Python Contracts in Merseyside

Python
North West > Merseyside

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

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 25 18
Rank change year-on-year +5 -7 +22
Contract jobs citing Python 7 6 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 4.32% 2.63% 9.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.42% 17.14% 37.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 19
10th Percentile £363 £386 £242
25th Percentile £422 £392 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £406 £475
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -14.47% -9.52%
75th Percentile £547 £417 £675
90th Percentile £550 £422 £700
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £566
% change year-on-year -5.00% -11.59% +2.83%

All Programming Languages
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 38 35 77
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 23.46% 15.35% 25.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 20 59
10th Percentile £388 £285 £325
25th Percentile £450 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £413 £500
Median % change year-on-year +21.21% -17.50% +1.01%
75th Percentile £625 £489 £605
90th Percentile £775 £496 £679
North West median daily rate £438 £475 £514
% change year-on-year -7.89% -7.59% +0.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £29.39
25th Percentile - - £32.83
Median hourly rate - £36.00 £38.60
Median % change year-on-year - -6.74% -
75th Percentile - - £44.33
90th Percentile - - £47.73
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +27.27% +19.10% +22.17%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in Merseyside

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for Python in Merseyside

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Merseyside over the 6 months to 18 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python in Merseyside

Python
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 18 July 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
Liverpool +5 6 £475 +11.76% 39
Python
North West

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Power Platform
3 2 (28.57%) AWS
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (14.29%) Azure AI
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Firebase
4 1 (14.29%) Vercel
4 1 (14.29%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Power BI
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
3 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
3 1 (14.29%) Pinecone
3 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Tech for Good
3 1 (14.29%) Automotive
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) LangChain
2 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
2 1 (14.29%) CrewAI
2 1 (14.29%) D3.js
2 1 (14.29%) FastAPI
2 1 (14.29%) Flask
2 1 (14.29%) Flutter
2 1 (14.29%) Gradio
2 1 (14.29%) JSON
2 1 (14.29%) Material-UI
2 1 (14.29%) Next.js
2 1 (14.29%) Node.js
2 1 (14.29%) PySpark
2 1 (14.29%) React
2 1 (14.29%) React Native
2 1 (14.29%) RESTful
2 1 (14.29%) Streamlit
2 1 (14.29%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (28.57%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (14.29%) AI Agents
2 1 (14.29%) Autonomous Agent
2 1 (14.29%) IoT
2 1 (14.29%) Low-Code
2 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Data Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Analytics
2 3 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (28.57%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (28.57%) Conversational UI
3 2 (28.57%) Data Governance
3 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
3 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
3 2 (28.57%) ETL
3 2 (28.57%) LLM
3 2 (28.57%) Machine Learning
3 2 (28.57%) Migration
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Use Case
4 1 (14.29%) Interaction Design
4 1 (14.29%) Multi-Agent System
4 1 (14.29%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) MCP
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) Netlify
2 1 (14.29%) OpenAI