Python Contracts in the West Midlands

Python
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 43 46 63
Rank change year-on-year +3 +17 -13
Contract jobs citing Python 77 106 130
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 4.00% 4.50% 3.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.08% 17.35% 14.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 75 81
10th Percentile £268 £405 £363
25th Percentile £348 £500 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £563 £520
Median % change year-on-year -24.44% +8.17% +30.00%
75th Percentile £525 £700 £575
90th Percentile £606 £722 £638
England median daily rate £563 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -6.25% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £35.19 - -
25th Percentile £40.13 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £47.75 £52.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% - -
75th Percentile £68.13 £53.75 -
90th Percentile £72.50 - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £51.05
% change year-on-year -3.85% +27.33% +27.63%

All Programming Languages
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 426 611 928
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 22.12% 25.97% 26.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 309 421 678
10th Percentile £260 £363 £325
25th Percentile £350 £413 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £459
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +14.38% +14.75%
75th Percentile £550 £598 £540
90th Percentile £638 £700 £633
England median daily rate £542 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -4.13% +2.69% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 2
10th Percentile £40.10 £21.73 £16.35
25th Percentile £55.00 £23.81 £16.51
Median hourly rate £57.50 £29.32 £17.39
Median % change year-on-year +96.13% +68.59% -53.63%
75th Percentile £58.75 £64.69 £18.38
90th Percentile £69.75 £98.25 £18.60
England median hourly rate £62.50 £60.94 £50.00
% change year-on-year +2.56% +21.88% +14.94%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in the West Midlands

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Python in the West Midlands

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python in the West Midlands

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Python in the West Midlands

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Python in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Python in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 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
Birmingham +1 45 £400 -38.46% 54
Warwickshire -5 12 £525 +3.70% 11
Worcestershire +13 7 £550 +4.76% 7
Coventry +9 6 £450 -14.29% 13
Staffordshire +10 1 - - 8
Wolverhampton - 1 - - 2
Python
England

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (3.90%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.60%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.60%) CMS
2 2 (2.60%) Confluence
2 2 (2.60%) Headless CMS
3 1 (1.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.30%) Apache
3 1 (1.30%) SAS
3 1 (1.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (15.58%) Chatbot
2 5 (6.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.30%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 9 (11.69%) Odoo
2 3 (3.90%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (23.38%) Azure
2 12 (15.58%) Power Platform
3 9 (11.69%) AWS
4 5 (6.49%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (5.19%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (5.19%) GCP
5 4 (5.19%) Serverless
6 3 (3.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (3.90%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (3.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (3.90%) dbt
7 2 (2.60%) Azure Functions
7 2 (2.60%) GitHub
7 2 (2.60%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.30%) IaaS
8 1 (1.30%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.30%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.30%) PaaS
8 1 (1.30%) Route 53
8 1 (1.30%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.30%) Bluetooth
1 1 (1.30%) SSL
1 1 (1.30%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (15.58%) Power BI
2 7 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (7.79%) Big Data
3 6 (7.79%) NoSQL
4 4 (5.19%) BusinessObjects
4 4 (5.19%) Data Lake
5 3 (3.90%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (3.90%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.90%) Tableau
6 2 (2.60%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.60%) Delta Lake
6 2 (2.60%) Hadoop
6 2 (2.60%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.60%) MySQL
6 2 (2.60%) RDBMS
6 2 (2.60%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.30%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.30%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.30%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (1.30%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 9 (11.69%) Git
2 4 (5.19%) GitLab
3 3 (3.90%) Bitbucket
3 3 (3.90%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.90%) JIRA
4 2 (2.60%) Travis CI
4 2 (2.60%) webpack
5 1 (1.30%) Ant
5 1 (1.30%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.30%) Gradle
5 1 (1.30%) JUnit
5 1 (1.30%) Maven
5 1 (1.30%) TeamCity
General
1 24 (31.17%) Social Skills
2 11 (14.29%) Finance
3 9 (11.69%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.60%) Banking
4 2 (2.60%) Manufacturing
4 2 (2.60%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.60%) Retail
5 1 (1.30%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.30%) Marketing
5 1 (1.30%) Multimedia
5 1 (1.30%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 28 (36.36%) Developer
2 18 (23.38%) Data Engineer
3 12 (15.58%) Software Developer
4 7 (9.09%) Python Developer
4 7 (9.09%) Senior
5 6 (7.79%) Analyst
6 4 (5.19%) Java Developer
7 3 (3.90%) Applications Support
7 3 (3.90%) Applications Support Analyst
7 3 (3.90%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (3.90%) Support Analyst
8 2 (2.60%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (2.60%) Consultant
8 2 (2.60%) Data Analyst
8 2 (2.60%) Data Scientist
8 2 (2.60%) Full Stack Developer
8 2 (2.60%) Senior Data Engineer
8 2 (2.60%) Senior Software Engineer
8 2 (2.60%) Site Engineer
8 2 (2.60%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (15.58%) HTML
2 4 (5.19%) Flask
2 4 (5.19%) Kafka
2 4 (5.19%) Pandas
2 4 (5.19%) PySpark
2 4 (5.19%) RESTful
3 3 (3.90%) ADO
3 3 (3.90%) Hibernate
3 3 (3.90%) Spring
4 2 (2.60%) Apache Sling
4 2 (2.60%) GraphQL
4 2 (2.60%) Next.js
4 2 (2.60%) Node.js
4 2 (2.60%) OSGi
4 2 (2.60%) React
5 1 (1.30%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (1.30%) Dask
5 1 (1.30%) Keras
5 1 (1.30%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.30%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.99%) Algorithms
2 5 (6.49%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.60%) Distributed Applications
3 2 (2.60%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.30%) Device Driver
4 1 (1.30%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.30%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.79%) Linux
2 4 (5.19%) Windows
3 2 (2.60%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.30%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (1.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (27.27%) Artificial Intelligence
2 17 (22.08%) Software Engineering
3 16 (20.78%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (19.48%) Data Modelling
5 14 (18.18%) Code Quality
6 12 (15.58%) Analytics
6 12 (15.58%) Conversational UI
6 12 (15.58%) DevOps
7 10 (12.99%) CI/CD
7 10 (12.99%) ERP
8 9 (11.69%) Computer Science
9 8 (10.39%) Data Analysis
10 7 (9.09%) Agile
10 7 (9.09%) Data Analytics
10 7 (9.09%) Data Science
10 7 (9.09%) Visualisation
11 6 (7.79%) Data Governance
11 6 (7.79%) Full Stack Development
11 6 (7.79%) Machine Learning
11 6 (7.79%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 39 (50.65%) SQL
2 17 (22.08%) JavaScript
3 14 (18.18%) Java
4 13 (16.88%) C#
5 6 (7.79%) C++
6 5 (6.49%) MATLAB
7 4 (5.19%) PowerShell
8 3 (3.90%) Bash
9 2 (2.60%) C
9 2 (2.60%) Scala
9 2 (2.60%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.30%) HiveQL
10 1 (1.30%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.30%) R
10 1 (1.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (27.27%) Degree
2 6 (7.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (5.19%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.90%) PhD
4 3 (3.90%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.30%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.30%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.30%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.30%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.79%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.90%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.60%) GDPR
4 1 (1.30%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 4 (5.19%) Docker
2 2 (2.60%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.30%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (1.30%) Firmware
3 1 (1.30%) HDFS
3 1 (1.30%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (10.39%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.19%) Terraform
3 2 (2.60%) Ansible
4 1 (1.30%) Argo
4 1 (1.30%) Functional Safety
4 1 (1.30%) Istio
4 1 (1.30%) linkerd
4 1 (1.30%) SELinux
4 1 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.30%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 12 (15.58%) PayPal
2 11 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.49%) Databricks
4 3 (3.90%) Google
5 2 (2.60%) Confluent
5 2 (2.60%) NVIDIA
5 2 (2.60%) Oracle
5 2 (2.60%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.60%) Sage
6 1 (1.30%) Anaplan
6 1 (1.30%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.30%) Citrix
6 1 (1.30%) Denodo
6 1 (1.30%) Informatica
6 1 (1.30%) ION Trading
6 1 (1.30%) New Relic
6 1 (1.30%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.30%) SAP
6 1 (1.30%) Splunk
6 1 (1.30%) Teradata