Python Contracts in the North West

Python
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Python skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Python over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 15 33
Rank change year-on-year -6 +18 -4
Contract jobs citing Python 175 249 242
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 6.27% 8.27% 6.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 26.04% 29.23% 17.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 176 193
10th Percentile £377 £332 £385
25th Percentile £438 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £566 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +2.87% +18.28%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £634
90th Percentile £631 £700 £688
England median daily rate £567 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -5.50% - +13.53%
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 £65.00 £65.00 £54.25
% change year-on-year - +19.82% +44.67%

All Programming Languages
North West

Python falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 672 852 1,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 24.07% 28.29% 34.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 483 634 1,067
10th Percentile £326 £325 £315
25th Percentile £400 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £588
90th Percentile £614 £663 £675
England median daily rate £540 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 17 38
10th Percentile £37.63 £25.22 £14.25
25th Percentile £41.25 £37.75 £21.57
Median hourly rate £48.43 £46.18 £51.35
Median % change year-on-year +4.87% -10.07% +71.17%
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% +19.12%

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 13 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 13 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 -3 107 £483 -16.09% 120
Cheshire -22 28 £510 -10.53% 22
Merseyside +7 16 £388 -18.42% 14
Cumbria -6 15 £515 +14.44% 4
Lancashire -4 7 £625 +19.05% 15
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 (7.43%) Apache Spark
2 9 (5.14%) Apache
3 8 (4.57%) Confluence
4 6 (3.43%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (3.43%) SAS
5 3 (1.71%) IIS
6 2 (1.14%) nginx
7 1 (0.57%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.57%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.57%) Traefik
Applications
1 25 (14.29%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.71%) Maximo
2 1 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 55 (31.43%) AWS
2 36 (20.57%) Azure
3 22 (12.57%) Serverless
4 20 (11.43%) Snowflake
5 19 (10.86%) Amazon EC2
5 19 (10.86%) Amazon S3
6 18 (10.29%) AWS Lambda
6 18 (10.29%) Power Platform
7 13 (7.43%) AWS CloudFormation
8 12 (6.86%) GCP
9 9 (5.14%) Power Automate
10 8 (4.57%) Amazon EMR
11 7 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (4.00%) Collibra
11 7 (4.00%) GitHub
11 7 (4.00%) Google Analytics
11 7 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (3.43%) Amazon ELB
12 6 (3.43%) Azure Data Factory
13 5 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 15 (8.57%) Firewall
2 13 (7.43%) Wi-Fi
3 12 (6.86%) BGP
3 12 (6.86%) Cisco ASA
3 12 (6.86%) Cisco Firepower
3 12 (6.86%) Cisco ISE
3 12 (6.86%) EIGRP
3 12 (6.86%) HSRP
3 12 (6.86%) IPsec
3 12 (6.86%) NetScaler
3 12 (6.86%) OSPF
3 12 (6.86%) SNMP
3 12 (6.86%) Spanning Tree
4 6 (3.43%) DNS
4 6 (3.43%) Network Security
5 5 (2.86%) FTP
6 4 (2.29%) HTTP
6 4 (2.29%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.14%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (1.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.86%) Data Lake
2 17 (9.71%) Power BI
3 14 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (7.43%) Amazon Redshift
5 11 (6.29%) SQL Server
6 10 (5.71%) Tableau
7 9 (5.14%) Big Data
8 8 (4.57%) MySQL
9 6 (3.43%) Ataccama
9 6 (3.43%) DynamoDB
9 6 (3.43%) Hadoop
9 6 (3.43%) Qlik Sense
10 5 (2.86%) BigQuery
10 5 (2.86%) Data Mining
10 5 (2.86%) NoSQL
10 5 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (2.29%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (2.29%) Star Schema
12 3 (1.71%) Delta Lake
12 3 (1.71%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 29 (16.57%) Git
2 17 (9.71%) GitLab
3 14 (8.00%) Jenkins
4 12 (6.86%) JIRA
5 7 (4.00%) SonarQube
6 6 (3.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (2.29%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.29%) Selenium
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
9 1 (0.57%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.57%) NeoLoad
9 1 (0.57%) RStudio
9 1 (0.57%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.57%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 37 (21.14%) Social Skills
2 16 (9.14%) Finance
3 13 (7.43%) Pharmaceutical
4 12 (6.86%) Public Sector
5 10 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.00%) Banking
7 5 (2.86%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.29%) Retail
9 3 (1.71%) Marketing
10 2 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.57%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 49 (28.00%) Developer
2 27 (15.43%) Senior
3 25 (14.29%) Software Developer
4 23 (13.14%) DevOps Engineer
5 21 (12.00%) Analyst
6 18 (10.29%) Data Engineer
7 17 (9.71%) Data Analyst
8 16 (9.14%) AWS DevOps
8 16 (9.14%) Network Engineer
9 15 (8.57%) AWS Engineer
9 15 (8.57%) Python Developer
10 10 (5.71%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 9 (5.14%) Software Engineer
12 8 (4.57%) Lead
12 8 (4.57%) Senior DevOps
12 8 (4.57%) Senior Network Engineer
13 7 (4.00%) Senior Analyst
14 6 (3.43%) Data Quality Analyst
14 6 (3.43%) QA Analyst
14 6 (3.43%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (18.29%) HTML
2 12 (6.86%) Django
2 12 (6.86%) Jinja
3 9 (5.14%) JSON
4 8 (4.57%) PySpark
4 8 (4.57%) XML
5 7 (4.00%) .NET
6 6 (3.43%) AngularJS
6 6 (3.43%) CSS
6 6 (3.43%) React
6 6 (3.43%) REST
7 5 (2.86%) pytest
8 4 (2.29%) Kafka
8 4 (2.29%) Node.js
8 4 (2.29%) RESTful
9 3 (1.71%) .NET Framework
9 3 (1.71%) PyTorch
9 3 (1.71%) TensorFlow
9 3 (1.71%) XHTML
9 3 (1.71%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.57%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (3.43%) Onboarding
3 5 (2.86%) Cloud Native
3 5 (2.86%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (2.29%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.71%) Low-Code
5 3 (1.71%) Public Cloud
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
7 1 (0.57%) Clustering
7 1 (0.57%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.57%) Device Driver
7 1 (0.57%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.57%) IoT
7 1 (0.57%) Life Science
7 1 (0.57%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.57%) Linux
2 4 (2.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.71%) Windows
4 2 (1.14%) Alpine Linux
4 2 (1.14%) Android
4 2 (1.14%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.14%) Unix
5 1 (0.57%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (32.57%) DevOps
2 45 (25.71%) Software Engineering
3 39 (22.29%) CI/CD
4 33 (18.86%) Artificial Intelligence
5 29 (16.57%) Code Quality
6 27 (15.43%) Agile
6 27 (15.43%) Conversational UI
7 24 (13.71%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (13.14%) ETL
8 23 (13.14%) Infrastructure as Code
9 22 (12.57%) Containerisation
10 19 (10.86%) Data Modelling
11 18 (10.29%) Analytics
11 18 (10.29%) Data Pipeline
12 17 (9.71%) Business Intelligence
13 15 (8.57%) Change Management
13 15 (8.57%) Visualisation
14 14 (8.00%) Data Engineering
14 14 (8.00%) ITIL
15 13 (7.43%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 76 (43.43%) SQL
2 40 (22.86%) C#
3 38 (21.71%) JavaScript
4 27 (15.43%) Java
5 22 (12.57%) Bash
6 14 (8.00%) Perl
6 14 (8.00%) PowerShell
7 13 (7.43%) Go
8 12 (6.86%) Tcl
9 6 (3.43%) Scala
10 5 (2.86%) Ruby
10 5 (2.86%) Search Processing Language
10 5 (2.86%) Shell Script
11 4 (2.29%) C++
11 4 (2.29%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.71%) R
13 2 (1.14%) Delphi
13 2 (1.14%) VBScript
14 1 (0.57%) C
14 1 (0.57%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 31 (17.71%) Degree
2 29 (16.57%) Security Cleared
3 27 (15.43%) SC Cleared
4 17 (9.71%) CCNA
4 17 (9.71%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (8.57%) CCNP
6 8 (4.57%) AWS Certification
7 7 (4.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.71%) CCIE
8 3 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
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 15 (8.57%) Data Quality
2 14 (8.00%) QA
3 4 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.71%) ISO 22301
4 3 (1.71%) NIST
4 3 (1.71%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.14%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.57%) GDPR
6 1 (0.57%) Good Clinical Practice
6 1 (0.57%) GxP
6 1 (0.57%) NCSC
System Software
1 23 (13.14%) Docker
2 13 (7.43%) Firmware
3 2 (1.14%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.57%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.57%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (20.00%) Terraform
2 33 (18.86%) Ansible
3 31 (17.71%) Kubernetes
4 6 (3.43%) HP Fortify
5 3 (1.71%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.71%) ZABBIX
6 2 (1.14%) Grafana
6 2 (1.14%) Istio
6 2 (1.14%) Nagios
6 2 (1.14%) Podman
7 1 (0.57%) Consul
7 1 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.57%) Graphite
7 1 (0.57%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.57%) linkerd
7 1 (0.57%) Packer
7 1 (0.57%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.57%) Puppet
7 1 (0.57%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 25 (14.29%) PayPal
2 17 (9.71%) Cisco
2 17 (9.71%) Microsoft
3 14 (8.00%) SolarWinds
3 14 (8.00%) Splunk
4 12 (6.86%) Citrix
4 12 (6.86%) Palo Alto
5 9 (5.14%) Databricks
5 9 (5.14%) SAP
6 8 (4.57%) Google
7 6 (3.43%) Alteryx
7 6 (3.43%) Dataiku
7 6 (3.43%) Salesforce
7 6 (3.43%) Trillium
7 6 (3.43%) VMware
8 5 (2.86%) Informatica
8 5 (2.86%) Talend
9 4 (2.29%) Oracle
10 3 (1.71%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.71%) IBM