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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 17 31
Rank change year-on-year +1 +14 -11
Contract jobs citing Python 172 125 107
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 9.48% 10.52% 6.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 57.14% 39.68% 29.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 72 71
10th Percentile £335 £364 £330
25th Percentile £407 £446 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £571 £638
90th Percentile £650 £600 £650
South East median daily rate £538 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +7.50% - -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 £29.00
% change year-on-year +17.34% +98.28% -47.27%

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 301 315 357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 16.59% 26.52% 20.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 189 238
10th Percentile £335 £360 £363
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £500 £580
Median % change year-on-year +4.25% -13.79% +5.45%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £638
90th Percentile £676 £638 £663
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 1 8
10th Percentile £61.74 - £47.44
25th Percentile £66.55 £18.75 £57.84
Median hourly rate £71.43 £19.50 £63.93
Median % change year-on-year +266.31% -69.50% +14.04%
75th Percentile £83.31 £20.25 £75.53
90th Percentile £85.05 - £80.50
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% -21.43% +26.06%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -15 90 £550 +4.76% 48
Wokingham +4 60 £500 +9.59% 7
Slough +7 5 £500 -9.09% 15
Bracknell -5 1 - - 14
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 3 (1.74%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.74%) WebSphere
3 3 (1.74%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (1.16%) Apache
4 2 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.16%) Apache Superset
4 2 (1.16%) JBoss
4 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.58%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 1 (0.58%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 8 (4.65%) CPLEX
2 5 (2.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 94 (54.65%) Azure
2 59 (34.30%) AWS
3 32 (18.60%) GCP
4 22 (12.79%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (12.79%) OpenShift
5 12 (6.98%) Azure Monitor
5 12 (6.98%) Entra ID
5 12 (6.98%) GitHub
6 11 (6.40%) GitHub Actions
6 11 (6.40%) Power Platform
7 8 (4.65%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (4.65%) Azure Key Vault
8 7 (4.07%) Azure AKS
8 7 (4.07%) Azure App Service
9 6 (3.49%) Azure Data Factory
9 6 (3.49%) Route 53
10 5 (2.91%) Azure Machine Learning
11 4 (2.33%) Azure Storage
11 4 (2.33%) IaaS
11 4 (2.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 17 (9.88%) DNS
2 16 (9.30%) TCP/IP
3 15 (8.72%) Firewall
4 14 (8.14%) BGP
5 11 (6.40%) DHCP
6 9 (5.23%) Network Security
6 9 (5.23%) WAN
7 8 (4.65%) MPLS
7 8 (4.65%) VPN
8 7 (4.07%) LAN
8 7 (4.07%) Radio Access Network
9 6 (3.49%) 5G
9 6 (3.49%) Diameter Protocol
9 6 (3.49%) DNSSEC
9 6 (3.49%) LTE
9 6 (3.49%) VoLTE
9 6 (3.49%) VoWiFi
9 6 (3.49%) VXLAN
9 6 (3.49%) Wireshark
10 4 (2.33%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.47%) NoSQL
2 11 (6.40%) Power BI
3 10 (5.81%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (5.23%) MongoDB
4 9 (5.23%) Relational Database
5 6 (3.49%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (2.33%) Big Data
6 4 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.74%) GIS
7 3 (1.74%) Hadoop
7 3 (1.74%) Spark SQL
7 3 (1.74%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.74%) Tableau
8 2 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.16%) Metadata
8 2 (1.16%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.16%) Parquet
9 1 (0.58%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.58%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 21 (12.21%) Git
2 16 (9.30%) Jenkins
3 10 (5.81%) GitLab
4 6 (3.49%) JIRA
5 2 (1.16%) JMeter
6 1 (0.58%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.58%) Introscope
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 66 (38.37%) Social Skills
2 49 (28.49%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (13.95%) Aerospace
4 13 (7.56%) 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 25 (14.53%) Developer
1 25 (14.53%) Senior
2 23 (13.37%) Data Engineer
3 18 (10.47%) Architect
4 15 (8.72%) Python Developer
5 11 (6.40%) Data Scientist
6 10 (5.81%) Network Architect
6 10 (5.81%) Systems Engineer
7 8 (4.65%) Analyst
7 8 (4.65%) Full-Stack Developer
7 8 (4.65%) Lead
8 7 (4.07%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (4.07%) Senior Data Engineer
9 6 (3.49%) Consultant
9 6 (3.49%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 5 (2.91%) Data Analyst
10 5 (2.91%) IP Architect
10 5 (2.91%) Network Consultant
10 5 (2.91%) Product Owner
11 4 (2.33%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (22.67%) Terraform
2 20 (11.63%) REST
3 15 (8.72%) RESTful
4 13 (7.56%) PySpark
5 10 (5.81%) ARM Templates
5 10 (5.81%) FastAPI
5 10 (5.81%) NETCONF
6 9 (5.23%) Flask
6 9 (5.23%) Kafka
7 8 (4.65%) .NET
7 8 (4.65%) Django
7 8 (4.65%) NumPy
7 8 (4.65%) OpenAPI
7 8 (4.65%) Pandas
7 8 (4.65%) RabbitMQ
7 8 (4.65%) Swagger
7 8 (4.65%) YANG
8 7 (4.07%) LDAP
8 7 (4.07%) OAuth
8 7 (4.07%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 24 (13.95%) Hybrid Cloud
2 22 (12.79%) 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 5 (2.91%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.91%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 5 (2.91%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.33%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.33%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.74%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.74%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.74%) SCADA
9 2 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.16%) Private Cloud
9 2 (1.16%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 31 (18.02%) Linux
2 19 (11.05%) Windows
3 9 (5.23%) Unix
4 8 (4.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (4.07%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.58%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (43.60%) DevOps
2 57 (33.14%) CI/CD
3 50 (29.07%) Problem-Solving
4 44 (25.58%) Analytics
5 39 (22.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 33 (19.19%) Agile
7 28 (16.28%) Data Science
8 27 (15.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 26 (15.12%) Data Pipeline
10 25 (14.53%) Data Engineering
10 25 (14.53%) Platform Engineering
11 24 (13.95%) Validation
12 23 (13.37%) Containerisation
12 23 (13.37%) Machine Learning
13 20 (11.63%) Data Governance
13 20 (11.63%) DevSecOps
14 19 (11.05%) Cybersecurity
14 19 (11.05%) High Availability
14 19 (11.05%) Stakeholder Management
15 17 (9.88%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 58 (33.72%) PowerShell
2 51 (29.65%) SQL
3 38 (22.09%) Bash
4 12 (6.98%) Java
5 10 (5.81%) Bicep
6 7 (4.07%) C#
7 6 (3.49%) Go
8 5 (2.91%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.74%) Perl
10 2 (1.16%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.16%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.16%) Scala
11 1 (0.58%) Groovy
11 1 (0.58%) Jython
11 1 (0.58%) R
11 1 (0.58%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 71 (41.28%) Security Cleared
2 64 (37.21%) SC Cleared
3 19 (11.05%) Cisco Certification
4 18 (10.47%) CISSP
5 14 (8.14%) Azure Certification
6 13 (7.56%) Degree
7 10 (5.81%) CCIE
7 10 (5.81%) JNCIE
8 9 (5.23%) AWS Certification
8 9 (5.23%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (4.07%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 6 (3.49%) CEH
10 6 (3.49%) CISM
11 5 (2.91%) RHCE
12 4 (2.33%) CompTIA Security+
13 3 (1.74%) CCSP
13 3 (1.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 3 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (1.74%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (1.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.30%) Data Quality
2 12 (6.98%) NIST
3 10 (5.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (4.07%) 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%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.58%) JTAG
System Software
1 19 (11.05%) Docker
2 13 (7.56%) 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
Systems Management
1 48 (27.91%) Kubernetes
2 40 (23.26%) Ansible
3 5 (2.91%) Grafana
4 4 (2.33%) QRadar
5 3 (1.74%) Istio
5 3 (1.74%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.74%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.74%) Puppet
6 2 (1.16%) CASB
6 2 (1.16%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.58%) Amdocs OSS
7 1 (0.58%) CA Wily
7 1 (0.58%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.58%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.58%) SCOM
7 1 (0.58%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.58%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 45 (26.16%) Microsoft
2 21 (12.21%) Databricks
3 13 (7.56%) Google
4 12 (6.98%) Red Hat
5 10 (5.81%) CyberArk
5 10 (5.81%) VMware
6 9 (5.23%) Cisco
6 9 (5.23%) Splunk
7 8 (4.65%) Nokia
8 6 (3.49%) BeyondTrust
8 6 (3.49%) BT
8 6 (3.49%) Ericsson
8 6 (3.49%) Huawei
8 6 (3.49%) Infoblox
9 5 (2.91%) F5
9 5 (2.91%) Fortinet
9 5 (2.91%) Juniper
10 4 (2.33%) Oracle
11 3 (1.74%) ArcSight
11 3 (1.74%) IBM