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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 41 51
Rank change year-on-year +18 +10 +11
Contract jobs citing Python 95 76 105
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 7.06% 3.90% 4.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.62% 17.92% 16.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 35 77
10th Percentile £306 £268 £413
25th Percentile £420 £348 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £563
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -24.44% +7.49%
75th Percentile £650 £525 £700
90th Percentile £693 £606 £717
England median daily rate £550 £563 £600
% change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 1
10th Percentile - £35.19 -
25th Percentile £28.18 £40.13 £51.25
Median hourly rate £33.91 £47.75 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.98% -9.05% -
75th Percentile - £68.13 £53.75
90th Percentile - £72.50 -
England median hourly rate £40.91 £62.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year -34.20% -4.34% +27.83%

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 344 424 631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 25.56% 21.73% 26.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 308 437
10th Percentile £237 £260 £362
25th Percentile £401 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -14.29% +14.57%
75th Percentile £575 £556 £595
90th Percentile £689 £638 £700
England median daily rate £525 £542 £565
% change year-on-year -3.05% -4.16% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 8
10th Percentile £16.85 £40.10 £21.73
25th Percentile £17.87 £55.00 £23.81
Median hourly rate £27.50 £57.50 £29.32
Median % change year-on-year -52.17% +96.13% +68.59%
75th Percentile £31.33 £58.75 £64.69
90th Percentile £33.91 £69.75 £98.25
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +0.40% +4.17% +20.00%

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 2 May 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
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 2 May 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 +12 47 £572 +43.00% 88
Warwickshire +10 25 £450 -14.29% 31
Staffordshire +6 5 £550 - 87
Coventry +7 3 £413 -8.33% 47
Worcestershire -4 3 £700 +27.27% 30
Shropshire - 3 £440 - 45
Herefordshire - 3 £700 - 4
Solihull - 2 - - 3
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 8 (8.42%) Confluence
2 7 (7.37%) Apache
3 3 (3.16%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (2.11%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.05%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (5.26%) Maya
1 5 (5.26%) NUKE
2 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.05%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (2.11%) NetSuite
1 2 (2.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 19 (20.00%) AWS
1 19 (20.00%) Azure
2 7 (7.37%) GCP
2 7 (7.37%) Power Platform
3 6 (6.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 6 (6.32%) Amazon S3
3 6 (6.32%) Serverless
4 5 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (5.26%) Snowflake
5 4 (4.21%) SaaS
6 3 (3.16%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (3.16%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.16%) OCI
6 3 (3.16%) PaaS
7 2 (2.11%) AWS CodeCommit
7 2 (2.11%) AWS CodeDeploy
7 2 (2.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (2.11%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.32%) Firewall
2 4 (4.21%) Network Security
2 4 (4.21%) SSL
3 3 (3.16%) DHCP
3 3 (3.16%) DNS
3 3 (3.16%) VLAN
4 2 (2.11%) HTTP
4 2 (2.11%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (2.11%) NetScaler
4 2 (2.11%) OpenLDAP
4 2 (2.11%) SAN
5 1 (1.05%) BGP
5 1 (1.05%) DSL
5 1 (1.05%) EIGRP
5 1 (1.05%) Internet
5 1 (1.05%) OSPF
5 1 (1.05%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.05%) Wireless
5 1 (1.05%) Wireless Security
5 1 (1.05%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.42%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (7.37%) Power BI
3 6 (6.32%) Relational Database
3 6 (6.32%) SQL Server
4 5 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (4.21%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (4.21%) Data Lake
5 4 (4.21%) NoSQL
6 3 (3.16%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.11%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.11%) Big Data
7 2 (2.11%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.11%) Metadata
7 2 (2.11%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.11%) Tableau
8 1 (1.05%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.05%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.05%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 13 (13.68%) Git
2 10 (10.53%) JIRA
3 8 (8.42%) Jenkins
4 6 (6.32%) MSI
5 4 (4.21%) GitLab
6 3 (3.16%) ERwin
6 3 (3.16%) JMeter
6 3 (3.16%) Maven
6 3 (3.16%) Postman
6 3 (3.16%) REST Assured
6 3 (3.16%) Selenium
6 3 (3.16%) TestNG
6 3 (3.16%) Travis CI
7 2 (2.11%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.05%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.05%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.05%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.05%) ER Studio
8 1 (1.05%) Gradle
8 1 (1.05%) Mockito
General
1 41 (43.16%) Social Skills
2 16 (16.84%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (11.58%) Finance
4 9 (9.47%) Public Sector
5 7 (7.37%) Automotive
5 7 (7.37%) Games
6 6 (6.32%) Banking
7 5 (5.26%) Advertising
8 3 (3.16%) Financial Institution
8 3 (3.16%) Manufacturing
8 3 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.11%) Back Office
9 2 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.11%) Legal
9 2 (2.11%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.05%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.05%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.05%) Law
10 1 (1.05%) Military
10 1 (1.05%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 15 (15.79%) Data Engineer
2 12 (12.63%) Senior
3 10 (10.53%) Developer
4 7 (7.37%) Lead
5 5 (5.26%) Architect
5 5 (5.26%) JavaScript Engineer
5 5 (5.26%) Python Engineer
5 5 (5.26%) Support Engineer
6 4 (4.21%) Python Data Engineer
6 4 (4.21%) Security Engineer
6 4 (4.21%) Senior Developer
6 4 (4.21%) Software Engineer
7 3 (3.16%) Administrator
7 3 (3.16%) Applications Architect
7 3 (3.16%) Data Modeller
7 3 (3.16%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (3.16%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 3 (3.16%) Security Architect
7 3 (3.16%) Site Engineer
7 3 (3.16%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.37%) React
2 6 (6.32%) Django
2 6 (6.32%) Software Packaging
3 5 (5.26%) PySpark
3 5 (5.26%) RESTful
4 4 (4.21%) Apache NiFi
4 4 (4.21%) Node.js
5 3 (3.16%) .NET
5 3 (3.16%) Apache Axis
5 3 (3.16%) CSS
5 3 (3.16%) HTML
5 3 (3.16%) YAML
6 2 (2.11%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (2.11%) FpML
6 2 (2.11%) JSON
6 2 (2.11%) Kafka
6 2 (2.11%) LDAP
6 2 (2.11%) MACH
6 2 (2.11%) Middleware
6 2 (2.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.47%) Onboarding
2 7 (7.37%) Management Information System
3 6 (6.32%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (5.26%) Animation
4 5 (5.26%) Data Structures
4 5 (5.26%) Product Ownership
5 4 (4.21%) SCADA
6 3 (3.16%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (3.16%) Security Posture
6 3 (3.16%) Virtual Reality
7 2 (2.11%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.11%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (2.11%) Data Centre
7 2 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.11%) Infotainment
7 2 (2.11%) Mobile Games
7 2 (2.11%) Reference Data
7 2 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.05%) FPGA
8 1 (1.05%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 16 (16.84%) Windows
2 12 (12.63%) Linux
3 5 (5.26%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.16%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (2.11%) CentOS
5 2 (2.11%) Debian
5 2 (2.11%) Ubuntu
5 2 (2.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (33.68%) Agile
1 32 (33.68%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 17 (17.89%) DevOps
4 15 (15.79%) Computer Science
5 14 (14.74%) Analytics
6 12 (12.63%) Containerisation
6 12 (12.63%) Software Delivery
7 11 (11.58%) Data Modelling
7 11 (11.58%) Project Management
8 10 (10.53%) ETL
8 10 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (9.47%) API Development
9 9 (9.47%) Collaborative Working
9 9 (9.47%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (9.47%) Data Pipeline
9 9 (9.47%) SIEM
10 8 (8.42%) Data Engineering
10 8 (8.42%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (8.42%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 34 (35.79%) SQL
2 23 (24.21%) PowerShell
3 15 (15.79%) Bash
4 14 (14.74%) Java
5 12 (12.63%) JavaScript
6 7 (7.37%) TypeScript
7 6 (6.32%) R
8 5 (5.26%) Perl
8 5 (5.26%) PHP
8 5 (5.26%) Shell Script
9 4 (4.21%) C#
9 4 (4.21%) C++
9 4 (4.21%) Tcl
10 3 (3.16%) Ruby
10 3 (3.16%) Scala
11 2 (2.11%) Go
12 1 (1.05%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (1.05%) Rust
12 1 (1.05%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (29.47%) Security Cleared
2 23 (24.21%) SC Cleared
3 20 (21.05%) Degree
4 12 (12.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (10.53%) CISSP
6 7 (7.37%) CEH
7 4 (4.21%) DV Cleared
8 3 (3.16%) Azure Certification
8 3 (3.16%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (3.16%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (3.16%) ISTQB
9 2 (2.11%) AWS Certification
9 2 (2.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (2.11%) CISM
9 2 (2.11%) GIAC
10 1 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (1.05%) CITP
10 1 (1.05%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (1.05%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.47%) QA
2 5 (5.26%) Accessibility
2 5 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.21%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.11%) COSHH
4 2 (2.11%) GDPR
4 2 (2.11%) ISO 14001
4 2 (2.11%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (1.05%) NCSC
5 1 (1.05%) NIST
5 1 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (22.11%) Docker
2 3 (3.16%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (18.95%) Kubernetes
2 13 (13.68%) Ansible
3 12 (12.63%) Terraform
4 4 (4.21%) Kibana
5 3 (3.16%) Grafana
5 3 (3.16%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.16%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (2.11%) BMC PATROL
6 2 (2.11%) Nessus
6 2 (2.11%) Puppet
7 1 (1.05%) logstash
7 1 (1.05%) QRadar
7 1 (1.05%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (9.47%) Databricks
2 7 (7.37%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.32%) Tanium
4 3 (3.16%) Foundry
4 3 (3.16%) IBM
4 3 (3.16%) Oracle
5 2 (2.11%) BMC
5 2 (2.11%) Cisco
5 2 (2.11%) Dell
5 2 (2.11%) F5
5 2 (2.11%) HP
5 2 (2.11%) Imperva
5 2 (2.11%) Juniper
5 2 (2.11%) Proofpoint
5 2 (2.11%) Sophos
5 2 (2.11%) Sparx
5 2 (2.11%) Splunk
5 2 (2.11%) VMware
6 1 (1.05%) Google
6 1 (1.05%) SolarWinds