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 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 16 33
Rank change year-on-year +4 +17 +7
Contract jobs citing Python 179 149 102
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 12.05% 10.41% 5.99%
As % of the Programming Languages category 55.08% 38.60% 29.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 83 71
10th Percentile £337 £389 £350
25th Percentile £410 £481 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £638 £638
90th Percentile £608 £650 £700
South East median daily rate £485 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -9.77% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £72.40 - -
25th Percentile £76.00 £27.75 -
Median hourly rate £82.00 £28.50 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +187.72% -57.78% -10.60%
75th Percentile £84.00 £29.25 -
90th Percentile £85.20 - -
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £42.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year +13.10% -37.78% +45.95%

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 325 386 348
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 21.87% 26.97% 20.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 239 249
10th Percentile £336 £390 £350
25th Percentile £411 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.30% +4.55% +1.80%
75th Percentile £569 £650 £638
90th Percentile £625 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £488 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 11
10th Percentile £39.25 £44.62 £48.40
25th Percentile £70.00 £55.87 £49.07
Median hourly rate £75.00 £56.75 £56.06
Median % change year-on-year +32.17% +1.22% -19.91%
75th Percentile £82.00 £65.62 £63.95
90th Percentile £84.40 £69.32 £67.50
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £56.75 £57.50
% change year-on-year -3.08% -1.31% -4.17%

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 2 January 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 2 January 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 -5 81 £530 -11.67% 22
Wokingham +10 71 £463 -13.15% 1
Windsor -11 10 £208 -58.50% 1
Bracknell -4 5 £420 -12.50%
Maidenhead -1 1 - - 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 (6.70%) OpenStack
2 5 (2.79%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.23%) Apache
4 2 (1.12%) Appian
4 2 (1.12%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.56%) Confluence
5 1 (0.56%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.12%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.56%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 78 (43.58%) AWS
2 74 (41.34%) Azure
3 41 (22.91%) GCP
4 20 (11.17%) OpenShift
5 14 (7.82%) GitHub
6 13 (7.26%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (7.26%) Serverless
7 10 (5.59%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (5.59%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (5.59%) IaaS
8 9 (5.03%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (3.91%) Azure AKS
9 7 (3.91%) Power Platform
10 5 (2.79%) Azure Functions
10 5 (2.79%) Azure Machine Learning
10 5 (2.79%) Datadog
10 5 (2.79%) OCI
11 4 (2.23%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (2.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 4 (2.23%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.94%) Network Security
2 14 (7.82%) BGP
2 14 (7.82%) MPLS
2 14 (7.82%) WAN
3 12 (6.70%) LAN
4 10 (5.59%) DNS
5 8 (4.47%) Firewall
5 8 (4.47%) SNMP
5 8 (4.47%) TACACS
6 7 (3.91%) TCP/IP
6 7 (3.91%) Wireshark
7 6 (3.35%) OSPF
7 6 (3.35%) Wireless
8 4 (2.23%) DHCP
9 3 (1.68%) 2G
9 3 (1.68%) 5G
9 3 (1.68%) SSL
9 3 (1.68%) VoIP
10 2 (1.12%) LTE
10 2 (1.12%) Mobile Backhaul
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.06%) Relational Database
2 13 (7.26%) NoSQL
3 12 (6.70%) MySQL
4 7 (3.91%) Power BI
5 6 (3.35%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (3.35%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (3.35%) Data Lake
5 6 (3.35%) MongoDB
5 6 (3.35%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (3.35%) Tableau
6 5 (2.79%) Big Data
6 5 (2.79%) Couchbase
7 4 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.23%) Hadoop
7 4 (2.23%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.12%) Delta Lake
8 2 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.12%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.56%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 19 (10.61%) Jenkins
2 15 (8.38%) Git
3 7 (3.91%) Burp Suite
3 7 (3.91%) JIRA
3 7 (3.91%) Metasploit
4 6 (3.35%) GitLab
5 2 (1.12%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.12%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.12%) Robot Framework
5 2 (1.12%) Selenium
5 2 (1.12%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.56%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.56%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.56%) MLflow
6 1 (0.56%) Mocha
6 1 (0.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 102 (56.98%) Social Skills
2 45 (25.14%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (14.53%) Documentation Skills
4 19 (10.61%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.91%) Telecoms
6 6 (3.35%) Legal
7 5 (2.79%) Finance
8 2 (1.12%) Billing
8 2 (1.12%) Retail
9 1 (0.56%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.56%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 21 (11.73%) Senior
2 19 (10.61%) SIEM Engineer
3 14 (7.82%) Architect
4 13 (7.26%) DevOps Engineer
5 11 (6.15%) Analyst
6 9 (5.03%) Data Engineer
6 9 (5.03%) Developer
6 9 (5.03%) Site Engineer
6 9 (5.03%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 9 (5.03%) SOC Analyst
7 8 (4.47%) IP Specialist
7 8 (4.47%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (3.91%) AWS Engineer
8 7 (3.91%) Data Scientist
8 7 (3.91%) Penetration Tester
8 7 (3.91%) Technical Support
8 7 (3.91%) Tester
9 6 (3.35%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (3.35%) IP Architect
9 6 (3.35%) IP Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (10.61%) LDAP
2 17 (9.50%) REST
3 10 (5.59%) NETCONF
3 10 (5.59%) scikit-learn
4 9 (5.03%) GraphQL
4 9 (5.03%) YANG
5 8 (4.47%) Kafka
5 8 (4.47%) Loki
5 8 (4.47%) OAuth
5 8 (4.47%) Pandas
6 7 (3.91%) NumPy
7 6 (3.35%) .NET
7 6 (3.35%) PyTorch
7 6 (3.35%) TensorFlow
8 5 (2.79%) .NET Core
8 5 (2.79%) Node.js
8 5 (2.79%) OAuth2
9 4 (2.23%) JSON
9 4 (2.23%) Middleware
9 4 (2.23%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 22 (12.29%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.82%) Algorithms
2 14 (7.82%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (6.70%) Cyber Security Posture
3 12 (6.70%) Onboarding
4 9 (5.03%) Data Centre
5 8 (4.47%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (4.47%) Virtual Team
6 6 (3.35%) Replication
6 6 (3.35%) Security Operations Centre
7 5 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.79%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.79%) Operational Technology
7 5 (2.79%) Security Posture
8 4 (2.23%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (2.23%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (2.23%) PKI
9 3 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.68%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 52 (29.05%) Linux
2 24 (13.41%) Windows
3 12 (6.70%) Unix
4 8 (4.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (3.91%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.56%) VMS
6 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (48.60%) CI/CD
2 69 (38.55%) Problem-Solving
3 65 (36.31%) DevOps
4 54 (30.17%) SIEM
5 44 (24.58%) Cybersecurity
6 28 (15.64%) DevSecOps
7 27 (15.08%) Infrastructure as Code
8 25 (13.97%) Agile
9 22 (12.29%) Analytical Thinking
10 21 (11.73%) High Availability
11 20 (11.17%) Containerisation
11 20 (11.17%) Machine Learning
12 19 (10.61%) Incident Response
13 18 (10.06%) Test Automation
13 18 (10.06%) Threat Detection
14 17 (9.50%) Computer Science
14 17 (9.50%) Observability
14 17 (9.50%) Validation
15 14 (7.82%) Analytics
15 14 (7.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 78 (43.58%) PowerShell
2 38 (21.23%) Bash
3 35 (19.55%) SQL
4 22 (12.29%) Java
5 16 (8.94%) JavaScript
6 12 (6.70%) Kusto Query Language
7 7 (3.91%) Perl
7 7 (3.91%) Shell Script
8 6 (3.35%) C#
8 6 (3.35%) Go
8 6 (3.35%) R
9 5 (2.79%) PHP
10 1 (0.56%) C++
10 1 (0.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 81 (45.25%) Security Cleared
2 70 (39.11%) SC Cleared
3 41 (22.91%) CISSP
4 22 (12.29%) CEH
5 19 (10.61%) GIAC
6 18 (10.06%) AWS Certification
6 18 (10.06%) CISM
6 18 (10.06%) Degree
7 16 (8.94%) Cisco Certification
8 15 (8.38%) CCIE
9 14 (7.82%) JNCIE
10 13 (7.26%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (5.03%) GCFA
11 9 (5.03%) GCIA
11 9 (5.03%) GCIH
12 7 (3.91%) CFCE
12 7 (3.91%) GPEN
12 7 (3.91%) OSCP
13 5 (2.79%) Master's Degree
14 4 (2.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (16.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 29 (16.20%) NIST
2 28 (15.64%) GDPR
3 9 (5.03%) QA
4 6 (3.35%) Data Quality
5 5 (2.79%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.56%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.56%) GRC
System Software
1 29 (16.20%) Active Directory
2 27 (15.08%) Docker
3 23 (12.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (8.38%) vSphere
5 13 (7.26%) VMware NSX
6 4 (2.23%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.56%) NDS
8 1 (0.56%) NetIQ eDirectory
Systems Management
1 46 (25.70%) Kubernetes
2 36 (20.11%) Terraform
3 32 (17.88%) Ansible
4 15 (8.38%) Grafana
5 14 (7.82%) Argo
5 14 (7.82%) Prometheus
6 11 (6.15%) Kibana
7 8 (4.47%) Kustomize
8 7 (3.91%) Nmap
9 6 (3.35%) vCenter Server
10 4 (2.23%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 4 (2.23%) QRadar
11 2 (1.12%) logstash
11 2 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.56%) Cisco CUCM
12 1 (0.56%) Cisco UCCE
12 1 (0.56%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.56%) Puppet
12 1 (0.56%) vRealize
12 1 (0.56%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 26 (14.53%) Microsoft
2 25 (13.97%) VMware
3 19 (10.61%) BeyondTrust
3 19 (10.61%) CyberArk
4 18 (10.06%) Splunk
5 16 (8.94%) Red Hat
6 11 (6.15%) ArcSight
6 11 (6.15%) Cisco
6 11 (6.15%) Tanium
7 10 (5.59%) FireEye
8 9 (5.03%) Oracle
9 8 (4.47%) Databricks
9 8 (4.47%) F5
9 8 (4.47%) Fortinet
9 8 (4.47%) Juniper
9 8 (4.47%) LogRhythm
10 7 (3.91%) CrowdStrike
10 7 (3.91%) Google
11 6 (3.35%) Pure Storage
12 5 (2.79%) IBM