Python Contracts in the West Midlands

Python
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 44 60
Rank change year-on-year +9 +16 -9
Contract jobs citing Python 82 106 131
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 4.34% 4.68% 3.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.03% 18.83% 14.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 73 76
10th Percentile £271 £403 £363
25th Percentile £364 £500 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £575 £510
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +12.75% +27.50%
75th Percentile £539 £700 £576
90th Percentile £603 £731 £656
England median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 1
10th Percentile £35.19 - -
25th Percentile £40.13 £51.25 £56.50
Median hourly rate £47.75 £52.50 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% -9.48% -
75th Percentile £68.13 £53.75 £59.50
90th Percentile £72.50 - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £52.56
% change year-on-year -3.85% +23.68% +31.39%

All Programming Languages
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 431 563 924
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 22.80% 24.88% 26.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 312 383 663
10th Percentile £260 £357 £325
25th Percentile £337 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £460
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +14.13% +15.00%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £541
90th Percentile £638 £700 £637
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 3
10th Percentile £40.10 £21.73 £16.46
25th Percentile £55.00 £23.81 £16.77
Median hourly rate £57.50 £29.32 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +96.13% +67.53% -37.50%
75th Percentile £58.75 £64.69 £39.13
90th Percentile £69.75 £98.25 £51.35
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.05
% change year-on-year - +22.43% +20.12%

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 16 May 2024.

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Python in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Python in the West Midlands

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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 16 May 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
Birmingham +3 44 £400 -38.46% 58
Warwickshire -3 16 £526 -2.23% 11
Worcestershire +15 7 £550 +4.76% 7
Coventry +10 6 £450 -14.29% 16
Staffordshire +9 4 - - 12
Wolverhampton - 1 - - 7
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 3 (3.66%) Apache Spark
1 3 (3.66%) Confluence
2 2 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.44%) CMS
2 2 (2.44%) Headless CMS
3 1 (1.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.22%) Apache
3 1 (1.22%) SAS
3 1 (1.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (14.63%) Chatbot
2 5 (6.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (4.88%) CANalyzer
4 1 (1.22%) Simulink
4 1 (1.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (10.98%) Odoo
2 3 (3.66%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 17 (20.73%) Azure
2 12 (14.63%) AWS
2 12 (14.63%) Power Platform
3 5 (6.10%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (6.10%) Serverless
4 4 (4.88%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (4.88%) GCP
5 3 (3.66%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (3.66%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (3.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (3.66%) dbt
6 2 (2.44%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (2.44%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (2.44%) Amazon MSK
6 2 (2.44%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.44%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (2.44%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (2.44%) Azure Functions
6 2 (2.44%) GitHub
6 2 (2.44%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.88%) Ethernet
1 4 (4.88%) FlexRay
2 1 (1.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (14.63%) Power BI
2 9 (10.98%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (8.54%) NoSQL
4 6 (7.32%) Big Data
5 4 (4.88%) BusinessObjects
5 4 (4.88%) Data Lake
6 3 (3.66%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (3.66%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (3.66%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (3.66%) MySQL
6 3 (3.66%) Relational Database
6 3 (3.66%) SQL Server
6 3 (3.66%) Tableau
7 2 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (2.44%) Delta Lake
7 2 (2.44%) Hadoop
7 2 (2.44%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.44%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.22%) Apache Hive
8 1 (1.22%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 10 (12.20%) Git
2 5 (6.10%) JIRA
3 4 (4.88%) Bitbucket
3 4 (4.88%) CANoe
3 4 (4.88%) GitLab
4 3 (3.66%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.44%) Travis CI
5 2 (2.44%) webpack
6 1 (1.22%) Ant
6 1 (1.22%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.22%) Gradle
6 1 (1.22%) JUnit
6 1 (1.22%) Maven
6 1 (1.22%) TeamCity
General
1 24 (29.27%) Social Skills
2 11 (13.41%) Finance
3 9 (10.98%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (7.32%) Manufacturing
5 4 (4.88%) Automotive
5 4 (4.88%) Electronics
6 2 (2.44%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.44%) Banking
6 2 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.44%) Retail
7 1 (1.22%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.22%) Marketing
7 1 (1.22%) Multimedia
7 1 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.22%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.22%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 29 (35.37%) Developer
2 19 (23.17%) Data Engineer
3 12 (14.63%) Software Developer
4 7 (8.54%) Analyst
4 7 (8.54%) Python Developer
5 6 (7.32%) Senior
6 4 (4.88%) Integration Manager
6 4 (4.88%) Java Developer
6 4 (4.88%) Software Manager
7 3 (3.66%) Applications Support
7 3 (3.66%) Applications Support Analyst
7 3 (3.66%) Data Analyst
7 3 (3.66%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (3.66%) Full Stack Developer
7 3 (3.66%) Support Analyst
8 2 (2.44%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (2.44%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (2.44%) Data Scientist
8 2 (2.44%) Python Data Engineer
8 2 (2.44%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (14.63%) HTML
2 5 (6.10%) RESTful
3 4 (4.88%) Flask
3 4 (4.88%) Kafka
3 4 (4.88%) Pandas
3 4 (4.88%) PySpark
4 3 (3.66%) ADO
4 3 (3.66%) Hibernate
4 3 (3.66%) Spring
5 2 (2.44%) Apache Sling
5 2 (2.44%) GraphQL
5 2 (2.44%) Next.js
5 2 (2.44%) Node.js
5 2 (2.44%) OSGi
5 2 (2.44%) React
5 2 (2.44%) REST
6 1 (1.22%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (1.22%) Keras
6 1 (1.22%) OpenAPI
6 1 (1.22%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.20%) Algorithms
2 6 (7.32%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.88%) Infotainment
4 2 (2.44%) Distributed Applications
4 2 (2.44%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.44%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.22%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.22%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.10%) Linux
2 3 (3.66%) Windows
3 1 (1.22%) Unix
3 1 (1.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (25.61%) Artificial Intelligence
2 16 (19.51%) Software Engineering
3 15 (18.29%) Data Modelling
3 15 (18.29%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (17.07%) Code Quality
5 13 (15.85%) Analytics
6 12 (14.63%) Conversational UI
6 12 (14.63%) DevOps
7 11 (13.41%) Agile
7 11 (13.41%) CI/CD
8 10 (12.20%) ERP
9 9 (10.98%) Computer Science
10 8 (9.76%) Data Analysis
10 8 (9.76%) ETL
10 8 (9.76%) Visualisation
11 7 (8.54%) Data Analytics
11 7 (8.54%) Data Science
11 7 (8.54%) Full Stack Development
12 6 (7.32%) Data Governance
12 6 (7.32%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 42 (51.22%) SQL
2 19 (23.17%) JavaScript
3 15 (18.29%) Java
4 13 (15.85%) C#
5 5 (6.10%) C++
5 5 (6.10%) MATLAB
6 4 (4.88%) VBA
7 3 (3.66%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.44%) Bash
8 2 (2.44%) C
8 2 (2.44%) R
8 2 (2.44%) Scala
8 2 (2.44%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.22%) HiveQL
9 1 (1.22%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (28.05%) Degree
2 6 (7.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.88%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.66%) PhD
4 3 (3.66%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.22%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.22%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.22%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.54%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.66%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.44%) GDPR
4 1 (1.22%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 4 (4.88%) Docker
2 1 (1.22%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.22%) HDFS
2 1 (1.22%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (9.76%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.10%) Functional Safety
3 4 (4.88%) Terraform
4 2 (2.44%) Ansible
5 1 (1.22%) Argo
5 1 (1.22%) Istio
5 1 (1.22%) linkerd
5 1 (1.22%) SELinux
5 1 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.22%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 12 (14.63%) PayPal
2 11 (13.41%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.10%) Databricks
4 3 (3.66%) Google
4 3 (3.66%) Oracle
4 3 (3.66%) Sage
5 2 (2.44%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.44%) Confluent
5 2 (2.44%) NVIDIA
5 2 (2.44%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.22%) Anaplan
6 1 (1.22%) Citrix
6 1 (1.22%) Denodo
6 1 (1.22%) Informatica
6 1 (1.22%) New Relic
6 1 (1.22%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.22%) SAP
6 1 (1.22%) Splunk
6 1 (1.22%) Talend
6 1 (1.22%) Teradata