Python Contracts in the East of England

Python
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 36 24
Rank change year-on-year +20 -12 -2
Contract jobs citing Python 93 87 150
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 9.66% 4.60% 7.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.63% 21.59% 25.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 57 97
10th Percentile £313 £285 £425
25th Percentile £352 £405 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £606 £575 £650
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
England median daily rate £550 £567 £600
% change year-on-year -3.04% -5.46% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 12
10th Percentile £34.88 £42.25 £25.00
25th Percentile £35.37 £53.13 £47.50
Median hourly rate £45.91 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.54% +4.17% +7.14%
75th Percentile £54.69 £66.25 £74.50
90th Percentile £55.00 £68.25 -
England median hourly rate £39.66 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -36.54% -3.85% +26.21%

All Programming Languages
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 261 403 595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 27.10% 21.32% 29.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 172 342
10th Percentile £313 £314 £301
25th Percentile £406 £405 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £477 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.20% -4.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £675 £638 £686
England median daily rate £525 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.65% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 144 101
10th Percentile £31.64 £52.50 £51.25
25th Percentile £55.00 £60.00 £53.75
Median hourly rate £65.75 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.15% - +16.07%
75th Percentile £85.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £88.53 £77.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year - - +22.91%

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 11 May 2025.

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 11 May 2025.

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 11 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
Hertfordshire +29 35 £563 +30.81% 96
Cambridgeshire +7 28 £501 -4.52% 303
Essex +23 17 £318 +15.64% 58
Suffolk -5 9 £369 -41.00% 26
Bedfordshire -5 3 £563 +5.63% 29
Norfolk - 1 - - 14
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 14 (15.05%) Apache Spark
2 6 (6.45%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (5.38%) Apache
4 4 (4.30%) Confluence
5 2 (2.15%) OpenStack
5 2 (2.15%) SAS
6 1 (1.08%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (6.45%) Chatbot
2 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.08%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 29 (31.18%) AWS
2 23 (24.73%) Azure
3 14 (15.05%) GCP
4 9 (9.68%) GitHub
5 5 (5.38%) dbt
5 5 (5.38%) Power Platform
6 3 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (3.23%) Vertex AI
7 2 (2.15%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.15%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.15%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.08%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.08%) Amazon ELB
8 1 (1.08%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.08%) BrowserStack
8 1 (1.08%) Sauce Labs
8 1 (1.08%) Serverless
8 1 (1.08%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (13.98%) Wireless
2 7 (7.53%) Firewall
3 5 (5.38%) DNS
3 5 (5.38%) Network Security
4 4 (4.30%) SpaceWire
4 4 (4.30%) VSAN
5 2 (2.15%) 3GPP
5 2 (2.15%) 4G
5 2 (2.15%) 5G
5 2 (2.15%) iSCSI
5 2 (2.15%) LAN
5 2 (2.15%) SAN
6 1 (1.08%) 802.11
6 1 (1.08%) BGP
6 1 (1.08%) OSPF
6 1 (1.08%) SNMP
6 1 (1.08%) VPN
6 1 (1.08%) WAN
6 1 (1.08%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (1.08%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (21.51%) Tableau
2 16 (17.20%) Hadoop
3 14 (15.05%) Big Data
4 6 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (5.38%) Power BI
6 4 (4.30%) BigQuery
6 4 (4.30%) Metadata
6 4 (4.30%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (3.23%) Looker
7 3 (3.23%) MySQL
8 2 (2.15%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (2.15%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (2.15%) InfluxDB
8 2 (2.15%) Text Mining
9 1 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (1.08%) MS Access
9 1 (1.08%) Oracle Database
9 1 (1.08%) RDBMS
9 1 (1.08%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (1.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (9.68%) JIRA
2 5 (5.38%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.30%) GitLab
4 3 (3.23%) Artifactory
4 3 (3.23%) Git
4 3 (3.23%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.08%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.08%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.08%) Postman
5 1 (1.08%) Selenium
5 1 (1.08%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 19 (20.43%) Social Skills
2 18 (19.35%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (9.68%) Telecoms
4 6 (6.45%) Pharmaceutical
5 5 (5.38%) Electronics
6 2 (2.15%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.15%) Automotive
6 2 (2.15%) Finance
6 2 (2.15%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.15%) Marketing
6 2 (2.15%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.08%) Aviation
7 1 (1.08%) Avionics
7 1 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.08%) Legal
7 1 (1.08%) Local Government
7 1 (1.08%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (39.78%) Developer
2 15 (16.13%) Senior
3 14 (15.05%) Data Science Developer
4 9 (9.68%) Senior Developer
4 9 (9.68%) Software Developer
5 8 (8.60%) Python Developer
6 6 (6.45%) Data Engineer
6 6 (6.45%) Systems Engineer
6 6 (6.45%) Trainer
7 5 (5.38%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 5 (5.38%) Implementation Manager
7 5 (5.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (5.38%) Support Manager
7 5 (5.38%) Technical Implementation Manager
7 5 (5.38%) Technical Manager
7 5 (5.38%) Technical Support
7 5 (5.38%) Technical Support Manager
8 4 (4.30%) Administrator
8 4 (4.30%) Data Analyst
8 4 (4.30%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (20.43%) NumPy
1 19 (20.43%) Pandas
2 16 (17.20%) Matplotlib
2 16 (17.20%) PyTorch
2 16 (17.20%) scikit-learn
2 16 (17.20%) Seaborn
2 16 (17.20%) TensorFlow
3 8 (8.60%) HTML
3 8 (8.60%) REST
4 6 (6.45%) PySpark
5 5 (5.38%) AngularJS
5 5 (5.38%) Kafka
5 5 (5.38%) React
6 3 (3.23%) RESTful
7 2 (2.15%) JSON
7 2 (2.15%) OpenAPI
7 2 (2.15%) Swagger
8 1 (1.08%) 802.1X
8 1 (1.08%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (1.08%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 16 (17.20%) Algorithms
2 5 (5.38%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (4.30%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.30%) Virtual Team
4 3 (3.23%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.15%) CRISPR
5 2 (2.15%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.15%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.15%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (2.15%) Life Science
5 2 (2.15%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.08%) CAN bus
6 1 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.08%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.08%) FMCG
6 1 (1.08%) FPGA
6 1 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.08%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.08%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 22 (23.66%) Linux
2 6 (6.45%) Unix
3 5 (5.38%) Windows
4 2 (2.15%) CentOS
4 2 (2.15%) Mac OS
4 2 (2.15%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.08%) AIX
5 1 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (27.96%) Artificial Intelligence
1 26 (27.96%) Data Science
2 24 (25.81%) Computer Science
3 23 (24.73%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (23.66%) Analytics
4 22 (23.66%) Visualisation
5 19 (20.43%) Data Analysis
5 19 (20.43%) Machine Learning
6 18 (19.35%) Decision-Making
7 17 (18.28%) Data Analytics
8 16 (17.20%) Data Munging
8 16 (17.20%) Generative AI
8 16 (17.20%) LLM
9 14 (15.05%) Predictive Analytics
9 14 (15.05%) Reinforcement Learning
9 14 (15.05%) Statistical Modelling
9 14 (15.05%) Time Series Forecasting
10 13 (13.98%) CI/CD
10 13 (13.98%) Containerisation
11 12 (12.90%) Feature Engineering
Programming Languages
1 25 (26.88%) SQL
2 20 (21.51%) Java
3 18 (19.35%) R
4 12 (12.90%) C++
5 11 (11.83%) C#
6 10 (10.75%) Bash
7 9 (9.68%) JavaScript
8 6 (6.45%) PowerShell
9 5 (5.38%) Shell Script
9 5 (5.38%) Tcl
10 4 (4.30%) C
10 4 (4.30%) Perl
11 3 (3.23%) Go
11 3 (3.23%) VBA
12 2 (2.15%) Groovy
12 2 (2.15%) MATLAB
12 2 (2.15%) PHP
13 1 (1.08%) C-shell
13 1 (1.08%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 36 (38.71%) Degree
2 14 (15.05%) PhD
3 12 (12.90%) Master's Degree
4 10 (10.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (8.60%) Security Cleared
6 6 (6.45%) SC Cleared
7 4 (4.30%) DV Cleared
8 3 (3.23%) VCAP
8 3 (3.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (1.08%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.08%) CCNP
9 1 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (24.73%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.30%) GDPR
2 4 (4.30%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.08%) QA
System Software
1 10 (10.75%) Docker
2 6 (6.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.30%) VMware NSX
3 4 (4.30%) vSphere
4 2 (2.15%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.15%) Firmware
4 2 (2.15%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.08%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 17 (18.28%) Ansible
1 17 (18.28%) Terraform
2 11 (11.83%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.38%) vCenter Server
4 4 (4.30%) PowerCLI
4 4 (4.30%) VxRail
5 3 (3.23%) Puppet
6 2 (2.15%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.15%) Salt
7 1 (1.08%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (1.08%) HAProxy
7 1 (1.08%) logstash
7 1 (1.08%) Nagios
7 1 (1.08%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (8.60%) Google
1 8 (8.60%) Microsoft
1 8 (8.60%) VMware
2 6 (6.45%) PayPal
3 5 (5.38%) Dell
3 5 (5.38%) EMC
3 5 (5.38%) Red Hat
3 5 (5.38%) ServiceNow
4 4 (4.30%) SAP
5 3 (3.23%) HP
5 3 (3.23%) IBM
5 3 (3.23%) Palo Alto
5 3 (3.23%) Splunk
6 2 (2.15%) Alteryx
6 2 (2.15%) Cisco
6 2 (2.15%) Oracle
7 1 (1.08%) F5
7 1 (1.08%) NetApp
7 1 (1.08%) Sun
7 1 (1.08%) Twitter