Python Engineer Contracts in the Midlands

Python Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Python Engineer daily rate in the Midlands is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 134 160 208
Rank change year-on-year +26 +48 -61
Contract jobs requiring a Python Engineer 2 4 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.072% 0.12% 0.020%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.079% 0.12% 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £400
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +42.50% -
England median daily rate £650 £625 £600
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +4.35%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the Midlands with a recognized job title 2,541 3,250 4,823
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.93% 94.53% 95.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,714 2,283 3,535
10th Percentile £213 £223 £210
25th Percentile £325 £363 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £460
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% +3.26% +15.00%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £550
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 127 174
10th Percentile £11.85 £12.30 £10.50
25th Percentile £14.27 £15.17 £13.75
Median hourly rate £19.59 £20.00 £17.19
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +16.33% +13.18%
75th Percentile £35.00 £28.25 £22.00
90th Percentile £54.40 £60.50 £33.60
England median hourly rate £36.02 £44.77 £22.50
% change year-on-year -19.53% +98.96% +0.36%

Python Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings that featured Python Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Python Engineer in the Midlands

Python Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Python Engineer in the Midlands

Python Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python Engineer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
West Midlands +26 2 £550 -3.51% 1
Python Engineer
England

Python Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 1 May 2024, Python Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Midlands region featuring Python Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) ADO
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) Business Case
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (50.00%) DataOps
2 1 (50.00%) dbt
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) CRM
2 1 (50.00%) ERP
2 1 (50.00%) Data Mining
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (50.00%) Sage
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Facilities Management
2 1 (50.00%) Investment Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Azure

Python Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (50.00%) dbt
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (50.00%) Data Mining
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ADO
1 1 (50.00%) Flask
1 1 (50.00%) Pandas
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (50.00%) API Development
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (50.00%) Business Case
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) CRM
1 1 (50.00%) Data Cleansing
1 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (50.00%) ERP
1 1 (50.00%) Facilities Management
1 1 (50.00%) Investment Management
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) User Experience
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
1 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Sage