Python Contracts in the East Midlands

Python
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 19 32
Rank change year-on-year -1 +13 +33
Contract jobs citing Python 42 51 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 7.01% 6.46% 5.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.28% 25.12% 17.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 29 44
10th Percentile £334 £356 £387
25th Percentile £369 £358 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.59% -15.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £491 £550 £700
90th Percentile £546 £628 -
England median daily rate £550 £567 £600
% change year-on-year -3.00% -5.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £18.23 - -
25th Percentile £18.28 - -
Median hourly rate £18.60 £21.73 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.40% -56.54% -
75th Percentile £19.18 - -
90th Percentile £19.37 - -
England median hourly rate £44.75 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -28.40% -3.85% +18.18%

All Programming Languages
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 173 203 302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 28.88% 25.70% 30.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 145 253
10th Percentile £270 £280 £300
25th Percentile £350 £356 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £425 £438
Median % change year-on-year -4.47% -2.86% +2.94%
75th Percentile £488 £550 £538
90th Percentile £545 £600 £700
England median daily rate £525 £545 £564
% change year-on-year -3.67% -3.37% +2.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 8
10th Percentile £18.26 £14.15 £21.91
25th Percentile £18.35 £21.92 £26.48
Median hourly rate £19.00 £25.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% -50.00% +42.86%
75th Percentile £21.25 £28.44 £54.06
90th Percentile £22.30 £40.33 £59.50
England median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -0.80% - +19.05%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Python in the East Midlands

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Python in the East Midlands

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python in the East Midlands

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Python in the East Midlands

Python
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 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
Northamptonshire -2 17 £420 +15.86% 234
Nottinghamshire -2 9 £425 -30.61% 264
Leicestershire +2 7 £425 +13.33% 244
Derbyshire +11 5 £463 +8.82% 476
Lincolnshire +3 1 - - 227
Python
England

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (4.76%) Apache Spark
1 2 (4.76%) JBoss
1 2 (4.76%) SharePoint
1 2 (4.76%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.38%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (2.38%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 18 (42.86%) AWS
2 15 (35.71%) Azure
3 8 (19.05%) GCP
4 5 (11.90%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (11.90%) Serverless
5 4 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (9.52%) Power Platform
6 3 (7.14%) Amazon EMR
6 3 (7.14%) Amazon Kinesis
6 3 (7.14%) Amazon S3
6 3 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (7.14%) GitHub
6 3 (7.14%) Snowflake
7 2 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (4.76%) OpenShift
7 2 (4.76%) SaaS
8 1 (2.38%) Azure AKS
8 1 (2.38%) Azure API Management
8 1 (2.38%) Azure Batch
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.52%) Firewall
2 2 (4.76%) HTTP
2 2 (4.76%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (4.76%) SAN
2 2 (4.76%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.90%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (9.52%) Big Data
2 4 (9.52%) NoSQL
2 4 (9.52%) SQL Server
3 3 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (7.14%) Power BI
3 3 (7.14%) Relational Database
3 3 (7.14%) Tableau
4 2 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (4.76%) Hadoop
4 2 (4.76%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.38%) Data Mining
5 1 (2.38%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.38%) GIS
5 1 (2.38%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.38%) Power Query
5 1 (2.38%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 6 (14.29%) Git
3 2 (4.76%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (4.76%) CA Release Automation
3 2 (4.76%) Introscope
3 2 (4.76%) JIRA
3 2 (4.76%) LoadRunner
3 2 (4.76%) SonarQube
3 2 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (4.76%) TeamCity
4 1 (2.38%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.38%) ERwin
4 1 (2.38%) MagicDraw
4 1 (2.38%) PyCharm
4 1 (2.38%) Subversion
4 1 (2.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 15 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 8 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (19.05%) Finance
3 4 (9.52%) Banking
4 3 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.38%) Advertising
6 1 (2.38%) Law
6 1 (2.38%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 7 (16.67%) Data Engineer
1 7 (16.67%) Developer
2 6 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (11.90%) Analyst
4 4 (9.52%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) Python Developer
5 3 (7.14%) Architect
5 3 (7.14%) Mac Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Python Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Operations Analyst
6 2 (4.76%) Security Analyst
6 2 (4.76%) Security Operations Analyst
6 2 (4.76%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Support Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.14%) .NET
1 3 (7.14%) HTML
2 2 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (4.76%) J2EE
2 2 (4.76%) Kafka
2 2 (4.76%) LDAP
2 2 (4.76%) Spring Boot
2 2 (4.76%) Web Services
3 1 (2.38%) Blazor
3 1 (2.38%) CSS
3 1 (2.38%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (2.38%) OAuth
3 1 (2.38%) OpenID
3 1 (2.38%) PySpark
3 1 (2.38%) SAML
3 1 (2.38%) Spring
3 1 (2.38%) WPF
3 1 (2.38%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.52%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.76%) Algorithms
2 2 (4.76%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.76%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.38%) FPGA
3 1 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.38%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.38%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 10 (23.81%) Linux
2 7 (16.67%) Windows
3 4 (9.52%) Ubuntu
4 3 (7.14%) Mac OS
5 2 (4.76%) AIX
5 2 (4.76%) Debian
5 2 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (4.76%) Unix
5 2 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (26.19%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (23.81%) CI/CD
3 9 (21.43%) ETL
4 8 (19.05%) Analytics
4 8 (19.05%) Data Modelling
4 8 (19.05%) DevOps
5 7 (16.67%) Agile
5 7 (16.67%) Data Engineering
5 7 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
6 5 (11.90%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (11.90%) Containerisation
6 5 (11.90%) Data Governance
6 5 (11.90%) Data Science
6 5 (11.90%) Task Automation
7 4 (9.52%) Configuration Management
7 4 (9.52%) Machine Learning
7 4 (9.52%) Microservices
7 4 (9.52%) Migration
7 4 (9.52%) Non-Functional Testing
7 4 (9.52%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 18 (42.86%) SQL
2 11 (26.19%) Java
3 10 (23.81%) PowerShell
4 8 (19.05%) Bash
5 2 (4.76%) C
5 2 (4.76%) C#
5 2 (4.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (4.76%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.76%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (4.76%) Perl
5 2 (4.76%) R
5 2 (4.76%) Scala
5 2 (4.76%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.38%) Bicep
6 1 (2.38%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.38%) Tcl
6 1 (2.38%) VB
6 1 (2.38%) VBA
Qualifications
1 6 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 6 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.14%) Degree
3 2 (4.76%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.76%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.38%) ACSP
4 1 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 2 (4.76%) GDPR
2 2 (4.76%) NIST
2 2 (4.76%) SLA
3 1 (2.38%) Basel III
3 1 (2.38%) IFRS
3 1 (2.38%) IFRS 9
3 1 (2.38%) QA
System Software
1 6 (14.29%) Docker
2 3 (7.14%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.38%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 4 (9.52%) Terraform
3 3 (7.14%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (4.76%) Ansible
4 2 (4.76%) CA Wily
4 2 (4.76%) Kibana
4 2 (4.76%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.38%) Podman
Vendors
1 11 (26.19%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.90%) Google
2 5 (11.90%) VMware
3 4 (9.52%) AppDynamics
3 4 (9.52%) Red Hat
3 4 (9.52%) Splunk
4 3 (7.14%) Databricks
5 2 (4.76%) Apple
6 1 (2.38%) Cognos
6 1 (2.38%) HP
6 1 (2.38%) IBM
6 1 (2.38%) OpenAI
6 1 (2.38%) Oracle
6 1 (2.38%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.38%) SAP