Python Contracts in the North of England

Python
England > North of England

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 17 31
Rank change year-on-year 0 +14 -10
Contract jobs citing Python 386 411 427
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 8.13% 7.41% 5.97%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.41% 26.31% 19.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 283 325
10th Percentile £400 £375 £400
25th Percentile £438 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.61% +4.55% +18.28%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £625
90th Percentile £646 £713 £688
England median daily rate £565 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -5.83% - +14.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 7
10th Percentile - £35.80 £20.10
25th Percentile - £39.44 £22.86
Median hourly rate £20.77 £46.84 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.66% +80.15% +0.97%
75th Percentile £46.18 £53.84 £27.25
90th Percentile £59.72 £59.21 £30.37
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% +45.70%

All Programming Languages
North of England

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 of England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,229 1,562 2,236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 25.90% 28.17% 31.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 856 1,143 1,707
10th Percentile £323 £356 £325
25th Percentile £401 £420 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £625 £688 £650
England median daily rate £543 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% +2.36% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 26 50
10th Percentile £37.57 £28.55 £14.25
25th Percentile £42.41 £37.80 £21.57
Median hourly rate £47.75 £48.00 £43.59
Median % change year-on-year -0.52% +10.12% +67.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £62.19 £68.75
90th Percentile £73.90 £68.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.75
% change year-on-year - +20.77% +17.61%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in the North of England

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Python in the North of England

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in the North of England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python in the North of England

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Python in the North of England

Python
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Python in the North of England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Python in the North of England

Python
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Yorkshire +18 182 £507 -16.37% 68
North West -4 176 £500 -9.91% 166
North East +3 30 £600 -9.43% 32
Python
England

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 26 (6.74%) Apache Spark
2 20 (5.18%) Apache
3 17 (4.40%) Confluence
4 14 (3.63%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.55%) nginx
5 6 (1.55%) SAS
6 3 (0.78%) IIS
6 3 (0.78%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.52%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.52%) Traefik
8 1 (0.26%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.26%) Drupal
8 1 (0.26%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 62 (16.06%) Chatbot
2 4 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.78%) Maximo
2 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 141 (36.53%) AWS
2 94 (24.35%) Azure
3 62 (16.06%) GCP
4 43 (11.14%) GitHub
5 41 (10.62%) Amazon S3
5 41 (10.62%) Serverless
6 29 (7.51%) Amazon EC2
7 26 (6.74%) Power Platform
7 26 (6.74%) Snowflake
8 20 (5.18%) AWS Lambda
9 19 (4.92%) Cloud Computing
10 17 (4.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 14 (3.63%) AWS CloudFormation
12 13 (3.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (2.59%) Amazon ELB
13 10 (2.59%) Azure Data Factory
14 9 (2.33%) Apigee
14 9 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
14 9 (2.33%) Kong
14 9 (2.33%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 29 (7.51%) Firewall
2 17 (4.40%) DNS
3 14 (3.63%) TCP/IP
4 13 (3.37%) HTTP
4 13 (3.37%) Wi-Fi
5 12 (3.11%) BGP
5 12 (3.11%) Cisco ASA
5 12 (3.11%) Cisco Firepower
5 12 (3.11%) Cisco ISE
5 12 (3.11%) EIGRP
5 12 (3.11%) HSRP
5 12 (3.11%) IPsec
5 12 (3.11%) NetScaler
5 12 (3.11%) OSPF
5 12 (3.11%) SNMP
5 12 (3.11%) Spanning Tree
6 10 (2.59%) VPN
7 8 (2.07%) SSL
8 7 (1.81%) Network Security
8 7 (1.81%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (8.29%) Data Lake
2 25 (6.48%) Power BI
3 22 (5.70%) Amazon Redshift
4 21 (5.44%) Big Data
5 19 (4.92%) BigQuery
5 19 (4.92%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (4.66%) Tableau
7 17 (4.40%) Hadoop
8 15 (3.89%) Amazon RDS
8 15 (3.89%) MySQL
8 15 (3.89%) SQL Server
9 14 (3.63%) MongoDB
9 14 (3.63%) NoSQL
9 14 (3.63%) Relational Database
10 12 (3.11%) Amazon Athena
11 11 (2.85%) PostgreSQL
12 10 (2.59%) Apache Cassandra
12 10 (2.59%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (1.55%) Ataccama
13 6 (1.55%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 72 (18.65%) Git
1 72 (18.65%) Jenkins
2 37 (9.59%) GitLab
3 22 (5.70%) JIRA
4 10 (2.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 10 (2.59%) SonarQube
5 9 (2.33%) CircleCI
5 9 (2.33%) Travis CI
6 7 (1.81%) Burp Suite
6 7 (1.81%) Selenium
7 6 (1.55%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 4 (1.04%) AppScan
8 4 (1.04%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.78%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.78%) gulp
9 3 (0.78%) Maven
9 3 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.78%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.52%) ER Studio
10 2 (0.52%) PyCharm
General
1 81 (20.98%) Social Skills
2 39 (10.10%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (5.96%) Finance
3 23 (5.96%) Public Sector
4 13 (3.37%) Pharmaceutical
5 11 (2.85%) Banking
5 11 (2.85%) Retail
6 6 (1.55%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.04%) Legal
8 3 (0.78%) Health Technology
8 3 (0.78%) Marketing
9 2 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.26%) Local Government
10 1 (0.26%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 128 (33.16%) Developer
2 61 (15.80%) Software Developer
3 45 (11.66%) DevOps Engineer
4 36 (9.33%) Python Developer
5 31 (8.03%) Senior
6 30 (7.77%) Analyst
7 25 (6.48%) Data Engineer
8 23 (5.96%) Lead
9 20 (5.18%) Architect
9 20 (5.18%) AWS DevOps
10 19 (4.92%) Data Analyst
11 18 (4.66%) AWS Engineer
12 17 (4.40%) Network Engineer
13 13 (3.37%) Automation Engineer
13 13 (3.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 13 (3.37%) Storage Manager
14 11 (2.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 11 (2.85%) Software Engineer
15 10 (2.59%) Azure Engineer
15 10 (2.59%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (18.39%) HTML
2 29 (7.51%) YAML
3 24 (6.22%) JSON
4 20 (5.18%) Kafka
5 18 (4.66%) XML
6 13 (3.37%) Elastic Stack
6 13 (3.37%) RESTful
7 12 (3.11%) .NET
7 12 (3.11%) FastAPI
7 12 (3.11%) Jinja
7 12 (3.11%) Node.js
8 10 (2.59%) AngularJS
8 10 (2.59%) PySpark
8 10 (2.59%) REST
9 9 (2.33%) CSS
9 9 (2.33%) Django
9 9 (2.33%) React
10 8 (2.07%) OAuth
10 8 (2.07%) PyTorch
10 8 (2.07%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 14 (3.63%) Data Centre
2 11 (2.85%) Mobile App
3 9 (2.33%) Data Structures
3 9 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (2.07%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (2.07%) Public Cloud
5 7 (1.81%) Onboarding
5 7 (1.81%) Replication
6 6 (1.55%) Management Information System
6 6 (1.55%) NHS
6 6 (1.55%) Operational Technology
6 6 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.30%) CMDB
7 5 (1.30%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.04%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.04%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (0.78%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (0.78%) IoT
9 3 (0.78%) Low-Code
9 3 (0.78%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 57 (14.77%) Linux
2 15 (3.89%) zOS
3 13 (3.37%) Unix
4 10 (2.59%) Windows
5 9 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.55%) CentOS
7 5 (1.30%) Android
7 5 (1.30%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.78%) Kali Linux
9 2 (0.52%) Alpine Linux
9 2 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (31.87%) DevOps
2 97 (25.13%) CI/CD
3 92 (23.83%) Software Engineering
4 80 (20.73%) Artificial Intelligence
5 78 (20.21%) Agile
6 68 (17.62%) Containerisation
7 65 (16.84%) Code Quality
8 64 (16.58%) Conversational UI
9 62 (16.06%) Problem-Solving
10 56 (14.51%) Infrastructure as Code
11 52 (13.47%) Data Modelling
12 39 (10.10%) ETL
13 36 (9.33%) Stakeholder Management
14 34 (8.81%) Data Pipeline
15 32 (8.29%) Analytics
16 30 (7.77%) Data Engineering
17 27 (6.99%) Task Automation
18 26 (6.74%) Data Governance
18 26 (6.74%) Machine Learning
18 26 (6.74%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 146 (37.82%) SQL
2 103 (26.68%) JavaScript
3 82 (21.24%) C#
4 59 (15.28%) Java
5 57 (14.77%) Bash
6 40 (10.36%) PowerShell
7 21 (5.44%) Go
8 15 (3.89%) JCL
8 15 (3.89%) Perl
8 15 (3.89%) REXX
9 12 (3.11%) Scala
9 12 (3.11%) Tcl
10 11 (2.85%) Shell Script
11 10 (2.59%) Ruby
12 9 (2.33%) C++
13 7 (1.81%) Groovy
14 5 (1.30%) R
14 5 (1.30%) Search Processing Language
15 4 (1.04%) ActionScript
15 4 (1.04%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 80 (20.73%) Degree
2 57 (14.77%) Security Cleared
3 54 (13.99%) SC Cleared
4 17 (4.40%) CCNA
4 17 (4.40%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (3.89%) CCNP
6 12 (3.11%) AWS Certification
7 10 (2.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 9 (2.33%) OSCP
9 7 (1.81%) CEH
10 6 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (1.55%) CREST Certified
10 6 (1.55%) GIAC
10 6 (1.55%) GPEN
11 3 (0.78%) CCIE
11 3 (0.78%) HNC
11 3 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.52%) CISSP
12 2 (0.52%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.52%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (8.81%) QA
2 21 (5.44%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.33%) NIST
4 6 (1.55%) GDPR
4 6 (1.55%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.30%) HIPAA
6 4 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.78%) ISO 22301
8 2 (0.52%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.52%) NCSC
9 1 (0.26%) Good Clinical Practice
9 1 (0.26%) GRC
9 1 (0.26%) GxP
System Software
1 66 (17.10%) Docker
2 15 (3.89%) NFS
2 15 (3.89%) Time Sharing Option
3 13 (3.37%) Firmware
4 8 (2.07%) Active Directory
5 4 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.78%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.52%) HDFS
7 2 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.26%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.26%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 84 (21.76%) Kubernetes
2 81 (20.98%) Terraform
3 76 (19.69%) Ansible
4 23 (5.96%) Puppet
5 19 (4.92%) Grafana
6 18 (4.66%) Prometheus
7 15 (3.89%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 14 (3.63%) Progress Chef
9 11 (2.85%) Docker Swarm
10 10 (2.59%) HP Fortify
11 9 (2.33%) Kibana
11 9 (2.33%) logstash
12 6 (1.55%) Packer
13 4 (1.04%) Graylog
13 4 (1.04%) Nessus
13 4 (1.04%) Rancher
13 4 (1.04%) WebInspect
13 4 (1.04%) ZABBIX
14 3 (0.78%) Istio
14 3 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 61 (15.80%) PayPal
2 48 (12.44%) Splunk
3 40 (10.36%) Microsoft
4 32 (8.29%) Google
5 18 (4.66%) IBM
6 17 (4.40%) Cisco
7 16 (4.15%) Brocade
8 15 (3.89%) Broadcom
8 15 (3.89%) CA
8 15 (3.89%) Dell
9 14 (3.63%) SolarWinds
10 12 (3.11%) Citrix
10 12 (3.11%) Palo Alto
11 11 (2.85%) Databricks
12 9 (2.33%) SAP
13 8 (2.07%) Informatica
13 8 (2.07%) VMware
14 7 (1.81%) RedPrairie
15 6 (1.55%) Alteryx
15 6 (1.55%) Salesforce