Python Contracts in Birmingham

Python
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 12 25 21
Rank change year-on-year +13 -4 +37
Contract jobs citing Python 47 43 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 9.00% 5.56% 6.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.30% 23.12% 26.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 18 42
10th Percentile £306 £263 £400
25th Percentile £428 £316 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £572 £400 £645
Median % change year-on-year +43.00% -37.98% +29.00%
75th Percentile £675 £436 £700
90th Percentile £693 £454 £731
West Midlands median daily rate £506 £425 £556
% change year-on-year +19.06% -23.60% +6.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - £40.10 -
25th Percentile - £40.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate - £40.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - -22.86% -
75th Percentile - £47.75 £53.75
90th Percentile - £52.10 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.91 £47.75 £52.50
% change year-on-year -28.98% -9.05% -

All Programming Languages
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 126 186 228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 24.14% 24.06% 25.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 144 158
10th Percentile £341 £259 £313
25th Percentile £425 £310 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £410 £500
Median % change year-on-year +24.88% -18.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £650 £575 £650
90th Percentile £700 £650 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £456 £525
% change year-on-year +4.11% -13.10% +14.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 7
10th Percentile - £40.20 £21.70
25th Percentile £47.50 £40.50 £24.31
Median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £33.39
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +64.74% -
75th Percentile £52.50 £56.25 £75.63
90th Percentile - - £98.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £27.50 £57.50 £29.32
% change year-on-year -52.17% +96.13% +68.59%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in Birmingham

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Python in Birmingham

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python in Birmingham

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Python in Birmingham

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (6.38%) Confluence
2 1 (2.13%) Apache
2 1 (2.13%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.13%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 7 (14.89%) AWS
2 6 (12.77%) Azure
3 4 (8.51%) Power Platform
4 3 (6.38%) Serverless
5 2 (4.26%) Akamai
5 2 (4.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (4.26%) Amazon S3
5 2 (4.26%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (4.26%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (4.26%) Cloudflare
5 2 (4.26%) GCP
5 2 (4.26%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.13%) Apigee
6 1 (2.13%) Cloud Composer
6 1 (2.13%) Datadog
6 1 (2.13%) GitHub
6 1 (2.13%) IaaS
6 1 (2.13%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.51%) Network Security
2 3 (6.38%) Firewall
3 2 (4.26%) DHCP
3 2 (4.26%) DNS
3 2 (4.26%) VLAN
4 1 (2.13%) BGP
4 1 (2.13%) DSL
4 1 (2.13%) EIGRP
4 1 (2.13%) HTTP
4 1 (2.13%) Internet
4 1 (2.13%) LAN
4 1 (2.13%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (2.13%) OSPF
4 1 (2.13%) SAN
4 1 (2.13%) SD-WAN
4 1 (2.13%) SSL
4 1 (2.13%) WAN
4 1 (2.13%) Wireless
4 1 (2.13%) Wireless Security
4 1 (2.13%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.51%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (8.51%) Power BI
2 3 (6.38%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (4.26%) Data Lake
3 2 (4.26%) DynamoDB
3 2 (4.26%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.26%) Tableau
4 1 (2.13%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.13%) Big Data
4 1 (2.13%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (2.13%) Data Mining
4 1 (2.13%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.13%) Metadata
4 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (2.13%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.13%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.13%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (2.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (2.13%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 5 (10.64%) MSI
2 4 (8.51%) Git
2 4 (8.51%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.38%) JIRA
4 2 (4.26%) ERwin
4 2 (4.26%) GitLab
4 2 (4.26%) JMeter
4 2 (4.26%) Maven
4 2 (4.26%) Postman
4 2 (4.26%) REST Assured
4 2 (4.26%) Selenium
4 2 (4.26%) TestNG
4 2 (4.26%) Travis CI
5 1 (2.13%) Ant
5 1 (2.13%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.13%) Gradle
5 1 (2.13%) JUnit
5 1 (2.13%) Mockito
5 1 (2.13%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (2.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 21 (44.68%) Social Skills
2 12 (25.53%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (19.15%) Finance
4 6 (12.77%) Banking
4 6 (12.77%) Public Sector
5 5 (10.64%) Advertising
6 3 (6.38%) Financial Institution
7 2 (4.26%) Back Office
7 2 (4.26%) Games
7 2 (4.26%) Telecoms
8 1 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.13%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.13%) Military
8 1 (2.13%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 6 (12.77%) Data Engineer
1 6 (12.77%) Developer
2 5 (10.64%) JavaScript Engineer
2 5 (10.64%) Support Engineer
3 3 (6.38%) Architect
3 3 (6.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 3 (6.38%) Python Engineer
3 3 (6.38%) Site Engineer
3 3 (6.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (4.26%) Analyst
4 2 (4.26%) Azure Data Engineer
4 2 (4.26%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (4.26%) Data Modeller
4 2 (4.26%) Data Scientist
4 2 (4.26%) Lead
4 2 (4.26%) Python Data Engineer
4 2 (4.26%) Senior
4 2 (4.26%) Software Engineer
4 2 (4.26%) Tester
5 1 (2.13%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.64%) React
1 5 (10.64%) Software Packaging
2 2 (4.26%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (4.26%) FpML
2 2 (4.26%) JSON
2 2 (4.26%) Node.js
2 2 (4.26%) XML
2 2 (4.26%) YAML
3 1 (2.13%) 802.1X
3 1 (2.13%) ADO
3 1 (2.13%) J2EE
3 1 (2.13%) Kafka
3 1 (2.13%) LDAP
3 1 (2.13%) NumPy
3 1 (2.13%) OAuth
3 1 (2.13%) OpenID
3 1 (2.13%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (2.13%) RESTful
3 1 (2.13%) SAML
3 1 (2.13%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.51%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (6.38%) Onboarding
2 3 (6.38%) SCADA
3 2 (4.26%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (4.26%) Reference Data
4 1 (2.13%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.13%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (2.13%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.13%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.13%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.13%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.13%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (2.13%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.13%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (2.13%) Virtual Reality
4 1 (2.13%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.89%) Linux
2 6 (12.77%) Windows
3 1 (2.13%) CentOS
3 1 (2.13%) Debian
3 1 (2.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (36.17%) Agile
2 15 (31.91%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (23.40%) Project Management
4 10 (21.28%) Computer Science
5 9 (19.15%) CI/CD
5 9 (19.15%) DevOps
6 8 (17.02%) Analytics
6 8 (17.02%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (14.89%) Data Modelling
8 6 (12.77%) Collaborative Working
8 6 (12.77%) SIEM
9 5 (10.64%) API Development
9 5 (10.64%) Incident Response
9 5 (10.64%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (10.64%) Project Delivery
9 5 (10.64%) Software Delivery
9 5 (10.64%) Software Deployment
9 5 (10.64%) Software Distribution
9 5 (10.64%) Visualisation
10 4 (8.51%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 15 (31.91%) SQL
2 12 (25.53%) Bash
3 10 (21.28%) PowerShell
4 5 (10.64%) JavaScript
4 5 (10.64%) PHP
5 3 (6.38%) Java
5 3 (6.38%) R
6 2 (4.26%) Scala
6 2 (4.26%) Shell Script
6 2 (4.26%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.13%) ANSI SQL
7 1 (2.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (2.13%) Perl
7 1 (2.13%) Rust
7 1 (2.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (27.66%) Security Cleared
2 10 (21.28%) Degree
3 9 (19.15%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (19.15%) SC Cleared
4 4 (8.51%) CEH
4 4 (8.51%) CISSP
5 2 (4.26%) GIAC
5 2 (4.26%) ISTQB
6 1 (2.13%) CCNP
6 1 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.13%) CITP
6 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.13%) OCP
6 1 (2.13%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.26%) Data Quality
1 2 (4.26%) GDPR
1 2 (4.26%) PCI DSS
1 2 (4.26%) QA
2 1 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (2.13%) NIST
2 1 (2.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (12.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (21.28%) Ansible
2 8 (17.02%) Terraform
3 6 (12.77%) Kubernetes
4 3 (6.38%) Kibana
5 1 (2.13%) logstash
5 1 (2.13%) Nessus
5 1 (2.13%) Puppet
5 1 (2.13%) QRadar
Vendors
1 5 (10.64%) Databricks
1 5 (10.64%) Tanium
2 3 (6.38%) Foundry
2 3 (6.38%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.26%) Cisco
3 2 (4.26%) F5
3 2 (4.26%) Imperva
3 2 (4.26%) Juniper
3 2 (4.26%) Sparx
3 2 (4.26%) Splunk
4 1 (2.13%) BT
4 1 (2.13%) IBM
4 1 (2.13%) Oracle
4 1 (2.13%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.13%) SAP
4 1 (2.13%) Sophos
4 1 (2.13%) Sybase
4 1 (2.13%) Virgin Media
4 1 (2.13%) VMware
4 1 (2.13%) Zscaler