Python Contracts in the South East

Python
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 24 19 29
Rank change year-on-year -5 +10 0
Contract jobs citing Python 322 463 479
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 5.90% 8.27% 6.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 26.55% 30.22% 23.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 337 289
10th Percentile £363 £381 £383
25th Percentile £425 £475 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +13.68%
75th Percentile £625 £631 £638
90th Percentile £675 £750 £713
England median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 22 4
10th Percentile £47.38 £19.00 £19.25
25th Percentile £63.13 £20.47 £20.38
Median hourly rate £65.00 £22.73 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +185.97% +8.24% -56.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £50.00 £30.44
90th Percentile £77.50 £57.13 £47.43
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £53.03
% change year-on-year -3.85% +22.58% +32.57%

All Programming Languages
South East

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 South East with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,213 1,532 2,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 22.24% 27.36% 26.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 841 1,084 1,309
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £412 £414 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £612 £594
90th Percentile £675 £692 £650
England median daily rate £550 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -2.48% +2.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 83 80
10th Percentile £35.00 £19.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £46.25 £26.10 £19.88
Median hourly rate £60.87 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.67% +57.14% -14.11%
75th Percentile £67.02 £67.50 £54.25
90th Percentile £76.25 £75.00 £62.26
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.77
% change year-on-year - +23.10% +19.46%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Python in the South East

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Python in the South East

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in the South East over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python in the South East

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Python in the South East

Python
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Python in the South East over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Python in the South East

Python
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the South East 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
Thames Valley -3 144 £525 -4.55% 155
Hampshire 0 110 £500 -9.09% 67
Berkshire -15 102 £500 -9.09% 72
Surrey -8 44 £600 +4.35% 60
Buckinghamshire +27 32 £525 +1.20% 31
West Sussex +12 14 £469 -16.67% 6
Oxfordshire -3 10 £575 +15.00% 52
East Sussex -2 3 £530 -1.40% 8
Middlesex -9 3 £625 -37.50% 3
Sussex -2 2 - - 1
Kent +6 1 £625 - 5
Python
England

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 15 (4.66%) Apache Airflow
1 15 (4.66%) SAS
2 13 (4.04%) Apache
2 13 (4.04%) Confluence
3 2 (0.62%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.62%) GeoServer
3 2 (0.62%) IBM Domino
3 2 (0.62%) nginx
4 1 (0.31%) Appian
4 1 (0.31%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle Spatial
4 1 (0.31%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (2.17%) SPSS
2 6 (1.86%) Simulink
3 5 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.62%) Sketch
6 1 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.31%) Stata
Business Applications
1 4 (1.24%) Adobe Campaign
1 4 (1.24%) FastStats
1 4 (1.24%) Unica
2 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 93 (28.88%) Azure
2 43 (13.35%) AWS
3 31 (9.63%) Azure Data Factory
4 30 (9.32%) Serverless
5 29 (9.01%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 29 (9.01%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (8.07%) Entra ID
7 22 (6.83%) Power Platform
8 20 (6.21%) Azure Monitor
9 19 (5.90%) Azure Functions
10 12 (3.73%) GitHub
10 12 (3.73%) IaaS
11 10 (3.11%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (3.11%) GCP
12 9 (2.80%) Amazon S3
13 7 (2.17%) OpenShift
13 7 (2.17%) PaaS
13 7 (2.17%) Snowflake
14 6 (1.86%) Azure AKS
14 6 (1.86%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 22 (6.83%) TCP/IP
2 16 (4.97%) VPN
3 13 (4.04%) SAN
4 12 (3.73%) BGP
5 10 (3.11%) MPLS
6 9 (2.80%) Cisco IOS
6 9 (2.80%) DNS
6 9 (2.80%) Ethernet VPN
6 9 (2.80%) Firewall
6 9 (2.80%) Radio Access Network
7 5 (1.55%) Network Security
8 4 (1.24%) DHCP
8 4 (1.24%) Junos
8 4 (1.24%) Wireless
9 3 (0.93%) Cisco Nexus
9 3 (0.93%) IOS XR
9 3 (0.93%) NX-OS
9 3 (0.93%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (0.93%) VSAN
10 2 (0.62%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (9.63%) NoSQL
2 25 (7.76%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (5.90%) MongoDB
4 16 (4.97%) Power BI
5 14 (4.35%) Relational Database
6 12 (3.73%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (3.42%) Big Data
8 10 (3.11%) Tableau
9 9 (2.80%) Data Lake
9 9 (2.80%) GIS
10 8 (2.48%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (2.48%) MySQL
10 8 (2.48%) Qlik Sense
10 8 (2.48%) RDBMS
11 6 (1.86%) Data Mining
11 6 (1.86%) Metadata
12 4 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (1.24%) BigQuery
12 4 (1.24%) Redis
12 4 (1.24%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 53 (16.46%) Git
2 31 (9.63%) JIRA
3 29 (9.01%) Robot Framework
4 21 (6.52%) GitLab
5 19 (5.90%) Jenkins
6 15 (4.66%) Selenium
6 15 (4.66%) Sonatype Nexus
7 9 (2.80%) Bitbucket
7 9 (2.80%) TestRail
8 6 (1.86%) Subversion
9 5 (1.55%) Visual Studio
10 4 (1.24%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.93%) Hudson
12 2 (0.62%) kappa
12 2 (0.62%) Rational DOORS
13 1 (0.31%) ClearCase
13 1 (0.31%) CMake
13 1 (0.31%) MLflow
13 1 (0.31%) Rational Rhapsody
13 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 48 (14.91%) Analytical Skills
2 37 (11.49%) Social Skills
3 21 (6.52%) Finance
4 18 (5.59%) Telecoms
5 12 (3.73%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.11%) Marketing
7 9 (2.80%) Pharmaceutical
8 6 (1.86%) Aerospace
8 6 (1.86%) Military
8 6 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.24%) Local Government
10 3 (0.93%) Banking
10 3 (0.93%) Electronics
10 3 (0.93%) Music Industry
11 2 (0.62%) Advertising
11 2 (0.62%) Front Office
11 2 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.62%) Retail
12 1 (0.31%) Legal
Job Titles
1 82 (25.47%) Developer
2 42 (13.04%) Python Developer
3 32 (9.94%) Full Stack Developer
4 30 (9.32%) Analyst
5 26 (8.07%) Senior
6 24 (7.45%) Security Engineer
7 23 (7.14%) Azure Developer
8 20 (6.21%) Linux Engineer
9 18 (5.59%) DevOps Engineer
9 18 (5.59%) Network Engineer
10 17 (5.28%) Architect
11 16 (4.97%) Software Engineer
12 15 (4.66%) Data Engineer
13 14 (4.35%) Data Analyst
14 12 (3.73%) Security Architect
15 11 (3.42%) Lead
16 10 (3.11%) Full Stack Python Developer
16 10 (3.11%) Platform Engineer
17 9 (2.80%) Systems Engineer
17 9 (2.80%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (9.63%) React
2 20 (6.21%) REST
3 15 (4.66%) Django
4 13 (4.04%) SOAP
4 13 (4.04%) YANG
5 10 (3.11%) XML
6 9 (2.80%) NETCONF
6 9 (2.80%) Node.js
6 9 (2.80%) RESTCONF
7 7 (2.17%) D3.js
7 7 (2.17%) HTML
7 7 (2.17%) OpenLayers
7 7 (2.17%) PySpark
7 7 (2.17%) RESTful
8 6 (1.86%) .NET
8 6 (1.86%) CSS
8 6 (1.86%) JSON
8 6 (1.86%) PostGIS
8 6 (1.86%) SQLAlchemy
8 6 (1.86%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 36 (11.18%) PKI
2 18 (5.59%) Client/Server
3 16 (4.97%) Data Centre
3 16 (4.97%) Product Ownership
4 11 (3.42%) Algorithms
4 11 (3.42%) Public Cloud
5 10 (3.11%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.55%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.24%) Device Driver
8 4 (1.24%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.24%) Private Cloud
9 3 (0.93%) Biopharmaceutical
9 3 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.93%) Photography
9 3 (0.93%) Smart Meter
10 2 (0.62%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.62%) GNSS
10 2 (0.62%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.62%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 83 (25.78%) Linux
2 53 (16.46%) Windows
3 39 (12.11%) Windows Server
4 33 (10.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (4.97%) Windows Server 2019
6 15 (4.66%) Debian
7 14 (4.35%) Ubuntu
8 11 (3.42%) Unix
9 8 (2.48%) VMS
10 7 (2.17%) Embedded Linux
11 6 (1.86%) Android
12 4 (1.24%) Solaris
13 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.31%) CentOS
14 1 (0.31%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.31%) VxWorks
14 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (38.20%) Agile
2 84 (26.09%) DevOps
3 58 (18.01%) CI/CD
4 56 (17.39%) Test Automation
5 52 (16.15%) Scrum
6 38 (11.80%) Data Modelling
7 36 (11.18%) Full Stack Development
8 33 (10.25%) Computer Science
9 32 (9.94%) SDLC
10 30 (9.32%) Software Engineering
11 29 (9.01%) Microservices
11 29 (9.01%) Problem-Solving
12 28 (8.70%) Analytics
12 28 (8.70%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 27 (8.39%) Continuous Improvement
14 26 (8.07%) Data Engineering
15 25 (7.76%) Containerisation
15 25 (7.76%) Unit Testing
16 20 (6.21%) Business Intelligence
17 18 (5.59%) Application Packaging
Programming Languages
1 78 (24.22%) PowerShell
2 66 (20.50%) SQL
3 51 (15.84%) Java
4 40 (12.42%) Bash
5 35 (10.87%) C++
6 25 (7.76%) C
7 20 (6.21%) JavaScript
7 20 (6.21%) VBScript
8 15 (4.66%) C#
9 12 (3.73%) R
9 12 (3.73%) Shell Script
10 11 (3.42%) Perl
11 10 (3.11%) MATLAB
12 8 (2.48%) Scala
13 6 (1.86%) Ruby
14 5 (1.55%) Assembly Language
14 5 (1.55%) Go
15 4 (1.24%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.93%) PHP
17 2 (0.62%) VB
Qualifications
1 122 (37.89%) Security Cleared
2 62 (19.25%) DV Cleared
3 53 (16.46%) SC Cleared
4 39 (12.11%) Degree
5 17 (5.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (4.66%) Master's Degree
7 7 (2.17%) Azure Certification
7 7 (2.17%) PhD
8 6 (1.86%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (1.55%) CCNP
10 4 (1.24%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.62%) CCIE
12 2 (0.62%) VCAP
12 2 (0.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 1 (0.31%) CISSP
13 1 (0.31%) CTC Cleared
13 1 (0.31%) HP ASE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.17%) Data Quality
1 7 (2.17%) RMADS
2 6 (1.86%) GDPR
3 5 (1.55%) QA
4 4 (1.24%) JTAG
5 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.31%) CDISC
5 1 (0.31%) GxP
5 1 (0.31%) IEC 61508
5 1 (0.31%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.31%) MISRA
5 1 (0.31%) MISRA C
5 1 (0.31%) NCSC
5 1 (0.31%) NIST
5 1 (0.31%) SLA
System Software
1 48 (14.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 44 (13.66%) Active Directory
3 30 (9.32%) Docker
4 16 (4.97%) vSphere
5 11 (3.42%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (2.48%) Hyper-V
7 6 (1.86%) VMware NSX
8 4 (1.24%) Embedded Firmware
8 4 (1.24%) Firmware
8 4 (1.24%) VirtualBox
9 3 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.62%) KVM
10 2 (0.62%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.62%) Varnish
10 2 (0.62%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.31%) HDFS
11 1 (0.31%) NFS
Systems Management
1 78 (24.22%) Ansible
2 67 (20.81%) Terraform
3 37 (11.49%) Kubernetes
4 10 (3.11%) vRealize
5 8 (2.48%) Packer
6 7 (2.17%) Puppet
7 6 (1.86%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.24%) Red Hat Satellite
9 3 (0.93%) Nagios
9 3 (0.93%) Netcool
9 3 (0.93%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.93%) SCCM
9 3 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.93%) WSUS
10 2 (0.62%) Grafana
10 2 (0.62%) HAProxy
10 2 (0.62%) Nessus
10 2 (0.62%) Rundeck
10 2 (0.62%) SELinux
10 2 (0.62%) VxRail
Vendors
1 77 (23.91%) VMware
2 25 (7.76%) Microsoft
2 25 (7.76%) Red Hat
3 15 (4.66%) Cisco
3 15 (4.66%) Oracle
4 11 (3.42%) Databricks
5 9 (2.80%) Google
6 7 (2.17%) Veritas
7 6 (1.86%) SolarWinds
8 5 (1.55%) Adobe
8 5 (1.55%) Arqiva
8 5 (1.55%) Dynatrace
8 5 (1.55%) Splunk
9 4 (1.24%) CheckPoint
9 4 (1.24%) IBM
9 4 (1.24%) Juniper
9 4 (1.24%) Nokia
9 4 (1.24%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.24%) SAP
9 4 (1.24%) Snapchat