Python Contracts in Derbyshire

Python
East Midlands > Derbyshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Derbyshire 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 17 25 29
Rank change year-on-year +8 +4 +5
Contract jobs citing Python 2 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Derbyshire 2.06% 1.18% 1.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.38% 10.00% 7.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £318 - £386
25th Percentile £381 £413 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £480
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -11.46% +20.00%
75th Percentile £606 £438 £528
90th Percentile £663 - £556
East Midlands median daily rate £425 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -17.07% +2.50% +5.26%

All Programming Languages
Derbyshire

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 Derbyshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 13 20 41
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derbyshire 13.40% 11.76% 19.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 17 31
10th Percentile £398 £162 -
25th Percentile £459 £250 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £557 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year +11.30% +4.17% +6.67%
75th Percentile £627 £575 £540
90th Percentile £651 £588 £579
East Midlands median daily rate £425 £425 £425
% change year-on-year - - +1.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £45.00
Median hourly rate £23.00 - £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +138.10%
75th Percentile - - £55.00
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.60 £25.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -25.60% -50.00% +42.86%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Derbyshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in Derbyshire

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Derbyshire

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

Daily rate trend for Python in Derbyshire

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Derbyshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Python in Derbyshire

Python
Contract Job Locations in Derbyshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Derbyshire 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
Derby +10 2 £500 +17.65% 48
Python
East Midlands

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Derbyshire 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 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Batch
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) IT Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Resource Allocation
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Environments
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (50.00%) Podman
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) VMware