Lead Python Developer Contracts

Lead Python Developer
UK

The median Lead Python Developer daily rate in the UK is £825 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 552 682 831
Rank change year-on-year +130 +149 -149
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Python Developer 27 12 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.063% 0.021% 0.036%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.068% 0.022% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 5 26
10th Percentile £675 - £525
25th Percentile £713 £550 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £825 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +43.48% -4.17% -9.43%
75th Percentile £888 £600 £675
90th Percentile - £611 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £675 £575 £570
% change year-on-year +17.39% +0.88% +42.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 39,468 54,175 84,246
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.61% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,716 37,826 59,224
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.20% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,674 1,504 2,051
10th Percentile £12.83 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.82
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +4.19%

Lead Python Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Lead Python Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Lead Python Developer in the UK

Lead Python Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Python Developer in the UK

Lead Python Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Python Developer over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Python Developer in the UK

Lead Python Developer
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Python Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 20 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
England +131 26 £825 +40.43% 3
London +116 23 £825 +37.50% 3
Work from Home +123 15 £825 +50.00% 3
UK excluding London +54 4 £675 +17.39%
North of England - 3 £675 -
Yorkshire - 3 £675 -
Scotland - 1 - -

Lead Python Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, Lead Python Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Lead Python Developer in the job title.

1 27 (100.00%) Python
2 21 (77.78%) Agile
3 20 (74.07%) Finance
3 20 (74.07%) Software Engineering
4 18 (66.67%) AWS
5 15 (55.56%) JavaScript
5 15 (55.56%) GCP
6 14 (51.85%) Apache Airflow
6 14 (51.85%) Front Office
7 13 (48.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 13 (48.15%) Java
7 13 (48.15%) Apache
7 13 (48.15%) Investment Banking
7 13 (48.15%) Asset Management
7 13 (48.15%) Fixed Income
7 13 (48.15%) Equities
7 13 (48.15%) Banking
7 13 (48.15%) Derivative
7 13 (48.15%) Hedge funds
7 13 (48.15%) SciPy
7 13 (48.15%) NumPy
7 13 (48.15%) Protocol Buffers
7 13 (48.15%) TypeScript
7 13 (48.15%) Pandas
7 13 (48.15%) gRPC
7 13 (48.15%) Amazon Athena
7 13 (48.15%) Apache Ignite
7 13 (48.15%) Dremio
7 13 (48.15%) dbt
7 13 (48.15%) Apache Arrow

Lead Python Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (51.85%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (48.15%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 18 (66.67%) AWS
2 15 (55.56%) GCP
3 13 (48.15%) dbt
4 12 (44.44%) Snowflake
5 4 (14.81%) Amazon S3
5 4 (14.81%) Serverless
6 3 (11.11%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (7.41%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (7.41%) Azure
7 2 (7.41%) Azure API Management
7 2 (7.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (7.41%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (7.41%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (7.41%) Azure Storage
7 2 (7.41%) Entra ID
7 2 (7.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (7.41%) PaaS
8 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (48.15%) Amazon Athena
1 13 (48.15%) Apache Arrow
1 13 (48.15%) Apache Ignite
1 13 (48.15%) Dremio
2 12 (44.44%) Data Lake
3 2 (7.41%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (14.81%) Postman
2 2 (7.41%) GitLab
2 2 (7.41%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.70%) Git
General
1 20 (74.07%) Finance
2 14 (51.85%) Front Office
3 13 (48.15%) Banking
3 13 (48.15%) Investment Banking
4 2 (7.41%) Retail
4 2 (7.41%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (48.15%) gRPC
1 13 (48.15%) NumPy
1 13 (48.15%) Pandas
1 13 (48.15%) Protocol Buffers
1 13 (48.15%) SciPy
2 6 (22.22%) Web Services
3 4 (14.81%) Swagger
4 3 (11.11%) Lambda Expressions
5 2 (7.41%) CSS
5 2 (7.41%) Django
5 2 (7.41%) HTML
5 2 (7.41%) React
6 1 (3.70%) Kafka
6 1 (3.70%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 13 (48.15%) Derivative
1 13 (48.15%) Equities
1 13 (48.15%) Fixed Income
1 13 (48.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 13 (48.15%) Hedge funds
2 2 (7.41%) Algorithms
2 2 (7.41%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (77.78%) Agile
2 20 (74.07%) Software Engineering
3 13 (48.15%) Asset Management
4 12 (44.44%) Line Management
5 9 (33.33%) CI/CD
6 8 (29.63%) Investment Management
7 7 (25.93%) TDD
8 6 (22.22%) Continuous Deployment
8 6 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
9 5 (18.52%) Coaching
10 4 (14.81%) Pair Programming
11 3 (11.11%) Data Science
11 3 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
12 2 (7.41%) Analytics
12 2 (7.41%) API Management
12 2 (7.41%) Computer Science
12 2 (7.41%) Mentoring
12 2 (7.41%) Platform Engineering
12 2 (7.41%) Software Architecture
12 2 (7.41%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 27 (100.00%) Python
2 15 (55.56%) JavaScript
3 13 (48.15%) Java
3 13 (48.15%) TypeScript
4 5 (18.52%) SQL
5 2 (7.41%) Scala
6 1 (3.70%) Ruby
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (14.81%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.11%) Splunk