The first table below looks at the demand for Python skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bedfordshire 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 Bedfordshire 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 29 26 -
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -
Contract jobs citing Python 2 6 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 1.053% 2.206% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.636% 9.677% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £350 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £318 £300
% change year-on-year
-1.57% +5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £36.50 £34.50
% change year-on-year
+9.58% +5.79%
All Programming Languages
Bedfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
55 62 93
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 28.95% 22.79% 32.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 29 40
Average daily rate £338 £325 £213
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.84% +52.94%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £450 £403
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 8
Average hourly rate £24.38 £38.00 £47.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-35.85% -20.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
Python
East of England

Python
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedfordshire 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 Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire Python Daily Rate Trend

Python
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby
1 2 (100.00%) Web Development
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (100.00%) WATIR
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
1 2 (100.00%) Git (software)
1 2 (100.00%) WebDriver
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 2 (100.00%) Waterfall
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) SpecFlow
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Testing
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Automated Testing
2 1 (50.00%) SOA
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management

Python
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) WATIR
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) Git (software)
1 2 (100.00%) WebDriver
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) SpecFlow
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Test Leader
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 2 (100.00%) Web Development
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
1 2 (100.00%) Waterfall
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Testing
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Automated Testing
2 1 (50.00%) SOA
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby