Python Contracts in Basildon

Python
Essex > Basildon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Basildon requiring Python skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Python over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 - 9
Rank change year-on-year - - +3
Contract jobs citing Python 5 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Basildon 26.32% - 12.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.71% - 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile - - £419
25th Percentile £315 - £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £317 - £440
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.15%
75th Percentile £319 - £449
90th Percentile £320 - £450
Essex median daily rate £318 £275 £450
% change year-on-year +15.72% -38.89% -23.31%

All Programming Languages
Basildon

Python falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Basildon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 14 24 15
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Basildon 73.68% 48.98% 60.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 10
10th Percentile £315 £520 £390
25th Percentile £317 £538 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -32.80% +20.00% -0.40%
75th Percentile £488 - £505
90th Percentile £488 £675 £564
Essex median daily rate £400 £485 £478
% change year-on-year -17.53% +1.57% -1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 13 1
10th Percentile £32.00 - -
25th Percentile £35.00 £52.50 £65.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £59.50 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.77% -9.16% +7.06%
75th Percentile £45.00 £80.00 £65.75
90th Percentile £48.00 - -
Essex median hourly rate £50.00 £59.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -15.97% +138.00% -60.70%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Basildon

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Basildon.

Job vacancy trend for Python in Basildon

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Basildon

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python in Basildon.

Daily rate trend for Python in Basildon

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Basildon

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python in Basildon.

Hourly rate trend for Python in Basildon

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Basildon 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 4 (80.00%) Apache
1 4 (80.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) GCP
2 4 (80.00%) Power Platform
3 3 (60.00%) dbt
3 3 (60.00%) GitHub
3 3 (60.00%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) BigQuery
1 4 (80.00%) Power BI
1 4 (80.00%) Tableau
2 3 (60.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (60.00%) Looker
3 2 (40.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) GCP Data Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) GCP Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) DBA
3 1 (20.00%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) PySpark
2 4 (80.00%) AngularJS
2 4 (80.00%) React
3 3 (60.00%) Kafka
3 3 (60.00%) NumPy
3 3 (60.00%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 5 (100.00%) Data Security
2 4 (80.00%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Data Governance
2 4 (80.00%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (80.00%) Data Visualisation
2 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (80.00%) Technical Architecture
2 4 (80.00%) Visualisation
3 3 (60.00%) Analytics
3 3 (60.00%) Data Ingestion
3 3 (60.00%) Data Management
3 3 (60.00%) Data Science
3 3 (60.00%) DataOps
3 3 (60.00%) ETL
3 3 (60.00%) Open Source
3 3 (60.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 3 (60.00%) Workflow
3 3 (60.00%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (80.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) GDPR
2 3 (60.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) Checkmarx
2 1 (20.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft