Python Contracts in Hertfordshire

Python
East of England > Hertfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 33 38 21
Rank change year-on-year +5 -17 +11
Contract jobs citing Python 42 36 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 5.10% 4.41% 7.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.58% 14.57% 22.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 17 32
10th Percentile £363 £340 £478
25th Percentile £409 £425 £561
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% -8.33% +17.30%
75th Percentile £628 £676 £625
90th Percentile £676 £730 £763
East of England median daily rate £450 £500 £543
% change year-on-year -10.00% -7.83% +14.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 16
10th Percentile - £62.88 £46.25
25th Percentile £55.00 £69.06 £54.71
Median hourly rate £60.00 £71.50 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.08% +27.68% +32.48%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.50 £56.13
90th Percentile - £74.95 £66.88
East of England median hourly rate £62.50 £60.00 £56.00
% change year-on-year +4.17% +7.14% +12.00%

All Programming Languages
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 186 247 268
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 22.60% 30.23% 34.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 101 125
10th Percentile £360 £363 £358
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £506 £600 £625
90th Percentile £650 £676 £655
East of England median daily rate £475 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 85 56
10th Percentile £60.00 - £46.25
25th Percentile £61.25 £53.75 £48.50
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 £90.00 £77.00 -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £56.00
% change year-on-year - +16.07% +24.44%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in Hertfordshire

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Python in Hertfordshire

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Python in Hertfordshire

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Python in Hertfordshire

Python
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Hertfordshire 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
Stevenage -16 11 £375 -44.20% 5
Watford - 10 £675 - 5
Hemel Hempstead - 3 £600 - 4
Hertford - 1 - - 1
Hatfield - 1 - - 2
Python
East of England

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 3 (7.14%) Apache
1 3 (7.14%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.38%) CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 11 (26.19%) AWS
2 5 (11.90%) Serverless
3 4 (9.52%) Amazon S3
3 4 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (7.14%) Amazon EMR
4 3 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (4.76%) BigCommerce
5 2 (4.76%) dbt
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.38%) AWS CodeDeploy
6 1 (2.38%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (2.38%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (2.38%) Azure
6 1 (2.38%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.38%) GCP
6 1 (2.38%) GitHub
6 1 (2.38%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 14 (33.33%) Radio Access Network
2 10 (23.81%) 5G
3 5 (11.90%) 4G
3 5 (11.90%) NAS
3 5 (11.90%) Wireless
4 4 (9.52%) Wireshark
5 1 (2.38%) DNS
5 1 (2.38%) DVB
5 1 (2.38%) Internet
5 1 (2.38%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.52%) Big Data
1 4 (9.52%) Relational Database
2 3 (7.14%) Hadoop
3 2 (4.76%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.38%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (2.38%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (2.38%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (2.38%) Apache Hive
4 1 (2.38%) BigQuery
4 1 (2.38%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.38%) Data Vault
4 1 (2.38%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.38%) HBase
4 1 (2.38%) InterSystems Cache
4 1 (2.38%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.38%) Presto
4 1 (2.38%) Redis
4 1 (2.38%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 7 (16.67%) Git
2 6 (14.29%) JIRA
3 4 (9.52%) gcov
3 4 (9.52%) GDB
3 4 (9.52%) Gradle
3 4 (9.52%) Subversion
4 2 (4.76%) GitLab
4 2 (4.76%) Maven
5 1 (2.38%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 6 (14.29%) Multimedia
3 5 (11.90%) Telecoms
4 4 (9.52%) Marketing
5 3 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (7.14%) Retail
6 2 (4.76%) Finance
6 2 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.38%) Electronics
7 1 (2.38%) Games
7 1 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (30.95%) Developer
2 12 (28.57%) Python Developer
3 10 (23.81%) C++ Developer
4 7 (16.67%) Python Engineer
5 5 (11.90%) RF Engineer
5 5 (11.90%) Software Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) C++ Software Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) Python Software Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) RAN Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Analyst
7 3 (7.14%) Applications Developer
7 3 (7.14%) Architect
7 3 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
7 3 (7.14%) Data Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) R Developer
7 3 (7.14%) Software Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Machine Learning Analyst
8 2 (4.76%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.14%) Kafka
1 3 (7.14%) REST
2 2 (4.76%) Node.js
2 2 (4.76%) RESTful
2 2 (4.76%) VML
3 1 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.38%) Flask
3 1 (2.38%) GStreamer
3 1 (2.38%) OAuth
3 1 (2.38%) OAuth2
3 1 (2.38%) PySpark
3 1 (2.38%) React
3 1 (2.38%) React Native
3 1 (2.38%) Sensu
3 1 (2.38%) SOAP
3 1 (2.38%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) Data Structures
2 4 (9.52%) Algorithms
3 2 (4.76%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.38%) Digital TV
4 1 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.38%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (2.38%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.38%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.38%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.38%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (28.57%) Linux
2 3 (7.14%) Unix
2 3 (7.14%) Windows
3 2 (4.76%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.38%) CentOS
4 1 (2.38%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.38%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (21.43%) Software Engineering
2 7 (16.67%) Computer Science
2 7 (16.67%) Data Modelling
3 6 (14.29%) Machine Learning
4 5 (11.90%) Agile
4 5 (11.90%) Artificial Intelligence
4 5 (11.90%) Containerisation
4 5 (11.90%) Data Science
4 5 (11.90%) Mathematics
4 5 (11.90%) Statistics
5 4 (9.52%) CI/CD
5 4 (9.52%) ETL
5 4 (9.52%) Migration
5 4 (9.52%) Predictive Modelling
5 4 (9.52%) Software Architecture
6 3 (7.14%) Data Integration
6 3 (7.14%) DevOps
7 2 (4.76%) Asset Management
7 2 (4.76%) Performance Testing
7 2 (4.76%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 14 (33.33%) C++
2 9 (21.43%) SQL
3 8 (19.05%) Java
4 4 (9.52%) C
4 4 (9.52%) R
4 4 (9.52%) Shell Script
5 2 (4.76%) C#
5 2 (4.76%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.38%) Bash
6 1 (2.38%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.38%) PHP
6 1 (2.38%) Scala
6 1 (2.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (16.67%) Degree
2 5 (11.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.76%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.38%) Linux+ Certification
4 1 (2.38%) LPIC
4 1 (2.38%) RHCE
4 1 (2.38%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 4 (9.52%) Docker
2 2 (4.76%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 2 (4.76%) LXC
3 1 (2.38%) HDFS
3 1 (2.38%) KVM
3 1 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.38%) Xen
Systems Management
1 5 (11.90%) Ansible
1 5 (11.90%) Terraform
2 2 (4.76%) Progress Chef
2 2 (4.76%) Proxmox
2 2 (4.76%) Puppet
3 1 (2.38%) Grafana
3 1 (2.38%) Hadoop YARN
3 1 (2.38%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.38%) Nagios
Vendors
1 4 (9.52%) Klocwork
1 4 (9.52%) Perforce
2 3 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.14%) SAP
3 2 (4.76%) Adobe
3 2 (4.76%) Apple
3 2 (4.76%) CheckPoint
3 2 (4.76%) Salesforce
3 2 (4.76%) Sitecore
3 2 (4.76%) Sophos
4 1 (2.38%) AppDynamics
4 1 (2.38%) Informatica
4 1 (2.38%) Oracle
4 1 (2.38%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.38%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.38%) Talend
4 1 (2.38%) VMware