Python Contracts in Manchester

Python
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 17 15
Rank change year-on-year -2 -2 +21
Contract jobs citing Python 85 110 153
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 9.50% 7.80% 8.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.81% 26.38% 27.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 75 114
10th Percentile £396 £345 £385
25th Percentile £419 £422 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -17.39% +4.55%
75th Percentile £550 £563 £650
90th Percentile £656 £650 £700
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £66.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate - £67.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +42.11% -
75th Percentile - £68.75 £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate - £67.50 £48.54
% change year-on-year - +39.07% +86.67%

All Programming Languages
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 295 417 552
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 32.96% 29.55% 30.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 322 430
10th Percentile £375 £350 £352
25th Percentile £400 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -7.50% -2.44%
75th Percentile £545 £538 £594
90th Percentile £625 £625 £655
North West median daily rate £463 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 15 3
10th Percentile £69.30 £52.50 £41.25
25th Percentile £72.00 £57.50 £43.13
Median hourly rate £80.75 £70.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.36% +47.37% -9.52%
75th Percentile £90.31 £77.75 £57.38
90th Percentile £93.13 £82.80 £62.55
North West median hourly rate £74.50 £48.43 £44.05
% change year-on-year +53.83% +9.96% -11.87%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in Manchester

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Python in Manchester

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Manchester over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python in Manchester

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Python in Manchester

Python
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 21 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
Altrincham - 1 - - 33
Python
North West

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 7 (8.24%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (7.06%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.35%) Apache
3 2 (2.35%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.35%) WebSphere
3 2 (2.35%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 5 (5.88%) Kondor
Cloud Services
1 49 (57.65%) AWS
2 33 (38.82%) Azure
3 15 (17.65%) GCP
4 12 (14.12%) Amazon EC2
4 12 (14.12%) Amazon EKS
5 11 (12.94%) Amazon S3
6 10 (11.76%) GitHub
7 9 (10.59%) dbt
8 7 (8.24%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (8.24%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (8.24%) Serverless
9 5 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (5.88%) Azure Machine Learning
10 4 (4.71%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (3.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (3.53%) Apigee
11 3 (3.53%) AWS CodeBuild
11 3 (3.53%) Azure AKS
11 3 (3.53%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.88%) DNS
2 3 (3.53%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.35%) Calico
3 2 (2.35%) DHCP
3 2 (2.35%) Kerberos
3 2 (2.35%) Network Security
4 1 (1.18%) HTTP
4 1 (1.18%) tcpdump
4 1 (1.18%) VPN
4 1 (1.18%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (10.59%) Relational Database
3 8 (9.41%) SQL Server
4 6 (7.06%) MongoDB
4 6 (7.06%) NoSQL
5 5 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (5.88%) Tableau
6 4 (4.71%) Airbyte
6 4 (4.71%) Big Data
6 4 (4.71%) Data Mining
6 4 (4.71%) Delta Lake
6 4 (4.71%) MySQL
6 4 (4.71%) ObjectStore
7 3 (3.53%) Metadata
7 3 (3.53%) Power BI
8 2 (2.35%) Data Vault
8 2 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.35%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (2.35%) GIS
8 2 (2.35%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 17 (20.00%) GitLab
2 15 (17.65%) Jenkins
3 11 (12.94%) Git
4 3 (3.53%) CircleCI
4 3 (3.53%) Cypress.io
4 3 (3.53%) JIRA
4 3 (3.53%) Maven
5 1 (1.18%) Flyway
5 1 (1.18%) Liquibase
5 1 (1.18%) MLflow
General
1 20 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 9 (10.59%) Public Sector
3 8 (9.41%) Finance
4 7 (8.24%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (8.24%) Banking
5 1 (1.18%) Marketing
5 1 (1.18%) Military
5 1 (1.18%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (30.59%) Senior
2 24 (28.24%) Data Engineer
3 19 (22.35%) Developer
4 10 (11.76%) Senior Data Engineer
5 8 (9.41%) Data Scientist
6 7 (8.24%) Software Engineer
7 6 (7.06%) Python Engineer
7 6 (7.06%) Senior Developer
7 6 (7.06%) Senior Software Engineer
8 5 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (5.88%) Kubernetes Engineer
8 5 (5.88%) Python Developer
9 4 (4.71%) AWS Data Engineer
9 4 (4.71%) Java Developer
9 4 (4.71%) Python Data Engineer
9 4 (4.71%) Senior DevOps
10 3 (3.53%) Full-Stack Developer
10 3 (3.53%) Lead
10 3 (3.53%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.76%) Kafka
2 9 (10.59%) REST
3 8 (9.41%) Node.js
3 8 (9.41%) React
4 7 (8.24%) RESTful
5 5 (5.88%) AngularJS
5 5 (5.88%) FastAPI
5 5 (5.88%) SOAP
6 4 (4.71%) PySpark
6 4 (4.71%) TensorFlow
7 3 (3.53%) cloud-init
7 3 (3.53%) GraphQL
7 3 (3.53%) Playwright
7 3 (3.53%) Puppeteer
7 3 (3.53%) PyTorch
8 2 (2.35%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (2.35%) GeoJSON
8 2 (2.35%) LangChain
8 2 (2.35%) MapLibre
8 2 (2.35%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.88%) Cloud Native
1 5 (5.88%) Derivative
1 5 (5.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (3.53%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (3.53%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (3.53%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.35%) Algorithms
3 2 (2.35%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.35%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.35%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.35%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.18%) CMDB
4 1 (1.18%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.18%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.18%) IoT
4 1 (1.18%) MISP
4 1 (1.18%) PKI
4 1 (1.18%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.18%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (18.82%) Linux
2 9 (10.59%) Unix
3 4 (4.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (3.53%) CentOS
5 2 (2.35%) Android
5 2 (2.35%) Apple iOS
5 2 (2.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (38.82%) CI/CD
2 24 (28.24%) Containerisation
3 23 (27.06%) Data Pipeline
4 22 (25.88%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (17.65%) DevOps
6 14 (16.47%) Analytics
6 14 (16.47%) Data Modelling
6 14 (16.47%) Visualisation
7 13 (15.29%) Infrastructure as Code
7 13 (15.29%) Machine Learning
8 12 (14.12%) Agile
9 11 (12.94%) ETL
9 11 (12.94%) Software Engineering
10 10 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence
10 10 (11.76%) Data Science
10 10 (11.76%) Test Automation
11 8 (9.41%) Digital Twin
12 6 (7.06%) Continuous Integration
12 6 (7.06%) Open Source
12 6 (7.06%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 31 (36.47%) SQL
2 12 (14.12%) Bash
3 10 (11.76%) Java
4 8 (9.41%) TypeScript
5 7 (8.24%) JavaScript
6 5 (5.88%) PowerShell
7 4 (4.71%) SPARQL
8 3 (3.53%) Clojure
8 3 (3.53%) Go
8 3 (3.53%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.35%) C#
9 2 (2.35%) R
10 1 (1.18%) C++
10 1 (1.18%) Perl
Qualifications
1 19 (22.35%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.71%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.53%) AWS Certification
3 3 (3.53%) Degree
4 2 (2.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.18%) CCNA
5 1 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.18%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.59%) Data Quality
2 6 (7.06%) QA
3 5 (5.88%) Basel III
3 5 (5.88%) MiFID
4 2 (2.35%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 21 (24.71%) Docker
2 2 (2.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 37 (43.53%) Kubernetes
2 14 (16.47%) Terraform
3 8 (9.41%) Grafana
4 6 (7.06%) Prometheus
5 5 (5.88%) Ansible
6 4 (4.71%) Packer
6 4 (4.71%) ZABBIX
7 3 (3.53%) Istio
7 3 (3.53%) Puppet
8 2 (2.35%) Graylog
8 2 (2.35%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.18%) Consul
9 1 (1.18%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (1.18%) linkerd
9 1 (1.18%) Nagios
9 1 (1.18%) Nessus
9 1 (1.18%) OpenVAS
9 1 (1.18%) QRadar
9 1 (1.18%) Rancher
Vendors
1 11 (12.94%) Databricks
2 9 (10.59%) Oracle
3 6 (7.06%) Google
4 5 (5.88%) Microsoft
4 5 (5.88%) Sybase
5 3 (3.53%) IBM
5 3 (3.53%) Informatica
5 3 (3.53%) PagerDuty
5 3 (3.53%) Talend
6 2 (2.35%) Mapbox
6 2 (2.35%) Splunk
6 2 (2.35%) Thycotic
7 1 (1.18%) ArcSight
7 1 (1.18%) Carbon Black
7 1 (1.18%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (1.18%) Hotjar
7 1 (1.18%) Okta
7 1 (1.18%) Qualys
7 1 (1.18%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.18%) SolarWinds