Python Contracts in the North of England

Python
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North 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 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 19 16 30
Rank change year-on-year -3 +14 -9
Contract jobs citing Python 385 408 429
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 8.00% 7.48% 5.99%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.92% 26.48% 19.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 281 326
10th Percentile £381 £377 £400
25th Percentile £437 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +16.09%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £625
90th Percentile £648 £725 £688
England median daily rate £565 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -5.83% - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 7
10th Percentile - £35.80 £20.10
25th Percentile - £39.44 £22.86
Median hourly rate £20.77 £46.84 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.66% +80.15% +0.97%
75th Percentile £46.18 £53.84 £27.25
90th Percentile £59.72 £59.21 £30.37
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +18.18% +46.67%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,245 1,541 2,234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 25.87% 28.24% 31.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 859 1,124 1,699
10th Percentile £320 £354 £325
25th Percentile £401 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £587
90th Percentile £625 £694 £663
England median daily rate £540 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 25 49
10th Percentile £37.55 £28.26 £14.25
25th Percentile £42.41 £37.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £47.75 £47.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.53% +11.76% +63.46%
75th Percentile £68.75 £57.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £73.90 £65.90 £77.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +19.32%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in the North of England

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Python in the North of England

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python in the North of England

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Python in the North of England

Python
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Python in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Python in the North of England

Python
Contract Job Locations in the North 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 North of England 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
Yorkshire +15 182 £503 -17.11% 64
North West -7 175 £500 -11.59% 163
North East +5 31 £600 -7.69% 28
Python
England

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North 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 27 (7.01%) Apache Spark
2 19 (4.94%) Apache
3 18 (4.68%) Confluence
4 14 (3.64%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.56%) nginx
5 6 (1.56%) SAS
6 3 (0.78%) IIS
6 3 (0.78%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.52%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.26%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.26%) Drupal
8 1 (0.26%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.26%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.26%) Traefik
Applications
1 62 (16.10%) Chatbot
2 4 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.78%) Maximo
2 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 143 (37.14%) AWS
2 97 (25.19%) Azure
3 63 (16.36%) GCP
4 42 (10.91%) Amazon S3
5 41 (10.65%) Serverless
6 38 (9.87%) GitHub
7 27 (7.01%) Amazon EC2
8 26 (6.75%) Power Platform
8 26 (6.75%) Snowflake
9 23 (5.97%) Cloud Computing
10 19 (4.94%) AWS Lambda
11 15 (3.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 13 (3.38%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 10 (2.60%) Amazon ELB
14 10 (2.60%) Azure Data Factory
15 9 (2.34%) Apigee
15 9 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
15 9 (2.34%) Kong
15 9 (2.34%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 29 (7.53%) Firewall
2 16 (4.16%) DNS
3 13 (3.38%) HTTP
3 13 (3.38%) TCP/IP
3 13 (3.38%) Wi-Fi
4 12 (3.12%) BGP
4 12 (3.12%) Cisco ASA
4 12 (3.12%) Cisco Firepower
4 12 (3.12%) Cisco ISE
4 12 (3.12%) EIGRP
4 12 (3.12%) HSRP
4 12 (3.12%) IPsec
4 12 (3.12%) NetScaler
4 12 (3.12%) OSPF
4 12 (3.12%) SNMP
4 12 (3.12%) Spanning Tree
5 10 (2.60%) VPN
6 8 (2.08%) SSL
7 7 (1.82%) Network Security
7 7 (1.82%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (8.57%) Data Lake
2 25 (6.49%) Power BI
3 23 (5.97%) Amazon Redshift
4 22 (5.71%) Big Data
5 20 (5.19%) BigQuery
6 19 (4.94%) Data Warehouse
7 18 (4.68%) Hadoop
7 18 (4.68%) Tableau
8 16 (4.16%) Amazon RDS
9 15 (3.90%) MySQL
9 15 (3.90%) SQL Server
10 14 (3.64%) MongoDB
10 14 (3.64%) NoSQL
10 14 (3.64%) Relational Database
11 13 (3.38%) Amazon Athena
12 11 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
13 10 (2.60%) Apache Cassandra
13 10 (2.60%) Elasticsearch
14 6 (1.56%) DynamoDB
14 6 (1.56%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 74 (19.22%) Git
2 68 (17.66%) Jenkins
3 36 (9.35%) GitLab
4 23 (5.97%) JIRA
5 11 (2.86%) SonarQube
6 10 (2.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 9 (2.34%) CircleCI
7 9 (2.34%) Travis CI
8 7 (1.82%) Burp Suite
8 7 (1.82%) Selenium
9 6 (1.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 4 (1.04%) AppScan
10 4 (1.04%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.78%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.78%) gulp
11 3 (0.78%) Maven
11 3 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (0.52%) Appium
12 2 (0.52%) PyCharm
12 2 (0.52%) RStudio
General
1 78 (20.26%) Social Skills
2 40 (10.39%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (5.97%) Public Sector
4 22 (5.71%) Finance
5 13 (3.38%) Pharmaceutical
6 12 (3.12%) Banking
7 11 (2.86%) Retail
8 6 (1.56%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.04%) Legal
10 3 (0.78%) Health Technology
10 3 (0.78%) Marketing
11 2 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.26%) Local Government
12 1 (0.26%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 128 (33.25%) Developer
2 61 (15.84%) Software Developer
3 47 (12.21%) DevOps Engineer
4 37 (9.61%) Python Developer
5 31 (8.05%) Senior
6 30 (7.79%) Analyst
7 25 (6.49%) Data Engineer
7 25 (6.49%) Lead
8 22 (5.71%) AWS DevOps
9 20 (5.19%) Architect
9 20 (5.19%) AWS Engineer
10 19 (4.94%) Data Analyst
11 17 (4.42%) Network Engineer
12 15 (3.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 13 (3.38%) Automation Engineer
14 11 (2.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 11 (2.86%) Software Engineer
15 10 (2.60%) Azure Engineer
15 10 (2.60%) Solutions Architect
16 9 (2.34%) Storage Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (18.44%) HTML
2 24 (6.23%) YAML
3 23 (5.97%) JSON
4 21 (5.45%) Kafka
5 18 (4.68%) XML
6 14 (3.64%) RESTful
7 13 (3.38%) Elastic Stack
8 12 (3.12%) .NET
8 12 (3.12%) Jinja
9 11 (2.86%) FastAPI
9 11 (2.86%) Node.js
10 10 (2.60%) Django
10 10 (2.60%) PySpark
11 9 (2.34%) AngularJS
11 9 (2.34%) CSS
11 9 (2.34%) OAuth
11 9 (2.34%) PyTorch
11 9 (2.34%) REST
11 9 (2.34%) TensorFlow
12 8 (2.08%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 11 (2.86%) Data Centre
1 11 (2.86%) Mobile App
2 9 (2.34%) Data Structures
2 9 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (2.08%) Public Cloud
4 7 (1.82%) Replication
5 6 (1.56%) Management Information System
5 6 (1.56%) NHS
5 6 (1.56%) Onboarding
5 6 (1.56%) Operational Technology
5 6 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (1.30%) CMDB
6 5 (1.30%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.04%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.04%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (0.78%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (0.78%) IoT
8 3 (0.78%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.52%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 52 (13.51%) Linux
2 13 (3.38%) Unix
3 11 (2.86%) zOS
4 10 (2.60%) Windows
5 9 (2.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.30%) Android
6 5 (1.30%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.30%) CentOS
7 3 (0.78%) Kali Linux
8 2 (0.52%) Alpine Linux
8 2 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (32.99%) DevOps
2 98 (25.45%) CI/CD
3 93 (24.16%) Software Engineering
4 81 (21.04%) Artificial Intelligence
5 73 (18.96%) Agile
6 72 (18.70%) Containerisation
7 65 (16.88%) Code Quality
8 64 (16.62%) Conversational UI
9 63 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
10 59 (15.32%) Infrastructure as Code
11 53 (13.77%) Data Modelling
12 40 (10.39%) ETL
13 33 (8.57%) Analytics
13 33 (8.57%) Data Pipeline
14 32 (8.31%) Stakeholder Management
15 29 (7.53%) Data Engineering
16 27 (7.01%) Task Automation
16 27 (7.01%) Visualisation
17 26 (6.75%) Data Governance
17 26 (6.75%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 146 (37.92%) SQL
2 101 (26.23%) JavaScript
3 81 (21.04%) C#
4 61 (15.84%) Java
5 59 (15.32%) Bash
6 40 (10.39%) PowerShell
7 20 (5.19%) Go
8 15 (3.90%) Perl
9 12 (3.12%) Scala
9 12 (3.12%) Tcl
10 11 (2.86%) JCL
10 11 (2.86%) REXX
10 11 (2.86%) Shell Script
11 9 (2.34%) C++
11 9 (2.34%) Ruby
12 7 (1.82%) Groovy
13 5 (1.30%) R
13 5 (1.30%) Search Processing Language
14 4 (1.04%) ActionScript
14 4 (1.04%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 80 (20.78%) Degree
2 58 (15.06%) Security Cleared
3 55 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 17 (4.42%) CCNA
4 17 (4.42%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (3.90%) AWS Certification
5 15 (3.90%) CCNP
6 13 (3.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 9 (2.34%) OSCP
8 7 (1.82%) CEH
9 6 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (1.56%) CREST Certified
9 6 (1.56%) GIAC
9 6 (1.56%) GPEN
10 3 (0.78%) CCIE
10 3 (0.78%) HNC
10 3 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.52%) CISSP
11 2 (0.52%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.52%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (8.83%) QA
2 21 (5.45%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.34%) NIST
4 7 (1.82%) GDPR
5 6 (1.56%) HIPAA
5 6 (1.56%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.78%) ISO 22301
8 2 (0.52%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.26%) Good Clinical Practice
9 1 (0.26%) GRC
9 1 (0.26%) GxP
9 1 (0.26%) NCSC
System Software
1 69 (17.92%) Docker
2 13 (3.38%) Firmware
3 11 (2.86%) NFS
3 11 (2.86%) Time Sharing Option
4 8 (2.08%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.78%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 3 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.52%) HDFS
6 2 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.26%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.26%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 88 (22.86%) Kubernetes
2 82 (21.30%) Terraform
3 72 (18.70%) Ansible
4 22 (5.71%) Puppet
5 19 (4.94%) Grafana
6 17 (4.42%) Prometheus
7 14 (3.64%) Progress Chef
8 11 (2.86%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 10 (2.60%) Docker Swarm
9 10 (2.60%) HP Fortify
10 9 (2.34%) Kibana
10 9 (2.34%) logstash
11 5 (1.30%) Packer
12 4 (1.04%) Graylog
12 4 (1.04%) Nessus
12 4 (1.04%) Rancher
12 4 (1.04%) WebInspect
13 3 (0.78%) Istio
13 3 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (0.78%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 61 (15.84%) PayPal
2 47 (12.21%) Splunk
3 41 (10.65%) Microsoft
4 34 (8.83%) Google
5 17 (4.42%) Cisco
6 14 (3.64%) IBM
6 14 (3.64%) SolarWinds
7 12 (3.12%) Brocade
7 12 (3.12%) Citrix
7 12 (3.12%) Palo Alto
8 11 (2.86%) Broadcom
8 11 (2.86%) CA
8 11 (2.86%) Databricks
8 11 (2.86%) Dell
9 9 (2.34%) SAP
10 8 (2.08%) Informatica
11 7 (1.82%) RedPrairie
11 7 (1.82%) VMware
12 6 (1.56%) Alteryx
12 6 (1.56%) Salesforce