Python Contracts in the North of England

Python
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 17 31
Rank change year-on-year -1 +14 -10
Contract jobs citing Python 349 437 437
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 7.44% 7.54% 6.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.16% 25.81% 19.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 306 319
10th Percentile £400 £363 £400
25th Percentile £430 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% +16.02%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £625
90th Percentile £649 £700 £688
England median daily rate £563 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -6.25% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 7
10th Percentile - £35.63 £20.10
25th Percentile - £41.54 £22.86
Median hourly rate £20.77 £48.54 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.21% +86.67% +0.08%
75th Percentile £46.18 £55.55 £27.25
90th Percentile £59.72 £61.08 £30.37
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £51.05
% change year-on-year -3.85% +27.33% +27.63%

All Programming Languages
North of England

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 North of England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,197 1,693 2,273
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 25.50% 29.22% 31.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 855 1,252 1,735
10th Percentile £316 £350 £325
25th Percentile £400 £420 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £575
90th Percentile £625 £688 £650
England median daily rate £542 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -4.13% +2.69% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 29 43
10th Percentile £37.63 £30.42 £14.25
25th Percentile £44.72 £38.50 £19.31
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.50 £39.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% +24.36% +50.00%
75th Percentile £68.75 £63.75 £50.60
90th Percentile £74.50 £70.00 £59.75
England median hourly rate £62.50 £60.94 £50.00
% change year-on-year +2.56% +21.88% +14.94%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in the North of England

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Python in the North of England

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in the North of England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python in the North of England

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Python in the North of England

Python
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Python in the North of England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Python in the North of England

Python
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 within the North of England region over the 6 months to 4 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
North West -6 177 £500 -11.97% 143
Yorkshire +14 144 £500 -16.67% 75
North East +7 30 £516 -23.63% 19
Python
England

Python
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 17 (4.87%) Apache
1 17 (4.87%) Apache Spark
2 14 (4.01%) Confluence
3 13 (3.72%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.72%) nginx
4 6 (1.72%) SAS
5 3 (0.86%) IIS
5 3 (0.86%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.57%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.57%) Traefik
7 1 (0.29%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.29%) Drupal
7 1 (0.29%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 62 (17.77%) Chatbot
2 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.86%) Maximo
2 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 122 (34.96%) AWS
2 71 (20.34%) Azure
3 43 (12.32%) GCP
4 42 (12.03%) GitHub
5 33 (9.46%) Power Platform
6 32 (9.17%) Amazon S3
6 32 (9.17%) Serverless
7 29 (8.31%) Amazon EC2
8 27 (7.74%) Snowflake
9 19 (5.44%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (4.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 14 (4.01%) AWS CloudFormation
12 13 (3.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (2.87%) Amazon ELB
13 10 (2.87%) Cloud Computing
14 9 (2.58%) Apigee
14 9 (2.58%) Azure DevOps
14 9 (2.58%) Power Automate
15 8 (2.29%) Azure Data Factory
15 8 (2.29%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 27 (7.74%) Firewall
2 13 (3.72%) DNS
2 13 (3.72%) Wi-Fi
3 12 (3.44%) BGP
3 12 (3.44%) Cisco ASA
3 12 (3.44%) Cisco Firepower
3 12 (3.44%) Cisco ISE
3 12 (3.44%) EIGRP
3 12 (3.44%) HSRP
3 12 (3.44%) IPsec
3 12 (3.44%) NetScaler
3 12 (3.44%) OSPF
3 12 (3.44%) SNMP
3 12 (3.44%) Spanning Tree
4 10 (2.87%) HTTP
4 10 (2.87%) TCP/IP
5 8 (2.29%) Network Security
6 7 (2.01%) VPN
6 7 (2.01%) Wireless
7 5 (1.43%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (9.17%) Power BI
2 23 (6.59%) Data Lake
3 21 (6.02%) Tableau
4 17 (4.87%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (4.30%) SQL Server
6 14 (4.01%) NoSQL
7 13 (3.72%) Amazon Redshift
7 13 (3.72%) MySQL
7 13 (3.72%) Relational Database
8 12 (3.44%) Big Data
8 12 (3.44%) MongoDB
9 11 (3.15%) BigQuery
10 10 (2.87%) Apache Cassandra
11 9 (2.58%) PostgreSQL
12 8 (2.29%) Hadoop
13 7 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
14 6 (1.72%) DynamoDB
14 6 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
14 6 (1.72%) Flink
14 6 (1.72%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 55 (15.76%) Jenkins
2 50 (14.33%) Git
3 32 (9.17%) GitLab
4 19 (5.44%) JIRA
5 10 (2.87%) SonarQube
6 7 (2.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 7 (2.01%) Burp Suite
6 7 (2.01%) Selenium
7 6 (1.72%) CircleCI
7 6 (1.72%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 6 (1.72%) Travis CI
8 4 (1.15%) AppScan
8 4 (1.15%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.86%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.86%) gulp
9 3 (0.86%) Maven
9 3 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.86%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.57%) ER Studio
10 2 (0.57%) PyCharm
General
1 71 (20.34%) Social Skills
2 25 (7.16%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (6.88%) Public Sector
4 23 (6.59%) Finance
5 14 (4.01%) Pharmaceutical
6 11 (3.15%) Retail
7 7 (2.01%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.15%) Legal
9 3 (0.86%) Banking
9 3 (0.86%) Health Technology
9 3 (0.86%) Marketing
10 2 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.29%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 115 (32.95%) Developer
2 62 (17.77%) Software Developer
3 37 (10.60%) DevOps Engineer
4 34 (9.74%) Analyst
5 32 (9.17%) Senior
6 26 (7.45%) Python Developer
7 25 (7.16%) Data Analyst
8 23 (6.59%) Data Engineer
9 20 (5.73%) Lead
10 19 (5.44%) AWS DevOps
11 17 (4.87%) Network Engineer
12 16 (4.58%) AWS Engineer
13 13 (3.72%) Storage Manager
14 11 (3.15%) Architect
14 11 (3.15%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 11 (3.15%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 11 (3.15%) Tester
15 10 (2.87%) Senior DevOps
15 10 (2.87%) Software Engineer
16 9 (2.58%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (19.77%) HTML
2 26 (7.45%) YAML
3 22 (6.30%) JSON
4 14 (4.01%) XML
5 12 (3.44%) .NET
5 12 (3.44%) Jinja
6 11 (3.15%) Kafka
7 10 (2.87%) Django
7 10 (2.87%) Elastic Stack
7 10 (2.87%) Node.js
8 9 (2.58%) FastAPI
8 9 (2.58%) REST
8 9 (2.58%) RESTful
9 8 (2.29%) AngularJS
9 8 (2.29%) Lambda Expressions
9 8 (2.29%) PyTorch
9 8 (2.29%) TensorFlow
10 7 (2.01%) CSS
10 7 (2.01%) Flask
10 7 (2.01%) React
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.01%) Data Centre
2 9 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (2.58%) Mobile App
3 8 (2.29%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (2.29%) Onboarding
3 8 (2.29%) Public Cloud
4 7 (2.01%) Data Structures
4 7 (2.01%) Replication
5 6 (1.72%) Operational Technology
6 5 (1.43%) IoT
6 5 (1.43%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.43%) NHS
6 5 (1.43%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.15%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.15%) CMDB
7 4 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.15%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (1.15%) PKI
8 3 (0.86%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 59 (16.91%) Linux
2 15 (4.30%) zOS
3 14 (4.01%) Unix
4 12 (3.44%) Windows
5 9 (2.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.72%) CentOS
7 3 (0.86%) Android
7 3 (0.86%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.86%) Kali Linux
7 3 (0.86%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.57%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (28.65%) DevOps
2 90 (25.79%) Software Engineering
3 82 (23.50%) CI/CD
4 79 (22.64%) Artificial Intelligence
5 76 (21.78%) Agile
6 65 (18.62%) Code Quality
7 64 (18.34%) Conversational UI
8 46 (13.18%) Containerisation
8 46 (13.18%) Problem-Solving
9 43 (12.32%) Infrastructure as Code
10 36 (10.32%) Data Modelling
11 34 (9.74%) Data Pipeline
12 33 (9.46%) Stakeholder Management
13 32 (9.17%) Business Intelligence
14 30 (8.60%) Visualisation
15 29 (8.31%) Data Engineering
15 29 (8.31%) ETL
16 26 (7.45%) Analytics
16 26 (7.45%) Machine Learning
17 22 (6.30%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 138 (39.54%) SQL
2 101 (28.94%) JavaScript
3 79 (22.64%) C#
4 51 (14.61%) Bash
5 41 (11.75%) Java
6 30 (8.60%) PowerShell
7 21 (6.02%) Go
8 15 (4.30%) JCL
8 15 (4.30%) Perl
8 15 (4.30%) REXX
9 12 (3.44%) Tcl
10 11 (3.15%) Scala
11 9 (2.58%) C++
11 9 (2.58%) Ruby
12 7 (2.01%) Groovy
12 7 (2.01%) Shell Script
13 6 (1.72%) R
14 5 (1.43%) Search Processing Language
15 4 (1.15%) TypeScript
16 2 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 81 (23.21%) Degree
2 54 (15.47%) Security Cleared
3 50 (14.33%) SC Cleared
4 16 (4.58%) CCNA
4 16 (4.58%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (4.30%) CCNP
6 10 (2.87%) AWS Certification
7 9 (2.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 9 (2.58%) OSCP
8 6 (1.72%) CEH
8 6 (1.72%) CREST Certified
8 6 (1.72%) GIAC
8 6 (1.72%) GPEN
9 4 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (0.86%) CCIE
10 3 (0.86%) HNC
10 3 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.29%) CISM
11 1 (0.29%) CISSP
11 1 (0.29%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (9.17%) QA
2 21 (6.02%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.58%) NIST
4 6 (1.72%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.15%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.86%) ISO 22301
7 2 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.57%) NCSC
8 1 (0.29%) GDPR
8 1 (0.29%) Good Clinical Practice
8 1 (0.29%) GRC
8 1 (0.29%) GxP
System Software
1 53 (15.19%) Docker
2 15 (4.30%) NFS
2 15 (4.30%) Time Sharing Option
3 13 (3.72%) Firmware
4 8 (2.29%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.86%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 3 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.57%) HDFS
6 2 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.29%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 70 (20.06%) Ansible
2 69 (19.77%) Kubernetes
3 66 (18.91%) Terraform
4 17 (4.87%) Grafana
5 16 (4.58%) Puppet
6 15 (4.30%) Prometheus
6 15 (4.30%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 12 (3.44%) Progress Chef
8 10 (2.87%) HP Fortify
9 8 (2.29%) Docker Swarm
10 6 (1.72%) Kibana
10 6 (1.72%) logstash
10 6 (1.72%) Packer
11 4 (1.15%) Graylog
11 4 (1.15%) Nessus
11 4 (1.15%) Rancher
11 4 (1.15%) WebInspect
12 3 (0.86%) Istio
12 3 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.86%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 61 (17.48%) PayPal
2 34 (9.74%) Splunk
3 31 (8.88%) Microsoft
4 20 (5.73%) Google
5 18 (5.16%) IBM
6 17 (4.87%) Cisco
7 16 (4.58%) Brocade
8 15 (4.30%) Broadcom
8 15 (4.30%) CA
8 15 (4.30%) Dell
9 13 (3.72%) SolarWinds
10 12 (3.44%) Citrix
10 12 (3.44%) Palo Alto
11 11 (3.15%) SAP
12 10 (2.87%) Databricks
13 8 (2.29%) Informatica
14 7 (2.01%) VMware
15 6 (1.72%) RedPrairie
15 6 (1.72%) Salesforce
15 6 (1.72%) Trillium