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 6 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 15 8
Rank change year-on-year -7 -7 -4
Contract jobs citing Python 18 9 19
As % of all contract jobs in Nottinghamshire 4.89% 6.25% 12.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.03% 28.13% 32.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 7 5
10th Percentile £413 £370 -
25th Percentile £417 £380 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% -22.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £545 £500 £688
90th Percentile £595 £535 £718
East Midlands median daily rate £495 £425 £425
% change year-on-year +16.47% - -15.00%

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 62 32 58
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 16.85% 22.22% 38.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 29 24
10th Percentile £410 £350 £343
25th Percentile £417 £373 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £438 £450
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -2.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £510 £541
90th Percentile £615 £534 £575
East Midlands median daily rate £495 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +23.75% -5.88% -3.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £6.57
Median hourly rate - - £7.85
Median % change year-on-year - - -79.47%
75th Percentile - - £9.14
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £80.50 £19.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +323.68% -24.00% -50.00%

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 6 June 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 6 June 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 -10 18 £463 +8.82% 30
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 2 (11.11%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.56%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 10 (55.56%) AWS
2 9 (50.00%) Azure
3 6 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (33.33%) Serverless
4 5 (27.78%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (22.22%) Power Platform
6 3 (16.67%) GitHub
7 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
7 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (5.56%) Azure Functions
7 1 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (5.56%) Azure Stack
7 1 (5.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (5.56%) Matillion
7 1 (5.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) LAN
1 1 (5.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (27.78%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (27.78%) DynamoDB
2 4 (22.22%) Power BI
3 3 (16.67%) Data Lake
4 2 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (5.56%) Delta Lake
5 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
5 1 (5.56%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (5.56%) Spark SQL
5 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) GitLab
2 1 (5.56%) Git
General
1 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Analyst
2 3 (16.67%) Data Analyst
2 3 (16.67%) Site Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Project Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Senior
3 2 (11.11%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Data Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Data Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Data Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Lead
4 1 (5.56%) Lead Data Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Python Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) Django
1 5 (27.78%) GraphQL
1 5 (27.78%) RESTful
2 3 (16.67%) PySpark
3 1 (5.56%) NumPy
3 1 (5.56%) Pandas
3 1 (5.56%) PyTorch
3 1 (5.56%) scikit-learn
3 1 (5.56%) SciPy
3 1 (5.56%) TensorFlow
3 1 (5.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Data Structures
1 3 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (11.11%) SCADA
3 1 (5.56%) Algorithms
3 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.56%) Life Science
3 1 (5.56%) Omics
3 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) CentOS
1 3 (16.67%) Linux
1 3 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Analytics
2 8 (44.44%) Agile
3 7 (38.89%) Data Modelling
4 5 (27.78%) CI/CD
4 5 (27.78%) Pair Programming
4 5 (27.78%) TDD
5 4 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (22.22%) Data Transformation
5 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (16.67%) Dashboard Development
6 3 (16.67%) Data Engineering
6 3 (16.67%) ETL
6 3 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (16.67%) User Stories
7 2 (11.11%) Data Analysis
7 2 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
7 2 (11.11%) Data Science
7 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (11.11%) Predictive Maintenance
7 2 (11.11%) Probabilistic Modelling
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (5.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.56%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Terraform
2 3 (16.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Databricks
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.56%) Red Hat