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 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 13 42
Rank change year-on-year -4 +29 -22
Contract jobs citing Python 176 129 89
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 9.52% 11.05% 4.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 51.16% 38.51% 23.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 76 63
10th Percentile £306 £400 £325
25th Percentile £385 £471 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +1.01% -10.00%
75th Percentile £538 £595 £630
90th Percentile £675 £638 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile £71.70 - -
25th Percentile £75.36 - -
Median hourly rate £82.25 - £67.50
75th Percentile £83.75 - £72.50
90th Percentile £84.88 - £75.50
South East median hourly rate £47.54 £56.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year -15.48% -13.46% +44.44%

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 344 335 371
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 18.60% 28.71% 18.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 208 250
10th Percentile £310 £400 £330
25th Percentile £385 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - -
75th Percentile £588 £638 £619
90th Percentile £660 £700 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 15
10th Percentile £73.06 £39.74 £56.20
25th Percentile £80.75 £53.97 £56.65
Median hourly rate £81.50 £63.75 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +27.85% +3.48% -12.00%
75th Percentile £83.38 £68.51 £64.55
90th Percentile £83.98 £73.72 £68.25
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £56.75 £60.07
% change year-on-year -3.08% -5.53% +9.22%

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 22 April 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 22 April 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 -12 82 £525 -8.70% 28
Wokingham +1 69 £430 -4.44% 7
Windsor -5 12 £208 -58.50% 1
Bracknell -3 3 £450 -6.25% 2
Slough +11 1 - - 13
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 (2.27%) OpenStack
1 4 (2.27%) WebSphere
1 4 (2.27%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (1.14%) Apache
2 2 (1.14%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.14%) ArcGIS
2 2 (1.14%) IBM HTTP Server
2 2 (1.14%) JBoss
2 2 (1.14%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 2 (1.14%) WebSphere Portal
3 1 (0.57%) Confluence
3 1 (0.57%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (2.27%) CPLEX
1 4 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (2.27%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 78 (44.32%) Azure
2 63 (35.80%) AWS
3 43 (24.43%) GCP
4 19 (10.80%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (9.09%) GitHub
6 11 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
6 11 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (5.68%) OpenShift
7 10 (5.68%) Serverless
8 7 (3.98%) Power Platform
9 6 (3.41%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (3.41%) Azure Functions
10 5 (2.84%) Amazon S3
10 5 (2.84%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (2.84%) Azure AKS
10 5 (2.84%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (2.84%) Azure Key Vault
10 5 (2.84%) Azure Sentinel
10 5 (2.84%) Entra ID
11 4 (2.27%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.39%) Network Security
2 10 (5.68%) Firewall
2 10 (5.68%) TCP/IP
3 7 (3.98%) BGP
3 7 (3.98%) MPLS
3 7 (3.98%) WAN
4 6 (3.41%) DNS
5 5 (2.84%) SSL
6 4 (2.27%) DHCP
6 4 (2.27%) SNMP
6 4 (2.27%) TACACS
7 3 (1.70%) 5G
7 3 (1.70%) LAN
7 3 (1.70%) LTE
7 3 (1.70%) Wireshark
8 2 (1.14%) Diameter Protocol
8 2 (1.14%) HTTP
8 2 (1.14%) Radio Access Network
8 2 (1.14%) VoLTE
8 2 (1.14%) VoWiFi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.23%) Relational Database
2 14 (7.95%) MySQL
3 12 (6.82%) NoSQL
4 10 (5.68%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (3.98%) MongoDB
5 7 (3.98%) Power BI
6 5 (2.84%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (2.84%) Big Data
7 4 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.27%) Tableau
8 3 (1.70%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.70%) Parquet
8 3 (1.70%) SQL Server
9 2 (1.14%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.14%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.14%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.57%) GIS
10 1 (0.57%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.57%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (9.09%) Git
2 13 (7.39%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.41%) GitLab
4 3 (1.70%) JIRA
5 2 (1.14%) Introscope
6 1 (0.57%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.57%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.57%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 82 (46.59%) Social Skills
2 41 (23.30%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (11.93%) Documentation Skills
4 15 (8.52%) Public Sector
5 5 (2.84%) Aerospace
5 5 (2.84%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.14%) Advertising
6 2 (1.14%) Billing
6 2 (1.14%) Retail
7 1 (0.57%) Finance
7 1 (0.57%) Legal
7 1 (0.57%) Marketing
7 1 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 32 (18.18%) Senior
2 28 (15.91%) SIEM Engineer
3 18 (10.23%) Developer
4 11 (6.25%) Data Engineer
5 10 (5.68%) DevOps Engineer
5 10 (5.68%) Python Developer
6 9 (5.11%) Azure Engineer
6 9 (5.11%) Technical Support
7 8 (4.55%) Analyst
7 8 (4.55%) Site Engineer
7 8 (4.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 7 (3.98%) Senior DevOps
8 7 (3.98%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 6 (3.41%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 6 (3.41%) Tester
10 5 (2.84%) Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (2.84%) IP Specialist
10 5 (2.84%) Platform Engineer
10 5 (2.84%) Security Engineer
10 5 (2.84%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (11.93%) LDAP
2 16 (9.09%) REST
3 10 (5.68%) OAuth
4 9 (5.11%) .NET
4 9 (5.11%) GraphQL
5 8 (4.55%) Middleware
6 7 (3.98%) Kafka
7 6 (3.41%) .NET Core
7 6 (3.41%) FastAPI
7 6 (3.41%) NETCONF
7 6 (3.41%) Pandas
7 6 (3.41%) React
7 6 (3.41%) RESTful
7 6 (3.41%) YANG
8 5 (2.84%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (2.84%) Flask
8 5 (2.84%) Loki
8 5 (2.84%) NumPy
8 5 (2.84%) SAML
8 5 (2.84%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.23%) Onboarding
2 16 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (8.52%) Cloud Native
4 11 (6.25%) Cyber Security Posture
5 10 (5.68%) Algorithms
6 8 (4.55%) Operational Technology
7 7 (3.98%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (3.98%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (3.41%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (2.84%) PKI
10 4 (2.27%) Data Centre
10 4 (2.27%) Data Structures
10 4 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (2.27%) Security Operations Centre
10 4 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.70%) Clustering
12 2 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (1.14%) Management Information System
12 2 (1.14%) Security Posture
12 2 (1.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 37 (21.02%) Linux
2 24 (13.64%) Windows
3 14 (7.95%) Unix
4 7 (3.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.14%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (1.14%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 1 (0.57%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.57%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.57%) VMS
6 1 (0.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (40.91%) CI/CD
2 69 (39.20%) Problem-Solving
3 65 (36.93%) DevOps
4 60 (34.09%) SIEM
5 44 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
6 29 (16.48%) DevSecOps
7 25 (14.20%) Analytics
8 23 (13.07%) Data Analysis
8 23 (13.07%) Infrastructure as Code
9 22 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
10 21 (11.93%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 20 (11.36%) Containerisation
12 19 (10.80%) Agile
12 19 (10.80%) Threat Detection
13 18 (10.23%) AI
13 18 (10.23%) Analytical Thinking
13 18 (10.23%) Machine Learning
14 17 (9.66%) Observability
14 17 (9.66%) Task Automation
15 16 (9.09%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 87 (49.43%) PowerShell
2 34 (19.32%) Bash
2 34 (19.32%) SQL
3 28 (15.91%) Java
4 23 (13.07%) JavaScript
4 23 (13.07%) Kusto Query Language
5 14 (7.95%) Perl
6 11 (6.25%) Go
7 9 (5.11%) C#
8 6 (3.41%) PHP
9 2 (1.14%) Bicep
9 2 (1.14%) Jython
9 2 (1.14%) Scala
9 2 (1.14%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.57%) C++
10 1 (0.57%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.57%) R
10 1 (0.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 83 (47.16%) Security Cleared
2 68 (38.64%) SC Cleared
3 35 (19.89%) CISSP
4 19 (10.80%) CISM
5 15 (8.52%) GIAC
6 14 (7.95%) CEH
7 11 (6.25%) Degree
8 10 (5.68%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (3.41%) AWS Certification
9 6 (3.41%) CCIE
9 6 (3.41%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (3.41%) JNCIE
10 4 (2.27%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (1.70%) DV Cleared
11 3 (1.70%) GCFA
11 3 (1.70%) GCIA
11 3 (1.70%) GCIH
11 3 (1.70%) RHCE
11 3 (1.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (14.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 26 (14.77%) NIST
2 22 (12.50%) GDPR
3 6 (3.41%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.27%) QA
5 2 (1.14%) SLA
6 1 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.57%) HIPAA
System Software
1 28 (15.91%) Active Directory
2 21 (11.93%) Docker
3 5 (2.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.27%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.14%) vSphere
6 1 (0.57%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (21.59%) Kubernetes
2 21 (11.93%) Terraform
3 20 (11.36%) Ansible
4 13 (7.39%) Kibana
5 11 (6.25%) Grafana
5 11 (6.25%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.84%) Argo
6 5 (2.84%) Kustomize
7 3 (1.70%) Nessus
7 3 (1.70%) OpenVAS
8 2 (1.14%) CA Wily
8 2 (1.14%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 2 (1.14%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.57%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.57%) Nmap
9 1 (0.57%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.57%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 26 (14.77%) Microsoft
2 21 (11.93%) BeyondTrust
2 21 (11.93%) CyberArk
3 15 (8.52%) Tanium
4 12 (6.82%) FireEye
4 12 (6.82%) Oracle
5 10 (5.68%) Red Hat
5 10 (5.68%) Splunk
6 9 (5.11%) Databricks
7 6 (3.41%) AppDynamics
7 6 (3.41%) LogRhythm
7 6 (3.41%) VMware
8 5 (2.84%) F5
8 5 (2.84%) Juniper
9 4 (2.27%) ArcSight
9 4 (2.27%) Cisco
9 4 (2.27%) Dynatrace
9 4 (2.27%) Fortinet
9 4 (2.27%) IBM
10 3 (1.70%) Qualys