Python Contracts in the South West

Python
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 16 22
Rank change year-on-year -10 +6 -13
Contract jobs citing Python 182 324 269
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 5.74% 9.14% 7.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.17% 31.24% 24.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 210 179
10th Percentile £413 £400 £375
25th Percentile £513 £480 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £580 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.49% +10.43% +5.00%
75th Percentile £700 £675 £589
90th Percentile £706 £741 £671
England median daily rate £567 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -5.46% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 52 27
10th Percentile £64.40 £50.01 £45.75
25th Percentile £70.00 £59.18 £49.51
Median hourly rate £74.44 £65.50 £57.18
Median % change year-on-year +13.65% +14.55% +39.46%
75th Percentile £85.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile - £78.00 -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £51.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +26.21% +28.75%

All Programming Languages
South 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 South West with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 624 1,037 1,118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 19.68% 29.24% 30.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 421 743 769
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £406 £416 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £518 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% +3.50% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £575
90th Percentile £700 £700 £638
England median daily rate £550 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -2.54% +2.60% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 93 70
10th Percentile £48.80 £48.72 £46.66
25th Percentile £58.63 £53.75 £53.81
Median hourly rate £67.25 £65.00 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year +3.46% +6.12% +34.62%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.80 £75.50 £75.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.35
% change year-on-year - +24.13% +17.09%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in the South West

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Python in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in the South West over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python in the South West

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Python in the South West

Python
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Python in the South West over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Python in the South West

Python
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 9 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
Bristol -18 58 £525 -6.67% 100
Gloucestershire -2 48 £600 +4.35% 49
Wiltshire -4 43 £700 +27.27% 16
Devon -21 11 £600 - 28
Dorset +5 8 £225 - 12
Somerset -16 5 £475 +1.33% 17
Python
England

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 31 (17.03%) Confluence
2 6 (3.30%) Apache
3 1 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.55%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.55%) SAS
Applications
1 12 (6.59%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.55%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 64 (35.16%) AWS
2 35 (19.23%) Azure
3 12 (6.59%) Serverless
4 11 (6.04%) GitHub
5 10 (5.49%) Amazon S3
5 10 (5.49%) OpenShift
5 10 (5.49%) Power Platform
6 9 (4.95%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (4.40%) PaaS
8 6 (3.30%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (3.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 6 (3.30%) GCP
9 5 (2.75%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (2.75%) IaaS
10 4 (2.20%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (2.20%) Pulumi
11 3 (1.65%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (1.65%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (1.10%) Amazon Kinesis
12 2 (1.10%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.85%) VPN
2 6 (3.30%) Network Security
3 5 (2.75%) AMQP
4 4 (2.20%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.65%) IPv4
5 3 (1.65%) OSPF
5 3 (1.65%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (1.65%) VLAN
6 2 (1.10%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.49%) Power BI
2 8 (4.40%) Relational Database
3 6 (3.30%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (3.30%) InfluxDB
4 5 (2.75%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.65%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (1.65%) Big Data
5 3 (1.65%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.65%) Tableau
6 2 (1.10%) CockroachDB
6 2 (1.10%) Data Mining
6 2 (1.10%) Flink
6 2 (1.10%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.10%) MySQL
7 1 (0.55%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.55%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.55%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 56 (30.77%) Jenkins
2 43 (23.63%) JIRA
3 31 (17.03%) Bitbucket
4 23 (12.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 9 (4.95%) GitLab
6 6 (3.30%) GoogleTest
7 5 (2.75%) Cypress.io
7 5 (2.75%) Selenium
8 4 (2.20%) Git
9 3 (1.65%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.65%) Burp Suite
10 2 (1.10%) JUnit
10 2 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.55%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.55%) JMeter
11 1 (0.55%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.55%) Visual Studio
General
1 41 (22.53%) Social Skills
2 36 (19.78%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (10.99%) Aerospace
4 9 (4.95%) Telecoms
5 6 (3.30%) Public Sector
6 3 (1.65%) Finance
6 3 (1.65%) Legal
6 3 (1.65%) Marketing
6 3 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.10%) Banking
7 2 (1.10%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.55%) Automotive
8 1 (0.55%) Aviation
8 1 (0.55%) Electronics
8 1 (0.55%) Games
8 1 (0.55%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 61 (33.52%) Developer
2 25 (13.74%) DevOps Engineer
3 18 (9.89%) Data Engineer
3 18 (9.89%) Software Developer
4 17 (9.34%) Software Engineer
5 15 (8.24%) Full Stack Developer
6 14 (7.69%) Senior
7 13 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
8 9 (4.95%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 9 (4.95%) Test Engineer
9 8 (4.40%) Architect
9 8 (4.40%) Java Engineer
9 8 (4.40%) Python Developer
10 7 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
10 7 (3.85%) Lead
10 7 (3.85%) Senior Test Engineer
11 6 (3.30%) Cloud Engineer
11 6 (3.30%) Java Software Engineer
12 5 (2.75%) Site Engineer
12 5 (2.75%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (13.74%) .NET
2 23 (12.64%) .NET Core
3 22 (12.09%) React
4 19 (10.44%) HTML
5 16 (8.79%) AngularJS
6 13 (7.14%) REST
7 12 (6.59%) Spring
8 9 (4.95%) Flask
8 9 (4.95%) PySpark
9 7 (3.85%) Apache NiFi
9 7 (3.85%) Qt
9 7 (3.85%) XML
10 6 (3.30%) CSS
10 6 (3.30%) RESTful
11 5 (2.75%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (2.75%) SQLAlchemy
12 4 (2.20%) ModSecurity
13 3 (1.65%) .NET Framework
13 3 (1.65%) Kafka
13 3 (1.65%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
2 10 (5.49%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (3.30%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (2.75%) Algorithms
5 5 (2.75%) Renewable Energy
5 5 (2.75%) Security Posture
5 5 (2.75%) Verilog
5 5 (2.75%) VHDL
6 4 (2.20%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.65%) Cyber Defence
7 3 (1.65%) IoT
8 2 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.10%) PKI
9 1 (0.55%) CUDA
9 1 (0.55%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.55%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.55%) Robotics
9 1 (0.55%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 60 (32.97%) Linux
2 13 (7.14%) Windows
3 3 (1.65%) Kali Linux
4 1 (0.55%) CentOS
4 1 (0.55%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.55%) Unix
4 1 (0.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (35.16%) DevOps
2 62 (34.07%) CI/CD
3 55 (30.22%) Agile
4 49 (26.92%) Problem-Solving
5 39 (21.43%) Software Engineering
6 36 (19.78%) OO
6 36 (19.78%) OOP
7 33 (18.13%) Configuration Management
8 31 (17.03%) Task Automation
9 26 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
10 25 (13.74%) Infrastructure Automation
11 23 (12.64%) Deployment Automation
12 22 (12.09%) Infrastructure as Code
12 22 (12.09%) Software Architecture
13 18 (9.89%) Project Management
14 17 (9.34%) Continuous Improvement
14 17 (9.34%) Full Stack Development
15 15 (8.24%) Artificial Intelligence
16 14 (7.69%) Secure Coding
17 13 (7.14%) Conversational UI
Programming Languages
1 55 (30.22%) Java
2 51 (28.02%) PowerShell
3 42 (23.08%) SQL
4 40 (21.98%) JavaScript
5 36 (19.78%) C
6 24 (13.19%) C++
7 20 (10.99%) C#
8 15 (8.24%) Go
9 13 (7.14%) Bash
10 9 (4.95%) Shell Script
11 5 (2.75%) Perl
12 4 (2.20%) Bicep
12 4 (2.20%) R
13 3 (1.65%) Julia
13 3 (1.65%) PL/SQL
14 2 (1.10%) Kotlin
14 2 (1.10%) Scala
14 2 (1.10%) TypeScript
15 1 (0.55%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 104 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 55 (30.22%) DV Cleared
3 49 (26.92%) SC Cleared
4 22 (12.09%) Degree
5 6 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.20%) OSCP
7 3 (1.65%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.65%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.10%) CCIE
8 2 (1.10%) CCNA
8 2 (1.10%) CCNP
8 2 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.10%) IBM Certification
8 2 (1.10%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.10%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.55%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.55%) GIAC
9 1 (0.55%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.89%) QA
2 7 (3.85%) MISRA
3 6 (3.30%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.20%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.65%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.10%) JTAG
7 1 (0.55%) DO-178B
7 1 (0.55%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 36 (19.78%) Docker
2 9 (4.95%) VMware NSX
3 7 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.20%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (2.20%) vSphere
5 2 (1.10%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.55%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 56 (30.77%) Ansible
2 48 (26.37%) Terraform
3 31 (17.03%) Kubernetes
4 25 (13.74%) PowerCLI
5 16 (8.79%) Grafana
5 16 (8.79%) Prometheus
6 7 (3.85%) Progress Chef
7 6 (3.30%) Docker Swarm
8 5 (2.75%) Puppet
9 4 (2.20%) OPNET
10 1 (0.55%) Dell DRAC
10 1 (0.55%) Kibana
Vendors
1 32 (17.58%) Atlassian
2 22 (12.09%) Dell
2 22 (12.09%) HP
3 12 (6.59%) Google
3 12 (6.59%) PayPal
4 11 (6.04%) Databricks
5 8 (4.40%) VMware
6 6 (3.30%) Red Hat
7 5 (2.75%) Microsoft
8 4 (2.20%) Cisco
9 3 (1.65%) Oracle
10 2 (1.10%) IBM
10 2 (1.10%) Informatica
11 1 (0.55%) Cloudera
11 1 (0.55%) SAP
11 1 (0.55%) Splunk