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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 15 40
Rank change year-on-year +2 +25 -1
Contract jobs citing Python 180 150 90
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 12.15% 11.01% 5.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 55.05% 40.00% 26.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 82 58
10th Percentile £335 £387 £343
25th Percentile £406 £481 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £638 £638
90th Percentile £610 £650 £688
South East median daily rate £481 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.76% -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% +50.00%

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 327 375 337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 22.06% 27.53% 19.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 227 235
10th Percentile £337 £390 £350
25th Percentile £407 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.17% +4.55% +1.29%
75th Percentile £569 £650 £638
90th Percentile £625 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £483 £503 £525
% change year-on-year -3.86% -4.29% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 11
10th Percentile £39.25 £47.44 £48.40
25th Percentile £70.00 £55.87 £49.07
Median hourly rate £75.00 £60.25 £56.06
Median % change year-on-year +24.49% +7.47% -19.91%
75th Percentile £82.00 £67.93 £63.95
90th Percentile £84.40 £75.56 £67.50
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £57.25 £59.00
% change year-on-year -3.93% -2.97% -1.67%

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 14 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 14 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 77 £525 -12.50% 30
Wokingham +9 76 £450 -15.49% 5
Windsor -8 11 £208 -58.50% 1
Bracknell -5 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 (6.67%) OpenStack
2 5 (2.78%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.22%) Apache
4 2 (1.11%) Appian
4 2 (1.11%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.56%) Confluence
5 1 (0.56%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.11%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 80 (44.44%) AWS
2 77 (42.78%) Azure
3 43 (23.89%) GCP
4 20 (11.11%) OpenShift
5 13 (7.22%) GitHub
5 13 (7.22%) Serverless
6 12 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (5.56%) IaaS
8 8 (4.44%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (3.89%) Azure AKS
10 5 (2.78%) Azure Functions
10 5 (2.78%) Azure Machine Learning
10 5 (2.78%) Datadog
10 5 (2.78%) OCI
10 5 (2.78%) Power Platform
11 4 (2.22%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (2.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 4 (2.22%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 15 (8.33%) Network Security
2 14 (7.78%) BGP
2 14 (7.78%) MPLS
2 14 (7.78%) WAN
3 12 (6.67%) LAN
4 10 (5.56%) DNS
5 8 (4.44%) Firewall
5 8 (4.44%) SNMP
5 8 (4.44%) TACACS
5 8 (4.44%) Wireshark
6 7 (3.89%) TCP/IP
7 6 (3.33%) OSPF
7 6 (3.33%) Wireless
8 4 (2.22%) DHCP
9 3 (1.67%) 2G
9 3 (1.67%) 5G
9 3 (1.67%) SSL
9 3 (1.67%) VoIP
10 2 (1.11%) LTE
10 2 (1.11%) Mobile Backhaul
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.00%) Relational Database
2 13 (7.22%) MySQL
2 13 (7.22%) NoSQL
3 6 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (3.33%) Amazon Redshift
3 6 (3.33%) MongoDB
3 6 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.78%) Big Data
4 5 (2.78%) Couchbase
4 5 (2.78%) Data Lake
4 5 (2.78%) Power BI
5 4 (2.22%) Hadoop
5 4 (2.22%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.22%) Tableau
6 3 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.11%) Delta Lake
7 2 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.11%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.56%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 19 (10.56%) Jenkins
2 15 (8.33%) Git
3 8 (4.44%) Burp Suite
3 8 (4.44%) Metasploit
4 7 (3.89%) JIRA
5 6 (3.33%) GitLab
6 2 (1.11%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.11%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.11%) Robot Framework
6 2 (1.11%) Selenium
6 2 (1.11%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.56%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.56%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.56%) MLflow
7 1 (0.56%) Mocha
7 1 (0.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 105 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 43 (23.89%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (15.56%) Documentation Skills
4 18 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.33%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.22%) Finance
7 3 (1.67%) Legal
8 2 (1.11%) Billing
8 2 (1.11%) Retail
9 1 (0.56%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.56%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 20 (11.11%) Senior
2 19 (10.56%) SIEM Engineer
3 14 (7.78%) Architect
4 13 (7.22%) DevOps Engineer
5 10 (5.56%) Site Engineer
5 10 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 10 (5.56%) Tester
6 8 (4.44%) Data Engineer
6 8 (4.44%) Developer
6 8 (4.44%) IP Specialist
6 8 (4.44%) Penetration Tester
6 8 (4.44%) Platform Engineer
6 8 (4.44%) Technical Support
7 7 (3.89%) Analyst
7 7 (3.89%) AWS Engineer
7 7 (3.89%) Data Scientist
8 6 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (3.33%) Designer
8 6 (3.33%) IP Architect
8 6 (3.33%) IP Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (11.67%) LDAP
2 17 (9.44%) REST
3 10 (5.56%) NETCONF
3 10 (5.56%) scikit-learn
4 9 (5.00%) GraphQL
4 9 (5.00%) YANG
5 8 (4.44%) Kafka
5 8 (4.44%) Loki
5 8 (4.44%) OAuth
6 7 (3.89%) Pandas
7 6 (3.33%) .NET
7 6 (3.33%) NumPy
7 6 (3.33%) PyTorch
7 6 (3.33%) TensorFlow
8 5 (2.78%) .NET Core
8 5 (2.78%) Node.js
8 5 (2.78%) OAuth2
9 4 (2.22%) Jinja
9 4 (2.22%) PySpark
9 4 (2.22%) React
Miscellaneous
1 22 (12.22%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.78%) Hybrid Cloud
3 13 (7.22%) Algorithms
4 12 (6.67%) Cyber Security Posture
4 12 (6.67%) Onboarding
5 11 (6.11%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (5.00%) Data Centre
7 8 (4.44%) Virtual Team
8 6 (3.33%) Replication
9 5 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (2.78%) Operational Technology
10 4 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (2.22%) PKI
10 4 (2.22%) Security Operations Centre
11 3 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.67%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (1.67%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.67%) Security Posture
12 2 (1.11%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (1.11%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 51 (28.33%) Linux
2 22 (12.22%) Windows
3 13 (7.22%) Unix
4 8 (4.44%) Kali Linux
4 8 (4.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.56%) VMS
5 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (50.56%) CI/CD
2 71 (39.44%) Problem-Solving
3 65 (36.11%) DevOps
4 52 (28.89%) SIEM
5 44 (24.44%) Cybersecurity
6 30 (16.67%) DevSecOps
7 27 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 24 (13.33%) Agile
8 24 (13.33%) High Availability
9 21 (11.67%) Analytical Thinking
9 21 (11.67%) Test Automation
10 20 (11.11%) Containerisation
10 20 (11.11%) Machine Learning
11 17 (9.44%) Observability
11 17 (9.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 17 (9.44%) Threat Detection
12 16 (8.89%) Validation
13 15 (8.33%) Computer Science
13 15 (8.33%) Incident Response
14 14 (7.78%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 77 (42.78%) PowerShell
2 39 (21.67%) Bash
3 34 (18.89%) SQL
4 26 (14.44%) Java
5 19 (10.56%) JavaScript
6 12 (6.67%) Kusto Query Language
7 9 (5.00%) Go
8 8 (4.44%) Perl
9 7 (3.89%) Shell Script
10 6 (3.33%) C#
10 6 (3.33%) R
11 5 (2.78%) PHP
12 1 (0.56%) C++
12 1 (0.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 85 (47.22%) Security Cleared
2 75 (41.67%) SC Cleared
3 39 (21.67%) CISSP
4 23 (12.78%) CEH
5 20 (11.11%) CISM
6 18 (10.00%) AWS Certification
7 17 (9.44%) GIAC
8 16 (8.89%) Cisco Certification
8 16 (8.89%) Degree
9 15 (8.33%) CCIE
10 14 (7.78%) JNCIE
11 12 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (4.44%) GPEN
12 8 (4.44%) OSCP
13 5 (2.78%) GCFA
13 5 (2.78%) GCIA
13 5 (2.78%) GCIH
14 4 (2.22%) CFCE
14 4 (2.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 3 (1.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (15.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 28 (15.56%) NIST
2 27 (15.00%) GDPR
3 9 (5.00%) QA
4 4 (2.22%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.67%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.56%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 31 (17.22%) Active Directory
2 27 (15.00%) Docker
3 23 (12.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (8.33%) vSphere
5 13 (7.22%) VMware NSX
6 4 (2.22%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.56%) NDS
8 1 (0.56%) NetIQ eDirectory
Systems Management
1 49 (27.22%) Kubernetes
2 36 (20.00%) Terraform
3 32 (17.78%) Ansible
4 15 (8.33%) Grafana
5 14 (7.78%) Argo
5 14 (7.78%) Prometheus
6 11 (6.11%) Kibana
7 8 (4.44%) Kustomize
7 8 (4.44%) Nmap
8 6 (3.33%) vCenter Server
9 4 (2.22%) QRadar
10 2 (1.11%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 2 (1.11%) logstash
10 2 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.56%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.56%) Cisco UCCE
11 1 (0.56%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.56%) Puppet
11 1 (0.56%) vRealize
11 1 (0.56%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 25 (13.89%) VMware
2 22 (12.22%) Microsoft
3 21 (11.67%) BeyondTrust
3 21 (11.67%) CyberArk
4 16 (8.89%) Red Hat
5 14 (7.78%) Splunk
6 11 (6.11%) Cisco
6 11 (6.11%) Tanium
7 10 (5.56%) FireEye
7 10 (5.56%) Oracle
8 8 (4.44%) ArcSight
8 8 (4.44%) F5
8 8 (4.44%) Fortinet
8 8 (4.44%) Juniper
9 7 (3.89%) Databricks
10 6 (3.33%) Google
10 6 (3.33%) Pure Storage
11 5 (2.78%) Confluent
11 5 (2.78%) IBM
11 5 (2.78%) LogRhythm