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 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 22 21 36
Rank change year-on-year -1 +15 +32
Contract jobs citing Python 37 53 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 6.90% 6.86% 4.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.68% 28.04% 16.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 31 47
10th Percentile £322 £356 £393
25th Percentile £367 £363 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.07% +2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £494 £550 £700
90th Percentile £550 £625 -
England median daily rate £550 £563 £600
% change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £18.23 £22.33 -
25th Percentile £18.28 £23.24 -
Median hourly rate £18.60 £26.12 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -47.77% -
75th Percentile £19.18 £30.37 -
90th Percentile £19.37 £32.10 -
England median hourly rate £40.91 £62.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -34.02% -4.62% +27.83%

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 129 189 309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 24.07% 24.45% 29.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 137 266
10th Percentile £311 £283 £273
25th Percentile £358 £356 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.19%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £538
90th Percentile £545 £625 £638
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 7
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.66 £20.39
25th Percentile £16.88 £22.12 £26.48
Median hourly rate £18.60 £25.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.60% -50.00% +42.86%
75th Percentile £20.38 £31.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £21.95 £40.71 £63.50
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

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 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 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
Nottinghamshire +4 13 £425 -22.73% 48
Northamptonshire -3 12 £406 -5.70% 20
Leicestershire +2 6 £450 +20.00% 29
Derbyshire +8 2 £500 +17.65% 38
Lincolnshire +1 1 - - 12
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 (5.41%) JBoss
1 2 (5.41%) SharePoint
1 2 (5.41%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.70%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.70%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (2.70%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 18 (48.65%) AWS
2 13 (35.14%) Azure
3 9 (24.32%) GCP
4 6 (16.22%) Power Platform
5 4 (10.81%) Asana
5 4 (10.81%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (10.81%) Serverless
6 3 (8.11%) GitHub
6 3 (8.11%) Snowflake
7 2 (5.41%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (5.41%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (5.41%) Amazon S3
7 2 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (5.41%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (5.41%) OpenShift
8 1 (2.70%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (2.70%) PaaS
8 1 (2.70%) PowerApps
8 1 (2.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.41%) HTTP
1 2 (5.41%) SAN
1 2 (5.41%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.22%) Power BI
2 4 (10.81%) Big Data
3 3 (8.11%) Tableau
4 2 (5.41%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (5.41%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (5.41%) MongoDB
4 2 (5.41%) NoSQL
4 2 (5.41%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.70%) Data Mining
5 1 (2.70%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.70%) GIS
5 1 (2.70%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.70%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.70%) Power Query
5 1 (2.70%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (18.92%) Jenkins
2 6 (16.22%) Git
2 6 (16.22%) JIRA
3 2 (5.41%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (5.41%) CA Release Automation
3 2 (5.41%) Introscope
3 2 (5.41%) LoadRunner
3 2 (5.41%) SonarQube
3 2 (5.41%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (5.41%) TeamCity
4 1 (2.70%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.70%) ERwin
4 1 (2.70%) MagicDraw
4 1 (2.70%) PyCharm
4 1 (2.70%) Subversion
General
1 15 (40.54%) Social Skills
2 7 (18.92%) Finance
3 5 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.81%) Banking
5 2 (5.41%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Advertising
6 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (16.22%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (13.51%) Data Engineer
2 5 (13.51%) Developer
3 4 (10.81%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 4 (10.81%) IT Manager
3 4 (10.81%) IT Project Manager
3 4 (10.81%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (10.81%) Project Manager
3 4 (10.81%) Python Developer
4 3 (8.11%) Analyst
4 3 (8.11%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Mac Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Python Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Senior
5 2 (5.41%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Support Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.41%) .NET
1 2 (5.41%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (5.41%) HTML
1 2 (5.41%) J2EE
1 2 (5.41%) Kafka
1 2 (5.41%) Spring Boot
1 2 (5.41%) Web Services
2 1 (2.70%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (2.70%) OAuth
2 1 (2.70%) OpenID
2 1 (2.70%) PySpark
2 1 (2.70%) SAML
2 1 (2.70%) Spring
2 1 (2.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.81%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.41%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.70%) FPGA
3 1 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.70%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.70%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 10 (27.03%) Linux
2 7 (18.92%) Windows
3 4 (10.81%) Ubuntu
4 3 (8.11%) Mac OS
5 2 (5.41%) AIX
5 2 (5.41%) Debian
5 2 (5.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (5.41%) Unix
5 2 (5.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (29.73%) Agile
2 10 (27.03%) CI/CD
3 8 (21.62%) Analytics
3 8 (21.62%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (21.62%) DevOps
3 8 (21.62%) Migration
4 7 (18.92%) Data Analytics
4 7 (18.92%) Data Governance
4 7 (18.92%) Data Modelling
5 6 (16.22%) ETL
5 6 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (13.51%) Containerisation
6 5 (13.51%) Risk Management
7 4 (10.81%) Configuration Management
7 4 (10.81%) CRM
7 4 (10.81%) Data Migration
7 4 (10.81%) ERP
7 4 (10.81%) Project Management
7 4 (10.81%) Scrum
7 4 (10.81%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (40.54%) SQL
2 8 (21.62%) PowerShell
3 6 (16.22%) Bash
3 6 (16.22%) Java
4 2 (5.41%) C
4 2 (5.41%) Perl
4 2 (5.41%) R
4 2 (5.41%) Scala
5 1 (2.70%) Bicep
5 1 (2.70%) C#
5 1 (2.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.70%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.70%) Tcl
5 1 (2.70%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.70%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (10.81%) SC Cleared
1 4 (10.81%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.41%) AWS Certification
2 2 (5.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.41%) Degree
2 2 (5.41%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) ACSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (21.62%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.70%) Basel III
2 1 (2.70%) IFRS
2 1 (2.70%) IFRS 9
2 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 6 (16.22%) Docker
2 3 (8.11%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.41%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (5.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.70%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (18.92%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.81%) Terraform
3 3 (8.11%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (5.41%) Ansible
4 2 (5.41%) CA Wily
4 2 (5.41%) Kibana
4 2 (5.41%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.70%) Podman
Vendors
1 7 (18.92%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.51%) Google
2 5 (13.51%) VMware
3 4 (10.81%) AppDynamics
3 4 (10.81%) Red Hat
3 4 (10.81%) Splunk
4 3 (8.11%) Databricks
5 2 (5.41%) Apple
6 1 (2.70%) HP
6 1 (2.70%) Oracle
6 1 (2.70%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.70%) SAP