Python Contracts in the West Midlands

Python
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 41 35
Rank change year-on-year +22 -6 +17
Contract jobs citing Python 118 77 118
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 7.94% 3.75% 5.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.73% 17.82% 21.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 37 74
10th Percentile £301 £275 £400
25th Percentile £416 £360 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £556
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -19.10% +5.95%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £700
90th Percentile £689 £560 £731
England median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 7 1
10th Percentile £29.33 £36.15 -
25th Percentile - £40.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £33.91 £55.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.35% +4.76% -9.70%
75th Percentile £50.00 £72.50 £53.75
90th Percentile - £73.50 -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £65.25
% change year-on-year -23.08% -0.38% +18.64%

All Programming Languages
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 384 432 545
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 25.82% 21.05% 24.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 305 367
10th Percentile £269 £260 £313
25th Percentile £400 £345 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -10.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £538 £570 £600
90th Percentile £638 £638 £700
England median daily rate £520 £543 £555
% change year-on-year -4.15% -2.25% +0.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 15 8
10th Percentile £28.18 £36.36 £21.73
25th Percentile £33.91 £47.75 £23.81
Median hourly rate £50.00 £57.50 £29.32
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +96.13% -49.45%
75th Percentile - £58.75 £64.69
90th Percentile - £72.50 £98.25
England median hourly rate £56.75 £64.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -12.02% +3.20% +19.05%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Python in the West Midlands

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Python in the West Midlands

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python in the West Midlands

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Python in the West Midlands

Python
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Python in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Python in the West Midlands

Python
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 July 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
Birmingham +16 51 £475 +26.67% 212
Warwickshire +21 36 £438 -17.45% 60
Coventry +3 9 £450 - 103
Worcestershire +3 5 £600 +26.32% 51
Herefordshire +16 4 £613 - 3
Staffordshire +1 4 £375 -31.82% 121
Shropshire -1 3 £395 -23.23% 82
Solihull - 3 £450 - 6
Python
England

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 14 (11.86%) Confluence
2 7 (5.93%) Apache
3 3 (2.54%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.69%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.69%) ArcGIS
4 2 (1.69%) nginx
4 2 (1.69%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.85%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (11.02%) Maya
1 13 (11.02%) NUKE
2 5 (4.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.69%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.85%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (5.08%) SAP PM
2 2 (1.69%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 26 (22.03%) AWS
2 25 (21.19%) Azure
3 14 (11.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 13 (11.02%) Power Platform
5 12 (10.17%) Amazon S3
6 11 (9.32%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (7.63%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (7.63%) GitHub
8 8 (6.78%) Serverless
8 8 (6.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 7 (5.93%) Amazon ELB
9 7 (5.93%) AWS KMS
9 7 (5.93%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (5.93%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (5.93%) GCP
9 7 (5.93%) Microsoft Purview
9 7 (5.93%) Snowflake
10 6 (5.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 6 (5.08%) Collibra
10 6 (5.08%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 14 (11.86%) Firewall
2 10 (8.47%) DNS
3 7 (5.93%) HTTP
3 7 (5.93%) SMTP
4 5 (4.24%) FTP
4 5 (4.24%) SSH
4 5 (4.24%) VLAN
5 4 (3.39%) Network Security
5 4 (3.39%) OpenLDAP
6 3 (2.54%) BGP
6 3 (2.54%) DHCP
6 3 (2.54%) EIGRP
6 3 (2.54%) OSPF
6 3 (2.54%) WAN
6 3 (2.54%) Wireshark
7 2 (1.69%) IMAP
7 2 (1.69%) LAN
7 2 (1.69%) SAN
7 2 (1.69%) SSL
7 2 (1.69%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.02%) Power BI
2 10 (8.47%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (6.78%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (6.78%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (6.78%) GIS
4 6 (5.08%) Delta Lake
4 6 (5.08%) NoSQL
5 5 (4.24%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (4.24%) Oracle Database
6 4 (3.39%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.54%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.54%) Metadata
7 3 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (2.54%) Tableau
8 2 (1.69%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (1.69%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (1.69%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (1.69%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.69%) Spatial Data
8 2 (1.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (16.95%) Jenkins
2 18 (15.25%) Git
3 17 (14.41%) JIRA
4 7 (5.93%) Vagrant
5 6 (5.08%) GitLab
5 6 (5.08%) MSI
6 3 (2.54%) JMeter
6 3 (2.54%) Maven
6 3 (2.54%) Postman
6 3 (2.54%) REST Assured
6 3 (2.54%) Selenium
6 3 (2.54%) TestNG
6 3 (2.54%) Travis CI
7 2 (1.69%) GDB
7 2 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.85%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.85%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.85%) Gradle
8 1 (0.85%) Mockito
General
1 45 (38.14%) Social Skills
2 20 (16.95%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (12.71%) Automotive
3 15 (12.71%) Games
4 12 (10.17%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.93%) Finance
6 6 (5.08%) Aerospace
7 5 (4.24%) Advertising
7 5 (4.24%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.54%) Banking
9 2 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.69%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.69%) Legal
9 2 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.69%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.85%) Back Office
10 1 (0.85%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.85%) Military
10 1 (0.85%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 20 (16.95%) Senior
2 13 (11.02%) Developer
3 12 (10.17%) Data Engineer
3 12 (10.17%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (5.93%) Architect
5 6 (5.08%) Analyst
6 5 (4.24%) JavaScript Engineer
6 5 (4.24%) Python Engineer
6 5 (4.24%) Support Engineer
7 4 (3.39%) Azure Data Engineer
7 4 (3.39%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (3.39%) Data Architect
7 4 (3.39%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (3.39%) Python Developer
7 4 (3.39%) Security Engineer
7 4 (3.39%) Senior Developer
8 3 (2.54%) Data Migration Specialist
8 3 (2.54%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 3 (2.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (2.54%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.02%) Django
2 11 (9.32%) CSS
2 11 (9.32%) HTML
3 8 (6.78%) Kafka
4 7 (5.93%) React
5 6 (5.08%) Software Packaging
6 4 (3.39%) Apache NiFi
6 4 (3.39%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (3.39%) LDAP
6 4 (3.39%) PySpark
7 3 (2.54%) Apache Axis
7 3 (2.54%) Node.js
7 3 (2.54%) RESTful
7 3 (2.54%) YAML
8 2 (1.69%) 802.1X
8 2 (1.69%) GeoJSON
8 2 (1.69%) KML
8 2 (1.69%) MACH
9 1 (0.85%) AWS CDK
9 1 (0.85%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.02%) Animation
2 12 (10.17%) Onboarding
3 10 (8.47%) SCADA
4 7 (5.93%) IoT
5 6 (5.08%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (5.08%) Data Structures
6 5 (4.24%) Cloud Native
6 5 (4.24%) Replication
7 4 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (3.39%) Management Information System
7 4 (3.39%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.54%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (2.54%) Security Posture
8 3 (2.54%) Virtual Reality
9 2 (1.69%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.69%) Infotainment
9 2 (1.69%) Mobile Games
10 1 (0.85%) CCTV
10 1 (0.85%) FPGA
10 1 (0.85%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 21 (17.80%) Linux
2 19 (16.10%) Windows
3 7 (5.93%) Amazon Linux
3 7 (5.93%) VMS
4 4 (3.39%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.54%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.69%) CentOS
6 2 (1.69%) Debian
6 2 (1.69%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (23.73%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (22.88%) Agile
3 26 (22.03%) DevOps
4 22 (18.64%) CI/CD
5 17 (14.41%) Analytics
6 15 (12.71%) Data Modelling
6 15 (12.71%) ETL
7 14 (11.86%) Computer Science
7 14 (11.86%) Containerisation
8 13 (11.02%) Business Intelligence
9 12 (10.17%) Infrastructure as Code
9 12 (10.17%) Project Management
10 11 (9.32%) Platform Engineering
10 11 (9.32%) Stakeholder Management
10 11 (9.32%) Visualisation
11 10 (8.47%) Cloud Security
11 10 (8.47%) Data Pipeline
11 10 (8.47%) Migration
12 9 (7.63%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (7.63%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 45 (38.14%) SQL
2 32 (27.12%) PowerShell
3 25 (21.19%) Java
4 18 (15.25%) Bash
5 12 (10.17%) JavaScript
5 12 (10.17%) Tcl
6 11 (9.32%) C++
7 8 (6.78%) Perl
8 7 (5.93%) Groovy
8 7 (5.93%) Shell Script
8 7 (5.93%) TypeScript
9 6 (5.08%) Kusto Query Language
9 6 (5.08%) R
10 5 (4.24%) PHP
11 3 (2.54%) Bicep
11 3 (2.54%) C#
11 3 (2.54%) Go
11 3 (2.54%) Ruby
12 2 (1.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (1.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 37 (31.36%) Security Cleared
2 29 (24.58%) SC Cleared
3 17 (14.41%) Degree
4 12 (10.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (6.78%) CISSP
5 8 (6.78%) DV Cleared
6 5 (4.24%) CEH
7 3 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.54%) CCNP
7 3 (2.54%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.54%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (2.54%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.69%) CISM
9 1 (0.85%) CCNA
9 1 (0.85%) CITP
9 1 (0.85%) JNCIA
9 1 (0.85%) JNCIS
9 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.85%) OCP
9 1 (0.85%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.32%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.93%) GDPR
2 7 (5.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (5.93%) QA
3 5 (4.24%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.69%) COSHH
4 2 (1.69%) ISO 14001
5 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.85%) NCSC
5 1 (0.85%) NIST
5 1 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 28 (23.73%) Docker
2 8 (6.78%) Active Directory
3 5 (4.24%) DFS Replication
4 2 (1.69%) Dovecot
4 2 (1.69%) Postfix
4 2 (1.69%) Squid
Systems Management
1 22 (18.64%) Terraform
2 20 (16.95%) Kubernetes
3 19 (16.10%) Ansible
4 12 (10.17%) Grafana
4 12 (10.17%) Prometheus
5 4 (3.39%) Kibana
5 4 (3.39%) Nessus
5 4 (3.39%) Puppet
6 3 (2.54%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.69%) BMC PATROL
8 1 (0.85%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.85%) logstash
8 1 (0.85%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.85%) QRadar
8 1 (0.85%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (11.02%) Databricks
2 11 (9.32%) Microsoft
3 10 (8.47%) Oracle
4 9 (7.63%) SAP
5 8 (6.78%) ServiceNow
6 6 (5.08%) Informatica
6 6 (5.08%) Tanium
7 4 (3.39%) Cisco
7 4 (3.39%) Juniper
8 3 (2.54%) Foundry
8 3 (2.54%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.69%) BMC
9 2 (1.69%) Jaspersoft
9 2 (1.69%) OpenText
9 2 (1.69%) Proofpoint
9 2 (1.69%) Sophos
9 2 (1.69%) Splunk
9 2 (1.69%) VMware
10 1 (0.85%) BT
10 1 (0.85%) Red Hat