Python Contracts in Reading

Python
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for Python skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Python over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 22 30
Rank change year-on-year -2 +8 -4
Contract jobs citing Python 79 88 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 6.85% 8.76% 5.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.11% 32.84% 26.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 69 49
10th Percentile £361 £413 £390
25th Percentile £425 £525 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £601 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.49% +14.48% +16.67%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £675 £750 £743
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -9.09% +7.32% +20.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Median hourly rate £67.50 £75.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.60% - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £67.50 £41.03 -
% change year-on-year +64.53% - -

All Programming Languages
Reading

Python is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 281 268 300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 24.37% 26.67% 22.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 210 233
10th Percentile £351 £374 £360
25th Percentile £425 £463 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £490
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +12.24% +8.89%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £606
90th Percentile £688 £701 £650
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £538 £490
% change year-on-year +2.33% +9.69% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 0
10th Percentile £54.13 £72.63 -
25th Percentile £56.65 £76.24 -
Median hourly rate £59.22 £79.19 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.22% - -
75th Percentile £66.03 - -
90th Percentile £67.63 £80.28 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.60 £70.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -12.00% -12.50% +122.22%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in Reading

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Python in Reading

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Reading over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python in Reading

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Python in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 9 (11.39%) Apache
1 9 (11.39%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.27%) Appian
2 1 (1.27%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.27%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 41 (51.90%) Azure
2 25 (31.65%) Azure Data Factory
3 24 (30.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 21 (26.58%) Entra ID
5 20 (25.32%) Azure Monitor
6 19 (24.05%) Serverless
7 17 (21.52%) Azure Functions
8 9 (11.39%) Power Platform
9 8 (10.13%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (6.33%) Power Automate
11 4 (5.06%) Azure AKS
11 4 (5.06%) GCP
12 3 (3.80%) AWS
13 1 (1.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 1 (1.27%) Amazon EC2
13 1 (1.27%) Amazon ECS
13 1 (1.27%) Amazon EKS
13 1 (1.27%) AWS CodePipeline
13 1 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
13 1 (1.27%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 9 (11.39%) BGP
1 9 (11.39%) Ethernet VPN
1 9 (11.39%) MPLS
1 9 (11.39%) Radio Access Network
1 9 (11.39%) VPN
2 1 (1.27%) Firewall
2 1 (1.27%) HTTP
2 1 (1.27%) Internet
2 1 (1.27%) Junos
2 1 (1.27%) Network Security
2 1 (1.27%) RNC
2 1 (1.27%) SGSN
2 1 (1.27%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (37.97%) NoSQL
2 18 (22.78%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (15.19%) MongoDB
4 7 (8.86%) GIS
5 4 (5.06%) Big Data
5 4 (5.06%) Power BI
5 4 (5.06%) Redis
6 3 (3.80%) Data Mining
6 3 (3.80%) PowerPivot
6 3 (3.80%) RDBMS
6 3 (3.80%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.53%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.53%) MySQL
7 2 (2.53%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.27%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.27%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.27%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 25 (31.65%) Git
2 12 (15.19%) Robot Framework
3 11 (13.92%) GitLab
3 11 (13.92%) Selenium
4 9 (11.39%) JIRA
4 9 (11.39%) TestRail
5 2 (2.53%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.27%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.27%) CMake
6 1 (1.27%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.27%) JMeter
6 1 (1.27%) JUnit
6 1 (1.27%) Mockito
General
1 23 (29.11%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (11.39%) Telecoms
3 7 (8.86%) Social Skills
4 5 (6.33%) Finance
4 5 (6.33%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (5.06%) Local Government
6 1 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.27%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 39 (49.37%) Developer
2 25 (31.65%) Full Stack Developer
3 19 (24.05%) Azure Developer
4 15 (18.99%) Python Developer
5 9 (11.39%) Full Stack Python Developer
5 9 (11.39%) Network Engineer
5 9 (11.39%) Test Engineer
6 7 (8.86%) Analyst
7 4 (5.06%) Applications Developer
7 4 (5.06%) Data Engineer
7 4 (5.06%) GIS Developer
7 4 (5.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (5.06%) Power Apps Developer
7 4 (5.06%) Senior
7 4 (5.06%) Solutions Analyst
8 3 (3.80%) Automation Developer
8 3 (3.80%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (3.80%) Data Analyst
9 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Developer
9 2 (2.53%) Senior Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (31.65%) React
2 11 (13.92%) REST
3 10 (12.66%) YANG
4 9 (11.39%) NETCONF
4 9 (11.39%) RESTCONF
4 9 (11.39%) SOAP
5 8 (10.13%) Django
6 5 (6.33%) OpenLayers
7 4 (5.06%) Celery
7 4 (5.06%) GeoPandas
7 4 (5.06%) HTML
7 4 (5.06%) Node.js
7 4 (5.06%) PostGIS
7 4 (5.06%) XML
8 3 (3.80%) CSS
9 2 (2.53%) AngularJS
9 2 (2.53%) Flask
9 2 (2.53%) PyTorch
9 2 (2.53%) TensorFlow
10 1 (1.27%) OpenVINO
Miscellaneous
1 15 (18.99%) Product Ownership
2 7 (8.86%) Client/Server
3 3 (3.80%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.53%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (2.53%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.53%) NHS
5 1 (1.27%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.27%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.27%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.27%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.27%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 15 (18.99%) Linux
2 11 (13.92%) Windows
3 9 (11.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (10.13%) Windows Server
5 3 (3.80%) Unix
6 2 (2.53%) VMS
7 1 (1.27%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (44.30%) Agile
2 34 (43.04%) CI/CD
3 33 (41.77%) DevOps
4 27 (34.18%) Full Stack Development
5 23 (29.11%) Microservices
6 21 (26.58%) Unit Testing
7 20 (25.32%) SDLC
7 20 (25.32%) Test Automation
8 16 (20.25%) Scrum
9 15 (18.99%) Product Backlog
10 13 (16.46%) Change Management
11 12 (15.19%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (13.92%) Containerisation
12 11 (13.92%) Workflow
13 10 (12.66%) Security Testing
14 9 (11.39%) Integration Testing
14 9 (11.39%) Performance Testing
14 9 (11.39%) Regression Testing
15 8 (10.13%) Scaled Agile Framework
16 7 (8.86%) Application Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 18 (22.78%) SQL
2 15 (18.99%) Java
3 11 (13.92%) PowerShell
4 7 (8.86%) VBScript
5 6 (7.59%) JavaScript
6 4 (5.06%) Bash
6 4 (5.06%) Shell Script
7 3 (3.80%) C
8 1 (1.27%) C++
8 1 (1.27%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (12.66%) Security Cleared
2 7 (8.86%) DV Cleared
3 3 (3.80%) Degree
3 3 (3.80%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.27%) CEH
4 1 (1.27%) CISSP
4 1 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.27%) HP ASE
4 1 (1.27%) JNCIE
4 1 (1.27%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.27%) QA
System Software
1 21 (26.58%) Active Directory
2 11 (13.92%) Docker
3 10 (12.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.53%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.53%) vSphere
5 1 (1.27%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (6.33%) Ansible
1 5 (6.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.53%) Packer
2 2 (2.53%) Terraform
2 2 (2.53%) vRealize
3 1 (1.27%) Kibana
3 1 (1.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (12.66%) VMware
2 6 (7.59%) Oracle
3 5 (6.33%) Databricks
4 3 (3.80%) Google
4 3 (3.80%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.53%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.53%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.53%) SAP
5 2 (2.53%) Splunk
6 1 (1.27%) Cisco
6 1 (1.27%) Ericsson
6 1 (1.27%) IBM
6 1 (1.27%) Juniper
6 1 (1.27%) Mapinfo
6 1 (1.27%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.27%) Nokia
6 1 (1.27%) TIBCO