Python Contracts in the East Midlands

Python
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 36 66
Rank change year-on-year +17 +30 -28
Contract jobs citing Python 52 51 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 6.79% 4.89% 2.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.11% 16.35% 8.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 48 27
10th Percentile £356 £376 £348
25th Percentile £363 £422 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +5.26% +17.28%
75th Percentile £550 £700 £575
90th Percentile £625 - £685
England median daily rate £563 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -6.25% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £22.33 - -
25th Percentile £23.24 - -
Median hourly rate £26.12 £50.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -47.77% - -
75th Percentile £30.37 - -
90th Percentile £32.10 - -
England median hourly rate £62.18 £65.00 £51.38
% change year-on-year -4.34% +26.52% +28.44%

All Programming Languages
East Midlands

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 East Midlands with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 185 312 397
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 24.15% 29.89% 27.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 269 311
10th Percentile £280 £269 £313
25th Percentile £356 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £420
Median % change year-on-year - +1.19% +12.00%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £500
90th Percentile £625 £630 £575
England median daily rate £540 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 17
10th Percentile £15.66 £20.39 £20.00
25th Percentile £22.12 £26.48 £20.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £50.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +42.86% -22.22%
75th Percentile £31.00 £57.50 -
90th Percentile £40.71 £63.50 £45.67
England median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
% change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +14.94%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Python in the East Midlands

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Python in the East Midlands

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python in the East Midlands

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Python in the East Midlands

Python
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 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
Nottinghamshire -6 18 £540 -10.00% 23
Northamptonshire +18 13 £410 +2.50% 6
Leicestershire +14 11 £375 -6.54% 14
Lincolnshire - 3 £425 - 5
Derbyshire +4 2 £425 -11.46% 9
Python
England

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 5 (9.62%) JBoss
2 4 (7.69%) Apache Spark
2 4 (7.69%) Confluence
3 2 (3.85%) Apache
4 1 (1.92%) SAS
Applications
1 12 (23.08%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 18 (34.62%) AWS
2 7 (13.46%) Azure
3 5 (9.62%) OpenShift
4 4 (7.69%) Power Platform
5 3 (5.77%) Entra ID
5 3 (5.77%) Snowflake
6 2 (3.85%) GCP
7 1 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.92%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.92%) GitHub
7 1 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.92%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.62%) SAN
1 5 (9.62%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.92%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.54%) Relational Database
2 5 (9.62%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (9.62%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (9.62%) RDBMS
3 4 (7.69%) Data Lake
3 4 (7.69%) Power BI
4 3 (5.77%) Big Data
4 3 (5.77%) Pentaho
4 3 (5.77%) Semantic Layer
4 3 (5.77%) SQL Server
4 3 (5.77%) Tableau
5 2 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (3.85%) Hadoop
5 2 (3.85%) MySQL
6 1 (1.92%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.92%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.92%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.92%) Power Query
6 1 (1.92%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 10 (19.23%) JIRA
2 7 (13.46%) Jenkins
3 6 (11.54%) CA Release Automation
4 5 (9.62%) Bitbucket Server
4 5 (9.62%) Git
4 5 (9.62%) SonarQube
4 5 (9.62%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (9.62%) TeamCity
5 4 (7.69%) JMeter
6 2 (3.85%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.92%) JUnit
General
1 7 (13.46%) Social Skills
2 5 (9.62%) Finance
3 4 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (7.69%) Banking
4 2 (3.85%) Marketing
4 2 (3.85%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.85%) Retail
5 1 (1.92%) Back Office
5 1 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.92%) Police
5 1 (1.92%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 23 (44.23%) Developer
2 13 (25.00%) Software Developer
3 8 (15.38%) Analyst
4 6 (11.54%) Data Engineer
4 6 (11.54%) Python Developer
5 5 (9.62%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (9.62%) Senior
5 5 (9.62%) Support Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) Consultant
6 4 (7.69%) Data Analyst
7 3 (5.77%) Architect
7 3 (5.77%) IAM Consultant
7 3 (5.77%) Test Analyst
8 2 (3.85%) Hadoop Developer
8 2 (3.85%) Marketing Analyst
8 2 (3.85%) Senior Data Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Senior Developer
8 2 (3.85%) Senior Python Developer
8 2 (3.85%) Senior Software Developer
8 2 (3.85%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (23.08%) HTML
2 7 (13.46%) LDAP
3 5 (9.62%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (9.62%) Spring Boot
4 3 (5.77%) OAuth
4 3 (5.77%) OpenID
4 3 (5.77%) SailPoint
4 3 (5.77%) SAML
4 3 (5.77%) Web Services
5 1 (1.92%) .NET
5 1 (1.92%) Anaconda
5 1 (1.92%) Apache Beam
5 1 (1.92%) AWS CDK
5 1 (1.92%) Kafka
5 1 (1.92%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (1.92%) Algorithms
1 1 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (1.92%) Data Structures
1 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (1.92%) Insider Threat
1 1 (1.92%) Management Information System
1 1 (1.92%) Onboarding
1 1 (1.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (19.23%) Linux
2 5 (9.62%) Debian
2 5 (9.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (9.62%) Ubuntu
2 5 (9.62%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (34.62%) Code Quality
2 16 (30.77%) Software Engineering
3 12 (23.08%) Artificial Intelligence
3 12 (23.08%) Conversational UI
4 10 (19.23%) Agile
4 10 (19.23%) Business Intelligence
5 9 (17.31%) Data Engineering
5 9 (17.31%) Data Modelling
6 8 (15.38%) DevOps
6 8 (15.38%) ETL
6 8 (15.38%) Migration
7 7 (13.46%) Data Analysis
8 6 (11.54%) CI/CD
8 6 (11.54%) Data Science
9 5 (9.62%) Customer Service
9 5 (9.62%) Deployment Automation
9 5 (9.62%) Matrix Organization
9 5 (9.62%) Microservices
9 5 (9.62%) Prototyping
9 5 (9.62%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 24 (46.15%) SQL
2 13 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 12 (23.08%) C#
4 9 (17.31%) Java
5 6 (11.54%) Perl
5 6 (11.54%) Scala
6 4 (7.69%) PowerShell
6 4 (7.69%) R
7 3 (5.77%) Bash
8 2 (3.85%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.92%) C
9 1 (1.92%) C++
9 1 (1.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.92%) Rust
9 1 (1.92%) Search Processing Language
9 1 (1.92%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (30.77%) Degree
2 9 (17.31%) Security Cleared
3 8 (15.38%) SC Cleared
4 5 (9.62%) DV Cleared
5 3 (5.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.92%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.92%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (1.92%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.92%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (17.31%) Active Directory
2 5 (9.62%) Docker
3 1 (1.92%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 5 (9.62%) Kibana
1 5 (9.62%) Kubernetes
1 5 (9.62%) Progress Chef
2 4 (7.69%) Ansible
3 3 (5.77%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.92%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (1.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (23.08%) PayPal
2 10 (19.23%) Red Hat
3 9 (17.31%) Microsoft
4 7 (13.46%) Splunk
5 5 (9.62%) AppDynamics
5 5 (9.62%) VMware
6 3 (5.77%) Databricks
6 3 (5.77%) Informatica
6 3 (5.77%) Okta
6 3 (5.77%) Talend
7 1 (1.92%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.92%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (1.92%) Google
7 1 (1.92%) JDA
7 1 (1.92%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.92%) SAP
7 1 (1.92%) ServiceNow