Python Contracts in the Midlands

Python
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Python skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Python over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 48 67
Rank change year-on-year +13 +19 -16
Contract jobs citing Python 127 145 166
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.65% 4.21% 3.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.72% 15.56% 12.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 113 110
10th Percentile £323 £400 £362
25th Percentile £363 £463 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £503
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +4.48% +25.63%
75th Percentile £550 £650 £575
90th Percentile £625 £700 £663
England median daily rate £563 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -6.25% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 0
10th Percentile £25.94 £50.13 -
25th Percentile £29.72 £50.31 -
Median hourly rate £40.25 £51.25 -
Median % change year-on-year -21.46% - -
75th Percentile £59.38 £52.81 -
90th Percentile £72.50 £53.38 -
England median hourly rate £62.18 £65.00 £51.25
% change year-on-year -4.34% +26.83% +26.54%

All Programming Languages
Midlands

Python is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 613 932 1,327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 22.46% 27.06% 26.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 445 697 989
10th Percentile £260 £313 £315
25th Percentile £350 £385 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +16.13%
75th Percentile £550 £563 £538
90th Percentile £638 £650 £613
England median daily rate £540 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 15 19
10th Percentile £22.42 £20.24 £17.07
25th Percentile £27.38 £24.31 £20.00
Median hourly rate £51.78 £33.39 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.10% -4.61% -9.68%
75th Percentile £58.75 £57.50 -
90th Percentile £60.13 £86.00 £45.34
England median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
% change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +13.64%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in the Midlands

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Python in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in the Midlands over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python in the Midlands

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Python in the Midlands

Python
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Python in the Midlands over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Python in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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
West Midlands +9 75 £425 -23.60% 100
East Midlands +20 52 £513 +2.50% 57
Python
England

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 8 (6.30%) Apache Spark
2 6 (4.72%) Confluence
3 5 (3.94%) JBoss
4 3 (2.36%) Apache
4 3 (2.36%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.57%) CMS
5 2 (1.57%) Headless CMS
5 2 (1.57%) SAS
6 1 (0.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 24 (18.90%) Chatbot
2 3 (2.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.79%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 9 (7.09%) Odoo
2 3 (2.36%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 28 (22.05%) AWS
2 25 (19.69%) Azure
3 14 (11.02%) Power Platform
4 6 (4.72%) GCP
4 6 (4.72%) OpenShift
5 5 (3.94%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (3.94%) Serverless
5 5 (3.94%) Snowflake
6 4 (3.15%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (3.15%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (3.15%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (2.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (2.36%) dbt
7 3 (2.36%) GitHub
8 2 (1.57%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.57%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.57%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.79%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (0.79%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.94%) SAN
1 5 (3.94%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.57%) Bluetooth
2 2 (1.57%) Wireless
3 1 (0.79%) Firewall
3 1 (0.79%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.02%) Power BI
2 10 (7.87%) Big Data
3 9 (7.09%) Relational Database
4 8 (6.30%) Data Lake
4 8 (6.30%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (6.30%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (5.51%) NoSQL
5 7 (5.51%) RDBMS
6 6 (4.72%) Tableau
7 5 (3.94%) BusinessObjects
7 5 (3.94%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (3.94%) Hadoop
7 5 (3.94%) SQL Server
8 4 (3.15%) MySQL
8 4 (3.15%) Pentaho
9 3 (2.36%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (2.36%) Semantic Layer
10 2 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.57%) BigQuery
10 2 (1.57%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 14 (11.02%) Git
2 13 (10.24%) JIRA
3 9 (7.09%) Jenkins
4 6 (4.72%) CA Release Automation
4 6 (4.72%) TeamCity
5 5 (3.94%) Bitbucket Server
5 5 (3.94%) SonarQube
5 5 (3.94%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (3.15%) JMeter
7 3 (2.36%) Bitbucket
7 3 (2.36%) GitLab
8 2 (1.57%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.57%) JUnit
8 2 (1.57%) webpack
9 1 (0.79%) Ant
9 1 (0.79%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.79%) Gradle
9 1 (0.79%) Maven
9 1 (0.79%) Travis CI
General
1 29 (22.83%) Social Skills
2 15 (11.81%) Finance
3 11 (8.66%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (4.72%) Banking
5 4 (3.15%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.15%) Retail
6 3 (2.36%) Marketing
7 2 (1.57%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.79%) Back Office
8 1 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.79%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.79%) Multimedia
8 1 (0.79%) Police
8 1 (0.79%) Publishing
8 1 (0.79%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 51 (40.16%) Developer
2 25 (19.69%) Data Engineer
2 25 (19.69%) Software Developer
3 13 (10.24%) Analyst
3 13 (10.24%) Python Developer
4 12 (9.45%) Senior
5 6 (4.72%) Cloud Engineer
5 6 (4.72%) Consultant
6 5 (3.94%) Data Analyst
6 5 (3.94%) Support Engineer
7 4 (3.15%) Java Developer
7 4 (3.15%) Senior Data Engineer
8 3 (2.36%) Applications Support
8 3 (2.36%) Applications Support Analyst
8 3 (2.36%) Architect
8 3 (2.36%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (2.36%) IAM Consultant
8 3 (2.36%) Support Analyst
8 3 (2.36%) Test Analyst
9 2 (1.57%) Hadoop Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (18.90%) HTML
2 8 (6.30%) LDAP
3 5 (3.94%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (3.94%) Kafka
3 5 (3.94%) Spring Boot
4 4 (3.15%) Flask
4 4 (3.15%) Pandas
4 4 (3.15%) PySpark
4 4 (3.15%) RESTful
4 4 (3.15%) SAML
4 4 (3.15%) Web Services
5 3 (2.36%) ADO
5 3 (2.36%) Hibernate
5 3 (2.36%) Node.js
5 3 (2.36%) OAuth
5 3 (2.36%) OpenID
5 3 (2.36%) SailPoint
5 3 (2.36%) Spring
6 2 (1.57%) Apache Sling
6 2 (1.57%) OSGi
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.66%) Algorithms
2 6 (4.72%) Data Structures
3 3 (2.36%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.57%) Device Driver
4 2 (1.57%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.79%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.79%) Insider Threat
5 1 (0.79%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.79%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (12.60%) Linux
2 9 (7.09%) Windows
3 5 (3.94%) Debian
3 5 (3.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (3.94%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.57%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (1.57%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (26.77%) Software Engineering
2 31 (24.41%) Artificial Intelligence
2 31 (24.41%) Code Quality
3 24 (18.90%) Conversational UI
4 22 (17.32%) Data Modelling
5 19 (14.96%) DevOps
6 17 (13.39%) Agile
6 17 (13.39%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (12.60%) Business Intelligence
8 15 (11.81%) CI/CD
8 15 (11.81%) ETL
9 14 (11.02%) Analytics
9 14 (11.02%) Data Science
10 13 (10.24%) Data Analysis
11 12 (9.45%) Computer Science
11 12 (9.45%) Data Engineering
11 12 (9.45%) ERP
11 12 (9.45%) Migration
12 10 (7.87%) Microservices
13 9 (7.09%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 62 (48.82%) SQL
2 29 (22.83%) JavaScript
3 25 (19.69%) C#
4 23 (18.11%) Java
5 9 (7.09%) Scala
6 8 (6.30%) C++
6 8 (6.30%) PowerShell
7 7 (5.51%) Bash
8 6 (4.72%) Perl
9 5 (3.94%) MATLAB
9 5 (3.94%) R
10 4 (3.15%) TypeScript
11 3 (2.36%) C
12 2 (1.57%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.79%) HiveQL
13 1 (0.79%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.79%) Rust
13 1 (0.79%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 36 (28.35%) Degree
2 13 (10.24%) Security Cleared
3 11 (8.66%) SC Cleared
4 8 (6.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.72%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.36%) PhD
7 2 (1.57%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.79%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.79%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.30%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.36%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (0.79%) GDPR
3 1 (0.79%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 11 (8.66%) Active Directory
2 8 (6.30%) Docker
3 2 (1.57%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (1.57%) Firmware
3 2 (1.57%) HDFS
4 1 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (9.45%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.72%) Ansible
3 5 (3.94%) Kibana
3 5 (3.94%) Progress Chef
3 5 (3.94%) Terraform
4 4 (3.15%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.79%) Argo
5 1 (0.79%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.79%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.79%) Istio
5 1 (0.79%) linkerd
5 1 (0.79%) SELinux
5 1 (0.79%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 24 (18.90%) PayPal
2 18 (14.17%) Microsoft
3 12 (9.45%) Red Hat
4 8 (6.30%) Databricks
4 8 (6.30%) Splunk
5 5 (3.94%) AppDynamics
5 5 (3.94%) VMware
6 4 (3.15%) Google
6 4 (3.15%) Informatica
6 4 (3.15%) Talend
7 3 (2.36%) Okta
8 2 (1.57%) NVIDIA
8 2 (1.57%) Oracle
8 2 (1.57%) Sage
8 2 (1.57%) SAP
9 1 (0.79%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.79%) Citrix
9 1 (0.79%) ION Trading
9 1 (0.79%) JDA
9 1 (0.79%) Teradata