Python Contract Job Trends in Nottinghamshire

Python
East Midlands > Nottinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire requiring Python skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 16 7
Rank change year-on-year -2 -9 +24
Contract jobs citing Python 8 8 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 4.76% 5.23% 12.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.53% 16.67% 37.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 23
10th Percentile - £442 £350
25th Percentile - £495 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £613 £500
Median % change year-on-year -37.96% +22.50% -12.59%
75th Percentile - £709 £650
90th Percentile - £749 £700
East Midlands median daily rate £415 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +3.75% -20.00% -

All Programming Languages
Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 34 48 75
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 20.24% 31.37% 34.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 30 63
10th Percentile £380 £412 £350
25th Percentile £394 £478 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £538 £534 £650
90th Percentile £674 £613 £700
East Midlands median daily rate £413 £445 £474
% change year-on-year -7.30% -6.07% +1.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.67%
East Midlands median hourly rate £19.00 £22.50 £53.00
% change year-on-year -15.56% -57.55% +51.43%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in Nottinghamshire

Python
Daily Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing Python

Python
Hourly Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing Python

Python
Contract Job Locations in Nottinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Nottinghamshire region over the 6 months to 16 September 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
Nottingham -3 8 £380 -43.70% 33
Python
East Midlands

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Nottinghamshire 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
1 5 (62.50%) Serverless
2 4 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (37.50%) Azure
4 2 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (25.00%) Snowflake
5 1 (12.50%) Azure AKS
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Machine Learning
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) DynamoDB
2 4 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (25.00%) Data Lake
4 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Data Scientist
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) ETRM Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Django
1 4 (50.00%) GraphQL
1 4 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (12.50%) Kafka
2 1 (12.50%) Prophet
2 1 (12.50%) PySpark
2 1 (12.50%) pytest
2 1 (12.50%) scikit-learn
2 1 (12.50%) Streamlit
2 1 (12.50%) XGBoost
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) Pair Programming
2 4 (50.00%) SDLC
2 4 (50.00%) TDD
3 2 (25.00%) Analytics
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (25.00%) Data Transformation
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) ETRM
3 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (12.50%) ARIMA
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
4 1 (12.50%) Cost Management
4 1 (12.50%) Feature Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Generative AI
4 1 (12.50%) Incident Response
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Java
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Databricks
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow