Python Contracts in Portsmouth

Python
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Portsmouth 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 13 39 24
Rank change year-on-year +26 -15 +2
Contract jobs citing Python 15 7 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Portsmouth 12.20% 2.34% 6.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.88% 9.86% 22.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 9
10th Percentile £408 £544 £445
25th Percentile £442 £613 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £630 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.01% +14.45% +12.82%
75th Percentile £653 £637 -
90th Percentile £678 £638 -
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £526 £550
% change year-on-year +4.51% -4.32% +4.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 3
10th Percentile £48.00 - £47.35
25th Percentile £52.50 £55.00 £50.88
Median hourly rate £57.50 £60.00 £61.18
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -1.92% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £67.79
90th Percentile £68.75 - £69.12
Hampshire median hourly rate £56.25 £67.50 £44.25
% change year-on-year -16.67% +52.54% +110.71%

All Programming Languages
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 43 71 76
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 34.96% 23.75% 31.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 33 35
10th Percentile £445 £134 £406
25th Percentile £507 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £607 £575 £550
90th Percentile £666 £637 £676
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £545 £525
% change year-on-year +0.92% +3.81% +5.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 19 16
10th Percentile £50.50 £59.00 £48.81
25th Percentile £55.00 £61.25 £52.75
Median hourly rate £57.75 £62.50 £58.20
Median % change year-on-year -7.60% +7.38% +8.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £66.01 £70.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £72.00 £70.64
Hampshire median hourly rate £57.50 £62.25 £55.25
% change year-on-year -7.63% +12.67% +57.86%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in Portsmouth

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Daily rate trend for Python in Portsmouth

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Portsmouth

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Portsmouth over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python in Portsmouth

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Hourly rate trend for Python in Portsmouth

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Portsmouth 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (26.67%) Confluence
2 1 (6.67%) Gunicorn
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon S3
2 2 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (13.33%) GitHub
2 2 (13.33%) PaaS
2 2 (13.33%) Serverless
3 1 (6.67%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (6.67%) MinIO
3 1 (6.67%) npm
3 1 (6.67%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) Software-Defined Radio
2 3 (20.00%) HTTP
2 3 (20.00%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.67%) MySQL
2 1 (6.67%) ObjectStore
2 1 (6.67%) Redis
2 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (53.33%) Git
2 7 (46.67%) JIRA
3 6 (40.00%) Jenkins
4 5 (33.33%) Bitbucket
5 3 (20.00%) GoogleTest
5 3 (20.00%) Robot Framework
6 2 (13.33%) GitLab
7 1 (6.67%) Poetry
General
1 1 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Firmware Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Python Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Software Test Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Test Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) FPGA Developer
3 2 (13.33%) FPGA Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Data Scientist
4 1 (6.67%) Embedded Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) PHP Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Data Scientist
4 1 (6.67%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) CSS
1 3 (20.00%) Flask
1 3 (20.00%) HTML
1 3 (20.00%) Node.js
2 2 (13.33%) Celery
2 2 (13.33%) Django
2 2 (13.33%) FastAPI
2 2 (13.33%) pytest
2 2 (13.33%) RESTful
2 2 (13.33%) Web Services
3 1 (6.67%) Kafka
3 1 (6.67%) Keycloak
3 1 (6.67%) NumPy
3 1 (6.67%) Pandas
3 1 (6.67%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Verilog
1 5 (33.33%) VHDL
2 2 (13.33%) Algorithms
2 2 (13.33%) FPGA
2 2 (13.33%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (6.67%) CUDA
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Agile
2 6 (40.00%) Scrum
2 6 (40.00%) SysML
2 6 (40.00%) UML
3 5 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 4 (26.67%) Software Engineering
5 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (20.00%) Digital Signal Processing
5 3 (20.00%) Integration Testing
5 3 (20.00%) Machine Learning
5 3 (20.00%) Migration
5 3 (20.00%) Signal Processing
5 3 (20.00%) Software Testing
5 3 (20.00%) Validation
5 3 (20.00%) Verification and Validation
6 2 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (13.33%) DevOps
6 2 (13.33%) Risk Management
6 2 (13.33%) Software Delivery
7 1 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) C++
1 3 (20.00%) Java
1 3 (20.00%) SystemVerilog
1 3 (20.00%) Tcl
2 1 (6.67%) C#
2 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (6.67%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 8 (53.33%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 7 (46.67%) Firmware
2 2 (13.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Atlassian
2 3 (20.00%) Xilinx
3 2 (13.33%) Algorithmics
3 2 (13.33%) Intel
4 1 (6.67%) Google
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle