Python Contracts in the South West

Python
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 26 15 25
Rank change year-on-year -11 +10 -16
Contract jobs citing Python 193 295 259
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 5.90% 8.72% 7.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.09% 31.89% 23.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 186 170
10th Percentile £408 £386 £375
25th Percentile £513 £463 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £569 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.49% +8.33% +5.35%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £649
90th Percentile £700 £740 £732
England median daily rate £565 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -5.83% - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 53 27
10th Percentile £64.50 £50.25 £43.93
25th Percentile - £60.70 £49.51
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.61 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.70% +0.93% +58.54%
75th Percentile £74.44 £75.50 -
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.00 £65.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +18.18% +46.67%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 687 925 1,080
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 20.99% 27.33% 29.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 645 762
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +8.11%
75th Percentile £600 £610 £588
90th Percentile £700 £700 £653
England median daily rate £540 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 89 67
10th Percentile £52.50 £51.00 £46.90
25th Percentile £61.25 £59.80 £54.10
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile - £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.00 £65.75
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +19.32%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in the South West

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Python in the South West

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Python in the South West

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Python in the South West

Python
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Hourly rate histogram for Python in the South West

Python
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South 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
Bristol -5 71 £525 -4.55% 76
Gloucestershire -4 53 £600 - 48
Wiltshire -6 37 £700 +25.56% 13
Devon -16 11 £600 - 23
Dorset +10 9 £275 - 21
Somerset -21 5 £475 +3.26% 14
Python
England

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 34 (17.62%) Confluence
2 6 (3.11%) Apache
3 3 (1.55%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.52%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.52%) SAS
Applications
1 12 (6.22%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.52%) Simulink
2 1 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 61 (31.61%) AWS
2 35 (18.13%) Azure
3 25 (12.95%) GitHub
4 20 (10.36%) OpenShift
5 10 (5.18%) Power Platform
5 10 (5.18%) Serverless
6 9 (4.66%) GCP
7 8 (4.15%) Amazon S3
7 8 (4.15%) PaaS
8 7 (3.63%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (3.63%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (3.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (2.07%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.55%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (1.55%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (1.55%) Pulumi
12 2 (1.04%) Entra ID
12 2 (1.04%) IaaS
12 2 (1.04%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.18%) VPN
2 7 (3.63%) Network Security
3 6 (3.11%) AMQP
4 5 (2.59%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.55%) IPv4
5 3 (1.55%) OSPF
5 3 (1.55%) VLAN
6 2 (1.04%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (1.04%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (1.04%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.52%) 5G
7 1 (0.52%) DHCP
7 1 (0.52%) DNS
7 1 (0.52%) LTE
7 1 (0.52%) Radio Access Network
7 1 (0.52%) SSL
7 1 (0.52%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.18%) Power BI
2 9 (4.66%) Relational Database
3 8 (4.15%) Big Data
3 8 (4.15%) InfluxDB
4 7 (3.63%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (2.59%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (2.07%) Tableau
7 3 (1.55%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.55%) Hadoop
7 3 (1.55%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.04%) Data Mining
8 2 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.04%) Flink
8 2 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.52%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.52%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.52%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.52%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.52%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 68 (35.23%) Jenkins
2 57 (29.53%) JIRA
3 34 (17.62%) Bitbucket
4 21 (10.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 18 (9.33%) GoogleTest
6 9 (4.66%) Git
6 9 (4.66%) GitLab
7 5 (2.59%) Cypress.io
7 5 (2.59%) Selenium
8 3 (1.55%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.55%) Burp Suite
8 3 (1.55%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (1.04%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.04%) JUnit
9 2 (1.04%) Robot Framework
9 2 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.52%) JMeter
10 1 (0.52%) Visual Studio
General
1 39 (20.21%) Social Skills
2 33 (17.10%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (10.36%) Aerospace
4 10 (5.18%) Telecoms
5 8 (4.15%) Public Sector
6 3 (1.55%) Finance
6 3 (1.55%) Legal
6 3 (1.55%) Marketing
6 3 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.04%) Banking
7 2 (1.04%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.52%) Automotive
8 1 (0.52%) Aviation
8 1 (0.52%) Electronics
8 1 (0.52%) Games
8 1 (0.52%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 61 (31.61%) Developer
2 30 (15.54%) Software Engineer
3 29 (15.03%) DevOps Engineer
4 19 (9.84%) Software Developer
5 18 (9.33%) Java Engineer
6 16 (8.29%) Java Software Engineer
7 15 (7.77%) Data Engineer
8 14 (7.25%) Senior
9 11 (5.70%) Azure Engineer
9 11 (5.70%) Python Developer
10 10 (5.18%) Architect
10 10 (5.18%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 9 (4.66%) C++ Software Engineer
12 7 (3.63%) Full Stack Developer
12 7 (3.63%) Test Engineer
13 6 (3.11%) Cloud Engineer
13 6 (3.11%) Python Engineer
13 6 (3.11%) Senior Test Engineer
13 6 (3.11%) Site Engineer
13 6 (3.11%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (13.99%) .NET
2 23 (11.92%) .NET Core
3 20 (10.36%) Qt
3 20 (10.36%) React
4 18 (9.33%) HTML
5 11 (5.70%) REST
6 9 (4.66%) AngularJS
7 8 (4.15%) Flask
8 7 (3.63%) PySpark
8 7 (3.63%) Spring
8 7 (3.63%) XML
9 6 (3.11%) Apache NiFi
9 6 (3.11%) Django
9 6 (3.11%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (3.11%) ModSecurity
9 6 (3.11%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (3.11%) RESTful
10 5 (2.59%) .NET Framework
10 5 (2.59%) CSS
10 5 (2.59%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 27 (13.99%) Linux Command Line
2 20 (10.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 11 (5.70%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.63%) Security Posture
5 6 (3.11%) Public Cloud
5 6 (3.11%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.59%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.59%) Verilog
6 5 (2.59%) VHDL
7 4 (2.07%) PKI
7 4 (2.07%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (1.55%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.04%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.04%) Video Conferencing
10 1 (0.52%) CUDA
10 1 (0.52%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.52%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.52%) IoT
10 1 (0.52%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 80 (41.45%) Linux
2 17 (8.81%) Windows
3 3 (1.55%) Kali Linux
4 2 (1.04%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.52%) CentOS
5 1 (0.52%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (40.93%) CI/CD
2 73 (37.82%) DevOps
3 62 (32.12%) Agile
4 52 (26.94%) Software Engineering
5 40 (20.73%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (17.62%) Configuration Management
7 32 (16.58%) Task Automation
8 28 (14.51%) OO
8 28 (14.51%) OOP
9 27 (13.99%) Infrastructure Automation
10 24 (12.44%) Continuous Integration
11 23 (11.92%) Infrastructure as Code
12 21 (10.88%) Deployment Automation
13 19 (9.84%) Artificial Intelligence
14 17 (8.81%) Continuous Improvement
15 15 (7.77%) Software Architecture
16 14 (7.25%) Containerisation
16 14 (7.25%) Full Stack Development
17 13 (6.74%) Project Management
17 13 (6.74%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 63 (32.64%) Java
2 54 (27.98%) PowerShell
3 38 (19.69%) SQL
4 35 (18.13%) C++
4 35 (18.13%) JavaScript
5 27 (13.99%) C
6 20 (10.36%) Bash
6 20 (10.36%) C#
7 16 (8.29%) Go
8 8 (4.15%) Shell Script
9 6 (3.11%) Perl
10 5 (2.59%) TypeScript
11 4 (2.07%) Bicep
11 4 (2.07%) R
11 4 (2.07%) Ruby
12 2 (1.04%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.04%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.04%) Scala
13 1 (0.52%) Julia
Qualifications
1 106 (54.92%) Security Cleared
2 61 (31.61%) DV Cleared
3 47 (24.35%) SC Cleared
4 22 (11.40%) Degree
5 5 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.59%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.07%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.07%) OSCP
7 2 (1.04%) CCIE
7 2 (1.04%) CCNA
7 2 (1.04%) CCNP
7 2 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.04%) IBM Certification
7 2 (1.04%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.04%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.52%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.52%) GIAC
8 1 (0.52%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (10.36%) MISRA
2 10 (5.18%) QA
3 4 (2.07%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.07%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.52%) DO-178B
4 1 (0.52%) IEC 61508
4 1 (0.52%) JTAG
System Software
1 51 (26.42%) Docker
2 10 (5.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (5.18%) VMware NSX
3 6 (3.11%) vSphere
4 4 (2.07%) Active Directory
4 4 (2.07%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (2.07%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.55%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 59 (30.57%) Ansible
2 51 (26.42%) Terraform
3 43 (22.28%) Kubernetes
4 25 (12.95%) PowerCLI
5 18 (9.33%) Grafana
5 18 (9.33%) Prometheus
6 8 (4.15%) Progress Chef
7 7 (3.63%) Docker Swarm
8 6 (3.11%) OPNET
9 4 (2.07%) Kibana
9 4 (2.07%) Puppet
10 3 (1.55%) logstash
10 3 (1.55%) Rancher
11 2 (1.04%) Argo
11 2 (1.04%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 35 (18.13%) Atlassian
2 28 (14.51%) Google
3 20 (10.36%) Dell
3 20 (10.36%) HP
4 12 (6.22%) PayPal
5 11 (5.70%) VMware
6 10 (5.18%) Databricks
7 9 (4.66%) Microsoft
8 6 (3.11%) Cisco
8 6 (3.11%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.04%) Citrix
9 2 (1.04%) IBM
9 2 (1.04%) Informatica
9 2 (1.04%) Oracle
10 1 (0.52%) Cloudera
10 1 (0.52%) SAP
10 1 (0.52%) Splunk