Python Contracts in the South West

Python
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 17 25 16
Rank change year-on-year +8 -9 +7
Contract jobs citing Python 150 181 320
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 8.94% 5.66% 8.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.41% 28.96% 30.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 132 203
10th Percentile £406 £425 £400
25th Percentile £448 £513 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £673
90th Percentile £700 £706 £713
England median daily rate £550 £563 £600
% change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 16 54
10th Percentile £66.25 £53.00 £50.02
25th Percentile £71.88 £70.00 £60.03
Median hourly rate £76.85 £74.44 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.24% +13.65% +16.44%
75th Percentile £79.77 £85.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £81.68 - £78.00
England median hourly rate £40.91 £62.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -34.02% -4.62% +27.83%

All Programming Languages
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 449 625 1,060
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 26.76% 19.54% 29.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 421 759
10th Percentile £355 £325 £350
25th Percentile £406 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £625
90th Percentile £676 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 91 97
10th Percentile £61.30 £46.39 £49.87
25th Percentile £65.00 £55.13 £57.33
Median hourly rate £67.50 £67.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.37% +3.46% +6.12%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £73.75 £78.00 £75.50
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Python in the South West

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Python in the South West

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Python in the South West

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Python in the South West

Python
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Python in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Python in the South West

Python
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the South West 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
Bristol +7 37 £447 -14.86% 120
Gloucestershire +6 35 £615 +2.50% 144
Wiltshire +22 34 £585 -16.43% 26
Somerset +11 13 £425 -10.53% 34
Devon +13 11 £500 -16.67% 48
Dorset +5 9 £538 +138.89% 19
Cornwall - 1 £375 - 2
Python
England

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 12 (8.00%) Confluence
2 6 (4.00%) Apache
3 1 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.67%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.67%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.67%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.67%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 66 (44.00%) AWS
2 46 (30.67%) Azure
3 15 (10.00%) OpenShift
4 13 (8.67%) Serverless
5 11 (7.33%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (6.00%) GitHub
7 8 (5.33%) GCP
8 6 (4.00%) Amazon S3
8 6 (4.00%) Matillion
9 5 (3.33%) Snowflake
10 4 (2.67%) Azure Machine Learning
10 4 (2.67%) SaaS
11 3 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (1.33%) Amazon Cognito
12 2 (1.33%) Amazon EventBridge
12 2 (1.33%) Datadog
12 2 (1.33%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (1.33%) Power Platform
12 2 (1.33%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 25 (16.67%) DNS
2 18 (12.00%) TCP/IP
3 17 (11.33%) DHCP
4 16 (10.67%) HTTP
5 5 (3.33%) Firewall
6 4 (2.67%) Network Security
7 3 (2.00%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (1.33%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (1.33%) VPN
9 1 (0.67%) BIG-IP
9 1 (0.67%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 1 (0.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 1 (0.67%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.67%) NAS
9 1 (0.67%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.00%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (4.67%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (4.00%) Geospatial Data
4 5 (3.33%) Amazon Athena
4 5 (3.33%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.67%) Big Data
5 4 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.67%) GIS
5 4 (2.67%) Hadoop
5 4 (2.67%) MySQL
6 3 (2.00%) DynamoDB
6 3 (2.00%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.33%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (1.33%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.33%) Power BI
7 2 (1.33%) Redis
8 1 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.67%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.67%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.67%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 39 (26.00%) Git
2 20 (13.33%) Bitbucket
3 19 (12.67%) Jenkins
4 18 (12.00%) JIRA
5 12 (8.00%) GitLab
6 3 (2.00%) Subversion
7 1 (0.67%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.67%) Gatling
7 1 (0.67%) JMeter
7 1 (0.67%) JUnit
7 1 (0.67%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.67%) MLflow
7 1 (0.67%) Selenium
General
1 20 (13.33%) Social Skills
2 16 (10.67%) Public Sector
3 10 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (4.67%) Legal
5 5 (3.33%) Finance
6 4 (2.67%) Local Government
7 2 (1.33%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.33%) Aviation
7 2 (1.33%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.67%) Electronics
8 1 (0.67%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.67%) Marketing
8 1 (0.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (16.00%) Developer
2 18 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 15 (10.00%) Senior
4 13 (8.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 12 (8.00%) Data Engineer
6 11 (7.33%) Automation Engineer
7 10 (6.67%) Software Engineer
8 9 (6.00%) Lead
9 8 (5.33%) Data Scientist
9 8 (5.33%) Linux Engineer
9 8 (5.33%) Platform Engineer
9 8 (5.33%) Python Developer
10 4 (2.67%) Administrator
10 4 (2.67%) Linux Administrator
10 4 (2.67%) Linux/Unix DevOps
10 4 (2.67%) Python Engineer
10 4 (2.67%) Senior Developer
10 4 (2.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (2.67%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 4 (2.67%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (9.33%) REST
2 11 (7.33%) SOAP
3 9 (6.00%) Node.js
4 7 (4.67%) FastAPI
4 7 (4.67%) OpenID
5 6 (4.00%) CSS
5 6 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (3.33%) Apache NiFi
6 5 (3.33%) Django
6 5 (3.33%) HTML
7 4 (2.67%) PyTorch
7 4 (2.67%) React
8 3 (2.00%) NumPy
8 3 (2.00%) PostGIS
9 2 (1.33%) AngularJS
9 2 (1.33%) Hugging Face
9 2 (1.33%) Kafka
9 2 (1.33%) Metaflow
9 2 (1.33%) RESTful
9 2 (1.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.67%) Onboarding
2 6 (4.00%) Algorithms
3 5 (3.33%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.33%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.33%) FPGA
5 2 (1.33%) VHDL
6 1 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.67%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (0.67%) Clustering
6 1 (0.67%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (0.67%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.67%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.67%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.67%) Replication
6 1 (0.67%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 63 (42.00%) Linux
2 44 (29.33%) Windows
3 25 (16.67%) Windows Server
4 18 (12.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.33%) Unix
6 1 (0.67%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (28.00%) Containerisation
2 39 (26.00%) Agile
3 36 (24.00%) DevOps
4 32 (21.33%) Problem-Solving
5 31 (20.67%) CI/CD
6 27 (18.00%) Software Engineering
7 26 (17.33%) Service Management
8 25 (16.67%) Configuration Management
9 19 (12.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 19 (12.67%) Machine Learning
10 18 (12.00%) NsoIT
11 17 (11.33%) ETL
11 17 (11.33%) Infrastructure as Code
12 15 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
13 14 (9.33%) Data Science
13 14 (9.33%) Deployment Automation
14 13 (8.67%) Analytics
14 13 (8.67%) Task Automation
14 13 (8.67%) Validation
15 12 (8.00%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 47 (31.33%) Bash
2 43 (28.67%) PowerShell
3 30 (20.00%) SQL
4 28 (18.67%) Java
5 9 (6.00%) C#
5 9 (6.00%) JavaScript
6 6 (4.00%) Perl
7 4 (2.67%) C++
7 4 (2.67%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.00%) R
8 3 (2.00%) VBA
9 2 (1.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.33%) Fortran
9 2 (1.33%) Go
9 2 (1.33%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.33%) Ruby
9 2 (1.33%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.33%) Tcl
10 1 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.67%) Rust
Qualifications
1 90 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 62 (41.33%) SC Cleared
3 34 (22.67%) DV Cleared
4 18 (12.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 11 (7.33%) OCA
5 11 (7.33%) Oracle Certification
5 11 (7.33%) RHCE
6 10 (6.67%) CCNP
6 10 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (6.67%) RHCA
7 7 (4.67%) Degree
8 4 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (2.00%) AWS Certification
9 3 (2.00%) DBS Check
10 2 (1.33%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.67%) CISSP
11 1 (0.67%) MCSA
11 1 (0.67%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.00%) QA
2 3 (2.00%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.33%) NIST
4 1 (0.67%) GDPR
4 1 (0.67%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 44 (29.33%) Docker
2 35 (23.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (12.00%) Hyper-V
4 5 (3.33%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.33%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.33%) vSphere
6 1 (0.67%) NFS
6 1 (0.67%) Samba
6 1 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 57 (38.00%) Ansible
2 42 (28.00%) Terraform
3 39 (26.00%) Kubernetes
4 37 (24.67%) Puppet
5 12 (8.00%) Progress Chef
6 11 (7.33%) vCenter Server
7 7 (4.67%) Grafana
7 7 (4.67%) MIIS
8 6 (4.00%) Prometheus
9 3 (2.00%) Automic
10 2 (1.33%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.67%) Kibana
11 1 (0.67%) logstash
11 1 (0.67%) Nagios
11 1 (0.67%) SELinux
11 1 (0.67%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 47 (31.33%) VMware
2 24 (16.00%) Red Hat
3 16 (10.67%) Oracle
4 13 (8.67%) Cisco
4 13 (8.67%) Microsoft
5 9 (6.00%) Atlassian
6 4 (2.67%) F5
6 4 (2.67%) NetApp
7 3 (2.00%) Apple
7 3 (2.00%) Citrix
7 3 (2.00%) ESRI
7 3 (2.00%) MuleSoft
7 3 (2.00%) Splunk
8 2 (1.33%) Google
8 2 (1.33%) NVIDIA
8 2 (1.33%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.67%) Foundry
9 1 (0.67%) SAP
9 1 (0.67%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.67%) Veeam