Python Contract Job Trends in Nottingham

Python
Nottinghamshire > Nottingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Nottingham requiring Python skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 9 6
Rank change year-on-year -13 -3 +1
Contract jobs citing Python 14 14 22
As % of all contract jobs in Nottingham 5.45% 11.86% 16.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.79% 45.16% 48.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 9 10
10th Percentile £385 £371 £411
25th Percentile £419 £388 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £440
Median % change year-on-year - +2.27% -26.67%
75th Percentile £545 £500 £509
90th Percentile £649 £518 £586
Nottinghamshire median daily rate £450 £450 £440
% change year-on-year - +2.27% -26.67%

All Programming Languages
Nottingham

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 Nottingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 47 31 45
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottingham 18.29% 26.27% 32.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 25 27
10th Percentile £392 £350 £313
25th Percentile £438 £365 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £440
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +7.95% -12.00%
75th Percentile £600 £523 £500
90th Percentile £640 £541 £600
Nottinghamshire median daily rate £525 £475 £425
% change year-on-year +10.53% +11.76% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £7.58
25th Percentile - - £9.09
Median hourly rate - £12.92 £12.78
Median % change year-on-year - +1.10% -51.74%
75th Percentile - - £16.35
90th Percentile - - £17.79
Nottinghamshire median hourly rate - £12.92 £12.78
% change year-on-year - +1.10% -51.74%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Python relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottingham.

Python job vacancy trend in Nottingham

Python
Daily Rate Trend in Nottingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottingham citing Python.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottingham citing Python

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Nottingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Nottingham over the 6 months to 10 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Python in Nottingham

Python
Hourly Rate Trend in Nottingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottingham citing Python.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottingham citing Python

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.14%) Apache
1 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) AWS
2 8 (57.14%) Serverless
3 7 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (50.00%) Azure
4 5 (35.71%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (28.57%) Power Platform
6 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Functions
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (7.14%) GitHub
6 1 (7.14%) Matillion
6 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (50.00%) DynamoDB
2 4 (28.57%) Power BI
3 3 (21.43%) Data Lake
4 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (7.14%) Delta Lake
4 1 (7.14%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (7.14%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Git
1 1 (7.14%) GitLab
General
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Data Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Data Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Lead
3 2 (14.29%) Project Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Lead Data Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Python Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Site Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (50.00%) Django
1 7 (50.00%) GraphQL
1 7 (50.00%) RESTful
2 2 (14.29%) PySpark
3 1 (7.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Data Structures
1 3 (21.43%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) CentOS
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Agile
2 7 (50.00%) Pair Programming
2 7 (50.00%) TDD
3 6 (42.86%) Analytics
3 6 (42.86%) Data Modelling
4 4 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (28.57%) Data Transformation
5 3 (21.43%) Dashboard Development
6 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
6 2 (14.29%) Data Engineering
6 2 (14.29%) ETL
6 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (7.14%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (7.14%) Data Analytics
7 1 (7.14%) Knowledge Transfer
7 1 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 1 (7.14%) Software Engineering
7 1 (7.14%) Software Testing
7 1 (7.14%) Sprint Retrospective
7 1 (7.14%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) SQL
2 1 (7.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (42.86%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Terraform
2 1 (7.14%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Databricks
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft