Python Engineer Contracts in the North of England

Python Engineer
England > North of England

The median Python Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 170 208 228
Rank change year-on-year +38 +20 -49
Contract jobs requiring a Python Engineer 8 10 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.17% 0.17% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.18% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 17
10th Percentile £479 £444 £380
25th Percentile £485 £472 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% +20.00%
75th Percentile £550 £579 £575
90th Percentile £565 £650 £670
England median daily rate £640 £625 £600
% change year-on-year +2.40% +4.17% +4.35%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the North of England with a recognized job title 4,455 5,566 6,985
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.05% 95.15% 96.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,813 3,937 5,141
10th Percentile £263 £285 £200
25th Percentile £385 £410 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £590 £550
90th Percentile £672 £680 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 397 174 298
10th Percentile £11.00 £13.64 £11.12
25th Percentile £12.53 £18.64 £14.25
Median hourly rate £19.50 £30.54 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.15% +65.08% +2.78%
75th Percentile £45.88 £49.30 £30.44
90th Percentile £60.00 £65.93 £50.23
England median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -21.11% +100.00% +0.36%

Python Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Python Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Python Engineer in the North of England

Python Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python Engineer in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Python Engineer in the North of England

Python Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python Engineer in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Python Engineer in the North of England

Python Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 24 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
North West +21 7 £538 - 2
Yorkshire +22 1 £490 -2.97% 3
Python Engineer
England

Python Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, Python Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North of England region featuring Python Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) Java
2 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Ansible
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Terraform
3 2 (25.00%) Design Patterns
3 2 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (25.00%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (25.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Microservices
3 2 (25.00%) OpenShift
3 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (25.00%) VMware
3 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
4 1 (12.50%) NHS
4 1 (12.50%) MySQL
4 1 (12.50%) Unix
4 1 (12.50%) OOP
4 1 (12.50%) OO
4 1 (12.50%) TOGAF
4 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) Finance
4 1 (12.50%) Validation
4 1 (12.50%) Migration

Python Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (12.50%) Big Data
1 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
1 1 (12.50%) Hadoop
1 1 (12.50%) HBase
1 1 (12.50%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Kafka
1 1 (12.50%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) DevOps
1 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
2 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (25.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (25.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (12.50%) Data Governance
3 1 (12.50%) Data Migration
3 1 (12.50%) Fintech
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (12.50%) Migration
3 1 (12.50%) OO
3 1 (12.50%) OOP
3 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
3 1 (12.50%) Time Management
3 1 (12.50%) TOGAF
3 1 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) C++
3 1 (12.50%) Go
3 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (12.50%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (12.50%) NIST
2 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Ansible
1 3 (37.50%) Terraform
2 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (12.50%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) VMware
2 1 (12.50%) Databricks