Python Contract Job Trends in Herefordshire

Python
West Midlands > Herefordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Herefordshire requiring Python skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 12 6
Rank change year-on-year +3 -6 0
Contract jobs citing Python 16 6 5
As % of all contract jobs in Herefordshire 27.59% 11.54% 17.86%
As % of the Programming Languages category 66.67% 60.00% 41.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 5 4
10th Percentile £519 £575 £516
25th Percentile £525 - £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £612 £613
Median % change year-on-year +6.21% -0.08% +22.50%
75th Percentile £675 - £688
90th Percentile £750 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £50.00 £70.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -28.57% +40.00% -14.00%

All Programming Languages
Herefordshire

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 Herefordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 24 10 12
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Herefordshire 41.38% 19.23% 42.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 9 10
10th Percentile £504 £600 £424
25th Percentile £525 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £612 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +13.86% +7.50%
75th Percentile £675 £635 £688
90th Percentile £750 - £726
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £495 £450
% change year-on-year +1.01% +10.00% -13.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £50.00 £35.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year +42.86% +89.19% -58.89%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Herefordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Python relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Herefordshire.

Python job vacancy trend in Herefordshire

Python
Daily Rate Trend in Herefordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Herefordshire citing Python.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Herefordshire citing Python

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Herefordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Herefordshire over the 6 months to 6 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python in Herefordshire

Python
Contract Job Locations in Herefordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Herefordshire region over the 6 months to 6 November 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
Ledbury -6 14 £650 +6.21%
Python
West Midlands

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Herefordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (87.50%) Azure
2 13 (81.25%) GitHub
3 7 (43.75%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (43.75%) Azure Key Vault
3 7 (43.75%) GitHub Actions
3 7 (43.75%) Serverless
4 6 (37.50%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (6.25%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) BGP
1 1 (6.25%) DMVPN
1 1 (6.25%) EIGRP
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
1 1 (6.25%) IPsec
1 1 (6.25%) OSPF
1 1 (6.25%) Spanning Tree
1 1 (6.25%) Unified Communications
1 1 (6.25%) VLAN
1 1 (6.25%) WAN
1 1 (6.25%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (81.25%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (43.75%) Redis
3 6 (37.50%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Developer
2 7 (43.75%) Backend Developer
2 7 (43.75%) Python Developer
2 7 (43.75%) Senior
3 6 (37.50%) Data Engineer
3 6 (37.50%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) .NET Developer
4 1 (6.25%) .NET Software Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Developer
4 1 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) JavaScript Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Network Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (43.75%) FastAPI
1 7 (43.75%) Flask
1 7 (43.75%) GraphQL
1 7 (43.75%) gRPC
1 7 (43.75%) REST
1 7 (43.75%) WebSockets
2 6 (37.50%) Kafka
2 6 (37.50%) Keycloak
3 1 (6.25%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Cloud Native
2 6 (37.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (93.75%) Containerisation
1 15 (93.75%) DevOps
2 9 (56.25%) CI/CD
3 8 (50.00%) Microservices
4 6 (37.50%) Batch Processing
4 6 (37.50%) Data Architecture
4 6 (37.50%) Data Engineering
4 6 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
4 6 (37.50%) DataOps
4 6 (37.50%) ETL
5 1 (6.25%) Agile
5 1 (6.25%) Cryptography
5 1 (6.25%) Mentoring
5 1 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (6.25%) Secure Coding
5 1 (6.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (87.50%) Go
2 8 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (93.75%) Security Cleared
2 14 (87.50%) SC Cleared
3 9 (56.25%) DV Cleared
4 6 (37.50%) Azure Certification
5 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (6.25%) CCNA
5 1 (6.25%) CCNP
5 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (6.25%) JNCIA
5 1 (6.25%) JNCIS
System Software
1 14 (87.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (93.75%) Kubernetes
2 7 (43.75%) Grafana
2 7 (43.75%) Prometheus
3 1 (6.25%) Ansible
3 1 (6.25%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Cisco
2 1 (6.25%) Juniper
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) SolarWinds