Python Contracts in Hertfordshire

Python
East of England > Hertfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 36 16
Rank change year-on-year -4 -20 +18
Contract jobs citing Python 36 37 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 4.28% 4.92% 8.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.56% 15.68% 25.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 23 42
10th Percentile £363 £403 £512
25th Percentile £406 £438 £558
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £676 £600
Median % change year-on-year -36.39% +12.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £641 £731 £650
90th Percentile £696 £738 £738
East of England median daily rate £450 £500 £563
% change year-on-year -10.00% -11.11% +17.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 15
10th Percentile - £67.75 £46.25
25th Percentile £55.00 £70.00 £53.43
Median hourly rate £60.00 £72.50 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +29.46% +32.48%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.75 -
90th Percentile - £74.20 £67.60
East of England median hourly rate £60.00 £52.50 £56.00
% change year-on-year +14.29% -6.25% +12.00%

All Programming Languages
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 194 236 260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 23.07% 31.38% 32.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 104 124
10th Percentile £325 £363 £359
25th Percentile £363 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -4.72% -0.05%
75th Percentile £578 £638 £625
90th Percentile £650 £718 £711
East of England median daily rate £475 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 77 54
10th Percentile £59.50 £53.75 £41.56
25th Percentile £61.25 £56.25 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year - +16.07% +24.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £88.75 £88.50 -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £56.00
% change year-on-year - +16.07% +31.76%

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 May 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 May 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
Stevenage -11 11 £375 -44.53% 3
Watford - 6 £675 - 4
Hemel Hempstead +9 4 £625 +38.89% 6
Hertford - 1 - - 1
Hatfield - 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 (2.78%) CMS
1 1 (2.78%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (8.33%) InVision
1 3 (8.33%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 7 (19.44%) AWS
2 3 (8.33%) Figma
3 2 (5.56%) BigCommerce
3 2 (5.56%) dbt
3 2 (5.56%) Serverless
4 1 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (2.78%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.78%) Azure
4 1 (2.78%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (2.78%) GCP
4 1 (2.78%) GitHub
4 1 (2.78%) OpenShift
4 1 (2.78%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (33.33%) Radio Access Network
2 8 (22.22%) 5G
3 7 (19.44%) Wireless
4 5 (13.89%) NAS
5 4 (11.11%) Wireshark
6 3 (8.33%) 4G
7 1 (2.78%) DVB
7 1 (2.78%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.56%) Big Data
1 2 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (5.56%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.78%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (2.78%) BigQuery
2 1 (2.78%) Data Vault
2 1 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.78%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.78%) InterSystems Cache
2 1 (2.78%) MySQL
2 1 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.78%) RDBMS
2 1 (2.78%) Redis
2 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (16.67%) Git
2 5 (13.89%) JIRA
3 4 (11.11%) gcov
3 4 (11.11%) GDB
3 4 (11.11%) Gradle
3 4 (11.11%) Subversion
4 2 (5.56%) GitLab
5 1 (2.78%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.78%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 6 (16.67%) Multimedia
2 5 (13.89%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.89%) Telecoms
3 4 (11.11%) Marketing
4 3 (8.33%) Retail
5 2 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.56%) Finance
6 1 (2.78%) Electronics
6 1 (2.78%) Games
6 1 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (33.33%) Developer
2 8 (22.22%) C++ Developer
2 8 (22.22%) Python Developer
3 6 (16.67%) Python Engineer
4 5 (13.89%) Software Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) C++ Software Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Python Software Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) RAN Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) RF Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Analyst
6 3 (8.33%) Architect
6 3 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
6 3 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) UI Developer
6 3 (8.33%) UI/UX Developer
6 3 (8.33%) UX Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Data Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Desktop Support
7 2 (5.56%) Machine Learning Analyst
7 2 (5.56%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.33%) Node.js
2 2 (5.56%) HTML
2 2 (5.56%) Kafka
2 2 (5.56%) React
2 2 (5.56%) VML
3 1 (2.78%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.78%) GStreamer
3 1 (2.78%) OAuth
3 1 (2.78%) OAuth2
3 1 (2.78%) React Native
3 1 (2.78%) REST
3 1 (2.78%) RESTful
3 1 (2.78%) Sensu
3 1 (2.78%) SOAP
3 1 (2.78%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.11%) Algorithms
1 4 (11.11%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.78%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.78%) Digital TV
2 1 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.78%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.78%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (2.78%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 10 (27.78%) Linux
2 2 (5.56%) Windows
2 2 (5.56%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.78%) CentOS
3 1 (2.78%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.78%) Ubuntu
3 1 (2.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (27.78%) Software Engineering
2 6 (16.67%) Computer Science
2 6 (16.67%) Data Modelling
3 5 (13.89%) Machine Learning
3 5 (13.89%) Mathematics
4 4 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (11.11%) Data Science
4 4 (11.11%) DevOps
4 4 (11.11%) Migration
4 4 (11.11%) Predictive Modelling
4 4 (11.11%) Software Architecture
4 4 (11.11%) Statistics
5 3 (8.33%) Agile
5 3 (8.33%) User Experience
5 3 (8.33%) UX Design
5 3 (8.33%) Wireframes
6 2 (5.56%) Asset Management
6 2 (5.56%) B2B
6 2 (5.56%) Customer Acquisition
6 2 (5.56%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 12 (33.33%) C++
2 6 (16.67%) Java
3 5 (13.89%) SQL
4 4 (11.11%) C
4 4 (11.11%) R
5 2 (5.56%) Bash
5 2 (5.56%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.56%) PowerShell
5 2 (5.56%) Shell Script
5 2 (5.56%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.78%) PHP
6 1 (2.78%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 6 (16.67%) Degree
2 5 (13.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.78%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.78%) Linux+ Certification
3 1 (2.78%) LPIC
3 1 (2.78%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.78%) RHCE
3 1 (2.78%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.78%) SnowPro
System Software
1 5 (13.89%) Docker
2 2 (5.56%) LXC
3 1 (2.78%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (2.78%) KVM
3 1 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.78%) Xen
Systems Management
1 5 (13.89%) Ansible
2 4 (11.11%) Terraform
3 2 (5.56%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.56%) Progress Chef
3 2 (5.56%) Proxmox
3 2 (5.56%) Puppet
4 1 (2.78%) Grafana
4 1 (2.78%) Kibana
4 1 (2.78%) logstash
4 1 (2.78%) Nagios
4 1 (2.78%) Rancher
Vendors
1 4 (11.11%) Klocwork
1 4 (11.11%) Perforce
2 3 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.56%) Adobe
3 2 (5.56%) Apple
3 2 (5.56%) CheckPoint
3 2 (5.56%) Salesforce
3 2 (5.56%) SAP
3 2 (5.56%) Sitecore
3 2 (5.56%) Sophos
4 1 (2.78%) AppDynamics
4 1 (2.78%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.78%) BT
4 1 (2.78%) Oracle
4 1 (2.78%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.78%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.78%) VMware