Python Contracts in South Wales

Python
Wales > South Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 20 32 17
Rank change year-on-year +12 -15 -10
Contract jobs citing Python 19 24 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 5.83% 5.02% 8.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.35% 21.05% 27.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 18 51
10th Percentile £383 £404 £381
25th Percentile £458 £439 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - +21.39%
75th Percentile £563 £631 £588
90th Percentile £574 £695 £625
Wales median daily rate £550 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.76% - +21.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 2
10th Percentile £15.51 £17.18 -
25th Percentile £16.89 £17.48 -
Median hourly rate £20.24 £18.82 £19.91
Median % change year-on-year +7.55% -5.50% -20.36%
75th Percentile £20.44 £19.81 -
90th Percentile £22.11 £19.91 -
Wales median hourly rate £20.24 £18.82 £19.91
% change year-on-year +7.55% -5.50% -21.15%

All Programming Languages
South Wales

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 South Wales with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 89 114 263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 27.30% 23.85% 30.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 86 188
10th Percentile £347 £338 £401
25th Percentile £381 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% -4.76% +20.00%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £613
90th Percentile £591 £663 £659
Wales median daily rate £475 £488 £525
% change year-on-year -2.56% -7.14% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 3
10th Percentile £15.57 £17.18 £17.00
25th Percentile £17.96 £17.48 £18.09
Median hourly rate £20.24 £18.82 £19.91
Median % change year-on-year +7.55% -5.50% -20.36%
75th Percentile £22.11 £19.81 -
90th Percentile £35.75 £19.91 -
Wales median hourly rate £20.24 £18.82 £19.91
% change year-on-year +7.55% -5.50% -21.15%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in South Wales

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Python in South Wales

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

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

Daily rate histogram for Python in South Wales

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Python in South Wales

Python
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the South Wales 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
Cardiff +10 11 £550 -4.35% 20
Newport +2 8 £330 -34.00% 2
Python
Wales

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 3 (15.79%) SAS
2 2 (10.53%) Apache
3 1 (5.26%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (15.79%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 5 (26.32%) Azure
2 4 (21.05%) Azure Data Factory
2 4 (21.05%) Power Automate
2 4 (21.05%) Power Platform
2 4 (21.05%) Snowflake
3 3 (15.79%) GCP
3 3 (15.79%) GitHub
4 1 (5.26%) AWS
4 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.26%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) Power BI
1 4 (21.05%) Power Query
1 4 (21.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 4 (21.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (10.53%) Data Mining
3 1 (5.26%) BigQuery
3 1 (5.26%) MySQL
3 1 (5.26%) RDBMS
3 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Git
2 2 (10.53%) GitLab
2 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.26%) AppScan
3 1 (5.26%) Burp Suite
3 1 (5.26%) SonarQube
3 1 (5.26%) Subversion
General
1 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.26%) Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) Data Scientist
2 5 (26.32%) Developer
3 4 (21.05%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 4 (21.05%) Power BI Developer
4 3 (15.79%) Data Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) GCP Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Data Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) GCP Data Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Junior
6 1 (5.26%) Junior Data Scientist
6 1 (5.26%) Salesforce Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Senior
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Salesforce Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Site Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (31.58%) PySpark
2 2 (10.53%) Apache Beam
2 2 (10.53%) Kafka
3 1 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (5.26%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (5.26%) REST
3 1 (5.26%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Credit Risk
1 3 (15.79%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (10.53%) Replication
3 1 (5.26%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.26%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
1 1 (5.26%) Windows
1 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) Data Science
2 6 (31.58%) Agile
2 6 (31.58%) Data Analysis
2 6 (31.58%) Statistics
3 5 (26.32%) Analytics
3 5 (26.32%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (26.32%) Visualisation
4 4 (21.05%) Computer Science
4 4 (21.05%) Mathematics
4 4 (21.05%) Product Strategy
5 3 (15.79%) Data Analytics
5 3 (15.79%) Project Management
5 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (15.79%) Statistical Analysis
5 3 (15.79%) Statistical Modelling
6 2 (10.53%) Agile Project Management
6 2 (10.53%) Data Management
6 2 (10.53%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 2 (10.53%) Decision-Making
6 2 (10.53%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) R
1 5 (26.32%) SQL
2 4 (21.05%) T-SQL
3 1 (5.26%) Apex Code
3 1 (5.26%) Bash
3 1 (5.26%) Java
3 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (36.84%) SC Cleared
1 7 (36.84%) Security Cleared
2 4 (21.05%) Degree
3 2 (10.53%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (10.53%) Master's Degree
3 2 (10.53%) PhD
4 1 (5.26%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Ansible
1 1 (5.26%) Grafana
1 1 (5.26%) Graylog
1 1 (5.26%) HP Fortify
1 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.26%) Nagios
1 1 (5.26%) Nessus
1 1 (5.26%) Progress Chef
1 1 (5.26%) Prometheus
1 1 (5.26%) Puppet
1 1 (5.26%) Terraform
1 1 (5.26%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Databricks
2 2 (10.53%) Google
3 1 (5.26%) Checkmarx
3 1 (5.26%) Confluent
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.26%) Splunk
3 1 (5.26%) Veracode