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 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 17 29
Rank change year-on-year -2 +12 -9
Contract jobs citing Python 158 110 113
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 8.47% 9.77% 5.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 48.77% 34.92% 30.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 65 84
10th Percentile £309 £372 £318
25th Percentile £368 £450 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £593 £588 £638
90th Percentile £658 £600 £668
South East median daily rate £525 £505 £513
% change year-on-year +3.96% -1.56% -6.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile £77.20 - -
25th Percentile £81.06 - -
Median hourly rate £82.50 - £67.50
75th Percentile £84.69 - £72.50
90th Percentile £86.50 - £75.50
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £56.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% -13.46% +165.74%

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 324 315 376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 17.37% 27.98% 19.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 198 258
10th Percentile £306 £400 £325
25th Percentile £367 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £611
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
South East median daily rate £505 £500 £511
% change year-on-year +1.00% -2.15% -2.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 17
10th Percentile £73.40 £34.94 £56.49
25th Percentile £80.75 £41.99 £56.65
Median hourly rate £81.50 £54.35 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +49.97% -11.78% -15.33%
75th Percentile £83.75 £66.08 £67.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £72.75 £72.81
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £54.94 £62.50
% change year-on-year +9.22% -12.10% +9.68%

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 19 June 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 19 June 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 £538 +7.50% 23
Wokingham +3 64 £410 -8.89% 6
Windsor -8 4 £208 -58.50% 1
Bracknell -1 3 £450 -6.25% 2
Slough +7 1 - - 9
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 13 (8.23%) OpenStack
2 4 (2.53%) WebSphere
2 4 (2.53%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (1.27%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.27%) ArcGIS
3 2 (1.27%) IBM HTTP Server
3 2 (1.27%) JBoss
3 2 (1.27%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 2 (1.27%) WebSphere Portal
4 1 (0.63%) Apache
4 1 (0.63%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (5.70%) CPLEX
2 3 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 75 (47.47%) Azure
2 60 (37.97%) AWS
3 37 (23.42%) GCP
4 14 (8.86%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (6.96%) OpenShift
6 8 (5.06%) GitHub
7 7 (4.43%) Azure Monitor
8 6 (3.80%) Power Platform
9 5 (3.16%) Amazon S3
9 5 (3.16%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (3.16%) Azure Machine Learning
9 5 (3.16%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (2.53%) Azure Key Vault
10 4 (2.53%) Datadog
10 4 (2.53%) Serverless
11 3 (1.90%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.90%) Azure Sentinel
12 2 (1.27%) AWS Step Functions
12 2 (1.27%) Azure AKS
12 2 (1.27%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.23%) BGP
2 10 (6.33%) MPLS
2 10 (6.33%) WAN
3 8 (5.06%) LAN
4 7 (4.43%) Wireshark
5 6 (3.80%) 5G
5 6 (3.80%) Diameter Protocol
5 6 (3.80%) Firewall
5 6 (3.80%) LTE
5 6 (3.80%) Radio Access Network
5 6 (3.80%) VoLTE
5 6 (3.80%) VoWiFi
6 4 (2.53%) Network Security
6 4 (2.53%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.90%) Ethernet VPN
7 3 (1.90%) HTTP
7 3 (1.90%) SSL
7 3 (1.90%) VXLAN
8 2 (1.27%) SNMP
8 2 (1.27%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (10.76%) NoSQL
2 12 (7.59%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (6.96%) Relational Database
4 10 (6.33%) MongoDB
5 6 (3.80%) MySQL
5 6 (3.80%) Power BI
6 5 (3.16%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (3.16%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (3.16%) Big Data
7 4 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.53%) SQL Server
7 4 (2.53%) Tableau
8 3 (1.90%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.90%) Parquet
9 2 (1.27%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.27%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.27%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.27%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.63%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.63%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 18 (11.39%) Git
2 10 (6.33%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.80%) JIRA
4 5 (3.16%) GitLab
5 2 (1.27%) Introscope
6 1 (0.63%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.63%) JMeter
6 1 (0.63%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.63%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.63%) NeoLoad
6 1 (0.63%) Oracle Developer 2000
6 1 (0.63%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.63%) Visual Studio
General
1 62 (39.24%) Social Skills
2 30 (18.99%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (8.23%) Documentation Skills
4 11 (6.96%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.06%) Aerospace
6 7 (4.43%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.27%) Advertising
7 2 (1.27%) Marketing
7 2 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.63%) Banking
8 1 (0.63%) Finance
8 1 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (14.56%) Senior
2 22 (13.92%) Developer
3 16 (10.13%) Python Developer
4 15 (9.49%) Data Engineer
5 13 (8.23%) SIEM Engineer
6 9 (5.70%) Architect
7 7 (4.43%) Analyst
7 7 (4.43%) Platform Engineer
7 7 (4.43%) Site Engineer
7 7 (4.43%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 6 (3.80%) IP Architect
8 6 (3.80%) Network Architect
8 6 (3.80%) Tester
9 5 (3.16%) Senior Data Engineer
10 4 (2.53%) Azure Engineer
10 4 (2.53%) Cloud Engineer
10 4 (2.53%) Data Scientist
10 4 (2.53%) Full-Stack Developer
10 4 (2.53%) Middleware Engineer
10 4 (2.53%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.59%) Kafka
1 12 (7.59%) LDAP
1 12 (7.59%) RESTful
2 11 (6.96%) FastAPI
2 11 (6.96%) REST
3 10 (6.33%) Flask
3 10 (6.33%) Pandas
3 10 (6.33%) RabbitMQ
4 9 (5.70%) Django
4 9 (5.70%) NETCONF
4 9 (5.70%) NumPy
4 9 (5.70%) OpenAPI
4 9 (5.70%) pytest
4 9 (5.70%) Swagger
4 9 (5.70%) YANG
5 8 (5.06%) Middleware
6 5 (3.16%) Jinja
6 5 (3.16%) PySpark
7 4 (2.53%) .NET
7 4 (2.53%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 23 (14.56%) Cloud Native
2 19 (12.03%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (10.13%) Algorithms
4 11 (6.96%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (6.96%) Onboarding
5 9 (5.70%) Data Structures
6 7 (4.43%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.53%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.90%) Clustering
8 3 (1.90%) Cyber Security Posture
8 3 (1.90%) Operational Technology
9 2 (1.27%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.27%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.27%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.27%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.63%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 31 (19.62%) Linux
2 14 (8.86%) Unix
2 14 (8.86%) Windows
3 8 (5.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.27%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (1.27%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.63%) Kali Linux
5 1 (0.63%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (38.61%) DevOps
2 53 (33.54%) Problem-Solving
3 52 (32.91%) CI/CD
4 30 (18.99%) Analytics
5 29 (18.35%) SIEM
6 23 (14.56%) Agile
7 22 (13.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 21 (13.29%) Data Analysis
9 20 (12.66%) Cybersecurity
10 19 (12.03%) Containerisation
10 19 (12.03%) Data Pipeline
10 19 (12.03%) High Availability
10 19 (12.03%) Machine Learning
11 18 (11.39%) Data Science
12 16 (10.13%) Stakeholder Management
12 16 (10.13%) Task Automation
13 15 (9.49%) AI
14 14 (8.86%) Microservices
14 14 (8.86%) Platform Engineering
14 14 (8.86%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 53 (33.54%) PowerShell
2 37 (23.42%) SQL
3 26 (16.46%) Bash
4 19 (12.03%) Java
5 13 (8.23%) JavaScript
6 12 (7.59%) Kusto Query Language
7 11 (6.96%) Go
8 9 (5.70%) Perl
9 4 (2.53%) C#
10 3 (1.90%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.27%) Bicep
11 2 (1.27%) Jython
11 2 (1.27%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.27%) Scala
12 1 (0.63%) C++
12 1 (0.63%) Groovy
12 1 (0.63%) PHP
12 1 (0.63%) R
12 1 (0.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 65 (41.14%) Security Cleared
2 51 (32.28%) SC Cleared
3 19 (12.03%) CISSP
4 12 (7.59%) CISM
5 9 (5.70%) CCIE
5 9 (5.70%) Cisco Certification
5 9 (5.70%) JNCIE
6 7 (4.43%) AWS Certification
6 7 (4.43%) Azure Certification
6 7 (4.43%) Degree
7 6 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (3.80%) RHCE
8 4 (2.53%) CEH
8 4 (2.53%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.53%) GIAC
9 2 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.63%) CFCE
10 1 (0.63%) GCIA
10 1 (0.63%) GPEN
10 1 (0.63%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 15 (9.49%) NIST
2 12 (7.59%) GDPR
3 6 (3.80%) SLA
4 5 (3.16%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.53%) QA
6 1 (0.63%) JTAG
System Software
1 18 (11.39%) Docker
2 13 (8.23%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.63%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (24.05%) Kubernetes
2 22 (13.92%) Ansible
3 12 (7.59%) Terraform
4 7 (4.43%) Grafana
4 7 (4.43%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.90%) Argo
5 3 (1.90%) Kibana
5 3 (1.90%) Kustomize
5 3 (1.90%) Nessus
5 3 (1.90%) OpenVAS
5 3 (1.90%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.90%) Puppet
6 2 (1.27%) CA Wily
6 2 (1.27%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.63%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 1 (0.63%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.63%) Nmap
7 1 (0.63%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 15 (9.49%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.23%) Databricks
3 12 (7.59%) BeyondTrust
3 12 (7.59%) CyberArk
4 10 (6.33%) Red Hat
5 8 (5.06%) Oracle
5 8 (5.06%) Splunk
6 7 (4.43%) Nokia
7 6 (3.80%) AppDynamics
7 6 (3.80%) BT
7 6 (3.80%) Ericsson
7 6 (3.80%) Huawei
8 5 (3.16%) Dynatrace
8 5 (3.16%) Tanium
9 4 (2.53%) IBM
10 3 (1.90%) Arista
10 3 (1.90%) Cisco
10 3 (1.90%) Google
10 3 (1.90%) Juniper
10 3 (1.90%) Qualys