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 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 26 7
Rank change year-on-year +14 -19 +5
Contract jobs citing Python 11 11 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Devon 10.38% 4.06% 16.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 68.75% 52.38% 43.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 8 17
10th Percentile £446 £413 £585
25th Percentile £481 £553 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - +1.78%
75th Percentile £534 £637 £675
90th Percentile £608 £749 £717
South West median daily rate £550 £600 £580
% change year-on-year -8.33% +3.49% +10.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £45.00
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - £51.00
South West median hourly rate £76.85 £74.44 £65.50
% change year-on-year +3.24% +13.65% +16.31%

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 16 21 76
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Devon 15.09% 7.75% 38.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 16 56
10th Percentile £318 £344 £338
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +0.23%
75th Percentile £513 £600 £600
90th Percentile £575 £724 £675
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £52.50 £45.00
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +15.79% +18.52%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £56.88
90th Percentile - - £64.75
South West median hourly rate £67.50 £67.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +0.37% +3.46% +8.33%

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 6 May 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 6 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
Exeter +14 6 £500 -16.67% 23
Plymouth -5 2 £513 -31.57% 15
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 4 (36.36%) AWS
1 4 (36.36%) Azure Machine Learning
2 3 (27.27%) Azure
3 2 (18.18%) GCP
3 2 (18.18%) GitHub
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (9.09%) AWS CodeBuild
4 1 (9.09%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (9.09%) SaaS
4 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (9.09%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
1 1 (9.09%) Subversion
General
1 6 (54.55%) Public Sector
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Senior
2 3 (27.27%) Software Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Developer
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Scientific Software Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Scrum Master
4 1 (9.09%) DevOps Specialist
4 1 (9.09%) Linux DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Linux Specialist
4 1 (9.09%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Python Developer
4 1 (9.09%) QA Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Python Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) AWS CDK
1 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (9.09%) htmx
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Agile
2 7 (63.64%) Software Engineering
3 5 (45.45%) Scrum
4 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
5 3 (27.27%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (27.27%) Data Science
5 3 (27.27%) DevOps
5 3 (27.27%) Machine Learning
5 3 (27.27%) Roadmaps
6 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
6 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
6 2 (18.18%) Pair Programming
6 2 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
7 1 (9.09%) Customer-Centricity
7 1 (9.09%) Data Encryption
7 1 (9.09%) Knowledge Transfer
7 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (9.09%) Systems Engineering
7 1 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Bash
2 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
3 1 (9.09%) C
3 1 (9.09%) C++
3 1 (9.09%) Fortran
3 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
3 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (63.64%) SC Cleared
1 7 (63.64%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (54.55%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) GDPR
2 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (9.09%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Grafana
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) ESRI
1 1 (9.09%) Rapid7
1 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow
1 1 (9.09%) Splunk