Python Contracts in the West Midlands

Python
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 36 56
Rank change year-on-year -6 +20 -9
Contract jobs citing Python 77 123 143
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.96% 5.47% 4.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.46% 22.32% 15.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 78 84
10th Percentile £271 £400 £402
25th Percentile £364 £489 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £523
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +5.26% +27.44%
75th Percentile £535 £700 £582
90th Percentile £558 £731 £643
England median daily rate £565 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -5.83% - +14.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 2
10th Percentile £36.15 - £56.51
25th Percentile £40.25 £51.25 £56.54
Median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £58.14
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -9.70% -
75th Percentile £72.50 £53.75 £59.82
90th Percentile £73.50 - £59.88
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% +45.70%

All Programming Languages
West 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 West Midlands with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 441 551 948
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 22.67% 24.50% 26.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 373 665
10th Percentile £260 £325 £325
25th Percentile £345 £410 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% +18.75%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £556
90th Percentile £638 £700 £638
England median daily rate £543 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% +2.36% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 8 3
10th Percentile £36.36 £21.73 £24.30
25th Percentile £47.75 £23.81 £36.38
Median hourly rate £57.50 £29.32 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +96.13% -49.45% +135.39%
75th Percentile £58.75 £64.69 £59.71
90th Percentile £72.50 £98.25 £59.84
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.75
% change year-on-year - +20.77% +17.61%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in the West Midlands

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Python in the West Midlands

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python in the West Midlands

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Python in the West Midlands

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Python in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Python in the West Midlands

Python
Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 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
Birmingham -6 42 £400 -37.38% 52
Warwickshire -14 14 £526 -6.49% 15
Worcestershire +10 6 £475 -9.52% 12
Coventry +6 6 £450 -14.29% 11
Staffordshire +13 4 £550 -21.43% 16
Wolverhampton - 1 - - 5
Python
England

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 3 (3.90%) Apache Spark
1 3 (3.90%) Confluence
2 2 (2.60%) Apache
2 2 (2.60%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.60%) CMS
2 2 (2.60%) Headless CMS
3 1 (1.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.30%) SAS
3 1 (1.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (15.58%) Chatbot
2 6 (7.79%) CANalyzer
2 6 (7.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.60%) Trello
4 1 (1.30%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 8 (10.39%) Odoo
2 3 (3.90%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (18.18%) Azure
2 13 (16.88%) Power Platform
3 12 (15.58%) AWS
4 5 (6.49%) Serverless
5 4 (5.19%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (5.19%) GCP
6 3 (3.90%) AWS Step Functions
6 3 (3.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.90%) dbt
7 2 (2.60%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (2.60%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (2.60%) Amazon MSK
7 2 (2.60%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.60%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.60%) Azure Functions
7 2 (2.60%) PowerApps
7 2 (2.60%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.30%) GitHub
8 1 (1.30%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.79%) Ethernet
1 6 (7.79%) FlexRay
2 1 (1.30%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (16.88%) Power BI
2 8 (10.39%) NoSQL
2 8 (10.39%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (5.19%) BusinessObjects
3 4 (5.19%) Tableau
4 3 (3.90%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (3.90%) MySQL
4 3 (3.90%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.60%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (2.60%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (2.60%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.60%) Hadoop
5 2 (2.60%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.60%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.60%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.30%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.30%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (1.30%) Flink
6 1 (1.30%) Impala
Development Applications
1 9 (11.69%) Git
2 6 (7.79%) CANoe
2 6 (7.79%) JIRA
3 5 (6.49%) GitLab
4 4 (5.19%) Bitbucket
5 3 (3.90%) Jenkins
6 2 (2.60%) Artifactory
6 2 (2.60%) Travis CI
6 2 (2.60%) webpack
7 1 (1.30%) Ant
7 1 (1.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.30%) Gradle
7 1 (1.30%) JUnit
7 1 (1.30%) Maven
7 1 (1.30%) TeamCity
General
1 19 (24.68%) Social Skills
2 11 (14.29%) Finance
3 9 (11.69%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (10.39%) Manufacturing
5 6 (7.79%) Automotive
5 6 (7.79%) Electronics
6 3 (3.90%) Aerospace
6 3 (3.90%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.60%) Retail
8 1 (1.30%) Banking
8 1 (1.30%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.30%) Marketing
8 1 (1.30%) Multimedia
8 1 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.30%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 27 (35.06%) Developer
2 16 (20.78%) Data Engineer
3 12 (15.58%) Software Developer
4 8 (10.39%) Analyst
5 7 (9.09%) Senior
6 6 (7.79%) Integration Manager
6 6 (7.79%) Python Developer
6 6 (7.79%) Software Manager
7 4 (5.19%) Data Analyst
7 4 (5.19%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.90%) Applications Support
8 3 (3.90%) Applications Support Analyst
8 3 (3.90%) Java Developer
8 3 (3.90%) Support Analyst
9 2 (2.60%) Consultant
9 2 (2.60%) Integration Engineer
9 2 (2.60%) Senior Analyst
9 2 (2.60%) Senior Data Analyst
9 2 (2.60%) Senior Software Engineer
9 2 (2.60%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (15.58%) HTML
2 5 (6.49%) RESTful
3 4 (5.19%) Flask
3 4 (5.19%) Pandas
3 4 (5.19%) REST
4 3 (3.90%) ADO
4 3 (3.90%) Hibernate
4 3 (3.90%) Kafka
4 3 (3.90%) Spring
5 2 (2.60%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (2.60%) Apache Sling
5 2 (2.60%) GraphQL
5 2 (2.60%) Next.js
5 2 (2.60%) OpenAPI
5 2 (2.60%) OSGi
5 2 (2.60%) PySpark
5 2 (2.60%) React
5 2 (2.60%) Swagger
6 1 (1.30%) Dask
6 1 (1.30%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.39%) Algorithms
2 6 (7.79%) Data Structures
2 6 (7.79%) Infotainment
3 2 (2.60%) Distributed Applications
3 2 (2.60%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.60%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.30%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.30%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.49%) Linux
2 4 (5.19%) Windows
3 1 (1.30%) Unix
3 1 (1.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (27.27%) Artificial Intelligence
2 17 (22.08%) Software Engineering
3 14 (18.18%) Code Quality
3 14 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (15.58%) Conversational UI
4 12 (15.58%) Data Modelling
5 11 (14.29%) CI/CD
6 10 (12.99%) Analytics
6 10 (12.99%) Computer Science
6 10 (12.99%) DevOps
7 9 (11.69%) ERP
8 8 (10.39%) Agile
8 8 (10.39%) Data Analysis
8 8 (10.39%) Visualisation
9 7 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
9 7 (9.09%) Data Science
10 6 (7.79%) Actionable Insight
10 6 (7.79%) Full Stack Development
10 6 (7.79%) Power Management
10 6 (7.79%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 38 (49.35%) SQL
2 20 (25.97%) JavaScript
3 13 (16.88%) C#
3 13 (16.88%) Java
4 6 (7.79%) VBA
5 4 (5.19%) PowerShell
6 3 (3.90%) C++
6 3 (3.90%) MATLAB
7 2 (2.60%) Bash
7 2 (2.60%) C
7 2 (2.60%) R
7 2 (2.60%) Scala
7 2 (2.60%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.30%) HiveQL
8 1 (1.30%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (28.57%) Degree
2 7 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.60%) DV Cleared
3 2 (2.60%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.30%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.90%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.60%) GDPR
4 1 (1.30%) ISO 26262
4 1 (1.30%) QA
System Software
1 4 (5.19%) Docker
2 1 (1.30%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.30%) HDFS
2 1 (1.30%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (11.69%) Kubernetes
2 7 (9.09%) Functional Safety
3 5 (6.49%) Terraform
4 3 (3.90%) Ansible
5 1 (1.30%) Argo
5 1 (1.30%) Istio
5 1 (1.30%) linkerd
5 1 (1.30%) SELinux
5 1 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.30%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 12 (15.58%) Microsoft
1 12 (15.58%) PayPal
2 3 (3.90%) Google
2 3 (3.90%) Oracle
2 3 (3.90%) Red Hat
3 2 (2.60%) Atlassian
3 2 (2.60%) Confluent
3 2 (2.60%) Databricks
3 2 (2.60%) NVIDIA
3 2 (2.60%) Sage
4 1 (1.30%) Anaplan
4 1 (1.30%) Citrix
4 1 (1.30%) Denodo
4 1 (1.30%) Informatica
4 1 (1.30%) New Relic
4 1 (1.30%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.30%) SAP
4 1 (1.30%) Splunk
4 1 (1.30%) Talend
4 1 (1.30%) Teradata