Python Contracts in Leicestershire

Python
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leicestershire 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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 14 28
Rank change year-on-year +2 +14 +8
Contract jobs citing Python 7 11 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leicestershire 6.80% 7.10% 3.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.84% 26.83% 6.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 4
10th Percentile £367 £345 £359
25th Percentile £368 £363 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £375 £401
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -6.54% -40.56%
75th Percentile £488 £625 £445
90th Percentile - - £486
East Midlands median daily rate £423 £425 £500
% change year-on-year -0.59% -15.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.50 - -
Median hourly rate £19.00 - -
75th Percentile £19.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.60 £26.12 £50.00
% change year-on-year -28.78% -47.77% -

All Programming Languages
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 19 41 77
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire 18.45% 26.45% 47.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 32 73
10th Percentile £367 £289 £313
25th Percentile £378 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £418 £413
Median % change year-on-year +10.65% +1.33% +3.13%
75th Percentile £488 £600 £438
90th Percentile - £625 £485
East Midlands median daily rate £402 £425 £425
% change year-on-year -5.41% - +2.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.50 -
Median hourly rate £19.00 £25.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% - -
75th Percentile £19.50 £28.13 -
90th Percentile - £28.50 -
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.60 £25.00 £26.48
% change year-on-year -25.60% -5.59% -24.34%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in Leicestershire

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Python in Leicestershire

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for Python in Leicestershire

Python
Contract Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 18 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
Leicester -4 3 £430 +14.67% 26
Loughborough - 1 £425 -
Python
East Midlands

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicestershire 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 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
1 3 (42.86%) Power Platform
2 2 (28.57%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (14.29%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Power BI
1 2 (28.57%) Tableau
2 1 (14.29%) Big Data
2 1 (14.29%) GIS
2 1 (14.29%) Hadoop
2 1 (14.29%) Power Query
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Advertising
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (14.29%) Law
2 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Business Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 1 (14.29%) C# Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Contracts Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Data Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Data Science Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Data Scientist
2 1 (14.29%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) GIS Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Junior
2 1 (14.29%) Junior Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) Blazor
1 1 (14.29%) PySpark
1 1 (14.29%) WPF
1 1 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Data Integration
1 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
1 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (28.57%) Data Science
1 2 (28.57%) ETL
1 2 (28.57%) Machine Learning
1 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (14.29%) Analytics
2 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (14.29%) Customer Engagement
2 1 (14.29%) Data Analytics
2 1 (14.29%) Data Extraction
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
2 1 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce
2 1 (14.29%) Fintech
2 1 (14.29%) Refactoring
2 1 (14.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) T-SQL
3 1 (14.29%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) R
3 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
3 1 (14.29%) VB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Google
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Databricks