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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 20 35
Rank change year-on-year +8 +15 +3
Contract jobs citing Python 187 141 101
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 12.76% 9.16% 5.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 55.82% 35.16% 28.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 73 71
10th Percentile £387 £385 £350
25th Percentile £419 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £585 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.90% +6.36% +4.76%
75th Percentile £552 £638 £638
90th Percentile £604 £651 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £72.40 - -
25th Percentile £76.00 £27.75 -
Median hourly rate £82.00 £28.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +187.72% - -
75th Percentile £84.00 £29.25 -
90th Percentile £85.20 - -
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £42.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.10% -35.38% +22.44%

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 335 401 351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 22.85% 26.04% 20.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 244 255
10th Percentile £360 £390 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £581 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.32% +5.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £638
90th Percentile £619 £674 £688
South East median daily rate £492 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -1.60% -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 9
10th Percentile £39.25 £47.44 -
25th Percentile £70.00 £55.87 £48.40
Median hourly rate £75.00 £60.25 £54.56
Median % change year-on-year +24.49% +10.42% -0.80%
75th Percentile £82.00 £70.98 £58.48
90th Percentile £84.40 £78.66 £66.36
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £57.54 £56.69
% change year-on-year -4.41% +1.50% -5.52%

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 14 December 2025.

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 14 December 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
Reading +4 93 £550 -8.33% 39
Wokingham +17 68 £473 -27.23% 2
Windsor -10 8 £208 -48.13% 5
Bracknell -1 5 £420 - 1
Maidenhead -1 2 - - 2
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 12 (6.42%) OpenStack
2 5 (2.67%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.14%) Apache
3 4 (2.14%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.07%) Appian
4 2 (1.07%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.53%) Confluence
5 1 (0.53%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (1.07%) CPLEX
1 2 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.07%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 80 (42.78%) AWS
2 73 (39.04%) Azure
3 44 (23.53%) GCP
4 20 (10.70%) OpenShift
5 16 (8.56%) GitHub
6 13 (6.95%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (6.95%) Serverless
7 12 (6.42%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (5.88%) Power Platform
9 10 (5.35%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (5.35%) IaaS
10 9 (4.81%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (3.21%) Azure AKS
12 5 (2.67%) Azure Functions
12 5 (2.67%) Azure Machine Learning
12 5 (2.67%) OCI
13 4 (2.14%) Azure Monitor
13 4 (2.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 4 (2.14%) dbt
13 4 (2.14%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.56%) Network Security
2 14 (7.49%) BGP
2 14 (7.49%) MPLS
2 14 (7.49%) WAN
3 12 (6.42%) LAN
4 10 (5.35%) DNS
5 8 (4.28%) Firewall
5 8 (4.28%) SNMP
5 8 (4.28%) TACACS
6 7 (3.74%) TCP/IP
6 7 (3.74%) Wireshark
7 6 (3.21%) OSPF
7 6 (3.21%) Wireless
8 4 (2.14%) DHCP
9 3 (1.60%) 2G
9 3 (1.60%) 5G
9 3 (1.60%) SSL
9 3 (1.60%) VoIP
10 2 (1.07%) LTE
10 2 (1.07%) Mobile Backhaul
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.16%) Relational Database
2 14 (7.49%) NoSQL
3 11 (5.88%) Power BI
4 10 (5.35%) MySQL
4 10 (5.35%) Tableau
5 8 (4.28%) MongoDB
6 7 (3.74%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (3.21%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (3.21%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (3.21%) Data Lake
7 6 (3.21%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (2.67%) Big Data
8 5 (2.67%) Couchbase
9 4 (2.14%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.60%) SQL Server
11 2 (1.07%) Delta Lake
11 2 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (1.07%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.53%) Amazon Athena
12 1 (0.53%) Redis
Development Applications
1 18 (9.63%) Jenkins
2 16 (8.56%) Git
3 8 (4.28%) JIRA
4 7 (3.74%) Burp Suite
4 7 (3.74%) Metasploit
5 6 (3.21%) 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%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.53%) MLflow
7 1 (0.53%) Mocha
General
1 105 (56.15%) Social Skills
2 50 (26.74%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (13.90%) Documentation Skills
4 21 (11.23%) Public Sector
5 13 (6.95%) Telecoms
6 7 (3.74%) Legal
7 6 (3.21%) Finance
8 2 (1.07%) Billing
9 1 (0.53%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.53%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (0.53%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (12.30%) Senior
2 19 (10.16%) SIEM Engineer
3 18 (9.63%) Architect
4 14 (7.49%) DevOps Engineer
5 13 (6.95%) Developer
6 11 (5.88%) Analyst
6 11 (5.88%) Data Engineer
7 10 (5.35%) SOC Analyst
8 9 (4.81%) Python Developer
8 9 (4.81%) Site Engineer
8 9 (4.81%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 8 (4.28%) Data Scientist
9 8 (4.28%) IP Specialist
9 8 (4.28%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (3.74%) AWS Engineer
10 7 (3.74%) Cloud Engineer
10 7 (3.74%) Penetration Tester
10 7 (3.74%) Tester
11 6 (3.21%) Consultant
11 6 (3.21%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (10.16%) LDAP
1 19 (10.16%) REST
2 14 (7.49%) scikit-learn
3 10 (5.35%) NETCONF
3 10 (5.35%) PyTorch
3 10 (5.35%) TensorFlow
4 9 (4.81%) GraphQL
4 9 (4.81%) Pandas
4 9 (4.81%) YANG
5 8 (4.28%) Kafka
5 8 (4.28%) Loki
5 8 (4.28%) NumPy
5 8 (4.28%) OAuth
6 6 (3.21%) FastAPI
6 6 (3.21%) RESTful
7 5 (2.67%) .NET
7 5 (2.67%) .NET Core
7 5 (2.67%) OAuth2
7 5 (2.67%) PySpark
7 5 (2.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.16%) Algorithms
1 19 (10.16%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.49%) Hybrid Cloud
2 14 (7.49%) Onboarding
3 12 (6.42%) Cyber Security Posture
4 9 (4.81%) Data Centre
5 8 (4.28%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (4.28%) Virtual Team
6 7 (3.74%) Security Operations Centre
6 7 (3.74%) Security Posture
7 6 (3.21%) Management Information System
7 6 (3.21%) Replication
8 5 (2.67%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (2.67%) Operational Technology
9 4 (2.14%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (2.14%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (2.14%) PKI
10 3 (1.60%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.07%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 51 (27.27%) Linux
2 23 (12.30%) Windows
3 10 (5.35%) Unix
4 8 (4.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (3.74%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.53%) VMS
6 1 (0.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (47.59%) CI/CD
2 77 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
3 66 (35.29%) DevOps
4 55 (29.41%) SIEM
5 44 (23.53%) Cybersecurity
6 27 (14.44%) DevSecOps
7 26 (13.90%) Agile
8 25 (13.37%) Infrastructure as Code
9 23 (12.30%) Analytical Thinking
9 23 (12.30%) Incident Response
9 23 (12.30%) Machine Learning
10 22 (11.76%) High Availability
11 21 (11.23%) Validation
12 20 (10.70%) AI
12 20 (10.70%) Containerisation
13 19 (10.16%) Test Automation
14 18 (9.63%) Threat Detection
15 17 (9.09%) Data Pipeline
16 16 (8.56%) Data Engineering
16 16 (8.56%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 75 (40.11%) PowerShell
2 37 (19.79%) SQL
3 33 (17.65%) Bash
4 24 (12.83%) Java
5 14 (7.49%) JavaScript
6 12 (6.42%) Kusto Query Language
7 10 (5.35%) R
8 7 (3.74%) Shell Script
9 6 (3.21%) Go
10 5 (2.67%) C#
10 5 (2.67%) Perl
10 5 (2.67%) PHP
11 4 (2.14%) C++
12 3 (1.60%) C
13 1 (0.53%) Scala
Qualifications
1 80 (42.78%) Security Cleared
2 67 (35.83%) SC Cleared
3 42 (22.46%) CISSP
4 22 (11.76%) CEH
5 21 (11.23%) Degree
6 20 (10.70%) GIAC
7 19 (10.16%) AWS Certification
8 18 (9.63%) CISM
9 16 (8.56%) Cisco Certification
10 15 (8.02%) CCIE
11 14 (7.49%) JNCIE
12 12 (6.42%) Computer Science Degree
13 10 (5.35%) GCFA
13 10 (5.35%) GCIA
13 10 (5.35%) GCIH
13 10 (5.35%) Master's Degree
14 8 (4.28%) CFCE
15 7 (3.74%) GPEN
15 7 (3.74%) OSCP
16 4 (2.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 33 (17.65%) GDPR
3 32 (17.11%) NIST
4 11 (5.88%) QA
5 10 (5.35%) Data Quality
6 6 (3.21%) HIPAA
7 5 (2.67%) EU AI Act
8 2 (1.07%) GRC
9 1 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 29 (15.51%) Active Directory
2 23 (12.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (11.76%) Docker
4 15 (8.02%) vSphere
5 13 (6.95%) 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 45 (24.06%) Kubernetes
2 34 (18.18%) Terraform
3 31 (16.58%) Ansible
4 14 (7.49%) Argo
5 11 (5.88%) Kibana
6 10 (5.35%) Grafana
7 9 (4.81%) Prometheus
8 8 (4.28%) Kustomize
9 7 (3.74%) Nmap
10 6 (3.21%) vCenter Server
11 5 (2.67%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 4 (2.14%) QRadar
13 2 (1.07%) logstash
13 2 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.53%) Cisco CUCM
14 1 (0.53%) Cisco UCCE
14 1 (0.53%) Kubeflow
14 1 (0.53%) Puppet
14 1 (0.53%) vRealize
14 1 (0.53%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 27 (14.44%) Microsoft
2 25 (13.37%) VMware
3 19 (10.16%) BeyondTrust
3 19 (10.16%) CyberArk
4 16 (8.56%) Red Hat
5 15 (8.02%) Splunk
6 13 (6.95%) Databricks
7 12 (6.42%) ArcSight
8 11 (5.88%) Cisco
8 11 (5.88%) Tanium
9 10 (5.35%) FireEye
10 9 (4.81%) LogRhythm
11 8 (4.28%) CrowdStrike
11 8 (4.28%) F5
11 8 (4.28%) Fortinet
11 8 (4.28%) Google
11 8 (4.28%) Juniper
11 8 (4.28%) Virgin Media
12 7 (3.74%) Oracle
13 6 (3.21%) Pure Storage