Python Contracts in Cambridge

Python
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridge 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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 4 1
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 +2
Contract jobs citing Python 24 32 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 20.51% 16.16% 27.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 55.81% 43.24% 64.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 21 56
10th Percentile £300 - £425
25th Percentile £352 £405 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £465 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.91% -4.62% -2.50%
75th Percentile £534 £575 £528
90th Percentile £578 £638 £594
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £501 £513 £488
% change year-on-year -2.20% +5.13% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 2
10th Percentile - £54.25 -
25th Percentile - £58.75 £51.25
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +19.05% -
75th Percentile - £66.25 £53.75
90th Percentile - £69.25 -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate - £62.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +25.00% -

All Programming Languages
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 43 74 117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 36.75% 37.37% 41.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 43 79
10th Percentile £263 £405 -
25th Percentile £379 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £556 £569 £544
90th Percentile £623 £638 £575
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £475 £499 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 7
10th Percentile £27.24 £52.00 £35.49
25th Percentile £41.40 £55.63 £49.38
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +19.05% -8.70%
75th Percentile - £68.75 £53.75
90th Percentile - £78.25 -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £51.25
% change year-on-year -27.27% +7.32% -4.21%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in Cambridge

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Daily rate trend for Python in Cambridge

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Cambridge over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python in Cambridge

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Hourly rate trend for Python in Cambridge

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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 (12.50%) Confluence
2 2 (8.33%) OpenStack
2 2 (8.33%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (37.50%) AWS
2 4 (16.67%) Azure
2 4 (16.67%) GCP
3 3 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (8.33%) GitHub
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.83%) DNS
2 3 (12.50%) Firewall
2 3 (12.50%) Network Security
3 2 (8.33%) iSCSI
3 2 (8.33%) SAN
3 2 (8.33%) VSAN
3 2 (8.33%) Wireless
4 1 (4.17%) 802.11
4 1 (4.17%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (4.17%) Cisco Wireless
4 1 (4.17%) LAN
4 1 (4.17%) Multicast
4 1 (4.17%) SNMP
4 1 (4.17%) VLAN
4 1 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (4.17%) Wireless Security
4 1 (4.17%) WLAN
4 1 (4.17%) WPA2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Electronic Patient Records
1 2 (8.33%) Hadoop
1 2 (8.33%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 8 (33.33%) JIRA
2 3 (12.50%) Artifactory
2 3 (12.50%) GitLab
2 3 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 3 (12.50%) TeamCity
3 2 (8.33%) Git
General
1 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (8.33%) Electronics
3 2 (8.33%) Finance
3 2 (8.33%) Manufacturing
3 2 (8.33%) Marketing
3 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.33%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (16.67%) Administrator
1 4 (16.67%) Developer
1 4 (16.67%) Python Developer
1 4 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
2 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) AWS Developer
3 2 (8.33%) C++ Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Developer in Test
3 2 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Information Scientist
3 2 (8.33%) Linux Administrator
3 2 (8.33%) Linux Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 2 (8.33%) Senior
3 2 (8.33%) VMware Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) FPGA Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) 802.1X
1 1 (4.17%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Virtual Team
2 3 (12.50%) Public Cloud
3 2 (8.33%) CRISPR
3 2 (8.33%) Data Centre
3 2 (8.33%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (8.33%) Life Science
3 2 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (4.17%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (4.17%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (4.17%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (4.17%) FPGA
4 1 (4.17%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 9 (37.50%) Linux
2 2 (8.33%) CentOS
2 2 (8.33%) Mac OS
2 2 (8.33%) Ubuntu
2 2 (8.33%) Windows
3 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (25.00%) Data Science
2 5 (20.83%) Agile
2 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (20.83%) Performance Tuning
2 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (20.83%) Task Automation
3 4 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 4 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 4 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 4 (16.67%) ITSM
4 3 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (12.50%) Test Automation
4 3 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
4 3 (12.50%) Workload Management
5 2 (8.33%) Analytics
5 2 (8.33%) Data Visualisation
5 2 (8.33%) DevOps
5 2 (8.33%) Health Informatics
5 2 (8.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.83%) Shell Script
2 4 (16.67%) Bash
2 4 (16.67%) SQL
3 3 (12.50%) Perl
3 3 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 2 (8.33%) C++
4 2 (8.33%) Groovy
4 2 (8.33%) MATLAB
4 2 (8.33%) R
5 1 (4.17%) C-shell
5 1 (4.17%) SystemVerilog
5 1 (4.17%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 6 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (8.33%) PhD
2 2 (8.33%) VCAP
2 2 (8.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (4.17%) CCNP
3 1 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (8.33%) Firmware
1 2 (8.33%) Hyper-V
1 2 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (8.33%) VMware NSX
1 2 (8.33%) vSphere
2 1 (4.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 13 (54.17%) Ansible
2 9 (37.50%) Terraform
3 3 (12.50%) Puppet
3 3 (12.50%) vCenter Server
4 2 (8.33%) PowerCLI
4 2 (8.33%) Progress Chef
4 2 (8.33%) Salt
4 2 (8.33%) VxRail
5 1 (4.17%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (4.17%) HAProxy
5 1 (4.17%) Nagios
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) ServiceNow
2 4 (16.67%) Google
2 4 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 4 (16.67%) SAP
2 4 (16.67%) VMware
3 3 (12.50%) Dell
3 3 (12.50%) HP
3 3 (12.50%) IBM
3 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.17%) AirMagnet
4 1 (4.17%) Cisco
4 1 (4.17%) Ekahau
4 1 (4.17%) Palo Alto
4 1 (4.17%) Splunk
4 1 (4.17%) Sun
4 1 (4.17%) Xilinx