Python Contract Job Trends in Warwickshire

Python
West Midlands > Warwickshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Warwickshire requiring Python skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 22 28
Rank change year-on-year +3 +6 -9
Contract jobs citing Python 38 26 13
As % of all contract jobs in Warwickshire 7.20% 7.69% 3.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 50.00% 41.94% 26.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 10 4
10th Percentile £281 £475 £448
25th Percentile £345 £500 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.79% +7.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £507 £613 £544
90th Percentile £520 £635 £623
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £513 £500
% change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £50.00 - £60.00

All Programming Languages
Warwickshire

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 Warwickshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 76 62 50
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Warwickshire 14.39% 18.34% 14.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 22 26
10th Percentile £306 £413 £350
25th Percentile £400 £428 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £625 £611
90th Percentile £625 £638 £706
West Midlands median daily rate £515 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +3.00% +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £50.00 £23.87 £18.50
% change year-on-year +109.47% +29.03% -15.91%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Warwickshire

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

Python job vacancy trend in Warwickshire

Python
Daily Rate Trend in Warwickshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Warwickshire citing Python

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Warwickshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Warwickshire over the 6 months to 24 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Python in Warwickshire

Python
Hourly Rate Trend in Warwickshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Warwickshire citing Python.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Warwickshire citing Python

Python
Contract Job Locations in Warwickshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Warwickshire region over the 6 months to 24 January 2026. 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
Warwick -4 32 £475 -5.00% 5
Gaydon -1 2 - -
Stratford-upon-Avon 0 1 £450 -21.74% 1
Python
West Midlands

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Warwickshire 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 2 (5.26%) ArcGIS
1 2 (5.26%) Drupal
2 1 (2.63%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (15.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.26%) Maya
2 2 (5.26%) NUKE
Cloud Services
1 24 (63.16%) Azure
2 17 (44.74%) GCP
3 11 (28.95%) AWS
4 8 (21.05%) Serverless
5 7 (18.42%) Apigee
5 7 (18.42%) Cloud Functions
5 7 (18.42%) Datadog
6 6 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (13.16%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (10.53%) Power Platform
8 4 (10.53%) Snowflake
9 3 (7.89%) dbt
10 1 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (2.63%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (2.63%) AWS Direct Connect
10 1 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (2.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (2.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.63%) Kerberos
1 1 (2.63%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (26.32%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (23.68%) MySQL
3 7 (18.42%) Relational Database
4 3 (7.89%) Power BI
5 2 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (5.26%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (5.26%) GIS
5 2 (5.26%) MongoDB
5 2 (5.26%) Spatial Data
6 1 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.63%) Apache Hive
6 1 (2.63%) Big Data
6 1 (2.63%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.63%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.63%) Impala
6 1 (2.63%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 9 (23.68%) Git
2 3 (7.89%) JIRA
3 2 (5.26%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.63%) GitLab
4 1 (2.63%) Selenium
4 1 (2.63%) WebDriver
General
1 23 (60.53%) Social Skills
2 21 (55.26%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.26%) Automotive
3 2 (5.26%) Games
3 2 (5.26%) Manufacturing
3 2 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (23.68%) Developer
2 7 (18.42%) Cloud Developer
2 7 (18.42%) GCP Developer
3 3 (7.89%) Analyst
3 3 (7.89%) Architect
3 3 (7.89%) Data Architect
3 3 (7.89%) Data Scientist
4 2 (5.26%) Backend Developer
4 2 (5.26%) CyberArk Engineer
4 2 (5.26%) GIS Analyst
4 2 (5.26%) Senior
4 2 (5.26%) Snowflake Architect
5 1 (2.63%) Azure Data Engineer
5 1 (2.63%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (2.63%) Cloud Administrator
5 1 (2.63%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 1 (2.63%) Data Engineer
5 1 (2.63%) Drupal Developer
5 1 (2.63%) SailPoint Engineer
5 1 (2.63%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (23.68%) Node.js
2 7 (18.42%) Middleware
3 2 (5.26%) CSS
3 2 (5.26%) Django
3 2 (5.26%) Drush
3 2 (5.26%) HTML
3 2 (5.26%) LDAP
3 2 (5.26%) OAuth
3 2 (5.26%) RESTful
3 2 (5.26%) SAML
3 2 (5.26%) Web Services
4 1 (2.63%) JSON
4 1 (2.63%) SailPoint
4 1 (2.63%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (36.84%) Cloud Native
2 8 (21.05%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (5.26%) Animation
3 2 (5.26%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (5.26%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.63%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 10 (26.32%) Linux
2 8 (21.05%) Windows
3 7 (18.42%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (47.37%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (42.11%) CI/CD
2 16 (42.11%) DevOps
3 13 (34.21%) Data Pipeline
3 13 (34.21%) Task Automation
4 9 (23.68%) Identity Access Management
4 9 (23.68%) Microservices
5 8 (21.05%) Agile
5 8 (21.05%) Cloud Security
5 8 (21.05%) ETL
5 8 (21.05%) Observability
5 8 (21.05%) Root Cause Analysis
5 8 (21.05%) Unit Testing
6 7 (18.42%) Change Management
6 7 (18.42%) ITIL
6 7 (18.42%) Mentoring
6 7 (18.42%) Performance Management
6 7 (18.42%) Problem Management
6 7 (18.42%) SIEM
6 7 (18.42%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (42.11%) PowerShell
2 13 (34.21%) SQL
3 7 (18.42%) Bash
4 6 (15.79%) VBA
5 5 (13.16%) Java
6 2 (5.26%) C++
6 2 (5.26%) PHP
6 2 (5.26%) Ruby
6 2 (5.26%) Tcl
7 1 (2.63%) R
Qualifications
1 12 (31.58%) SC Cleared
1 12 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.26%) Azure Certification
2 2 (5.26%) Degree
3 1 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) Data Quality
2 3 (7.89%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.63%) GDPR
3 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.63%) NIST
3 1 (2.63%) PMO
3 1 (2.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (26.32%) Docker
2 1 (2.63%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 10 (26.32%) Prometheus
2 9 (23.68%) Kubernetes
3 7 (18.42%) Grafana
4 1 (2.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (23.68%) CyberArk
1 9 (23.68%) Google
2 8 (21.05%) BeyondTrust
3 7 (18.42%) AppDynamics
3 7 (18.42%) Dynatrace
3 7 (18.42%) Splunk
4 2 (5.26%) Databricks
4 2 (5.26%) ESRI
4 2 (5.26%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.63%) Cloudera