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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 21 16
Rank change year-on-year -5 -5 -4
Contract jobs citing Python 14 8 7
As % of all contract jobs in Nottinghamshire 3.59% 4.68% 4.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.73% 21.62% 12.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 3
10th Percentile - - £430
25th Percentile £300 - £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £380 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.84% -30.91% +10.00%
75th Percentile £475 - £675
90th Percentile £545 - £735
East Midlands median daily rate £456 £410 £383
% change year-on-year +11.28% +7.19% -21.54%

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 59 37 54
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 15.13% 21.64% 34.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 26 32
10th Percentile £301 £380 £415
25th Percentile £408 £395 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £434 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.71% -6.00% -
75th Percentile £538 £524 £525
90th Percentile £586 £634 £573
East Midlands median daily rate £475 £413 £425
% change year-on-year +15.15% -2.94% -10.53%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Python job vacancy trend 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
Daily Rate Histogram in Nottinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Nottinghamshire over the 6 months to 4 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Python in Nottinghamshire

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 4 October 2026. 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 -8 13 £425 +11.84% 75
Python
East Midlands

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottinghamshire 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 Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) AWS
2 7 (50.00%) GitHub
3 6 (42.86%) Azure
4 4 (28.57%) Amazon SQS
4 4 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (28.57%) Serverless
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Firewall
1 1 (7.14%) LAN
1 1 (7.14%) SSL
1 1 (7.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (35.71%) MySQL
3 4 (28.57%) Redis
4 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
4 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) GitLab
2 1 (7.14%) Ant
2 1 (7.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.14%) Maven
2 1 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Marketing
2 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Site Engineer
1 3 (21.43%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Data Scientist
2 2 (14.29%) Lead
2 2 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (7.14%) Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) ETL Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (7.14%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Python Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Python Software Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Leader
3 1 (7.14%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) Django
1 5 (35.71%) FastAPI
2 4 (28.57%) Celery
2 4 (28.57%) Playwright
2 4 (28.57%) pytest
3 3 (21.43%) Terraform
4 2 (14.29%) NumPy
4 2 (14.29%) Pandas
4 2 (14.29%) PyTorch
4 2 (14.29%) scikit-learn
4 2 (14.29%) SciPy
4 2 (14.29%) TensorFlow
5 1 (7.14%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) SCADA
2 1 (7.14%) Algorithms
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.14%) Life Science
2 1 (7.14%) Omics
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) CentOS
1 3 (21.43%) Linux
1 3 (21.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Analytics
1 5 (35.71%) DevOps
2 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (21.43%) Agile
3 3 (21.43%) AI
3 3 (21.43%) Data Science
3 3 (21.43%) DevSecOps
3 3 (21.43%) Machine Learning
3 3 (21.43%) Predictive Maintenance
3 3 (21.43%) Probabilistic Modelling
3 3 (21.43%) Signal Processing
3 3 (21.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 3 (21.43%) User Stories
3 3 (21.43%) Validation
4 2 (14.29%) Containerisation
4 2 (14.29%) Data Analysis
4 2 (14.29%) Data Analytics
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (14.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Degree
1 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 8 (57.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Databricks
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Red Hat