Python Contracts in Plymouth

Python
Devon > Plymouth

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Plymouth requiring Python skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Python over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 5 8
Rank change year-on-year -6 +3 -3
Contract jobs citing Python 2 5 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Plymouth 5.26% 7.81% 8.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 50.00% 71.43% 31.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £479 £748 £430
25th Percentile £484 £748 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £749 £550
Median % change year-on-year -31.57% +36.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £534 £749 £625
90th Percentile £536 £750 £670
Devon median daily rate £500 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -16.67% - +1.78%

All Programming Languages
Plymouth

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 Plymouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4 7 16
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Plymouth 10.53% 10.94% 27.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 11
10th Percentile £425 £560 £375
25th Percentile £444 £650 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £724 £450
Median % change year-on-year -30.94% +60.88% -30.77%
75th Percentile £531 £748 £488
90th Percentile £535 £749 £500
Devon median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
Devon median hourly rate - £47.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year - - +18.52%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Plymouth

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in Plymouth

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Plymouth

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python in Plymouth.

Daily rate trend for Python in Plymouth

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Plymouth

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python in Plymouth.

Hourly rate trend for Python in Plymouth

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Plymouth 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Encryption
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Resource Management
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) ESRI
1 1 (50.00%) Rapid7
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk