Python Contracts in the Midlands

Python
England > Midlands

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

6 months to
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 40 64
Rank change year-on-year +10 +24 -14
Contract jobs citing Python 132 160 172
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.82% 4.89% 3.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.63% 18.74% 13.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 106 108
10th Percentile £310 £400 £363
25th Percentile £358 £476 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +21.95%
75th Percentile £550 £675 £576
90th Percentile £625 £704 £666
England median daily rate £573 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.58% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 1
10th Percentile £27.78 £50.13 -
25th Percentile £37.59 £50.31 £56.50
Median hourly rate £47.75 £51.25 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.83% -11.64% -
75th Percentile £72.50 £52.81 £59.50
90th Percentile £73.25 £53.38 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +18.18% +37.50%

All Programming Languages
Midlands

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 Midlands with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 640 854 1,320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 23.39% 26.09% 26.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 465 619 962
10th Percentile £260 £313 £319
25th Percentile £350 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £540
90th Percentile £637 £678 £620
England median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% +2.32% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 16 16
10th Percentile £22.42 £20.74 £16.77
25th Percentile £29.34 £24.47 £19.83
Median hourly rate £55.63 £41.69 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.42% +19.12% +25.00%
75th Percentile £58.75 £54.06 -
90th Percentile £72.50 £83.75 -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.38
% change year-on-year - +21.65% +19.48%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in the Midlands

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Python in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Python in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Python in the Midlands

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Python in the Midlands over the 6 months to 26 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Python in the Midlands

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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 within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 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 -3 80 £450 -21.74% 132
East Midlands +15 51 £425 -15.00% 63
Python
England

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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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (5.30%) Apache Spark
1 7 (5.30%) Confluence
2 5 (3.79%) JBoss
3 3 (2.27%) Apache
4 2 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.52%) CMS
4 2 (1.52%) Headless CMS
4 2 (1.52%) SAS
5 1 (0.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 24 (18.18%) Chatbot
2 5 (3.79%) CANalyzer
2 5 (3.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.76%) Simulink
3 1 (0.76%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (6.82%) Odoo
2 3 (2.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 25 (18.94%) AWS
2 21 (15.91%) Azure
3 15 (11.36%) Power Platform
4 6 (4.55%) OpenShift
4 6 (4.55%) Serverless
5 5 (3.79%) GCP
6 4 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (2.27%) AWS Step Functions
7 3 (2.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (2.27%) dbt
7 3 (2.27%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.52%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (1.52%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (1.52%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.52%) Amazon SageMaker
8 2 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.52%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.52%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.79%) Ethernet
1 5 (3.79%) FlexRay
2 4 (3.03%) SAN
2 4 (3.03%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.76%) Firewall
3 1 (0.76%) LTE
3 1 (0.76%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.36%) Power BI
2 10 (7.58%) Hadoop
3 9 (6.82%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (6.06%) NoSQL
4 8 (6.06%) Relational Database
5 7 (5.30%) RDBMS
5 7 (5.30%) SQL Server
6 6 (4.55%) Big Data
6 6 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (4.55%) Impala
7 5 (3.79%) BusinessObjects
7 5 (3.79%) Tableau
8 4 (3.03%) MySQL
9 3 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (2.27%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.52%) Apache Hive
10 2 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.52%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 15 (11.36%) JIRA
2 14 (10.61%) Git
3 11 (8.33%) Jenkins
4 6 (4.55%) CA Release Automation
4 6 (4.55%) TeamCity
5 5 (3.79%) Bitbucket Server
5 5 (3.79%) CANoe
5 5 (3.79%) GitLab
5 5 (3.79%) SonarQube
5 5 (3.79%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (3.03%) JMeter
7 3 (2.27%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.52%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.52%) Travis CI
8 2 (1.52%) webpack
9 1 (0.76%) Ant
9 1 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.76%) Gradle
9 1 (0.76%) JUnit
9 1 (0.76%) Maven
General
1 32 (24.24%) Social Skills
2 21 (15.91%) Finance
3 14 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.06%) Banking
4 8 (6.06%) Manufacturing
5 5 (3.79%) Automotive
5 5 (3.79%) Electronics
5 5 (3.79%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.03%) Retail
7 3 (2.27%) Aerospace
7 3 (2.27%) Marketing
8 2 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Back Office
9 1 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.76%) Multimedia
9 1 (0.76%) Police
9 1 (0.76%) Publishing
9 1 (0.76%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 49 (37.12%) Developer
2 24 (18.18%) Software Developer
3 20 (15.15%) Analyst
4 19 (14.39%) Data Engineer
5 12 (9.09%) Data Analyst
5 12 (9.09%) Python Developer
6 11 (8.33%) Senior
7 6 (4.55%) Consultant
8 5 (3.79%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (3.79%) Integration Manager
8 5 (3.79%) Software Manager
8 5 (3.79%) Support Engineer
9 4 (3.03%) DevOps Engineer
10 3 (2.27%) Applications Support
10 3 (2.27%) Applications Support Analyst
10 3 (2.27%) Full Stack Developer
10 3 (2.27%) Java Developer
10 3 (2.27%) Senior Data Engineer
10 3 (2.27%) Support Analyst
10 3 (2.27%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (18.18%) HTML
2 8 (6.06%) LDAP
3 5 (3.79%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (3.79%) Flask
3 5 (3.79%) RESTful
3 5 (3.79%) Spring Boot
4 4 (3.03%) Kafka
4 4 (3.03%) Pandas
4 4 (3.03%) SAML
4 4 (3.03%) Web Services
5 3 (2.27%) ADO
5 3 (2.27%) Hibernate
5 3 (2.27%) OAuth
5 3 (2.27%) OpenID
5 3 (2.27%) PySpark
5 3 (2.27%) React
5 3 (2.27%) REST
5 3 (2.27%) SailPoint
5 3 (2.27%) Spring
6 2 (1.52%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.33%) Algorithms
2 7 (5.30%) Data Structures
3 6 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (3.79%) Infotainment
5 3 (2.27%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.52%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (1.52%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.52%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.52%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.76%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.76%) Insider Threat
7 1 (0.76%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 15 (11.36%) Linux
2 9 (6.82%) Windows
3 6 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.03%) Debian
4 4 (3.03%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.52%) Unix
6 1 (0.76%) AIX
6 1 (0.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (25.76%) Artificial Intelligence
1 34 (25.76%) Software Engineering
2 33 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 24 (18.18%) Conversational UI
4 21 (15.91%) Analytics
5 20 (15.15%) Data Modelling
6 19 (14.39%) DevOps
7 18 (13.64%) Agile
8 17 (12.88%) Business Intelligence
8 17 (12.88%) CI/CD
8 17 (12.88%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (10.61%) Computer Science
10 12 (9.09%) Data Analysis
10 12 (9.09%) Data Analytics
10 12 (9.09%) Data Science
10 12 (9.09%) ERP
10 12 (9.09%) Migration
11 11 (8.33%) Microservices
11 11 (8.33%) Visualisation
12 10 (7.58%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 64 (48.48%) SQL
2 33 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 25 (18.94%) C#
4 17 (12.88%) Java
5 11 (8.33%) R
6 8 (6.06%) PowerShell
7 6 (4.55%) C++
7 6 (4.55%) Perl
8 5 (3.79%) Bash
8 5 (3.79%) MATLAB
8 5 (3.79%) VBA
9 4 (3.03%) Scala
10 3 (2.27%) C
10 3 (2.27%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.52%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.76%) HiveQL
12 1 (0.76%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.76%) Rust
12 1 (0.76%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 40 (30.30%) Degree
2 14 (10.61%) Security Cleared
3 11 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 10 (7.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.55%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.27%) PhD
7 1 (0.76%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.30%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.27%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.27%) GDPR
3 1 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (0.76%) ISO 26262
3 1 (0.76%) QA
System Software
1 10 (7.58%) Active Directory
2 9 (6.82%) Docker
3 2 (1.52%) HDFS
4 1 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 14 (10.61%) Kubernetes
2 8 (6.06%) Ansible
3 6 (4.55%) Functional Safety
3 6 (4.55%) Kibana
3 6 (4.55%) Progress Chef
3 6 (4.55%) Terraform
4 4 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.76%) Argo
5 1 (0.76%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.76%) Istio
5 1 (0.76%) linkerd
5 1 (0.76%) PowerBroker
5 1 (0.76%) SELinux
5 1 (0.76%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 24 (18.18%) PayPal
2 20 (15.15%) Microsoft
3 12 (9.09%) Red Hat
4 8 (6.06%) Splunk
5 5 (3.79%) AppDynamics
5 5 (3.79%) Databricks
6 4 (3.03%) Google
6 4 (3.03%) VMware
7 3 (2.27%) Okta
7 3 (2.27%) Oracle
7 3 (2.27%) Sage
8 2 (1.52%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.52%) Confluent
8 2 (1.52%) NVIDIA
8 2 (1.52%) SAP
9 1 (0.76%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.76%) Citrix
9 1 (0.76%) Informatica
9 1 (0.76%) Talend
9 1 (0.76%) Teradata