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 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 11 48
Rank change year-on-year -3 +37 -11
Contract jobs citing Python 187 158 87
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 11.74% 12.16% 4.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 54.05% 41.69% 24.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 88 58
10th Percentile £336 £396 £325
25th Percentile £403 £482 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year -18.45% -6.78% +18.00%
75th Percentile £525 £638 £675
90th Percentile £625 - £688
South East median daily rate £488 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -11.36% +3.29% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £72.40 - -
25th Percentile £76.00 - -
Median hourly rate £82.00 - £67.50
75th Percentile £84.00 - -
90th Percentile £85.20 - -
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £61.25 £67.50
% change year-on-year -22.45% -9.26% +52.54%

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 346 379 357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 21.72% 29.18% 18.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 233 253
10th Percentile £335 £390 £350
25th Percentile £403 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £567 £638 £638
90th Percentile £635 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £488 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -4.41% -2.86% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 15
10th Percentile £39.25 - £48.40
25th Percentile £70.00 £55.87 £55.36
Median hourly rate £75.00 £63.75 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +17.66% +9.34% -19.86%
75th Percentile £82.00 £70.24 £61.60
90th Percentile £84.40 £75.80 £67.50
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year -12.00% +7.20% +5.05%

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 7 February 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 7 February 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 -6 84 £525 -10.26% 35
Wokingham +7 78 £445 -16.43% 9
Windsor -6 12 £208 -58.50% 1
Bracknell -3 5 £420 -12.50%
Maidenhead -3 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 10 (5.35%) OpenStack
2 4 (2.14%) Apache
3 2 (1.07%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.07%) Appian
4 1 (0.53%) Confluence
4 1 (0.53%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.07%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.53%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 78 (41.71%) AWS
2 77 (41.18%) Azure
3 42 (22.46%) GCP
4 21 (11.23%) OpenShift
5 12 (6.42%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (6.42%) Serverless
6 10 (5.35%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (5.35%) GitHub
6 10 (5.35%) IaaS
7 9 (4.81%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (3.74%) Azure AKS
8 7 (3.74%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (2.67%) Azure Functions
9 5 (2.67%) Azure Machine Learning
9 5 (2.67%) OCI
9 5 (2.67%) Power Platform
10 4 (2.14%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (2.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (2.14%) Datadog
10 4 (2.14%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.56%) Network Security
2 12 (6.42%) BGP
2 12 (6.42%) MPLS
2 12 (6.42%) WAN
3 10 (5.35%) DNS
3 10 (5.35%) LAN
4 8 (4.28%) Wireshark
5 7 (3.74%) Firewall
5 7 (3.74%) TCP/IP
6 6 (3.21%) SNMP
6 6 (3.21%) TACACS
7 4 (2.14%) DHCP
7 4 (2.14%) OSPF
7 4 (2.14%) Wireless
8 3 (1.60%) 2G
8 3 (1.60%) 5G
8 3 (1.60%) SSL
8 3 (1.60%) VoIP
9 2 (1.07%) LTE
9 2 (1.07%) Mobile Backhaul
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.56%) Relational Database
2 14 (7.49%) MySQL
3 13 (6.95%) NoSQL
4 6 (3.21%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (3.21%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (3.21%) MongoDB
4 6 (3.21%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.67%) Couchbase
5 5 (2.67%) Data Lake
5 5 (2.67%) Power BI
6 4 (2.14%) SQL Server
6 4 (2.14%) Tableau
7 3 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.07%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.07%) Big Data
8 2 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.07%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.53%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.53%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.53%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 18 (9.63%) Jenkins
2 14 (7.49%) Git
3 8 (4.28%) Burp Suite
3 8 (4.28%) Metasploit
4 6 (3.21%) JIRA
5 4 (2.14%) GitLab
6 2 (1.07%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.07%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.07%) Robot Framework
6 2 (1.07%) Selenium
6 2 (1.07%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.53%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio
General
1 102 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 47 (25.13%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (15.51%) Documentation Skills
4 19 (10.16%) Public Sector
5 4 (2.14%) Telecoms
6 3 (1.60%) Finance
6 3 (1.60%) Legal
7 2 (1.07%) Billing
7 2 (1.07%) Retail
8 1 (0.53%) Advertising
8 1 (0.53%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 26 (13.90%) SIEM Engineer
2 21 (11.23%) Senior
3 13 (6.95%) DevOps Engineer
3 13 (6.95%) Tester
4 12 (6.42%) Architect
5 9 (4.81%) Technical Support
6 8 (4.28%) Analyst
6 8 (4.28%) Developer
6 8 (4.28%) Penetration Tester
6 8 (4.28%) Platform Engineer
7 7 (3.74%) AWS Engineer
7 7 (3.74%) Data Engineer
7 7 (3.74%) IP Specialist
7 7 (3.74%) Site Engineer
7 7 (3.74%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 6 (3.21%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (3.21%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (3.21%) SOC Analyst
9 5 (2.67%) IP Architect
9 5 (2.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (12.83%) LDAP
2 16 (8.56%) REST
3 11 (5.88%) Loki
4 10 (5.35%) NETCONF
5 9 (4.81%) YANG
6 8 (4.28%) GraphQL
6 8 (4.28%) Kafka
7 7 (3.74%) scikit-learn
8 6 (3.21%) .NET
8 6 (3.21%) OAuth
9 5 (2.67%) .NET Core
9 5 (2.67%) Pandas
9 5 (2.67%) PyTorch
9 5 (2.67%) TensorFlow
10 4 (2.14%) Jinja
10 4 (2.14%) Middleware
10 4 (2.14%) Node.js
10 4 (2.14%) NumPy
10 4 (2.14%) React
11 3 (1.60%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.70%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.49%) Onboarding
3 13 (6.95%) Cyber Security Posture
4 12 (6.42%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (5.35%) Algorithms
5 10 (5.35%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (4.28%) Virtual Team
7 7 (3.74%) Data Centre
7 7 (3.74%) Operational Technology
8 6 (3.21%) Replication
9 5 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (2.67%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (2.67%) Security Operations Centre
10 4 (2.14%) PKI
11 3 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.60%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.60%) Security Posture
12 2 (1.07%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (1.07%) Product Ownership
12 2 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 56 (29.95%) Linux
2 24 (12.83%) Windows
3 14 (7.49%) Unix
4 8 (4.28%) Kali Linux
4 8 (4.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.53%) VMS
5 1 (0.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (46.52%) CI/CD
2 71 (37.97%) Problem-Solving
3 66 (35.29%) DevOps
4 61 (32.62%) SIEM
5 50 (26.74%) Cybersecurity
6 32 (17.11%) DevSecOps
7 30 (16.04%) Infrastructure as Code
8 24 (12.83%) Test Automation
9 23 (12.30%) Agile
9 23 (12.30%) Analytical Thinking
10 20 (10.70%) Observability
11 19 (10.16%) Containerisation
11 19 (10.16%) Threat Detection
12 18 (9.63%) High Availability
13 17 (9.09%) Data Analysis
13 17 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
14 16 (8.56%) Machine Learning
14 16 (8.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 15 (8.02%) AI
15 15 (8.02%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 89 (47.59%) PowerShell
2 42 (22.46%) Bash
3 30 (16.04%) SQL
4 23 (12.30%) JavaScript
5 21 (11.23%) Java
6 18 (9.63%) Kusto Query Language
7 10 (5.35%) Perl
8 7 (3.74%) Shell Script
9 6 (3.21%) C#
9 6 (3.21%) PHP
9 6 (3.21%) R
10 5 (2.67%) Go
11 1 (0.53%) C++
Qualifications
1 94 (50.27%) Security Cleared
2 80 (42.78%) SC Cleared
3 43 (22.99%) CISSP
4 23 (12.30%) CEH
5 22 (11.76%) CISM
6 19 (10.16%) GIAC
7 17 (9.09%) AWS Certification
8 15 (8.02%) Degree
9 14 (7.49%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (6.95%) CCIE
10 13 (6.95%) Computer Science Degree
11 12 (6.42%) JNCIE
12 8 (4.28%) GPEN
12 8 (4.28%) OSCP
13 6 (3.21%) GCFA
13 6 (3.21%) GCIA
13 6 (3.21%) GCIH
14 5 (2.67%) CFCE
15 4 (2.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 3 (1.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (17.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 32 (17.11%) NIST
3 29 (15.51%) GDPR
4 9 (4.81%) QA
5 4 (2.14%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.60%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 34 (18.18%) Active Directory
2 26 (13.90%) Docker
3 21 (11.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (8.02%) vSphere
5 11 (5.88%) VMware NSX
6 4 (2.14%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.53%) NDS
8 1 (0.53%) NetIQ eDirectory
Systems Management
1 47 (25.13%) Kubernetes
2 32 (17.11%) Terraform
3 29 (15.51%) Ansible
4 17 (9.09%) Argo
4 17 (9.09%) Grafana
4 17 (9.09%) Prometheus
5 14 (7.49%) Kibana
6 11 (5.88%) Kustomize
7 8 (4.28%) Nmap
8 6 (3.21%) vCenter Server
9 3 (1.60%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 2 (1.07%) logstash
10 2 (1.07%) Nessus
10 2 (1.07%) OpenVAS
10 2 (1.07%) QRadar
10 2 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.53%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.53%) Cisco UCCE
11 1 (0.53%) vRealize
11 1 (0.53%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 24 (12.83%) BeyondTrust
1 24 (12.83%) CyberArk
2 23 (12.30%) VMware
3 22 (11.76%) Microsoft
4 16 (8.56%) Red Hat
4 16 (8.56%) Tanium
5 13 (6.95%) FireEye
6 12 (6.42%) Splunk
7 11 (5.88%) Oracle
8 9 (4.81%) Cisco
9 7 (3.74%) ArcSight
9 7 (3.74%) LogRhythm
10 6 (3.21%) F5
10 6 (3.21%) Fortinet
10 6 (3.21%) Juniper
10 6 (3.21%) Pure Storage
11 5 (2.67%) Confluent
11 5 (2.67%) Databricks
11 5 (2.67%) Google
11 5 (2.67%) IBM