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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 16 35
Rank change year-on-year -6 +19 -10
Contract jobs citing Python 178 259 229
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 6.71% 8.37% 5.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.30% 28.75% 15.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 183 182
10th Percentile £393 £337 £396
25th Percentile £450 £450 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +22.22%
75th Percentile £550 £650 £638
90th Percentile £643 £688 £700
England median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 3
10th Percentile - £38.88 £22.30
25th Percentile £66.25 £41.54 £23.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £48.54 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.07% +86.67% -22.96%
75th Percentile £68.75 £55.55 £27.25
90th Percentile - £61.08 £27.70
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £53.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +21.50% +33.75%

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 652 901 1,432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 24.59% 29.11% 35.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 480 672 1,091
10th Percentile £325 £326 £315
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +23.46%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £588
90th Percentile £614 £650 £663
England median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 16 42
10th Percentile £39.25 £24.76 £14.25
25th Percentile £42.41 £37.78 £21.57
Median hourly rate £48.43 £44.05 £49.98
Median % change year-on-year +9.96% -11.87% +66.58%
75th Percentile £71.87 £56.68 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.45 £65.88 £77.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.64
% change year-on-year - +23.43% +19.14%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 -2 110 £475 -17.39% 137
Cheshire -18 27 £510 -8.93% 20
Merseyside +5 16 £388 -24.39% 11
Cumbria -7 16 £515 +14.44% 3
Lancashire +2 7 £600 +14.29% 17
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 (7.30%) Apache Spark
2 8 (4.49%) Apache
3 7 (3.93%) Confluence
4 6 (3.37%) SAS
5 5 (2.81%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (1.69%) IIS
7 2 (1.12%) nginx
7 2 (1.12%) Traefik
8 1 (0.56%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 25 (14.04%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.69%) Maximo
2 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 60 (33.71%) AWS
2 32 (17.98%) Azure
3 21 (11.80%) Serverless
4 20 (11.24%) Amazon EC2
5 19 (10.67%) Power Platform
5 19 (10.67%) Snowflake
6 17 (9.55%) Amazon S3
6 17 (9.55%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (7.87%) AWS CloudFormation
7 14 (7.87%) GCP
8 9 (5.06%) GitHub
8 9 (5.06%) Power Automate
9 8 (4.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (4.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 7 (3.93%) Amazon EMR
10 7 (3.93%) Collibra
10 7 (3.93%) Google Analytics
11 6 (3.37%) Amazon ELB
12 5 (2.81%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (2.81%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 15 (8.43%) Firewall
2 13 (7.30%) Wi-Fi
3 12 (6.74%) BGP
3 12 (6.74%) Cisco ASA
3 12 (6.74%) Cisco Firepower
3 12 (6.74%) Cisco ISE
3 12 (6.74%) EIGRP
3 12 (6.74%) HSRP
3 12 (6.74%) IPsec
3 12 (6.74%) NetScaler
3 12 (6.74%) OSPF
3 12 (6.74%) SNMP
3 12 (6.74%) Spanning Tree
4 8 (4.49%) Network Security
5 7 (3.93%) DNS
6 5 (2.81%) FTP
6 5 (2.81%) TCP/IP
7 4 (2.25%) HTTP
8 2 (1.12%) DHCP
8 2 (1.12%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.11%) Data Lake
1 18 (10.11%) Power BI
2 12 (6.74%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (6.18%) Amazon Redshift
3 11 (6.18%) SQL Server
4 10 (5.62%) Tableau
5 9 (5.06%) Big Data
6 8 (4.49%) MySQL
7 6 (3.37%) Ataccama
7 6 (3.37%) BigQuery
7 6 (3.37%) DynamoDB
7 6 (3.37%) Hadoop
7 6 (3.37%) Qlik Sense
8 5 (2.81%) Data Mining
8 5 (2.81%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (2.25%) NoSQL
10 3 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.69%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (1.69%) HBase
10 3 (1.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 30 (16.85%) Git
2 17 (9.55%) GitLab
3 15 (8.43%) Jenkins
4 11 (6.18%) JIRA
5 6 (3.37%) SonarQube
5 6 (3.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 5 (2.81%) Selenium
7 4 (2.25%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.69%) Burp Suite
9 2 (1.12%) Appium
9 2 (1.12%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.12%) ER Studio
9 2 (1.12%) PyCharm
9 2 (1.12%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (1.12%) TestComplete
9 2 (1.12%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.56%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.56%) JMeter
10 1 (0.56%) Liquibase
10 1 (0.56%) TeamCity
General
1 41 (23.03%) Social Skills
2 15 (8.43%) Finance
3 13 (7.30%) Pharmaceutical
4 12 (6.74%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.62%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.93%) Banking
7 5 (2.81%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.25%) Retail
9 3 (1.69%) Marketing
10 2 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (26.40%) Developer
2 29 (16.29%) Senior
3 25 (14.04%) Software Developer
4 23 (12.92%) DevOps Engineer
5 22 (12.36%) Analyst
6 18 (10.11%) AWS DevOps
6 18 (10.11%) Data Analyst
7 17 (9.55%) Data Engineer
8 16 (8.99%) Network Engineer
9 15 (8.43%) AWS Engineer
10 12 (6.74%) Python Developer
11 10 (5.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 10 (5.62%) Senior DevOps
12 9 (5.06%) Software Engineer
13 8 (4.49%) Senior Network Engineer
14 7 (3.93%) Senior Analyst
15 6 (3.37%) Data Quality Analyst
15 6 (3.37%) Python Engineer
15 6 (3.37%) QA Analyst
15 6 (3.37%) Quality Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (17.98%) HTML
2 12 (6.74%) Jinja
3 10 (5.62%) JSON
4 8 (4.49%) Django
4 8 (4.49%) XML
5 7 (3.93%) .NET
5 7 (3.93%) AngularJS
5 7 (3.93%) React
5 7 (3.93%) REST
6 6 (3.37%) CSS
7 5 (2.81%) PySpark
8 4 (2.25%) Kafka
8 4 (2.25%) Node.js
8 4 (2.25%) pytest
8 4 (2.25%) RESTful
8 4 (2.25%) YAML
9 3 (1.69%) .NET Framework
9 3 (1.69%) XHTML
10 2 (1.12%) jQuery
10 2 (1.12%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.49%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (3.37%) Onboarding
3 5 (2.81%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (2.25%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.69%) Cyber Defence
5 3 (1.69%) Low-Code
5 3 (1.69%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.12%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.12%) Clustering
6 2 (1.12%) CMDB
6 2 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.12%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.12%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.12%) PKI
7 1 (0.56%) Device Driver
7 1 (0.56%) Insider Threat
7 1 (0.56%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.18%) Linux
2 4 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.69%) Kali Linux
4 2 (1.12%) Alpine Linux
4 2 (1.12%) Android
4 2 (1.12%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.12%) CentOS
4 2 (1.12%) Unix
4 2 (1.12%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (32.02%) DevOps
2 43 (24.16%) Software Engineering
3 40 (22.47%) CI/CD
4 32 (17.98%) Agile
4 32 (17.98%) Artificial Intelligence
5 29 (16.29%) Code Quality
6 27 (15.17%) Conversational UI
7 25 (14.04%) Containerisation
8 24 (13.48%) Infrastructure as Code
9 23 (12.92%) Problem-Solving
10 21 (11.80%) ETL
11 17 (9.55%) Business Intelligence
11 17 (9.55%) Data Modelling
12 16 (8.99%) Analytics
12 16 (8.99%) Data Pipeline
13 15 (8.43%) Visualisation
14 14 (7.87%) Change Management
14 14 (7.87%) ITIL
15 12 (6.74%) Scrum
15 12 (6.74%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 73 (41.01%) SQL
2 42 (23.60%) C#
3 41 (23.03%) JavaScript
4 25 (14.04%) Bash
4 25 (14.04%) Java
5 14 (7.87%) Perl
6 13 (7.30%) Go
7 12 (6.74%) PowerShell
7 12 (6.74%) Tcl
8 6 (3.37%) Ruby
9 5 (2.81%) Scala
9 5 (2.81%) Search Processing Language
9 5 (2.81%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.25%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.69%) C++
11 3 (1.69%) R
12 2 (1.12%) Delphi
12 2 (1.12%) VBScript
13 1 (0.56%) C
13 1 (0.56%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 32 (17.98%) Security Cleared
2 30 (16.85%) Degree
3 29 (16.29%) SC Cleared
4 17 (9.55%) CCNA
4 17 (9.55%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (8.43%) CCNP
6 10 (5.62%) AWS Certification
7 9 (5.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.69%) CCIE
8 3 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.69%) OSCP
9 2 (1.12%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.12%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.56%) CISM
10 1 (0.56%) CISSP
10 1 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.87%) Data Quality
1 14 (7.87%) QA
2 6 (3.37%) PCI DSS
3 4 (2.25%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.69%) ISO 22301
4 3 (1.69%) NIST
5 2 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.12%) NCSC
6 1 (0.56%) GDPR
6 1 (0.56%) Good Clinical Practice
6 1 (0.56%) GxP
System Software
1 25 (14.04%) Docker
2 13 (7.30%) Firmware
3 3 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.12%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.56%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.56%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 41 (23.03%) Terraform
2 33 (18.54%) Ansible
3 31 (17.42%) Kubernetes
4 6 (3.37%) HP Fortify
5 4 (2.25%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.25%) ZABBIX
6 2 (1.12%) Consul
6 2 (1.12%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (1.12%) Grafana
6 2 (1.12%) Graphite
6 2 (1.12%) HAProxy
6 2 (1.12%) Istio
6 2 (1.12%) linkerd
6 2 (1.12%) Nagios
6 2 (1.12%) Packer
6 2 (1.12%) Podman
6 2 (1.12%) Puppet
7 1 (0.56%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.56%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 25 (14.04%) PayPal
2 17 (9.55%) Cisco
3 16 (8.99%) Microsoft
4 15 (8.43%) Splunk
5 14 (7.87%) SolarWinds
6 12 (6.74%) Citrix
6 12 (6.74%) Palo Alto
7 9 (5.06%) Google
7 9 (5.06%) SAP
8 7 (3.93%) Databricks
8 7 (3.93%) VMware
9 6 (3.37%) Alteryx
9 6 (3.37%) Dataiku
9 6 (3.37%) Salesforce
9 6 (3.37%) Trillium
10 5 (2.81%) Informatica
10 5 (2.81%) Talend
11 4 (2.25%) Oracle
12 3 (1.69%) Atlassian
12 3 (1.69%) IBM