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 8 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 9 9
Rank change year-on-year -14 0 +4
Contract jobs citing Python 13 13 22
As % of all contract jobs in Nottinghamshire 4.85% 8.90% 13.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.55% 29.55% 40.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 10
10th Percentile £379 £371 £411
25th Percentile £404 £388 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £440
Median % change year-on-year - +2.27% -20.00%
75th Percentile £549 £500 £509
90th Percentile £698 £518 £558
East Midlands median daily rate £447 £425 £440
% change year-on-year +5.18% -3.41% -12.00%

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 44 44 54
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 16.42% 30.14% 32.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 32 31
10th Percentile £390 £350 £313
25th Percentile £469 £371 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £483 £400
Median % change year-on-year +8.81% +20.63% -15.79%
75th Percentile £600 £523 £445
90th Percentile £650 £545 £538
East Midlands median daily rate £450 £400 £419
% change year-on-year +12.50% -4.53% -1.41%
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
East Midlands median hourly rate £25.42 £18.20 £25.00
% change year-on-year +39.64% -27.20% -34.62%

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 8 March 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 8 March 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 -9 13 £450 - 25
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 (7.69%) Apache
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) AWS
1 8 (61.54%) Serverless
2 7 (53.85%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (46.15%) Azure
4 4 (30.77%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (23.08%) Power Platform
6 1 (7.69%) Azure AKS
6 1 (7.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (7.69%) Azure Functions
6 1 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (7.69%) Matillion
6 1 (7.69%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (53.85%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (53.85%) DynamoDB
2 3 (23.08%) Power BI
3 2 (15.38%) Data Lake
4 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (7.69%) Delta Lake
4 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (7.69%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (7.69%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Git
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Data Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Data Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Lead
2 2 (15.38%) Project Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Lead Data Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Python Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (53.85%) Django
1 7 (53.85%) GraphQL
1 7 (53.85%) RESTful
2 2 (15.38%) PySpark
3 1 (7.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Data Structures
1 2 (15.38%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Agile
1 7 (53.85%) Pair Programming
1 7 (53.85%) TDD
2 5 (38.46%) Data Modelling
3 4 (30.77%) Analytics
4 3 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (23.08%) Data Transformation
5 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
5 2 (15.38%) Dashboard Development
5 2 (15.38%) Data Engineering
5 2 (15.38%) DevOps
5 2 (15.38%) ETL
5 2 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (7.69%) Cloud Security
6 1 (7.69%) Cost Management
6 1 (7.69%) Cost Optimisation
6 1 (7.69%) Data Pipeline
6 1 (7.69%) Incident Response
6 1 (7.69%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) SQL
2 1 (7.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Databricks
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow