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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 16 27
Rank change year-on-year -1 +11 -10
Contract jobs citing Python 172 125 106
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 9.42% 10.51% 6.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 55.66% 39.94% 30.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 69 76
10th Percentile £335 £375 £345
25th Percentile £407 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £519
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.61% -5.68%
75th Percentile £607 £570 £638
90th Percentile £650 £600 £650
South East median daily rate £543 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +8.50% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 0 2
10th Percentile £62.27 - £32.23
25th Percentile £66.53 - £38.94
Median hourly rate £71.00 - £51.75
75th Percentile £83.72 - £65.44
90th Percentile £85.18 - £72.68
South East median hourly rate £67.47 £57.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year +17.34% +29.21% -15.24%

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 309 313 348
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 16.93% 26.32% 20.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 188 236
10th Percentile £334 £364 £363
25th Percentile £409 £449 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £580
Median % change year-on-year - -13.79% +5.45%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £638
90th Percentile £676 £663 £663
South East median daily rate £515 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +3.00% -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 1 8
10th Percentile £61.74 - £49.27
25th Percentile £66.55 £30.25 £58.49
Median hourly rate £71.43 £31.50 £65.49
Median % change year-on-year +126.76% -51.90% +14.08%
75th Percentile £83.31 £32.75 £75.53
90th Percentile £85.05 - £80.50
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 £69.38
% change year-on-year +9.09% -20.72% +23.75%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 1 September 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 -9 92 £550 +10.00% 70
Wokingham +1 55 £500 +6.67% 9
Slough +4 5 £500 -9.09% 7
Bracknell 0 3 £450 +7.14% 20
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 (8.14%) OpenStack
2 5 (2.91%) Confluence
3 4 (2.33%) WebSphere
3 4 (2.33%) WebSphere Application Server
4 3 (1.74%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.16%) Apache
5 2 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.16%) Apache Superset
5 2 (1.16%) IBM HTTP Server
5 2 (1.16%) JBoss
5 2 (1.16%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (1.16%) WebSphere Portal
6 1 (0.58%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 8 (4.65%) CPLEX
2 6 (3.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.74%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 99 (57.56%) Azure
2 63 (36.63%) AWS
3 33 (19.19%) GCP
4 23 (13.37%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (12.79%) OpenShift
6 14 (8.14%) GitHub
7 13 (7.56%) Azure Monitor
8 12 (6.98%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (6.40%) Entra ID
10 9 (5.23%) Azure Key Vault
10 9 (5.23%) Power Platform
11 8 (4.65%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (4.65%) Azure AKS
12 7 (4.07%) Azure App Service
13 6 (3.49%) Azure Data Factory
13 6 (3.49%) Route 53
14 5 (2.91%) Amazon S3
14 5 (2.91%) Azure Machine Learning
14 5 (2.91%) Serverless
15 4 (2.33%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (11.63%) Firewall
2 18 (10.47%) DNS
2 18 (10.47%) TCP/IP
3 16 (9.30%) BGP
4 11 (6.40%) DHCP
4 11 (6.40%) WAN
5 10 (5.81%) MPLS
5 10 (5.81%) VPN
6 8 (4.65%) LAN
6 8 (4.65%) Network Security
7 7 (4.07%) Radio Access Network
8 6 (3.49%) 5G
8 6 (3.49%) Diameter Protocol
8 6 (3.49%) DNSSEC
8 6 (3.49%) LTE
8 6 (3.49%) SSL
8 6 (3.49%) VoLTE
8 6 (3.49%) VoWiFi
8 6 (3.49%) VXLAN
8 6 (3.49%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (11.05%) NoSQL
2 11 (6.40%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.81%) Relational Database
4 9 (5.23%) MongoDB
4 9 (5.23%) Power BI
5 6 (3.49%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (3.49%) Big Data
6 5 (2.91%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (2.91%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.33%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.74%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.74%) Spark SQL
8 3 (1.74%) Tableau
9 2 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.16%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.16%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.16%) Metadata
9 2 (1.16%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.16%) Parquet
10 1 (0.58%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 24 (13.95%) Git
2 18 (10.47%) Jenkins
3 12 (6.98%) GitLab
4 7 (4.07%) JIRA
5 2 (1.16%) Introscope
5 2 (1.16%) JMeter
6 1 (0.58%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.58%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.58%) NeoLoad
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle Developer 2000
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.58%) Selenium
General
1 68 (39.53%) Social Skills
2 48 (27.91%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (13.95%) Aerospace
4 14 (8.14%) Documentation Skills
5 12 (6.98%) Telecoms
6 5 (2.91%) Finance
7 4 (2.33%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.74%) Military
9 2 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.16%) Marketing
9 2 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.58%) Advertising
10 1 (0.58%) Banking
10 1 (0.58%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (15.12%) Senior
2 24 (13.95%) Data Engineer
3 23 (13.37%) Developer
4 19 (11.05%) Architect
5 15 (8.72%) Python Developer
6 11 (6.40%) Data Scientist
7 10 (5.81%) Network Architect
8 8 (4.65%) Full-Stack Developer
8 8 (4.65%) Systems Engineer
9 7 (4.07%) Analyst
9 7 (4.07%) Lead
9 7 (4.07%) Platform Engineer
9 7 (4.07%) Senior Data Engineer
10 6 (3.49%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (3.49%) Consultant
10 6 (3.49%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 5 (2.91%) Azure Engineer
11 5 (2.91%) IP Architect
11 5 (2.91%) Network Consultant
11 5 (2.91%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (24.42%) Terraform
2 19 (11.05%) REST
3 15 (8.72%) RESTful
4 14 (8.14%) PySpark
5 11 (6.40%) Kafka
5 11 (6.40%) NETCONF
6 10 (5.81%) ARM Templates
6 10 (5.81%) FastAPI
7 9 (5.23%) Flask
7 9 (5.23%) RabbitMQ
7 9 (5.23%) YANG
8 8 (4.65%) .NET
8 8 (4.65%) Django
8 8 (4.65%) LDAP
8 8 (4.65%) NumPy
8 8 (4.65%) OpenAPI
8 8 (4.65%) Pandas
8 8 (4.65%) Swagger
9 7 (4.07%) OAuth
9 7 (4.07%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 26 (15.12%) Hybrid Cloud
2 23 (13.37%) Cloud Native
3 16 (9.30%) Algorithms
4 11 (6.40%) Data Structures
4 11 (6.40%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (4.07%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.49%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.91%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 4 (2.33%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.33%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.74%) Clustering
9 3 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.74%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (1.74%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.16%) Private Cloud
10 2 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 33 (19.19%) Linux
2 22 (12.79%) Windows
3 10 (5.81%) Unix
4 9 (5.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (4.65%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.16%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (1.16%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (45.93%) DevOps
2 61 (35.47%) CI/CD
3 53 (30.81%) Problem-Solving
4 45 (26.16%) Analytics
5 40 (23.26%) Infrastructure as Code
6 34 (19.77%) Agile
7 29 (16.86%) Data Science
8 28 (16.28%) Data Pipeline
9 27 (15.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 27 (15.70%) Platform Engineering
10 26 (15.12%) Data Engineering
10 26 (15.12%) Validation
11 24 (13.95%) Containerisation
11 24 (13.95%) Machine Learning
12 21 (12.21%) Data Governance
12 21 (12.21%) DevSecOps
13 20 (11.63%) High Availability
14 19 (11.05%) Migration
15 18 (10.47%) Data Modelling
15 18 (10.47%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 60 (34.88%) PowerShell
2 49 (28.49%) SQL
3 42 (24.42%) Bash
4 14 (8.14%) Java
5 11 (6.40%) Bicep
6 7 (4.07%) C#
7 6 (3.49%) Go
8 5 (2.91%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.33%) Perl
10 3 (1.74%) Scala
11 2 (1.16%) JavaScript
11 2 (1.16%) Jython
11 2 (1.16%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.58%) Groovy
12 1 (0.58%) R
12 1 (0.58%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 69 (40.12%) Security Cleared
2 61 (35.47%) SC Cleared
3 20 (11.63%) Cisco Certification
4 17 (9.88%) CISSP
5 14 (8.14%) Azure Certification
6 11 (6.40%) CCIE
6 11 (6.40%) Degree
6 11 (6.40%) JNCIE
7 10 (5.81%) AWS Certification
8 9 (5.23%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (4.07%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 7 (4.07%) CISM
10 5 (2.91%) RHCE
11 4 (2.33%) CEH
11 4 (2.33%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (2.33%) DV Cleared
12 3 (1.74%) CCSP
12 3 (1.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (1.74%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (1.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.88%) Data Quality
2 13 (7.56%) NIST
3 11 (6.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (4.65%) GDPR
5 6 (3.49%) QA
5 6 (3.49%) SLA
6 4 (2.33%) NCSC
7 3 (1.74%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.58%) JTAG
System Software
1 20 (11.63%) Docker
2 14 (8.14%) Active Directory
3 8 (4.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (3.49%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 49 (28.49%) Kubernetes
2 44 (25.58%) Ansible
3 5 (2.91%) Grafana
4 4 (2.33%) Progress Chef
4 4 (2.33%) Puppet
5 3 (1.74%) Istio
5 3 (1.74%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.16%) CA Wily
6 2 (1.16%) CASB
6 2 (1.16%) FortiGate
6 2 (1.16%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.58%) Amdocs OSS
7 1 (0.58%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.58%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.58%) SCOM
7 1 (0.58%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 46 (26.74%) Microsoft
2 22 (12.79%) Databricks
3 13 (7.56%) Google
3 13 (7.56%) Red Hat
4 10 (5.81%) Cisco
4 10 (5.81%) CyberArk
4 10 (5.81%) VMware
5 8 (4.65%) Nokia
6 7 (4.07%) BeyondTrust
6 7 (4.07%) Juniper
7 6 (3.49%) BT
7 6 (3.49%) Ericsson
7 6 (3.49%) F5
7 6 (3.49%) Fortinet
7 6 (3.49%) Huawei
7 6 (3.49%) Infoblox
8 5 (2.91%) Oracle
8 5 (2.91%) Splunk
9 4 (2.33%) IBM
10 3 (1.74%) Arista