Python Contracts in South Wales

Python
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 18 34 18
Rank change year-on-year +16 -16 -11
Contract jobs citing Python 20 23 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 5.92% 4.81% 8.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.99% 21.70% 26.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 17 47
10th Percentile £383 £303 £374
25th Percentile £458 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +21.39%
75th Percentile £563 £613 £588
90th Percentile £574 £675 £628
Wales median daily rate £550 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +21.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 2
10th Percentile £15.51 £17.18 -
25th Percentile £16.89 £17.48 -
Median hourly rate £20.24 £18.82 £19.91
Median % change year-on-year +7.55% -5.50% -21.15%
75th Percentile £20.44 £19.81 -
90th Percentile £22.11 £19.91 -
Wales median hourly rate £20.24 £18.82 £19.91
% change year-on-year +7.55% -5.50% -21.92%

All Programming Languages
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 87 106 261
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 25.74% 22.18% 31.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 78 183
10th Percentile £338 £313 £402
25th Percentile £385 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.39% -2.38% +19.32%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £625
90th Percentile £570 £663 £675
Wales median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 4
10th Percentile £15.57 £17.18 £17.36
25th Percentile £17.96 £17.48 £19.00
Median hourly rate £20.24 £18.82 £19.91
Median % change year-on-year +7.55% -5.50% -20.36%
75th Percentile £22.11 £19.81 £21.18
90th Percentile £35.75 £19.91 £23.47
Wales median hourly rate £20.24 £18.82 £19.91
% change year-on-year +7.55% -5.50% -21.92%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in South Wales

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Python in South Wales

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in South Wales over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python in South Wales

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Python in South Wales

Python
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales 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
Cardiff +13 11 £550 -8.33% 24
Newport +2 8 £330 -30.53% 5
Gwent - 1 - - 6
Python
Wales

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 3 (15.00%) SAS
2 2 (10.00%) Apache
3 1 (5.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (15.00%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) Azure
2 4 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 4 (20.00%) Power Automate
2 4 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 4 (20.00%) Snowflake
3 3 (15.00%) GCP
3 3 (15.00%) GitHub
4 1 (5.00%) AWS
4 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.00%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) Power BI
1 4 (20.00%) Power Query
1 4 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 4 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (10.00%) Data Mining
3 1 (5.00%) BigQuery
3 1 (5.00%) MySQL
3 1 (5.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Git
2 2 (10.00%) GitLab
2 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.00%) AppScan
3 1 (5.00%) Burp Suite
3 1 (5.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (5.00%) Subversion
General
1 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Data Scientist
2 5 (25.00%) Developer
3 4 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 4 (20.00%) Power BI Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Data Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) GCP Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Data Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) GCP Data Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Junior
6 1 (5.00%) Junior Data Scientist
6 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Salesforce Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Site Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) PySpark
2 2 (10.00%) Apache Beam
2 2 (10.00%) Kafka
3 1 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (5.00%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (5.00%) REST
3 1 (5.00%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Credit Risk
1 3 (15.00%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (10.00%) Replication
3 1 (5.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
1 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Data Science
2 7 (35.00%) Statistics
3 6 (30.00%) Agile
3 6 (30.00%) Data Analysis
4 5 (25.00%) Analytics
4 5 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 5 (25.00%) Mathematics
4 5 (25.00%) Visualisation
5 4 (20.00%) Product Strategy
5 4 (20.00%) Statistical Modelling
6 3 (15.00%) Data Analytics
6 3 (15.00%) Open Source
6 3 (15.00%) Physics
6 3 (15.00%) Project Management
6 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (15.00%) Statistical Analysis
7 2 (10.00%) Agile Project Management
7 2 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (10.00%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) R
2 5 (25.00%) SQL
3 4 (20.00%) T-SQL
4 1 (5.00%) Apex Code
4 1 (5.00%) Bash
4 1 (5.00%) Java
4 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (25.00%) Degree
3 3 (15.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (15.00%) Master's Degree
3 3 (15.00%) PhD
4 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (5.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Ansible
1 1 (5.00%) Grafana
1 1 (5.00%) Graylog
1 1 (5.00%) HP Fortify
1 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.00%) Nagios
1 1 (5.00%) Nessus
1 1 (5.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (5.00%) Puppet
1 1 (5.00%) Terraform
1 1 (5.00%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Databricks
2 2 (10.00%) Google
3 1 (5.00%) Checkmarx
3 1 (5.00%) Confluent
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.00%) Splunk
3 1 (5.00%) Veracode