Python Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Python
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Python skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 22 16
Rank change year-on-year -13 -6 +44
Contract jobs citing Python 24 5 1
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 9.34% 5.15% 1.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.34% 13.89% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 2 1
10th Percentile £410 £500 -
25th Percentile £458 £504 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.71% +2.90% -
75th Percentile £492 £521 £550
90th Percentile £498 £523 -
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% +2.38%

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 118 36 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 45.91% 37.11% 11.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 31 4
10th Percentile £400 £360 -
25th Percentile £463 £434 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £484 £413
Median % change year-on-year +6.40% +17.33% -23.61%
75th Percentile £538 £554 £531
90th Percentile £552 £567 £543
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £490 £461
% change year-on-year +2.15% +6.12% -9.78%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Python relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire.

Python job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Python
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Python.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Python

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Shropshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Shropshire over the 6 months to 23 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 23 October 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 -13 23 £480 -6.71% 10
Python
West Midlands

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 17 (70.83%) SAS
2 1 (4.17%) JBoss
2 1 (4.17%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 16 (66.67%) OpenShift
2 3 (12.50%) AWS
3 2 (8.33%) Azure
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (4.17%) GitHub
4 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) Kerberos
1 3 (12.50%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) Oracle Database
1 5 (20.83%) SAS Enterprise Guide
2 2 (8.33%) Relational Database
2 2 (8.33%) SAS Visual Analytics
3 1 (4.17%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (4.17%) Data Lake
3 1 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (4.17%) HDInsight
3 1 (4.17%) Power BI
3 1 (4.17%) RDBMS
3 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 17 (70.83%) Git
3 16 (66.67%) GitLab
4 14 (58.33%) JUnit
4 14 (58.33%) Selenium
5 2 (8.33%) JIRA
6 1 (4.17%) Bitbucket
6 1 (4.17%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (4.17%) CA Release Automation
6 1 (4.17%) SonarQube
6 1 (4.17%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (4.17%) TeamCity
General
1 11 (45.83%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (66.67%) Test Specialist
2 6 (25.00%) Test Automation Specialist
3 5 (20.83%) Network Specialist
4 3 (12.50%) Consultant
4 3 (12.50%) Management Consultant
5 2 (8.33%) Data Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Data Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Data Analytics Specialist
6 1 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Integration Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (70.83%) REST
2 14 (58.33%) pytest
3 4 (16.67%) OAuth
4 3 (12.50%) LDAP
4 3 (12.50%) SAML
5 1 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (4.17%) HTML
5 1 (4.17%) JSON
5 1 (4.17%) OAuth2
5 1 (4.17%) SOAP
5 1 (4.17%) Spring Boot
5 1 (4.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.17%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Linux
1 4 (16.67%) Windows
2 3 (12.50%) AIX
2 3 (12.50%) Solaris
3 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (79.17%) CI/CD
2 18 (75.00%) Analytics
3 17 (70.83%) Agile
3 17 (70.83%) Test Automation
4 16 (66.67%) Containerisation
5 15 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (62.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 14 (58.33%) DevOps
7 13 (54.17%) Data Management
7 13 (54.17%) Data Pipeline
8 12 (50.00%) Test Strategy
9 11 (45.83%) Integration Testing
9 11 (45.83%) Sprint Planning
9 11 (45.83%) Sprint Retrospective
9 11 (45.83%) Visual Analytics
10 10 (41.67%) Regression Testing
10 10 (41.67%) Test Scripting
11 9 (37.50%) Data Strategy
11 9 (37.50%) Defect Management
12 7 (29.17%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.50%) Bash
1 3 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 2 (8.33%) Shell Script
3 1 (4.17%) Java
3 1 (4.17%) Perl
3 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (62.50%) SC Cleared
1 15 (62.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (12.50%) NIST
1 3 (12.50%) PCI DSS
1 3 (12.50%) SOC 2
2 2 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 16 (66.67%) Docker
2 4 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.17%) Kibana
2 1 (4.17%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) Oracle
2 3 (12.50%) BeyondTrust
2 3 (12.50%) CyberArk
3 1 (4.17%) AppDynamics
3 1 (4.17%) Databricks
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.17%) Pega
3 1 (4.17%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.17%) Splunk