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 25 March 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 24 18
Rank change year-on-year +9 -6 +4
Contract jobs citing Python 159 191 322
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 9.40% 5.97% 8.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.33% 29.94% 29.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 142 192
10th Percentile £410 £450 £384
25th Percentile £463 £514 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £626 £700 £674
90th Percentile £700 £706 £713
England median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 10 62
10th Percentile £62.00 - £50.17
25th Percentile £62.13 £37.50 £60.91
Median hourly rate £70.00 £56.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -14.50% +6.94%
75th Percentile £77.78 £73.33 £70.30
90th Percentile £80.83 £75.25 £75.75
England median hourly rate £52.50 £52.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -19.23% +29.01%

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 477 638 1,097
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 28.19% 19.96% 29.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 314 431 783
10th Percentile £355 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £570
% change year-on-year -2.33% -5.70% +3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 79 120
10th Percentile £61.25 £40.00 £49.97
25th Percentile £62.50 £49.38 £59.23
Median hourly rate £65.75 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.20% -3.85% +2.36%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £68.75 - £75.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £60.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% +25.00%

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 25 March 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 25 March 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 25 March 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
Gloucestershire +1 38 £668 +6.80% 69
Bristol +13 35 £500 -9.09% 89
Wiltshire +19 31 £585 -13.33% 16
Devon +10 26 £501 -27.13% 20
Somerset +4 10 £413 -13.16% 34
Dorset +2 6 £525 +68.00% 13
Cornwall - 2 £363 - 1
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 13 (8.18%) Confluence
2 8 (5.03%) Apache
3 2 (1.26%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.63%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.63%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.63%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.63%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 71 (44.65%) AWS
2 40 (25.16%) Azure
3 19 (11.95%) OpenShift
4 16 (10.06%) Serverless
5 12 (7.55%) AWS Lambda
5 12 (7.55%) GitHub
6 8 (5.03%) GCP
7 6 (3.77%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (3.77%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 6 (3.77%) Amazon SageMaker
7 6 (3.77%) Amazon SQS
7 6 (3.77%) Matillion
8 5 (3.14%) Snowflake
9 4 (2.52%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.52%) AWS Fargate
9 4 (2.52%) Azure Machine Learning
10 3 (1.89%) SaaS
11 2 (1.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (1.26%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.26%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 23 (14.47%) DNS
2 17 (10.69%) DHCP
2 17 (10.69%) TCP/IP
3 16 (10.06%) HTTP
4 5 (3.14%) Network Security
5 4 (2.52%) Firewall
6 3 (1.89%) Cisco ISE
6 3 (1.89%) VPN
7 2 (1.26%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 2 (1.26%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 2 (1.26%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.63%) BIG-IP
8 1 (0.63%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.63%) NAS
8 1 (0.63%) SSH
8 1 (0.63%) SSL
8 1 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.63%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.18%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (6.92%) Amazon Athena
3 8 (5.03%) Redis
4 7 (4.40%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (4.40%) Hadoop
4 7 (4.40%) MongoDB
5 6 (3.77%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (3.77%) Big Data
6 5 (3.14%) Geospatial Data
6 5 (3.14%) MySQL
7 4 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.89%) GIS
9 2 (1.26%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.26%) Data Mining
9 2 (1.26%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.26%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.26%) Power BI
9 2 (1.26%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.63%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 31 (19.50%) Git
2 19 (11.95%) Bitbucket
2 19 (11.95%) Jenkins
2 19 (11.95%) JIRA
3 12 (7.55%) GitLab
4 6 (3.77%) Subversion
5 3 (1.89%) Cypress.io
5 3 (1.89%) Rational Rhapsody
5 3 (1.89%) Selenium
6 2 (1.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.63%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.63%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.63%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.63%) JUnit
7 1 (0.63%) MLflow
7 1 (0.63%) Postman
7 1 (0.63%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.63%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.63%) SoapUI
General
1 21 (13.21%) Social Skills
2 17 (10.69%) Public Sector
3 7 (4.40%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (3.14%) Legal
5 4 (2.52%) Finance
6 3 (1.89%) Electronics
6 3 (1.89%) Military
7 2 (1.26%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.26%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.63%) Aviation
8 1 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.63%) Local Government
8 1 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (16.35%) Senior
2 21 (13.21%) Developer
3 19 (11.95%) DevOps Engineer
4 18 (11.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 17 (10.69%) Software Engineer
6 14 (8.81%) Data Engineer
7 11 (6.92%) Python Developer
8 10 (6.29%) Data Scientist
9 9 (5.66%) Linux Engineer
10 8 (5.03%) Automation Engineer
10 8 (5.03%) Lead
10 8 (5.03%) Senior DevOps
10 8 (5.03%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 6 (3.77%) Platform Engineer
11 6 (3.77%) Senior Developer
12 5 (3.14%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
12 5 (3.14%) Scientific Software Engineer
13 4 (2.52%) Data Migration Lead
13 4 (2.52%) Snowflake Data Engineer
13 4 (2.52%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.81%) REST
2 9 (5.66%) Node.js
2 9 (5.66%) SOAP
3 8 (5.03%) React
3 8 (5.03%) RESTful
4 7 (4.40%) Kafka
5 6 (3.77%) Apache NiFi
6 5 (3.14%) CSS
6 5 (3.14%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (2.52%) Django
7 4 (2.52%) HTML
7 4 (2.52%) PyTorch
7 4 (2.52%) SQLAlchemy
8 3 (1.89%) Flask
8 3 (1.89%) HTML5
9 2 (1.26%) .NET
9 2 (1.26%) .NET Framework
9 2 (1.26%) AngularJS
9 2 (1.26%) CSS3
9 2 (1.26%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.66%) Algorithms
2 6 (3.77%) Product Ownership
3 3 (1.89%) Clustering
3 3 (1.89%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.26%) FPGA
4 2 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.26%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.26%) VHDL
5 1 (0.63%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.63%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.63%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.63%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.63%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.63%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 70 (44.03%) Linux
2 40 (25.16%) Windows
3 25 (15.72%) Windows Server
4 20 (12.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.89%) CentOS
6 2 (1.26%) Android
6 2 (1.26%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.63%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.63%) Unix
7 1 (0.63%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (27.67%) Agile
1 44 (27.67%) Containerisation
2 36 (22.64%) Software Engineering
3 33 (20.75%) DevOps
4 32 (20.13%) CI/CD
4 32 (20.13%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (15.72%) Service Management
6 22 (13.84%) ETL
7 20 (12.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 19 (11.95%) Configuration Management
8 19 (11.95%) Machine Learning
9 15 (9.43%) Data Science
9 15 (9.43%) Infrastructure as Code
9 15 (9.43%) NsoIT
10 14 (8.81%) Continuous Integration
10 14 (8.81%) Validation
11 13 (8.18%) Artificial Intelligence
11 13 (8.18%) Data Modelling
11 13 (8.18%) Task Automation
12 12 (7.55%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 47 (29.56%) Bash
2 44 (27.67%) Java
3 37 (23.27%) PowerShell
4 33 (20.75%) SQL
5 15 (9.43%) JavaScript
6 9 (5.66%) C++
6 9 (5.66%) Go
7 7 (4.40%) C
7 7 (4.40%) TypeScript
8 5 (3.14%) C#
8 5 (3.14%) Fortran
8 5 (3.14%) Perl
9 4 (2.52%) Groovy
10 3 (1.89%) Ada
10 3 (1.89%) Embedded C++
10 3 (1.89%) R
10 3 (1.89%) Ruby
11 2 (1.26%) Objective-C
11 2 (1.26%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.26%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 95 (59.75%) Security Cleared
2 62 (38.99%) SC Cleared
3 39 (24.53%) DV Cleared
4 15 (9.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 12 (7.55%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (6.29%) CCNP
6 10 (6.29%) OCA
6 10 (6.29%) Oracle Certification
6 10 (6.29%) RHCE
7 9 (5.66%) Degree
7 9 (5.66%) RHCA
8 7 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (3.14%) AWS Certification
10 4 (2.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (1.89%) CCNA
12 2 (1.26%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (1.26%) CISSP
12 2 (1.26%) DBS Check
12 2 (1.26%) Master's Degree
12 2 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.77%) QA
2 4 (2.52%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
System Software
1 47 (29.56%) Docker
2 36 (22.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (11.95%) Hyper-V
4 5 (3.14%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.26%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.26%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.26%) vSphere
6 1 (0.63%) Firmware
6 1 (0.63%) NFS
6 1 (0.63%) Samba
6 1 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 53 (33.33%) Ansible
2 45 (28.30%) Terraform
3 42 (26.42%) Kubernetes
4 36 (22.64%) Puppet
5 10 (6.29%) Progress Chef
5 10 (6.29%) vCenter Server
6 6 (3.77%) Grafana
6 6 (3.77%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.89%) Automic
7 3 (1.89%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.63%) Argo
8 1 (0.63%) Kibana
8 1 (0.63%) logstash
8 1 (0.63%) Nagios
8 1 (0.63%) SELinux
8 1 (0.63%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 45 (28.30%) VMware
2 27 (16.98%) Red Hat
3 15 (9.43%) Oracle
4 13 (8.18%) Cisco
5 10 (6.29%) Atlassian
5 10 (6.29%) Microsoft
6 6 (3.77%) NetApp
7 5 (3.14%) F5
7 5 (3.14%) IBM
8 4 (2.52%) Google
9 3 (1.89%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.26%) Citrix
10 2 (1.26%) ESRI
10 2 (1.26%) NVIDIA
10 2 (1.26%) OpenAI
10 2 (1.26%) Palo Alto
10 2 (1.26%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.26%) YouTube
11 1 (0.63%) Adobe
11 1 (0.63%) EMC