Python Contracts in the East of England

Python
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 37 21 20
Rank change year-on-year -16 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing Python 85 154 212
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 4.49% 7.67% 8.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.20% 25.54% 27.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 100 134
10th Percentile £285 £425 £413
25th Percentile £405 £434 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +15.18%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £631
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
England median daily rate £567 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -5.50% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 12 17
10th Percentile £42.25 £25.00 £46.25
25th Percentile £53.13 £47.50 £50.85
Median hourly rate £62.50 £60.00 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +7.14% +12.00%
75th Percentile £66.25 £74.50 -
90th Percentile £68.25 - £65.25
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £51.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +26.21% +28.75%

All Programming Languages
East of England

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 of England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 401 603 778
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 21.18% 30.01% 30.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 346 459
10th Percentile £314 £303 £297
25th Percentile £405 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.60% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £694 £640
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 101 89
10th Percentile £52.50 £51.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £60.00 £53.75 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year - +16.07% +30.23%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £88.53 £77.00 £67.64
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.77
% change year-on-year - +23.10% +18.59%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in the East of England

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Python in the East of England

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in the East of England over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python in the East of England

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Python in the East of England

Python
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Python in the East of England over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Python in the East of England

Python
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 12 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
Cambridgeshire -19 35 £525 +7.69% 115
Hertfordshire +3 34 £430 -36.01% 19
Bedfordshire -3 6 £533 +9.23% 8
Suffolk +3 5 £625 -10.71% 5
Essex -8 5 £275 -38.89% 16
Python
England

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 8 (9.41%) Confluence
2 1 (1.18%) Apache
2 1 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.18%) CMS
2 1 (1.18%) SAS
Business Applications
1 2 (2.35%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 13 (15.29%) AWS
2 9 (10.59%) Azure
3 8 (9.41%) Power Platform
4 7 (8.24%) Collibra
5 5 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (5.88%) GitHub
6 4 (4.71%) Serverless
7 3 (3.53%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (3.53%) dbt
7 3 (3.53%) GCP
8 2 (2.35%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.35%) BigCommerce
8 2 (2.35%) Snowflake
9 1 (1.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.18%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.18%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.18%) CloudFront
9 1 (1.18%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 13 (15.29%) Radio Access Network
2 9 (10.59%) 5G
3 5 (5.88%) NAS
4 4 (4.71%) 4G
4 4 (4.71%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (4.71%) Firewall
4 4 (4.71%) Wireless
4 4 (4.71%) Wireshark
5 3 (3.53%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (2.35%) BGP
6 2 (2.35%) LAN
6 2 (2.35%) OSPF
6 2 (2.35%) RS-485
6 2 (2.35%) SD-WAN
6 2 (2.35%) VPN
6 2 (2.35%) WAN
6 2 (2.35%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (1.18%) MQTT
7 1 (1.18%) RS-232
7 1 (1.18%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.41%) Power BI
2 6 (7.06%) Metadata
3 4 (4.71%) Tableau
4 3 (3.53%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.53%) Looker
5 2 (2.35%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (2.35%) Big Data
5 2 (2.35%) BigQuery
5 2 (2.35%) Data Mining
5 2 (2.35%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.35%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.35%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.18%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.18%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (1.18%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.18%) MySQL
6 1 (1.18%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.18%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (20.00%) Git
2 15 (17.65%) JIRA
3 7 (8.24%) Subversion
4 6 (7.06%) Eclipse
4 6 (7.06%) PyCharm
5 4 (4.71%) gcov
5 4 (4.71%) GDB
5 4 (4.71%) Gradle
5 4 (4.71%) Mercurial
6 3 (3.53%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (2.35%) GitLab
7 2 (2.35%) Jenkins
7 2 (2.35%) Visual Studio
8 1 (1.18%) CMake
8 1 (1.18%) Gerrit
8 1 (1.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 16 (18.82%) Social Skills
2 11 (12.94%) Multimedia
3 8 (9.41%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (9.41%) Telecoms
4 7 (8.24%) Electronics
4 7 (8.24%) Finance
4 7 (8.24%) Manufacturing
4 7 (8.24%) Marketing
4 7 (8.24%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (4.71%) Urdu Language
6 3 (3.53%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (3.53%) Retail
6 3 (3.53%) Wearables
7 2 (2.35%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.18%) Games
8 1 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (23.53%) Developer
2 15 (17.65%) Python Developer
2 15 (17.65%) Software Engineer
3 10 (11.76%) Analyst
3 10 (11.76%) Architect
3 10 (11.76%) C++ Developer
4 8 (9.41%) Python Engineer
5 7 (8.24%) Data Engineer
6 6 (7.06%) Business Analyst
6 6 (7.06%) C++ Software Engineer
6 6 (7.06%) Senior
7 5 (5.88%) Data Analyst
7 5 (5.88%) Data Scientist
7 5 (5.88%) Python Software Engineer
8 4 (4.71%) Data Product Analyst
8 4 (4.71%) Product Analyst
8 4 (4.71%) RAN Engineer
8 4 (4.71%) RF Engineer
8 4 (4.71%) Technical Architect
8 4 (4.71%) Verification Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.41%) React
2 6 (7.06%) NumPy
3 5 (5.88%) Pandas
3 5 (5.88%) SciPy
4 4 (4.71%) JSON
4 4 (4.71%) YAML
5 3 (3.53%) .NET
6 2 (2.35%) GraphQL
6 2 (2.35%) GStreamer
6 2 (2.35%) Kafka
6 2 (2.35%) MFC
6 2 (2.35%) Node.js
6 2 (2.35%) VML
6 2 (2.35%) WinForms
6 2 (2.35%) WPF
7 1 (1.18%) .NET Core
7 1 (1.18%) Flask
7 1 (1.18%) OAuth2
7 1 (1.18%) PySpark
7 1 (1.18%) Sensu
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.24%) Data Structures
2 6 (7.06%) FPGA
3 5 (5.88%) ASIC
3 5 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 5 (5.88%) Verilog
4 4 (4.71%) Algorithms
4 4 (4.71%) Social Media
5 3 (3.53%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (3.53%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.35%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.18%) Augmented Reality
7 1 (1.18%) CRISPR
7 1 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.18%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.18%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.18%) Robotics
7 1 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.18%) Smartphone
7 1 (1.18%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 18 (21.18%) Linux
2 9 (10.59%) Windows
3 6 (7.06%) Unix
4 4 (4.71%) Windows 10
5 2 (2.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.35%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.18%) CentOS
6 1 (1.18%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (30.59%) Software Engineering
2 16 (18.82%) Artificial Intelligence
2 16 (18.82%) Computer Science
3 14 (16.47%) Machine Learning
3 14 (16.47%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (11.76%) CI/CD
4 10 (11.76%) DevOps
5 9 (10.59%) Data Modelling
5 9 (10.59%) Data Science
5 9 (10.59%) Workflow
6 8 (9.41%) Agile
7 7 (8.24%) Data Governance
7 7 (8.24%) Data Pipeline
7 7 (8.24%) Test Automation
8 6 (7.06%) Analytics
8 6 (7.06%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (7.06%) Lean Six Sigma
8 6 (7.06%) Predictive Modelling
8 6 (7.06%) Statistics
8 6 (7.06%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 25 (29.41%) C++
2 16 (18.82%) SQL
3 13 (15.29%) C#
3 13 (15.29%) Java
4 12 (14.12%) JavaScript
5 11 (12.94%) C
6 8 (9.41%) R
7 7 (8.24%) Bash
8 6 (7.06%) Groovy
9 5 (5.88%) Shell Script
9 5 (5.88%) SystemVerilog
9 5 (5.88%) Tcl
10 3 (3.53%) Assembly Language
10 3 (3.53%) TypeScript
11 2 (2.35%) C++/CLI
11 2 (2.35%) PowerShell
11 2 (2.35%) Rust
12 1 (1.18%) MATLAB
12 1 (1.18%) PHP
Qualifications
1 18 (21.18%) Degree
2 11 (12.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (7.06%) Master's Degree
4 4 (4.71%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.53%) PhD
6 1 (1.18%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.18%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.18%) Linux+ Certification
6 1 (1.18%) LPIC
6 1 (1.18%) RHCE
6 1 (1.18%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.06%) GDPR
1 6 (7.06%) Good Clinical Practice
1 6 (7.06%) GxP
2 2 (2.35%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.18%) QA
System Software
1 6 (7.06%) Docker
2 2 (2.35%) LXC
3 1 (1.18%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (1.18%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (1.18%) Firmware
3 1 (1.18%) KVM
3 1 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.18%) Xen
Systems Management
1 8 (9.41%) Terraform
2 6 (7.06%) Ansible
3 5 (5.88%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.35%) Progress Chef
4 2 (2.35%) Proxmox
4 2 (2.35%) Puppet
5 1 (1.18%) Grafana
5 1 (1.18%) Nagios
Vendors
1 5 (5.88%) Cisco
1 5 (5.88%) SAP
2 4 (4.71%) Cadence
2 4 (4.71%) Klocwork
2 4 (4.71%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.71%) Palo Alto
2 4 (4.71%) Perforce
2 4 (4.71%) Splunk
3 3 (3.53%) Salesforce
3 3 (3.53%) Synopsys
3 3 (3.53%) Xilinx
4 2 (2.35%) Adobe
4 2 (2.35%) Alteryx
4 2 (2.35%) Apple
4 2 (2.35%) CheckPoint
4 2 (2.35%) F5
4 2 (2.35%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.35%) Sitecore
4 2 (2.35%) Sophos
4 2 (2.35%) Zscaler