Python Contracts in Shropshire

Python
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Shropshire 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 29 - 53
Rank change year-on-year - - +7
Contract jobs citing Python 3 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Shropshire 2.31% - 3.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.50% - 4.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £490
25th Percentile - - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.78%
75th Percentile - - £608
90th Percentile - - £618
West Midlands median daily rate £506 £425 £556
% change year-on-year +19.06% -23.60% +6.30%

All Programming Languages
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 40 72 125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 30.77% 53.73% 73.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 48 101
10th Percentile £441 £351 £420
25th Percentile £455 £496 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £535 £540
Median % change year-on-year -7.48% -0.93% +9.09%
75th Percentile £531 £538 £550
90th Percentile £538 - £595
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £456 £525
% change year-on-year +4.11% -13.10% +14.57%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in Shropshire

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Daily rate trend for Python in Shropshire

Python
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Telford - 3 - - 41
Python
West Midlands

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Shropshire 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 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CDK
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Data Science
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Load Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Prototyping
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft