Python Contracts in Exeter

Python
Devon > Exeter

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Exeter 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 7 20 5
Rank change year-on-year +13 -15 +6
Contract jobs citing Python 6 6 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Exeter 15.00% 4.05% 25.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 60.00% 50.00% 51.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 17
10th Percentile £428 £413 £558
25th Percentile £450 £459 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - +1.87%
75th Percentile - - £675
90th Percentile - - £717
Devon median daily rate £500 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -16.67% - +1.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £45.00
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - £51.00
Devon median hourly rate - £40.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year - -11.11% +7.14%

All Programming Languages
Exeter

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 Exeter.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10 12 56
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Exeter 25.00% 8.11% 49.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 12 43
10th Percentile £312 £329 £465
25th Percentile £325 £400 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £438 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -20.45% -3.51%
75th Percentile £500 £600 £600
90th Percentile - - £675
Devon median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £45.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.14%
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - £51.00
Devon median hourly rate - £47.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year - - +18.52%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Exeter

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in Exeter

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Exeter

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

Daily rate trend for Python in Exeter

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Exeter

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

Hourly rate trend for Python in Exeter

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Exeter 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure Machine Learning
2 2 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) AWS CodeBuild
3 1 (16.67%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (16.67%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Subversion
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Scientific Software Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Python Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Scrum Master
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Python Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) AWS CDK
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) Scrum
2 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (33.33%) Data Science
4 2 (33.33%) Pair Programming
5 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 1 (16.67%) Coaching
5 1 (16.67%) Customer-Centricity
5 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (16.67%) OO
5 1 (16.67%) Secure Coding
5 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (16.67%) Workflow
5 1 (16.67%) Workflow Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C
1 1 (16.67%) C++
1 1 (16.67%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform