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

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 10 46
Rank change year-on-year -3 +36 -15
Contract jobs citing Python 189 159 91
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 11.00% 12.61% 4.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 50.81% 43.80% 25.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 88 59
10th Percentile £335 £382 £325
25th Percentile £403 £457 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £529 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.95% -3.86% +10.00%
75th Percentile £534 £603 £675
90th Percentile £675 £638 £688
South East median daily rate £492 £533 £533
% change year-on-year -7.61% - -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile £71.36 - -
25th Percentile £73.40 - -
Median hourly rate £82.00 - £67.50
75th Percentile £83.75 - -
90th Percentile £85.10 - -
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £61.25 £67.50
% change year-on-year -22.45% -9.26% +52.54%

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 372 363 355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 21.65% 28.79% 17.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 223 242
10th Percentile £331 £387 £333
25th Percentile £403 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.80% -3.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £634
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -0.05% -4.71% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 17
10th Percentile £54.63 - £48.40
25th Percentile £72.55 £55.87 £56.16
Median hourly rate £79.15 £60.25 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +31.38% +3.34% -16.71%
75th Percentile £82.63 £65.62 £61.60
90th Percentile £84.43 £71.40 £68.00
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £59.13 £59.00
% change year-on-year -6.98% +0.21% +7.27%

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 March 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 1 March 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 -8 86 £525 -8.70% 53
Wokingham +7 79 £449 -7.76% 8
Windsor -6 12 £208 -58.50% 1
Bracknell -6 3 £423 -11.98%
Slough -1 1 - - 106
Maidenhead -5 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 4 (2.12%) Apache
1 4 (2.12%) OpenStack
2 2 (1.06%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.06%) Confluence
3 1 (0.53%) Appian
3 1 (0.53%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.53%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.59%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.53%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 79 (41.80%) Azure
2 70 (37.04%) AWS
3 43 (22.75%) GCP
4 20 (10.58%) OpenShift
5 16 (8.47%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (5.29%) GitHub
6 10 (5.29%) IaaS
6 10 (5.29%) Serverless
7 8 (4.23%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (4.23%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (3.70%) Power Platform
9 6 (3.17%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (3.17%) Azure AKS
9 6 (3.17%) Azure Functions
10 5 (2.65%) Azure Machine Learning
10 5 (2.65%) Entra ID
11 4 (2.12%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (2.12%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (2.12%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.41%) Network Security
2 10 (5.29%) DNS
3 8 (4.23%) TCP/IP
3 8 (4.23%) Wireshark
4 7 (3.70%) BGP
4 7 (3.70%) Firewall
4 7 (3.70%) MPLS
4 7 (3.70%) WAN
5 4 (2.12%) DHCP
5 4 (2.12%) LAN
5 4 (2.12%) SNMP
5 4 (2.12%) TACACS
6 3 (1.59%) SSL
6 3 (1.59%) VoIP
7 2 (1.06%) 2G
7 2 (1.06%) 5G
7 2 (1.06%) LTE
7 2 (1.06%) Mobile Backhaul
8 1 (0.53%) Cisco ICM
8 1 (0.53%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.47%) Relational Database
2 14 (7.41%) MySQL
3 13 (6.88%) NoSQL
4 7 (3.70%) Power BI
5 6 (3.17%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (3.17%) MongoDB
5 6 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (3.17%) Tableau
6 5 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.12%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.12%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.59%) Couchbase
8 3 (1.59%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.59%) Parquet
9 2 (1.06%) Big Data
9 2 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.06%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.53%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.53%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 18 (9.52%) Jenkins
2 16 (8.47%) Git
3 8 (4.23%) Burp Suite
3 8 (4.23%) Metasploit
4 6 (3.17%) JIRA
5 3 (1.59%) GitLab
6 1 (0.53%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.53%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.53%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.53%) Selenium
6 1 (0.53%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio
General
1 98 (51.85%) Social Skills
2 47 (24.87%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (13.76%) Documentation Skills
4 21 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 3 (1.59%) Legal
5 3 (1.59%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.06%) Advertising
6 2 (1.06%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.06%) Billing
6 2 (1.06%) Finance
6 2 (1.06%) Retail
7 1 (0.53%) Marketing
7 1 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 28 (14.81%) SIEM Engineer
2 25 (13.23%) Senior
3 13 (6.88%) Tester
4 12 (6.35%) DevOps Engineer
5 11 (5.82%) Analyst
5 11 (5.82%) Architect
6 10 (5.29%) Developer
7 9 (4.76%) Technical Support
8 8 (4.23%) Penetration Tester
8 8 (4.23%) Platform Engineer
9 7 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (3.70%) Site Engineer
9 7 (3.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 7 (3.70%) SOC Analyst
10 5 (2.65%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (2.65%) Data Engineer
10 5 (2.65%) IP Specialist
10 5 (2.65%) Security Engineer
10 5 (2.65%) Senior DevOps
10 5 (2.65%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (12.70%) LDAP
2 16 (8.47%) REST
3 11 (5.82%) Loki
4 9 (4.76%) OAuth
5 8 (4.23%) GraphQL
6 7 (3.70%) .NET
6 7 (3.70%) NETCONF
6 7 (3.70%) scikit-learn
7 6 (3.17%) .NET Core
7 6 (3.17%) Kafka
7 6 (3.17%) Pandas
7 6 (3.17%) YANG
8 5 (2.65%) PyTorch
8 5 (2.65%) React
8 5 (2.65%) SAML
8 5 (2.65%) TensorFlow
9 4 (2.12%) JSON
9 4 (2.12%) Middleware
9 4 (2.12%) Node.js
9 4 (2.12%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.05%) Cloud Native
2 17 (8.99%) Onboarding
3 11 (5.82%) Cyber Security Posture
4 10 (5.29%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (4.76%) Algorithms
6 8 (4.23%) Operational Technology
6 8 (4.23%) Virtual Team
7 7 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (3.17%) Security Operations Centre
9 5 (2.65%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (2.65%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (2.12%) Data Centre
10 4 (2.12%) Management Information System
10 4 (2.12%) PKI
10 4 (2.12%) Replication
10 4 (2.12%) Security Posture
11 3 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (1.06%) Cyber Threat
12 2 (1.06%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 57 (30.16%) Linux
2 25 (13.23%) Windows
3 12 (6.35%) Unix
4 10 (5.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (4.23%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.53%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.53%) VMS
6 1 (0.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (45.50%) CI/CD
2 74 (39.15%) Problem-Solving
3 72 (38.10%) DevOps
4 65 (34.39%) SIEM
5 50 (26.46%) Cybersecurity
6 32 (16.93%) DevSecOps
7 28 (14.81%) Infrastructure as Code
8 27 (14.29%) Agile
9 23 (12.17%) Test Automation
10 22 (11.64%) Observability
10 22 (11.64%) Stakeholder Management
11 21 (11.11%) Analytical Thinking
12 20 (10.58%) Containerisation
12 20 (10.58%) Data Analysis
13 19 (10.05%) Analytics
13 19 (10.05%) Threat Detection
14 18 (9.52%) Machine Learning
14 18 (9.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 17 (8.99%) High Availability
16 16 (8.47%) AI
Programming Languages
1 94 (49.74%) PowerShell
2 44 (23.28%) Bash
3 37 (19.58%) SQL
4 24 (12.70%) JavaScript
5 23 (12.17%) Kusto Query Language
6 21 (11.11%) Java
7 10 (5.29%) Perl
8 7 (3.70%) C#
9 6 (3.17%) PHP
10 5 (2.65%) Go
10 5 (2.65%) Shell Script
11 4 (2.12%) R
12 1 (0.53%) Bicep
12 1 (0.53%) C++
Qualifications
1 101 (53.44%) Security Cleared
2 86 (45.50%) SC Cleared
3 41 (21.69%) CISSP
4 22 (11.64%) CISM
5 21 (11.11%) CEH
6 17 (8.99%) GIAC
7 15 (7.94%) Degree
8 12 (6.35%) AWS Certification
8 12 (6.35%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (4.23%) CCIE
10 8 (4.23%) GPEN
10 8 (4.23%) OSCP
11 7 (3.70%) JNCIE
12 6 (3.17%) GCFA
12 6 (3.17%) GCIA
12 6 (3.17%) GCIH
13 5 (2.65%) Azure Certification
13 5 (2.65%) CFCE
14 3 (1.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (17.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 33 (17.46%) NIST
3 29 (15.34%) GDPR
4 8 (4.23%) QA
5 4 (2.12%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.59%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 35 (18.52%) Active Directory
2 25 (13.23%) Docker
3 17 (8.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (7.41%) vSphere
5 7 (3.70%) VMware NSX
6 4 (2.12%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.53%) NDS
8 1 (0.53%) NetIQ eDirectory
Systems Management
1 47 (24.87%) Kubernetes
2 27 (14.29%) Terraform
3 23 (12.17%) Ansible
4 17 (8.99%) Argo
4 17 (8.99%) Grafana
4 17 (8.99%) Prometheus
5 13 (6.88%) Kibana
6 11 (5.82%) Kustomize
7 8 (4.23%) Nmap
8 6 (3.17%) vCenter Server
9 3 (1.59%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 3 (1.59%) Nessus
9 3 (1.59%) OpenVAS
10 2 (1.06%) logstash
10 2 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.53%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.53%) Cisco UCCE
Vendors
1 26 (13.76%) Microsoft
2 24 (12.70%) BeyondTrust
2 24 (12.70%) CyberArk
3 19 (10.05%) VMware
4 17 (8.99%) Red Hat
5 15 (7.94%) Tanium
6 12 (6.35%) FireEye
7 11 (5.82%) Oracle
8 10 (5.29%) Splunk
9 8 (4.23%) LogRhythm
10 6 (3.17%) Cisco
10 6 (3.17%) Databricks
10 6 (3.17%) Google
10 6 (3.17%) Pure Storage
11 5 (2.65%) ArcSight
11 5 (2.65%) F5
12 4 (2.12%) AppDynamics
12 4 (2.12%) Dynatrace
12 4 (2.12%) Fortinet
12 4 (2.12%) Juniper