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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 13 23
Rank change year-on-year -5 +10 -1
Contract jobs citing Python 174 142 133
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 9.61% 11.61% 8.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 56.86% 46.10% 35.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 88 79
10th Percentile £349 £398 £363
25th Percentile £450 £436 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £585
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -14.53% +6.36%
75th Percentile £600 £573 £638
90th Percentile £650 £600 £650
South East median daily rate £550 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +9.90% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 0 1
10th Percentile £39.91 - -
25th Percentile £62.18 - £27.75
Median hourly rate £71.00 - £28.50
75th Percentile £83.72 - £29.25
90th Percentile £86.08 - -
South East median hourly rate £67.47 £57.50 £29.00
% change year-on-year +17.34% +98.28% -56.23%

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 306 308 375
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 16.90% 25.18% 22.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 194 237
10th Percentile £338 £363 £384
25th Percentile £440 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £582
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -14.09% +5.82%
75th Percentile £600 £556 £638
90th Percentile £675 £620 £663
South East median daily rate £525 £490 £513
% change year-on-year +7.14% -4.39% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 1 9
10th Percentile £39.91 - £50.25
25th Percentile £61.74 £18.75 £55.87
Median hourly rate £71.00 £19.50 £58.49
Median % change year-on-year +264.10% -66.66% +12.17%
75th Percentile £83.46 £20.25 £69.69
90th Percentile £85.23 - £77.39
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 £67.02
% change year-on-year +9.09% -17.93% +20.69%

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 9 October 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Python in Berkshire over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Python in Berkshire

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 9 October 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 -17 86 £600 +10.60% 63
Wokingham +4 64 £500 +12.36% 9
Slough +1 6 £500 -9.09% 64
Bracknell 0 3 - - 21
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 14 (8.05%) OpenStack
2 7 (4.02%) Confluence
3 4 (2.30%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.72%) Apache
4 3 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.15%) Apache Superset
5 2 (1.15%) JBoss
5 2 (1.15%) WebSphere
5 2 (1.15%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.57%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 6 (3.45%) CPLEX
2 5 (2.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.15%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.57%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 100 (57.47%) Azure
2 52 (29.89%) AWS
3 30 (17.24%) GCP
4 24 (13.79%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (12.64%) OpenShift
6 15 (8.62%) Entra ID
7 12 (6.90%) Azure Monitor
8 10 (5.75%) Azure AKS
8 10 (5.75%) Azure App Service
8 10 (5.75%) Azure Key Vault
8 10 (5.75%) Power Platform
9 9 (5.17%) GitHub
9 9 (5.17%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (4.60%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (4.02%) Azure Machine Learning
12 6 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (3.45%) Azure Storage
12 6 (3.45%) IaaS
12 6 (3.45%) Route 53
13 5 (2.87%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 16 (9.20%) DNS
2 15 (8.62%) TCP/IP
3 14 (8.05%) BGP
3 14 (8.05%) Firewall
4 11 (6.32%) DHCP
5 9 (5.17%) Network Security
5 9 (5.17%) WAN
6 8 (4.60%) MPLS
6 8 (4.60%) VPN
7 7 (4.02%) LAN
7 7 (4.02%) Radio Access Network
8 6 (3.45%) 5G
8 6 (3.45%) Diameter Protocol
8 6 (3.45%) DNSSEC
8 6 (3.45%) LTE
8 6 (3.45%) VoLTE
8 6 (3.45%) VoWiFi
8 6 (3.45%) VXLAN
8 6 (3.45%) Wireshark
9 4 (2.30%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (9.77%) NoSQL
2 10 (5.75%) Power BI
3 9 (5.17%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (4.02%) MongoDB
4 7 (4.02%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (3.45%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.30%) Parquet
7 3 (1.72%) Big Data
7 3 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.72%) GIS
7 3 (1.72%) Hadoop
7 3 (1.72%) Spark SQL
8 2 (1.15%) Metadata
8 2 (1.15%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.15%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.15%) Tableau
9 1 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.57%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.57%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (0.57%) Redis
Development Applications
1 21 (12.07%) Git
2 14 (8.05%) Jenkins
3 7 (4.02%) GitLab
3 7 (4.02%) JIRA
4 2 (1.15%) JMeter
5 1 (0.57%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.57%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.57%) NeoLoad
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle Developer 2000
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.57%) Selenium
General
1 64 (36.78%) Social Skills
2 51 (29.31%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (13.79%) Aerospace
4 12 (6.90%) Documentation Skills
5 9 (5.17%) Telecoms
6 5 (2.87%) Finance
7 3 (1.72%) Military
7 3 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.15%) Banking
8 2 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.15%) Marketing
8 2 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.15%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.57%) Advertising
9 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (15.52%) Developer
2 22 (12.64%) Senior
3 18 (10.34%) Architect
3 18 (10.34%) Data Engineer
4 14 (8.05%) Full-Stack Developer
4 14 (8.05%) Python Developer
5 12 (6.90%) Data Scientist
6 10 (5.75%) Network Architect
6 10 (5.75%) Systems Engineer
7 8 (4.60%) Lead
7 8 (4.60%) React Developer
8 7 (4.02%) Analyst
8 7 (4.02%) Consultant
8 7 (4.02%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (3.45%) .NET Developer
9 6 (3.45%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 6 (3.45%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
10 5 (2.87%) Full-Stack Python Developer
10 5 (2.87%) Network Consultant
10 5 (2.87%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (23.56%) Terraform
2 24 (13.79%) REST
3 14 (8.05%) PySpark
3 14 (8.05%) RESTful
4 12 (6.90%) .NET
4 12 (6.90%) ARM Templates
5 11 (6.32%) .NET Core
5 11 (6.32%) FastAPI
5 11 (6.32%) React
6 10 (5.75%) NETCONF
7 8 (4.60%) .NET Framework
7 8 (4.60%) Entity Framework
7 8 (4.60%) OAuth
7 8 (4.60%) SAML
7 8 (4.60%) YANG
8 7 (4.02%) Kafka
8 7 (4.02%) LDAP
8 7 (4.02%) OpenID
9 6 (3.45%) NumPy
9 6 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 24 (13.79%) Hybrid Cloud
2 22 (12.64%) Cloud Native
3 11 (6.32%) Algorithms
4 9 (5.17%) Data Structures
5 8 (4.60%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (4.02%) Product Ownership
6 7 (4.02%) Security Posture
7 6 (3.45%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.87%) Data Centre
8 5 (2.87%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (2.30%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.72%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.72%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.72%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.72%) SCADA
10 3 (1.72%) Wiki
11 2 (1.15%) Cyber Security Posture
11 2 (1.15%) Distributed Applications
11 2 (1.15%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 30 (17.24%) Linux
2 18 (10.34%) Windows
3 9 (5.17%) Unix
4 7 (4.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (4.02%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (43.10%) DevOps
2 57 (32.76%) CI/CD
3 47 (27.01%) Problem-Solving
4 39 (22.41%) Analytics
5 38 (21.84%) Infrastructure as Code
6 31 (17.82%) Agile
7 28 (16.09%) Continuous Improvement
8 27 (15.52%) Data Science
8 27 (15.52%) Platform Engineering
9 25 (14.37%) Machine Learning
10 24 (13.79%) Validation
11 23 (13.22%) AI
11 23 (13.22%) Data Engineering
12 21 (12.07%) Containerisation
12 21 (12.07%) Data Pipeline
13 20 (11.49%) DevSecOps
13 20 (11.49%) Stakeholder Management
13 20 (11.49%) Test Automation
14 19 (10.92%) Data Governance
15 18 (10.34%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 58 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 52 (29.89%) SQL
3 35 (20.11%) Bash
4 12 (6.90%) Bicep
5 11 (6.32%) C#
6 9 (5.17%) Java
7 5 (2.87%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.87%) Shell Script
8 4 (2.30%) Go
8 4 (2.30%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.15%) Perl
9 2 (1.15%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.57%) Gremlin
10 1 (0.57%) Groovy
10 1 (0.57%) R
10 1 (0.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 71 (40.80%) Security Cleared
2 65 (37.36%) SC Cleared
3 19 (10.92%) Cisco Certification
4 17 (9.77%) CISSP
5 16 (9.20%) Azure Certification
5 16 (9.20%) Degree
6 10 (5.75%) CCIE
6 10 (5.75%) JNCIE
7 9 (5.17%) AWS Certification
7 9 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (4.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 6 (3.45%) CEH
10 5 (2.87%) CISM
10 5 (2.87%) RHCE
11 4 (2.30%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (1.72%) CCSP
12 3 (1.72%) DBS Check
12 3 (1.72%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (1.72%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.77%) Data Quality
2 11 (6.32%) NIST
3 9 (5.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (3.45%) GDPR
4 6 (3.45%) SLA
5 5 (2.87%) QA
6 4 (2.30%) NCSC
7 3 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.57%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.57%) JTAG
System Software
1 21 (12.07%) Docker
2 15 (8.62%) Active Directory
3 8 (4.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (3.45%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 50 (28.74%) Kubernetes
2 39 (22.41%) Ansible
3 5 (2.87%) Grafana
3 5 (2.87%) QRadar
4 3 (1.72%) Istio
4 3 (1.72%) Progress Chef
4 3 (1.72%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.72%) Puppet
5 2 (1.15%) CASB
5 2 (1.15%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.57%) Amdocs OSS
6 1 (0.57%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.57%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.57%) SCOM
6 1 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.57%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 50 (28.74%) Microsoft
2 19 (10.92%) Databricks
3 13 (7.47%) Google
4 11 (6.32%) Red Hat
5 10 (5.75%) CyberArk
5 10 (5.75%) VMware
6 9 (5.17%) Cisco
7 8 (4.60%) Nokia
8 7 (4.02%) Splunk
9 6 (3.45%) BT
9 6 (3.45%) Ericsson
9 6 (3.45%) Huawei
9 6 (3.45%) Infoblox
10 5 (2.87%) BeyondTrust
10 5 (2.87%) F5
10 5 (2.87%) Fortinet
10 5 (2.87%) Juniper
11 3 (1.72%) Arista
11 3 (1.72%) Oracle
11 3 (1.72%) ServiceNow