Python Contracts in Bedfordshire

Python
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire 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 30 28 27
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 +8
Contract jobs citing Python 3 7 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 1.92% 2.85% 3.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.67% 35.00% 13.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 4
10th Percentile £521 £439 £448
25th Percentile £534 £478 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £533 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.63% +6.50% +3.36%
75th Percentile £584 £573 £509
90th Percentile £594 - £526
East of England median daily rate £503 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.67% -10.00% -7.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
East of England median hourly rate £52.50 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -16.00% +4.17% +7.14%

All Programming Languages
Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 18 20 44
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 11.54% 8.13% 23.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 13 33
10th Percentile £440 - £320
25th Percentile £506 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -10.00% +42.86%
75th Percentile £675 £550 £600
90th Percentile £683 £568 -
East of England median daily rate £479 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +0.79% -2.56% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £41.06 £53.25 -
25th Percentile £60.75 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% - -
75th Percentile £88.00 £68.75 -
90th Percentile - £71.75 -
East of England median hourly rate £66.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.54% - +16.07%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in Bedfordshire

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Python in Bedfordshire

Python
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Luton -2 2 £600 +12.68% 52
Python
East of England

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) BGP
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) OSPF
1 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Data Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Data Mapping
2 2 (66.67%) Data Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Data Transformation
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Alteryx
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) F5
2 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto
2 1 (33.33%) Splunk