Python Contracts in the South West

Python
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 15 25
Rank change year-on-year -10 +10 -15
Contract jobs citing Python 198 297 260
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 6.00% 8.77% 7.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.45% 32.00% 24.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 189 170
10th Percentile £410 £387 £375
25th Percentile £513 £463 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £563 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% +7.14% +5.38%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £649
90th Percentile £700 £738 £732
England median daily rate £567 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -5.50% - +13.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 53 27
10th Percentile £66.63 £50.25 £43.93
25th Percentile - £60.70 £49.51
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.61 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.70% +0.93% +58.54%
75th Percentile £74.44 £75.50 -
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.00 £65.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £54.25
% change year-on-year - +19.82% +44.67%

All Programming Languages
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 696 928 1,079
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 21.10% 27.39% 29.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 649 762
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +8.11%
75th Percentile £600 £609 £588
90th Percentile £700 £700 £653
England median daily rate £540 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 87 68
10th Percentile £52.50 £50.75 £46.93
25th Percentile £61.25 £58.57 £54.15
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile - £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.25 £78.00 £65.75
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +19.12%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Python in the South West

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Python in the South West

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in the South West over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python in the South West

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Python in the South West

Python
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Python in the South West over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Python in the South West

Python
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 12 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
Bristol -8 74 £525 -4.55% 84
Gloucestershire -2 55 £600 - 56
Wiltshire -13 37 £700 +29.63% 20
Devon -16 11 £600 - 22
Dorset +11 9 £275 - 20
Somerset -20 5 £475 +3.26% 16
Python
England

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 33 (16.67%) Confluence
2 7 (3.54%) Apache
3 3 (1.52%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.51%) Mendix
5 1 (0.51%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.51%) SAS
5 1 (0.51%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (6.06%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.51%) Simulink
2 1 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 61 (30.81%) AWS
2 37 (18.69%) Azure
3 29 (14.65%) GitHub
4 20 (10.10%) OpenShift
5 11 (5.56%) Power Platform
5 11 (5.56%) Serverless
6 9 (4.55%) GCP
7 8 (4.04%) Amazon S3
7 8 (4.04%) PaaS
8 7 (3.54%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (3.54%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (3.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (2.02%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (1.52%) Pulumi
12 2 (1.01%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (1.01%) Entra ID
12 2 (1.01%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.05%) VPN
2 7 (3.54%) Network Security
3 6 (3.03%) AMQP
4 5 (2.53%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.52%) IPv4
5 3 (1.52%) OSPF
5 3 (1.52%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (1.52%) VLAN
6 2 (1.01%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (1.01%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (1.01%) SSL
6 2 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.51%) 5G
7 1 (0.51%) DHCP
7 1 (0.51%) DNS
7 1 (0.51%) LTE
7 1 (0.51%) Radio Access Network
7 1 (0.51%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.56%) Power BI
2 9 (4.55%) Relational Database
3 8 (4.04%) Big Data
3 8 (4.04%) InfluxDB
4 7 (3.54%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (2.53%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (2.53%) Tableau
6 3 (1.52%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.52%) Hadoop
6 3 (1.52%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.01%) Data Mining
7 2 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.01%) Flink
7 2 (1.01%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.51%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.51%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.51%) CockroachDB
8 1 (0.51%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 71 (35.86%) Jenkins
2 60 (30.30%) JIRA
3 33 (16.67%) Bitbucket
4 22 (11.11%) GoogleTest
5 20 (10.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 10 (5.05%) GitLab
7 9 (4.55%) Git
8 5 (2.53%) Cypress.io
8 5 (2.53%) Selenium
9 3 (1.52%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.52%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.52%) Robot Framework
9 3 (1.52%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (1.01%) JUnit
10 2 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.51%) JMeter
11 1 (0.51%) Postman
11 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio
General
1 36 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 30 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (10.10%) Aerospace
4 10 (5.05%) Telecoms
5 9 (4.55%) Public Sector
6 3 (1.52%) Finance
6 3 (1.52%) Legal
6 3 (1.52%) Marketing
6 3 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.01%) Banking
7 2 (1.01%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.51%) Automotive
8 1 (0.51%) Aviation
8 1 (0.51%) Electronics
8 1 (0.51%) Games
8 1 (0.51%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 62 (31.31%) Developer
2 34 (17.17%) Software Engineer
3 31 (15.66%) DevOps Engineer
4 22 (11.11%) Java Engineer
5 20 (10.10%) Java Software Engineer
6 19 (9.60%) Software Developer
7 15 (7.58%) Data Engineer
7 15 (7.58%) Senior
8 11 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
8 11 (5.56%) C++ Software Engineer
8 11 (5.56%) Python Developer
9 10 (5.05%) Architect
9 10 (5.05%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 7 (3.54%) Full Stack Developer
10 7 (3.54%) Test Engineer
11 6 (3.03%) Cloud Engineer
11 6 (3.03%) Python Engineer
11 6 (3.03%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 6 (3.03%) Senior Test Engineer
11 6 (3.03%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (13.13%) .NET
2 24 (12.12%) Qt
3 22 (11.11%) .NET Core
4 20 (10.10%) React
5 18 (9.09%) HTML
6 12 (6.06%) REST
7 9 (4.55%) AngularJS
8 8 (4.04%) Flask
8 8 (4.04%) XML
9 7 (3.54%) Apache NiFi
9 7 (3.54%) PySpark
9 7 (3.54%) Spring
10 6 (3.03%) Django
10 6 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
10 6 (3.03%) ModSecurity
10 6 (3.03%) RabbitMQ
10 6 (3.03%) RESTful
11 5 (2.53%) .NET Framework
11 5 (2.53%) CSS
11 5 (2.53%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 31 (15.66%) Linux Command Line
2 24 (12.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 11 (5.56%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.54%) Security Posture
5 6 (3.03%) Public Cloud
5 6 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.53%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.53%) Verilog
6 5 (2.53%) VHDL
7 4 (2.02%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.02%) PKI
7 4 (2.02%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (1.01%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.01%) Video Conferencing
9 1 (0.51%) CUDA
9 1 (0.51%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.51%) IoT
9 1 (0.51%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.51%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.51%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 81 (40.91%) Linux
2 19 (9.60%) Windows
3 2 (1.01%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.51%) CentOS
4 1 (0.51%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.51%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (41.92%) CI/CD
2 79 (39.90%) DevOps
3 64 (32.32%) Agile
4 56 (28.28%) Software Engineering
5 40 (20.20%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (16.67%) Configuration Management
7 32 (16.16%) Task Automation
8 27 (13.64%) OO
8 27 (13.64%) OOP
9 26 (13.13%) Infrastructure Automation
10 23 (11.62%) Continuous Integration
11 21 (10.61%) Infrastructure as Code
12 20 (10.10%) Artificial Intelligence
12 20 (10.10%) Deployment Automation
13 15 (7.58%) Software Architecture
13 15 (7.58%) Test Automation
14 14 (7.07%) Containerisation
14 14 (7.07%) Continuous Improvement
14 14 (7.07%) Full Stack Development
15 13 (6.57%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 68 (34.34%) Java
2 56 (28.28%) PowerShell
3 39 (19.70%) C++
3 39 (19.70%) SQL
4 35 (17.68%) JavaScript
5 27 (13.64%) C
6 22 (11.11%) C#
7 21 (10.61%) Bash
8 16 (8.08%) Go
9 8 (4.04%) Shell Script
10 6 (3.03%) Perl
10 6 (3.03%) TypeScript
11 4 (2.02%) Bicep
11 4 (2.02%) R
11 4 (2.02%) Ruby
12 2 (1.01%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.01%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.01%) Scala
13 1 (0.51%) Julia
Qualifications
1 106 (53.54%) Security Cleared
2 64 (32.32%) DV Cleared
3 47 (23.74%) SC Cleared
4 23 (11.62%) Degree
5 5 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.53%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.02%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.01%) CCIE
7 2 (1.01%) CCNA
7 2 (1.01%) CCNP
7 2 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.01%) IBM Certification
7 2 (1.01%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.01%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.51%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.51%) GIAC
8 1 (0.51%) OSCP
8 1 (0.51%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (12.12%) MISRA
2 12 (6.06%) QA
3 4 (2.02%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.51%) DO-178B
4 1 (0.51%) IEC 61508
4 1 (0.51%) JTAG
4 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 52 (26.26%) Docker
2 11 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (5.05%) VMware NSX
4 7 (3.54%) vSphere
5 5 (2.53%) Active Directory
5 5 (2.53%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (2.02%) Hyper-V
6 4 (2.02%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 59 (29.80%) Ansible
2 50 (25.25%) Terraform
3 44 (22.22%) Kubernetes
4 24 (12.12%) PowerCLI
5 18 (9.09%) Grafana
5 18 (9.09%) Prometheus
6 8 (4.04%) Progress Chef
7 7 (3.54%) Docker Swarm
8 6 (3.03%) OPNET
9 4 (2.02%) Kibana
9 4 (2.02%) Puppet
10 3 (1.52%) logstash
10 3 (1.52%) Rancher
11 2 (1.01%) Argo
11 2 (1.01%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 34 (17.17%) Atlassian
2 32 (16.16%) Google
3 19 (9.60%) Dell
3 19 (9.60%) HP
4 12 (6.06%) PayPal
4 12 (6.06%) VMware
5 11 (5.56%) Microsoft
6 10 (5.05%) Databricks
7 7 (3.54%) Red Hat
8 6 (3.03%) Cisco
9 3 (1.52%) Citrix
10 2 (1.01%) IBM
10 2 (1.01%) Informatica
10 2 (1.01%) Oracle
11 1 (0.51%) Cloudera
11 1 (0.51%) OutSystems
11 1 (0.51%) SAP
11 1 (0.51%) Splunk
11 1 (0.51%) UiPath