Python Contracts in the South West

Python
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 15 24
Rank change year-on-year -11 +9 -16
Contract jobs citing Python 184 322 270
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 5.78% 9.12% 7.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.07% 31.54% 24.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 209 179
10th Percentile £413 £400 £375
25th Percentile £513 £480 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £700 £675 £590
90th Percentile £706 £741 £681
England median daily rate £567 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -5.46% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 52 27
10th Percentile £67.20 £50.01 £45.75
25th Percentile - £59.18 £49.51
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £57.18
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% +14.55% +39.46%
75th Percentile £81.25 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.00 -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £52.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% +25.00% +30.00%

All Programming Languages
South West

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 the South West with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 633 1,021 1,119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 19.89% 28.93% 30.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 426 730 768
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £408 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £575
90th Percentile £700 £700 £638
England median daily rate £550 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -2.48% +2.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 92 70
10th Percentile £49.20 £48.60 £46.66
25th Percentile £61.25 £54.69 £53.81
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +6.12% +34.62%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.70 £75.50 £75.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.25
% change year-on-year - +21.95% +19.19%

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 11 May 2024.

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 11 May 2024.

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 11 May 2024. 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 -15 60 £525 -4.55% 104
Gloucestershire -3 49 £600 +4.35% 35
Wiltshire -5 43 £700 +27.27% 14
Devon -20 11 £600 - 26
Dorset +4 7 £225 - 9
Somerset -18 5 £475 +1.33% 19
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 31 (16.85%) Confluence
2 6 (3.26%) Apache
3 1 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.54%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.54%) SAS
Applications
1 12 (6.52%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.54%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 64 (34.78%) AWS
2 35 (19.02%) Azure
3 13 (7.07%) GitHub
4 12 (6.52%) Serverless
5 10 (5.43%) Amazon S3
5 10 (5.43%) OpenShift
5 10 (5.43%) Power Platform
6 9 (4.89%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (4.35%) PaaS
8 6 (3.26%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (3.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 6 (3.26%) GCP
9 5 (2.72%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (2.72%) IaaS
10 4 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (2.17%) Pulumi
11 3 (1.63%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (1.63%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (1.09%) Amazon Kinesis
12 2 (1.09%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.80%) VPN
2 6 (3.26%) Network Security
3 5 (2.72%) AMQP
4 4 (2.17%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.63%) IPv4
5 3 (1.63%) OSPF
5 3 (1.63%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (1.63%) VLAN
6 2 (1.09%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.54%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.43%) Power BI
2 7 (3.80%) Relational Database
3 6 (3.26%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (3.26%) InfluxDB
4 5 (2.72%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.63%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (1.63%) Big Data
5 3 (1.63%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.63%) Tableau
6 2 (1.09%) Data Mining
6 2 (1.09%) Flink
6 2 (1.09%) MySQL
7 1 (0.54%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.54%) CockroachDB
7 1 (0.54%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.54%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.54%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 58 (31.52%) Jenkins
2 45 (24.46%) JIRA
3 31 (16.85%) Bitbucket
4 23 (12.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 9 (4.89%) GitLab
6 8 (4.35%) GoogleTest
7 5 (2.72%) Cypress.io
7 5 (2.72%) Selenium
8 4 (2.17%) Git
9 3 (1.63%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.63%) Burp Suite
10 2 (1.09%) JUnit
10 2 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.54%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.54%) JMeter
11 1 (0.54%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.54%) Visual Studio
General
1 40 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 35 (19.02%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (10.87%) Aerospace
4 9 (4.89%) Telecoms
5 6 (3.26%) Public Sector
6 3 (1.63%) Finance
6 3 (1.63%) Legal
6 3 (1.63%) Marketing
6 3 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.09%) Banking
7 2 (1.09%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.54%) Automotive
8 1 (0.54%) Aviation
8 1 (0.54%) Electronics
8 1 (0.54%) Games
8 1 (0.54%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 61 (33.15%) Developer
2 25 (13.59%) DevOps Engineer
3 19 (10.33%) Software Developer
3 19 (10.33%) Software Engineer
4 18 (9.78%) Data Engineer
5 15 (8.15%) Full Stack Developer
6 13 (7.07%) Azure Engineer
6 13 (7.07%) Senior
7 10 (5.43%) Java Engineer
8 9 (4.89%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 9 (4.89%) Test Engineer
9 8 (4.35%) Architect
9 8 (4.35%) Java Software Engineer
10 7 (3.80%) AWS Engineer
10 7 (3.80%) Lead
10 7 (3.80%) Python Developer
10 7 (3.80%) Senior Test Engineer
11 6 (3.26%) Cloud Engineer
12 5 (2.72%) Site Engineer
12 5 (2.72%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (13.59%) .NET
2 23 (12.50%) .NET Core
3 21 (11.41%) React
4 19 (10.33%) HTML
5 15 (8.15%) AngularJS
6 14 (7.61%) Spring
7 12 (6.52%) REST
8 9 (4.89%) Flask
8 9 (4.89%) PySpark
8 9 (4.89%) Qt
9 6 (3.26%) Apache NiFi
9 6 (3.26%) CSS
9 6 (3.26%) RESTful
9 6 (3.26%) XML
10 5 (2.72%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (2.72%) SQLAlchemy
11 4 (2.17%) ModSecurity
12 3 (1.63%) .NET Framework
12 3 (1.63%) Node.js
13 2 (1.09%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.15%) Linux Command Line
2 9 (4.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 9 (4.89%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.26%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (2.72%) Algorithms
4 5 (2.72%) Renewable Energy
4 5 (2.72%) Security Posture
4 5 (2.72%) Verilog
4 5 (2.72%) VHDL
5 4 (2.17%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.63%) Cyber Defence
6 3 (1.63%) IoT
7 2 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.09%) PKI
8 1 (0.54%) CUDA
8 1 (0.54%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.54%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.54%) Robotics
8 1 (0.54%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 62 (33.70%) Linux
2 13 (7.07%) Windows
3 3 (1.63%) Kali Linux
4 1 (0.54%) CentOS
4 1 (0.54%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.54%) Unix
4 1 (0.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (35.87%) DevOps
2 64 (34.78%) CI/CD
3 55 (29.89%) Agile
4 47 (25.54%) Problem-Solving
5 40 (21.74%) Software Engineering
6 36 (19.57%) OO
6 36 (19.57%) OOP
7 33 (17.93%) Configuration Management
8 31 (16.85%) Task Automation
9 25 (13.59%) Continuous Integration
9 25 (13.59%) Infrastructure Automation
10 23 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
11 22 (11.96%) Infrastructure as Code
11 22 (11.96%) Software Architecture
12 18 (9.78%) Project Management
13 17 (9.24%) Continuous Improvement
13 17 (9.24%) Full Stack Development
14 15 (8.15%) Artificial Intelligence
15 14 (7.61%) Secure Coding
16 13 (7.07%) Conversational UI
Programming Languages
1 59 (32.07%) Java
2 51 (27.72%) PowerShell
3 40 (21.74%) JavaScript
3 40 (21.74%) SQL
4 36 (19.57%) C
5 26 (14.13%) C++
6 20 (10.87%) C#
7 15 (8.15%) Go
8 13 (7.07%) Bash
9 9 (4.89%) Shell Script
10 5 (2.72%) Perl
11 4 (2.17%) Bicep
11 4 (2.17%) R
12 3 (1.63%) Julia
12 3 (1.63%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.09%) Kotlin
13 2 (1.09%) Scala
13 2 (1.09%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.54%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 105 (57.07%) Security Cleared
2 56 (30.43%) DV Cleared
3 49 (26.63%) SC Cleared
4 21 (11.41%) Degree
5 5 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.17%) OSCP
7 3 (1.63%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.63%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.09%) CCIE
8 2 (1.09%) CCNA
8 2 (1.09%) CCNP
8 2 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.09%) IBM Certification
8 2 (1.09%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.09%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.54%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.54%) GIAC
9 1 (0.54%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.24%) QA
2 9 (4.89%) MISRA
3 6 (3.26%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.17%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.63%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.09%) JTAG
7 1 (0.54%) DO-178B
7 1 (0.54%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 36 (19.57%) Docker
2 9 (4.89%) VMware NSX
3 7 (3.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.17%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (2.17%) vSphere
5 2 (1.09%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.54%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 56 (30.43%) Ansible
2 48 (26.09%) Terraform
3 30 (16.30%) Kubernetes
4 25 (13.59%) PowerCLI
5 16 (8.70%) Grafana
5 16 (8.70%) Prometheus
6 7 (3.80%) Progress Chef
7 6 (3.26%) Docker Swarm
8 5 (2.72%) Puppet
9 4 (2.17%) OPNET
10 1 (0.54%) Dell DRAC
10 1 (0.54%) Kibana
Vendors
1 32 (17.39%) Atlassian
2 22 (11.96%) Dell
2 22 (11.96%) HP
3 14 (7.61%) Google
4 12 (6.52%) PayPal
5 11 (5.98%) Databricks
6 8 (4.35%) VMware
7 6 (3.26%) Red Hat
8 5 (2.72%) Microsoft
9 4 (2.17%) Cisco
10 2 (1.09%) IBM
10 2 (1.09%) Informatica
10 2 (1.09%) Oracle
11 1 (0.54%) Cloudera
11 1 (0.54%) SAP
11 1 (0.54%) Splunk