The first table below looks at the demand for Python skills in IT contracts advertised for the Basingstoke region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Python over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the Basingstoke region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Python
Rank 38 25 23
Rank change year-on-year
-13 -2
Contract jobs citing Python 2 4 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 1.010% 2.198% 3.252%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.151% 5.000% 7.273%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £403 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £318 £300
% change year-on-year
-1.57% +5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 6
Average hourly rate - £36.50 £34.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +5.79%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £36.50 £34.50
% change year-on-year
+9.58% +5.79%
All Programming Languages
Basingstoke
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
93 80 110
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 46.97% 43.96% 44.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 31 43
Average daily rate £350 £363 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.44% +3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £290 £275 £273
10% offered a daily rate of more than £403 £475 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 14
Average hourly rate £23.13 £36.50 £34.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-36.64% +5.79%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
Python
Hampshire

Python
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Python across the Basingstoke region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Basingstoke Python Jobs Demand Trend

Python
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Python across the Basingstoke region.

Basingstoke Python Daily Rate Trend

Python
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Python across the Basingstoke region.

Basingstoke Python Hourly Rate Trend

Python
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke region citing Python also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Python.

1 9 (100.00%) C#
1 9 (100.00%) C++
1 9 (100.00%) SQL
1 9 (100.00%) Selenium
1 9 (100.00%) SpecFlow
2 8 (88.89%) BDD
2 8 (88.89%) TDD
2 8 (88.89%) .NET
2 8 (88.89%) JavaScript
3 5 (55.56%) Perl
3 5 (55.56%) C
3 5 (55.56%) Java
3 5 (55.56%) SOA
3 5 (55.56%) BizTalk Server
3 5 (55.56%) Scrum
3 5 (55.56%) FitNesse
3 5 (55.56%) WCF
3 5 (55.56%) Agile Software Development
3 5 (55.56%) WATIR
3 5 (55.56%) WebDriver
3 5 (55.56%) Git (software)
4 4 (44.44%) Integration Testing
4 4 (44.44%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (44.44%) jQuery
4 4 (44.44%) ASP.NET MVC
4 4 (44.44%) SaaS
4 4 (44.44%) Pair Programming
4 4 (44.44%) Subversion
4 4 (44.44%) Technical Architecture
4 4 (44.44%) .NET Framework

Python
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke region citing Python also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Python. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (88.89%) .NET
2 5 (55.56%) WCF
3 4 (44.44%) jQuery
3 4 (44.44%) ASP.NET MVC
3 4 (44.44%) .NET Framework
3 4 (44.44%) HTML
3 4 (44.44%) ASP.NET
3 4 (44.44%) XML
3 4 (44.44%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 2 (22.22%) soapUI
4 2 (22.22%) Web Services
5 1 (11.11%) SOAP
5 1 (11.11%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 5 (55.56%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (11.11%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) MySQL
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (100.00%) Selenium
1 9 (100.00%) SpecFlow
2 5 (55.56%) FitNesse
2 5 (55.56%) WATIR
2 5 (55.56%) WebDriver
2 5 (55.56%) Git (software)
3 4 (44.44%) Subversion
3 4 (44.44%) ReSharper
4 1 (11.11%) JMeter
4 1 (11.11%) GitHub
4 1 (11.11%) Firebug
4 1 (11.11%) Fiddler
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
2 1 (11.11%) Electronics
2 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
2 1 (11.11%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Analyst
1 5 (55.56%) Test Analyst
1 5 (55.56%) Test Team Leader
1 5 (55.56%) Team Leader
2 4 (44.44%) Agile C# Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Developer
2 4 (44.44%) C# Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) SaaS
2 1 (11.11%) DTV
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) SUSE
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) BDD
1 8 (88.89%) TDD
2 5 (55.56%) SOA
2 5 (55.56%) Scrum
2 5 (55.56%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (44.44%) Integration Testing
3 4 (44.44%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (44.44%) Pair Programming
3 4 (44.44%) Technical Architecture
3 4 (44.44%) MVC
3 4 (44.44%) OOP
3 4 (44.44%) OO
3 4 (44.44%) Kanban
4 1 (11.11%) Programme Management
4 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (11.11%) Performance Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Security Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Manual Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) C#
1 9 (100.00%) C++
1 9 (100.00%) SQL
2 8 (88.89%) JavaScript
3 5 (55.56%) Perl
3 5 (55.56%) C
3 5 (55.56%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) SAP
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