Python Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Python
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Python skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 13 43
Rank change year-on-year -4 +30 -21
Contract jobs citing Python 179 130 93
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 9.56% 11.27% 4.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 49.45% 38.01% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 75 65
10th Percentile £306 £377 £325
25th Percentile £393 £466 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £592 £623
90th Percentile £675 £638 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile £71.36 - -
25th Percentile £73.40 - -
Median hourly rate £82.00 - £67.50
75th Percentile £83.75 - £72.50
90th Percentile £85.10 - £75.50
South East median hourly rate £47.52 £56.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year -15.52% -13.46% +44.44%

All Programming Languages
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 362 342 372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 19.34% 29.66% 18.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 212 254
10th Percentile £310 £400 £330
25th Percentile £392 £450 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.83% -0.76% -
75th Percentile £585 £638 £619
90th Percentile £658 £699 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £500
% change year-on-year -0.10% +0.10% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 15
10th Percentile £72.72 £39.74 £56.20
25th Percentile £75.00 £53.97 £56.65
Median hourly rate £81.50 £63.75 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +27.85% +3.48% -12.00%
75th Percentile £82.25 £68.51 £64.55
90th Percentile £84.20 £73.72 £68.25
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £59.50
% change year-on-year -4.35% -3.36% +8.18%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Python job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Python
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Python

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Berkshire over the 6 months to 10 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Python in Berkshire

Python
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Python.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Python

Python
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 10 April 2026. 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
Reading -8 80 £513 -10.87% 36
Wokingham 0 76 £449 -0.33% 11
Windsor -6 12 £208 -58.50% 1
Bracknell -6 3 £450 -6.25%
Slough +7 1 - - 10
Python
South East

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.12%) Apache
1 2 (1.12%) ArcGIS
1 2 (1.12%) IBM HTTP Server
1 2 (1.12%) OpenStack
1 2 (1.12%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 2 (1.12%) WebSphere
1 2 (1.12%) WebSphere Application Server
1 2 (1.12%) WebSphere Portal
2 1 (0.56%) Confluence
2 1 (0.56%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (2.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (2.23%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (2.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (2.23%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.68%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 82 (45.81%) Azure
2 68 (37.99%) AWS
3 43 (24.02%) GCP
4 18 (10.06%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (8.94%) GitHub
6 15 (8.38%) OpenShift
7 11 (6.15%) Azure Monitor
7 11 (6.15%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (5.59%) Serverless
9 8 (4.47%) Power Platform
10 7 (3.91%) IaaS
11 6 (3.35%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (3.35%) Azure Functions
12 5 (2.79%) Amazon S3
12 5 (2.79%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (2.79%) Azure AKS
12 5 (2.79%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (2.79%) Azure Key Vault
12 5 (2.79%) Azure Sentinel
12 5 (2.79%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 15 (8.38%) Network Security
2 12 (6.70%) DNS
3 10 (5.59%) Firewall
3 10 (5.59%) TCP/IP
4 7 (3.91%) BGP
4 7 (3.91%) MPLS
4 7 (3.91%) WAN
5 5 (2.79%) SSL
6 4 (2.23%) DHCP
6 4 (2.23%) SNMP
6 4 (2.23%) TACACS
7 3 (1.68%) LAN
8 2 (1.12%) 2G
8 2 (1.12%) 5G
8 2 (1.12%) HTTP
8 2 (1.12%) LTE
8 2 (1.12%) Mobile Backhaul
8 2 (1.12%) VoIP
8 2 (1.12%) VPN
8 2 (1.12%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.06%) Relational Database
2 14 (7.82%) MySQL
3 9 (5.03%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (4.47%) NoSQL
4 8 (4.47%) Power BI
5 6 (3.35%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.79%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (2.79%) Tableau
7 4 (2.23%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.68%) Big Data
8 3 (1.68%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.68%) Parquet
8 3 (1.68%) SQL Server
9 2 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.12%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.56%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.56%) GIS
10 1 (0.56%) Redis
10 1 (0.56%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 18 (10.06%) Jenkins
2 15 (8.38%) Git
3 6 (3.35%) GitLab
4 3 (1.68%) JIRA
5 2 (1.12%) Burp Suite
5 2 (1.12%) Introscope
5 2 (1.12%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.56%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 90 (50.28%) Social Skills
2 42 (23.46%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (14.53%) Documentation Skills
4 15 (8.38%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.35%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.12%) Advertising
6 2 (1.12%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.12%) Billing
6 2 (1.12%) Legal
6 2 (1.12%) Retail
7 1 (0.56%) Finance
7 1 (0.56%) Marketing
7 1 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 29 (16.20%) Senior
2 28 (15.64%) SIEM Engineer
3 16 (8.94%) Developer
4 10 (5.59%) Analyst
4 10 (5.59%) Architect
4 10 (5.59%) DevOps Engineer
5 9 (5.03%) Azure Engineer
5 9 (5.03%) Technical Support
6 8 (4.47%) Data Engineer
6 8 (4.47%) Python Developer
6 8 (4.47%) Site Engineer
6 8 (4.47%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 7 (3.91%) Senior DevOps
7 7 (3.91%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 7 (3.91%) Tester
8 6 (3.35%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 6 (3.35%) SOC Analyst
9 5 (2.79%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (2.79%) IP Specialist
9 5 (2.79%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (14.53%) LDAP
2 16 (8.94%) REST
3 10 (5.59%) OAuth
4 9 (5.03%) .NET
4 9 (5.03%) GraphQL
5 7 (3.91%) Loki
6 6 (3.35%) .NET Core
6 6 (3.35%) Kafka
6 6 (3.35%) Middleware
6 6 (3.35%) NETCONF
6 6 (3.35%) React
6 6 (3.35%) YANG
7 5 (2.79%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (2.79%) FastAPI
7 5 (2.79%) Node.js
7 5 (2.79%) OAuth2
7 5 (2.79%) Pandas
7 5 (2.79%) RESTful
7 5 (2.79%) SAML
7 5 (2.79%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.06%) Onboarding
2 16 (8.94%) Cloud Native
3 13 (7.26%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (6.15%) Cyber Security Posture
5 9 (5.03%) Algorithms
6 8 (4.47%) Operational Technology
7 7 (3.91%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (3.91%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (3.35%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (2.79%) PKI
9 5 (2.79%) Security Operations Centre
10 4 (2.23%) Data Centre
10 4 (2.23%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (2.23%) Security Posture
10 4 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (2.23%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.68%) Clustering
11 3 (1.68%) Data Structures
11 3 (1.68%) Management Information System
12 2 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 42 (23.46%) Linux
2 26 (14.53%) Windows
3 11 (6.15%) Unix
4 8 (4.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.12%) Kali Linux
5 2 (1.12%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (1.12%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 1 (0.56%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.56%) VMS
6 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (45.25%) CI/CD
2 73 (40.78%) Problem-Solving
3 71 (39.66%) DevOps
4 67 (37.43%) SIEM
5 51 (28.49%) Cybersecurity
6 34 (18.99%) DevSecOps
7 25 (13.97%) Analytics
8 23 (12.85%) Containerisation
8 23 (12.85%) Data Analysis
8 23 (12.85%) Infrastructure as Code
9 22 (12.29%) Agile
9 22 (12.29%) Stakeholder Management
10 20 (11.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 19 (10.61%) Analytical Thinking
11 19 (10.61%) Observability
11 19 (10.61%) Threat Detection
12 18 (10.06%) AI
13 17 (9.50%) Task Automation
14 16 (8.94%) Machine Learning
14 16 (8.94%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 94 (52.51%) PowerShell
2 39 (21.79%) Bash
3 31 (17.32%) SQL
4 25 (13.97%) Java
5 23 (12.85%) JavaScript
5 23 (12.85%) Kusto Query Language
6 12 (6.70%) Perl
7 9 (5.03%) C#
8 8 (4.47%) Go
9 6 (3.35%) PHP
10 2 (1.12%) Bicep
10 2 (1.12%) Jython
10 2 (1.12%) R
10 2 (1.12%) Scala
11 1 (0.56%) C++
11 1 (0.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 86 (48.04%) Security Cleared
2 72 (40.22%) SC Cleared
3 42 (23.46%) CISSP
4 24 (13.41%) CISM
5 16 (8.94%) GIAC
6 15 (8.38%) CEH
7 12 (6.70%) Degree
8 11 (6.15%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (3.35%) AWS Certification
9 6 (3.35%) CCIE
9 6 (3.35%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (3.35%) JNCIE
10 5 (2.79%) GCFA
10 5 (2.79%) GCIA
10 5 (2.79%) GCIH
11 4 (2.23%) Azure Certification
11 4 (2.23%) CFCE
12 3 (1.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (1.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 2 (1.12%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (18.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 33 (18.44%) NIST
2 29 (16.20%) GDPR
3 6 (3.35%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.23%) QA
5 2 (1.12%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 33 (18.44%) Active Directory
2 23 (12.85%) Docker
3 12 (6.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (5.59%) vSphere
5 6 (3.35%) VMware NSX
6 4 (2.23%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 39 (21.79%) Kubernetes
2 25 (13.97%) Terraform
3 22 (12.29%) Ansible
4 13 (7.26%) Argo
4 13 (7.26%) Grafana
4 13 (7.26%) Kibana
4 13 (7.26%) Prometheus
5 7 (3.91%) Kustomize
6 6 (3.35%) vCenter Server
7 3 (1.68%) Nessus
7 3 (1.68%) OpenVAS
8 2 (1.12%) CA Wily
8 2 (1.12%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 2 (1.12%) Nmap
8 2 (1.12%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.56%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 27 (15.08%) Microsoft
2 26 (14.53%) BeyondTrust
2 26 (14.53%) CyberArk
3 15 (8.38%) Tanium
4 14 (7.82%) Red Hat
4 14 (7.82%) VMware
5 12 (6.70%) FireEye
5 12 (6.70%) Splunk
6 11 (6.15%) Oracle
7 9 (5.03%) Databricks
8 7 (3.91%) LogRhythm
9 6 (3.35%) AppDynamics
9 6 (3.35%) Pure Storage
10 5 (2.79%) ArcSight
10 5 (2.79%) F5
10 5 (2.79%) Juniper
11 4 (2.23%) Cisco
11 4 (2.23%) Dynatrace
11 4 (2.23%) Fortinet
12 3 (1.68%) Qualys