Python Contracts in Gloucestershire

Python
South West > Gloucestershire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire 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 15 14 28
Rank change year-on-year -1 +14 -19
Contract jobs citing Python 48 71 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 11.40% 14.85% 7.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.09% 29.46% 19.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 38 26
10th Percentile £519 £459 £446
25th Percentile £525 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.36% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £700 £674 £592
90th Percentile £719 £728 £634
South West median daily rate £600 £575 £525
% change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 1
Median hourly rate - £78.00 £117.00
Median % change year-on-year - -33.33% +95.00%
South West median hourly rate £74.44 £65.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +13.65% +13.91% +40.24%

All Programming Languages
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 133 241 209
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 31.59% 50.42% 38.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 164 175
10th Percentile £363 £288 £388
25th Percentile £475 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% +3.33% +10.53%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £622
90th Percentile £723 £700 £658
South West median daily rate £525 £513 £500
% change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 3
10th Percentile £70.50 £52.50 £21.40
25th Percentile £71.25 £61.50 £35.88
Median hourly rate £72.50 £78.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.05% +30.00% +20.00%
75th Percentile £73.75 - £88.50
90th Percentile £74.50 - £105.60
South West median hourly rate £67.14 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.28% +4.00% +37.36%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in Gloucestershire

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Python in Gloucestershire

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate histogram for Python in Gloucestershire

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python in Gloucestershire.

Hourly rate trend for Python in Gloucestershire

Python
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Gloucestershire 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
Cheltenham -3 23 £550 -18.52% 25
Gloucester +10 12 £675 +17.39% 6
Python
South West

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 6 (12.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 29 (60.42%) AWS
2 17 (35.42%) Azure
3 6 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
3 6 (12.50%) Amazon S3
3 6 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (12.50%) OpenShift
3 6 (12.50%) Serverless
4 3 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (4.17%) IaaS
5 2 (4.17%) PaaS
6 1 (2.08%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.50%) Network Security
2 5 (10.42%) AMQP
3 4 (8.33%) TCP/IP
4 3 (6.25%) IPv4
4 3 (6.25%) OSPF
4 3 (6.25%) VLAN
4 3 (6.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (12.50%) InfluxDB
1 6 (12.50%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.08%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 18 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 6 (12.50%) JIRA
3 4 (8.33%) Bitbucket
3 4 (8.33%) GitLab
4 1 (2.08%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.08%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.08%) JMeter
4 1 (2.08%) Robot Framework
4 1 (2.08%) Selenium
General
1 5 (10.42%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.08%) Aerospace
3 1 (2.08%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 17 (35.42%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (18.75%) Developer
2 9 (18.75%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 8 (16.67%) Full Stack Developer
4 5 (10.42%) Azure Engineer
4 5 (10.42%) Site Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Integration Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Senior
5 4 (8.33%) Senior Integration Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Senior Test and Integration Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Senior Test Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Software Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Test and Integration Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Test Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Lead
7 2 (4.17%) Data Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (2.08%) Business IT Analyst
8 1 (2.08%) IT Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (22.92%) React
2 8 (16.67%) AngularJS
2 8 (16.67%) Spring
3 5 (10.42%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (4.17%) ADO
4 2 (4.17%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (4.17%) ARM Templates
4 2 (4.17%) AWS CDK
5 1 (2.08%) JSON
5 1 (2.08%) Kafka
5 1 (2.08%) pytest
5 1 (2.08%) XML
5 1 (2.08%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (2.08%) IoT
2 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 21 (43.75%) Linux
2 9 (18.75%) Windows
3 1 (2.08%) CentOS
3 1 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.08%) Unix
3 1 (2.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (60.42%) DevOps
2 16 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 15 (31.25%) Agile
4 14 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (18.75%) Configuration Management
5 9 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (18.75%) Project Management
5 9 (18.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 8 (16.67%) Change Management
6 8 (16.67%) Full Stack Development
6 8 (16.67%) Observability
6 8 (16.67%) OO
6 8 (16.67%) OOP
6 8 (16.67%) Programme Management
6 8 (16.67%) SDLC
6 8 (16.67%) Secure Coding
6 8 (16.67%) Software Architecture
6 8 (16.67%) Unit Testing
7 7 (14.58%) Software Engineering
8 6 (12.50%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (56.25%) Java
2 20 (41.67%) C
3 16 (33.33%) PowerShell
4 14 (29.17%) Go
5 12 (25.00%) JavaScript
6 8 (16.67%) SQL
7 7 (14.58%) Bash
8 5 (10.42%) Shell Script
9 3 (6.25%) Bicep
9 3 (6.25%) C#
10 2 (4.17%) C++
11 1 (2.08%) Perl
Qualifications
1 45 (93.75%) Security Cleared
2 40 (83.33%) DV Cleared
3 7 (14.58%) SC Cleared
4 3 (6.25%) Azure Certification
5 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.08%) Degree
6 1 (2.08%) GIAC
6 1 (2.08%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (18.75%) QA
2 1 (2.08%) DO-178B
2 1 (2.08%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 19 (39.58%) Docker
2 4 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (8.33%) VMware NSX
2 4 (8.33%) vSphere
3 1 (2.08%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.08%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 26 (54.17%) Terraform
2 20 (41.67%) Ansible
3 16 (33.33%) Kubernetes
4 13 (27.08%) Grafana
4 13 (27.08%) Prometheus
5 7 (14.58%) Progress Chef
6 5 (10.42%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (6.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (10.42%) Atlassian
2 2 (4.17%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.17%) Red Hat
2 2 (4.17%) VMware
3 1 (2.08%) Oracle
3 1 (2.08%) Splunk