Python Contracts in Central London

Python
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 7 14
Rank change year-on-year -3 +7 -3
Contract jobs citing Python 286 529 483
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 11.89% 14.42% 10.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.03% 35.03% 25.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 288 317
10th Percentile £413 £456 £425
25th Percentile £489 £519 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £738 £738 £738
90th Percentile £838 £850 £813
London median daily rate £600 £625 £615
% change year-on-year -4.00% +1.63% +11.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 9
10th Percentile - £75.63 £37.25
25th Percentile £46.75 £76.56 £44.25
Median hourly rate £48.50 £81.25 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.31% +54.76% +82.61%
75th Percentile £50.25 £84.69 £61.75
90th Percentile - £84.88 £62.55
London median hourly rate £50.50 £80.00 £49.88
% change year-on-year -36.88% +60.40% +36.64%

All Programming Languages
Central 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 Central London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 866 1,510 1,892
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 35.99% 41.16% 42.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 622 992 1,467
10th Percentile £411 £425 £413
25th Percentile £463 £510 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £559 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.64% +4.17% +6.67%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £713
90th Percentile £788 £826 £813
London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 13
10th Percentile - £21.35 £35.25
25th Percentile £46.75 £35.00 £44.25
Median hourly rate £48.50 £52.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% - +105.88%
75th Percentile £50.25 £83.75 £61.75
90th Percentile - £84.50 £70.55
London median hourly rate £50.50 £60.00 £48.00
% change year-on-year -15.83% +25.00% +1.05%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in Central London

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Python in Central London

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Central London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python in Central London

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Python in Central London

Python
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 9 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
City of London -3 270 £600 -7.69% 76
City of Westminster 0 8 £713 +26.67% 1
West End of London +4 5 £463 -40.32%
Southwark +8 2 £600 +29.78%
Camden - 1 £500 -
Python
London

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 14 (4.90%) Apache Spark
2 8 (2.80%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.10%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.75%) Apache
5 4 (1.40%) Site Server
6 3 (1.05%) BizTalk Server
6 3 (1.05%) Confluence
6 3 (1.05%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.70%) Gunicorn
7 2 (0.70%) IIS
7 2 (0.70%) Luigi
8 1 (0.35%) CMS
8 1 (0.35%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.35%) nginx
8 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (3.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.70%) Primavera
2 1 (0.35%) Advent Geneva
2 1 (0.35%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.35%) Endur
2 1 (0.35%) Front Arena
2 1 (0.35%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (0.35%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.35%) Sprinklr
2 1 (0.35%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 99 (34.62%) AWS
2 85 (29.72%) Azure
3 34 (11.89%) Serverless
4 25 (8.74%) AWS Lambda
5 24 (8.39%) GitHub
6 22 (7.69%) Amazon S3
6 22 (7.69%) Power Platform
7 20 (6.99%) GCP
8 18 (6.29%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (4.90%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (3.50%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (3.15%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (3.15%) Azure AKS
11 9 (3.15%) Azure Data Factory
11 9 (3.15%) Azure Functions
12 8 (2.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 8 (2.80%) Snowflake
13 7 (2.45%) Amazon MSK
13 7 (2.45%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (2.45%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.45%) Firewall
2 4 (1.40%) DNS
2 4 (1.40%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.05%) Kerberos
4 2 (0.70%) Internet
4 2 (0.70%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.70%) SSL
4 2 (0.70%) WAN
5 1 (0.35%) AMQP
5 1 (0.35%) DHCP
5 1 (0.35%) IPv4
5 1 (0.35%) MQTT
5 1 (0.35%) Network Security
5 1 (0.35%) SAN
5 1 (0.35%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (8.74%) NoSQL
2 22 (7.69%) Power BI
3 21 (7.34%) SQL Server
4 19 (6.64%) Relational Database
5 18 (6.29%) MongoDB
6 16 (5.59%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (4.90%) PostgreSQL
7 14 (4.90%) Tableau
8 13 (4.55%) DynamoDB
9 12 (4.20%) Amazon RDS
9 12 (4.20%) Amazon Redshift
10 11 (3.85%) Big Data
10 11 (3.85%) RDBMS
11 10 (3.50%) Data Lake
11 10 (3.50%) Parquet
12 9 (3.15%) Azure SQL Database
13 6 (2.10%) Hadoop
13 6 (2.10%) Sybase ASE
14 5 (1.75%) DB2
14 5 (1.75%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 26 (9.09%) Jenkins
2 24 (8.39%) Git
3 16 (5.59%) GitLab
4 7 (2.45%) JIRA
5 6 (2.10%) CircleCI
5 6 (2.10%) JMeter
6 5 (1.75%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.75%) Cypress.io
6 5 (1.75%) Selenium
6 5 (1.75%) TeamCity
7 4 (1.40%) Mercurial
8 3 (1.05%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.70%) Appium
9 2 (0.70%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.70%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.70%) IBM UrbanCode
9 2 (0.70%) JUnit
9 2 (0.70%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.70%) Subversion
9 2 (0.70%) TestNG
General
1 85 (29.72%) Finance
2 67 (23.43%) Social Skills
3 34 (11.89%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (9.79%) Banking
5 17 (5.94%) Public Sector
6 16 (5.59%) Front Office
7 14 (4.90%) Investment Banking
8 7 (2.45%) Financial Institution
8 7 (2.45%) Marketing
8 7 (2.45%) Retail Banking
9 4 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.40%) Retail
10 3 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.70%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.70%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.35%) Aviation
12 1 (0.35%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.35%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 75 (26.22%) Developer
2 34 (11.89%) Senior
3 33 (11.54%) Analyst
3 33 (11.54%) Data Engineer
4 31 (10.84%) Python Developer
5 23 (8.04%) Architect
6 21 (7.34%) Data Analyst
7 17 (5.94%) Python Engineer
8 16 (5.59%) DevOps Engineer
9 15 (5.24%) Platform Engineer
9 15 (5.24%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 15 (5.24%) Software Engineer
10 13 (4.55%) Quantitative Developer
10 13 (4.55%) Site Engineer
11 11 (3.85%) Lead
12 10 (3.50%) AWS Engineer
13 9 (3.15%) Cloud Engineer
13 9 (3.15%) Data Scientist
13 9 (3.15%) Senior Analyst
14 8 (2.80%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (17.83%) Kafka
2 22 (7.69%) RESTful
3 15 (5.24%) HTML
4 14 (4.90%) Pandas
5 13 (4.55%) PySpark
5 13 (4.55%) React
6 11 (3.85%) JSON
6 11 (3.85%) pytest
6 11 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
7 10 (3.50%) Apache Avro
7 10 (3.50%) REST
8 9 (3.15%) CSS
9 8 (2.80%) .NET
10 7 (2.45%) GraphQL
10 7 (2.45%) Node.js
10 7 (2.45%) NumPy
10 7 (2.45%) OpenID
10 7 (2.45%) SAML
11 6 (2.10%) Elastic Stack
11 6 (2.10%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.34%) Distributed Systems
2 20 (6.99%) Algorithms
3 14 (4.90%) Data Structures
4 9 (3.15%) Public Cloud
5 8 (2.80%) Cloud Native
5 8 (2.80%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (2.45%) Derivative
6 7 (2.45%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.45%) Market Risk
7 6 (2.10%) Fixed Income
7 6 (2.10%) Hedge funds
7 6 (2.10%) Replication
8 5 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.75%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.40%) Equities
9 4 (1.40%) Machine to Machine
10 2 (0.70%) Credit Risk
10 2 (0.70%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 52 (18.18%) Linux
2 29 (10.14%) Windows
3 14 (4.90%) Unix
4 11 (3.85%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.70%) Android
6 2 (0.70%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.35%) CentOS
7 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (31.47%) DevOps
2 76 (26.57%) CI/CD
3 55 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
4 44 (15.38%) Agile
5 38 (13.29%) Software Engineering
6 32 (11.19%) Analytics
6 32 (11.19%) Data Pipeline
7 31 (10.84%) ETL
7 31 (10.84%) Microservices
8 29 (10.14%) Infrastructure as Code
9 26 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
10 25 (8.74%) Computer Science
11 24 (8.39%) Containerisation
11 24 (8.39%) Data Modelling
12 23 (8.04%) Task Automation
12 23 (8.04%) Visualisation
13 22 (7.69%) Machine Learning
13 22 (7.69%) Test Automation
14 20 (6.99%) Data Analysis
14 20 (6.99%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 110 (38.46%) SQL
2 62 (21.68%) Java
3 36 (12.59%) PowerShell
4 27 (9.44%) C#
5 24 (8.39%) C++
5 24 (8.39%) JavaScript
6 23 (8.04%) Shell Script
7 18 (6.29%) Bash
8 16 (5.59%) Go
9 14 (4.90%) T-SQL
10 13 (4.55%) Perl
11 12 (4.20%) R
12 9 (3.15%) Scala
13 7 (2.45%) Rust
13 7 (2.45%) TypeScript
14 4 (1.40%) C
14 4 (1.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (1.40%) Korn
14 4 (1.40%) PL/SQL
14 4 (1.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 30 (10.49%) Security Cleared
2 27 (9.44%) SC Cleared
3 22 (7.69%) Degree
4 11 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.45%) AWS Certification
6 6 (2.10%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (1.75%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.40%) CCNP
9 3 (1.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.05%) PhD
10 2 (0.70%) CCIE
10 2 (0.70%) CCNA
10 2 (0.70%) CIMA
10 2 (0.70%) CISA
10 2 (0.70%) CRISC
10 2 (0.70%) ISEB
10 2 (0.70%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.90%) QA
2 11 (3.85%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.75%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (0.70%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.70%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.70%) PMO
5 1 (0.35%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.35%) MiFID
5 1 (0.35%) NIST
5 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 47 (16.43%) Docker
2 11 (3.85%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 8 (2.80%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.75%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 3 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.70%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.35%) Ceph
7 1 (0.35%) HDFS
7 1 (0.35%) iptables
7 1 (0.35%) NFS
Systems Management
1 67 (23.43%) Kubernetes
2 49 (17.13%) Terraform
3 26 (9.09%) Ansible
4 20 (6.99%) Grafana
4 20 (6.99%) Prometheus
5 12 (4.20%) Consul
6 8 (2.80%) Puppet
7 5 (1.75%) Argo
7 5 (1.75%) Progress Chef
7 5 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.05%) CSIRT
8 3 (1.05%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (1.05%) Nagios
9 2 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.70%) Graylog
9 2 (0.70%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (0.70%) Kibana
9 2 (0.70%) logstash
9 2 (0.70%) Packer
Vendors
1 32 (11.19%) Microsoft
2 19 (6.64%) Databricks
2 19 (6.64%) Oracle
3 14 (4.90%) IBM
4 11 (3.85%) SaltStack
5 10 (3.50%) SAP
6 8 (2.80%) Google
6 8 (2.80%) Splunk
7 7 (2.45%) Sybase
8 6 (2.10%) Alteryx
8 6 (2.10%) ServiceNow
8 6 (2.10%) Sun
9 5 (1.75%) Cisco
9 5 (1.75%) Okta
9 5 (1.75%) Veritas
10 4 (1.40%) ESRI
10 4 (1.40%) Palo Alto
10 4 (1.40%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.40%) VMware
11 3 (1.05%) Murex