Python Contracts in the South West

Python
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 26 15 23
Rank change year-on-year -11 +8 -14
Contract jobs citing Python 181 319 263
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 5.74% 9.19% 7.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.73% 31.77% 23.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 208 172
10th Percentile £420 £400 £375
25th Percentile £514 £480 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £700 £675 £590
90th Percentile £706 £742 £679
England median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 51 28
10th Percentile £65.23 £50.00 £45.88
25th Percentile - £58.57 £49.63
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £57.34
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% +14.23% +39.85%
75th Percentile £79.38 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.00 -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £52.56
% change year-on-year -3.85% +23.68% +31.39%

All Programming Languages
South 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 South West with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 630 1,004 1,105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 19.99% 28.93% 30.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 422 716 757
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £406 £416 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £575
90th Percentile £700 £700 £638
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 90 70
10th Percentile £49.80 £49.56 £46.66
25th Percentile £61.25 £55.58 £53.81
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +6.12% +34.62%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.55 £75.75 £69.65
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.05
% change year-on-year - +22.43% +20.12%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in the South West

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Python in the South West

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Python in the South West

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Python in the South West

Python
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Python in the South West over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Python in the South West

Python
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South 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
Bristol -11 60 £525 -4.55% 109
Gloucestershire -4 49 £600 +9.09% 53
Wiltshire -10 41 £700 +24.44% 17
Devon -17 11 £600 - 31
Dorset +9 7 £225 - 13
Somerset -14 5 £475 +1.33% 18
Python
England

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 31 (17.13%) Confluence
2 6 (3.31%) Apache
3 1 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.55%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.55%) SAS
Applications
1 12 (6.63%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.55%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 63 (34.81%) AWS
2 34 (18.78%) Azure
3 14 (7.73%) GitHub
4 12 (6.63%) OpenShift
5 10 (5.52%) Power Platform
5 10 (5.52%) Serverless
6 8 (4.42%) Amazon S3
7 7 (3.87%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (3.87%) PaaS
8 6 (3.31%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (3.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 6 (3.31%) GCP
9 5 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.21%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (2.21%) Pulumi
11 3 (1.66%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (1.66%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (1.10%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (1.10%) IaaS
12 2 (1.10%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.87%) VPN
2 6 (3.31%) Network Security
3 5 (2.76%) AMQP
4 4 (2.21%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.66%) IPv4
5 3 (1.66%) OSPF
5 3 (1.66%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (1.66%) VLAN
6 2 (1.10%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.52%) Power BI
2 7 (3.87%) Relational Database
3 6 (3.31%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (3.31%) InfluxDB
4 5 (2.76%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.66%) Big Data
5 3 (1.66%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.66%) Tableau
6 2 (1.10%) Data Mining
6 2 (1.10%) Flink
6 2 (1.10%) MySQL
7 1 (0.55%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.55%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.55%) CockroachDB
7 1 (0.55%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.55%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.55%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 61 (33.70%) Jenkins
2 46 (25.41%) JIRA
3 31 (17.13%) Bitbucket
4 23 (12.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 9 (4.97%) GitLab
6 8 (4.42%) GoogleTest
7 6 (3.31%) Git
8 5 (2.76%) Cypress.io
8 5 (2.76%) Selenium
9 3 (1.66%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.66%) Burp Suite
10 2 (1.10%) JUnit
10 2 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.55%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.55%) JMeter
11 1 (0.55%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.55%) Visual Studio
General
1 38 (20.99%) Social Skills
2 35 (19.34%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (11.05%) Aerospace
4 9 (4.97%) Telecoms
5 7 (3.87%) Public Sector
6 3 (1.66%) Finance
6 3 (1.66%) Legal
6 3 (1.66%) Marketing
6 3 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.10%) Banking
7 2 (1.10%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.55%) Automotive
8 1 (0.55%) Aviation
8 1 (0.55%) Electronics
8 1 (0.55%) Games
8 1 (0.55%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 61 (33.70%) Developer
2 27 (14.92%) DevOps Engineer
3 19 (10.50%) Software Developer
3 19 (10.50%) Software Engineer
4 15 (8.29%) Data Engineer
4 15 (8.29%) Senior
5 14 (7.73%) Full Stack Developer
6 12 (6.63%) Azure Engineer
7 10 (5.52%) Java Engineer
8 9 (4.97%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 9 (4.97%) Test Engineer
9 8 (4.42%) Architect
9 8 (4.42%) Java Software Engineer
10 7 (3.87%) Lead
10 7 (3.87%) Python Developer
10 7 (3.87%) Senior Test Engineer
11 5 (2.76%) AWS Engineer
11 5 (2.76%) Azure Data Engineer
11 5 (2.76%) Python Engineer
11 5 (2.76%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (13.81%) .NET
2 23 (12.71%) .NET Core
3 20 (11.05%) React
4 19 (10.50%) HTML
5 14 (7.73%) AngularJS
6 13 (7.18%) Spring
7 12 (6.63%) REST
8 10 (5.52%) Qt
9 9 (4.97%) Flask
10 7 (3.87%) PySpark
11 6 (3.31%) Apache NiFi
11 6 (3.31%) CSS
11 6 (3.31%) RESTful
11 6 (3.31%) XML
12 5 (2.76%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (2.76%) SQLAlchemy
13 4 (2.21%) ModSecurity
14 3 (1.66%) .NET Framework
14 3 (1.66%) Node.js
15 2 (1.10%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.84%) Linux Command Line
2 10 (5.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 9 (4.97%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.31%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (2.76%) Algorithms
5 5 (2.76%) Renewable Energy
5 5 (2.76%) Security Posture
5 5 (2.76%) Verilog
5 5 (2.76%) VHDL
6 4 (2.21%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.66%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.10%) PKI
9 1 (0.55%) CUDA
9 1 (0.55%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.55%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.55%) IoT
9 1 (0.55%) Robotics
9 1 (0.55%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 65 (35.91%) Linux
2 15 (8.29%) Windows
3 3 (1.66%) Kali Linux
4 1 (0.55%) CentOS
4 1 (0.55%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.55%) Unix
4 1 (0.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (36.46%) DevOps
2 65 (35.91%) CI/CD
3 52 (28.73%) Agile
4 47 (25.97%) Problem-Solving
5 40 (22.10%) Software Engineering
6 35 (19.34%) Configuration Management
6 35 (19.34%) OO
6 35 (19.34%) OOP
7 33 (18.23%) Task Automation
8 27 (14.92%) Infrastructure Automation
9 25 (13.81%) Continuous Integration
10 23 (12.71%) Deployment Automation
11 21 (11.60%) Software Architecture
12 20 (11.05%) Infrastructure as Code
13 17 (9.39%) Project Management
14 16 (8.84%) Continuous Improvement
14 16 (8.84%) Full Stack Development
15 15 (8.29%) Artificial Intelligence
16 13 (7.18%) ETL
16 13 (7.18%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 59 (32.60%) Java
2 51 (28.18%) PowerShell
3 39 (21.55%) JavaScript
4 38 (20.99%) SQL
5 35 (19.34%) C
6 27 (14.92%) C++
7 19 (10.50%) C#
8 15 (8.29%) Go
9 13 (7.18%) Bash
10 7 (3.87%) Shell Script
11 4 (2.21%) Bicep
11 4 (2.21%) R
12 3 (1.66%) Perl
12 3 (1.66%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.10%) Kotlin
13 2 (1.10%) Scala
13 2 (1.10%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.55%) Julia
14 1 (0.55%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 106 (58.56%) Security Cleared
2 56 (30.94%) DV Cleared
3 50 (27.62%) SC Cleared
4 21 (11.60%) Degree
5 5 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.21%) OSCP
7 3 (1.66%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.66%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.10%) CCIE
8 2 (1.10%) CCNA
8 2 (1.10%) CCNP
8 2 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.10%) IBM Certification
8 2 (1.10%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.10%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.55%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.55%) GIAC
9 1 (0.55%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.84%) QA
2 10 (5.52%) MISRA
3 4 (2.21%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.21%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.66%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.10%) JTAG
6 1 (0.55%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.55%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 38 (20.99%) Docker
2 9 (4.97%) VMware NSX
3 7 (3.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.21%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (2.21%) vSphere
5 2 (1.10%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.55%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 58 (32.04%) Ansible
2 48 (26.52%) Terraform
3 32 (17.68%) Kubernetes
4 25 (13.81%) PowerCLI
5 18 (9.94%) Grafana
5 18 (9.94%) Prometheus
6 7 (3.87%) Progress Chef
7 6 (3.31%) Docker Swarm
8 5 (2.76%) Puppet
9 4 (2.21%) OPNET
10 2 (1.10%) Argo
10 2 (1.10%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.55%) Dell DRAC
11 1 (0.55%) Kibana
Vendors
1 32 (17.68%) Atlassian
2 22 (12.15%) Dell
2 22 (12.15%) HP
3 15 (8.29%) Google
4 12 (6.63%) PayPal
5 11 (6.08%) Databricks
6 8 (4.42%) VMware
7 6 (3.31%) Red Hat
8 5 (2.76%) Microsoft
9 4 (2.21%) Cisco
10 2 (1.10%) IBM
10 2 (1.10%) Informatica
10 2 (1.10%) Oracle
11 1 (0.55%) Cloudera
11 1 (0.55%) SAP
11 1 (0.55%) Splunk