Python Contracts in Wales

Python
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 34 14
Rank change year-on-year +7 -20 0
Contract jobs citing Python 20 29 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 4.98% 4.57% 9.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.39% 18.59% 30.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 24 71
10th Percentile £198 £402 £410
25th Percentile £350 £422 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +22.45%
75th Percentile £563 £619 £575
90th Percentile £573 £684 £625
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £595
% change year-on-year -8.33% +0.84% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 3
10th Percentile £15.45 £17.18 -
25th Percentile £15.81 £17.48 -
Median hourly rate £20.47 £18.82 £19.91
Median % change year-on-year +8.80% -5.50% -24.15%
75th Percentile £23.75 £19.81 £22.46
90th Percentile £24.72 £19.91 £23.98
UK median hourly rate £56.25 £64.88 £50.00
% change year-on-year -13.29% +29.75% +25.00%

All Programming Languages
Wales

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 Wales with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 115 156 316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 28.61% 24.61% 31.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 126 232
10th Percentile £325 £341 £364
25th Percentile £381 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% +21.39%
75th Percentile £543 £613 £625
90th Percentile £599 £663 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 7
10th Percentile £15.51 £17.18 £18.45
25th Percentile £16.98 £17.48 £19.91
Median hourly rate £21.49 £18.82 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year +14.19% -9.33% -17.00%
75th Percentile £24.96 £19.81 £22.88
90th Percentile £39.56 £19.91 £25.00
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +0.83% +20.00% +14.29%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in Wales

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Python in Wales

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Wales over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python in Wales

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python in Wales.

Hourly rate trend for Python in Wales

Python
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Wales region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
South Wales +7 19 £500 - 30
North Wales - 1 - - 2
Python
UK

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 3 (15.00%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (15.00%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) Azure
2 4 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 4 (20.00%) Power Automate
2 4 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 4 (20.00%) Snowflake
3 2 (10.00%) GitHub
4 1 (5.00%) AWS
4 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.00%) GCP
4 1 (5.00%) Heroku
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) Power BI
1 4 (20.00%) Power Query
1 4 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 4 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (10.00%) Data Mining
3 1 (5.00%) MySQL
3 1 (5.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Git
1 3 (15.00%) GitLab
2 2 (10.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (10.00%) Selenium
3 1 (5.00%) AppScan
3 1 (5.00%) Burp Suite
3 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (5.00%) Subversion
General
1 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (5.00%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Data Scientist
2 6 (30.00%) Developer
3 4 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 4 (20.00%) Power BI Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Test Automation Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Test Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) C++ Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Data Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Data Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Junior
5 1 (5.00%) Junior Data Scientist
5 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Salesforce Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Site Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) PySpark
2 1 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.00%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (5.00%) REST
2 1 (5.00%) Visualforce
2 1 (5.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Credit Risk
1 3 (15.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Windows
2 1 (5.00%) Linux
2 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Data Science
2 6 (30.00%) Agile
3 5 (25.00%) Analytics
3 5 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (25.00%) Data Analysis
3 5 (25.00%) Statistics
3 5 (25.00%) Visualisation
4 4 (20.00%) Product Strategy
5 3 (15.00%) Computer Science
5 3 (15.00%) Data Analytics
5 3 (15.00%) ETL
5 3 (15.00%) Project Management
5 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (15.00%) Statistical Analysis
5 3 (15.00%) Test Automation
6 2 (10.00%) Agile Project Management
6 2 (10.00%) BDD
6 2 (10.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 2 (10.00%) Mathematics
6 2 (10.00%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) R
2 4 (20.00%) SQL
2 4 (20.00%) T-SQL
3 2 (10.00%) Java
4 1 (5.00%) Apex Code
4 1 (5.00%) Bash
4 1 (5.00%) C#
4 1 (5.00%) C++
4 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (15.00%) Degree
3 1 (5.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Ansible
1 1 (5.00%) Grafana
1 1 (5.00%) Graylog
1 1 (5.00%) HP Fortify
1 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.00%) Nagios
1 1 (5.00%) Nessus
1 1 (5.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (5.00%) Puppet
1 1 (5.00%) Terraform
1 1 (5.00%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Databricks
2 1 (5.00%) Checkmarx
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (5.00%) Splunk
2 1 (5.00%) Veracode