Python Contracts in Hertfordshire

Python
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 27 26
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 +12
Contract jobs citing Python 24 54 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 4.98% 7.19% 7.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.90% 22.98% 24.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 39 45
10th Percentile £405 £400 -
25th Percentile £406 £431 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £545 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% -3.11% -6.25%
75th Percentile £600 £704 £725
90th Percentile £640 £738 £738
East of England median daily rate £465 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -7.10% -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 10
10th Percentile - £66.25 £51.88
25th Percentile - £70.31 £55.00
Median hourly rate - £72.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - +16.00% +47.06%
75th Percentile - £73.75 £72.75
90th Percentile - £73.88 £74.93
East of England median hourly rate £50.00 £72.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -31.03% +31.82% +46.67%

All Programming Languages
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 127 235 243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 26.35% 31.29% 28.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 103 127
10th Percentile £316 £400 £393
25th Percentile £342 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.50% -9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £712
90th Percentile £618 £725 £775
East of England median daily rate £420 £500 £528
% change year-on-year -16.00% -5.21% +15.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 91 78
10th Percentile £60.00 - £47.50
25th Percentile £63.13 £65.00 £53.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% +33.33%
75th Percentile £67.50 £84.36 £65.75
90th Percentile £95.00 £90.00 £74.50
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £69.00 £58.75
% change year-on-year -5.80% +17.45% +38.24%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in Hertfordshire

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Python in Hertfordshire

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python in Hertfordshire

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Python in Hertfordshire

Python
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 31 October 2024. 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
Hemel Hempstead +16 8 £600 +9.09% 4
Watford +10 3 £328 -31.05% 8
Letchworth -2 2 £600 +22.45% 1
Stevenage -8 2 - - 6
Welwyn Garden City -4 1 - - 1
Python
East of England

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 1 (4.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (12.50%) InVision
1 3 (12.50%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.67%) AWS
2 3 (12.50%) dbt
2 3 (12.50%) Figma
2 3 (12.50%) Snowflake
3 1 (4.17%) GitHub
3 1 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (4.17%) OpenShift
3 1 (4.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (41.67%) Wireless
2 4 (16.67%) 5G
2 4 (16.67%) FTP
2 4 (16.67%) HTTP
2 4 (16.67%) Internet
2 4 (16.67%) LAN
2 4 (16.67%) SMTP
2 4 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 4 (16.67%) WAN
3 2 (8.33%) 4G
3 2 (8.33%) LTE
3 2 (8.33%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (4.17%) NAS
4 1 (4.17%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) Big Data
2 1 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.17%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Git
2 2 (8.33%) PROIV
2 2 (8.33%) Robot Framework
3 1 (4.17%) Bitbucket
3 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.17%) JIRA
3 1 (4.17%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 10 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 8 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Legal
4 3 (12.50%) Telecoms
5 2 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (4.17%) Electronics
6 1 (4.17%) Finance
6 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
6 1 (4.17%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) Developer
2 4 (16.67%) Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Snowflake Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) UI Developer
3 3 (12.50%) UI/UX Developer
3 3 (12.50%) UX Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
4 2 (8.33%) Ethical Hacker
4 2 (8.33%) Penetration Tester
4 2 (8.33%) Security Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Senior
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Security Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) SOC Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Tester
5 1 (4.17%) Administrator
5 1 (4.17%) Server Administrator
5 1 (4.17%) Windows Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) LDAP
2 2 (8.33%) HTML
3 1 (4.17%) Django
3 1 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.17%) Node.js
3 1 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (4.17%) React
3 1 (4.17%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Client/Server
2 2 (8.33%) Algorithms
2 2 (8.33%) ASIC
2 2 (8.33%) Data Structures
2 2 (8.33%) FPGA
2 2 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (8.33%) VHDL
3 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (4.17%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Linux
2 1 (4.17%) Windows
2 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (20.83%) Analytics
3 4 (16.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 4 (16.67%) Data Modelling
3 4 (16.67%) Incident Response
3 4 (16.67%) Information Security
3 4 (16.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 4 (16.67%) Threat Intelligence
4 3 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 3 (12.50%) Continuous Deployment
4 3 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (12.50%) Data Analytics
4 3 (12.50%) Performance Testing
4 3 (12.50%) Software Engineering
4 3 (12.50%) Test Automation
4 3 (12.50%) User Experience
4 3 (12.50%) UX Design
4 3 (12.50%) Wireframes
5 2 (8.33%) Open Source
5 2 (8.33%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) Bash
1 6 (25.00%) SQL
2 5 (20.83%) Java
2 5 (20.83%) PowerShell
3 4 (16.67%) C++
3 4 (16.67%) Perl
4 3 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 2 (8.33%) C#
5 2 (8.33%) R
5 2 (8.33%) Tcl
6 1 (4.17%) Go
6 1 (4.17%) Ruby
6 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) DV Cleared
1 5 (20.83%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.67%) Degree
2 4 (16.67%) OSCP
3 2 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (8.33%) Master's Degree
4 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) Terraform
2 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.17%) Kibana
3 1 (4.17%) logstash
3 1 (4.17%) Rancher
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 4 (16.67%) Splunk
2 1 (4.17%) Atlassian
2 1 (4.17%) BT
2 1 (4.17%) SAP
2 1 (4.17%) VMware