Python Contracts in Bedfordshire

Python
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire 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 7 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 22 19
Rank change year-on-year -5 -3 +16
Contract jobs citing Python 11 13 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 4.64% 6.22% 5.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.33% 43.33% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 7
10th Percentile £523 £509 £448
25th Percentile £556 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £559 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.38% +11.75% +19.05%
75th Percentile £606 £575 -
90th Percentile £618 £581 -
East of England median daily rate £501 £500 £489
% change year-on-year +0.25% +2.30% -11.14%

All Programming Languages
Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 60 30 45
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 25.32% 14.35% 29.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 17 30
10th Percentile £265 £363 £312
25th Percentile £456 £425 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile £600 £568 £561
90th Percentile £648 £576 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 0
10th Percentile £54.19 £62.20 -
25th Percentile £62.50 £62.50 -
Median hourly rate £85.00 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% - -
75th Percentile £88.00 £67.50 -
90th Percentile £88.90 £71.25 -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +16.07%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in Bedfordshire

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Python in Bedfordshire

Python
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 7 August 2025. 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
Luton -16 8 £600 +7.38% 14
Dunstable - 2 £600 -
Bedford - 1 - - 6
Python
East of England

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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:

Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) AWS
2 9 (81.82%) Amazon S3
2 9 (81.82%) AWS Lambda
2 9 (81.82%) Serverless
3 7 (63.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (63.64%) DynamoDB
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) GitLab
General
1 8 (72.73%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Marketing
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Architect
1 7 (63.64%) AWS Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Automation Architect
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Node.js
2 1 (9.09%) NETCONF
2 1 (9.09%) REST
2 1 (9.09%) RESTCONF
2 1 (9.09%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (9.09%) Marketing Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Natural Language Processing
1 7 (63.64%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (45.45%) Sentiment Analysis
3 2 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (18.18%) Conversational UI
3 2 (18.18%) Data Protection
3 2 (18.18%) Decision-Making
3 2 (18.18%) Generative AI
3 2 (18.18%) Natural Language Understanding
4 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
4 1 (9.09%) Conversational AI
4 1 (9.09%) CRM
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (9.09%) LLM
4 1 (9.09%) Project Delivery
4 1 (9.09%) Software Architecture
4 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (9.09%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) JavaScript
2 3 (27.27%) Java
3 1 (9.09%) PHP
3 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) CCIE
1 1 (9.09%) CCNP
1 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (9.09%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Ansible
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) mParticle
1 1 (9.09%) Salesforce
1 1 (9.09%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud