Python Contracts in Devon

Python
South West > Devon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Devon 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 19 February 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 5 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing Python 42 40 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Devon 23.33% 13.94% 17.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 73.68% 60.61% 46.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 32 28
10th Percentile - £473 £363
25th Percentile £500 - £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.56%
75th Percentile £680 £675 £675
90th Percentile £685 £700 £700
South West median daily rate £600 £600 £556
% change year-on-year - +7.87% +8.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - - £45.25
25th Percentile - £37.50 £45.63
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - -15.79% +13.10%
75th Percentile - £42.50 £50.63
90th Percentile - - £51.75
South West median hourly rate £64.00 £69.62 £65.61
% change year-on-year -8.07% +6.12% +7.11%

All Programming Languages
Devon

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 Devon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 57 66 89
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Devon 31.67% 23.00% 38.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 52 70
10th Percentile £450 £364 £363
25th Percentile £500 £459 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £669 £600 £600
90th Percentile £685 £700 £676
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £530
% change year-on-year - +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 3
10th Percentile - £21.64 £45.50
25th Percentile - £29.57 £46.25
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - -20.00% +24.76%
75th Percentile - £42.50 £61.25
90th Percentile - £48.50 £66.50
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.96% -1.92% -

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Devon

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in Devon

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Devon

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

Daily rate trend for Python in Devon

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Devon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Devon over the 6 months to 19 February 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python in Devon

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Devon

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

Hourly rate trend for Python in Devon

Python
Contract Job Locations in Devon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Devon region over the 6 months to 19 February 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
Exeter +3 29 £601 +0.13% 6
Plymouth -4 6 £650 -13.21% 2
Python
South West

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Devon 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:

Cloud Services
1 29 (69.05%) AWS
2 18 (42.86%) Serverless
3 16 (38.10%) AWS Lambda
4 15 (35.71%) GitHub
5 13 (30.95%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (23.81%) Apigee
6 10 (23.81%) AWS CodePipeline
6 10 (23.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 6 (14.29%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 6 (14.29%) Amazon SageMaker
7 6 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (11.90%) Azure
9 4 (9.52%) Azure Machine Learning
10 3 (7.14%) AWS Fargate
10 3 (7.14%) OpenShift
11 1 (2.38%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.76%) Firewall
1 2 (4.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (14.29%) Amazon Athena
1 6 (14.29%) Redis
2 3 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (7.14%) Geospatial Data
2 3 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 14 (33.33%) Git
2 10 (23.81%) JMeter
2 10 (23.81%) JUnit
2 10 (23.81%) Maven
3 4 (9.52%) Subversion
4 2 (4.76%) Cypress.io
4 2 (4.76%) GitLab
4 2 (4.76%) Jenkins
4 2 (4.76%) Selenium
5 1 (2.38%) JIRA
General
1 18 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 4 (9.52%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.14%) Military
4 1 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 21 (50.00%) Developer
2 16 (38.10%) Java Developer
3 14 (33.33%) Senior
4 8 (19.05%) Software Engineer
5 7 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (16.67%) Senior DevOps
5 7 (16.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 5 (11.90%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 5 (11.90%) Scientific Software Engineer
7 4 (9.52%) Python Developer
7 4 (9.52%) Senior Developer
8 2 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Scrum Master
8 2 (4.76%) Senior Java Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Senior Software Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Software Developer
9 1 (2.38%) DevOps Specialist
9 1 (2.38%) Lead Java Developer
9 1 (2.38%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (28.57%) REST
2 10 (23.81%) OpenAPI
2 10 (23.81%) Swagger
3 6 (14.29%) Kafka
3 6 (14.29%) RESTful
4 3 (7.14%) Flask
4 3 (7.14%) SQLAlchemy
5 2 (4.76%) Bootstrap
5 2 (4.76%) CSS
5 2 (4.76%) CSS3
5 2 (4.76%) HTML
5 2 (4.76%) HTML5
5 2 (4.76%) htmx
5 2 (4.76%) Jest
5 2 (4.76%) Node.js
5 2 (4.76%) React
5 2 (4.76%) React Native
6 1 (2.38%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.76%) Clustering
1 2 (4.76%) Data Structures
1 2 (4.76%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.38%) Mainframe
2 1 (2.38%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (21.43%) Linux
2 2 (4.76%) Android
2 2 (4.76%) Apple iOS
2 2 (4.76%) CentOS
2 2 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.38%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (69.05%) Agile
2 22 (52.38%) DevOps
3 13 (30.95%) Software Engineering
4 7 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 7 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 6 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 6 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
5 6 (14.29%) Test Automation
6 5 (11.90%) API Management
6 5 (11.90%) Data Science
6 5 (11.90%) Microservices
6 5 (11.90%) Scrum
7 4 (9.52%) API Development
7 4 (9.52%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (9.52%) OO
7 4 (9.52%) Web Operations
8 3 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence
8 3 (7.14%) Coaching
8 3 (7.14%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 24 (57.14%) Java
2 6 (14.29%) Go
3 4 (9.52%) C
3 4 (9.52%) C++
3 4 (9.52%) Fortran
3 4 (9.52%) Groovy
3 4 (9.52%) JavaScript
3 4 (9.52%) TypeScript
4 3 (7.14%) Bash
5 2 (4.76%) Kotlin
5 2 (4.76%) Objective-C
5 2 (4.76%) Ruby
5 2 (4.76%) Swift
Qualifications
1 32 (76.19%) Security Cleared
2 31 (73.81%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.76%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (4.76%) CCNA
3 2 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.90%) QA
System Software
1 5 (11.90%) Docker
2 1 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (19.05%) Terraform
2 5 (11.90%) Kubernetes
3 3 (7.14%) Puppet
4 2 (4.76%) Ansible
Vendors
1 10 (23.81%) Atlassian
1 10 (23.81%) WSO2
2 2 (4.76%) Red Hat
2 2 (4.76%) YouTube
3 1 (2.38%) EMC
3 1 (2.38%) IBM
3 1 (2.38%) NetApp
3 1 (2.38%) Oracle
3 1 (2.38%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.38%) VMware