Python Contracts in the North of England

Python
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 17 31
Rank change year-on-year -2 +14 -11
Contract jobs citing Python 385 407 426
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 7.95% 7.48% 5.99%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.95% 26.62% 19.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 280 323
10th Percentile £381 £398 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.61% +4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £625
90th Percentile £645 £726 £688
England median daily rate £567 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -5.50% - +13.53%
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 £54.25
% change year-on-year - +19.82% +44.67%

All Programming Languages
North 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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,244 1,529 2,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 25.68% 28.10% 31.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 855 1,113 1,688
10th Percentile £319 £351 £325
25th Percentile £403 £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 £588
90th Percentile £625 £699 £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% +19.12%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 +16 183 £506 -16.54% 76
North West -6 175 £500 -11.63% 177
North East +1 30 £625 -3.85% 31
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 29 (7.53%) Apache Spark
2 20 (5.19%) Apache
3 18 (4.68%) Confluence
4 15 (3.90%) 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
2 101 (26.23%) Azure
3 65 (16.88%) GCP
4 44 (11.43%) Amazon S3
5 41 (10.65%) Serverless
6 35 (9.09%) GitHub
7 27 (7.01%) Amazon EC2
8 26 (6.75%) Power Platform
9 25 (6.49%) Snowflake
10 24 (6.23%) Cloud Computing
11 19 (4.94%) AWS Lambda
12 15 (3.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 13 (3.38%) AWS CloudFormation
14 11 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 10 (2.60%) Amazon ELB
15 10 (2.60%) Azure Data Factory
15 10 (2.60%) Kong
16 9 (2.34%) Apigee
16 9 (2.34%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
16 9 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 28 (7.27%) 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%) Wireless
8 6 (1.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (8.83%) Data Lake
2 26 (6.75%) Amazon Redshift
3 25 (6.49%) Power BI
4 24 (6.23%) Big Data
5 22 (5.71%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (5.45%) BigQuery
7 20 (5.19%) Hadoop
8 17 (4.42%) Tableau
9 16 (4.16%) Amazon RDS
10 15 (3.90%) MySQL
10 15 (3.90%) NoSQL
10 15 (3.90%) SQL Server
11 14 (3.64%) MongoDB
11 14 (3.64%) Relational Database
12 13 (3.38%) Amazon Athena
13 11 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
14 10 (2.60%) Apache Cassandra
14 10 (2.60%) Elasticsearch
15 6 (1.56%) DynamoDB
15 6 (1.56%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 75 (19.48%) Git
2 65 (16.88%) Jenkins
3 36 (9.35%) GitLab
4 24 (6.23%) 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%) Selenium
9 6 (1.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 4 (1.04%) AppScan
10 4 (1.04%) Bitbucket
10 4 (1.04%) Burp Suite
10 4 (1.04%) Maven
11 3 (0.78%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.78%) gulp
11 3 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (0.52%) Appium
12 2 (0.52%) RStudio
12 2 (0.52%) TestComplete
General
1 72 (18.70%) Social Skills
2 40 (10.39%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (6.23%) Finance
3 24 (6.23%) Public Sector
4 13 (3.38%) Banking
4 13 (3.38%) Pharmaceutical
5 11 (2.86%) Retail
6 5 (1.30%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.04%) Legal
8 3 (0.78%) Health Technology
8 3 (0.78%) Marketing
9 2 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.26%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.26%) Front Office
10 1 (0.26%) Local Government
10 1 (0.26%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.26%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 131 (34.03%) Developer
2 61 (15.84%) Software Developer
3 46 (11.95%) DevOps Engineer
4 39 (10.13%) Python Developer
5 32 (8.31%) Senior
6 30 (7.79%) Analyst
7 26 (6.75%) Data Engineer
8 24 (6.23%) Lead
9 21 (5.45%) Architect
9 21 (5.45%) AWS DevOps
10 20 (5.19%) AWS Engineer
11 19 (4.94%) Data Analyst
12 17 (4.42%) Network Engineer
13 15 (3.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 13 (3.38%) Automation Engineer
15 11 (2.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 11 (2.86%) Software Engineer
16 10 (2.60%) Azure Engineer
16 10 (2.60%) Solutions Architect
16 10 (2.60%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (18.44%) HTML
2 24 (6.23%) JSON
3 23 (5.97%) Kafka
4 20 (5.19%) YAML
5 17 (4.42%) XML
6 14 (3.64%) RESTful
7 13 (3.38%) .NET
7 13 (3.38%) Elastic Stack
8 12 (3.12%) Django
8 12 (3.12%) FastAPI
8 12 (3.12%) Jinja
8 12 (3.12%) Node.js
8 12 (3.12%) PySpark
9 11 (2.86%) REST
10 10 (2.60%) OAuth
11 9 (2.34%) AngularJS
11 9 (2.34%) CSS
11 9 (2.34%) PyTorch
11 9 (2.34%) TensorFlow
12 8 (2.08%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
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%) Data Centre
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%) Cloud Native
6 5 (1.30%) CMDB
6 5 (1.30%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.04%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (0.78%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.52%) IoT
9 2 (0.52%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.52%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 45 (11.69%) Linux
2 14 (3.64%) Unix
3 10 (2.60%) Windows
4 9 (2.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.82%) zOS
6 5 (1.30%) Android
6 5 (1.30%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.30%) CentOS
7 2 (0.52%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (32.99%) DevOps
2 100 (25.97%) CI/CD
3 95 (24.68%) Software Engineering
4 82 (21.30%) Artificial Intelligence
5 73 (18.96%) Containerisation
6 70 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
7 69 (17.92%) Agile
8 65 (16.88%) Code Quality
9 64 (16.62%) Conversational UI
10 59 (15.32%) Infrastructure as Code
11 55 (14.29%) Data Modelling
12 42 (10.91%) ETL
13 37 (9.61%) Data Pipeline
14 36 (9.35%) Analytics
15 32 (8.31%) Data Engineering
16 28 (7.27%) Business Intelligence
16 28 (7.27%) Machine Learning
16 28 (7.27%) Stakeholder Management
17 27 (7.01%) Test Automation
17 27 (7.01%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 151 (39.22%) SQL
2 100 (25.97%) JavaScript
3 81 (21.04%) C#
4 64 (16.62%) Java
5 57 (14.81%) Bash
6 40 (10.39%) PowerShell
7 21 (5.45%) Go
8 15 (3.90%) Perl
9 13 (3.38%) Scala
10 12 (3.12%) Tcl
11 11 (2.86%) Shell Script
12 10 (2.60%) C++
13 9 (2.34%) Ruby
14 8 (2.08%) Groovy
15 7 (1.82%) JCL
15 7 (1.82%) REXX
16 5 (1.30%) R
16 5 (1.30%) Search Processing Language
17 4 (1.04%) ActionScript
17 4 (1.04%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 83 (21.56%) Degree
2 55 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 53 (13.77%) SC Cleared
4 17 (4.42%) CCNA
4 17 (4.42%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (3.90%) CCNP
6 14 (3.64%) AWS Certification
7 12 (3.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 8 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (1.82%) CEH
10 6 (1.56%) CREST Certified
10 6 (1.56%) GIAC
10 6 (1.56%) GPEN
10 6 (1.56%) OSCP
11 3 (0.78%) CCIE
11 3 (0.78%) HNC
11 3 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.52%) CISSP
12 2 (0.52%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.52%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (8.83%) QA
2 24 (6.23%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.34%) NIST
4 7 (1.82%) GDPR
5 6 (1.56%) HIPAA
6 4 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.78%) ISO 22301
7 3 (0.78%) PCI DSS
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 70 (18.18%) Docker
2 13 (3.38%) Firmware
3 8 (2.08%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.82%) NFS
4 7 (1.82%) Time Sharing Option
5 3 (0.78%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 3 (0.78%) HDFS
5 3 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
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 90 (23.38%) Kubernetes
2 77 (20.00%) Terraform
3 69 (17.92%) Ansible
4 22 (5.71%) Puppet
5 18 (4.68%) Grafana
6 17 (4.42%) Prometheus
7 14 (3.64%) Progress Chef
8 10 (2.60%) Docker Swarm
8 10 (2.60%) HP Fortify
9 9 (2.34%) Kibana
9 9 (2.34%) logstash
10 7 (1.82%) Tivoli Storage Manager
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 48 (12.47%) Splunk
3 41 (10.65%) Microsoft
4 34 (8.83%) Google
5 17 (4.42%) Cisco
6 14 (3.64%) SolarWinds
7 13 (3.38%) Databricks
8 12 (3.12%) Citrix
8 12 (3.12%) Palo Alto
9 10 (2.60%) IBM
10 9 (2.34%) SAP
11 8 (2.08%) Brocade
11 8 (2.08%) Informatica
12 7 (1.82%) Broadcom
12 7 (1.82%) CA
12 7 (1.82%) Dell
12 7 (1.82%) RedPrairie
12 7 (1.82%) VMware
13 6 (1.56%) Salesforce
13 6 (1.56%) Trillium