Python Contracts in Birmingham

Python
West Midlands > Birmingham

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 18 51
Rank change year-on-year -5 +33 -28
Contract jobs citing Python 43 70 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 5.80% 7.86% 3.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.12% 31.25% 13.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 41 31
10th Percentile £253 £400 £400
25th Percentile £310 £513 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £650 £500
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% +30.00% +19.76%
75th Percentile £436 £700 £588
90th Percentile £450 £731 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £575 £520
% change year-on-year -21.74% +10.58% +28.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £40.10 - -
25th Percentile £40.25 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £40.50 £52.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% - -
75th Percentile £47.75 £53.75 -
90th Percentile £52.10 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £58.00
% change year-on-year +4.76% -9.48% -

All Programming Languages
Birmingham

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 Birmingham with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 186 224 315
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 25.07% 25.14% 24.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 145 241
10th Percentile £259 £313 £325
25th Percentile £313 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +7.89% +18.75%
75th Percentile £575 £688 £575
90th Percentile £650 £700 £643
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 0
10th Percentile £40.20 £21.70 -
25th Percentile £40.50 £24.31 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £33.39 -
Median % change year-on-year +64.74% - -
75th Percentile £56.25 £75.63 -
90th Percentile - £98.50 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £57.50 £29.32 £37.75
% change year-on-year +96.13% -22.34% +43.43%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in Birmingham

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Python in Birmingham

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Birmingham over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python in Birmingham

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Python in Birmingham

Python
Hourly Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Python in Birmingham over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Python in Birmingham

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 2 (4.65%) Apache Spark
1 2 (4.65%) CMS
1 2 (4.65%) Headless CMS
2 1 (2.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 12 (27.91%) Chatbot
2 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (20.93%) Odoo
2 3 (6.98%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (16.28%) Power Platform
2 6 (13.95%) AWS
3 4 (9.30%) Azure
4 2 (4.65%) Serverless
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.33%) Azure Functions
5 1 (2.33%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (2.33%) GCP
5 1 (2.33%) GitHub
5 1 (2.33%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.33%) Route 53
5 1 (2.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.28%) Power BI
2 6 (13.95%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (9.30%) NoSQL
3 4 (9.30%) Tableau
4 2 (4.65%) Data Lake
4 2 (4.65%) RDBMS
4 2 (4.65%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.33%) Big Data
5 1 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.33%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (2.33%) Flink
5 1 (2.33%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.33%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (2.33%) Jackrabbit
5 1 (2.33%) MySQL
5 1 (2.33%) Presto
Development Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Git
1 2 (4.65%) webpack
2 1 (2.33%) Ant
2 1 (2.33%) Gradle
2 1 (2.33%) JUnit
2 1 (2.33%) Maven
General
1 13 (30.23%) Social Skills
2 8 (18.60%) Finance
3 4 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.33%) Banking
4 1 (2.33%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (60.47%) Developer
2 12 (27.91%) Software Developer
3 7 (16.28%) Analyst
3 7 (16.28%) Python Developer
4 4 (9.30%) Data Engineer
4 4 (9.30%) Senior
5 3 (6.98%) Applications Support
5 3 (6.98%) Applications Support Analyst
5 3 (6.98%) Data Analyst
5 3 (6.98%) Java Developer
5 3 (6.98%) Support Analyst
6 2 (4.65%) Backend Developer
6 2 (4.65%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (4.65%) Senior Data Analyst
7 1 (2.33%) AWS DevOps
7 1 (2.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.33%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (2.33%) Business Intelligence Business Analyst
7 1 (2.33%) Full Stack Developer
7 1 (2.33%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (27.91%) HTML
2 3 (6.98%) Hibernate
2 3 (6.98%) RESTful
2 3 (6.98%) Spring
3 2 (4.65%) Apache Sling
3 2 (4.65%) GraphQL
3 2 (4.65%) Next.js
3 2 (4.65%) OSGi
3 2 (4.65%) React
4 1 (2.33%) Flask
4 1 (2.33%) Kafka
4 1 (2.33%) Node.js
4 1 (2.33%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (2.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.63%) Data Structures
2 4 (9.30%) Algorithms
3 2 (4.65%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.65%) Linux
1 2 (4.65%) Windows
2 1 (2.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (34.88%) Artificial Intelligence
2 12 (27.91%) Code Quality
2 12 (27.91%) Conversational UI
2 12 (27.91%) Software Engineering
3 9 (20.93%) ERP
4 8 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (16.28%) Data Modelling
6 6 (13.95%) Data Analysis
7 5 (11.63%) Analytics
7 5 (11.63%) Data Science
8 4 (9.30%) Data Visualisation
8 4 (9.30%) Microservices
8 4 (9.30%) Visualisation
9 3 (6.98%) Computer Science
9 3 (6.98%) DevOps
9 3 (6.98%) Machine Learning
9 3 (6.98%) Multithreading
9 3 (6.98%) OO
9 3 (6.98%) OOP
9 3 (6.98%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 20 (46.51%) SQL
2 15 (34.88%) JavaScript
3 13 (30.23%) C#
4 8 (18.60%) Java
5 2 (4.65%) C
5 2 (4.65%) C++
5 2 (4.65%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.33%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.33%) R
6 1 (2.33%) Scala
6 1 (2.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (32.56%) Degree
2 2 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.30%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.65%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.65%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (2.33%) Docker
1 1 (2.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (4.65%) Kubernetes
1 2 (4.65%) Terraform
2 1 (2.33%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 12 (27.91%) PayPal
2 8 (18.60%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.33%) Alteryx
3 1 (2.33%) Anaplan
3 1 (2.33%) Citrix
3 1 (2.33%) Databricks
3 1 (2.33%) Google
3 1 (2.33%) New Relic
3 1 (2.33%) OpenAI
3 1 (2.33%) Oracle
3 1 (2.33%) SAP
3 1 (2.33%) Splunk
3 1 (2.33%) Teradata