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 22 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 39 41
Rank change year-on-year +17 +2 -25
Contract jobs citing Python 8 5 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Portsmouth 4.32% 2.15% 2.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.69% 8.77% 9.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 1
10th Percentile £395 £569 -
25th Percentile £419 £597 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £630 £250
Median % change year-on-year -17.43% +151.90% -50.00%
75th Percentile £530 £635 £275
90th Percentile £565 £637 -
Hampshire median daily rate £561 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +18.16% -13.64% +8.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £53.25 - -
25th Percentile £54.38 - £66.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 - £67.50
75th Percentile £58.75 - £68.75
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £56.25 £29.00 £33.50
% change year-on-year +93.97% -13.42% -

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 51 57 64
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 27.57% 24.46% 23.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 26 25
10th Percentile £418 - £406
25th Percentile £464 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £506 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -11.96% +19.02%
75th Percentile £556 £589 £638
90th Percentile £657 £636 £676
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 17 14
10th Percentile - £61.25 £47.31
25th Percentile £50.00 - £54.89
Median hourly rate £52.50 £70.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +21.74% +4.55%
75th Percentile £55.63 - £67.30
90th Percentile £58.63 £71.50 £70.00
Hampshire median hourly rate £52.44 £70.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -25.09% +21.74% +14.12%

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 22 July 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 1 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
1 1 (12.50%) Confluence
1 1 (12.50%) Gunicorn
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) GitHub
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
2 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (12.50%) MinIO
2 1 (12.50%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) HTTP
1 3 (37.50%) SNMP
1 3 (37.50%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (12.50%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) SSH
2 1 (12.50%) SSL
2 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (37.50%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (12.50%) Big Data
3 1 (12.50%) Delta Lake
3 1 (12.50%) Hadoop
3 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 1 (12.50%) ObjectStore
3 1 (12.50%) Parquet
3 1 (12.50%) Redis
3 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Git
2 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (50.00%) JIRA
3 3 (37.50%) GoogleTest
3 3 (37.50%) Robot Framework
4 2 (25.00%) Poetry
5 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
5 1 (12.50%) MLflow
5 1 (12.50%) PyCharm
5 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
5 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio Code
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
1 3 (37.50%) Python Developer
1 3 (37.50%) Software Test Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Test Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Data Scientist
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Embedded Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Flask
2 3 (37.50%) CSS
2 3 (37.50%) HTML
2 3 (37.50%) Node.js
3 2 (25.00%) Celery
3 2 (25.00%) Django
3 2 (25.00%) FastAPI
3 2 (25.00%) NumPy
3 2 (25.00%) Pandas
3 2 (25.00%) pytest
3 2 (25.00%) RESTful
3 2 (25.00%) Web Services
4 1 (12.50%) Apache Avro
4 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (12.50%) Kafka
4 1 (12.50%) Keycloak
4 1 (12.50%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (12.50%) CUDA
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Agile
1 5 (62.50%) Test Automation
2 3 (37.50%) Integration Testing
2 3 (37.50%) Scrum
2 3 (37.50%) Software Testing
2 3 (37.50%) SysML
2 3 (37.50%) UML
2 3 (37.50%) Validation
2 3 (37.50%) Verification and Validation
3 2 (25.00%) Dependency Management
3 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Data Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) ETL
4 1 (12.50%) Identity Management
4 1 (12.50%) Migration
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (12.50%) Prototyping
4 1 (12.50%) Security Patching
4 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Bash
1 1 (12.50%) C++
1 1 (12.50%) Groovy
1 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Firmware
2 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Argo
1 1 (12.50%) Istio
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Atlassian
1 1 (12.50%) Cloudera
1 1 (12.50%) Google
1 1 (12.50%) Red Hat