Python Contracts in Manchester

Python
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 15 34
Rank change year-on-year -3 +19 -11
Contract jobs citing Python 112 168 154
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 7.29% 8.84% 5.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.72% 29.27% 14.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 126 132
10th Percentile £325 £391 £400
25th Percentile £416 £478 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +6.98% +19.44%
75th Percentile £563 £650 £625
90th Percentile £650 £700 £695
North West median daily rate £500 £566 £540
% change year-on-year -11.66% +4.81% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66.25 £46.25 -
Median hourly rate £67.50 £47.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +42.11% - -
75th Percentile £68.75 £48.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £67.50 £49.57 £27.00
% change year-on-year +36.17% +83.59% -38.64%

All Programming Languages
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 453 574 1,044
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 29.49% 30.21% 40.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 359 448 825
10th Percentile £338 £346 £361
25th Percentile £400 £413 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +18.50%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £588
90th Percentile £613 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +22.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 6 12
10th Percentile - £36.75 -
25th Percentile £52.50 £38.88 £14.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £42.50 £15.37
Median % change year-on-year +64.71% +176.60% -54.47%
75th Percentile £81.00 £48.44 £39.38
90th Percentile £82.90 £57.38 £56.25
North West median hourly rate £48.43 £40.59 £41.50
% change year-on-year +19.32% -2.19% +22.06%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in Manchester

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Python in Manchester

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Manchester over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python in Manchester

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Python in Manchester

Python
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 26 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
Salford -5 1 £450 -30.77% 2
Oldham - 1 £450 - 2
Python
North West

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 7 (6.25%) Apache Spark
2 6 (5.36%) Confluence
3 2 (1.79%) nginx
3 2 (1.79%) Traefik
Applications
1 12 (10.71%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 51 (45.54%) AWS
2 25 (22.32%) Azure
3 16 (14.29%) Serverless
4 15 (13.39%) Amazon EC2
5 14 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 14 (12.50%) GCP
6 12 (10.71%) Amazon S3
6 12 (10.71%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (9.82%) Power Platform
8 8 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (7.14%) GitHub
8 8 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 7 (6.25%) Google Analytics
10 6 (5.36%) Amazon ELB
10 6 (5.36%) Snowflake
11 5 (4.46%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (3.57%) npm
13 3 (2.68%) AWS CodePipeline
13 3 (2.68%) Azure Data Factory
13 3 (2.68%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.14%) Network Security
2 7 (6.25%) DNS
3 5 (4.46%) TCP/IP
4 4 (3.57%) HTTP
5 2 (1.79%) DHCP
5 2 (1.79%) Firewall
5 2 (1.79%) SSL
6 1 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.71%) Data Lake
2 10 (8.93%) Power BI
3 8 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
3 8 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (5.36%) BigQuery
4 6 (5.36%) DynamoDB
4 6 (5.36%) MySQL
5 5 (4.46%) Hadoop
5 5 (4.46%) Tableau
6 4 (3.57%) NoSQL
6 4 (3.57%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.68%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (2.68%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.68%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (2.68%) Big Data
7 3 (2.68%) HBase
8 2 (1.79%) Redis
8 2 (1.79%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.79%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 22 (19.64%) Git
2 15 (13.39%) GitLab
3 8 (7.14%) Jenkins
4 6 (5.36%) SonarQube
5 5 (4.46%) Selenium
6 4 (3.57%) Bitbucket
6 4 (3.57%) JIRA
7 3 (2.68%) Burp Suite
8 2 (1.79%) Appium
8 2 (1.79%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.79%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.89%) PyCharm
9 1 (0.89%) RStudio
9 1 (0.89%) Terragrunt
General
1 25 (22.32%) Social Skills
2 14 (12.50%) Finance
3 12 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.46%) Retail
6 3 (2.68%) Marketing
7 2 (1.79%) Banking
7 2 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (25.89%) Developer
2 20 (17.86%) DevOps Engineer
3 18 (16.07%) AWS DevOps
4 16 (14.29%) Analyst
5 15 (13.39%) AWS Engineer
5 15 (13.39%) Senior
6 14 (12.50%) Software Developer
7 13 (11.61%) Data Analyst
8 12 (10.71%) Python Developer
9 10 (8.93%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 10 (8.93%) Data Engineer
10 9 (8.04%) Senior DevOps
11 8 (7.14%) Software Engineer
12 6 (5.36%) Azure Engineer
12 6 (5.36%) Platform Engineer
12 6 (5.36%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 5 (4.46%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 5 (4.46%) DevOps Platform Engineer
13 5 (4.46%) Python Engineer
13 5 (4.46%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.61%) HTML
2 8 (7.14%) Django
3 5 (4.46%) AngularJS
3 5 (4.46%) RESTful
4 4 (3.57%) Kafka
4 4 (3.57%) pytest
5 3 (2.68%) .NET
5 3 (2.68%) PySpark
5 3 (2.68%) React
6 2 (1.79%) cloud-init
6 2 (1.79%) Lambda Expressions
6 2 (1.79%) Node.js
6 2 (1.79%) REST
6 2 (1.79%) SAML
6 2 (1.79%) WebdriverIO
6 2 (1.79%) YAML
7 1 (0.89%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.89%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.89%) TensorFlow
7 1 (0.89%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (3.57%) Cloud Native
2 4 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (3.57%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.68%) Cyber Defence
4 2 (1.79%) Clustering
4 2 (1.79%) CMDB
4 2 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.79%) IoT
4 2 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (1.79%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.79%) PKI
4 2 (1.79%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.89%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.89%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.93%) Linux
2 4 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.68%) Kali Linux
4 2 (1.79%) Alpine Linux
4 2 (1.79%) CentOS
5 1 (0.89%) Unix
5 1 (0.89%) Windows
5 1 (0.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (29.46%) DevOps
2 30 (26.79%) CI/CD
3 26 (23.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 23 (20.54%) Agile
5 22 (19.64%) Software Engineering
6 19 (16.96%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (16.07%) Containerisation
8 17 (15.18%) Artificial Intelligence
9 15 (13.39%) Code Quality
10 14 (12.50%) Conversational UI
11 12 (10.71%) Data Modelling
12 11 (9.82%) Data Pipeline
13 10 (8.93%) Analytics
13 10 (8.93%) Business Intelligence
14 9 (8.04%) Configuration Management
14 9 (8.04%) Infrastructure Management
15 7 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
15 7 (6.25%) ETL
15 7 (6.25%) Migration
15 7 (6.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 40 (35.71%) SQL
2 21 (18.75%) Bash
3 19 (16.96%) JavaScript
4 14 (12.50%) C#
5 13 (11.61%) Go
6 12 (10.71%) Java
7 11 (9.82%) PowerShell
8 5 (4.46%) Ruby
9 4 (3.57%) Scala
9 4 (3.57%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.68%) R
11 2 (1.79%) C++
11 2 (1.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (1.79%) Perl
12 1 (0.89%) C
12 1 (0.89%) Fortran
12 1 (0.89%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 14 (12.50%) Degree
2 13 (11.61%) Security Cleared
3 9 (8.04%) AWS Certification
3 9 (8.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 9 (8.04%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.57%) CCNA
4 4 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.68%) OSCP
6 2 (1.79%) BC Cleared
6 2 (1.79%) CCNP
6 2 (1.79%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.89%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.89%) CCIE
7 1 (0.89%) CISM
7 1 (0.89%) CISSP
7 1 (0.89%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.89%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.14%) Data Quality
1 8 (7.14%) QA
2 6 (5.36%) PCI DSS
3 4 (3.57%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.68%) ISO 22301
4 3 (2.68%) NIST
5 2 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.79%) NCSC
System Software
1 24 (21.43%) Docker
2 2 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.89%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 39 (34.82%) Terraform
2 27 (24.11%) Kubernetes
3 19 (16.96%) Ansible
4 6 (5.36%) HP Fortify
5 4 (3.57%) Prometheus
5 4 (3.57%) ZABBIX
6 2 (1.79%) Consul
6 2 (1.79%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (1.79%) Grafana
6 2 (1.79%) Graphite
6 2 (1.79%) HAProxy
6 2 (1.79%) Istio
6 2 (1.79%) linkerd
6 2 (1.79%) Nagios
6 2 (1.79%) Packer
6 2 (1.79%) Podman
6 2 (1.79%) Puppet
7 1 (0.89%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 12 (10.71%) PayPal
2 10 (8.93%) Splunk
3 9 (8.04%) Google
4 6 (5.36%) Databricks
4 6 (5.36%) Salesforce
5 5 (4.46%) Microsoft
6 4 (3.57%) VMware
7 3 (2.68%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.79%) Cisco
8 2 (1.79%) IDERA
8 2 (1.79%) PagerDuty
8 2 (1.79%) Perfecto Mobile
8 2 (1.79%) Sage
8 2 (1.79%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.89%) Juniper
9 1 (0.89%) Oracle
9 1 (0.89%) Teradata
9 1 (0.89%) Tufin
9 1 (0.89%) Workday
9 1 (0.89%) Zscaler