The first table below looks at the demand for Python skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds 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 Leeds 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 23 65 -
Rank change year-on-year
+42 -
Contract jobs citing Python 56 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 7.578% 0.230% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.06% 0.599% -
Number of daily rates quoted 49 2 0
Average daily rate £275 £158 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+74.32% -
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
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
310 334 212
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 41.95% 38.43% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 218 112
Average daily rate £275 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.38% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £221 £221
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £390 £395
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 8
Average hourly rate £33.00 £27.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+22.22% +20.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £13.10 £20.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.50 £61.25 £33.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
Python
West Yorkshire

Python
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds Python Daily Rate Trend

Python
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Python across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Leeds Python Daily Rate Histogram

Python
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Python across the Leeds region.

Leeds Python Hourly Rate Trend

Python
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 48 (84.21%) C++
1 48 (84.21%) Web Services
2 47 (82.46%) Linux
2 47 (82.46%) Ruby
2 47 (82.46%) Amazon AWS
3 45 (78.95%) Bash shell
3 45 (78.95%) DNS
4 44 (77.19%) Node.js
5 43 (75.44%) PHP
6 41 (71.93%) Apache
7 40 (70.18%) MySQL
7 40 (70.18%) nginx
8 39 (68.42%) Amazon EC2
8 39 (68.42%) Amazon S3
8 39 (68.42%) Kanban
8 39 (68.42%) MongoDB
8 39 (68.42%) Redis
8 39 (68.42%) Route 53
8 39 (68.42%) Amazon RDS
9 35 (61.40%) Internet
10 34 (59.65%) Configuration Management
11 32 (56.14%) Puppet
12 29 (50.88%) Oracle
12 29 (50.88%) Java
12 29 (50.88%) Client/Server
13 26 (45.61%) Perl
14 25 (43.86%) Telecoms
14 25 (43.86%) TDD
14 25 (43.86%) Test Automation
15 23 (40.35%) SSL

Python
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 48 (84.21%) Web Services
2 44 (77.19%) Node.js
3 16 (28.07%) POSIX
4 7 (12.28%) J2EE
4 7 (12.28%) CSS
4 7 (12.28%) SOAP
4 7 (12.28%) Hibernate
4 7 (12.28%) Spring
4 7 (12.28%) jQuery
4 7 (12.28%) HTML5
4 7 (12.28%) REST
4 7 (12.28%) CSS3
5 5 (8.772%) LAMP
6 2 (3.509%) ASP
7 1 (1.754%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (1.754%) WebSphere
7 1 (1.754%) JMS
7 1 (1.754%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 47 (82.46%) Amazon AWS
2 41 (71.93%) Apache
3 40 (70.18%) nginx
4 39 (68.42%) Amazon EC2
4 39 (68.42%) Amazon S3
4 39 (68.42%) Route 53
5 7 (12.28%) Tomcat
5 7 (12.28%) Apache Solr
5 7 (12.28%) Adobe CQ
6 2 (3.509%) WebLogic
7 1 (1.754%) Oracle Service Bus
Business Applications
1 13 (22.81%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 45 (78.95%) DNS
2 35 (61.40%) Internet
3 23 (40.35%) SSL
3 23 (40.35%) DHCP
3 23 (40.35%) HTTP
4 21 (36.84%) TCP/IP
5 13 (22.81%) Intrusion Detection
6 3 (5.263%) SSH
7 1 (1.754%) OpenLDAP
7 1 (1.754%) Network Security
7 1 (1.754%) NetScreen
7 1 (1.754%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (70.18%) MySQL
2 39 (68.42%) MongoDB
2 39 (68.42%) Redis
2 39 (68.42%) Amazon RDS
3 19 (33.33%) NoSQL
4 16 (28.07%) Couchbase
4 16 (28.07%) SimpleDB
4 16 (28.07%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 8 (14.04%) Jenkins
1 8 (14.04%) Maven
2 7 (12.28%) Git (software)
3 1 (1.754%) Ant
3 1 (1.754%) Subversion
General
1 25 (43.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (42.11%) Software Engineer
2 11 (19.30%) Developer
3 9 (15.79%) Operations Engineer
4 7 (12.28%) Java Developer
5 4 (7.018%) Java Software Engineer
5 4 (7.018%) Software Developer
6 3 (5.263%) Cloud Software Developer
6 3 (5.263%) Cloud Developer
6 3 (5.263%) Administrator
7 2 (3.509%) Linux Administrator
7 2 (3.509%) Network Engineer
7 2 (3.509%) Linux Engineer
8 1 (1.754%) Senior Network Security Engineer
8 1 (1.754%) Python Developer
8 1 (1.754%) Middleware Administrator
8 1 (1.754%) Graduate
8 1 (1.754%) Network Security Engineer
8 1 (1.754%) Senior Security Engineer
8 1 (1.754%) Senior Network Engineer
8 1 (1.754%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 29 (50.88%) Client/Server
2 5 (8.772%) Open Source
2 5 (8.772%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.754%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 47 (82.46%) Linux
2 1 (1.754%) UNIX
2 1 (1.754%) Windows
2 1 (1.754%) Solaris
2 1 (1.754%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (68.42%) Kanban
2 34 (59.65%) Configuration Management
3 25 (43.86%) TDD
3 25 (43.86%) Test Automation
4 21 (36.84%) Scrum
4 21 (36.84%) Load Balancing
5 19 (33.33%) Security Testing
6 17 (29.82%) Continuous Integration
7 16 (28.07%) Incident Management
7 16 (28.07%) Capacity Management
8 8 (14.04%) SOA
9 7 (12.28%) Software Engineering
9 7 (12.28%) BDD
10 6 (10.53%) Performance Testing
11 4 (7.018%) Multithreading
12 2 (3.509%) Network Design
13 1 (1.754%) Web Development
13 1 (1.754%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 48 (84.21%) C++
2 47 (82.46%) Ruby
3 45 (78.95%) Bash shell
4 43 (75.44%) PHP
5 29 (50.88%) Java
6 26 (45.61%) Perl
7 7 (12.28%) JavaScript
8 2 (3.509%) Shell Script
8 2 (3.509%) SQL
8 2 (3.509%) Jython
9 1 (1.754%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
9 1 (1.754%) VB
9 1 (1.754%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.754%) C
9 1 (1.754%) AWK
Qualifications
1 2 (3.509%) Degree
2 1 (1.754%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.754%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (1.754%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 32 (56.14%) Puppet
2 1 (1.754%) Nagios
Vendors
1 29 (50.88%) Oracle
2 17 (29.82%) Percona
3 7 (12.28%) Adobe
3 7 (12.28%) hybris
4 4 (7.018%) JBoss
5 1 (1.754%) Cisco
5 1 (1.754%) IBM
5 1 (1.754%) McAfee
5 1 (1.754%) Sun
5 1 (1.754%) Juniper
5 1 (1.754%) NetApp
5 1 (1.754%) Blue Coat
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