Python Contracts in the East Midlands

Python
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 28 61
Rank change year-on-year +7 +33 -10
Contract jobs citing Python 52 59 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 6.12% 5.92% 2.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.32% 19.22% 8.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 50 29
10th Percentile £356 £361 £362
25th Percentile £358 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - +25.00%
75th Percentile £575 £688 -
90th Percentile £628 £700 £678
England median daily rate £565 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -5.83% - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £21.73 £50.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -56.54% - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +18.18% +46.67%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 223 307 379
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 26.27% 30.82% 27.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 256 301
10th Percentile £279 £300 £313
25th Percentile £356 £360 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £441 £438
Median % change year-on-year -3.68% +0.86% +16.67%
75th Percentile £542 £538 £500
90th Percentile £600 £675 £566
England median daily rate £540 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 14
10th Percentile £14.15 £26.48 £17.30
25th Percentile £21.92 £40.37 £20.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.22% +46.43% +55.56%
75th Percentile £28.44 £58.75 -
90th Percentile £40.33 £70.00 -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +19.32%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in the East Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Python in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python in the East Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Python in the East Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the East 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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 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
Nottinghamshire -5 20 £550 -8.33% 22
Northamptonshire +6 16 £363 -9.38% 10
Leicestershire +10 10 £375 -15.73% 14
Derbyshire -4 2 £425 -10.53% 11
Lincolnshire - 1 - - 3
Python
England

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East 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 5 (9.62%) JBoss
2 4 (7.69%) Apache Spark
2 4 (7.69%) Confluence
3 2 (3.85%) SAS
4 1 (1.92%) Apache
Applications
1 12 (23.08%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 17 (32.69%) AWS
2 6 (11.54%) Azure
3 5 (9.62%) OpenShift
4 4 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (7.69%) Serverless
5 3 (5.77%) Entra ID
5 3 (5.77%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.92%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.92%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (1.92%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.77%) SAN
1 3 (5.77%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.92%) Firewall
2 1 (1.92%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.38%) Hadoop
2 5 (9.62%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (9.62%) Impala
2 5 (9.62%) RDBMS
2 5 (9.62%) Relational Database
3 3 (5.77%) Big Data
3 3 (5.77%) Power BI
3 3 (5.77%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.85%) Tableau
5 1 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.92%) Apache Hive
5 1 (1.92%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.92%) MySQL
5 1 (1.92%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.92%) Power Query
5 1 (1.92%) QlikView
5 1 (1.92%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 10 (19.23%) Jenkins
1 10 (19.23%) JIRA
2 7 (13.46%) Git
3 6 (11.54%) CA Release Automation
4 5 (9.62%) Bitbucket Server
4 5 (9.62%) SonarQube
4 5 (9.62%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (9.62%) TeamCity
5 4 (7.69%) JMeter
6 2 (3.85%) Bitbucket
6 2 (3.85%) Gradle
6 2 (3.85%) Maven
General
1 11 (21.15%) Finance
1 11 (21.15%) Social Skills
2 7 (13.46%) Banking
3 5 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.85%) Marketing
4 2 (3.85%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.85%) Retail
5 1 (1.92%) Back Office
5 1 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.92%) Police
5 1 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.92%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 20 (38.46%) Developer
2 13 (25.00%) Analyst
3 12 (23.08%) Software Developer
4 9 (17.31%) Data Analyst
5 7 (13.46%) Senior
6 5 (9.62%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (9.62%) Python Developer
6 5 (9.62%) Support Engineer
7 4 (7.69%) Consultant
8 3 (5.77%) Architect
8 3 (5.77%) IAM Consultant
8 3 (5.77%) Test Analyst
9 2 (3.85%) Data Engineer
9 2 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
9 2 (3.85%) Hadoop Developer
9 2 (3.85%) Marketing Data Analyst
9 2 (3.85%) Senior Developer
9 2 (3.85%) Senior DevOps
9 2 (3.85%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 2 (3.85%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (23.08%) HTML
2 7 (13.46%) LDAP
3 5 (9.62%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (9.62%) Spring Boot
4 3 (5.77%) OAuth
4 3 (5.77%) OpenID
4 3 (5.77%) SailPoint
4 3 (5.77%) SAML
4 3 (5.77%) Web Services
5 1 (1.92%) Anaconda
5 1 (1.92%) AWS CDK
5 1 (1.92%) Kafka
5 1 (1.92%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.62%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (3.85%) Virtual Team
3 1 (1.92%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.92%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.92%) Insider Threat
3 1 (1.92%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.92%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.92%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (21.15%) Linux
2 6 (11.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (9.62%) Windows
4 3 (5.77%) Debian
4 3 (5.77%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.92%) AIX
5 1 (1.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (36.54%) Code Quality
2 16 (30.77%) Software Engineering
3 13 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 12 (23.08%) Conversational UI
5 11 (21.15%) Business Intelligence
6 10 (19.23%) DevOps
7 9 (17.31%) Analytics
7 9 (17.31%) Migration
8 8 (15.38%) Agile
8 8 (15.38%) CI/CD
9 7 (13.46%) Logistic Regression
10 6 (11.54%) Data Analytics
10 6 (11.54%) Data Modelling
11 5 (9.62%) Build Automation
11 5 (9.62%) Continuous Integration
11 5 (9.62%) Data Engineering
11 5 (9.62%) Data Science
11 5 (9.62%) Decision Tree
11 5 (9.62%) Deployment Automation
11 5 (9.62%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 26 (50.00%) SQL
2 13 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 12 (23.08%) C#
4 9 (17.31%) R
5 6 (11.54%) Perl
6 5 (9.62%) Java
7 4 (7.69%) PowerShell
8 3 (5.77%) Bash
9 2 (3.85%) Groovy
9 2 (3.85%) Scala
10 1 (1.92%) C
10 1 (1.92%) C++
10 1 (1.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (1.92%) Rust
10 1 (1.92%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (1.92%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (30.77%) Degree
2 7 (13.46%) Security Cleared
3 6 (11.54%) SC Cleared
4 3 (5.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (5.77%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.92%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.92%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (1.92%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (17.31%) Active Directory
2 7 (13.46%) Docker
3 1 (1.92%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 7 (13.46%) Ansible
2 6 (11.54%) Progress Chef
3 5 (9.62%) Kibana
3 5 (9.62%) Kubernetes
4 3 (5.77%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (5.77%) Terraform
5 1 (1.92%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (1.92%) PowerBroker
Vendors
1 12 (23.08%) PayPal
2 8 (15.38%) Red Hat
3 7 (13.46%) Microsoft
4 6 (11.54%) Splunk
5 5 (9.62%) AppDynamics
6 3 (5.77%) Okta
6 3 (5.77%) VMware
7 2 (3.85%) Databricks
8 1 (1.92%) Alteryx
8 1 (1.92%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (1.92%) Google
8 1 (1.92%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.92%) Sage
8 1 (1.92%) SAP