Python Contract Job Trends in Telford

Python
Shropshire > Telford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Telford requiring Python skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 22 15
Rank change year-on-year -13 -7 +40
Contract jobs citing Python 23 5 1
As % of all contract jobs in Telford 10.04% 5.81% 2.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.70% 14.71% 25.00%
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 -
Shropshire median daily rate £480 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -6.71% +2.90% -

All Programming Languages
Telford

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 Telford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 106 34 4
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Telford 46.29% 39.53% 9.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 30 3
10th Percentile £400 £401 £340
25th Percentile £480 £434 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.30% -2.45% -7.41%
75th Percentile £538 £560 £538
90th Percentile £552 £568 £545
Shropshire median daily rate £515 £484 £413
% change year-on-year +6.40% +17.33% -23.61%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

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

Python job vacancy trend in Telford

Python
Daily Rate Trend in Telford

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Telford citing Python

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Telford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Telford over the 6 months to 22 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python in Telford

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Telford 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 (73.91%) SAS
2 1 (4.35%) JBoss
2 1 (4.35%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 16 (69.57%) OpenShift
2 3 (13.04%) AWS
3 2 (8.70%) Azure
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (4.35%) GitHub
4 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) Kerberos
1 2 (8.70%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) Oracle Database
1 5 (21.74%) SAS Enterprise Guide
2 2 (8.70%) Relational Database
2 2 (8.70%) SAS Visual Analytics
3 1 (4.35%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (4.35%) Data Lake
3 1 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (4.35%) HDInsight
3 1 (4.35%) Power BI
3 1 (4.35%) RDBMS
3 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (78.26%) Jenkins
2 17 (73.91%) Git
3 16 (69.57%) GitLab
4 14 (60.87%) JUnit
4 14 (60.87%) Selenium
5 2 (8.70%) JIRA
6 1 (4.35%) Bitbucket
6 1 (4.35%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (4.35%) CA Release Automation
6 1 (4.35%) SonarQube
6 1 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (4.35%) TeamCity
General
1 11 (47.83%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (69.57%) Test Specialist
2 6 (26.09%) Test Automation Specialist
3 5 (21.74%) Network Specialist
4 2 (8.70%) Consultant
4 2 (8.70%) Data Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Management Consultant
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Data Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Data Analytics Specialist
5 1 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Integration Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (73.91%) REST
2 14 (60.87%) pytest
3 3 (13.04%) OAuth
4 2 (8.70%) LDAP
4 2 (8.70%) SAML
5 1 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (4.35%) HTML
5 1 (4.35%) JSON
5 1 (4.35%) OAuth2
5 1 (4.35%) SOAP
5 1 (4.35%) Spring Boot
5 1 (4.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.35%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Linux
1 3 (13.04%) Windows
2 2 (8.70%) AIX
2 2 (8.70%) Solaris
3 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (82.61%) CI/CD
2 18 (78.26%) Analytics
3 17 (73.91%) Agile
3 17 (73.91%) Test Automation
4 16 (69.57%) Containerisation
5 15 (65.22%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (65.22%) Stakeholder Management
6 14 (60.87%) DevOps
7 13 (56.52%) Data Management
7 13 (56.52%) Data Pipeline
8 12 (52.17%) Test Strategy
9 11 (47.83%) Integration Testing
9 11 (47.83%) Sprint Planning
9 11 (47.83%) Sprint Retrospective
9 11 (47.83%) Visual Analytics
10 10 (43.48%) Regression Testing
10 10 (43.48%) Test Scripting
11 9 (39.13%) Data Strategy
11 9 (39.13%) Defect Management
12 7 (30.43%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.70%) Bash
1 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
1 2 (8.70%) Shell Script
2 1 (4.35%) Java
2 1 (4.35%) Perl
2 1 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (65.22%) SC Cleared
1 15 (65.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (8.70%) NIST
1 2 (8.70%) PCI DSS
1 2 (8.70%) QA
1 2 (8.70%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (69.57%) Docker
2 3 (13.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (69.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.35%) Kibana
2 1 (4.35%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) Oracle
2 2 (8.70%) BeyondTrust
2 2 (8.70%) CyberArk
3 1 (4.35%) AppDynamics
3 1 (4.35%) Databricks
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.35%) Pega
3 1 (4.35%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.35%) Splunk