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 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 16 11
Rank change year-on-year -5 -5 +22
Contract jobs citing Python 8 7 17
As % of all contract jobs in Nottinghamshire 4.73% 4.43% 9.04%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.22% 13.21% 29.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 12
10th Percentile - £430 £350
25th Percentile - £466 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -30.91% +10.00% -22.72%
75th Percentile - £675 -
90th Percentile - £735 £534
East Midlands median daily rate £410 £383 £475
% change year-on-year +7.19% -19.47% -5.00%

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 36 53 57
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 21.30% 33.54% 30.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 31 46
10th Percentile £380 £413 £350
25th Percentile £394 £469 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £525 £518 £650
90th Percentile £648 £575 £700
East Midlands median daily rate £413 £425 £474
% change year-on-year -2.94% -10.29% +5.28%
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 £16.42 £22.50 £53.00
% change year-on-year -27.02% -57.55% +169.51%

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
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 15 October 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 -2 8 £380 -41.54% 22
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:

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