Python Contracts in the North West

Python
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 22 16 37
Rank change year-on-year -6 +21 -14
Contract jobs citing Python 177 268 223
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 6.58% 8.59% 5.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 26.62% 29.19% 15.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 190 174
10th Percentile £381 £336 £388
25th Percentile £441 £450 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £568 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.97% +3.27% +22.22%
75th Percentile £550 £650 £638
90th Percentile £628 £689 £699
England median daily rate £567 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -5.46% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 3
10th Percentile - £42.46 £22.30
25th Percentile £66.25 £46.16 £23.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £49.57 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.17% +90.65% -22.96%
75th Percentile £68.75 £56.40 £27.25
90th Percentile - £62.01 £27.70
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £51.38
% change year-on-year -3.85% +26.52% +28.44%

All Programming Languages
North West

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 West with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 665 918 1,398
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 24.72% 29.41% 34.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 493 686 1,074
10th Percentile £326 £325 £319
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +23.46%
75th Percentile £550 £593 £588
90th Percentile £614 £658 £663
England median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.28% +2.33% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 15 30
10th Percentile £39.25 £24.29 £14.25
25th Percentile £42.41 £37.80 £16.83
Median hourly rate £48.43 £40.59 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.32% +21.16% +11.67%
75th Percentile £71.87 £54.69 £55.63
90th Percentile £80.45 £65.90 £60.50
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in the North West

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Python in the North West

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Python in the North West

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Python in the North West

Python
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester -3 106 £478 -16.96% 104
Cheshire -12 30 £510 -9.38% 28
Merseyside +8 16 £388 -29.55% 11
Cumbria -7 16 £515 +21.03%
Lancashire -4 7 £600 +2.13% 13
Python
England

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 13 (7.34%) Apache Spark
2 7 (3.95%) Apache
2 7 (3.95%) Confluence
3 6 (3.39%) SAS
4 5 (2.82%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.69%) IIS
6 2 (1.13%) nginx
6 2 (1.13%) Traefik
7 1 (0.56%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 25 (14.12%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.69%) Maximo
2 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 60 (33.90%) AWS
2 29 (16.38%) Azure
3 24 (13.56%) Power Platform
4 21 (11.86%) Serverless
5 20 (11.30%) Amazon EC2
5 20 (11.30%) Snowflake
6 17 (9.60%) Amazon S3
6 17 (9.60%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (7.91%) AWS CloudFormation
8 13 (7.34%) GCP
9 9 (5.08%) GitHub
9 9 (5.08%) Power Automate
10 8 (4.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (4.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 7 (3.95%) Amazon EMR
11 7 (3.95%) Collibra
11 7 (3.95%) Google Analytics
12 6 (3.39%) Amazon ELB
13 5 (2.82%) Amazon SQS
13 5 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 15 (8.47%) Firewall
2 13 (7.34%) Wi-Fi
3 12 (6.78%) BGP
3 12 (6.78%) Cisco ASA
3 12 (6.78%) Cisco Firepower
3 12 (6.78%) Cisco ISE
3 12 (6.78%) EIGRP
3 12 (6.78%) HSRP
3 12 (6.78%) IPsec
3 12 (6.78%) NetScaler
3 12 (6.78%) OSPF
3 12 (6.78%) SNMP
3 12 (6.78%) Spanning Tree
4 8 (4.52%) Network Security
5 6 (3.39%) DNS
6 5 (2.82%) FTP
7 4 (2.26%) HTTP
7 4 (2.26%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.13%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (1.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (12.99%) Power BI
2 18 (10.17%) Data Lake
3 12 (6.78%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (6.78%) Tableau
4 11 (6.21%) Amazon Redshift
4 11 (6.21%) SQL Server
5 9 (5.08%) Big Data
6 7 (3.95%) MySQL
7 6 (3.39%) Ataccama
7 6 (3.39%) BigQuery
7 6 (3.39%) DynamoDB
7 6 (3.39%) Hadoop
7 6 (3.39%) Qlik Sense
8 5 (2.82%) Data Mining
9 4 (2.26%) NoSQL
9 4 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.69%) HBase
10 3 (1.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 30 (16.95%) Git
2 16 (9.04%) GitLab
3 15 (8.47%) Jenkins
4 11 (6.21%) JIRA
5 6 (3.39%) SonarQube
5 6 (3.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 5 (2.82%) Selenium
7 4 (2.26%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.69%) Burp Suite
9 2 (1.13%) Appium
9 2 (1.13%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.13%) ER Studio
9 2 (1.13%) PyCharm
9 2 (1.13%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (1.13%) TestComplete
9 2 (1.13%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.56%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.56%) RStudio
10 1 (0.56%) Terragrunt
General
1 38 (21.47%) Social Skills
2 18 (10.17%) Finance
3 14 (7.91%) Pharmaceutical
4 12 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (6.78%) Public Sector
5 5 (2.82%) Banking
5 5 (2.82%) Manufacturing
5 5 (2.82%) Retail
6 3 (1.69%) Marketing
7 2 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (27.12%) Developer
2 29 (16.38%) Senior
3 26 (14.69%) Analyst
3 26 (14.69%) Software Developer
4 23 (12.99%) Data Analyst
5 22 (12.43%) DevOps Engineer
6 18 (10.17%) AWS DevOps
7 16 (9.04%) Data Engineer
7 16 (9.04%) Network Engineer
8 15 (8.47%) AWS Engineer
9 14 (7.91%) Python Developer
10 10 (5.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 10 (5.65%) Senior DevOps
11 8 (4.52%) Senior Network Engineer
11 8 (4.52%) Software Engineer
12 7 (3.95%) Senior Analyst
13 6 (3.39%) Data Quality Analyst
13 6 (3.39%) QA Analyst
13 6 (3.39%) Quality Analyst
13 6 (3.39%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (17.51%) HTML
2 12 (6.78%) Jinja
3 10 (5.65%) JSON
4 9 (5.08%) Django
5 7 (3.95%) REST
5 7 (3.95%) XML
6 6 (3.39%) .NET
6 6 (3.39%) AngularJS
6 6 (3.39%) React
7 5 (2.82%) CSS
8 4 (2.26%) Kafka
8 4 (2.26%) pytest
8 4 (2.26%) RESTful
8 4 (2.26%) YAML
9 3 (1.69%) .NET Framework
9 3 (1.69%) Node.js
9 3 (1.69%) PySpark
9 3 (1.69%) XHTML
10 2 (1.13%) SAML
10 2 (1.13%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.52%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (3.39%) Onboarding
3 5 (2.82%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (2.26%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.69%) Cyber Defence
5 3 (1.69%) Low-Code
5 3 (1.69%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.13%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.13%) Clustering
6 2 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.13%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.13%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.13%) PKI
7 1 (0.56%) CMDB
7 1 (0.56%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.56%) Life Science
7 1 (0.56%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.56%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.21%) Linux
2 4 (2.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.69%) Kali Linux
3 3 (1.69%) Unix
3 3 (1.69%) Windows
4 2 (1.13%) Alpine Linux
4 2 (1.13%) CentOS
5 1 (0.56%) Android
5 1 (0.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (31.64%) DevOps
2 42 (23.73%) Software Engineering
3 40 (22.60%) CI/CD
4 32 (18.08%) Agile
4 32 (18.08%) Artificial Intelligence
5 29 (16.38%) Code Quality
6 27 (15.25%) Conversational UI
7 25 (14.12%) Containerisation
8 24 (13.56%) Infrastructure as Code
9 22 (12.43%) Business Intelligence
10 21 (11.86%) ETL
10 21 (11.86%) Problem-Solving
11 20 (11.30%) Analytics
12 18 (10.17%) Visualisation
13 17 (9.60%) Data Modelling
13 17 (9.60%) Data Pipeline
14 13 (7.34%) Change Management
14 13 (7.34%) Data Management
14 13 (7.34%) ITIL
15 12 (6.78%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 74 (41.81%) SQL
2 40 (22.60%) C#
3 39 (22.03%) JavaScript
4 25 (14.12%) Bash
5 22 (12.43%) Java
6 14 (7.91%) Perl
7 13 (7.34%) Go
8 12 (6.78%) Tcl
9 10 (5.65%) PowerShell
10 6 (3.39%) Ruby
11 5 (2.82%) R
11 5 (2.82%) Scala
11 5 (2.82%) Search Processing Language
11 5 (2.82%) Shell Script
12 4 (2.26%) TypeScript
13 3 (1.69%) C++
14 2 (1.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (1.13%) Delphi
14 2 (1.13%) VBScript
15 1 (0.56%) Julia
Qualifications
1 32 (18.08%) Degree
2 31 (17.51%) Security Cleared
3 27 (15.25%) SC Cleared
4 16 (9.04%) CCNA
4 16 (9.04%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (8.47%) CCNP
6 10 (5.65%) AWS Certification
7 9 (5.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.69%) CCIE
8 3 (1.69%) OSCP
9 2 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.56%) BC Cleared
10 1 (0.56%) CISM
10 1 (0.56%) CISSP
10 1 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.56%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.47%) QA
2 14 (7.91%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.39%) PCI DSS
4 4 (2.26%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.69%) ISO 22301
5 3 (1.69%) NIST
6 2 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.13%) NCSC
7 1 (0.56%) GDPR
7 1 (0.56%) Good Clinical Practice
7 1 (0.56%) GxP
System Software
1 25 (14.12%) Docker
2 13 (7.34%) Firmware
3 2 (1.13%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.56%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 41 (23.16%) Terraform
2 34 (19.21%) Ansible
3 31 (17.51%) Kubernetes
4 6 (3.39%) HP Fortify
5 4 (2.26%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.69%) ZABBIX
7 2 (1.13%) Consul
7 2 (1.13%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (1.13%) Grafana
7 2 (1.13%) Graphite
7 2 (1.13%) HAProxy
7 2 (1.13%) Istio
7 2 (1.13%) linkerd
7 2 (1.13%) Packer
7 2 (1.13%) Podman
7 2 (1.13%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.13%) Puppet
8 1 (0.56%) Nagios
Vendors
1 25 (14.12%) PayPal
2 17 (9.60%) Cisco
3 15 (8.47%) Splunk
4 14 (7.91%) Microsoft
5 13 (7.34%) SolarWinds
6 12 (6.78%) Citrix
6 12 (6.78%) Palo Alto
7 11 (6.21%) SAP
8 10 (5.65%) Google
9 8 (4.52%) Databricks
10 6 (3.39%) Alteryx
10 6 (3.39%) Dataiku
10 6 (3.39%) Salesforce
10 6 (3.39%) Trillium
10 6 (3.39%) VMware
11 5 (2.82%) Informatica
11 5 (2.82%) Talend
12 3 (1.69%) Atlassian
12 3 (1.69%) IBM
12 3 (1.69%) Oracle