Python Contracts in the North of England

Python
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 17 29
Rank change year-on-year -1 +12 -9
Contract jobs citing Python 349 431 439
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 7.44% 7.55% 6.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.58% 25.84% 19.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 301 322
10th Percentile £400 £363 £400
25th Percentile £431 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% +14.75%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £625
90th Percentile £649 £700 £688
England median daily rate £567 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -5.46% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 7
10th Percentile - £35.63 £20.10
25th Percentile - £41.54 £22.86
Median hourly rate £20.77 £48.54 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.21% +86.67% +0.08%
75th Percentile £46.18 £55.55 £27.25
90th Percentile £59.72 £61.08 £30.37
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £51.38
% change year-on-year -3.85% +26.52% +28.44%

All Programming Languages
North of England

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 North of England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,180 1,668 2,257
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 25.14% 29.22% 31.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 836 1,231 1,728
10th Percentile £319 £350 £326
25th Percentile £400 £420 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £564 £600 £575
90th Percentile £625 £688 £650
England median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.28% +2.33% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 28 40
10th Percentile £37.63 £30.01 £14.25
25th Percentile £45.88 £38.32 £18.47
Median hourly rate £47.75 £48.75 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +45.52% +28.85%
75th Percentile £68.75 £64.25 £52.03
90th Percentile £74.97 £70.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £61.18 £50.10
% change year-on-year +2.17% +22.11% +15.84%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in the North of England

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Python in the North of England

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python in the North of England

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Python in the North of England

Python
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Python in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Python in the North of England

Python
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the North of England region over the 6 months to 8 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
North West -6 177 £500 -11.97% 155
Yorkshire +15 144 £500 -16.67% 95
North East +5 30 £516 -23.63% 27
Python
England

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 18 (5.16%) Apache
2 17 (4.87%) Apache Spark
3 14 (4.01%) Confluence
4 13 (3.72%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.72%) nginx
5 6 (1.72%) SAS
6 3 (0.86%) IIS
6 3 (0.86%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.57%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.57%) Traefik
8 1 (0.29%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.29%) Drupal
8 1 (0.29%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 62 (17.77%) Chatbot
2 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.86%) Maximo
2 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 121 (34.67%) AWS
2 70 (20.06%) Azure
3 42 (12.03%) GCP
3 42 (12.03%) GitHub
4 33 (9.46%) Power Platform
5 32 (9.17%) Amazon S3
5 32 (9.17%) Serverless
6 29 (8.31%) Amazon EC2
7 27 (7.74%) Snowflake
8 19 (5.44%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (4.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 14 (4.01%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (3.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 10 (2.87%) Amazon ELB
13 9 (2.58%) Apigee
13 9 (2.58%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (2.58%) Cloud Computing
13 9 (2.58%) Power Automate
14 8 (2.29%) Azure Data Factory
14 8 (2.29%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 27 (7.74%) Firewall
2 13 (3.72%) DNS
2 13 (3.72%) Wi-Fi
3 12 (3.44%) BGP
3 12 (3.44%) Cisco ASA
3 12 (3.44%) Cisco Firepower
3 12 (3.44%) Cisco ISE
3 12 (3.44%) EIGRP
3 12 (3.44%) HSRP
3 12 (3.44%) IPsec
3 12 (3.44%) NetScaler
3 12 (3.44%) OSPF
3 12 (3.44%) SNMP
3 12 (3.44%) Spanning Tree
4 10 (2.87%) HTTP
4 10 (2.87%) TCP/IP
5 8 (2.29%) Network Security
6 7 (2.01%) VPN
6 7 (2.01%) Wireless
7 5 (1.43%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (9.17%) Power BI
2 23 (6.59%) Data Lake
3 21 (6.02%) Tableau
4 17 (4.87%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (4.30%) SQL Server
6 14 (4.01%) MySQL
6 14 (4.01%) NoSQL
7 13 (3.72%) Amazon Redshift
7 13 (3.72%) MongoDB
7 13 (3.72%) Relational Database
8 12 (3.44%) Big Data
9 11 (3.15%) BigQuery
10 10 (2.87%) Apache Cassandra
10 10 (2.87%) PostgreSQL
11 8 (2.29%) Hadoop
12 7 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
13 6 (1.72%) DynamoDB
13 6 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (1.72%) Flink
13 6 (1.72%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 56 (16.05%) Jenkins
2 51 (14.61%) Git
3 33 (9.46%) GitLab
4 19 (5.44%) JIRA
5 10 (2.87%) SonarQube
6 7 (2.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 7 (2.01%) Burp Suite
6 7 (2.01%) Selenium
7 6 (1.72%) CircleCI
7 6 (1.72%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 6 (1.72%) Travis CI
8 4 (1.15%) AppScan
8 4 (1.15%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.86%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.86%) gulp
9 3 (0.86%) Maven
9 3 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.86%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.57%) Appium
10 2 (0.57%) PyCharm
General
1 73 (20.92%) Social Skills
2 26 (7.45%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (6.88%) Finance
3 24 (6.88%) Public Sector
4 14 (4.01%) Pharmaceutical
5 11 (3.15%) Retail
6 7 (2.01%) Manufacturing
7 5 (1.43%) Banking
8 4 (1.15%) Legal
9 3 (0.86%) Health Technology
9 3 (0.86%) Marketing
10 2 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.29%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 115 (32.95%) Developer
2 62 (17.77%) Software Developer
3 38 (10.89%) DevOps Engineer
4 34 (9.74%) Analyst
5 32 (9.17%) Senior
6 26 (7.45%) Python Developer
7 25 (7.16%) Data Analyst
8 23 (6.59%) Data Engineer
9 20 (5.73%) Lead
10 19 (5.44%) AWS DevOps
11 17 (4.87%) Network Engineer
12 16 (4.58%) AWS Engineer
13 13 (3.72%) Storage Manager
14 11 (3.15%) Architect
14 11 (3.15%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 11 (3.15%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 11 (3.15%) Tester
15 10 (2.87%) Senior DevOps
15 10 (2.87%) Software Engineer
16 9 (2.58%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (20.06%) HTML
2 26 (7.45%) YAML
3 22 (6.30%) JSON
4 15 (4.30%) XML
5 12 (3.44%) .NET
5 12 (3.44%) Jinja
6 11 (3.15%) Kafka
6 11 (3.15%) Node.js
7 10 (2.87%) Elastic Stack
8 9 (2.58%) AngularJS
8 9 (2.58%) Django
8 9 (2.58%) FastAPI
8 9 (2.58%) REST
9 8 (2.29%) CSS
9 8 (2.29%) Lambda Expressions
9 8 (2.29%) React
9 8 (2.29%) RESTful
10 7 (2.01%) Flask
10 7 (2.01%) PyTorch
10 7 (2.01%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.01%) Data Centre
2 10 (2.87%) Mobile App
3 9 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (2.29%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (2.29%) Onboarding
4 8 (2.29%) Public Cloud
5 7 (2.01%) Data Structures
5 7 (2.01%) Replication
6 6 (1.72%) Operational Technology
7 5 (1.43%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.43%) NHS
7 5 (1.43%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.15%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.15%) CMDB
8 4 (1.15%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (1.15%) IoT
8 4 (1.15%) PKI
9 3 (0.86%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 59 (16.91%) Linux
2 15 (4.30%) zOS
3 14 (4.01%) Unix
4 12 (3.44%) Windows
5 9 (2.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.72%) CentOS
7 4 (1.15%) Android
7 4 (1.15%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.86%) Kali Linux
8 3 (0.86%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.57%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (28.94%) DevOps
2 90 (25.79%) Software Engineering
3 83 (23.78%) CI/CD
4 78 (22.35%) Artificial Intelligence
5 76 (21.78%) Agile
6 65 (18.62%) Code Quality
7 64 (18.34%) Conversational UI
8 47 (13.47%) Containerisation
9 46 (13.18%) Problem-Solving
10 43 (12.32%) Infrastructure as Code
11 36 (10.32%) Data Modelling
12 34 (9.74%) Data Pipeline
13 33 (9.46%) Stakeholder Management
14 32 (9.17%) Business Intelligence
15 30 (8.60%) Visualisation
16 29 (8.31%) Data Engineering
16 29 (8.31%) ETL
17 26 (7.45%) Analytics
18 25 (7.16%) Machine Learning
19 22 (6.30%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 138 (39.54%) SQL
2 102 (29.23%) JavaScript
3 80 (22.92%) C#
4 52 (14.90%) Bash
5 42 (12.03%) Java
6 29 (8.31%) PowerShell
7 21 (6.02%) Go
8 15 (4.30%) JCL
8 15 (4.30%) Perl
8 15 (4.30%) REXX
9 12 (3.44%) Tcl
10 11 (3.15%) Scala
11 10 (2.87%) Ruby
12 9 (2.58%) C++
13 7 (2.01%) Groovy
13 7 (2.01%) Shell Script
14 6 (1.72%) R
15 5 (1.43%) Search Processing Language
16 4 (1.15%) TypeScript
17 2 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 81 (23.21%) Degree
2 54 (15.47%) Security Cleared
3 50 (14.33%) SC Cleared
4 16 (4.58%) CCNA
4 16 (4.58%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (4.30%) CCNP
6 10 (2.87%) AWS Certification
7 9 (2.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 9 (2.58%) OSCP
8 6 (1.72%) CEH
8 6 (1.72%) CREST Certified
8 6 (1.72%) GIAC
8 6 (1.72%) GPEN
9 4 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (0.86%) CCIE
10 3 (0.86%) HNC
10 3 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.29%) CISM
11 1 (0.29%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.29%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (9.17%) QA
2 21 (6.02%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.58%) NIST
4 6 (1.72%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.15%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.86%) ISO 22301
7 2 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.57%) NCSC
8 1 (0.29%) GDPR
8 1 (0.29%) Good Clinical Practice
8 1 (0.29%) GRC
8 1 (0.29%) GxP
System Software
1 54 (15.47%) Docker
2 15 (4.30%) NFS
2 15 (4.30%) Time Sharing Option
3 13 (3.72%) Firmware
4 8 (2.29%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.86%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 3 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.57%) HDFS
6 2 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.29%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 70 (20.06%) Ansible
1 70 (20.06%) Kubernetes
2 66 (18.91%) Terraform
3 17 (4.87%) Grafana
4 16 (4.58%) Puppet
5 15 (4.30%) Prometheus
5 15 (4.30%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 12 (3.44%) Progress Chef
7 10 (2.87%) HP Fortify
8 8 (2.29%) Docker Swarm
9 6 (1.72%) Kibana
9 6 (1.72%) logstash
9 6 (1.72%) Packer
10 4 (1.15%) Graylog
10 4 (1.15%) Nessus
10 4 (1.15%) Rancher
10 4 (1.15%) WebInspect
11 3 (0.86%) Istio
11 3 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.86%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 61 (17.48%) PayPal
2 34 (9.74%) Splunk
3 30 (8.60%) Microsoft
4 20 (5.73%) Google
5 18 (5.16%) IBM
6 17 (4.87%) Cisco
7 16 (4.58%) Brocade
8 15 (4.30%) Broadcom
8 15 (4.30%) CA
8 15 (4.30%) Dell
9 13 (3.72%) SolarWinds
10 12 (3.44%) Citrix
10 12 (3.44%) Palo Alto
11 11 (3.15%) SAP
12 10 (2.87%) Databricks
13 8 (2.29%) Informatica
14 7 (2.01%) VMware
15 6 (1.72%) Alteryx
15 6 (1.72%) RedPrairie
15 6 (1.72%) Salesforce