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 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 25 27
Rank change year-on-year +1 +2 +37
Contract jobs citing Python 44 51 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 6.23% 5.90% 5.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.46% 22.87% 19.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 30 48
10th Percentile £357 £349 £350
25th Percentile £367 £356 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £405 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.80% -19.00% -
75th Percentile £492 £550 £613
90th Percentile £550 £626 £700
England median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
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 £50.00 £65.00 £65.25
% change year-on-year -23.08% -0.38% +18.64%

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 205 223 300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 29.04% 25.78% 30.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 152 250
10th Percentile £268 £288 £300
25th Percentile £345 £356 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £401 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% - -5.56%
75th Percentile £475 £538 £538
90th Percentile £532 £600 £653
England median daily rate £520 £543 £555
% change year-on-year -4.15% -2.25% +0.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 7
10th Percentile £18.26 £14.15 £26.48
25th Percentile £18.35 £21.92 £38.24
Median hourly rate £19.00 £25.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% -52.38% +50.00%
75th Percentile £21.25 £28.44 £61.88
90th Percentile £22.30 £40.33 £70.00
England median hourly rate £56.75 £64.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -12.02% +3.20% +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 1 July 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 1 July 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 -5 19 £420 +15.07% 84
Derbyshire +11 7 £463 +43.63% 159
Leicestershire +4 7 £425 -12.82% 126
Nottinghamshire -8 7 £500 -9.09% 163
Lincolnshire +2 1 - - 59
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 (4.55%) Apache Spark
1 2 (4.55%) JBoss
1 2 (4.55%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.27%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (2.27%) SAS
2 1 (2.27%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (2.27%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 19 (43.18%) AWS
2 17 (38.64%) Azure
3 7 (15.91%) GCP
4 5 (11.36%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (11.36%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (11.36%) Serverless
5 4 (9.09%) Power Platform
5 4 (9.09%) Snowflake
6 3 (6.82%) Amazon EMR
6 3 (6.82%) Amazon Kinesis
6 3 (6.82%) Amazon S3
6 3 (6.82%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (6.82%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (6.82%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (6.82%) GitHub
6 3 (6.82%) SaaS
7 2 (4.55%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (4.55%) OpenShift
8 1 (2.27%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.09%) Firewall
2 2 (4.55%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (4.55%) SAN
2 2 (4.55%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.27%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.36%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (9.09%) Big Data
2 4 (9.09%) NoSQL
3 3 (6.82%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (6.82%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (6.82%) Power BI
3 3 (6.82%) Relational Database
3 3 (6.82%) SQL Server
3 3 (6.82%) Tableau
4 2 (4.55%) Data Lake
4 2 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (4.55%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.27%) Data Mining
5 1 (2.27%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.27%) GIS
5 1 (2.27%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.27%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.27%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (20.45%) Git
2 7 (15.91%) Jenkins
3 4 (9.09%) Bitbucket Server
4 3 (6.82%) Subversion
5 2 (4.55%) CA Release Automation
5 2 (4.55%) JIRA
5 2 (4.55%) SonarQube
5 2 (4.55%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (4.55%) TeamCity
6 1 (2.27%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.27%) ERwin
6 1 (2.27%) Introscope
6 1 (2.27%) LoadRunner
6 1 (2.27%) MagicDraw
6 1 (2.27%) PyCharm
6 1 (2.27%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (2.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 14 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 10 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (13.64%) Finance
4 3 (6.82%) Banking
4 3 (6.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Advertising
6 1 (2.27%) Law
6 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.27%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (25.00%) Developer
2 7 (15.91%) Data Engineer
3 6 (13.64%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (11.36%) Analyst
5 4 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Python Developer
6 3 (6.82%) Architect
6 3 (6.82%) Python Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Angular Developer
7 2 (4.55%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Data Scientist
7 2 (4.55%) Operations Analyst
7 2 (4.55%) Security Analyst
7 2 (4.55%) Security Operations Analyst
7 2 (4.55%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Snowflake Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.36%) HTML
2 4 (9.09%) CSS
3 3 (6.82%) Kafka
4 2 (4.55%) .NET
4 2 (4.55%) AngularJS
4 2 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (4.55%) HTML5
4 2 (4.55%) jQuery
4 2 (4.55%) LDAP
4 2 (4.55%) PySpark
4 2 (4.55%) React Native
4 2 (4.55%) REST
4 2 (4.55%) RxJS
4 2 (4.55%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.27%) Blazor
5 1 (2.27%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (2.27%) OAuth
5 1 (2.27%) Prophet
5 1 (2.27%) WPF
5 1 (2.27%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.55%) Algorithms
2 2 (4.55%) FPGA
2 2 (4.55%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.55%) Security Posture
2 2 (4.55%) VHDL
3 1 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.27%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.27%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 9 (20.45%) Linux
2 4 (9.09%) Ubuntu
2 4 (9.09%) Windows
3 2 (4.55%) Debian
3 2 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (4.55%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.27%) AIX
4 1 (2.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 10 (22.73%) DevOps
4 9 (20.45%) Analytics
4 9 (20.45%) ETL
5 8 (18.18%) Agile
5 8 (18.18%) Data Engineering
5 8 (18.18%) Data Modelling
6 7 (15.91%) Data Pipeline
7 6 (13.64%) Data Governance
7 6 (13.64%) Data Science
8 5 (11.36%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (11.36%) Containerisation
8 5 (11.36%) Data Integration
8 5 (11.36%) Machine Learning
8 5 (11.36%) Scrum
9 4 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence
9 4 (9.09%) Configuration Management
9 4 (9.09%) Migration
9 4 (9.09%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 19 (43.18%) SQL
2 12 (27.27%) Java
3 8 (18.18%) PowerShell
4 5 (11.36%) Bash
5 3 (6.82%) C#
6 2 (4.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (4.55%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.55%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (4.55%) Perl
6 2 (4.55%) R
6 2 (4.55%) Scala
6 2 (4.55%) T-SQL
6 2 (4.55%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.27%) Bicep
7 1 (2.27%) C
7 1 (2.27%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.27%) Tcl
7 1 (2.27%) VB
7 1 (2.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (15.91%) Security Cleared
2 6 (13.64%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.82%) Degree
4 2 (4.55%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.55%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.64%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 2 (4.55%) GDPR
2 2 (4.55%) NIST
2 2 (4.55%) SLA
3 1 (2.27%) Basel III
3 1 (2.27%) IFRS
3 1 (2.27%) IFRS 9
3 1 (2.27%) QA
System Software
1 6 (13.64%) Docker
2 3 (6.82%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.27%) Firmware
4 1 (2.27%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (15.91%) Kubernetes
2 4 (9.09%) Terraform
3 2 (4.55%) Ansible
3 2 (4.55%) Kibana
3 2 (4.55%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.27%) CA Wily
4 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.27%) Podman
Vendors
1 11 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.36%) Databricks
3 4 (9.09%) Google
3 4 (9.09%) Red Hat
3 4 (9.09%) VMware
4 3 (6.82%) AppDynamics
4 3 (6.82%) Splunk
5 2 (4.55%) OpenAI
6 1 (2.27%) Cognos
6 1 (2.27%) HP
6 1 (2.27%) IBM
6 1 (2.27%) Oracle
6 1 (2.27%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.27%) SAP
6 1 (2.27%) Xilinx