Python Contracts in Lancashire

Python
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 23 17 28
Rank change year-on-year -6 +11 +3
Contract jobs citing Python 6 26 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 3.09% 10.20% 4.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.79% 41.27% 17.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 9
10th Percentile £425 - £390
25th Percentile £448 - £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £700
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -28.57% +10.67%
75th Percentile £563 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £486 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -9.67% -2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 23 1
10th Percentile - £45.88 -
25th Percentile - - £23.33
Median hourly rate £46.18 £46.18 £24.58
Median % change year-on-year - +87.88% -
75th Percentile - - £25.83
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £60.59 £46.18 £36.04
% change year-on-year +31.20% +28.14% +80.20%

All Programming Languages
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 38 63 58
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 19.59% 24.71% 23.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 22 48
10th Percentile - £372 £309
25th Percentile £363 £500 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £623 £510
Median % change year-on-year -35.74% +22.06% +17.92%
75th Percentile £440 £645 £700
90th Percentile £548 £650 £750
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -10.00% -2.53% +14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 33 8
10th Percentile £37.55 £45.88 £14.00
25th Percentile £39.71 - £17.87
Median hourly rate £46.18 £46.18 £22.82
Median % change year-on-year - +102.41% -46.32%
75th Percentile £49.80 £50.00 £40.50
90th Percentile £51.09 £50.25 £42.06
North West median hourly rate £49.00 £46.18 £47.50
% change year-on-year +6.11% -2.78% +8.96%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in Lancashire

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Daily rate trend for Python in Lancashire

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Hourly rate trend for Python in Lancashire

Python
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Lancashire 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
Chorley - 2 £525 -
Blackpool +11 1 £409 -18.20% 3
Python
North West

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (83.33%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) GitLab
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 3 (50.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Digital Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) GitOps
2 3 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Visualisation
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Software Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Bash
2 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (50.00%) Ansible
2 3 (50.00%) Terraform
3 1 (16.67%) Grafana
3 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) VMware