Python Contracts in Suffolk

Python
East of England > Suffolk

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Suffolk 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 11 9 14
Rank change year-on-year -2 +5 -10
Contract jobs citing Python 10 5 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Suffolk 13.51% 8.20% 7.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 58.82% 50.00% 28.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 11
10th Percentile £291 £289 -
25th Percentile £314 £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £369 £625 £700
Median % change year-on-year -41.00% -10.71% +33.33%
75th Percentile £414 £650 -
90th Percentile £432 - -
East of England median daily rate £503 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.67% -10.00% -7.83%

All Programming Languages
Suffolk

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 Suffolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 17 10 39
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk 22.97% 16.39% 26.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 36
10th Percentile - £290 £313
25th Percentile £200 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £550 £700
Median % change year-on-year -54.55% -21.43% +43.59%
75th Percentile £392 £638 -
90th Percentile £536 £650 -
East of England median daily rate £479 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +0.79% -2.56% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £20.56
Median % change year-on-year - - +30.54%
East of England median hourly rate £66.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.54% - +16.07%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in Suffolk

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Suffolk

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

Daily rate trend for Python in Suffolk

Python
Contract Job Locations in Suffolk

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Suffolk 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
Ipswich -1 4 £369 -18.06% 50
Python
East of England

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Suffolk 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:

Applications
1 6 (60.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) GitLab
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Developer
2 8 (80.00%) Software Developer
3 6 (60.00%) Trainer
4 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Python Developer
4 1 (10.00%) OSS Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Python Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) HTML
2 2 (20.00%) Kafka
3 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (10.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (10.00%) FMCG
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) Code Quality
1 6 (60.00%) Conversational UI
2 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (20.00%) Microservices
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (10.00%) Analytics
4 1 (10.00%) API Development
4 1 (10.00%) Data Analytics
4 1 (10.00%) E-Commerce
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (10.00%) Migration
4 1 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) C#
1 6 (60.00%) C++
1 6 (60.00%) JavaScript
1 6 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) Go
2 2 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (80.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (20.00%) logstash
2 2 (20.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (10.00%) Ansible
3 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) PayPal
2 2 (20.00%) Google
3 1 (10.00%) VMware