Python Contracts in Essex

Python
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex 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 8 25 18
Rank change year-on-year +17 -7 +2
Contract jobs citing Python 12 7 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 15.00% 3.15% 7.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.33% 7.29% 22.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 9
10th Percentile £314 - £206
25th Percentile £315 £263 £235
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £318 £275 £450
Median % change year-on-year +15.72% -38.89% -23.31%
75th Percentile £321 £288 £500
90th Percentile £329 £408 £583
East of England median daily rate £503 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.67% -10.00% -7.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 - £19.50
75th Percentile - - £20.25
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £52.50 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -16.00% +4.17% +7.14%

All Programming Languages
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 36 96 80
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 45.00% 43.24% 33.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 51 46
10th Percentile £315 £275 £209
25th Percentile £318 £388 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £485 £478
Median % change year-on-year -17.53% +1.57% -1.55%
75th Percentile £486 £569 £529
90th Percentile £488 £600 £585
East of England median daily rate £479 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +0.79% -2.56% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 15 3
10th Percentile £32.00 - £19.50
25th Percentile £35.00 £52.50 £20.63
Median hourly rate £50.00 £59.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.97% +138.00% -60.70%
75th Percentile £200.00 £80.00 £46.63
90th Percentile - - £58.10
East of England median hourly rate £66.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.54% - +16.07%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Essex.

Job vacancy trend for Python in Essex

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python in Essex.

Daily rate trend for Python in Essex

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python in Essex.

Hourly rate trend for Python in Essex

Python
Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Essex 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
Basildon - 5 £317 - 43
Epping - 4 - -
Benfleet - 1 - -
Chelmsford - 1 £325 - 46
Python
East of England

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 4 (33.33%) Apache
1 4 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) GCP
2 4 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 3 (25.00%) dbt
3 3 (25.00%) GitHub
3 3 (25.00%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) BigQuery
1 4 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (33.33%) Power BI
1 4 (33.33%) Tableau
2 3 (25.00%) Looker
2 3 (25.00%) Metadata
3 2 (16.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Automotive
4 1 (8.33%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Data Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Implementation Manager
2 4 (33.33%) Support Manager
2 4 (33.33%) Technical Implementation Manager
2 4 (33.33%) Technical Manager
2 4 (33.33%) Technical Support
2 4 (33.33%) Technical Support Manager
3 3 (25.00%) Senior
3 3 (25.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Data Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) GCP Data Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) DBA
5 1 (8.33%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) PySpark
2 4 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 4 (33.33%) React
3 3 (25.00%) Kafka
3 3 (25.00%) NumPy
3 3 (25.00%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 6 (50.00%) Data Security
3 5 (41.67%) Computer Science
4 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 4 (33.33%) Data Governance
4 4 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
4 4 (33.33%) ETL
4 4 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 4 (33.33%) System Testing
4 4 (33.33%) Task Automation
4 4 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
4 4 (33.33%) Visualisation
5 3 (25.00%) Analytics
5 3 (25.00%) Critical Thinking
5 3 (25.00%) Data Science
5 3 (25.00%) DataOps
5 3 (25.00%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Java
2 6 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (16.67%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (41.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (41.67%) Data Quality
2 4 (33.33%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Google
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Checkmarx
2 1 (8.33%) Dynatrace