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 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 10 45
Rank change year-on-year -4 +35 -16
Contract jobs citing Python 191 154 91
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 10.71% 12.44% 4.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 49.87% 43.14% 25.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 82 60
10th Percentile £335 £382 £325
25th Percentile £403 £487 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.55% -3.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £534 £603 £675
90th Percentile £675 £638 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £533 £528
% change year-on-year -6.10% +0.95% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile £71.36 - -
25th Percentile £73.40 - -
Median hourly rate £82.00 - £67.50
75th Percentile £83.75 - -
90th Percentile £85.10 - -
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £61.25 £67.50
% change year-on-year -22.45% -9.26% +55.17%

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 383 357 356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 21.48% 28.84% 18.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 217 244
10th Percentile £328 £390 £337
25th Percentile £403 £454 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.04% -1.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £585 £638 £625
90th Percentile £655 £685 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £503 £525
% change year-on-year -0.50% -4.29% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 16
10th Percentile £54.63 - £51.48
25th Percentile £72.55 £55.87 £56.23
Median hourly rate £79.15 £60.25 £59.22
Median % change year-on-year +31.38% +1.73% -15.40%
75th Percentile £82.63 £65.62 £63.08
90th Percentile £84.43 £71.40 £68.13
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £57.75 £59.00
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.12% +7.27%

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 5 March 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 5 March 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 -10 87 £525 -8.70% 40
Wokingham +6 80 £449 -7.76% 7
Windsor -6 12 £208 -58.50% 1
Bracknell -6 3 £423 -11.98% 2
Slough -1 1 - - 35
Maidenhead -4 1 - - 1
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 4 (2.09%) Apache
1 4 (2.09%) OpenStack
2 2 (1.05%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.05%) Confluence
3 1 (0.52%) Appian
3 1 (0.52%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.52%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (2.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (2.09%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (2.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (2.09%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.52%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 80 (41.88%) Azure
2 70 (36.65%) AWS
3 43 (22.51%) GCP
4 20 (10.47%) OpenShift
5 17 (8.90%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (5.24%) GitHub
6 10 (5.24%) IaaS
6 10 (5.24%) Serverless
7 9 (4.71%) Azure Monitor
8 8 (4.19%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (3.66%) Azure AKS
9 7 (3.66%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (3.66%) Power Platform
10 6 (3.14%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (3.14%) Azure Functions
11 5 (2.62%) Azure Machine Learning
11 5 (2.62%) Entra ID
11 5 (2.62%) PaaS
12 4 (2.09%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (2.09%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.33%) Network Security
2 10 (5.24%) DNS
3 9 (4.71%) TCP/IP
4 8 (4.19%) BGP
4 8 (4.19%) Firewall
4 8 (4.19%) MPLS
4 8 (4.19%) WAN
4 8 (4.19%) Wireshark
5 5 (2.62%) SNMP
5 5 (2.62%) TACACS
6 4 (2.09%) DHCP
6 4 (2.09%) LAN
7 3 (1.57%) SSL
7 3 (1.57%) VoIP
8 2 (1.05%) 2G
8 2 (1.05%) 5G
8 2 (1.05%) LTE
8 2 (1.05%) Mobile Backhaul
8 2 (1.05%) VPN
9 1 (0.52%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.38%) Relational Database
2 14 (7.33%) MySQL
3 13 (6.81%) NoSQL
4 7 (3.66%) Power BI
5 6 (3.14%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (3.14%) MongoDB
5 6 (3.14%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (3.14%) Tableau
6 5 (2.62%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.09%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.09%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.57%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.57%) Couchbase
8 3 (1.57%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.57%) Parquet
9 2 (1.05%) Big Data
9 2 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.05%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.52%) GIS
10 1 (0.52%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 18 (9.42%) Jenkins
2 17 (8.90%) Git
3 8 (4.19%) Burp Suite
3 8 (4.19%) Metasploit
4 6 (3.14%) JIRA
5 3 (1.57%) GitLab
6 1 (0.52%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.52%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.52%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.52%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.52%) Selenium
6 1 (0.52%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.52%) Visual Studio
General
1 100 (52.36%) Social Skills
2 48 (25.13%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (13.61%) Documentation Skills
4 21 (10.99%) Public Sector
5 3 (1.57%) Legal
5 3 (1.57%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.05%) Advertising
6 2 (1.05%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.05%) Billing
6 2 (1.05%) Finance
6 2 (1.05%) Retail
7 1 (0.52%) Marketing
7 1 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 28 (14.66%) SIEM Engineer
2 25 (13.09%) Senior
3 13 (6.81%) DevOps Engineer
3 13 (6.81%) Tester
4 11 (5.76%) Analyst
4 11 (5.76%) Architect
5 10 (5.24%) Developer
6 9 (4.71%) Technical Support
7 8 (4.19%) Azure Engineer
7 8 (4.19%) Penetration Tester
7 8 (4.19%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (3.66%) Site Engineer
8 7 (3.66%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 7 (3.66%) SOC Analyst
9 6 (3.14%) IP Specialist
10 5 (2.62%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 5 (2.62%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (2.62%) Data Engineer
10 5 (2.62%) Senior DevOps
10 5 (2.62%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (12.57%) LDAP
2 16 (8.38%) REST
3 11 (5.76%) Loki
4 9 (4.71%) OAuth
5 8 (4.19%) GraphQL
5 8 (4.19%) NETCONF
6 7 (3.66%) .NET
6 7 (3.66%) scikit-learn
6 7 (3.66%) YANG
7 6 (3.14%) .NET Core
7 6 (3.14%) Kafka
7 6 (3.14%) Pandas
8 5 (2.62%) PyTorch
8 5 (2.62%) React
8 5 (2.62%) SAML
8 5 (2.62%) TensorFlow
9 4 (2.09%) ARM Templates
9 4 (2.09%) JSON
9 4 (2.09%) Middleware
9 4 (2.09%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.95%) Cloud Native
2 17 (8.90%) Onboarding
3 11 (5.76%) Cyber Security Posture
4 10 (5.24%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (4.71%) Algorithms
6 8 (4.19%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (4.19%) Operational Technology
6 8 (4.19%) Virtual Team
7 6 (3.14%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (3.14%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (3.14%) Security Operations Centre
8 5 (2.62%) Data Centre
8 5 (2.62%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (2.09%) Management Information System
9 4 (2.09%) PKI
9 4 (2.09%) Replication
9 4 (2.09%) Security Posture
9 4 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.05%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 57 (29.84%) Linux
2 25 (13.09%) Windows
3 12 (6.28%) Unix
4 10 (5.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (4.19%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.52%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.52%) VMS
6 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (45.55%) CI/CD
2 76 (39.79%) Problem-Solving
3 73 (38.22%) DevOps
4 65 (34.03%) SIEM
5 50 (26.18%) Cybersecurity
6 32 (16.75%) DevSecOps
7 29 (15.18%) Infrastructure as Code
8 27 (14.14%) Agile
9 23 (12.04%) Test Automation
10 22 (11.52%) Observability
10 22 (11.52%) Stakeholder Management
11 21 (10.99%) Analytical Thinking
11 21 (10.99%) Containerisation
12 20 (10.47%) Analytics
12 20 (10.47%) Data Analysis
13 19 (9.95%) Machine Learning
13 19 (9.95%) Threat Detection
14 18 (9.42%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 17 (8.90%) High Availability
16 16 (8.38%) AI
Programming Languages
1 95 (49.74%) PowerShell
2 44 (23.04%) Bash
3 37 (19.37%) SQL
4 24 (12.57%) JavaScript
5 23 (12.04%) Kusto Query Language
6 21 (10.99%) Java
7 10 (5.24%) Perl
8 7 (3.66%) C#
9 6 (3.14%) PHP
10 5 (2.62%) Go
10 5 (2.62%) Shell Script
11 4 (2.09%) R
12 2 (1.05%) Bicep
13 1 (0.52%) C++
Qualifications
1 101 (52.88%) Security Cleared
2 86 (45.03%) SC Cleared
3 41 (21.47%) CISSP
4 22 (11.52%) CISM
5 21 (10.99%) CEH
6 17 (8.90%) GIAC
7 15 (7.85%) Degree
8 12 (6.28%) AWS Certification
8 12 (6.28%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (5.24%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (4.71%) CCIE
11 8 (4.19%) GPEN
11 8 (4.19%) JNCIE
11 8 (4.19%) OSCP
12 6 (3.14%) GCFA
12 6 (3.14%) GCIA
12 6 (3.14%) GCIH
13 5 (2.62%) Azure Certification
13 5 (2.62%) CFCE
14 3 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (17.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 33 (17.28%) NIST
3 29 (15.18%) GDPR
4 8 (4.19%) QA
5 4 (2.09%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.57%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 35 (18.32%) Active Directory
2 26 (13.61%) Docker
3 17 (8.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (7.33%) vSphere
5 7 (3.66%) VMware NSX
6 4 (2.09%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.52%) NDS
8 1 (0.52%) NetIQ eDirectory
Systems Management
1 48 (25.13%) Kubernetes
2 28 (14.66%) Terraform
3 24 (12.57%) Ansible
4 17 (8.90%) Argo
4 17 (8.90%) Grafana
4 17 (8.90%) Prometheus
5 13 (6.81%) Kibana
6 11 (5.76%) Kustomize
7 8 (4.19%) Nmap
8 6 (3.14%) vCenter Server
9 3 (1.57%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 3 (1.57%) Nessus
9 3 (1.57%) OpenVAS
10 2 (1.05%) logstash
10 2 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.52%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.52%) Cisco UCCE
Vendors
1 27 (14.14%) Microsoft
2 24 (12.57%) BeyondTrust
2 24 (12.57%) CyberArk
3 19 (9.95%) VMware
4 17 (8.90%) Red Hat
5 15 (7.85%) Tanium
6 12 (6.28%) FireEye
7 11 (5.76%) Oracle
8 10 (5.24%) Splunk
9 8 (4.19%) LogRhythm
10 7 (3.66%) Cisco
11 6 (3.14%) Databricks
11 6 (3.14%) F5
11 6 (3.14%) Google
11 6 (3.14%) Pure Storage
12 5 (2.62%) ArcSight
12 5 (2.62%) Fortinet
12 5 (2.62%) Juniper
13 4 (2.09%) AppDynamics
13 4 (2.09%) Dynatrace