Python Contracts in Northamptonshire

Python
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire 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 14 11 31
Rank change year-on-year -3 +20 +5
Contract jobs citing Python 12 14 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 8.22% 7.14% 2.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.05% 31.82% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 12 5
10th Percentile £322 - £370
25th Percentile £352 £356 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £430 £400
Median % change year-on-year -5.70% +7.50% +10.50%
75th Percentile £450 £519 -
90th Percentile £485 - £405
East Midlands median daily rate £425 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -17.07% +2.50% +5.26%

All Programming Languages
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 57 44 48
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 39.04% 22.45% 19.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 37 40
10th Percentile £269 £356 £212
25th Percentile £322 £381 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £383 £435 £313
Median % change year-on-year -11.95% +39.20% -21.88%
75th Percentile £440 £500 £400
90th Percentile £499 £521 £500
East Midlands median daily rate £425 £425 £425
% change year-on-year - - +1.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £11.25
Median hourly rate - - £12.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -64.29%
75th Percentile - - £13.75
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.60 £25.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -25.60% -50.00% +42.86%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in Northamptonshire

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Daily rate trend for Python in Northamptonshire

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Python in Northamptonshire

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Python in Northamptonshire

Python
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Northampton -5 10 £383 +5.66% 49
Python
East Midlands

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 (16.67%) JBoss
1 2 (16.67%) Tomcat
2 1 (8.33%) SAS
Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon EMR
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon Kinesis
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (16.67%) GCP
2 2 (16.67%) OpenShift
2 2 (16.67%) Serverless
2 2 (16.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 2 (16.67%) NoSQL
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (8.33%) Big Data
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle Database
2 1 (8.33%) RDBMS
2 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (8.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (16.67%) Bitbucket Server
2 2 (16.67%) CA Release Automation
2 2 (16.67%) Git
2 2 (16.67%) Introscope
2 2 (16.67%) JIRA
2 2 (16.67%) LoadRunner
2 2 (16.67%) SonarQube
2 2 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (16.67%) TeamCity
3 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Banking
3 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 4 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Python Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Python Data Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Snowflake Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Test Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Risk Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) .NET
1 2 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (16.67%) HTML
1 2 (16.67%) J2EE
1 2 (16.67%) Kafka
1 2 (16.67%) Spring Boot
1 2 (16.67%) Web Services
2 1 (8.33%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (8.33%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (16.67%) AIX
2 2 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (16.67%) Unix
3 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (33.33%) Agile
2 4 (33.33%) DevOps
2 4 (33.33%) ETL
2 4 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
3 3 (25.00%) Migration
3 3 (25.00%) Scrum
4 2 (16.67%) Business Development
4 2 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 2 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (16.67%) Data Extraction
4 2 (16.67%) Data Governance
4 2 (16.67%) Data Integration
4 2 (16.67%) Data Modelling
4 2 (16.67%) Data Security
4 2 (16.67%) Performance Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Test Scripting
4 2 (16.67%) Test Strategy
4 2 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) SQL
2 4 (33.33%) Java
3 2 (16.67%) C
3 2 (16.67%) Perl
3 2 (16.67%) Scala
4 1 (8.33%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) AWS Certification
1 2 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (8.33%) Basel III
2 1 (8.33%) IFRS
2 1 (8.33%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Docker
2 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (16.67%) CA Wily
2 2 (16.67%) Kibana
2 2 (16.67%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) AppDynamics
1 4 (33.33%) Splunk
2 2 (16.67%) Google
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 2 (16.67%) VMware
3 1 (8.33%) HP
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle
3 1 (8.33%) Salesforce