Python Contracts in Bedfordshire

Python
East of England > Bedfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 27 34
Rank change year-on-year +1 +7 -8
Contract jobs citing Python 7 6 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 2.88% 3.24% 2.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.84% 13.64% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 2
10th Percentile £439 £448 £422
25th Percentile £478 £481 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £500 £484
Median % change year-on-year +6.50% +3.36% -
75th Percentile £573 £509 £528
90th Percentile - £526 £548
East of England median daily rate £450 £500 £543
% change year-on-year -10.00% -7.83% +14.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £62.50 £60.00 £56.00
% change year-on-year +4.17% +7.14% +12.00%

All Programming Languages
Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 19 44 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 7.82% 23.78% 14.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 33 21
10th Percentile - £320 £263
25th Percentile £363 £400 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £350
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +42.86% -17.65%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £561
90th Percentile £568 - £575
East of England median daily rate £475 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 8
10th Percentile £53.25 - £32.15
25th Percentile £56.25 - £42.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £56.25
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.50%
75th Percentile £68.75 - £61.31
90th Percentile £71.75 - £63.68
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £56.00
% change year-on-year - +16.07% +24.44%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Python in Bedfordshire

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Python in Bedfordshire

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python in Bedfordshire

Python
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Luton -1 6 £533 +6.50% 7
Dunstable -4 1 - -
Python
East of England

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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 2 (28.57%) Confluence
2 1 (14.29%) Apache
2 1 (14.29%) SAS
2 1 (14.29%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) GitHub
3 3 (42.86%) Azure
4 1 (14.29%) Collibra
4 1 (14.29%) GCP
4 1 (14.29%) Power Automate
4 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
4 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) Cisco ASA
1 4 (57.14%) Firewall
2 2 (28.57%) BGP
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (28.57%) LAN
2 2 (28.57%) OSPF
2 2 (28.57%) SD-WAN
2 2 (28.57%) VPN
2 2 (28.57%) WAN
2 2 (28.57%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (14.29%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Ataccama
1 1 (14.29%) Big Data
1 1 (14.29%) BigQuery
1 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
1 1 (14.29%) Data Mining
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
1 1 (14.29%) Qlik Sense
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
1 1 (14.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) JIRA
2 2 (28.57%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Architect
1 4 (57.14%) Technical Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Network Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Network Technical Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Data Quality Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) QA Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Quality Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Data Quality Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Senior QA Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Quality Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Tableau Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Unix Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) LDAP
1 1 (14.29%) Middleware
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) AIX
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Solaris
1 1 (14.29%) Unix
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
1 4 (57.14%) Technical Architecture
2 2 (28.57%) Capacity Management
2 2 (28.57%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (28.57%) Planning and Forecasting
2 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
2 2 (28.57%) Technology Roadmap
3 1 (14.29%) Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Data Governance
3 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
3 1 (14.29%) High Availability
3 1 (14.29%) ITIL
3 1 (14.29%) Patch Management
3 1 (14.29%) Prescriptive Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Tech Ops
3 1 (14.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
2 1 (14.29%) Korn
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 1 (14.29%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Cisco
1 4 (57.14%) Palo Alto
1 4 (57.14%) Splunk
2 2 (28.57%) Alteryx
2 2 (28.57%) F5
2 2 (28.57%) Zscaler
3 1 (14.29%) Dataiku
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (14.29%) Qualys
3 1 (14.29%) Salesforce
3 1 (14.29%) SAP
3 1 (14.29%) Trillium
3 1 (14.29%) VMware