Python Contracts in Northern Ireland

Python
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 23 11 19
Rank change year-on-year -12 +8 -7
Contract jobs citing Python 9 13 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 5.66% 8.72% 6.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.00% 36.11% 23.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 8
10th Percentile £288 £364 -
25th Percentile £369 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £435 £500
Median % change year-on-year +20.69% -13.00% -
75th Percentile £594 £500 £650
90th Percentile £615 £513 -
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £31.25 -
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £57.50 £64.38
% change year-on-year -39.13% -10.68% +29.40%

All Programming Languages
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 60 36 59
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 37.74% 24.16% 29.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 18 38
10th Percentile £273 £318 -
25th Percentile £325 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £443 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.95% -1.67% -7.22%
75th Percentile £517 £505 £530
90th Percentile £627 £575 £615
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £27.03 £19.02 -
25th Percentile £33.86 £23.37 £13.25
Median hourly rate £47.85 £31.25 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.13% +131.48% -28.95%
75th Percentile £64.47 £31.88 £13.75
90th Percentile £72.87 - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in Northern Ireland

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Daily rate trend for Python in Northern Ireland

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Northern Ireland

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

Daily rate histogram for Python in Northern Ireland

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Hourly rate trend for Python in Northern Ireland

Python
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Northern Ireland 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
County Antrim -14 9 £525 +20.69% 54
Python
UK

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 (22.22%) Apache Spark
2 1 (11.11%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
1 3 (33.33%) OpenShift
2 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Tableau
2 3 (33.33%) Flink
3 2 (22.22%) Apache Hive
3 2 (22.22%) Big Data
3 2 (22.22%) Power BI
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (11.11%) GIS
4 1 (11.11%) Hadoop
4 1 (11.11%) HBase
4 1 (11.11%) Impala
4 1 (11.11%) Metadata
4 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
General
1 8 (88.89%) Social Skills
2 6 (66.67%) Finance
3 5 (55.56%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (33.33%) Law
5 2 (22.22%) Banking
6 1 (11.11%) Financial Institution
6 1 (11.11%) Front Office
6 1 (11.11%) Investment Banking
6 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Big Data Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Data Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Business Data Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) ETL Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Python Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Big Data Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Fixed Income
2 3 (33.33%) Credit Risk
2 3 (33.33%) Equities
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (11.11%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (44.44%) Computer Science
2 4 (44.44%) Data Management
3 3 (33.33%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) Clean Code
3 3 (33.33%) High Availability
3 3 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 3 (33.33%) Microservices
4 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (22.22%) Data Analysis
4 2 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (22.22%) ETL
4 2 (22.22%) Process Improvement
5 1 (11.11%) Data Architecture
5 1 (11.11%) Data Cleansing
5 1 (11.11%) Data Governance
5 1 (11.11%) Data Modelling
5 1 (11.11%) Electronic Trading
5 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (11.11%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) SQL
2 3 (33.33%) Java
3 2 (22.22%) Scala
4 1 (11.11%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Degree
2 4 (44.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
3 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
3 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Cloudera