Python Contracts in Hertfordshire

Python
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 38 39
Rank change year-on-year +27 +1 -23
Contract jobs citing Python 41 35 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 12.35% 4.17% 4.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.17% 18.42% 15.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 23 22
10th Percentile £396 £363 £401
25th Percentile £463 £406 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £430 £676
Median % change year-on-year +27.91% -36.39% +12.67%
75th Percentile £675 £631 £734
90th Percentile - £680 £738
East of England median daily rate £500 £445 £500
% change year-on-year +12.36% -11.00% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 5
10th Percentile £40.91 - £67.75
25th Percentile £47.56 £55.00 £70.00
Median hourly rate £53.75 £60.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% -17.24% +29.46%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £73.75
90th Percentile - - £74.20
East of England median hourly rate £52.50 £61.25 £52.50
% change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -6.25%

All Programming Languages
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 120 190 235
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 36.14% 22.65% 31.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 52 100
10th Percentile £409 £334 £363
25th Percentile £478 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -15.00% -4.67%
75th Percentile £575 £578 £600
90th Percentile £675 £649 £703
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 109 79
10th Percentile £40.91 £59.50 £53.75
25th Percentile £59.00 £61.25 £55.00
Median hourly rate £69.25 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.54% - +16.07%
75th Percentile £84.31 £70.00 £71.88
90th Percentile £85.00 £88.75 £88.00
East of England median hourly rate £65.75 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.15% - +16.07%

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 29 May 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Python in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 29 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
Stevenage +20 9 £475 +26.67% 237
Watford +6 2 £550 -18.52% 257
Hemel Hempstead +11 1 £550 -8.33% 232
Letchworth - 1 £500 - 1
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 13 (31.71%) Apache Spark
2 3 (7.32%) Apache
3 2 (4.88%) IBM Domino
3 2 (4.88%) IIS
3 2 (4.88%) WebSphere
4 1 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (2.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 20 (48.78%) Azure
2 15 (36.59%) AWS
3 2 (4.88%) AWS Direct Connect
3 2 (4.88%) GCP
3 2 (4.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (2.44%) dbt
4 1 (2.44%) GitHub
4 1 (2.44%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (26.83%) Wireless
2 4 (9.76%) SpaceWire
3 2 (4.88%) 3GPP
3 2 (4.88%) 4G
3 2 (4.88%) 5G
3 2 (4.88%) BGP
3 2 (4.88%) Firewall
3 2 (4.88%) OSPF
3 2 (4.88%) VLAN
3 2 (4.88%) VPN
4 1 (2.44%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (2.44%) Network Security
4 1 (2.44%) RS-232
4 1 (2.44%) SD-WAN
4 1 (2.44%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (36.59%) Tableau
2 14 (34.15%) Big Data
3 13 (31.71%) Hadoop
4 3 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (4.88%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (4.88%) DB2
5 2 (4.88%) InfluxDB
5 2 (4.88%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.44%) Flink
6 1 (2.44%) Metadata
6 1 (2.44%) Neo4j
6 1 (2.44%) Power BI
6 1 (2.44%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Git
General
1 11 (26.83%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (14.63%) Telecoms
3 2 (4.88%) Aerospace
3 2 (4.88%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.44%) Aviation
4 1 (2.44%) Avionics
4 1 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.44%) Legal
4 1 (2.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (60.98%) Developer
2 13 (31.71%) Data Science Developer
3 8 (19.51%) Senior
3 8 (19.51%) Senior Developer
4 5 (12.20%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 4 (9.76%) Backend Developer
6 3 (7.32%) Python Developer
6 3 (7.32%) Systems Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Administrator
7 2 (4.88%) Consultant
7 2 (4.88%) Data Modeller
7 2 (4.88%) Electrical Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Gen AI Developer
7 2 (4.88%) Lead
7 2 (4.88%) Maximo Consultant
7 2 (4.88%) Network Administrator
7 2 (4.88%) Network Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Software Developer
7 2 (4.88%) Technical Leader
7 2 (4.88%) Test Automation Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (36.59%) Matplotlib
1 15 (36.59%) NumPy
1 15 (36.59%) Pandas
1 15 (36.59%) PyTorch
1 15 (36.59%) scikit-learn
1 15 (36.59%) Seaborn
1 15 (36.59%) TensorFlow
2 8 (19.51%) REST
3 3 (7.32%) RESTful
4 2 (4.88%) OpenAPI
4 2 (4.88%) SOAP
4 2 (4.88%) Swagger
4 2 (4.88%) Web Services
4 2 (4.88%) XML
5 1 (2.44%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.44%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (2.44%) Kafka
5 1 (2.44%) Keycloak
5 1 (2.44%) Node.js
5 1 (2.44%) React
Miscellaneous
1 15 (36.59%) Algorithms
2 1 (2.44%) CAN bus
2 1 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 13 (31.71%) Linux
2 5 (12.20%) Windows
3 4 (9.76%) Unix
4 2 (4.88%) VMS
4 2 (4.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (41.46%) Data Science
2 16 (39.02%) Analytics
2 16 (39.02%) Artificial Intelligence
2 16 (39.02%) Data Analysis
3 15 (36.59%) Data Munging
3 15 (36.59%) Generative AI
3 15 (36.59%) LLM
3 15 (36.59%) Machine Learning
3 15 (36.59%) Visualisation
4 14 (34.15%) Decision-Making
5 13 (31.71%) Data Analytics
5 13 (31.71%) Predictive Analytics
5 13 (31.71%) Reinforcement Learning
5 13 (31.71%) Statistical Modelling
5 13 (31.71%) Time Series Forecasting
6 11 (26.83%) Computer Science
6 11 (26.83%) Feature Engineering
7 10 (24.39%) Containerisation
8 6 (14.63%) DevOps
8 6 (14.63%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 17 (41.46%) R
2 10 (24.39%) Java
3 7 (17.07%) Bash
4 6 (14.63%) SQL
5 4 (9.76%) C
5 4 (9.76%) C#
5 4 (9.76%) C++
5 4 (9.76%) Tcl
6 3 (7.32%) JavaScript
6 3 (7.32%) VBA
7 2 (4.88%) Go
8 1 (2.44%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 14 (34.15%) Degree
2 11 (26.83%) Master's Degree
2 11 (26.83%) PhD
3 7 (17.07%) Security Cleared
4 6 (14.63%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.44%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.44%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (36.59%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.88%) QA
System Software
1 10 (24.39%) Docker
2 1 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (24.39%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.32%) Ansible
3 2 (4.88%) Terraform
4 1 (2.44%) Nagios
Vendors
1 4 (9.76%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.88%) Databricks
2 2 (4.88%) EMC
2 2 (4.88%) Fortinet
2 2 (4.88%) Huawei
2 2 (4.88%) IBM
3 1 (2.44%) NetApp
3 1 (2.44%) OpenAI
3 1 (2.44%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.44%) SolarWinds
3 1 (2.44%) Twitter
3 1 (2.44%) VMware