Python Contracts in the Midlands

Python
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 44 72
Rank change year-on-year +17 +28 -19
Contract jobs citing Python 138 148 162
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 5.14% 4.49% 3.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.87% 17.07% 12.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 108 102
10th Percentile £310 £400 £360
25th Percentile £359 £454 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +22.70%
75th Percentile £550 £664 £575
90th Percentile £625 £700 £663
England median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 1
10th Percentile £25.94 £50.13 -
25th Percentile £29.72 £50.31 £56.50
Median hourly rate £40.25 £51.25 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.46% -11.64% -
75th Percentile £59.38 £52.81 £59.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £53.38 -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £52.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% +25.00% +30.00%

All Programming Languages
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 631 867 1,298
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 23.51% 26.30% 26.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 456 638 963
10th Percentile £260 £313 £313
25th Percentile £350 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £538
90th Percentile £638 £675 £613
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 14 18
10th Percentile £22.42 £19.74 £16.97
25th Percentile £27.38 £24.16 £23.00
Median hourly rate £51.78 £29.93 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +72.99% -14.48% -6.67%
75th Percentile £58.75 £54.69 -
90th Percentile £60.13 £88.88 £46.67
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.85
% change year-on-year - +22.91% +19.21%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in the Midlands

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Python in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in the Midlands over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Python in the Midlands

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Python in the Midlands over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Python in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 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
West Midlands +5 82 £450 -20.00% 140
East Midlands +13 55 £438 -12.50% 67
Python
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 8 (5.80%) Apache Spark
2 7 (5.07%) Confluence
3 5 (3.62%) JBoss
4 3 (2.17%) Apache
5 2 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.45%) CMS
5 2 (1.45%) Headless CMS
5 2 (1.45%) SAS
6 1 (0.72%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.72%) SharePoint
Applications
1 24 (17.39%) Chatbot
2 5 (3.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.90%) CANalyzer
4 1 (0.72%) Simulink
4 1 (0.72%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (6.52%) Odoo
2 3 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 28 (20.29%) AWS
2 25 (18.12%) Azure
3 16 (11.59%) Power Platform
4 7 (5.07%) Serverless
5 6 (4.35%) GCP
5 6 (4.35%) OpenShift
6 5 (3.62%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (2.90%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (2.90%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (2.17%) Amazon SageMaker
8 3 (2.17%) AWS Step Functions
8 3 (2.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (2.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (2.17%) dbt
8 3 (2.17%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.17%) Snowflake
9 2 (1.45%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (1.45%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.45%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.62%) SAN
1 5 (3.62%) TCP/IP
2 4 (2.90%) Ethernet
2 4 (2.90%) FlexRay
3 1 (0.72%) Firewall
3 1 (0.72%) LTE
3 1 (0.72%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (11.59%) Power BI
2 10 (7.25%) Big Data
2 10 (7.25%) Hadoop
2 10 (7.25%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (6.52%) Relational Database
4 8 (5.80%) NoSQL
5 7 (5.07%) RDBMS
5 7 (5.07%) SQL Server
6 6 (4.35%) Data Lake
6 6 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (4.35%) Impala
6 6 (4.35%) Tableau
7 5 (3.62%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (3.62%) BusinessObjects
7 5 (3.62%) MySQL
8 4 (2.90%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.45%) Apache Hive
10 2 (1.45%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 15 (10.87%) Git
1 15 (10.87%) JIRA
2 11 (7.97%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.35%) CA Release Automation
3 6 (4.35%) TeamCity
4 5 (3.62%) Bitbucket Server
4 5 (3.62%) SonarQube
4 5 (3.62%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (2.90%) Bitbucket
5 4 (2.90%) CANoe
5 4 (2.90%) GitLab
5 4 (2.90%) JMeter
6 2 (1.45%) Travis CI
6 2 (1.45%) webpack
7 1 (0.72%) Ant
7 1 (0.72%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.72%) Gradle
7 1 (0.72%) JUnit
7 1 (0.72%) Maven
General
1 34 (24.64%) Social Skills
2 22 (15.94%) Finance
3 16 (11.59%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.52%) Banking
5 7 (5.07%) Manufacturing
6 4 (2.90%) Automotive
6 4 (2.90%) Electronics
6 4 (2.90%) Retail
7 3 (2.17%) Marketing
7 3 (2.17%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.45%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.72%) Back Office
9 1 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.72%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.72%) Multimedia
9 1 (0.72%) Police
9 1 (0.72%) Publishing
9 1 (0.72%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 52 (37.68%) Developer
2 25 (18.12%) Software Developer
3 23 (16.67%) Data Engineer
4 20 (14.49%) Analyst
5 13 (9.42%) Python Developer
6 12 (8.70%) Data Analyst
6 12 (8.70%) Senior
7 6 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (4.35%) Consultant
8 5 (3.62%) Support Engineer
9 4 (2.90%) Integration Manager
9 4 (2.90%) Java Developer
9 4 (2.90%) Senior Data Engineer
9 4 (2.90%) Software Manager
10 3 (2.17%) Applications Support Analyst
10 3 (2.17%) AWS Engineer
10 3 (2.17%) DevOps Engineer
10 3 (2.17%) Full Stack Developer
10 3 (2.17%) Full Stack Engineer
10 3 (2.17%) IAM Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (17.39%) HTML
2 8 (5.80%) LDAP
3 5 (3.62%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (3.62%) Flask
3 5 (3.62%) Kafka
3 5 (3.62%) RESTful
3 5 (3.62%) Spring Boot
4 4 (2.90%) Pandas
4 4 (2.90%) PySpark
4 4 (2.90%) SAML
4 4 (2.90%) Web Services
5 3 (2.17%) ADO
5 3 (2.17%) Hibernate
5 3 (2.17%) Node.js
5 3 (2.17%) OAuth
5 3 (2.17%) OpenID
5 3 (2.17%) React
5 3 (2.17%) SailPoint
5 3 (2.17%) Spring
6 2 (1.45%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.97%) Algorithms
2 7 (5.07%) Data Structures
3 6 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (2.90%) Infotainment
5 3 (2.17%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.45%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (1.45%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.45%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.45%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.72%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.72%) Insider Threat
7 1 (0.72%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 16 (11.59%) Linux
2 8 (5.80%) Windows
3 6 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (3.62%) Debian
4 5 (3.62%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.45%) Unix
6 1 (0.72%) AIX
6 1 (0.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (24.64%) Artificial Intelligence
2 33 (23.91%) Code Quality
2 33 (23.91%) Software Engineering
3 24 (17.39%) Conversational UI
3 24 (17.39%) Data Modelling
4 22 (15.94%) Agile
4 22 (15.94%) Analytics
5 20 (14.49%) DevOps
6 19 (13.77%) Business Intelligence
7 18 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (12.32%) CI/CD
9 14 (10.14%) Computer Science
9 14 (10.14%) ETL
10 13 (9.42%) Data Analysis
10 13 (9.42%) Data Analytics
10 13 (9.42%) Data Science
11 12 (8.70%) Data Engineering
11 12 (8.70%) ERP
11 12 (8.70%) Migration
11 12 (8.70%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 70 (50.72%) SQL
2 33 (23.91%) JavaScript
3 25 (18.12%) C#
4 20 (14.49%) Java
5 11 (7.97%) R
6 7 (5.07%) PowerShell
7 6 (4.35%) C++
7 6 (4.35%) Perl
7 6 (4.35%) Scala
8 5 (3.62%) Bash
8 5 (3.62%) MATLAB
9 4 (2.90%) VBA
10 3 (2.17%) C
10 3 (2.17%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.45%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.72%) HiveQL
12 1 (0.72%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.72%) Rust
12 1 (0.72%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 40 (28.99%) Degree
2 14 (10.14%) Security Cleared
3 12 (8.70%) SC Cleared
4 10 (7.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.35%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.17%) PhD
7 2 (1.45%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.72%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.80%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.17%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.17%) GDPR
3 1 (0.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (0.72%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 10 (7.25%) Active Directory
2 9 (6.52%) Docker
3 2 (1.45%) HDFS
4 1 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (9.42%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.07%) Ansible
3 6 (4.35%) Kibana
3 6 (4.35%) Progress Chef
4 5 (3.62%) Functional Safety
4 5 (3.62%) Terraform
5 4 (2.90%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.72%) Argo
6 1 (0.72%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.72%) Istio
6 1 (0.72%) linkerd
6 1 (0.72%) PowerBroker
6 1 (0.72%) SELinux
6 1 (0.72%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 24 (17.39%) PayPal
2 21 (15.22%) Microsoft
3 12 (8.70%) Red Hat
4 8 (5.80%) Databricks
4 8 (5.80%) Splunk
5 5 (3.62%) AppDynamics
5 5 (3.62%) VMware
6 4 (2.90%) Google
6 4 (2.90%) Sage
7 3 (2.17%) Okta
7 3 (2.17%) Oracle
8 2 (1.45%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.45%) Confluent
8 2 (1.45%) Informatica
8 2 (1.45%) NVIDIA
8 2 (1.45%) SAP
8 2 (1.45%) Talend
9 1 (0.72%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.72%) Citrix
9 1 (0.72%) ServiceNow