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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 13 13
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 0
Contract jobs citing Python 3,513 5,423 7,061
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 9.64% 11.25% 10.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.27% 32.26% 27.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,562 3,951 5,070
10th Percentile £388 £425 £425
25th Percentile £468 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £700
90th Percentile £837 £825 £788
UK median daily rate £560 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 109 100
10th Percentile £22.00 £22.06 £25.50
25th Percentile £42.38 £47.50 £41.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £53.03
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +22.58% +32.57%
75th Percentile £72.19 £70.30 £61.38
90th Percentile £78.00 £78.00 £65.08
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £60.63 £50.77
% change year-on-year -1.03% +19.41% +26.93%

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 10,885 16,811 25,790
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.88% 34.89% 36.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,901 12,297 19,045
10th Percentile £350 £385 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £564 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.48% +2.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £775
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 446 401 450
10th Percentile £37.59 £25.75 £20.23
25th Percentile £50.00 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.77
Median % change year-on-year - +23.10% +19.46%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £61.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £61.60 £50.00
% change year-on-year +1.46% +23.20% +17.65%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 18 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
London -2 2,275 £600 -4.00% 1,827
North of England +1 369 £500 -13.04% 272
South East -5 322 £525 -4.55% 684
South West -12 185 £600 +1.78% 232
North West -7 177 £500 -9.09% 158
Yorkshire +17 165 £500 -16.67% 88
Midlands +11 136 £450 -14.29% 206
East of England -16 84 £450 -10.00% 203
West Midlands +5 81 £450 -20.88% 145
East Midlands +14 54 £425 -15.00% 60
North East +4 29 £600 -11.11% 26
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
1 305 (8.68%) Apache Airflow
2 284 (8.08%) Apache
3 128 (3.64%) Apache Spark
4 118 (3.36%) Confluence
5 40 (1.14%) SAS
6 35 (1.00%) OpenStack
7 27 (0.77%) nginx
8 25 (0.71%) SharePoint
9 14 (0.40%) Jupyter
10 12 (0.34%) ArcGIS
11 10 (0.28%) BizTalk Server
12 9 (0.26%) CMS
13 8 (0.23%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 8 (0.23%) Site Server
14 7 (0.20%) Tornado
15 6 (0.17%) IIS
15 6 (0.17%) JBoss
16 5 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
16 5 (0.14%) Gunicorn
17 4 (0.11%) Luigi
Applications
1 113 (3.22%) Chatbot
2 64 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (0.40%) MS Visio
5 11 (0.31%) Simulink
6 8 (0.23%) SPSS
7 7 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 4 (0.11%) CANalyzer
10 2 (0.057%) Sketch
10 2 (0.057%) Stata
11 1 (0.028%) CPLEX
11 1 (0.028%) Stateflow
11 1 (0.028%) Trello
Business Applications
1 22 (0.63%) Aladdin
2 9 (0.26%) Odoo
3 8 (0.23%) Distributed Ledger
4 7 (0.20%) Endur
5 6 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.17%) NEC Housing
5 6 (0.17%) SimCorp Dimension
6 4 (0.11%) Adobe Campaign
6 4 (0.11%) FastStats
6 4 (0.11%) Maximo
6 4 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
6 4 (0.11%) Shopify
6 4 (0.11%) Unica
7 3 (0.085%) Global One
7 3 (0.085%) ION MarketView
7 3 (0.085%) Orchestrade
7 3 (0.085%) Primavera
8 2 (0.057%) Advent Geneva
8 2 (0.057%) Front Arena
8 2 (0.057%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,227 (34.93%) AWS
2 924 (26.30%) Azure
3 461 (13.12%) GCP
4 312 (8.88%) Serverless
5 228 (6.49%) Power Platform
6 214 (6.09%) GitHub
7 202 (5.75%) AWS Lambda
8 188 (5.35%) Amazon S3
9 172 (4.90%) Snowflake
10 170 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
11 160 (4.55%) dbt
12 131 (3.73%) Amazon EC2
13 130 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
14 72 (2.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 70 (1.99%) AWS CloudFormation
16 68 (1.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 66 (1.88%) PaaS
18 64 (1.82%) GitHub Actions
19 63 (1.79%) Azure Functions
20 62 (1.76%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 130 (3.70%) Firewall
2 81 (2.31%) DNS
2 81 (2.31%) TCP/IP
3 59 (1.68%) VPN
4 53 (1.51%) Network Security
5 52 (1.48%) BGP
6 40 (1.14%) DHCP
7 34 (0.97%) MPLS
7 34 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
8 33 (0.94%) HTTP
8 33 (0.94%) Wireless
9 31 (0.88%) Radio Access Network
10 30 (0.85%) 5G
11 29 (0.83%) OSPF
12 27 (0.77%) Cisco ASA
12 27 (0.77%) Cisco Nexus
12 27 (0.77%) SAN
13 25 (0.71%) Internet
13 25 (0.71%) VLAN
14 22 (0.63%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 236 (6.72%) Data Lake
2 217 (6.18%) Power BI
3 206 (5.86%) PostgreSQL
4 204 (5.81%) Big Data
5 175 (4.98%) NoSQL
6 174 (4.95%) Data Warehouse
7 173 (4.92%) Apache Ignite
8 170 (4.84%) Amazon Athena
9 142 (4.04%) Tableau
10 139 (3.96%) SQL Server
11 126 (3.59%) Apache Arrow
11 126 (3.59%) Dremio
12 113 (3.22%) Relational Database
13 107 (3.05%) Amazon Redshift
14 100 (2.85%) Amazon RDS
15 92 (2.62%) MongoDB
16 84 (2.39%) BigQuery
17 76 (2.16%) MySQL
18 65 (1.85%) Hadoop
19 64 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 424 (12.07%) Git
2 378 (10.76%) Jenkins
3 238 (6.77%) JIRA
4 153 (4.36%) GitLab
5 75 (2.13%) Cypress.io
6 73 (2.08%) Bitbucket
7 57 (1.62%) Selenium
8 44 (1.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 39 (1.11%) Sonatype Nexus
10 33 (0.94%) JMeter
10 33 (0.94%) Robot Framework
10 33 (0.94%) TeamCity
11 32 (0.91%) Artifactory
12 27 (0.77%) Subversion
13 25 (0.71%) Cucumber
14 23 (0.65%) Postman
15 21 (0.60%) Visual Studio
16 20 (0.57%) SonarQube
17 19 (0.54%) Burp Suite
17 19 (0.54%) JUnit
General
1 884 (25.16%) Finance
2 637 (18.13%) Social Skills
3 459 (13.07%) Banking
4 413 (11.76%) Front Office
5 391 (11.13%) Analytical Skills
6 195 (5.55%) Investment Banking
7 179 (5.10%) Public Sector
8 75 (2.13%) Marketing
9 73 (2.08%) Retail
10 69 (1.96%) Telecoms
11 53 (1.51%) Back Office
12 52 (1.48%) Pharmaceutical
13 42 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
14 41 (1.17%) Manufacturing
15 32 (0.91%) Aerospace
16 29 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 28 (0.80%) Electronics
18 24 (0.68%) Financial Institution
19 19 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
20 16 (0.46%) Legal
Job Titles
1 970 (27.61%) Developer
2 432 (12.30%) Python Developer
3 431 (12.27%) Senior
4 372 (10.59%) Data Engineer
5 304 (8.65%) Analyst
6 290 (8.26%) Software Engineer
7 259 (7.37%) Python Engineer
8 245 (6.97%) DevOps Engineer
9 225 (6.40%) Architect
10 202 (5.75%) Lead
11 200 (5.69%) Software Developer
12 191 (5.44%) AWS Engineer
13 145 (4.13%) Python Software Engineer
14 137 (3.90%) Azure Engineer
15 135 (3.84%) Full Stack Developer
16 131 (3.73%) Data Analyst
17 122 (3.47%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 106 (3.02%) Data Scientist
19 99 (2.82%) React Developer
20 89 (2.53%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 274 (7.80%) React
2 220 (6.26%) HTML
3 215 (6.12%) Pandas
4 208 (5.92%) gRPC
5 197 (5.61%) Protocol Buffers
6 181 (5.15%) NumPy
7 176 (5.01%) Kafka
8 159 (4.53%) PySpark
9 137 (3.90%) SciPy
10 133 (3.79%) REST
11 132 (3.76%) .NET
12 124 (3.53%) Node.js
13 101 (2.88%) JSON
14 97 (2.76%) RESTful
15 91 (2.59%) CSS
16 89 (2.53%) Redux
17 78 (2.22%) Django
18 77 (2.19%) Material-UI
19 71 (2.02%) Elastic Stack
20 70 (1.99%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 289 (8.23%) Hedge funds
2 260 (7.40%) Fixed Income
3 259 (7.37%) Derivative
4 199 (5.66%) Equities
5 180 (5.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 153 (4.36%) Algorithms
7 104 (2.96%) Product Ownership
8 96 (2.73%) Distributed Systems
9 82 (2.33%) Data Structures
10 67 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
11 65 (1.85%) Public Cloud
12 62 (1.76%) Linux Command Line
13 57 (1.62%) Data Centre
14 55 (1.57%) Management Information System
15 54 (1.54%) Cloud Native
16 49 (1.39%) PKI
17 45 (1.28%) Onboarding
18 37 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
19 34 (0.97%) Clustering
19 34 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 520 (14.80%) Linux
2 247 (7.03%) Windows
3 155 (4.41%) Unix
4 92 (2.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 91 (2.59%) Windows Server
6 31 (0.88%) CentOS
7 26 (0.74%) Ubuntu
8 22 (0.63%) Android
9 21 (0.60%) Debian
10 18 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
11 16 (0.46%) Apple iOS
11 16 (0.46%) zOS
12 14 (0.40%) VMS
13 10 (0.28%) Solaris
14 9 (0.26%) Embedded Linux
15 7 (0.20%) Kali Linux
15 7 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
16 6 (0.17%) Mac OS
16 6 (0.17%) Windows 10
17 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 961 (27.36%) Agile
2 864 (24.59%) DevOps
3 756 (21.52%) CI/CD
4 674 (19.19%) Software Engineering
5 474 (13.49%) Problem-Solving
6 416 (11.84%) Analytics
7 401 (11.41%) Artificial Intelligence
8 366 (10.42%) Machine Learning
9 331 (9.42%) Asset Management
10 321 (9.14%) Data Modelling
11 310 (8.82%) ETL
12 298 (8.48%) Test Automation
13 294 (8.37%) Computer Science
14 288 (8.20%) Data Pipeline
15 281 (8.00%) Infrastructure as Code
16 273 (7.77%) Investment Management
17 269 (7.66%) Data Science
18 266 (7.57%) Business Intelligence
19 249 (7.09%) Full Stack Development
20 230 (6.55%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 1,188 (33.82%) SQL
2 747 (21.26%) Java
3 588 (16.74%) JavaScript
4 393 (11.19%) PowerShell
5 369 (10.50%) C#
6 302 (8.60%) Bash
7 265 (7.54%) C++
8 260 (7.40%) TypeScript
9 184 (5.24%) Go
10 138 (3.93%) R
11 133 (3.79%) Shell Script
12 124 (3.53%) C
13 121 (3.44%) Perl
14 112 (3.19%) Scala
15 62 (1.76%) Ruby
16 44 (1.25%) T-SQL
17 35 (1.00%) Rust
18 29 (0.83%) VBA
19 28 (0.80%) Groovy
20 25 (0.71%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 578 (16.45%) Security Cleared
2 449 (12.78%) Degree
3 407 (11.59%) SC Cleared
4 167 (4.75%) DV Cleared
5 160 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 87 (2.48%) Master's Degree
7 59 (1.68%) AWS Certification
7 59 (1.68%) Cisco Certification
8 49 (1.39%) CCNP
9 41 (1.17%) PhD
10 35 (1.00%) CCNA
11 32 (0.91%) Azure Certification
12 29 (0.83%) Numerate Degree
13 22 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 20 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 19 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
16 18 (0.51%) OSCP
17 17 (0.48%) CISSP
18 13 (0.37%) ISTQB
19 12 (0.34%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 180 (5.12%) Data Quality
2 145 (4.13%) QA
3 29 (0.83%) GDPR
4 20 (0.57%) Accessibility
4 20 (0.57%) NIST
5 17 (0.48%) PCI DSS
6 15 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (0.31%) MISRA
8 10 (0.28%) SLA
9 8 (0.23%) GxP
10 7 (0.20%) Good Clinical Practice
10 7 (0.20%) JTAG
10 7 (0.20%) RMADS
10 7 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.14%) NCSC
12 4 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.11%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.085%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.085%) ISO 22301
13 3 (0.085%) PMO
System Software
1 426 (12.13%) Docker
2 114 (3.25%) Active Directory
3 91 (2.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 47 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
5 29 (0.83%) vSphere
6 26 (0.74%) VMware NSX
7 25 (0.71%) Firmware
8 21 (0.60%) NFS
9 19 (0.54%) Hyper-V
10 16 (0.46%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 16 (0.46%) Time Sharing Option
11 14 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
12 9 (0.26%) KVM
13 8 (0.23%) HDFS
13 8 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
14 6 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
15 5 (0.14%) Veritas Cluster Server
16 4 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 4 (0.11%) VirtualBox
17 2 (0.057%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 575 (16.37%) Terraform
2 525 (14.94%) Kubernetes
3 438 (12.47%) Ansible
4 134 (3.81%) Grafana
5 133 (3.79%) Prometheus
6 88 (2.50%) Puppet
7 64 (1.82%) Progress Chef
8 40 (1.14%) Kibana
9 29 (0.83%) logstash
10 25 (0.71%) PowerCLI
11 24 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
12 23 (0.65%) ITRS Geneos
12 23 (0.65%) Packer
13 22 (0.63%) Consul
14 21 (0.60%) Docker Swarm
14 21 (0.60%) Tivoli Storage Manager
15 18 (0.51%) Argo
16 14 (0.40%) Nagios
17 13 (0.37%) vRealize
18 11 (0.31%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 261 (7.43%) Microsoft
2 206 (5.86%) Google
3 198 (5.64%) Databricks
4 149 (4.24%) VMware
5 144 (4.10%) Oracle
6 127 (3.62%) Splunk
7 110 (3.13%) PayPal
8 96 (2.73%) Cisco
9 73 (2.08%) Red Hat
10 72 (2.05%) SAP
11 62 (1.76%) IBM
12 54 (1.54%) Dell
13 46 (1.31%) Palo Alto
14 43 (1.22%) F5
15 41 (1.17%) Atlassian
16 36 (1.02%) Dynatrace
17 35 (1.00%) Bloomberg
18 34 (0.97%) ServiceNow
19 33 (0.94%) Citrix
19 33 (0.94%) Sybase