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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 47 69
Rank change year-on-year +17 +22 -18
Contract jobs citing Python 133 146 160
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.89% 4.35% 3.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.28% 16.44% 12.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 108 103
10th Percentile £310 £400 £360
25th Percentile £358 £445 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £550 £657 £575
90th Percentile £625 £700 £663
England median daily rate £567 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -5.46% - +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 £62.50 £65.00 £51.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +26.21% +28.75%

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 625 888 1,301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 22.98% 26.48% 26.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 453 654 965
10th Percentile £260 £313 £313
25th Percentile £350 £381 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £538
90th Percentile £638 £671 £613
England median daily rate £550 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -2.54% +2.60% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 14 16
10th Percentile £22.42 £19.74 £16.77
25th Percentile £27.38 £24.16 £20.25
Median hourly rate £51.78 £29.93 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +72.99% -14.48% -9.68%
75th Percentile £58.75 £54.69 -
90th Percentile £60.13 £88.88 £45.84
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.35
% change year-on-year - +24.13% +17.09%

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 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python in the Midlands

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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

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Python in the Midlands over the 6 months to 9 May 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 9 May 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 0 75 £425 -24.44% 143
East Midlands +23 57 £475 -5.00% 75
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 (6.02%) Apache Spark
2 6 (4.51%) Confluence
3 5 (3.76%) JBoss
4 3 (2.26%) Apache
5 2 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.50%) CMS
5 2 (1.50%) Headless CMS
5 2 (1.50%) SAS
6 1 (0.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 24 (18.05%) Chatbot
2 5 (3.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.75%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 9 (6.77%) Odoo
2 3 (2.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 27 (20.30%) AWS
2 25 (18.80%) Azure
3 16 (12.03%) Power Platform
4 6 (4.51%) GCP
4 6 (4.51%) OpenShift
4 6 (4.51%) Serverless
5 5 (3.76%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (3.76%) Snowflake
6 4 (3.01%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (3.01%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (2.26%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (2.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (2.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (2.26%) dbt
7 3 (2.26%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.50%) Amazon SageMaker
8 2 (1.50%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.50%) Azure Functions
8 2 (1.50%) GitHub
9 1 (0.75%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.76%) SAN
1 5 (3.76%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.75%) Firewall
2 1 (0.75%) LTE
2 1 (0.75%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (12.03%) Power BI
2 10 (7.52%) Big Data
2 10 (7.52%) Hadoop
3 9 (6.77%) Relational Database
4 8 (6.02%) Data Lake
4 8 (6.02%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (6.02%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (5.26%) NoSQL
5 7 (5.26%) RDBMS
6 6 (4.51%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (4.51%) Impala
6 6 (4.51%) SQL Server
6 6 (4.51%) Tableau
7 5 (3.76%) BusinessObjects
8 4 (3.01%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (3.01%) MySQL
8 4 (3.01%) Pentaho
9 3 (2.26%) Semantic Layer
10 2 (1.50%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (1.50%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 14 (10.53%) Git
2 13 (9.77%) JIRA
3 11 (8.27%) Jenkins
4 6 (4.51%) CA Release Automation
4 6 (4.51%) TeamCity
5 5 (3.76%) Bitbucket Server
5 5 (3.76%) SonarQube
5 5 (3.76%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (3.01%) GitLab
6 4 (3.01%) JMeter
7 3 (2.26%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.50%) Travis CI
8 2 (1.50%) webpack
9 1 (0.75%) Ant
9 1 (0.75%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.75%) Gradle
9 1 (0.75%) JUnit
9 1 (0.75%) Maven
General
1 33 (24.81%) Social Skills
2 22 (16.54%) Finance
3 18 (13.53%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.77%) Banking
5 4 (3.01%) Retail
6 3 (2.26%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.26%) Marketing
6 3 (2.26%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.75%) Back Office
7 1 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.75%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.75%) Multimedia
7 1 (0.75%) Police
7 1 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.75%) Publishing
7 1 (0.75%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 51 (38.35%) Developer
2 25 (18.80%) Software Developer
3 24 (18.05%) Data Engineer
4 19 (14.29%) Analyst
5 13 (9.77%) Python Developer
6 12 (9.02%) Senior
7 11 (8.27%) Data Analyst
8 6 (4.51%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (4.51%) Consultant
9 5 (3.76%) Support Engineer
10 4 (3.01%) Java Developer
10 4 (3.01%) Senior Data Engineer
11 3 (2.26%) Applications Support
11 3 (2.26%) Applications Support Analyst
11 3 (2.26%) Architect
11 3 (2.26%) DevOps Engineer
11 3 (2.26%) Full Stack Engineer
11 3 (2.26%) IAM Consultant
11 3 (2.26%) Support Analyst
11 3 (2.26%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (18.05%) HTML
2 8 (6.02%) LDAP
3 5 (3.76%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (3.76%) Flask
3 5 (3.76%) Kafka
3 5 (3.76%) Spring Boot
4 4 (3.01%) Pandas
4 4 (3.01%) PySpark
4 4 (3.01%) RESTful
4 4 (3.01%) SAML
4 4 (3.01%) Web Services
5 3 (2.26%) ADO
5 3 (2.26%) Hibernate
5 3 (2.26%) Node.js
5 3 (2.26%) OAuth
5 3 (2.26%) OpenID
5 3 (2.26%) React
5 3 (2.26%) SailPoint
5 3 (2.26%) Spring
6 2 (1.50%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.27%) Algorithms
2 6 (4.51%) Data Structures
2 6 (4.51%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (2.26%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.50%) Distributed Applications
4 2 (1.50%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.75%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.75%) Insider Threat
5 1 (0.75%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.75%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.75%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (12.03%) Linux
2 8 (6.02%) Windows
3 6 (4.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (3.76%) Debian
4 5 (3.76%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.50%) Unix
6 1 (0.75%) AIX
6 1 (0.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (25.56%) Artificial Intelligence
2 33 (24.81%) Code Quality
2 33 (24.81%) Software Engineering
3 24 (18.05%) Conversational UI
3 24 (18.05%) Data Modelling
4 21 (15.79%) Analytics
4 21 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
5 20 (15.04%) DevOps
6 18 (13.53%) Agile
6 18 (13.53%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (12.03%) CI/CD
8 15 (11.28%) Data Analysis
9 14 (10.53%) Computer Science
9 14 (10.53%) ETL
10 13 (9.77%) Data Analytics
10 13 (9.77%) Data Engineering
10 13 (9.77%) Data Science
11 12 (9.02%) ERP
11 12 (9.02%) Migration
12 11 (8.27%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 69 (51.88%) SQL
2 31 (23.31%) JavaScript
3 25 (18.80%) C#
4 21 (15.79%) Java
5 10 (7.52%) R
6 8 (6.02%) Scala
7 7 (5.26%) PowerShell
8 6 (4.51%) C++
8 6 (4.51%) Perl
9 5 (3.76%) Bash
9 5 (3.76%) MATLAB
10 3 (2.26%) C
10 3 (2.26%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.50%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.75%) HiveQL
12 1 (0.75%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.75%) Rust
12 1 (0.75%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 38 (28.57%) Degree
2 14 (10.53%) Security Cleared
3 12 (9.02%) SC Cleared
4 10 (7.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.51%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.26%) PhD
7 2 (1.50%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.26%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.26%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.26%) GDPR
3 1 (0.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (0.75%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 10 (7.52%) Active Directory
2 9 (6.77%) Docker
3 2 (1.50%) HDFS
4 1 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (9.77%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.26%) Ansible
3 6 (4.51%) Kibana
3 6 (4.51%) Progress Chef
4 5 (3.76%) Terraform
5 4 (3.01%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.75%) Argo
6 1 (0.75%) Functional Safety
6 1 (0.75%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.75%) Istio
6 1 (0.75%) linkerd
6 1 (0.75%) PowerBroker
6 1 (0.75%) SELinux
6 1 (0.75%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 24 (18.05%) PayPal
2 21 (15.79%) Microsoft
3 12 (9.02%) Red Hat
4 8 (6.02%) Databricks
4 8 (6.02%) Splunk
5 5 (3.76%) AppDynamics
5 5 (3.76%) VMware
6 4 (3.01%) Google
6 4 (3.01%) Informatica
6 4 (3.01%) Talend
7 3 (2.26%) Okta
7 3 (2.26%) Sage
8 2 (1.50%) Confluent
8 2 (1.50%) NVIDIA
8 2 (1.50%) Oracle
8 2 (1.50%) SAP
9 1 (0.75%) Citrix
9 1 (0.75%) ION Trading
9 1 (0.75%) JDA
9 1 (0.75%) Teradata