The first table below looks at the demand for Python skills in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Python over the 3 months to 18 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the Surrey region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Python
Rank 54 92 -
Rank change year-on-year
+38 -
Contract jobs citing Python 29 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 2.363% 0.062% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.197% 0.167% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
Average daily rate £350 £235 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+48.93% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
Average hourly rate £20.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £36.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.73% +4.28%
All Programming Languages
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
468 600 637
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 38.14% 37.15% 34.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 292 330
Average daily rate £341 £350 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.50% +2.94%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £260 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £460 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 58 33
Average hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £40.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.35 £27.95 £23.65
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £52.95 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
Python
South East

Python
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Python across the Surrey region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Surrey Python Jobs Demand Trend

Python
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Python across the Surrey region.

Surrey Python Daily Rate Trend

Python
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Python across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Surrey Python Daily Rate Histogram

Python
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Python across the Surrey region.

Surrey Python Hourly Rate Trend

Python
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Surrey region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Guildford +2 12 - - 4
Woking - 4 - - 1
Staines - 1 £125 -
Walton-on-Thames - - - - 1
Leatherhead - - - -
Reigate - - - -
Camberley - - - -
Farnham - - - -
Python
South East

Python
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey region citing Python also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Python.

1 23 (57.50%) Games
2 22 (55.00%) Microsoft
3 18 (45.00%) JavaScript
4 17 (42.50%) Scrum
5 16 (40.00%) C#
6 15 (37.50%) MS Excel
7 11 (27.50%) Business Intelligence
7 11 (27.50%) .NET
7 11 (27.50%) Ruby
7 11 (27.50%) Release Management
7 11 (27.50%) Online Games
7 11 (27.50%) Continuous Integration
7 11 (27.50%) SCOM
7 11 (27.50%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (27.50%) Windows Azure
8 10 (25.00%) XML
8 10 (25.00%) XSLT
9 9 (22.50%) Visual Studio
9 9 (22.50%) Game Development
9 9 (22.50%) MSBuild
9 9 (22.50%) PowerShell
10 8 (20.00%) Ant
10 8 (20.00%) Publishing
11 7 (17.50%) Automated Testing
11 7 (17.50%) Test Automation
12 6 (15.00%) QA
12 6 (15.00%) SQL
13 5 (12.50%) Windows
13 5 (12.50%) XQuery
13 5 (12.50%) Internet

Python
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey region citing Python also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Python. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 11 (27.50%) .NET
2 10 (25.00%) XML
2 10 (25.00%) XSLT
3 3 (7.500%) XBRL
3 3 (7.500%) CSS
3 3 (7.500%) Django
3 3 (7.500%) HTML
4 2 (5.000%) HTML5
5 1 (2.500%) soapUI
5 1 (2.500%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 1 (2.500%) PyQt
5 1 (2.500%) SOAP
5 1 (2.500%) ADO
5 1 (2.500%) WCF
5 1 (2.500%) Silverlight
Application Platforms
1 11 (27.50%) Amazon EC2
1 11 (27.50%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 15 (37.50%) MS Excel
2 4 (10.00%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.500%) Maya
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.50%) Internet
2 1 (2.500%) SNMP
2 1 (2.500%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.500%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.00%) Data Mining
2 3 (7.500%) MySQL
3 2 (5.000%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.000%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (2.500%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 9 (22.50%) Visual Studio
1 9 (22.50%) MSBuild
2 8 (20.00%) Ant
3 1 (2.500%) SilkTest
3 1 (2.500%) JIRA
3 1 (2.500%) Selenium
3 1 (2.500%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 23 (57.50%) Games
2 8 (20.00%) Publishing
3 3 (7.500%) Legal
4 2 (5.000%) Finance
5 1 (2.500%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (22.50%) Automation Engineer
2 6 (15.00%) Developer
3 5 (12.50%) Graduate
4 4 (10.00%) Network Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Python Developer
4 4 (10.00%) Development Engineer
5 3 (7.500%) Graduate Data Analyst
5 3 (7.500%) Python/Django Developer
5 3 (7.500%) Analyst
5 3 (7.500%) Data Analyst
6 2 (5.000%) Test Engineer
6 2 (5.000%) Junior Developer
6 2 (5.000%) Junior Data Analyst
6 2 (5.000%) Junior
6 2 (5.000%) Developer Analyst
6 2 (5.000%) Junior Analyst
6 2 (5.000%) Web Engineer
6 2 (5.000%) Django Developer
7 1 (2.500%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
7 1 (2.500%) Test Automation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (27.50%) Online Games
2 4 (10.00%) Visualisation
2 4 (10.00%) Kinect
2 4 (10.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (10.00%) Streaming Video
3 2 (5.000%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.500%) N-Tier
4 1 (2.500%) DTV
4 1 (2.500%) Animation
4 1 (2.500%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 5 (12.50%) Windows
2 4 (10.00%) Windows 8
3 1 (2.500%) UNIX
3 1 (2.500%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (42.50%) Scrum
2 11 (27.50%) Business Intelligence
2 11 (27.50%) Release Management
2 11 (27.50%) Continuous Integration
3 9 (22.50%) Game Development
4 7 (17.50%) Test Automation
4 7 (17.50%) Automated Testing
5 5 (12.50%) Test Strategy
5 5 (12.50%) Build Automation
6 4 (10.00%) Analytics
6 4 (10.00%) Software Architecture
6 4 (10.00%) Process Architecture
6 4 (10.00%) Data Analysis
6 4 (10.00%) Software Engineering
6 4 (10.00%) Code Coverage
6 4 (10.00%) Regression Testing
7 2 (5.000%) Validation
7 2 (5.000%) Agile Software Development
7 2 (5.000%) OO
7 2 (5.000%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (45.00%) JavaScript
2 16 (40.00%) C#
3 11 (27.50%) Ruby
4 9 (22.50%) PowerShell
5 6 (15.00%) SQL
6 5 (12.50%) XQuery
7 4 (10.00%) C++
7 4 (10.00%) C
8 1 (2.500%) PHP
8 1 (2.500%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.500%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 5 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (2.500%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 11 (27.50%) SCOM
2 1 (2.500%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (2.500%) SCCM
Vendors
1 22 (55.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.000%) Perforce
2 2 (5.000%) Oracle
3 1 (2.500%) Teradata
3 1 (2.500%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.500%) HP
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