Python Contracts in the North West

Python
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 23 16 33
Rank change year-on-year -7 +17 -6
Contract jobs citing Python 175 250 244
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 6.29% 8.30% 6.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 26.12% 29.07% 17.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 177 195
10th Percentile £376 £326 £385
25th Percentile £436 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £566 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.59% +2.83% +18.28%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £634
90th Percentile £649 £700 £688
England median daily rate £565 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -5.83% - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 3
10th Percentile - £39.10 £22.30
25th Percentile £66.25 £43.08 £23.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £47.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.11% +82.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.69 £27.25
90th Percentile - £60.14 £27.70
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +18.18% +46.67%

All Programming Languages
North West

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 West with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 670 860 1,418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 24.09% 28.54% 34.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 482 641 1,079
10th Percentile £325 £325 £315
25th Percentile £400 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £588
90th Percentile £614 £663 £675
England median daily rate £540 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 17 38
10th Percentile £37.63 £25.22 £14.25
25th Percentile £41.25 £37.75 £21.57
Median hourly rate £48.43 £46.18 £51.35
Median % change year-on-year +4.87% -10.07% +71.17%
75th Percentile £71.87 £56.40 £75.00
90th Percentile £79.90 £65.85 £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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in the North West

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Python in the North West

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Python in the North West

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Python in the North West

Python
Contract Job Locations in the North 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 North West 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
Manchester -1 108 £490 -14.78% 116
Cheshire -24 27 £510 -10.21% 21
Merseyside +5 16 £388 -18.42% 11
Cumbria -6 15 £515 +14.44% 5
Lancashire -3 7 £625 +19.05% 12
Python
England

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North 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 13 (7.43%) Apache Spark
2 9 (5.14%) Apache
3 8 (4.57%) Confluence
4 6 (3.43%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (3.43%) SAS
5 3 (1.71%) IIS
6 2 (1.14%) nginx
7 1 (0.57%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.57%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.57%) Traefik
Applications
1 25 (14.29%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.71%) Maximo
2 1 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 57 (32.57%) AWS
2 34 (19.43%) Azure
3 22 (12.57%) Serverless
4 20 (11.43%) Snowflake
5 19 (10.86%) Amazon EC2
6 18 (10.29%) Amazon S3
6 18 (10.29%) AWS Lambda
6 18 (10.29%) Power Platform
7 13 (7.43%) AWS CloudFormation
8 12 (6.86%) GCP
9 9 (5.14%) Power Automate
10 8 (4.57%) Amazon EMR
11 7 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (4.00%) Collibra
11 7 (4.00%) GitHub
11 7 (4.00%) Google Analytics
11 7 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (3.43%) Amazon ELB
12 6 (3.43%) Azure Data Factory
13 5 (2.86%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (8.57%) Firewall
2 13 (7.43%) Wi-Fi
3 12 (6.86%) BGP
3 12 (6.86%) Cisco ASA
3 12 (6.86%) Cisco Firepower
3 12 (6.86%) Cisco ISE
3 12 (6.86%) EIGRP
3 12 (6.86%) HSRP
3 12 (6.86%) IPsec
3 12 (6.86%) NetScaler
3 12 (6.86%) OSPF
3 12 (6.86%) SNMP
3 12 (6.86%) Spanning Tree
4 7 (4.00%) Network Security
5 6 (3.43%) DNS
6 5 (2.86%) FTP
7 4 (2.29%) HTTP
7 4 (2.29%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.14%) DHCP
8 2 (1.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.86%) Data Lake
2 17 (9.71%) Power BI
3 13 (7.43%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (6.86%) Amazon Redshift
5 11 (6.29%) SQL Server
6 10 (5.71%) Tableau
7 9 (5.14%) Big Data
8 8 (4.57%) MySQL
9 6 (3.43%) Ataccama
9 6 (3.43%) DynamoDB
9 6 (3.43%) Hadoop
9 6 (3.43%) Qlik Sense
10 5 (2.86%) BigQuery
10 5 (2.86%) Data Mining
10 5 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (2.29%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (2.29%) NoSQL
11 4 (2.29%) Star Schema
12 3 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (1.71%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 30 (17.14%) Git
2 17 (9.71%) GitLab
3 14 (8.00%) Jenkins
4 12 (6.86%) JIRA
5 7 (4.00%) SonarQube
6 6 (3.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (2.29%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.29%) Selenium
8 3 (1.71%) Burp Suite
9 2 (1.14%) Appium
9 2 (1.14%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.14%) ER Studio
9 2 (1.14%) PyCharm
9 2 (1.14%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (1.14%) TestComplete
10 1 (0.57%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.57%) JMeter
10 1 (0.57%) NeoLoad
10 1 (0.57%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 40 (22.86%) Social Skills
2 15 (8.57%) Finance
3 13 (7.43%) Pharmaceutical
4 12 (6.86%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.71%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.00%) Banking
7 5 (2.86%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.29%) Retail
9 3 (1.71%) Marketing
10 2 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (27.43%) Developer
2 28 (16.00%) Senior
3 25 (14.29%) Software Developer
4 23 (13.14%) DevOps Engineer
5 21 (12.00%) Analyst
6 18 (10.29%) Data Engineer
7 17 (9.71%) AWS DevOps
7 17 (9.71%) Data Analyst
8 16 (9.14%) Network Engineer
9 15 (8.57%) AWS Engineer
10 14 (8.00%) Python Developer
11 10 (5.71%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 9 (5.14%) Senior DevOps
12 9 (5.14%) Software Engineer
13 8 (4.57%) Lead
13 8 (4.57%) Senior Network Engineer
14 7 (4.00%) Senior Analyst
15 6 (3.43%) Data Quality Analyst
15 6 (3.43%) QA Analyst
15 6 (3.43%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (18.29%) HTML
2 12 (6.86%) Jinja
3 10 (5.71%) Django
4 9 (5.14%) JSON
5 8 (4.57%) XML
6 7 (4.00%) PySpark
7 6 (3.43%) .NET
7 6 (3.43%) AngularJS
7 6 (3.43%) CSS
7 6 (3.43%) React
7 6 (3.43%) REST
8 5 (2.86%) pytest
9 4 (2.29%) Kafka
9 4 (2.29%) RESTful
10 3 (1.71%) .NET Framework
10 3 (1.71%) Node.js
10 3 (1.71%) PyTorch
10 3 (1.71%) TensorFlow
10 3 (1.71%) XHTML
10 3 (1.71%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.57%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (3.43%) Onboarding
3 5 (2.86%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (2.29%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.29%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.71%) Cyber Defence
5 3 (1.71%) Low-Code
5 3 (1.71%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.14%) CMDB
6 2 (1.14%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.14%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.14%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.57%) Clustering
7 1 (0.57%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.57%) Device Driver
7 1 (0.57%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.57%) Life Science
7 1 (0.57%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.71%) Linux
2 4 (2.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.71%) Kali Linux
4 2 (1.14%) Alpine Linux
4 2 (1.14%) Android
4 2 (1.14%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.14%) Unix
4 2 (1.14%) Windows
5 1 (0.57%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (32.57%) DevOps
2 44 (25.14%) Software Engineering
3 39 (22.29%) CI/CD
4 33 (18.86%) Artificial Intelligence
5 29 (16.57%) Agile
5 29 (16.57%) Code Quality
6 27 (15.43%) Conversational UI
7 24 (13.71%) Infrastructure as Code
8 23 (13.14%) Containerisation
9 22 (12.57%) ETL
9 22 (12.57%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (10.86%) Data Modelling
11 17 (9.71%) Analytics
11 17 (9.71%) Data Pipeline
12 16 (9.14%) Business Intelligence
13 15 (8.57%) Visualisation
14 14 (8.00%) Change Management
14 14 (8.00%) ITIL
15 13 (7.43%) Data Engineering
16 12 (6.86%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 74 (42.29%) SQL
2 40 (22.86%) C#
3 38 (21.71%) JavaScript
4 25 (14.29%) Java
5 23 (13.14%) Bash
6 14 (8.00%) Perl
7 13 (7.43%) PowerShell
8 12 (6.86%) Go
8 12 (6.86%) Tcl
9 6 (3.43%) Scala
10 5 (2.86%) Ruby
10 5 (2.86%) Search Processing Language
10 5 (2.86%) Shell Script
11 4 (2.29%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.71%) C++
12 3 (1.71%) R
13 2 (1.14%) Delphi
13 2 (1.14%) VBScript
14 1 (0.57%) Fortran
14 1 (0.57%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 31 (17.71%) Security Cleared
2 30 (17.14%) Degree
3 28 (16.00%) SC Cleared
4 17 (9.71%) CCNA
4 17 (9.71%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (8.57%) CCNP
6 9 (5.14%) AWS Certification
7 8 (4.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.71%) CCIE
8 3 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.71%) OSCP
9 2 (1.14%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.14%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.57%) CISM
10 1 (0.57%) CISSP
10 1 (0.57%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.00%) Data Quality
1 14 (8.00%) QA
2 6 (3.43%) PCI DSS
3 4 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.71%) ISO 22301
4 3 (1.71%) NIST
5 2 (1.14%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.57%) GDPR
6 1 (0.57%) Good Clinical Practice
6 1 (0.57%) GxP
6 1 (0.57%) NCSC
System Software
1 24 (13.71%) Docker
2 13 (7.43%) Firmware
3 2 (1.14%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.57%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.57%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 39 (22.29%) Terraform
2 33 (18.86%) Ansible
3 31 (17.71%) Kubernetes
4 6 (3.43%) HP Fortify
5 3 (1.71%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.71%) ZABBIX
6 2 (1.14%) Grafana
6 2 (1.14%) Istio
6 2 (1.14%) Nagios
6 2 (1.14%) Podman
7 1 (0.57%) Consul
7 1 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.57%) Graphite
7 1 (0.57%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.57%) linkerd
7 1 (0.57%) Packer
7 1 (0.57%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.57%) Puppet
7 1 (0.57%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 25 (14.29%) PayPal
2 17 (9.71%) Cisco
3 16 (9.14%) Microsoft
4 14 (8.00%) SolarWinds
4 14 (8.00%) Splunk
5 12 (6.86%) Citrix
5 12 (6.86%) Palo Alto
6 9 (5.14%) SAP
7 8 (4.57%) Databricks
7 8 (4.57%) Google
8 6 (3.43%) Alteryx
8 6 (3.43%) Dataiku
8 6 (3.43%) Salesforce
8 6 (3.43%) Trillium
8 6 (3.43%) VMware
9 5 (2.86%) Informatica
9 5 (2.86%) Talend
10 4 (2.29%) Oracle
11 3 (1.71%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.71%) IBM