Python Contracts in the East of England

Python
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for Python skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Python over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 21 22
Rank change year-on-year -10 +1 -2
Contract jobs citing Python 99 156 212
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 5.22% 7.51% 8.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.80% 26.13% 27.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 99 130
10th Percentile £300 £425 £412
25th Percentile £405 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £543
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -7.83% +14.21%
75th Percentile £574 £594 £625
90th Percentile £644 £700 £688
England median daily rate £563 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -6.25% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 15 16
10th Percentile £44.50 £28.30 £46.25
25th Percentile £54.06 £47.50 £54.71
Median hourly rate £62.50 £60.00 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +7.14% +12.00%
75th Percentile £66.38 £72.25 £56.13
90th Percentile £68.10 £74.50 £66.88
England median hourly rate £62.18 £65.00 £51.38
% change year-on-year -4.34% +26.52% +28.44%

All Programming Languages
East of England

Python is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 416 597 783
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 21.94% 28.74% 30.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 345 457
10th Percentile £302 £289 £300
25th Percentile £405 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +5.56%
75th Percentile £563 £575 £563
90th Percentile £634 £683 £631
England median daily rate £540 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 100 91
10th Percentile £52.50 £47.50 £26.98
25th Percentile £60.00 £53.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year - +16.07% +24.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £88.75 £77.00 £61.25
England median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
% change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +14.94%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in the East of England

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Python in the East of England

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in the East of England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python in the East of England

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Python in the East of England

Python
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Python in the East of England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Python in the East of England

Python
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Hertfordshire +5 42 £430 -21.82% 26
Cambridgeshire -16 35 £500 +2.56% 141
Essex -8 8 £275 -38.89% 17
Bedfordshire +1 7 £533 +6.50% 13
Suffolk +5 5 £625 -10.71% 3
Norfolk +8 2 £388 -13.89% 9
Python
England

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 8 (8.08%) Confluence
2 6 (6.06%) Apache
3 5 (5.05%) Apache Spark
4 3 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (2.02%) SAS
6 1 (1.01%) CMS
6 1 (1.01%) Luigi
6 1 (1.01%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.01%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.02%) Shopify
2 1 (1.01%) Oracle Utilities
Cloud Services
1 21 (21.21%) AWS
2 13 (13.13%) Azure
3 8 (8.08%) Power Platform
3 8 (8.08%) Serverless
4 7 (7.07%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (7.07%) Collibra
5 6 (6.06%) Amazon S3
5 6 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (5.05%) GCP
6 5 (5.05%) GitHub
7 4 (4.04%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (4.04%) Amazon EMR
8 3 (3.03%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (3.03%) dbt
9 2 (2.02%) BigCommerce
9 2 (2.02%) Snowflake
10 1 (1.01%) Azure AKS
10 1 (1.01%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.01%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (1.01%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 14 (14.14%) Radio Access Network
2 10 (10.10%) 5G
3 5 (5.05%) 4G
3 5 (5.05%) NAS
3 5 (5.05%) Wireless
4 4 (4.04%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (4.04%) Firewall
4 4 (4.04%) Wireshark
5 3 (3.03%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (2.02%) BGP
6 2 (2.02%) Internet
6 2 (2.02%) LAN
6 2 (2.02%) OSPF
6 2 (2.02%) SD-WAN
6 2 (2.02%) VPN
6 2 (2.02%) WAN
6 2 (2.02%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (1.01%) Broadband
7 1 (1.01%) Kerberos
7 1 (1.01%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.08%) Power BI
2 7 (7.07%) Big Data
2 7 (7.07%) Metadata
3 5 (5.05%) Hadoop
3 5 (5.05%) Tableau
4 4 (4.04%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (4.04%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.03%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (3.03%) Looker
5 3 (3.03%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.03%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.02%) BigQuery
6 2 (2.02%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.02%) Data Mining
6 2 (2.02%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.02%) MySQL
6 2 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.01%) Parquet
7 1 (1.01%) Presto
7 1 (1.01%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 20 (20.20%) Git
2 17 (17.17%) JIRA
3 7 (7.07%) Mercurial
4 6 (6.06%) Eclipse
4 6 (6.06%) PyCharm
4 6 (6.06%) Subversion
5 4 (4.04%) gcov
5 4 (4.04%) GDB
5 4 (4.04%) Gradle
5 4 (4.04%) Jenkins
6 3 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (2.02%) GitLab
7 2 (2.02%) Maven
7 2 (2.02%) Visual Studio
8 1 (1.01%) CMake
8 1 (1.01%) Gerrit
8 1 (1.01%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 19 (19.19%) Social Skills
2 14 (14.14%) Multimedia
3 10 (10.10%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.07%) Pharmaceutical
4 7 (7.07%) Telecoms
5 6 (6.06%) Finance
5 6 (6.06%) Manufacturing
5 6 (6.06%) Marketing
6 5 (5.05%) Electronics
7 4 (4.04%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (4.04%) Urdu Language
8 3 (3.03%) Retail
9 2 (2.02%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.02%) Wearables
10 1 (1.01%) Banking
10 1 (1.01%) Games
10 1 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (24.24%) Developer
2 19 (19.19%) Python Developer
3 17 (17.17%) Software Engineer
4 11 (11.11%) Analyst
4 11 (11.11%) C++ Developer
5 10 (10.10%) Data Engineer
5 10 (10.10%) Python Engineer
6 9 (9.09%) Architect
7 6 (6.06%) Business Analyst
7 6 (6.06%) C++ Software Engineer
7 6 (6.06%) Data Analyst
7 6 (6.06%) Python Software Engineer
8 5 (5.05%) Data Scientist
8 5 (5.05%) RF Engineer
8 5 (5.05%) Senior
9 4 (4.04%) Data Business Analyst
9 4 (4.04%) Data Product Analyst
9 4 (4.04%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 4 (4.04%) Product Business Analyst
9 4 (4.04%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.11%) React
2 10 (10.10%) NumPy
3 9 (9.09%) Pandas
4 8 (8.08%) SciPy
5 4 (4.04%) Kafka
6 3 (3.03%) .NET
6 3 (3.03%) JSON
6 3 (3.03%) REST
7 2 (2.02%) GraphQL
7 2 (2.02%) GStreamer
7 2 (2.02%) MFC
7 2 (2.02%) Node.js
7 2 (2.02%) RESTful
7 2 (2.02%) VML
7 2 (2.02%) WinForms
7 2 (2.02%) WPF
7 2 (2.02%) YAML
8 1 (1.01%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (1.01%) Oracle GoldenGate
8 1 (1.01%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.06%) Data Structures
2 5 (5.05%) Algorithms
2 5 (5.05%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.05%) Social Media
3 3 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.02%) ASIC
4 2 (2.02%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.02%) FPGA
4 2 (2.02%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.02%) Verilog
5 1 (1.01%) CRISPR
5 1 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.01%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.01%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.01%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.01%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.01%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (18.18%) Linux
2 14 (14.14%) Windows
3 7 (7.07%) Unix
4 4 (4.04%) Windows 10
5 3 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (2.02%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.01%) AIX
7 1 (1.01%) CentOS
7 1 (1.01%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (1.01%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (1.01%) Solaris
7 1 (1.01%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (27.27%) Software Engineering
2 19 (19.19%) Artificial Intelligence
3 18 (18.18%) Computer Science
3 18 (18.18%) Machine Learning
4 16 (16.16%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (14.14%) Data Modelling
6 12 (12.12%) CI/CD
6 12 (12.12%) Data Pipeline
7 11 (11.11%) Agile
7 11 (11.11%) DevOps
8 10 (10.10%) Data Science
9 9 (9.09%) Test Automation
9 9 (9.09%) Workflow
10 8 (8.08%) Code Quality
10 8 (8.08%) Collaborative Working
10 8 (8.08%) Continuous Integration
10 8 (8.08%) Data Governance
10 8 (8.08%) ETL
11 7 (7.07%) Analytics
11 7 (7.07%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 25 (25.25%) C++
2 23 (23.23%) SQL
3 18 (18.18%) Java
4 16 (16.16%) C#
5 15 (15.15%) JavaScript
6 11 (11.11%) C
7 8 (8.08%) R
8 7 (7.07%) Groovy
8 7 (7.07%) Shell Script
9 6 (6.06%) Bash
10 3 (3.03%) TypeScript
11 2 (2.02%) Assembly Language
11 2 (2.02%) C++/CLI
11 2 (2.02%) PowerShell
11 2 (2.02%) Scala
11 2 (2.02%) SystemVerilog
11 2 (2.02%) Tcl
12 1 (1.01%) MATLAB
12 1 (1.01%) PHP
12 1 (1.01%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (20.20%) Degree
2 14 (14.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.04%) AWS Certification
3 4 (4.04%) Master's Degree
4 3 (3.03%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.02%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.01%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.01%) CCNP
6 1 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.01%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.01%) Linux+ Certification
6 1 (1.01%) LPIC
6 1 (1.01%) PhD
6 1 (1.01%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.06%) GDPR
1 6 (6.06%) Good Clinical Practice
1 6 (6.06%) GxP
2 5 (5.05%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 7 (7.07%) Docker
2 2 (2.02%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 2 (2.02%) LXC
3 1 (1.01%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.01%) HDFS
3 1 (1.01%) KVM
3 1 (1.01%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.01%) Xen
Systems Management
1 10 (10.10%) Terraform
2 7 (7.07%) Ansible
2 7 (7.07%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.02%) Progress Chef
3 2 (2.02%) Proxmox
3 2 (2.02%) Puppet
4 1 (1.01%) Grafana
4 1 (1.01%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (1.01%) Nagios
Vendors
1 6 (6.06%) Cisco
2 5 (5.05%) SAP
3 4 (4.04%) Klocwork
3 4 (4.04%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.04%) Oracle
3 4 (4.04%) Palo Alto
3 4 (4.04%) Perforce
3 4 (4.04%) Splunk
4 3 (3.03%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.02%) Adobe
5 2 (2.02%) Apple
5 2 (2.02%) Cadence
5 2 (2.02%) CheckPoint
5 2 (2.02%) Informatica
5 2 (2.02%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.02%) Sitecore
5 2 (2.02%) Sophos
5 2 (2.02%) Synopsys
5 2 (2.02%) VMware
5 2 (2.02%) Xilinx