Python Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Python
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring Python skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 23 42
Rank change year-on-year -3 +19 +4
Contract jobs citing Python 4 6 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Sussex 2.14% 4.00% 1.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.16% 10.17% 4.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 3
10th Percentile £317 £453 £440
25th Percentile £324 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -20.58% +20.00% +14.42%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £590
90th Percentile - £645 £644
South East median daily rate £500 £503 £550
% change year-on-year -0.50% -8.64% +4.76%

All Programming Languages
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 49 59 90
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 26.20% 39.33% 28.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 45 74
10th Percentile £195 £291 £312
25th Percentile £205 £359 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £274 £450 £414
Median % change year-on-year -39.17% +8.70% -22.98%
75th Percentile £425 £500 £584
90th Percentile £525 £600 £678
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
Median hourly rate - £28.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year - -41.67% -10.28%
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £56.06
% change year-on-year -21.43% +24.87% -6.57%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in West Sussex

Python
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Python.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Python

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in West Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in West Sussex over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python in West Sussex

Python
Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Python.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Python

Python
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

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 Sussex region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
Worthing -6 2 £625 - 3
Crawley -10 1 £328 -29.08% 14
Python
South East

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Sussex 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Data Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Python Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) ETL
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Data Security
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) CRM
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle