Python Contract Job Trends in Bedford

Python
Bedfordshire > Bedford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedford requiring Python skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Python 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bedford 11.11% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 100.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Bedfordshire median daily rate £600 £550 £475
% change year-on-year +9.09% +15.79% +13.10%

All Programming Languages
Bedford

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 Bedford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 2 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedford 11.11% - 5.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Bedfordshire median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Python relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedford.

Python job vacancy trend in Bedford

Python
Daily Rate Trend in Bedford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedford citing Python.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedford citing Python

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedford by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure AI
1 1 (50.00%) Copilot Studio
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Copilot
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) NETCONF
2 1 (50.00%) PyTorch
2 1 (50.00%) RESTCONF
2 1 (50.00%) scikit-learn
2 1 (50.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (50.00%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) Web Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) Automated Trading
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Feature Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) LLM
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) MLOps
2 1 (50.00%) Prompt Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 1 (50.00%) Software Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCIE
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Foundry
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) OpenAI