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

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 15 32
Rank change year-on-year -6 +17 -4
Contract jobs citing Python 176 254 241
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 6.43% 8.38% 5.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 26.59% 29.03% 16.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 180 192
10th Percentile £378 £326 £386
25th Percentile £434 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £555 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.91% +0.91% +22.22%
75th Percentile £563 £650 £635
90th Percentile £645 £689 £688
England median daily rate £565 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -5.83% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 3
10th Percentile - £39.10 £22.30
25th Percentile £66.25 £43.08 £23.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £47.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.11% +82.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.69 £27.25
90th Percentile - £60.14 £27.70
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% +41.03%

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 662 875 1,436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 24.18% 28.87% 35.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 482 653 1,097
10th Percentile £325 £325 £315
25th Percentile £400 £413 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +20.48%
75th Percentile £542 £588 £588
90th Percentile £614 £650 £663
England median daily rate £543 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% +2.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 17 39
10th Percentile £38.08 £25.22 £14.25
25th Percentile £41.25 £37.75 £21.64
Median hourly rate £48.43 £46.18 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.87% -12.04% +75.00%
75th Percentile £71.87 £56.40 £75.00
90th Percentile £79.90 £65.85 £77.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +20.00%

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 1 June 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 1 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
Manchester -3 109 £478 -13.18% 123
Cheshire -22 27 £510 -10.21% 18
Merseyside +8 16 £388 -18.42% 9
Cumbria -5 16 £515 +14.44% 3
Lancashire -2 6 £625 +19.05% 12
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 (7.39%) Apache Spark
2 9 (5.11%) Apache
3 7 (3.98%) Confluence
4 6 (3.41%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (3.41%) SAS
5 3 (1.70%) IIS
6 2 (1.14%) nginx
6 2 (1.14%) Traefik
7 1 (0.57%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 25 (14.20%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.70%) Maximo
2 1 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 58 (32.95%) AWS
2 33 (18.75%) Azure
3 22 (12.50%) Serverless
4 20 (11.36%) Amazon EC2
4 20 (11.36%) Snowflake
5 18 (10.23%) Amazon S3
5 18 (10.23%) AWS Lambda
5 18 (10.23%) Power Platform
6 14 (7.95%) AWS CloudFormation
7 13 (7.39%) GCP
8 9 (5.11%) Power Automate
9 8 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (4.55%) Amazon EMR
9 8 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 7 (3.98%) Collibra
10 7 (3.98%) GitHub
10 7 (3.98%) Google Analytics
11 6 (3.41%) Amazon ELB
11 6 (3.41%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 15 (8.52%) Firewall
2 13 (7.39%) Wi-Fi
3 12 (6.82%) BGP
3 12 (6.82%) Cisco ASA
3 12 (6.82%) Cisco Firepower
3 12 (6.82%) Cisco ISE
3 12 (6.82%) EIGRP
3 12 (6.82%) HSRP
3 12 (6.82%) IPsec
3 12 (6.82%) NetScaler
3 12 (6.82%) OSPF
3 12 (6.82%) SNMP
3 12 (6.82%) Spanning Tree
4 7 (3.98%) DNS
4 7 (3.98%) Network Security
5 5 (2.84%) FTP
5 5 (2.84%) TCP/IP
6 4 (2.27%) HTTP
7 2 (1.14%) DHCP
7 2 (1.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.80%) Data Lake
2 17 (9.66%) Power BI
3 13 (7.39%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (6.82%) Amazon Redshift
5 11 (6.25%) SQL Server
6 10 (5.68%) Tableau
7 9 (5.11%) Big Data
8 8 (4.55%) MySQL
9 6 (3.41%) Ataccama
9 6 (3.41%) DynamoDB
9 6 (3.41%) Hadoop
9 6 (3.41%) Qlik Sense
10 5 (2.84%) BigQuery
10 5 (2.84%) Data Mining
10 5 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (2.27%) NoSQL
11 4 (2.27%) Star Schema
12 3 (1.70%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (1.70%) HBase
Development Applications
1 29 (16.48%) Git
2 17 (9.66%) GitLab
3 15 (8.52%) Jenkins
4 11 (6.25%) JIRA
5 6 (3.41%) SonarQube
5 6 (3.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 4 (2.27%) Bitbucket
6 4 (2.27%) Selenium
7 3 (1.70%) Burp Suite
8 2 (1.14%) Appium
8 2 (1.14%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.14%) ER Studio
8 2 (1.14%) PyCharm
8 2 (1.14%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.14%) TestComplete
8 2 (1.14%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.57%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.57%) JMeter
9 1 (0.57%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.57%) TeamCity
General
1 40 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 16 (9.09%) Finance
3 13 (7.39%) Pharmaceutical
4 12 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.68%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.98%) Banking
7 5 (2.84%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.27%) Retail
9 3 (1.70%) Marketing
10 2 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (27.27%) Developer
2 28 (15.91%) Senior
3 25 (14.20%) Software Developer
4 23 (13.07%) DevOps Engineer
5 21 (11.93%) Analyst
6 18 (10.23%) Data Engineer
7 17 (9.66%) AWS DevOps
7 17 (9.66%) Data Analyst
8 16 (9.09%) Network Engineer
9 15 (8.52%) AWS Engineer
10 13 (7.39%) Python Developer
11 10 (5.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 9 (5.11%) Senior DevOps
12 9 (5.11%) Software Engineer
13 8 (4.55%) Senior Network Engineer
14 7 (3.98%) Lead
14 7 (3.98%) Senior Analyst
15 6 (3.41%) DevOps Platform Engineer
15 6 (3.41%) QA Analyst
15 6 (3.41%) Quality Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (18.18%) HTML
2 12 (6.82%) Jinja
3 10 (5.68%) JSON
4 9 (5.11%) Django
5 8 (4.55%) XML
6 7 (3.98%) AngularJS
6 7 (3.98%) PySpark
6 7 (3.98%) React
6 7 (3.98%) REST
7 6 (3.41%) .NET
7 6 (3.41%) CSS
8 5 (2.84%) pytest
9 4 (2.27%) Kafka
9 4 (2.27%) Node.js
9 4 (2.27%) RESTful
9 4 (2.27%) YAML
10 3 (1.70%) .NET Framework
10 3 (1.70%) XHTML
11 2 (1.14%) jQuery
11 2 (1.14%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (3.41%) Onboarding
3 5 (2.84%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (2.27%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.70%) Cyber Defence
5 3 (1.70%) Low-Code
5 3 (1.70%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.14%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.14%) Clustering
6 2 (1.14%) CMDB
6 2 (1.14%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.14%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.14%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.14%) PKI
7 1 (0.57%) Device Driver
7 1 (0.57%) Insider Threat
7 1 (0.57%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.68%) Linux
2 4 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.70%) Kali Linux
4 2 (1.14%) Alpine Linux
4 2 (1.14%) Android
4 2 (1.14%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.14%) CentOS
4 2 (1.14%) Unix
4 2 (1.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (31.82%) DevOps
2 43 (24.43%) Software Engineering
3 40 (22.73%) CI/CD
4 32 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
5 31 (17.61%) Agile
6 29 (16.48%) Code Quality
7 27 (15.34%) Conversational UI
8 24 (13.64%) Containerisation
8 24 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
9 22 (12.50%) ETL
9 22 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (10.80%) Data Modelling
11 17 (9.66%) Analytics
11 17 (9.66%) Data Pipeline
12 16 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
13 14 (7.95%) Change Management
13 14 (7.95%) ITIL
13 14 (7.95%) Visualisation
14 13 (7.39%) Data Engineering
15 12 (6.82%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 74 (42.05%) SQL
2 41 (23.30%) C#
3 40 (22.73%) JavaScript
4 25 (14.20%) Java
5 23 (13.07%) Bash
6 14 (7.95%) Perl
7 13 (7.39%) Go
7 13 (7.39%) PowerShell
8 12 (6.82%) Tcl
9 6 (3.41%) Ruby
9 6 (3.41%) Scala
10 5 (2.84%) Search Processing Language
10 5 (2.84%) Shell Script
11 4 (2.27%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.70%) C++
12 3 (1.70%) R
13 2 (1.14%) Delphi
13 2 (1.14%) VBScript
14 1 (0.57%) C
14 1 (0.57%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 32 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 30 (17.05%) Degree
3 29 (16.48%) SC Cleared
4 17 (9.66%) CCNA
4 17 (9.66%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (8.52%) CCNP
6 9 (5.11%) AWS Certification
7 8 (4.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.70%) CCIE
8 3 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.70%) OSCP
9 2 (1.14%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.14%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.57%) CISM
10 1 (0.57%) CISSP
10 1 (0.57%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.95%) Data Quality
1 14 (7.95%) QA
2 6 (3.41%) PCI DSS
3 4 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.70%) ISO 22301
4 3 (1.70%) NIST
5 2 (1.14%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.14%) NCSC
6 1 (0.57%) GDPR
6 1 (0.57%) Good Clinical Practice
6 1 (0.57%) GxP
System Software
1 24 (13.64%) Docker
2 13 (7.39%) Firmware
3 3 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.14%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.57%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.57%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 41 (23.30%) Terraform
2 33 (18.75%) Ansible
3 30 (17.05%) Kubernetes
4 6 (3.41%) HP Fortify
5 4 (2.27%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.27%) ZABBIX
6 2 (1.14%) Consul
6 2 (1.14%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (1.14%) Grafana
6 2 (1.14%) Graphite
6 2 (1.14%) HAProxy
6 2 (1.14%) Istio
6 2 (1.14%) linkerd
6 2 (1.14%) Nagios
6 2 (1.14%) Packer
6 2 (1.14%) Podman
6 2 (1.14%) Puppet
7 1 (0.57%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.57%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 25 (14.20%) PayPal
2 17 (9.66%) Cisco
3 16 (9.09%) Microsoft
4 15 (8.52%) Splunk
5 14 (7.95%) SolarWinds
6 12 (6.82%) Citrix
6 12 (6.82%) Palo Alto
7 9 (5.11%) SAP
8 8 (4.55%) Databricks
8 8 (4.55%) Google
9 7 (3.98%) VMware
10 6 (3.41%) Alteryx
10 6 (3.41%) Dataiku
10 6 (3.41%) Salesforce
10 6 (3.41%) Trillium
11 5 (2.84%) Informatica
11 5 (2.84%) Talend
12 4 (2.27%) Oracle
13 3 (1.70%) Atlassian
13 3 (1.70%) IBM