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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 34 60
Rank change year-on-year +2 +26 -9
Contract jobs citing Python 132 169 179
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.57% 5.25% 3.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.53% 20.14% 13.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 114 115
10th Percentile £310 £387 £381
25th Percentile £359 £445 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £545 £659 £575
90th Percentile £625 £700 £658
England median daily rate £565 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -5.83% - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 2
10th Percentile £27.78 £50.13 £56.51
25th Percentile £37.59 £50.31 £56.54
Median hourly rate £47.75 £51.25 £58.14
Median % change year-on-year -6.83% -11.85% -
75th Percentile £72.50 £52.81 £59.82
90th Percentile £73.25 £53.38 £59.88
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +18.18% +46.67%

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 676 839 1,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 23.38% 26.04% 26.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 476 610 964
10th Percentile £260 £313 £320
25th Percentile £350 £375 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £455
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +4.40% +13.75%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £540
90th Percentile £631 £700 £624
England median daily rate £540 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 17
10th Percentile £22.50 £23.61 £16.55
25th Percentile £30.37 £26.02 £20.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +42.86% +55.56%
75th Percentile £58.75 £58.75 -
90th Percentile £72.50 £83.75 £44.80
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +19.32%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 9 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
West Midlands -8 79 £450 -18.18% 120
East Midlands +7 52 £425 -15.00% 61
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 7 (5.30%) Apache Spark
1 7 (5.30%) Confluence
2 5 (3.79%) JBoss
3 4 (3.03%) Apache
4 3 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.27%) SAS
5 2 (1.52%) CMS
5 2 (1.52%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 24 (18.18%) Chatbot
2 7 (5.30%) CANalyzer
3 6 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (1.52%) Trello
5 1 (0.76%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 6 (4.55%) Odoo
2 3 (2.27%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.76%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 32 (24.24%) AWS
2 20 (15.15%) Azure
3 15 (11.36%) Power Platform
4 9 (6.82%) Serverless
5 6 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (4.55%) OpenShift
6 5 (3.79%) GCP
7 4 (3.03%) AWS Step Functions
8 3 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.27%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (2.27%) dbt
8 3 (2.27%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.27%) Snowflake
9 2 (1.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.52%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (1.52%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (1.52%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.30%) Ethernet
1 7 (5.30%) FlexRay
2 3 (2.27%) SAN
2 3 (2.27%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.76%) Firewall
3 1 (0.76%) LTE
3 1 (0.76%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.36%) Power BI
2 10 (7.58%) Hadoop
3 9 (6.82%) NoSQL
4 7 (5.30%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (5.30%) RDBMS
4 7 (5.30%) Relational Database
4 7 (5.30%) SQL Server
5 6 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (4.55%) Impala
5 6 (4.55%) Tableau
6 5 (3.79%) MySQL
7 4 (3.03%) Big Data
7 4 (3.03%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.52%) Apache Hive
9 2 (1.52%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.52%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 16 (12.12%) JIRA
2 15 (11.36%) Git
2 15 (11.36%) Jenkins
3 7 (5.30%) CANoe
4 6 (4.55%) Bitbucket
4 6 (4.55%) CA Release Automation
4 6 (4.55%) TeamCity
5 5 (3.79%) Bitbucket Server
5 5 (3.79%) GitLab
5 5 (3.79%) SonarQube
5 5 (3.79%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (3.03%) Artifactory
6 4 (3.03%) JMeter
7 3 (2.27%) Gradle
7 3 (2.27%) Maven
8 2 (1.52%) Travis CI
8 2 (1.52%) webpack
9 1 (0.76%) Ant
9 1 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.76%) JUnit
General
1 31 (23.48%) Social Skills
2 23 (17.42%) Finance
3 14 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (7.58%) Manufacturing
5 8 (6.06%) Banking
6 7 (5.30%) Automotive
6 7 (5.30%) Electronics
7 6 (4.55%) Public Sector
8 4 (3.03%) Retail
9 3 (2.27%) Aerospace
9 3 (2.27%) Marketing
10 2 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.76%) Back Office
11 1 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.76%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.76%) Multimedia
11 1 (0.76%) Police
11 1 (0.76%) Publishing
11 1 (0.76%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 45 (34.09%) Developer
2 24 (18.18%) Software Developer
3 23 (17.42%) Analyst
4 18 (13.64%) Data Engineer
5 15 (11.36%) Senior
6 14 (10.61%) Data Analyst
7 9 (6.82%) Python Developer
8 8 (6.06%) DevOps Engineer
9 7 (5.30%) Integration Manager
9 7 (5.30%) Software Manager
10 6 (4.55%) Consultant
11 5 (3.79%) Cloud Engineer
11 5 (3.79%) Support Engineer
12 3 (2.27%) Applications Support
12 3 (2.27%) Applications Support Analyst
12 3 (2.27%) Architect
12 3 (2.27%) Java Developer
12 3 (2.27%) Senior Analyst
12 3 (2.27%) Support Analyst
12 3 (2.27%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (18.18%) HTML
2 8 (6.06%) LDAP
3 6 (4.55%) Flask
4 5 (3.79%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (3.79%) RESTful
4 5 (3.79%) Spring Boot
5 4 (3.03%) Kafka
5 4 (3.03%) React
5 4 (3.03%) REST
5 4 (3.03%) SAML
5 4 (3.03%) Web Services
6 3 (2.27%) FastAPI
6 3 (2.27%) Hibernate
6 3 (2.27%) Next.js
6 3 (2.27%) OAuth
6 3 (2.27%) OpenID
6 3 (2.27%) Pandas
6 3 (2.27%) SailPoint
6 3 (2.27%) Spring
7 2 (1.52%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.82%) Algorithms
2 7 (5.30%) Data Structures
2 7 (5.30%) Infotainment
3 6 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.27%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.52%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.52%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.52%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.76%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.76%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.76%) Insider Threat
6 1 (0.76%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 18 (13.64%) Linux
2 9 (6.82%) Windows
3 6 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (2.27%) Debian
4 3 (2.27%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.52%) Unix
6 1 (0.76%) AIX
6 1 (0.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (25.76%) Artificial Intelligence
1 34 (25.76%) Software Engineering
2 33 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 24 (18.18%) Conversational UI
4 22 (16.67%) DevOps
5 19 (14.39%) Analytics
6 18 (13.64%) CI/CD
6 18 (13.64%) Data Modelling
7 17 (12.88%) Agile
7 17 (12.88%) Business Intelligence
8 15 (11.36%) Computer Science
9 14 (10.61%) Migration
9 14 (10.61%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (9.09%) Data Analysis
10 12 (9.09%) Data Science
11 11 (8.33%) Microservices
12 10 (7.58%) Data Analytics
12 10 (7.58%) Data Engineering
12 10 (7.58%) Prototyping
12 10 (7.58%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 65 (49.24%) SQL
2 34 (25.76%) JavaScript
3 25 (18.94%) C#
4 18 (13.64%) Java
5 12 (9.09%) R
6 8 (6.06%) PowerShell
7 7 (5.30%) VBA
8 6 (4.55%) Perl
9 5 (3.79%) Bash
10 4 (3.03%) C++
10 4 (3.03%) Groovy
10 4 (3.03%) Scala
11 3 (2.27%) C
11 3 (2.27%) MATLAB
11 3 (2.27%) TypeScript
12 2 (1.52%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.76%) HiveQL
13 1 (0.76%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.76%) Rust
13 1 (0.76%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 39 (29.55%) Degree
2 12 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 11 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (6.82%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.79%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.76%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.76%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.06%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.27%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.27%) GDPR
3 1 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (0.76%) ISO 26262
3 1 (0.76%) QA
System Software
1 13 (9.85%) Docker
2 10 (7.58%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.52%) HDFS
4 1 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (9.85%) Kubernetes
2 12 (9.09%) Ansible
3 10 (7.58%) Terraform
4 8 (6.06%) Functional Safety
5 6 (4.55%) Kibana
5 6 (4.55%) Progress Chef
6 4 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.52%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.76%) Argo
8 1 (0.76%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (0.76%) Istio
8 1 (0.76%) linkerd
8 1 (0.76%) PowerBroker
8 1 (0.76%) SELinux
8 1 (0.76%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 24 (18.18%) PayPal
2 19 (14.39%) Microsoft
3 11 (8.33%) Red Hat
4 7 (5.30%) Splunk
5 5 (3.79%) AppDynamics
6 4 (3.03%) Databricks
6 4 (3.03%) Google
7 3 (2.27%) Okta
7 3 (2.27%) Oracle
7 3 (2.27%) Sage
7 3 (2.27%) VMware
8 2 (1.52%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.52%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.52%) Confluent
8 2 (1.52%) NVIDIA
8 2 (1.52%) SAP
9 1 (0.76%) Citrix
9 1 (0.76%) Informatica
9 1 (0.76%) Talend
9 1 (0.76%) Teradata