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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 19 32
Rank change year-on-year +1 +13 -9
Contract jobs citing Python 369 409 425
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 7.96% 7.30% 5.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.01% 25.39% 18.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 284 322
10th Percentile £411 £376 £400
25th Percentile £438 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +6.98% +19.44%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £625
90th Percentile £645 £713 £688
England median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 7
10th Percentile - £35.15 £20.10
25th Percentile - £38.88 £22.86
Median hourly rate £20.77 £47.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.27% +82.69% +0.08%
75th Percentile £46.18 £54.69 £27.25
90th Percentile £59.72 £60.14 £30.37
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £53.03
% change year-on-year -3.85% +22.58% +32.57%

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 1,190 1,611 2,258
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 25.67% 28.75% 31.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 842 1,182 1,723
10th Percentile £325 £363 £325
25th Percentile £404 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £569 £600 £575
90th Percentile £625 £688 £650
England median daily rate £550 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -2.48% +2.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 28 51
10th Percentile £37.63 £30.01 £14.25
25th Percentile £43.57 £39.45 £21.64
Median hourly rate £47.50 £49.29 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% +15.96% +63.46%
75th Percentile £68.75 £64.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.50 £70.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.77
% change year-on-year - +23.10% +19.46%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 18 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
North West -7 177 £500 -9.09% 157
Yorkshire +17 165 £500 -16.67% 88
North East +4 29 £600 -11.11% 26
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 25 (6.78%) Apache Spark
2 19 (5.15%) Apache
3 17 (4.61%) Confluence
4 13 (3.52%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.63%) nginx
5 6 (1.63%) SAS
6 3 (0.81%) IIS
6 3 (0.81%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.54%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.54%) Traefik
8 1 (0.27%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.27%) Drupal
8 1 (0.27%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 62 (16.80%) Chatbot
2 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.81%) Maximo
2 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 136 (36.86%) AWS
2 88 (23.85%) Azure
3 58 (15.72%) GCP
4 45 (12.20%) GitHub
5 39 (10.57%) Amazon S3
5 39 (10.57%) Serverless
6 29 (7.86%) Amazon EC2
7 28 (7.59%) Power Platform
8 25 (6.78%) Snowflake
9 19 (5.15%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (4.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 16 (4.34%) Cloud Computing
12 14 (3.79%) AWS CloudFormation
13 13 (3.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 10 (2.71%) Amazon ELB
14 10 (2.71%) Azure Data Factory
15 9 (2.44%) Apigee
15 9 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
15 9 (2.44%) Kong
15 9 (2.44%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 29 (7.86%) Firewall
2 17 (4.61%) DNS
3 14 (3.79%) TCP/IP
4 13 (3.52%) HTTP
4 13 (3.52%) Wi-Fi
5 12 (3.25%) BGP
5 12 (3.25%) Cisco ASA
5 12 (3.25%) Cisco Firepower
5 12 (3.25%) Cisco ISE
5 12 (3.25%) EIGRP
5 12 (3.25%) HSRP
5 12 (3.25%) IPsec
5 12 (3.25%) NetScaler
5 12 (3.25%) OSPF
5 12 (3.25%) SNMP
5 12 (3.25%) Spanning Tree
6 10 (2.71%) VPN
7 8 (2.17%) Network Security
7 8 (2.17%) SSL
8 7 (1.90%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (8.13%) Data Lake
2 27 (7.32%) Power BI
3 20 (5.42%) Amazon Redshift
3 20 (5.42%) Big Data
4 18 (4.88%) BigQuery
4 18 (4.88%) Tableau
5 17 (4.61%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (4.34%) Hadoop
7 15 (4.07%) MySQL
7 15 (4.07%) SQL Server
8 14 (3.79%) Amazon RDS
8 14 (3.79%) MongoDB
8 14 (3.79%) NoSQL
9 13 (3.52%) Relational Database
10 11 (2.98%) PostgreSQL
11 10 (2.71%) Amazon Athena
11 10 (2.71%) Apache Cassandra
11 10 (2.71%) Elasticsearch
12 6 (1.63%) Ataccama
12 6 (1.63%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 71 (19.24%) Jenkins
2 70 (18.97%) Git
3 37 (10.03%) GitLab
4 22 (5.96%) JIRA
5 10 (2.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 10 (2.71%) SonarQube
6 9 (2.44%) CircleCI
6 9 (2.44%) Travis CI
7 8 (2.17%) Selenium
8 7 (1.90%) Burp Suite
9 6 (1.63%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 4 (1.08%) AppScan
10 4 (1.08%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.81%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.81%) gulp
11 3 (0.81%) Maven
11 3 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.81%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.54%) Appium
12 2 (0.54%) TestComplete
General
1 79 (21.41%) Social Skills
2 37 (10.03%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (6.23%) Public Sector
4 21 (5.69%) Finance
5 13 (3.52%) Pharmaceutical
6 11 (2.98%) Banking
6 11 (2.98%) Retail
7 6 (1.63%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.08%) Legal
9 3 (0.81%) Health Technology
9 3 (0.81%) Marketing
10 2 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.27%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 116 (31.44%) Developer
2 61 (16.53%) Software Developer
3 42 (11.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 32 (8.67%) Senior
5 31 (8.40%) Analyst
6 25 (6.78%) Python Developer
7 24 (6.50%) Data Engineer
8 21 (5.69%) Lead
9 20 (5.42%) Data Analyst
10 19 (5.15%) Architect
10 19 (5.15%) AWS DevOps
11 17 (4.61%) Network Engineer
12 16 (4.34%) AWS Engineer
13 13 (3.52%) Automation Engineer
13 13 (3.52%) Storage Manager
14 11 (2.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 11 (2.98%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 11 (2.98%) Software Engineer
14 11 (2.98%) Tester
15 10 (2.71%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (19.24%) HTML
2 29 (7.86%) YAML
3 24 (6.50%) JSON
4 19 (5.15%) Kafka
5 18 (4.88%) XML
6 13 (3.52%) .NET
6 13 (3.52%) Elastic Stack
7 12 (3.25%) FastAPI
7 12 (3.25%) Jinja
7 12 (3.25%) Node.js
7 12 (3.25%) RESTful
8 10 (2.71%) AngularJS
9 9 (2.44%) CSS
9 9 (2.44%) React
9 9 (2.44%) REST
10 8 (2.17%) Django
10 8 (2.17%) Lambda Expressions
10 8 (2.17%) PySpark
11 7 (1.90%) PyTorch
11 7 (1.90%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 14 (3.79%) Data Centre
2 11 (2.98%) Mobile App
3 10 (2.71%) Data Structures
4 9 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (2.17%) Public Cloud
6 7 (1.90%) Onboarding
6 7 (1.90%) Replication
7 6 (1.63%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.63%) NHS
7 6 (1.63%) Operational Technology
8 5 (1.36%) CMDB
8 5 (1.36%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.08%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.08%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (0.81%) Cyber Defence
10 3 (0.81%) IoT
10 3 (0.81%) Low-Code
10 3 (0.81%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 58 (15.72%) Linux
2 15 (4.07%) zOS
3 13 (3.52%) Unix
4 10 (2.71%) Windows
5 9 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.63%) CentOS
7 5 (1.36%) Android
7 5 (1.36%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.81%) Kali Linux
9 2 (0.54%) Alpine Linux
9 2 (0.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (31.71%) DevOps
2 94 (25.47%) CI/CD
3 91 (24.66%) Software Engineering
4 79 (21.41%) Agile
5 78 (21.14%) Artificial Intelligence
6 65 (17.62%) Code Quality
6 65 (17.62%) Containerisation
7 64 (17.34%) Conversational UI
8 58 (15.72%) Problem-Solving
9 53 (14.36%) Infrastructure as Code
10 48 (13.01%) Data Modelling
11 37 (10.03%) ETL
12 35 (9.49%) Stakeholder Management
13 33 (8.94%) Data Pipeline
14 29 (7.86%) Analytics
15 28 (7.59%) Data Engineering
16 27 (7.32%) Business Intelligence
17 26 (7.05%) Task Automation
17 26 (7.05%) Visualisation
18 25 (6.78%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 143 (38.75%) SQL
2 103 (27.91%) JavaScript
3 83 (22.49%) C#
4 57 (15.45%) Java
5 55 (14.91%) Bash
6 36 (9.76%) PowerShell
7 21 (5.69%) Go
8 15 (4.07%) JCL
8 15 (4.07%) Perl
8 15 (4.07%) REXX
9 12 (3.25%) Tcl
10 11 (2.98%) Scala
10 11 (2.98%) Shell Script
11 10 (2.71%) Ruby
12 9 (2.44%) C++
13 7 (1.90%) Groovy
14 5 (1.36%) Search Processing Language
15 4 (1.08%) ActionScript
15 4 (1.08%) R
15 4 (1.08%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 77 (20.87%) Degree
2 54 (14.63%) Security Cleared
3 51 (13.82%) SC Cleared
4 17 (4.61%) CCNA
4 17 (4.61%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (4.07%) CCNP
6 11 (2.98%) AWS Certification
7 9 (2.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 9 (2.44%) OSCP
8 6 (1.63%) CEH
8 6 (1.63%) CREST Certified
8 6 (1.63%) GIAC
8 6 (1.63%) GPEN
9 4 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (0.81%) CCIE
10 3 (0.81%) HNC
10 3 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.54%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.54%) Network+ Certification
12 1 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (9.21%) QA
2 21 (5.69%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.44%) NIST
4 6 (1.63%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.36%) GDPR
6 4 (1.08%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.08%) HIPAA
6 4 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.81%) ISO 22301
8 2 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.54%) NCSC
9 1 (0.27%) Good Clinical Practice
9 1 (0.27%) GRC
9 1 (0.27%) GxP
System Software
1 64 (17.34%) Docker
2 15 (4.07%) NFS
2 15 (4.07%) Time Sharing Option
3 13 (3.52%) Firmware
4 8 (2.17%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.81%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 3 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.54%) HDFS
6 2 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.27%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 81 (21.95%) Kubernetes
2 77 (20.87%) Terraform
3 76 (20.60%) Ansible
4 23 (6.23%) Puppet
5 19 (5.15%) Grafana
6 18 (4.88%) Prometheus
7 15 (4.07%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 14 (3.79%) Progress Chef
9 11 (2.98%) Docker Swarm
10 10 (2.71%) HP Fortify
11 9 (2.44%) Kibana
11 9 (2.44%) logstash
12 6 (1.63%) Packer
13 4 (1.08%) Graylog
13 4 (1.08%) Nessus
13 4 (1.08%) Rancher
13 4 (1.08%) WebInspect
13 4 (1.08%) ZABBIX
14 3 (0.81%) Istio
14 3 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 61 (16.53%) PayPal
2 38 (10.30%) Microsoft
3 37 (10.03%) Splunk
4 30 (8.13%) Google
5 18 (4.88%) IBM
6 17 (4.61%) Cisco
7 16 (4.34%) Brocade
8 15 (4.07%) Broadcom
8 15 (4.07%) CA
8 15 (4.07%) Dell
9 14 (3.79%) SolarWinds
10 12 (3.25%) Citrix
10 12 (3.25%) Palo Alto
11 9 (2.44%) Databricks
11 9 (2.44%) SAP
12 8 (2.17%) Informatica
13 7 (1.90%) RedPrairie
13 7 (1.90%) VMware
14 6 (1.63%) Alteryx
14 6 (1.63%) Salesforce