Python Contracts in the East of England

Python
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 19 20
Rank change year-on-year -19 +1 +4
Contract jobs citing Python 88 153 218
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 4.55% 7.85% 8.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.31% 26.84% 28.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 103 146
10th Percentile £293 - £410
25th Percentile £405 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £556
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -10.11% +14.99%
75th Percentile £581 £661 £631
90th Percentile £650 £700 £711
England median daily rate £565 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -5.83% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 15
10th Percentile £26.20 - £46.25
25th Percentile £51.25 £47.50 £53.43
Median hourly rate £60.00 £52.50 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -6.25% +12.00%
75th Percentile £66.25 £71.88 -
90th Percentile £67.25 £73.75 £67.60
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% +41.03%

All Programming Languages
East 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 East of England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 413 570 763
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 21.34% 29.23% 29.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 339 455
10th Percentile £313 £315 £299
25th Percentile £400 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +4.40%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £599
90th Percentile £638 £700 £652
England median daily rate £543 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% +2.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 147 93 90
10th Percentile £52.50 £51.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £60.00 £53.75 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year - +16.07% +31.76%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £87.50 £68.95
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +20.00%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in the East of England

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Python in the East of England

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python in the East of England

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Python in the East of England

Python
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Python in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Python in the East of England

Python
Contract Job Locations in the East 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 East of England region over the 6 months to 1 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
Hertfordshire -4 36 £430 -36.39% 27
Cambridgeshire -20 36 £525 +10.53% 87
Essex -3 6 £275 -38.89% 18
Bedfordshire -3 6 £533 +9.23% 11
Suffolk +7 4 £638 -8.93% 6
Python
England

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East 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 9 (10.23%) Confluence
2 1 (1.14%) Apache
2 1 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.14%) CMS
2 1 (1.14%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (3.41%) InVision
1 3 (3.41%) Sketch
2 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.27%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 13 (14.77%) AWS
2 9 (10.23%) Azure
3 8 (9.09%) Power Platform
4 7 (7.95%) Collibra
5 5 (5.68%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (5.68%) GitHub
6 4 (4.55%) Serverless
7 3 (3.41%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (3.41%) dbt
7 3 (3.41%) Figma
7 3 (3.41%) GCP
8 2 (2.27%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.27%) BigCommerce
8 2 (2.27%) Snowflake
9 1 (1.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.14%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.14%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.14%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.14%) CloudFront
9 1 (1.14%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 12 (13.64%) Radio Access Network
2 8 (9.09%) 5G
3 7 (7.95%) Wireless
4 5 (5.68%) NAS
5 4 (4.55%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (4.55%) Firewall
5 4 (4.55%) Wireshark
6 3 (3.41%) 4G
6 3 (3.41%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (2.27%) BGP
7 2 (2.27%) LAN
7 2 (2.27%) OSPF
7 2 (2.27%) RS-485
7 2 (2.27%) SD-WAN
7 2 (2.27%) VPN
7 2 (2.27%) WAN
7 2 (2.27%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (1.14%) DVB
8 1 (1.14%) RTP
8 1 (1.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.09%) Power BI
2 6 (6.82%) Metadata
3 3 (3.41%) Big Data
3 3 (3.41%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (3.41%) Tableau
4 2 (2.27%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (2.27%) BigQuery
4 2 (2.27%) DynamoDB
4 2 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.27%) Looker
4 2 (2.27%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.27%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.14%) Ataccama
5 1 (1.14%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.14%) Data Vault
5 1 (1.14%) MySQL
5 1 (1.14%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (1.14%) Redis
5 1 (1.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (21.59%) Git
2 16 (18.18%) JIRA
3 7 (7.95%) Subversion
4 6 (6.82%) Eclipse
4 6 (6.82%) PyCharm
5 4 (4.55%) gcov
5 4 (4.55%) GDB
5 4 (4.55%) Gradle
5 4 (4.55%) Mercurial
6 3 (3.41%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (3.41%) Visual Studio
7 2 (2.27%) GitLab
7 2 (2.27%) Jenkins
7 2 (2.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (1.14%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.14%) CMake
8 1 (1.14%) Gerrit
8 1 (1.14%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 15 (17.05%) Social Skills
2 11 (12.50%) Multimedia
3 8 (9.09%) Electronics
3 8 (9.09%) Telecoms
4 7 (7.95%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.95%) Manufacturing
4 7 (7.95%) Pharmaceutical
5 6 (6.82%) Finance
5 6 (6.82%) Marketing
6 4 (4.55%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.55%) Urdu Language
6 4 (4.55%) Wearables
7 3 (3.41%) Retail
8 2 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.14%) Games
9 1 (1.14%) Local Government
9 1 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (25.00%) Developer
2 15 (17.05%) Software Engineer
3 14 (15.91%) Python Developer
4 11 (12.50%) Analyst
5 10 (11.36%) Architect
6 9 (10.23%) C++ Developer
7 8 (9.09%) Python Engineer
8 7 (7.95%) Data Engineer
9 6 (6.82%) Business Analyst
9 6 (6.82%) C++ Software Engineer
9 6 (6.82%) Data Analyst
9 6 (6.82%) Senior
10 5 (5.68%) Python Software Engineer
11 4 (4.55%) Data Product Analyst
11 4 (4.55%) Product Analyst
11 4 (4.55%) Product Business Analyst
11 4 (4.55%) RAN Engineer
11 4 (4.55%) RF Engineer
11 4 (4.55%) Technical Architect
11 4 (4.55%) Verification Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.23%) React
2 6 (6.82%) NumPy
3 5 (5.68%) Pandas
3 5 (5.68%) SciPy
4 4 (4.55%) .NET
4 4 (4.55%) JSON
4 4 (4.55%) YAML
5 3 (3.41%) Node.js
6 2 (2.27%) .NET Framework
6 2 (2.27%) GraphQL
6 2 (2.27%) GStreamer
6 2 (2.27%) HTML
6 2 (2.27%) Kafka
6 2 (2.27%) MFC
6 2 (2.27%) VML
6 2 (2.27%) WinForms
6 2 (2.27%) WPF
7 1 (1.14%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.14%) React Native
7 1 (1.14%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.95%) Data Structures
2 6 (6.82%) ASIC
2 6 (6.82%) FPGA
2 6 (6.82%) Verilog
3 5 (5.68%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.55%) Algorithms
4 4 (4.55%) Social Media
5 3 (3.41%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (3.41%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.27%) Augmented Reality
6 2 (2.27%) Smartphone
6 2 (2.27%) Virtual Reality
7 1 (1.14%) Digital TV
7 1 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.14%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.14%) MPEG
7 1 (1.14%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.14%) Robotics
7 1 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.14%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 20 (22.73%) Linux
2 9 (10.23%) Windows
3 6 (6.82%) Unix
4 4 (4.55%) Windows 10
5 2 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.27%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.14%) CentOS
6 1 (1.14%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (29.55%) Software Engineering
2 15 (17.05%) Computer Science
2 15 (17.05%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (15.91%) Artificial Intelligence
4 12 (13.64%) Machine Learning
5 11 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 11 (12.50%) DevOps
6 9 (10.23%) Agile
6 9 (10.23%) Workflow
7 8 (9.09%) Data Modelling
7 8 (9.09%) Test Automation
8 7 (7.95%) Data Governance
8 7 (7.95%) Data Pipeline
8 7 (7.95%) Data Science
9 6 (6.82%) Business Intelligence
9 6 (6.82%) Lean Six Sigma
9 6 (6.82%) Predictive Modelling
9 6 (6.82%) Six Sigma
9 6 (6.82%) Technical Architecture
10 5 (5.68%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 24 (27.27%) C++
2 15 (17.05%) Java
2 15 (17.05%) SQL
3 13 (14.77%) C#
3 13 (14.77%) JavaScript
4 11 (12.50%) C
5 9 (10.23%) Bash
5 9 (10.23%) R
6 6 (6.82%) Groovy
6 6 (6.82%) SystemVerilog
6 6 (6.82%) Tcl
7 5 (5.68%) Shell Script
8 4 (4.55%) TypeScript
9 3 (3.41%) Assembly Language
10 2 (2.27%) C++/CLI
10 2 (2.27%) PowerShell
10 2 (2.27%) Rust
11 1 (1.14%) PHP
11 1 (1.14%) Ruby
11 1 (1.14%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 17 (19.32%) Degree
2 11 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (5.68%) Master's Degree
4 4 (4.55%) AWS Certification
4 4 (4.55%) PhD
5 2 (2.27%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.27%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.14%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.14%) Linux+ Certification
6 1 (1.14%) LPIC
6 1 (1.14%) RHCE
6 1 (1.14%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.82%) GDPR
1 6 (6.82%) Good Clinical Practice
1 6 (6.82%) GxP
2 2 (2.27%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.27%) QA
3 1 (1.14%) JTAG
System Software
1 7 (7.95%) Docker
2 2 (2.27%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (2.27%) Firmware
2 2 (2.27%) LXC
3 1 (1.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (1.14%) KVM
3 1 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 8 (9.09%) Terraform
2 6 (6.82%) Ansible
2 6 (6.82%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.27%) Progress Chef
3 2 (2.27%) Proxmox
3 2 (2.27%) Puppet
4 1 (1.14%) Grafana
4 1 (1.14%) Kibana
4 1 (1.14%) logstash
4 1 (1.14%) Nagios
4 1 (1.14%) Rancher
Vendors
1 5 (5.68%) Cisco
1 5 (5.68%) Microsoft
1 5 (5.68%) SAP
2 4 (4.55%) Cadence
2 4 (4.55%) Klocwork
2 4 (4.55%) Palo Alto
2 4 (4.55%) Perforce
2 4 (4.55%) Splunk
3 3 (3.41%) Salesforce
3 3 (3.41%) Synopsys
3 3 (3.41%) Xilinx
4 2 (2.27%) Adobe
4 2 (2.27%) Alteryx
4 2 (2.27%) Apple
4 2 (2.27%) CheckPoint
4 2 (2.27%) F5
4 2 (2.27%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.27%) Sitecore
4 2 (2.27%) Sophos
4 2 (2.27%) Zscaler