Python Contracts in Newcastle upon Tyne

Python
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 11 19
Rank change year-on-year -7 +8 +11
Contract jobs citing Python 18 17 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 8.07% 8.10% 10.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.08% 26.56% 21.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 29
10th Percentile £400 £605 £448
25th Percentile £411 £613 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £625 £700
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% -10.71% +27.27%
75th Percentile £555 £638 £836
90th Percentile £575 £645 £848
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £481 £516 £700
% change year-on-year -6.64% -26.36% +27.27%

All Programming Languages
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 78 64 166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 34.98% 30.48% 50.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 28 135
10th Percentile £325 £359 £400
25th Percentile £359 £398 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £465 £565
Median % change year-on-year -9.04% -17.79% +13.00%
75th Percentile £490 £508 £675
90th Percentile £598 £565 £760
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £420 £452 £565
% change year-on-year -7.08% -20.00% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 0
Median hourly rate £52.00 £47.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +9.47% - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £52.00 £47.50 -
% change year-on-year +9.47% - -

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Job vacancy trend for Python in Newcastle upon Tyne

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Daily rate trend for Python in Newcastle upon Tyne

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python in Newcastle upon Tyne

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 2 (11.11%) Jupyter
1 2 (11.11%) nginx
1 2 (11.11%) Traefik
2 1 (5.56%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.56%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 11 (61.11%) AWS
2 6 (33.33%) Azure
3 5 (27.78%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (27.78%) Serverless
4 4 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (11.11%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (11.11%) Amazon S3
6 2 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (11.11%) AWS Fargate
6 2 (11.11%) Entra ID
6 2 (11.11%) Power Platform
6 2 (11.11%) Snowflake
6 2 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (5.56%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (5.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (5.56%) AWS Control Tower
7 1 (5.56%) Stitch
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) DNS
1 2 (11.11%) SMS
1 2 (11.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Data Lake
1 2 (11.11%) Metadata
1 2 (11.11%) Metadata Repository
1 2 (11.11%) MongoDB
1 2 (11.11%) Power BI
2 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.56%) Flink
2 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (44.44%) GitLab
2 4 (22.22%) Jenkins
3 3 (16.67%) Selenium
4 1 (5.56%) Git
General
1 6 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (11.11%) Electronics
2 2 (11.11%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Manufacturing
2 2 (11.11%) Marketing
2 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.56%) Banking
3 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Data Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Senior
2 5 (27.78%) Senior DevOps
3 4 (22.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Developer
5 2 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Java Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Lead
6 1 (5.56%) Automation Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (5.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Lead Data Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Lead DevOps
6 1 (5.56%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) Kafka
2 3 (16.67%) pytest
3 2 (11.11%) ARM Templates
3 2 (11.11%) cloud-init
3 2 (11.11%) Keycloak
3 2 (11.11%) Micronaut
3 2 (11.11%) PySpark
3 2 (11.11%) Spring
3 2 (11.11%) Spring Boot
4 1 (5.56%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (11.11%) PKI
3 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 6 (33.33%) Linux
2 4 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (11.11%) CentOS
3 2 (11.11%) Unix
4 1 (5.56%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 8 (44.44%) DevOps
3 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (27.78%) Agile
5 4 (22.22%) Data Protection
6 3 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (11.11%) Data Analysis
7 2 (11.11%) Data Development
7 2 (11.11%) Data Integration
7 2 (11.11%) Data Modelling
7 2 (11.11%) Decision-Making
7 2 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
7 2 (11.11%) Digital Marketing
7 2 (11.11%) ETL
7 2 (11.11%) Identity Management
7 2 (11.11%) Mobile Device Management
7 2 (11.11%) Programme Management
7 2 (11.11%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) Bash
1 5 (27.78%) Java
2 4 (22.22%) SQL
3 2 (11.11%) Go
4 1 (5.56%) Bicep
4 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (27.78%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (5.56%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) NCSC
System Software
1 6 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (66.67%) Terraform
2 8 (44.44%) Kubernetes
3 5 (27.78%) Grafana
3 5 (27.78%) Prometheus
4 3 (16.67%) Packer
5 2 (11.11%) Ansible
5 2 (11.11%) Consul
5 2 (11.11%) HAProxy
5 2 (11.11%) Istio
5 2 (11.11%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (11.11%) linkerd
5 2 (11.11%) Rancher
5 2 (11.11%) ZABBIX
6 1 (5.56%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Databricks
2 2 (11.11%) Apple
2 2 (11.11%) ESET
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Okta
2 2 (11.11%) SAP
2 2 (11.11%) Splunk
3 1 (5.56%) Dynatrace
3 1 (5.56%) New Relic