Python Contracts in the North West

Python
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 18 38
Rank change year-on-year -6 +20 -16
Contract jobs citing Python 177 254 228
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 6.64% 8.27% 5.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 26.98% 28.19% 16.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 178 180
10th Percentile £393 £334 £395
25th Percentile £450 £450 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £555 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.91% +0.91% +22.22%
75th Percentile £550 £650 £638
90th Percentile £643 £688 £700
England median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 3
10th Percentile - £38.88 £22.30
25th Percentile £66.25 £41.54 £23.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £48.54 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.07% +86.67% +4.00%
75th Percentile £68.75 £55.55 £27.25
90th Percentile - £61.08 £27.70
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £52.56
% change year-on-year -3.85% +23.68% +31.39%

All Programming Languages
North West

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 North West with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 656 901 1,418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 24.60% 29.35% 35.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 486 672 1,079
10th Percentile £325 £325 £315
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +23.46%
75th Percentile £542 £588 £588
90th Percentile £625 £650 £663
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 16 41
10th Percentile £39.25 £24.76 £14.25
25th Percentile £42.41 £37.78 £21.50
Median hourly rate £48.43 £44.05 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year +9.96% -11.47% +65.83%
75th Percentile £71.87 £56.68 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.45 £65.88 £77.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.05
% change year-on-year - +22.43% +20.12%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in the North West

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Python in the North West

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in the North West over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python in the North West

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Python in the North West

Python
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the North West region over the 6 months to 16 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
Manchester -1 109 £475 -17.39% 118
Cheshire -16 27 £510 -8.93% 19
Merseyside +5 16 £388 -27.91% 11
Cumbria -9 16 £515 +14.44% 2
Lancashire +1 7 £600 -11.11% 19
Python
England

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 13 (7.34%) Apache Spark
2 8 (4.52%) Apache
3 7 (3.95%) Confluence
4 6 (3.39%) SAS
5 5 (2.82%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (1.69%) IIS
7 2 (1.13%) nginx
7 2 (1.13%) Traefik
8 1 (0.56%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 25 (14.12%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.69%) Maximo
2 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 60 (33.90%) AWS
2 32 (18.08%) Azure
3 21 (11.86%) Serverless
4 20 (11.30%) Amazon EC2
4 20 (11.30%) Power Platform
5 19 (10.73%) Snowflake
6 17 (9.60%) Amazon S3
6 17 (9.60%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (7.91%) AWS CloudFormation
7 14 (7.91%) GCP
8 9 (5.08%) GitHub
8 9 (5.08%) Power Automate
9 8 (4.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (4.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 7 (3.95%) Amazon EMR
10 7 (3.95%) Collibra
10 7 (3.95%) Google Analytics
11 6 (3.39%) Amazon ELB
12 5 (2.82%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 15 (8.47%) Firewall
2 13 (7.34%) Wi-Fi
3 12 (6.78%) BGP
3 12 (6.78%) Cisco ASA
3 12 (6.78%) Cisco Firepower
3 12 (6.78%) Cisco ISE
3 12 (6.78%) EIGRP
3 12 (6.78%) HSRP
3 12 (6.78%) IPsec
3 12 (6.78%) NetScaler
3 12 (6.78%) OSPF
3 12 (6.78%) SNMP
3 12 (6.78%) Spanning Tree
4 8 (4.52%) Network Security
5 7 (3.95%) DNS
6 5 (2.82%) FTP
6 5 (2.82%) TCP/IP
7 4 (2.26%) HTTP
8 2 (1.13%) DHCP
8 2 (1.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.73%) Power BI
2 18 (10.17%) Data Lake
3 12 (6.78%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (6.21%) Amazon Redshift
4 11 (6.21%) SQL Server
5 10 (5.65%) Tableau
6 9 (5.08%) Big Data
7 8 (4.52%) MySQL
8 6 (3.39%) Ataccama
8 6 (3.39%) BigQuery
8 6 (3.39%) DynamoDB
8 6 (3.39%) Hadoop
8 6 (3.39%) Qlik Sense
9 5 (2.82%) Data Mining
9 5 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (2.26%) NoSQL
11 3 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (1.69%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (1.69%) Metadata
11 3 (1.69%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 30 (16.95%) Git
2 16 (9.04%) GitLab
3 15 (8.47%) Jenkins
4 11 (6.21%) JIRA
5 6 (3.39%) SonarQube
5 6 (3.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 5 (2.82%) Selenium
7 4 (2.26%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.69%) Burp Suite
9 2 (1.13%) Appium
9 2 (1.13%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.13%) ER Studio
9 2 (1.13%) PyCharm
9 2 (1.13%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (1.13%) TestComplete
9 2 (1.13%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.56%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.56%) JMeter
10 1 (0.56%) NeoLoad
10 1 (0.56%) RStudio
General
1 40 (22.60%) Social Skills
2 15 (8.47%) Finance
3 13 (7.34%) Pharmaceutical
4 12 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.65%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.39%) Banking
7 5 (2.82%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.82%) Retail
8 3 (1.69%) Marketing
9 2 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (26.55%) Developer
2 29 (16.38%) Senior
3 25 (14.12%) Software Developer
4 23 (12.99%) Analyst
5 22 (12.43%) DevOps Engineer
6 19 (10.73%) Data Analyst
7 18 (10.17%) AWS DevOps
8 17 (9.60%) Data Engineer
9 16 (9.04%) Network Engineer
10 15 (8.47%) AWS Engineer
11 12 (6.78%) Python Developer
12 10 (5.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 10 (5.65%) Senior DevOps
13 9 (5.08%) Software Engineer
14 8 (4.52%) Senior Network Engineer
15 7 (3.95%) Senior Analyst
16 6 (3.39%) Data Quality Analyst
16 6 (3.39%) QA Analyst
16 6 (3.39%) Quality Analyst
16 6 (3.39%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (18.08%) HTML
2 12 (6.78%) Jinja
3 10 (5.65%) JSON
4 8 (4.52%) Django
4 8 (4.52%) XML
5 7 (3.95%) .NET
5 7 (3.95%) AngularJS
5 7 (3.95%) React
5 7 (3.95%) REST
6 6 (3.39%) CSS
7 5 (2.82%) PySpark
8 4 (2.26%) Kafka
8 4 (2.26%) Node.js
8 4 (2.26%) pytest
8 4 (2.26%) RESTful
8 4 (2.26%) YAML
9 3 (1.69%) .NET Framework
9 3 (1.69%) XHTML
10 2 (1.13%) SAML
10 2 (1.13%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.52%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (3.39%) Onboarding
3 5 (2.82%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (2.26%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.69%) Cyber Defence
5 3 (1.69%) Low-Code
5 3 (1.69%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.13%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.13%) Clustering
6 2 (1.13%) CMDB
6 2 (1.13%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.13%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.13%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.13%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.13%) PKI
7 1 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.56%) Device Driver
7 1 (0.56%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.21%) Linux
2 4 (2.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.69%) Kali Linux
4 2 (1.13%) Alpine Linux
4 2 (1.13%) Android
4 2 (1.13%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.13%) CentOS
4 2 (1.13%) Unix
4 2 (1.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (31.64%) DevOps
2 42 (23.73%) Software Engineering
3 40 (22.60%) CI/CD
4 32 (18.08%) Agile
4 32 (18.08%) Artificial Intelligence
5 29 (16.38%) Code Quality
6 27 (15.25%) Conversational UI
7 25 (14.12%) Containerisation
8 23 (12.99%) Infrastructure as Code
9 22 (12.43%) Problem-Solving
10 21 (11.86%) ETL
11 18 (10.17%) Business Intelligence
12 17 (9.60%) Data Modelling
12 17 (9.60%) Data Pipeline
13 16 (9.04%) Analytics
14 15 (8.47%) Visualisation
15 14 (7.91%) Change Management
15 14 (7.91%) ITIL
16 13 (7.34%) Data Management
17 12 (6.78%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 73 (41.24%) SQL
2 42 (23.73%) C#
3 41 (23.16%) JavaScript
4 25 (14.12%) Bash
4 25 (14.12%) Java
5 14 (7.91%) Perl
6 13 (7.34%) Go
7 12 (6.78%) Tcl
8 11 (6.21%) PowerShell
9 6 (3.39%) Ruby
10 5 (2.82%) Scala
10 5 (2.82%) Search Processing Language
10 5 (2.82%) Shell Script
11 4 (2.26%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.69%) C++
12 3 (1.69%) R
13 2 (1.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (1.13%) Delphi
13 2 (1.13%) VBScript
14 1 (0.56%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 31 (17.51%) Security Cleared
2 29 (16.38%) Degree
3 28 (15.82%) SC Cleared
4 17 (9.60%) CCNA
4 17 (9.60%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (8.47%) CCNP
6 10 (5.65%) AWS Certification
7 9 (5.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.69%) CCIE
8 3 (1.69%) OSCP
9 2 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.13%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.13%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.56%) CISM
10 1 (0.56%) CISSP
10 1 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.91%) Data Quality
1 14 (7.91%) QA
2 6 (3.39%) PCI DSS
3 4 (2.26%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.69%) ISO 22301
4 3 (1.69%) NIST
5 2 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.13%) NCSC
6 1 (0.56%) GDPR
6 1 (0.56%) Good Clinical Practice
6 1 (0.56%) GxP
System Software
1 25 (14.12%) Docker
2 13 (7.34%) Firmware
3 2 (1.13%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.56%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 40 (22.60%) Terraform
2 33 (18.64%) Ansible
3 31 (17.51%) Kubernetes
4 6 (3.39%) HP Fortify
5 4 (2.26%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.26%) ZABBIX
6 2 (1.13%) Consul
6 2 (1.13%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (1.13%) Grafana
6 2 (1.13%) Graphite
6 2 (1.13%) HAProxy
6 2 (1.13%) Istio
6 2 (1.13%) linkerd
6 2 (1.13%) Nagios
6 2 (1.13%) Packer
6 2 (1.13%) Podman
6 2 (1.13%) Puppet
7 1 (0.56%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 25 (14.12%) PayPal
2 17 (9.60%) Cisco
3 16 (9.04%) Microsoft
4 15 (8.47%) Splunk
5 14 (7.91%) SolarWinds
6 12 (6.78%) Citrix
6 12 (6.78%) Palo Alto
7 9 (5.08%) Google
7 9 (5.08%) SAP
8 7 (3.95%) Databricks
9 6 (3.39%) Alteryx
9 6 (3.39%) Dataiku
9 6 (3.39%) Salesforce
9 6 (3.39%) Trillium
9 6 (3.39%) VMware
10 5 (2.82%) Informatica
10 5 (2.82%) Talend
11 3 (1.69%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.69%) Nintex
11 3 (1.69%) Pega