Python Contracts in Lancashire

Python
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 23 25 19
Rank change year-on-year +2 -6 +7
Contract jobs citing Python 6 7 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 3.43% 3.59% 6.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.00% 24.14% 26.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 6
10th Percentile £413 £520 £491
25th Percentile £425 £550 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +2.13% -11.32%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £694
90th Percentile £588 £640 £700
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £573
% change year-on-year -5.00% -12.66% +5.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £47.18
25th Percentile - - £48.72
Median hourly rate - - £52.99
75th Percentile - - £55.55
90th Percentile - - £56.06
North West median hourly rate - £67.50 £49.57
% change year-on-year - +36.17% +83.59%

All Programming Languages
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 30 29 56
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 17.14% 14.87% 23.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 6 25
10th Percentile £453 £506 £269
25th Percentile £511 £534 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £613 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.16% +11.36% +15.79%
75th Percentile £601 £644 £600
90th Percentile £615 £650 £663
North West median daily rate £470 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 13 6
10th Percentile £46.25 £39.28 £17.09
25th Percentile £53.38 £45.88 £24.16
Median hourly rate £65.50 £46.18 £40.59
Median % change year-on-year +41.84% +13.77% -4.49%
75th Percentile £65.75 £48.43 £50.59
90th Percentile - £49.69 £54.69
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £48.43 £40.59
% change year-on-year +44.54% +19.32% -2.19%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in Lancashire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Daily rate trend for Python in Lancashire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Lancashire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Lancashire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python in Lancashire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Hourly rate trend for Python in Lancashire

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) GitLab
2 2 (33.33%) Git
General
1 1 (16.67%) Front Office
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Python Data Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Python Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Lead DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Lead DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Pandas
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps
1 3 (50.00%) Microservices
1 3 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
1 3 (50.00%) The Twelve-Factor App
2 2 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 2 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (33.33%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform