Python Contracts in Wiltshire

Python
South West > Wiltshire

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 45 42
Rank change year-on-year +22 -3 -9
Contract jobs citing Python 34 44 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 7.57% 4.66% 4.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 44.16% 38.94% 25.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 41 46
10th Percentile £498 £475 £365
25th Percentile £563 £514 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £700 £563
Median % change year-on-year -16.43% +24.44% +10.29%
75th Percentile £650 - £669
90th Percentile £666 £725 £688
South West median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%

All Programming Languages
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 77 113 203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 17.15% 11.97% 18.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 85 171
10th Percentile £426 £413 £385
25th Percentile £516 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £553 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.07% +5.24% +5.00%
75th Percentile £635 £700 £614
90th Percentile £663 £720 £688
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £32.50
25th Percentile - - £49.38
Median hourly rate - - £85.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +33.86%
75th Percentile - - £100.00
90th Percentile - - £107.50
South West median hourly rate £67.50 £67.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +0.37% +3.46% +6.12%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in Wiltshire

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python in Wiltshire.

Daily rate trend for Python in Wiltshire

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python in Wiltshire

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python in Wiltshire.

Hourly rate trend for Python in Wiltshire

Python
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Corsham +23 25 £585 -16.43% 4
Swindon +4 9 £650 +23.81% 16
Python
South West

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 9 (26.47%) Confluence
2 1 (2.94%) Apache
2 1 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (32.35%) AWS
2 4 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (11.76%) Serverless
3 3 (8.82%) Amazon S3
3 3 (8.82%) Azure
3 3 (8.82%) GitHub
4 2 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (5.88%) Amazon EventBridge
4 2 (5.88%) Datadog
4 2 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (5.88%) SaaS
5 1 (2.94%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.94%) GCP
5 1 (2.94%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.94%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.76%) DNS
2 3 (8.82%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (2.94%) Firewall
3 1 (2.94%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.94%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.71%) Amazon Athena
1 5 (14.71%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (14.71%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (11.76%) MySQL
3 3 (8.82%) MongoDB
4 2 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (5.88%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.94%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.94%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.94%) Power BI
5 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 19 (55.88%) Git
2 13 (38.24%) Bitbucket
3 11 (32.35%) Jenkins
4 9 (26.47%) JIRA
5 2 (5.88%) GitLab
6 1 (2.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (2.94%) Gatling
6 1 (2.94%) JMeter
6 1 (2.94%) LoadRunner
General
1 4 (11.76%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.94%) Electronics
3 1 (2.94%) Finance
3 1 (2.94%) Manufacturing
3 1 (2.94%) Marketing
3 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (23.53%) Platform Engineer
2 7 (20.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (14.71%) Automation Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Data Migration Lead
4 4 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Lead
4 4 (11.76%) Software Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Integration Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Software Integration Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Data Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Development Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Performance Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Python Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Software Development Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (35.29%) REST
2 11 (32.35%) SOAP
3 2 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (5.88%) Node.js
4 1 (2.94%) .NET
4 1 (2.94%) .NET Core
4 1 (2.94%) .NET Framework
4 1 (2.94%) Keycloak
4 1 (2.94%) React
4 1 (2.94%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.88%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.94%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 23 (67.65%) Linux
2 21 (61.76%) Windows
3 10 (29.41%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (61.76%) Configuration Management
2 18 (52.94%) Agile
2 18 (52.94%) NsoIT
3 15 (44.12%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (38.24%) Deployment Automation
5 12 (35.29%) Software Engineering
6 11 (32.35%) Infrastructure Automation
6 11 (32.35%) Reverse Engineering
6 11 (32.35%) Validation
7 10 (29.41%) Service Management
7 10 (29.41%) System Testing
8 8 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (20.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 7 (20.59%) Platform Engineering
10 6 (17.65%) DevOps
11 5 (14.71%) ETL
12 4 (11.76%) CI/CD
12 4 (11.76%) Data Migration
12 4 (11.76%) Migration
13 3 (8.82%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 21 (61.76%) PowerShell
2 17 (50.00%) Bash
3 9 (26.47%) SQL
4 2 (5.88%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.94%) Java
Qualifications
1 25 (73.53%) SC Cleared
1 25 (73.53%) Security Cleared
2 18 (52.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 11 (32.35%) OCA
3 11 (32.35%) Oracle Certification
4 10 (29.41%) CCNP
4 10 (29.41%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (29.41%) RHCA
4 10 (29.41%) RHCE
5 3 (8.82%) Degree
6 2 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (5.88%) DV Cleared
7 1 (2.94%) Master's Degree
7 1 (2.94%) MCSA
7 1 (2.94%) MCSE
7 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.94%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) Data Quality
System Software
1 15 (44.12%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (8.82%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.82%) Docker
3 2 (5.88%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.94%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (67.65%) Ansible
2 12 (35.29%) Puppet
2 12 (35.29%) Terraform
3 11 (32.35%) Progress Chef
3 11 (32.35%) vCenter Server
4 3 (8.82%) Kubernetes
5 2 (5.88%) PowerCLI
6 1 (2.94%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (64.71%) VMware
2 13 (38.24%) Cisco
2 13 (38.24%) Oracle
3 9 (26.47%) Atlassian
4 3 (8.82%) F5
5 2 (5.88%) MuleSoft
5 2 (5.88%) Salesforce
5 2 (5.88%) Splunk
6 1 (2.94%) AppDynamics
6 1 (2.94%) Citrix
6 1 (2.94%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.94%) Google
6 1 (2.94%) Jaspersoft
6 1 (2.94%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.94%) New Relic
6 1 (2.94%) SAP
6 1 (2.94%) SolarWinds
6 1 (2.94%) Veeam