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 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 24 17 37
Rank change year-on-year -7 +20 -11
Contract jobs citing Python 187 282 209
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 6.74% 8.76% 5.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.14% 29.97% 15.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 201 165
10th Percentile £381 £326 £385
25th Percentile £433 £444 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £566 £540
Median % change year-on-year -11.66% +4.81% +20.00%
75th Percentile £550 £650 £638
90th Percentile £634 £688 £700
England median daily rate £563 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -6.25% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 2
10th Percentile - £42.46 £25.75
25th Percentile £66.25 £46.16 £26.13
Median hourly rate £67.50 £49.57 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.17% +83.59% -38.64%
75th Percentile £68.75 £56.40 £27.63
90th Percentile - £62.01 £27.85
England median hourly rate £62.00 £65.00 £51.38
% change year-on-year -4.62% +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 689 941 1,380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 24.85% 29.22% 34.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 517 713 1,068
10th Percentile £325 £325 £318
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +22.70%
75th Percentile £540 £594 £588
90th Percentile £611 £650 £663
England median daily rate £540 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -4.26% +2.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 15 33
10th Percentile £41.25 £20.74 £14.25
25th Percentile £44.72 £36.40 £20.00
Median hourly rate £48.43 £40.59 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.32% -2.19% +22.06%
75th Percentile £69.53 £50.87 £53.75
90th Percentile £80.15 £62.01 £60.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +4.17% +20.00% +14.94%

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 26 April 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 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
Manchester -3 112 £475 -17.39% 114
Cheshire -11 34 £510 -2.86% 22
Merseyside +9 16 £388 -29.55% 9
Cumbria -12 16 £515 +20.89%
Lancashire -3 7 £600 +2.13% 8
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 (6.95%) Apache Spark
2 7 (3.74%) Confluence
3 6 (3.21%) Apache
3 6 (3.21%) SAS
4 5 (2.67%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.60%) IIS
6 2 (1.07%) nginx
6 2 (1.07%) Traefik
7 1 (0.53%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.53%) SharePoint
Applications
1 25 (13.37%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.60%) Maximo
2 1 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 62 (33.16%) AWS
2 33 (17.65%) Azure
3 24 (12.83%) Power Platform
4 21 (11.23%) Serverless
5 20 (10.70%) Amazon EC2
5 20 (10.70%) Snowflake
6 17 (9.09%) Amazon S3
6 17 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (7.49%) AWS CloudFormation
7 14 (7.49%) GCP
8 9 (4.81%) GitHub
8 9 (4.81%) Power Automate
9 8 (4.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (4.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 7 (3.74%) Amazon EMR
10 7 (3.74%) Collibra
10 7 (3.74%) Google Analytics
11 6 (3.21%) Amazon ELB
11 6 (3.21%) SaaS
12 5 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 15 (8.02%) Firewall
2 13 (6.95%) Wi-Fi
3 12 (6.42%) BGP
3 12 (6.42%) Cisco ASA
3 12 (6.42%) Cisco Firepower
3 12 (6.42%) Cisco ISE
3 12 (6.42%) EIGRP
3 12 (6.42%) HSRP
3 12 (6.42%) IPsec
3 12 (6.42%) NetScaler
3 12 (6.42%) OSPF
3 12 (6.42%) SNMP
3 12 (6.42%) Spanning Tree
4 8 (4.28%) Network Security
5 7 (3.74%) DNS
6 5 (2.67%) FTP
6 5 (2.67%) TCP/IP
7 4 (2.14%) HTTP
8 2 (1.07%) DHCP
8 2 (1.07%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (12.30%) Power BI
2 18 (9.63%) Data Lake
3 12 (6.42%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (6.42%) Tableau
4 11 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
4 11 (5.88%) SQL Server
5 9 (4.81%) Big Data
6 6 (3.21%) Ataccama
6 6 (3.21%) BigQuery
6 6 (3.21%) DynamoDB
6 6 (3.21%) Hadoop
6 6 (3.21%) MySQL
6 6 (3.21%) Qlik Sense
7 5 (2.67%) Data Mining
8 4 (2.14%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.60%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.60%) HBase
9 3 (1.60%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.60%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 30 (16.04%) Git
2 16 (8.56%) GitLab
3 15 (8.02%) Jenkins
4 12 (6.42%) JIRA
5 6 (3.21%) SonarQube
5 6 (3.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 5 (2.67%) Selenium
7 4 (2.14%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.60%) Burp Suite
9 2 (1.07%) Appium
9 2 (1.07%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.07%) ER Studio
9 2 (1.07%) PyCharm
9 2 (1.07%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (1.07%) TestComplete
9 2 (1.07%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.53%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.53%) RStudio
10 1 (0.53%) Terragrunt
General
1 38 (20.32%) Social Skills
2 19 (10.16%) Finance
3 15 (8.02%) Public Sector
4 14 (7.49%) Pharmaceutical
5 12 (6.42%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.67%) Manufacturing
6 5 (2.67%) Retail
7 3 (1.60%) Banking
7 3 (1.60%) Marketing
8 2 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 53 (28.34%) Developer
2 31 (16.58%) Senior
3 27 (14.44%) Analyst
3 27 (14.44%) Software Developer
4 23 (12.30%) Data Analyst
5 22 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
6 18 (9.63%) AWS DevOps
6 18 (9.63%) Python Developer
7 16 (8.56%) Data Engineer
7 16 (8.56%) Network Engineer
8 15 (8.02%) AWS Engineer
9 10 (5.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 10 (5.35%) Senior DevOps
10 9 (4.81%) Software Engineer
11 8 (4.28%) Senior Network Engineer
12 7 (3.74%) Platform Engineer
12 7 (3.74%) Python Engineer
12 7 (3.74%) Senior Analyst
13 6 (3.21%) Azure Engineer
13 6 (3.21%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (16.04%) HTML
2 12 (6.42%) Django
2 12 (6.42%) Jinja
3 10 (5.35%) JSON
4 7 (3.74%) REST
5 6 (3.21%) .NET
5 6 (3.21%) XML
6 5 (2.67%) AngularJS
6 5 (2.67%) FastAPI
6 5 (2.67%) RESTful
7 4 (2.14%) CSS
7 4 (2.14%) Flask
7 4 (2.14%) Kafka
7 4 (2.14%) pytest
7 4 (2.14%) React
7 4 (2.14%) YAML
8 3 (1.60%) .NET Framework
8 3 (1.60%) PySpark
8 3 (1.60%) TensorFlow
8 3 (1.60%) XHTML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.28%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (3.21%) Onboarding
3 5 (2.67%) Cloud Native
3 5 (2.67%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.60%) Algorithms
5 3 (1.60%) Cyber Defence
5 3 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.60%) Legacy Applications
5 3 (1.60%) Low-Code
5 3 (1.60%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.60%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.07%) Clustering
6 2 (1.07%) CMDB
6 2 (1.07%) IoT
6 2 (1.07%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.07%) PKI
7 1 (0.53%) Insider Threat
7 1 (0.53%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.95%) Linux
2 8 (4.28%) Unix
2 8 (4.28%) Windows
3 4 (2.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.60%) Kali Linux
5 2 (1.07%) Alpine Linux
5 2 (1.07%) CentOS
6 1 (0.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (30.48%) DevOps
2 47 (25.13%) Software Engineering
3 40 (21.39%) CI/CD
4 34 (18.18%) Agile
5 33 (17.65%) Artificial Intelligence
6 29 (15.51%) Code Quality
7 27 (14.44%) Conversational UI
8 26 (13.90%) Infrastructure as Code
9 24 (12.83%) Containerisation
10 23 (12.30%) Problem-Solving
11 22 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
12 21 (11.23%) ETL
13 20 (10.70%) Analytics
14 18 (9.63%) Visualisation
15 17 (9.09%) Data Modelling
15 17 (9.09%) Data Pipeline
16 15 (8.02%) Change Management
17 14 (7.49%) ITIL
18 13 (6.95%) Data Management
18 13 (6.95%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 75 (40.11%) SQL
2 40 (21.39%) JavaScript
3 39 (20.86%) C#
4 24 (12.83%) Bash
4 24 (12.83%) Java
5 16 (8.56%) Go
6 14 (7.49%) Perl
6 14 (7.49%) PowerShell
7 12 (6.42%) Tcl
8 6 (3.21%) C++
9 5 (2.67%) R
9 5 (2.67%) Ruby
9 5 (2.67%) Scala
9 5 (2.67%) Search Processing Language
9 5 (2.67%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.14%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.07%) C
11 2 (1.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (1.07%) Delphi
11 2 (1.07%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 33 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 32 (17.11%) Degree
3 28 (14.97%) SC Cleared
4 17 (9.09%) CCNA
4 17 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (8.02%) CCNP
6 10 (5.35%) AWS Certification
7 9 (4.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.60%) CCIE
8 3 (1.60%) OSCP
9 2 (1.07%) BC Cleared
9 2 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.07%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.53%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.53%) CISM
10 1 (0.53%) CISSP
10 1 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.53%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.53%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.02%) QA
2 14 (7.49%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.21%) PCI DSS
4 4 (2.14%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.60%) ISO 22301
5 3 (1.60%) NIST
6 2 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.07%) NCSC
7 1 (0.53%) GDPR
7 1 (0.53%) Good Clinical Practice
7 1 (0.53%) GxP
System Software
1 24 (12.83%) Docker
2 13 (6.95%) Firmware
3 3 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.07%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.53%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 46 (24.60%) Terraform
2 41 (21.93%) Ansible
3 33 (17.65%) Kubernetes
4 6 (3.21%) HP Fortify
4 6 (3.21%) Progress Chef
5 4 (2.14%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.14%) ZABBIX
6 2 (1.07%) Consul
6 2 (1.07%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (1.07%) Grafana
6 2 (1.07%) Graphite
6 2 (1.07%) HAProxy
6 2 (1.07%) Istio
6 2 (1.07%) linkerd
6 2 (1.07%) Nagios
6 2 (1.07%) Packer
6 2 (1.07%) Podman
6 2 (1.07%) Puppet
Vendors
1 25 (13.37%) PayPal
2 17 (9.09%) Cisco
3 15 (8.02%) Microsoft
3 15 (8.02%) Splunk
4 14 (7.49%) SolarWinds
5 12 (6.42%) Citrix
5 12 (6.42%) Palo Alto
6 11 (5.88%) SAP
7 10 (5.35%) Google
8 8 (4.28%) Databricks
8 8 (4.28%) VMware
9 6 (3.21%) Alteryx
9 6 (3.21%) Dataiku
9 6 (3.21%) Salesforce
9 6 (3.21%) Trillium
10 5 (2.67%) Informatica
10 5 (2.67%) Talend
11 3 (1.60%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.60%) IBM
11 3 (1.60%) Oracle