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 25 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 33 38
Rank change year-on-year +21 +5 -17
Contract jobs citing Python 36 44 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 10.62% 5.35% 4.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.96% 23.16% 15.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 26 19
10th Percentile £446 £363 £370
25th Percentile £464 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £430 £550
Median % change year-on-year +30.81% -21.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £616 £676
90th Percentile - £669 £728
East of England median daily rate £503 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.67% -10.00% -7.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 8
10th Percentile £40.91 - £62.88
25th Percentile £47.56 £55.00 £69.06
Median hourly rate £53.75 £60.00 £71.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% -16.08% +27.68%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £74.50
90th Percentile - - £74.95
East of England median hourly rate £52.50 £62.50 £56.25
% change year-on-year -16.00% +11.11% +0.45%

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 106 190 250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 31.27% 23.09% 30.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 50 104
10th Percentile £399 £361 £363
25th Percentile £463 £401 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £428 £523
Median % change year-on-year +27.19% -18.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £623 £484 £602
90th Percentile £675 £650 £676
East of England median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 108 86
10th Percentile £51.43 £60.00 £53.75
25th Percentile £59.56 £61.25 £54.06
Median hourly rate £66.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.54% - +16.07%
75th Percentile £85.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.25 £90.00 £77.00
East of England median hourly rate £66.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.54% - +16.07%

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 25 April 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Python in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 25 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 25 April 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
Stevenage +17 6 £500 +33.33% 23
Letchworth - 1 £500 - 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 14 (38.89%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.78%) Apache
2 1 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 17 (47.22%) Azure
2 14 (38.89%) AWS
3 2 (5.56%) GCP
4 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (2.78%) GitHub
4 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (36.11%) Wireless
2 4 (11.11%) 5G
2 4 (11.11%) SpaceWire
3 2 (5.56%) 3GPP
3 2 (5.56%) 4G
4 1 (2.78%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (44.44%) Tableau
2 14 (38.89%) Big Data
2 14 (38.89%) Hadoop
3 3 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (5.56%) InfluxDB
5 1 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (2.78%) Flink
5 1 (2.78%) Metadata
5 1 (2.78%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Git
General
1 12 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (16.67%) Telecoms
3 2 (5.56%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.78%) Aviation
4 1 (2.78%) Avionics
4 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.78%) Legal
4 1 (2.78%) Retail
4 1 (2.78%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (69.44%) Developer
2 14 (38.89%) Data Science Developer
3 10 (27.78%) Senior
3 10 (27.78%) Senior Developer
4 4 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 4 (11.11%) Backend Developer
5 3 (8.33%) Python Developer
5 3 (8.33%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Electrical Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Gen AI Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Software Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Test Automation Developer
7 1 (2.78%) Cloud Developer
7 1 (2.78%) Data Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (2.78%) Full-Stack Python Developer
7 1 (2.78%) Linux Developer
7 1 (2.78%) Product Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Python Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Telecoms Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (44.44%) Matplotlib
1 16 (44.44%) NumPy
1 16 (44.44%) Pandas
1 16 (44.44%) PyTorch
1 16 (44.44%) scikit-learn
1 16 (44.44%) Seaborn
1 16 (44.44%) TensorFlow
2 8 (22.22%) REST
3 3 (8.33%) RESTful
4 2 (5.56%) OpenAPI
4 2 (5.56%) Swagger
5 1 (2.78%) .NET
5 1 (2.78%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.78%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (2.78%) CSS
5 1 (2.78%) HTML
5 1 (2.78%) Kafka
5 1 (2.78%) Keycloak
5 1 (2.78%) Node.js
5 1 (2.78%) React
Miscellaneous
1 16 (44.44%) Algorithms
2 2 (5.56%) ASIC
2 2 (5.56%) FPGA
2 2 (5.56%) VHDL
3 1 (2.78%) CAN bus
3 1 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 11 (30.56%) Linux
2 4 (11.11%) Unix
3 3 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (47.22%) Artificial Intelligence
1 17 (47.22%) Data Science
2 16 (44.44%) Analytics
2 16 (44.44%) Data Analysis
2 16 (44.44%) Data Munging
2 16 (44.44%) Generative AI
2 16 (44.44%) LLM
2 16 (44.44%) Machine Learning
2 16 (44.44%) Visualisation
3 14 (38.89%) Data Analytics
3 14 (38.89%) Decision-Making
3 14 (38.89%) Predictive Analytics
3 14 (38.89%) Reinforcement Learning
3 14 (38.89%) Statistical Modelling
3 14 (38.89%) Time Series Forecasting
4 12 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 12 (33.33%) Feature Engineering
5 8 (22.22%) Containerisation
6 6 (16.67%) Test Automation
7 4 (11.11%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 16 (44.44%) R
2 10 (27.78%) Java
3 6 (16.67%) Tcl
4 5 (13.89%) Bash
5 4 (11.11%) C
5 4 (11.11%) C#
5 4 (11.11%) C++
6 3 (8.33%) SQL
6 3 (8.33%) VBA
7 2 (5.56%) Go
8 1 (2.78%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 15 (41.67%) Degree
2 12 (33.33%) Master's Degree
2 12 (33.33%) PhD
3 5 (13.89%) Security Cleared
4 4 (11.11%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.78%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.78%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (44.44%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (22.22%) Docker
2 1 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.78%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (5.56%) EMC
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.78%) NetApp
2 1 (2.78%) OpenAI
2 1 (2.78%) Red Hat
2 1 (2.78%) Twitter
2 1 (2.78%) VMware