLA
5 8 (0.35%) PCI DSS
6 7 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.13%) PMO
8 2 (0.088%) MiFID
8 2 (0.088%) NCSC
8 2 (0.088%) WCAG
9 1 (0.044%) Basel II
9 1 (0.044%) Basel III
9 1 (0.044%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.044%) GLBA
9 1 (0.044%) Good Clinical Practice
9 1 (0.044%) GxP
9 1 (0.044%) JTAG
System Software
1 264 (11.61%) Docker
2 45 (1.98%) Active Directory
3 30 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
3 30 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.53%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 8 (0.35%) vSphere
6 7 (0.31%) Firmware
6 7 (0.31%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.31%) VMware NSX
7 6 (0.26%) KVM
7 6 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.22%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 4 (0.18%) NFS
9 4 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.13%) HDFS
11 2 (0.088%) Ceph
11 2 (0.088%) iptables
11 2 (0.088%) PowerDNS
12 1 (0.044%) Embedded Firmware
12 1 (0.044%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 347 (15.26%) Terraform
2 340 (14.95%) Kubernetes
3 200 (8.80%) Ansible
4 91 (4.00%) Grafana
4 91 (4.00%) Prometheus
5 46 (2.02%) Puppet
6 25 (1.10%) Progress Chef
7 23 (1.01%) ITRS Geneos
7 23 (1.01%) Kibana
8 20 (0.88%) Consul
9 19 (0.84%) logstash
10 15 (0.66%) Argo
11 12 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
12 9 (0.40%) BladeLogic
12 9 (0.40%) Opsgenie
12 9 (0.40%) Packer
13 7 (0.31%) ArcSight ESM
14 6 (0.26%) EMC NetWorker
14 6 (0.26%) Kubeflow
14 6 (0.26%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 154 (6.77%) Microsoft
2 149 (6.55%) Databricks
3 138 (6.07%) Google
4 116 (5.10%) Oracle
5 66 (2.90%) Splunk
6 51 (2.24%) Cisco
7 46 (2.02%) VMware
8 43 (1.89%) SAP
9 36 (1.58%) IBM
10 35 (1.54%) Bloomberg
11 33 (1.45%) F5
11 33 (1.45%) Sybase
12 30 (1.32%) Dynatrace
13 29 (1.28%) ServiceNow
14 26 (1.14%) Red Hat
15 24 (1.06%) Palo Alto
16 18 (0.79%) Adobe
16 18 (0.79%) Okta
16 18 (0.79%) Palantir
17 17 (0.75%) Foundry