Python Contracts in the UK excluding London

Python
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 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 23 19 29
Rank change year-on-year -4 +10 -8
Contract jobs citing Python 1,318 1,875 1,939
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.49% 8.15% 6.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.54% 28.39% 22.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 881 1,302 1,302
10th Percentile £375 £400 £390
25th Percentile £425 £460 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +4.76% +11.70%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £625
90th Percentile £675 £713 £700
UK median daily rate £560 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 101 67
10th Percentile £20.77 £20.47 £18.30
25th Percentile £38.00 £46.25 £25.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.33 £50.77
Median % change year-on-year +13.38% +12.92% +26.93%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £58.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £60.63 £50.77
% change year-on-year -1.03% +19.41% +26.93%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,786 6,604 8,746
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.58% 28.70% 28.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,224 4,664 6,104
10th Percentile £314 £350 £338
25th Percentile £400 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% +1.01% +16.47%
75th Percentile £588 £590 £575
90th Percentile £650 £676 £650
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 410 326 332
10th Percentile £37.96 £22.86 £17.03
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.00 £29.13
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £77.00 £68.68
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in the UK excluding London

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Python in the UK excluding London

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python in the UK excluding London

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Python in the UK excluding London

Python
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Python in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Python in the UK excluding London

Python
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London 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
North of England +1 369 £500 -13.04% 273
South East -5 322 £525 -4.55% 680
Scotland -2 212 £497 -0.60% 111
South West -12 185 £600 +1.78% 231
North West -7 177 £500 -9.09% 158
Yorkshire +17 165 £500 -16.67% 89
Midlands +11 136 £450 -14.29% 207
East of England -16 84 £450 -10.00% 204
West Midlands +5 81 £450 -20.88% 146
East Midlands +14 54 £425 -15.00% 60
North East +4 29 £600 -11.11% 26
Wales +9 17 £550 +7.32% 43
Northern Ireland +2 9 £413 -17.50% 47
Python
UK

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 80 (6.07%) Confluence
2 50 (3.79%) Apache Airflow
3 45 (3.41%) Apache
4 40 (3.03%) Apache Spark
5 33 (2.50%) SAS
6 8 (0.61%) nginx
7 6 (0.46%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.38%) JBoss
8 5 (0.38%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.30%) GeoServer
10 3 (0.23%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.23%) CMS
10 3 (0.23%) IIS
11 2 (0.15%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.15%) IBM Domino
11 2 (0.15%) Traefik
12 1 (0.076%) Appian
12 1 (0.076%) Drupal
12 1 (0.076%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.076%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 109 (8.27%) Chatbot
2 17 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (0.91%) Sketch
4 10 (0.76%) SPSS
5 9 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
6 8 (0.61%) Simulink
7 4 (0.30%) CANalyzer
8 1 (0.076%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 1 (0.076%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.076%) Stata
8 1 (0.076%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (0.68%) Odoo
2 8 (0.61%) Maximo
3 4 (0.30%) Adobe Campaign
3 4 (0.30%) FastStats
3 4 (0.30%) Unica
4 3 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.15%) Shopify
6 1 (0.076%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.076%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.076%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 372 (28.22%) AWS
2 293 (22.23%) Azure
3 127 (9.64%) Serverless
4 96 (7.28%) Amazon S3
5 93 (7.06%) GCP
6 91 (6.90%) Power Platform
7 80 (6.07%) GitHub
8 77 (5.84%) AWS Lambda
9 63 (4.78%) OpenShift
10 61 (4.63%) AWS CloudFormation
11 56 (4.25%) Azure Data Factory
12 53 (4.02%) Azure DevOps
13 51 (3.87%) Snowflake
14 50 (3.79%) Amazon EC2
15 32 (2.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 31 (2.35%) Entra ID
17 27 (2.05%) Azure Monitor
18 24 (1.82%) Azure Functions
19 22 (1.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 21 (1.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 51 (3.87%) TCP/IP
2 49 (3.72%) Firewall
3 36 (2.73%) VPN
4 34 (2.58%) DNS
5 30 (2.28%) SAN
6 26 (1.97%) BGP
7 23 (1.75%) Radio Access Network
8 20 (1.52%) Network Security
9 17 (1.29%) OSPF
9 17 (1.29%) Wi-Fi
10 16 (1.21%) Cisco ASA
10 16 (1.21%) HTTP
10 16 (1.21%) Wireless
11 13 (0.99%) NetScaler
12 12 (0.91%) Cisco Firepower
12 12 (0.91%) Cisco ISE
12 12 (0.91%) HSRP
12 12 (0.91%) NAS
12 12 (0.91%) SNMP
12 12 (0.91%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
2 84 (6.37%) Power BI
3 58 (4.40%) NoSQL
4 55 (4.17%) MongoDB
5 54 (4.10%) Data Warehouse
6 53 (4.02%) Big Data
7 50 (3.79%) Data Lake
8 48 (3.64%) Relational Database
9 45 (3.41%) Tableau
10 36 (2.73%) SQL Server
11 34 (2.58%) Amazon Redshift
12 33 (2.50%) MySQL
13 32 (2.43%) Amazon RDS
13 32 (2.43%) Hadoop
14 30 (2.28%) Elasticsearch
15 29 (2.20%) BigQuery
16 25 (1.90%) Amazon Aurora
17 21 (1.59%) GIS
18 20 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
19 18 (1.37%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 194 (14.72%) Jenkins
2 182 (13.81%) Git
3 137 (10.39%) JIRA
4 92 (6.98%) GitLab
5 48 (3.64%) Bitbucket
6 35 (2.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 30 (2.28%) Robot Framework
8 28 (2.12%) Selenium
9 26 (1.97%) Sonatype Nexus
10 17 (1.29%) SonarQube
11 16 (1.21%) Artifactory
12 14 (1.06%) Subversion
13 12 (0.91%) Gradle
13 12 (0.91%) Maven
14 11 (0.83%) Travis CI
14 11 (0.83%) Visual Studio
15 9 (0.68%) CircleCI
15 9 (0.68%) TestRail
16 8 (0.61%) Burp Suite
16 8 (0.61%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 239 (18.13%) Social Skills
2 159 (12.06%) Analytical Skills
3 111 (8.42%) Finance
4 80 (6.07%) Public Sector
5 54 (4.10%) Banking
6 36 (2.73%) Telecoms
7 28 (2.12%) Aerospace
7 28 (2.12%) Pharmaceutical
8 27 (2.05%) Marketing
9 25 (1.90%) Manufacturing
10 20 (1.52%) Retail
11 17 (1.29%) Electronics
12 15 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
13 14 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
14 12 (0.91%) Multimedia
15 9 (0.68%) Investment Banking
15 9 (0.68%) Legal
16 6 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
16 6 (0.46%) Military
17 5 (0.38%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 397 (30.12%) Developer
2 126 (9.56%) Software Developer
3 119 (9.03%) DevOps Engineer
4 115 (8.73%) Python Developer
5 102 (7.74%) Data Engineer
6 99 (7.51%) Analyst
6 99 (7.51%) Senior
7 67 (5.08%) Software Engineer
8 64 (4.86%) Python Engineer
9 58 (4.40%) Architect
10 56 (4.25%) Data Analyst
11 55 (4.17%) Full Stack Developer
12 49 (3.72%) AWS Engineer
12 49 (3.72%) Linux Engineer
13 45 (3.41%) Network Engineer
14 44 (3.34%) Lead
15 38 (2.88%) Platform Engineer
16 34 (2.58%) Security Engineer
17 33 (2.50%) Azure Engineer
18 32 (2.43%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (10.39%) HTML
2 93 (7.06%) React
3 62 (4.70%) REST
4 49 (3.72%) .NET
4 49 (3.72%) PySpark
5 44 (3.34%) AWS CDK
6 35 (2.66%) XML
7 34 (2.58%) JSON
7 34 (2.58%) Kafka
7 34 (2.58%) Node.js
7 34 (2.58%) YAML
8 33 (2.50%) AngularJS
8 33 (2.50%) RESTful
9 27 (2.05%) Django
9 27 (2.05%) Flask
9 27 (2.05%) Spring
10 26 (1.97%) CSS
11 24 (1.82%) .NET Core
12 21 (1.59%) Elastic Stack
13 18 (1.37%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 46 (3.49%) Product Ownership
2 45 (3.41%) PKI
3 36 (2.73%) Linux Command Line
4 35 (2.66%) Algorithms
5 30 (2.28%) Data Centre
6 29 (2.20%) Data Structures
7 27 (2.05%) Public Cloud
8 24 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
9 22 (1.67%) Client/Server
10 21 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
10 21 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
11 17 (1.29%) Management Information System
12 16 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
12 16 (1.21%) Mobile App
13 15 (1.14%) Cloud Native
14 12 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 12 (0.91%) Onboarding
14 12 (0.91%) Renewable Energy
15 11 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
16 10 (0.76%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 303 (22.99%) Linux
2 124 (9.41%) Windows
3 69 (5.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 67 (5.08%) Unix
5 53 (4.02%) Windows Server
6 28 (2.12%) Ubuntu
7 21 (1.59%) Android
8 20 (1.52%) Debian
9 16 (1.21%) Windows Server 2019
10 15 (1.14%) Apple iOS
10 15 (1.14%) zOS
11 9 (0.68%) CentOS
11 9 (0.68%) Embedded Linux
12 8 (0.61%) VMS
13 6 (0.46%) Mac OS
14 4 (0.30%) Data ONTAP
14 4 (0.30%) Solaris
14 4 (0.30%) Windows 10
15 3 (0.23%) Kali Linux
16 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 379 (28.76%) DevOps
2 371 (28.15%) Agile
3 284 (21.55%) CI/CD
4 259 (19.65%) Software Engineering
5 192 (14.57%) Problem-Solving
6 183 (13.88%) Artificial Intelligence
7 139 (10.55%) Code Quality
8 135 (10.24%) Data Modelling
9 123 (9.33%) Infrastructure as Code
10 122 (9.26%) Containerisation
11 119 (9.03%) Test Automation
12 114 (8.65%) Scrum
13 112 (8.50%) Conversational UI
14 110 (8.35%) Analytics
15 108 (8.19%) Computer Science
16 94 (7.13%) ETL
17 91 (6.90%) Business Intelligence
18 89 (6.75%) Machine Learning
19 85 (6.45%) Data Engineering
19 85 (6.45%) OO
Programming Languages
1 379 (28.76%) SQL
2 237 (17.98%) Java
3 229 (17.37%) JavaScript
4 187 (14.19%) PowerShell
5 172 (13.05%) C#
6 146 (11.08%) Bash
7 103 (7.81%) C++
8 81 (6.15%) Perl
9 78 (5.92%) C
10 49 (3.72%) Shell Script
11 42 (3.19%) Go
11 42 (3.19%) R
12 40 (3.03%) Scala
12 40 (3.03%) TypeScript
13 26 (1.97%) Groovy
13 26 (1.97%) Ruby
14 22 (1.67%) VBScript
15 17 (1.29%) Tcl
16 16 (1.21%) MATLAB
17 15 (1.14%) REXX
Qualifications
1 305 (23.14%) Security Cleared
2 216 (16.39%) Degree
3 175 (13.28%) SC Cleared
4 127 (9.64%) DV Cleared
5 52 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (1.75%) AWS Certification
6 23 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
6 23 (1.75%) Master's Degree
7 20 (1.52%) CCNP
8 17 (1.29%) CCNA
9 13 (0.99%) PhD
10 12 (0.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 12 (0.91%) Azure Certification
11 10 (0.76%) OSCP
12 7 (0.53%) CEH
12 7 (0.53%) CREST Certified
12 7 (0.53%) GIAC
13 6 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (0.46%) GPEN
14 5 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (4.32%) QA
2 49 (3.72%) Data Quality
3 24 (1.82%) Accessibility
4 20 (1.52%) GDPR
5 12 (0.91%) Disclosure Scotland
6 11 (0.83%) MISRA
7 10 (0.76%) NIST
8 7 (0.53%) GxP
8 7 (0.53%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.53%) RMADS
9 6 (0.46%) Good Clinical Practice
9 6 (0.46%) JTAG
10 4 (0.30%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 3 (0.23%) ISO 22301
11 3 (0.23%) NCSC
12 2 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.15%) IEC 61508
13 1 (0.076%) DO-178B
13 1 (0.076%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 189 (14.34%) Docker
2 70 (5.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 65 (4.93%) Active Directory
4 22 (1.67%) Firmware
5 21 (1.59%) NFS
5 21 (1.59%) vSphere
6 15 (1.14%) Time Sharing Option
6 15 (1.14%) VMware NSX
7 13 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
8 12 (0.91%) Hyper-V
9 8 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.38%) Embedded Firmware
10 5 (0.38%) HDFS
11 4 (0.30%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 4 (0.30%) GPFS
11 4 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.30%) VirtualBox
12 3 (0.23%) KVM
13 2 (0.15%) LXC
Systems Management
1 255 (19.35%) Ansible
2 242 (18.36%) Terraform
3 224 (17.00%) Kubernetes
4 74 (5.61%) Grafana
5 49 (3.72%) Prometheus
6 39 (2.96%) Puppet
7 38 (2.88%) Progress Chef
8 25 (1.90%) Kibana
8 25 (1.90%) PowerCLI
9 17 (1.29%) Docker Swarm
9 17 (1.29%) Packer
10 15 (1.14%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 11 (0.83%) HP Fortify
12 10 (0.76%) SCCM
12 10 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
12 10 (0.76%) vRealize
13 9 (0.68%) logstash
14 7 (0.53%) Nagios
14 7 (0.53%) Nessus
14 7 (0.53%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 109 (8.27%) VMware
2 108 (8.19%) PayPal
3 103 (7.81%) Microsoft
4 69 (5.24%) Google
5 65 (4.93%) Splunk
6 56 (4.25%) Databricks
7 50 (3.79%) Red Hat
8 41 (3.11%) Atlassian
9 40 (3.03%) Dell
10 39 (2.96%) Cisco
11 38 (2.88%) Oracle
12 29 (2.20%) IBM
13 25 (1.90%) HP
14 21 (1.59%) SAP
15 20 (1.52%) Brocade
15 20 (1.52%) SolarWinds
16 19 (1.44%) Palo Alto
17 16 (1.21%) Citrix
17 16 (1.21%) Veritas
18 15 (1.14%) CA