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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 19 31
Rank change year-on-year -13 +12 -2
Contract jobs citing Python 18 20 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 5.90% 7.63% 0.97%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.53% 26.32% 4.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 17 2
10th Percentile £339 £355 -
25th Percentile £363 £356 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £434 £365 £400
Median % change year-on-year +18.77% -8.75% -20.00%
75th Percentile £489 £400 -
90th Percentile £515 £520 -
East Midlands median daily rate £425 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +6.25% -20.00% -

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 133 76 43
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 43.61% 29.01% 20.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 58 36
10th Percentile £260 £356 £300
25th Percentile £313 £377 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £372 £430 £400
Median % change year-on-year -13.60% +7.50% -19.19%
75th Percentile £430 £498 £538
90th Percentile £488 £588 £581
East Midlands median daily rate £410 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -8.89% - -

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 2 August 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 2 August 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 -18 16 £449 +22.95% 25
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 (11.11%) JBoss
2 1 (5.56%) SAS
Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 12 (66.67%) AWS
2 5 (27.78%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (22.22%) Amazon EMR
3 4 (22.22%) Amazon Kinesis
3 4 (22.22%) Amazon S3
4 3 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (16.67%) Serverless
5 2 (11.11%) Azure
5 2 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (11.11%) GCP
5 2 (11.11%) OpenShift
5 2 (11.11%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) Firewall
2 2 (11.11%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) Amazon Redshift
1 4 (22.22%) NoSQL
2 3 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (11.11%) Relational Database
4 1 (5.56%) RDBMS
4 1 (5.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Bitbucket Server
1 4 (22.22%) Git
1 4 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.11%) CA Release Automation
2 2 (11.11%) JIRA
2 2 (11.11%) SonarQube
2 2 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (11.11%) Subversion
2 2 (11.11%) TeamCity
3 1 (5.56%) Bitbucket
General
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Finance
4 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Cloud Engineer
1 4 (22.22%) Data Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Analyst
2 3 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Developer
2 3 (16.67%) Python Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Angular Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Operations Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Python Data Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Security Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Security Operations Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Snowflake Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Risk Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) AngularJS
1 2 (11.11%) CSS
1 2 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (11.11%) HTML
1 2 (11.11%) HTML5
1 2 (11.11%) jQuery
1 2 (11.11%) Kafka
1 2 (11.11%) LDAP
1 2 (11.11%) React Native
1 2 (11.11%) REST
1 2 (11.11%) RxJS
1 2 (11.11%) Spring Boot
2 1 (5.56%) PySpark
2 1 (5.56%) React
2 1 (5.56%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Algorithms
1 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 2 (11.11%) Product Ownership
1 2 (11.11%) Security Posture
2 1 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Linux
2 2 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 6 (33.33%) ETL
2 5 (27.78%) DevOps
2 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (22.22%) Analytics
3 4 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (22.22%) Data Security
3 4 (22.22%) Microservices
4 3 (16.67%) Agile
4 3 (16.67%) Data Engineering
4 3 (16.67%) Data Governance
4 3 (16.67%) Data Modelling
4 3 (16.67%) Data Science
4 3 (16.67%) Migration
5 2 (11.11%) Anti-Money Laundering
5 2 (11.11%) API Development
5 2 (11.11%) Data Lineage
5 2 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (11.11%) KYC
5 2 (11.11%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) SQL
2 7 (38.89%) Java
3 3 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 2 (11.11%) Bash
4 2 (11.11%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (11.11%) Perl
4 2 (11.11%) Scala
4 2 (11.11%) TypeScript
5 1 (5.56%) C#
5 1 (5.56%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) AWS Certification
1 2 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 2 (11.11%) Data Quality
1 2 (11.11%) GDPR
1 2 (11.11%) NIST
1 2 (11.11%) SLA
2 1 (5.56%) Basel III
2 1 (5.56%) IFRS
2 1 (5.56%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Docker
2 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.11%) Kibana
2 2 (11.11%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) AppDynamics
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 2 (11.11%) Red Hat
1 2 (11.11%) Splunk