Python Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Python
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 26 6
Rank change year-on-year +8 -20 +10
Contract jobs citing Python 28 38 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 9.93% 7.58% 14.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.89% 38.38% 49.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 26 58
10th Percentile £313 £405 £425
25th Percentile £379 £410 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £481
Median % change year-on-year +0.25% +3.90% -3.75%
75th Percentile £547 £575 £533
90th Percentile £586 £606 £591
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 5
10th Percentile - £42.25 £32.50
25th Percentile - £55.00 £47.50
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% -
75th Percentile - £66.50 £53.75
90th Percentile - £68.55 -
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
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 72 99 169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 25.53% 19.76% 29.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 57 117
10th Percentile £319 £405 £398
25th Percentile £411 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £563 £525
90th Percentile £619 £615 £580
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 18 10
10th Percentile £22.04 £33.48 £22.00
25th Percentile £28.41 £35.52 £47.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +7.32% -4.21%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.25 £53.75
90th Percentile - £68.10 -
East of England median hourly rate £65.75 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.15% - +16.07%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in Cambridgeshire

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate trend for Python in Cambridgeshire

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python in Cambridgeshire

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Python in Cambridgeshire

Python
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 8 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
Cambridge 0 24 £438 -4.37% 242
Python
East of England

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 (10.71%) Confluence
2 2 (7.14%) OpenStack
2 2 (7.14%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (35.71%) AWS
2 5 (17.86%) Azure
2 5 (17.86%) GCP
3 4 (14.29%) GitHub
4 3 (10.71%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (7.14%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (3.57%) BrowserStack
6 1 (3.57%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 6 (21.43%) Firewall
2 5 (17.86%) DNS
2 5 (17.86%) Network Security
3 4 (14.29%) VSAN
4 2 (7.14%) iSCSI
4 2 (7.14%) SAN
4 2 (7.14%) Wireless
5 1 (3.57%) 802.11
5 1 (3.57%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (3.57%) Cisco Wireless
5 1 (3.57%) LAN
5 1 (3.57%) Multicast
5 1 (3.57%) SNMP
5 1 (3.57%) VLAN
5 1 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (3.57%) Wireless Security
5 1 (3.57%) WLAN
5 1 (3.57%) WPA2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) Electronic Patient Records
1 2 (7.14%) Hadoop
1 2 (7.14%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 8 (28.57%) JIRA
2 4 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 3 (10.71%) Artifactory
3 3 (10.71%) GitLab
3 3 (10.71%) TeamCity
4 2 (7.14%) Git
5 1 (3.57%) Cucumber
5 1 (3.57%) Cypress.io
5 1 (3.57%) Postman
5 1 (3.57%) Selenium
General
1 10 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 6 (21.43%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (7.14%) Electronics
3 2 (7.14%) Finance
3 2 (7.14%) Manufacturing
3 2 (7.14%) Marketing
3 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.14%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) Administrator
2 4 (14.29%) Developer
2 4 (14.29%) Python Developer
2 4 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
3 3 (10.71%) Systems Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) VMware Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) AWS Developer
4 2 (7.14%) C++ Developer
4 2 (7.14%) Developer in Test
4 2 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Information Scientist
4 2 (7.14%) Linux Administrator
4 2 (7.14%) Linux Developer
4 2 (7.14%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 2 (7.14%) Security Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Senior
5 1 (3.57%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) 802.1X
1 1 (3.57%) Redfish
1 1 (3.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (14.29%) Virtual Team
2 3 (10.71%) Public Cloud
3 2 (7.14%) CRISPR
3 2 (7.14%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (7.14%) Data Centre
3 2 (7.14%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (7.14%) Life Science
3 2 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.57%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (3.57%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (3.57%) FPGA
4 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.57%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 10 (35.71%) Linux
2 2 (7.14%) CentOS
2 2 (7.14%) Mac OS
2 2 (7.14%) Ubuntu
2 2 (7.14%) Unix
2 2 (7.14%) Windows
3 1 (3.57%) AIX
3 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (25.00%) Agile
1 7 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 7 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (21.43%) CI/CD
2 6 (21.43%) Data Science
2 6 (21.43%) Task Automation
3 5 (17.86%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (14.29%) Computer Science
4 4 (14.29%) Containerisation
4 4 (14.29%) ITSM
4 4 (14.29%) Network Virtualisation
4 4 (14.29%) Project Delivery
4 4 (14.29%) Test Automation
4 4 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
4 4 (14.29%) Waterfall
4 4 (14.29%) Zero Trust
5 3 (10.71%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (10.71%) Workload Management
6 2 (7.14%) Cyber Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 6 (21.43%) PowerShell
2 5 (17.86%) Shell Script
2 5 (17.86%) SQL
3 4 (14.29%) Bash
4 3 (10.71%) Perl
5 2 (7.14%) C++
5 2 (7.14%) Groovy
5 2 (7.14%) MATLAB
5 2 (7.14%) R
6 1 (3.57%) C#
6 1 (3.57%) C-shell
6 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.57%) SystemVerilog
6 1 (3.57%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 6 (21.43%) Degree
2 3 (10.71%) DV Cleared
2 3 (10.71%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.71%) VCAP
2 3 (10.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (7.14%) PhD
3 2 (7.14%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.57%) CCNP
4 1 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (14.29%) VMware NSX
1 4 (14.29%) vSphere
2 2 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.14%) Firmware
2 2 (7.14%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.57%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 15 (53.57%) Ansible
2 11 (39.29%) Terraform
3 5 (17.86%) vCenter Server
4 4 (14.29%) PowerCLI
4 4 (14.29%) VxRail
5 3 (10.71%) Puppet
6 2 (7.14%) Progress Chef
6 2 (7.14%) Salt
7 1 (3.57%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (3.57%) HAProxy
7 1 (3.57%) Nagios
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) VMware
2 5 (17.86%) Dell
2 5 (17.86%) Google
2 5 (17.86%) ServiceNow
3 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 4 (14.29%) Red Hat
3 4 (14.29%) SAP
4 3 (10.71%) HP
4 3 (10.71%) IBM
5 2 (7.14%) Palo Alto
5 2 (7.14%) Splunk
6 1 (3.57%) AirMagnet
6 1 (3.57%) Cisco
6 1 (3.57%) Ekahau
6 1 (3.57%) Perfecto Mobile
6 1 (3.57%) Sun
6 1 (3.57%) Xilinx