Python Contracts in Manchester

Python
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 18 13 28
Rank change year-on-year -5 +15 +6
Contract jobs citing Python 109 148 182
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 7.56% 8.30% 6.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 25.95% 27.31% 16.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 111 154
10th Percentile £325 £377 £400
25th Percentile £419 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.18% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £569 £650 £625
90th Percentile £650 £700 £650
North West median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66.25 £46.25 -
Median hourly rate £67.50 £47.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +42.11% - -
75th Percentile £68.75 £48.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £67.50 £47.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year +42.11% +82.69% +4.00%

All Programming Languages
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 420 542 1,075
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 29.13% 30.38% 40.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 422 826
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -2.44% +20.59%
75th Percentile £538 £592 £595
90th Percentile £625 £662 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +21.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 3 18
10th Percentile £52.50 £33.25 -
25th Percentile £57.50 £38.13 £14.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £47.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.37% -9.52% +110.00%
75th Percentile £77.75 £57.38 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.80 £62.55 £81.00
North West median hourly rate £48.43 £46.18 £52.50
% change year-on-year +4.87% -12.04% +75.00%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in Manchester

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Python in Manchester

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Python in Manchester

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Python in Manchester

Python
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Manchester 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
Oldham - 1 £450 - 3
Python
North West

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 7 (6.42%) Apache Spark
2 6 (5.50%) Confluence
3 2 (1.83%) nginx
3 2 (1.83%) Traefik
4 1 (0.92%) Apache
4 1 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 12 (11.01%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 48 (44.04%) AWS
2 26 (23.85%) Azure
3 17 (15.60%) Serverless
4 15 (13.76%) Amazon EC2
5 14 (12.84%) AWS CloudFormation
6 13 (11.93%) Amazon S3
6 13 (11.93%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (11.93%) GCP
7 8 (7.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 8 (7.34%) Power Platform
7 8 (7.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 7 (6.42%) Google Analytics
8 7 (6.42%) Snowflake
9 6 (5.50%) Amazon ELB
9 6 (5.50%) Azure Data Factory
9 6 (5.50%) GitHub
10 5 (4.59%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (3.67%) npm
12 3 (2.75%) AWS CodePipeline
12 3 (2.75%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.42%) DNS
1 7 (6.42%) Network Security
2 5 (4.59%) TCP/IP
3 4 (3.67%) HTTP
4 2 (1.83%) DHCP
4 2 (1.83%) Firewall
4 2 (1.83%) SSL
5 1 (0.92%) VSAN
5 1 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.93%) Data Lake
2 9 (8.26%) Amazon Redshift
2 9 (8.26%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (6.42%) Power BI
4 6 (5.50%) DynamoDB
4 6 (5.50%) MySQL
5 5 (4.59%) BigQuery
5 5 (4.59%) Hadoop
6 4 (3.67%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (3.67%) NoSQL
6 4 (3.67%) SQL Server
6 4 (3.67%) Tableau
7 3 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.75%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (2.75%) Big Data
7 3 (2.75%) HBase
7 3 (2.75%) Star Schema
8 2 (1.83%) Delta Lake
8 2 (1.83%) Redis
8 2 (1.83%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (19.27%) Git
2 16 (14.68%) GitLab
3 8 (7.34%) Jenkins
4 6 (5.50%) SonarQube
5 4 (3.67%) Bitbucket
5 4 (3.67%) JIRA
5 4 (3.67%) Selenium
6 3 (2.75%) Burp Suite
7 2 (1.83%) Appium
7 2 (1.83%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.83%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.92%) JMeter
8 1 (0.92%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.92%) NeoLoad
8 1 (0.92%) PyCharm
8 1 (0.92%) RStudio
8 1 (0.92%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.92%) Terragrunt
General
1 25 (22.94%) Social Skills
2 13 (11.93%) Finance
3 11 (10.09%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.59%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.67%) Retail
6 3 (2.75%) Banking
6 3 (2.75%) Marketing
7 2 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (24.77%) Developer
2 20 (18.35%) DevOps Engineer
3 17 (15.60%) AWS DevOps
4 15 (13.76%) AWS Engineer
5 13 (11.93%) Analyst
5 13 (11.93%) Senior
6 12 (11.01%) Data Engineer
6 12 (11.01%) Software Developer
7 11 (10.09%) Python Developer
8 10 (9.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 10 (9.17%) Data Analyst
9 9 (8.26%) Software Engineer
10 8 (7.34%) Senior DevOps
11 6 (5.50%) Azure Engineer
11 6 (5.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 5 (4.59%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 5 (4.59%) DevOps Platform Engineer
12 5 (4.59%) Lead
12 5 (4.59%) Python Engineer
12 5 (4.59%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.93%) HTML
2 9 (8.26%) Django
3 7 (6.42%) PySpark
4 5 (4.59%) AngularJS
4 5 (4.59%) pytest
5 4 (3.67%) Kafka
5 4 (3.67%) React
5 4 (3.67%) RESTful
6 3 (2.75%) .NET
7 2 (1.83%) cloud-init
7 2 (1.83%) Lambda Expressions
7 2 (1.83%) Node.js
7 2 (1.83%) REST
7 2 (1.83%) SAML
7 2 (1.83%) Spring
7 2 (1.83%) Spring Boot
7 2 (1.83%) WebdriverIO
7 2 (1.83%) YAML
8 1 (0.92%) FastAPI
8 1 (0.92%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.34%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (3.67%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (3.67%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.75%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.75%) Cyber Defence
4 2 (1.83%) Clustering
4 2 (1.83%) CMDB
4 2 (1.83%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (1.83%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.83%) PKI
4 2 (1.83%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.92%) IoT
5 1 (0.92%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.26%) Linux
2 4 (3.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.75%) Kali Linux
4 2 (1.83%) Alpine Linux
4 2 (1.83%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (29.36%) DevOps
2 30 (27.52%) CI/CD
3 24 (22.02%) Infrastructure as Code
4 23 (21.10%) Software Engineering
5 21 (19.27%) Agile
6 19 (17.43%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (15.60%) Containerisation
8 16 (14.68%) Artificial Intelligence
9 15 (13.76%) Code Quality
10 14 (12.84%) Conversational UI
10 14 (12.84%) Data Modelling
11 11 (10.09%) Data Pipeline
12 10 (9.17%) Analytics
13 9 (8.26%) Configuration Management
13 9 (8.26%) Infrastructure Management
14 8 (7.34%) ETL
14 8 (7.34%) Migration
15 7 (6.42%) Business Intelligence
15 7 (6.42%) Data Engineering
16 6 (5.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 40 (36.70%) SQL
2 20 (18.35%) Bash
3 18 (16.51%) JavaScript
4 14 (12.84%) C#
5 13 (11.93%) Java
6 12 (11.01%) Go
7 11 (10.09%) PowerShell
8 5 (4.59%) Ruby
8 5 (4.59%) Scala
9 4 (3.67%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.83%) Perl
10 2 (1.83%) R
11 1 (0.92%) C
11 1 (0.92%) C++
11 1 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.92%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 14 (12.84%) Degree
2 13 (11.93%) Security Cleared
3 11 (10.09%) SC Cleared
4 8 (7.34%) AWS Certification
4 8 (7.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 4 (3.67%) CCNA
5 4 (3.67%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.75%) OSCP
7 2 (1.83%) CCNP
7 2 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.83%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.83%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.92%) CCIE
8 1 (0.92%) CISM
8 1 (0.92%) CISSP
8 1 (0.92%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.34%) Data Quality
2 7 (6.42%) QA
3 6 (5.50%) PCI DSS
4 4 (3.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.75%) ISO 22301
5 3 (2.75%) NIST
6 2 (1.83%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.83%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.83%) NCSC
System Software
1 23 (21.10%) Docker
2 3 (2.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.92%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.92%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.92%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 38 (34.86%) Terraform
2 25 (22.94%) Kubernetes
3 17 (15.60%) Ansible
4 6 (5.50%) HP Fortify
5 4 (3.67%) Prometheus
5 4 (3.67%) ZABBIX
6 2 (1.83%) Consul
6 2 (1.83%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (1.83%) Grafana
6 2 (1.83%) Graphite
6 2 (1.83%) HAProxy
6 2 (1.83%) Istio
6 2 (1.83%) linkerd
6 2 (1.83%) Nagios
6 2 (1.83%) Packer
6 2 (1.83%) Podman
6 2 (1.83%) Puppet
7 1 (0.92%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 12 (11.01%) PayPal
2 10 (9.17%) Splunk
3 8 (7.34%) Google
4 7 (6.42%) Databricks
5 6 (5.50%) Microsoft
5 6 (5.50%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.67%) VMware
7 3 (2.75%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.83%) Cisco
8 2 (1.83%) IDERA
8 2 (1.83%) Oracle
8 2 (1.83%) PagerDuty
8 2 (1.83%) Perfecto Mobile
8 2 (1.83%) Sage
8 2 (1.83%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.92%) Ab Initio
9 1 (0.92%) Brocade
9 1 (0.92%) Juniper
9 1 (0.92%) Tufin
9 1 (0.92%) Zscaler