Python Contract Job Trends in Worcestershire

Python
West Midlands > Worcestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Worcestershire requiring Python skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 - 11
Rank change year-on-year - - +16
Contract jobs citing Python 26 0 9
As % of all contract jobs in Worcestershire 18.71% - 10.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 59.09% - 32.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 0 9
10th Percentile - - £526
25th Percentile £525 - £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £590
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.45%
75th Percentile £659 - £630
90th Percentile £713 - £656
West Midlands median daily rate £507 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +1.30% -9.09% +4.76%

All Programming Languages
Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 44 8 28
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 31.65% 11.59% 33.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 4 22
10th Percentile - - £380
25th Percentile £525 £400 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £406 £581
Median % change year-on-year +41.54% -30.11% -3.13%
75th Percentile £650 £448 £610
90th Percentile £675 £502 £655
West Midlands median daily rate £509 £500 £460
% change year-on-year +1.80% +8.70% -8.91%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Python relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire.

Python job vacancy trend in Worcestershire

Python
Daily Rate Trend in Worcestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing Python.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing Python

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Worcestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Worcestershire over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python in Worcestershire

Python
Hourly Rate Trend in Worcestershire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing Python.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing Python

Python
Contract Job Locations in Worcestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Worcestershire region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Malvern - 20 £625 -
Worcester - 16 £569 - 13
Python
West Midlands

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Worcestershire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (7.69%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 25 (96.15%) Azure
2 20 (76.92%) GitHub
3 11 (42.31%) Azure Data Factory
4 10 (38.46%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (38.46%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (26.92%) Azure Key Vault
5 7 (26.92%) Serverless
6 3 (11.54%) AWS
7 2 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (7.69%) GCP
8 1 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (3.85%) Azure AKS
8 1 (3.85%) Datadog
8 1 (3.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (3.85%) npm
8 1 (3.85%) OpenShift
8 1 (3.85%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) DNS
1 1 (3.85%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (69.23%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (26.92%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) GitLab
1 3 (11.54%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.69%) Git
3 1 (3.85%) Artifactory
3 1 (3.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (3.85%) Bitbucket
3 1 (3.85%) CircleCI
3 1 (3.85%) Cypress.io
3 1 (3.85%) Gradle
3 1 (3.85%) JUnit
3 1 (3.85%) Maven
3 1 (3.85%) Postman
3 1 (3.85%) Selenium
3 1 (3.85%) Snyk
3 1 (3.85%) SonarQube
3 1 (3.85%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (3.85%) webpack
General
1 3 (11.54%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (42.31%) Data Engineer
1 11 (42.31%) Senior
1 11 (42.31%) Senior Data Engineer
2 7 (26.92%) Backend Developer
2 7 (26.92%) Developer
2 7 (26.92%) Python Developer
3 3 (11.54%) Application Integration Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Applications Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Integration Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Security Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) SIEM Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) SOC Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Consultant
5 1 (3.85%) DevOps Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (42.31%) Kafka
1 11 (42.31%) Keycloak
2 8 (30.77%) REST
3 7 (26.92%) FastAPI
3 7 (26.92%) Flask
3 7 (26.92%) GraphQL
3 7 (26.92%) gRPC
3 7 (26.92%) WebSockets
4 3 (11.54%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (3.85%) JSON
5 1 (3.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (38.46%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (26.92%) Cloud Native
3 3 (11.54%) Client/Server
4 1 (3.85%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (23.08%) Linux
2 3 (11.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (11.54%) Windows
2 3 (11.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (88.46%) DevOps
2 19 (73.08%) Containerisation
3 11 (42.31%) Batch Processing
3 11 (42.31%) Data Engineering
3 11 (42.31%) Data Pipeline
3 11 (42.31%) DataOps
3 11 (42.31%) ETL
4 10 (38.46%) CI/CD
4 10 (38.46%) Data Architecture
5 7 (26.92%) Microservices
6 4 (15.38%) Scrum
6 4 (15.38%) SIEM
7 3 (11.54%) Agile
7 3 (11.54%) Application Packaging
7 3 (11.54%) Configuration Management
7 3 (11.54%) Reverse Engineering
8 2 (7.69%) Case Management
8 2 (7.69%) Computer Science
8 2 (7.69%) Software Engineering
8 2 (7.69%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 20 (76.92%) Go
2 7 (26.92%) SQL
3 5 (19.23%) Bash
4 4 (15.38%) PowerShell
5 3 (11.54%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 26 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 20 (76.92%) SC Cleared
3 15 (57.69%) DV Cleared
4 11 (42.31%) Azure Certification
5 2 (7.69%) Degree
6 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 20 (76.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (76.92%) Kubernetes
2 9 (34.62%) Grafana
2 9 (34.62%) Prometheus
3 3 (11.54%) Ansible
4 2 (7.69%) Kibana
4 2 (7.69%) logstash
4 2 (7.69%) Progress Chef
4 2 (7.69%) Puppet
4 2 (7.69%) Terraform
5 1 (3.85%) Podman
Vendors
1 7 (26.92%) Microsoft
2 4 (15.38%) VMware
3 2 (7.69%) ArcSight
3 2 (7.69%) Splunk