Python Contracts in the East of England

Python
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring Python skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Python over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 17 18
Rank change year-on-year -23 +1 +7
Contract jobs citing Python 84 158 229
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 4.29% 8.12% 8.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.24% 27.05% 30.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 110 157
10th Percentile £304 - £410
25th Percentile £405 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £500 £556
Median % change year-on-year -11.00% -10.11% +14.10%
75th Percentile £575 £667 £631
90th Percentile £650 £700 £711
England median daily rate £567 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -5.50% - +13.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 12 14
10th Percentile £27.47 - £46.25
25th Percentile £51.25 £47.50 £52.14
Median hourly rate £58.75 £51.25 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.63% -8.48% +12.00%
75th Percentile £66.25 £66.25 -
90th Percentile £66.75 £73.38 £56.35
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £54.25
% change year-on-year - +19.82% +44.67%

All Programming Languages
East of England

Python falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 415 584 758
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 21.18% 29.99% 29.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 357 453
10th Percentile £313 £313 £298
25th Percentile £363 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +5.56%
75th Percentile £573 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £700 £669
England median daily rate £540 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 95 92
10th Percentile £52.50 £49.75 £35.00
25th Percentile £58.75 £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 £89.00 £70.55
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +19.12%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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
Cambridgeshire -18 39 £495 +4.21% 92
Hertfordshire -9 30 £425 -36.90% 29
Bedfordshire +1 6 £533 +6.50% 10
Essex -4 6 £275 -38.89% 15
Suffolk +6 3 £650 -7.14% 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 (10.71%) Confluence
2 1 (1.19%) Apache
2 1 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.19%) CMS
2 1 (1.19%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (3.57%) InVision
1 3 (3.57%) Sketch
2 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.38%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 11 (13.10%) AWS
2 8 (9.52%) Azure
2 8 (9.52%) Power Platform
3 7 (8.33%) Collibra
4 4 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (4.76%) GitHub
4 4 (4.76%) Serverless
5 3 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (3.57%) dbt
5 3 (3.57%) Figma
5 3 (3.57%) GCP
6 2 (2.38%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.38%) BigCommerce
6 2 (2.38%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.19%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.19%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.19%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.19%) CloudFront
7 1 (1.19%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 11 (13.10%) Radio Access Network
2 7 (8.33%) 5G
2 7 (8.33%) Wireless
3 5 (5.95%) NAS
4 4 (4.76%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (4.76%) Firewall
4 4 (4.76%) Wireshark
5 3 (3.57%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (3.57%) RS-485
6 2 (2.38%) 4G
6 2 (2.38%) BGP
6 2 (2.38%) LAN
6 2 (2.38%) OSPF
6 2 (2.38%) SD-WAN
6 2 (2.38%) VPN
6 2 (2.38%) WAN
6 2 (2.38%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (1.19%) Broadband
7 1 (1.19%) DVB
7 1 (1.19%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.52%) Power BI
2 6 (7.14%) Metadata
3 3 (3.57%) Big Data
3 3 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (3.57%) Tableau
4 2 (2.38%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (2.38%) BigQuery
4 2 (2.38%) DynamoDB
4 2 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.38%) Looker
4 2 (2.38%) MS Access
4 2 (2.38%) MySQL
4 2 (2.38%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.38%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.19%) Ataccama
5 1 (1.19%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.19%) Data Vault
5 1 (1.19%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (1.19%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (23.81%) Git
2 16 (19.05%) JIRA
3 7 (8.33%) Subversion
4 6 (7.14%) Eclipse
4 6 (7.14%) PyCharm
5 4 (4.76%) gcov
5 4 (4.76%) GDB
5 4 (4.76%) Gradle
5 4 (4.76%) Mercurial
6 3 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (3.57%) Visual Studio
7 2 (2.38%) Jenkins
7 2 (2.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (1.19%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.19%) CMake
8 1 (1.19%) Gerrit
8 1 (1.19%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 15 (17.86%) Social Skills
2 12 (14.29%) Multimedia
3 10 (11.90%) Electronics
4 9 (10.71%) Telecoms
5 8 (9.52%) Manufacturing
6 7 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (8.33%) Marketing
6 7 (8.33%) Pharmaceutical
7 6 (7.14%) Finance
8 5 (5.95%) Public Sector
8 5 (5.95%) Wearables
9 4 (4.76%) Urdu Language
10 3 (3.57%) Retail
11 2 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (1.19%) Games
12 1 (1.19%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 19 (22.62%) Developer
2 16 (19.05%) Software Engineer
3 12 (14.29%) Python Developer
4 11 (13.10%) Analyst
5 10 (11.90%) Architect
6 8 (9.52%) C++ Developer
6 8 (9.52%) Python Engineer
7 7 (8.33%) Data Engineer
8 6 (7.14%) Business Analyst
8 6 (7.14%) C++ Software Engineer
8 6 (7.14%) Data Analyst
8 6 (7.14%) Senior
9 5 (5.95%) Python Software Engineer
10 4 (4.76%) Data Product Analyst
10 4 (4.76%) Development Engineer
10 4 (4.76%) Product Analyst
10 4 (4.76%) RAN Engineer
10 4 (4.76%) RF Engineer
10 4 (4.76%) Senior Software Engineer
10 4 (4.76%) Verification Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.52%) React
2 6 (7.14%) NumPy
3 5 (5.95%) Pandas
3 5 (5.95%) SciPy
4 4 (4.76%) JSON
4 4 (4.76%) YAML
5 3 (3.57%) .NET
5 3 (3.57%) Node.js
6 2 (2.38%) GraphQL
6 2 (2.38%) GStreamer
6 2 (2.38%) HTML
6 2 (2.38%) Kafka
6 2 (2.38%) MFC
6 2 (2.38%) VML
6 2 (2.38%) WinForms
6 2 (2.38%) WPF
7 1 (1.19%) Django
7 1 (1.19%) OAuth
7 1 (1.19%) RESTful
7 1 (1.19%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.52%) Data Structures
2 7 (8.33%) FPGA
2 7 (8.33%) Verilog
3 6 (7.14%) ASIC
4 5 (5.95%) Product Ownership
5 4 (4.76%) Algorithms
5 4 (4.76%) Social Media
6 3 (3.57%) Augmented Reality
6 3 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (3.57%) Smartphone
6 3 (3.57%) Virtual Reality
7 1 (1.19%) Digital TV
7 1 (1.19%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.19%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.19%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.19%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.19%) Robotics
7 1 (1.19%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (1.19%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 20 (23.81%) Linux
2 9 (10.71%) Windows
3 6 (7.14%) Unix
4 4 (4.76%) Windows 10
5 2 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.38%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.19%) CentOS
6 1 (1.19%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (32.14%) Software Engineering
2 16 (19.05%) Computer Science
3 15 (17.86%) Artificial Intelligence
4 14 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (15.48%) Machine Learning
6 10 (11.90%) CI/CD
7 9 (10.71%) Test Automation
7 9 (10.71%) Workflow
8 8 (9.52%) Data Modelling
8 8 (9.52%) DevOps
9 7 (8.33%) Agile
9 7 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
9 7 (8.33%) Data Governance
9 7 (8.33%) Data Pipeline
9 7 (8.33%) Data Science
10 6 (7.14%) Lean Six Sigma
10 6 (7.14%) Predictive Modelling
10 6 (7.14%) Six Sigma
10 6 (7.14%) Validation
11 5 (5.95%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 23 (27.38%) C++
2 15 (17.86%) Java
2 15 (17.86%) SQL
3 13 (15.48%) C#
3 13 (15.48%) JavaScript
4 11 (13.10%) C
5 10 (11.90%) Bash
6 8 (9.52%) R
7 7 (8.33%) SystemVerilog
7 7 (8.33%) Tcl
8 6 (7.14%) Groovy
9 5 (5.95%) Shell Script
10 4 (4.76%) TypeScript
11 3 (3.57%) Assembly Language
11 3 (3.57%) Rust
12 2 (2.38%) C++/CLI
12 2 (2.38%) PowerShell
13 1 (1.19%) MATLAB
13 1 (1.19%) Ruby
13 1 (1.19%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 18 (21.43%) Degree
2 11 (13.10%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (7.14%) Master's Degree
3 6 (7.14%) PhD
4 4 (4.76%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.38%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.38%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.19%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.19%) Linux+ Certification
6 1 (1.19%) LPIC
6 1 (1.19%) RHCE
6 1 (1.19%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.14%) GDPR
1 6 (7.14%) Good Clinical Practice
1 6 (7.14%) GxP
2 2 (2.38%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.38%) JTAG
2 2 (2.38%) QA
System Software
1 5 (5.95%) Docker
2 3 (3.57%) Embedded Firmware
2 3 (3.57%) Firmware
3 1 (1.19%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (1.19%) KVM
3 1 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.19%) Xen
Systems Management
1 6 (7.14%) Kubernetes
1 6 (7.14%) Terraform
2 4 (4.76%) Ansible
3 2 (2.38%) Progress Chef
3 2 (2.38%) Puppet
4 1 (1.19%) Grafana
4 1 (1.19%) Kibana
4 1 (1.19%) logstash
4 1 (1.19%) Nagios
4 1 (1.19%) Rancher
Vendors
1 6 (7.14%) SAP
2 5 (5.95%) Cisco
2 5 (5.95%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.76%) Cadence
3 4 (4.76%) Klocwork
3 4 (4.76%) Palo Alto
3 4 (4.76%) Perforce
3 4 (4.76%) Splunk
4 3 (3.57%) Salesforce
4 3 (3.57%) Synopsys
4 3 (3.57%) Xilinx
5 2 (2.38%) Adobe
5 2 (2.38%) Alteryx
5 2 (2.38%) Apple
5 2 (2.38%) CheckPoint
5 2 (2.38%) F5
5 2 (2.38%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.38%) Siemens
5 2 (2.38%) Sophos
5 2 (2.38%) Zscaler