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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 27 21
Rank change year-on-year +10 -6 +17
Contract jobs citing Python 125 117 151
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 10.61% 6.83% 8.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.25% 32.05% 37.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 76 113
10th Percentile £383 £331 £360
25th Percentile £446 £397 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £573 £638 £688
90th Percentile £600 £650 £750
South East median daily rate £500 £503 £550
% change year-on-year -0.50% -8.64% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £51.75 -
South East median hourly rate £57.50 £29.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +98.28% -49.57% +162.62%

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 303 365 400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 25.72% 21.30% 22.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 245 286
10th Percentile £361 £363 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £638
90th Percentile £620 £663 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 6
10th Percentile - £50.25 £48.40
25th Percentile £18.75 £55.87 £48.73
Median hourly rate £19.50 £58.49 £52.90
Median % change year-on-year -66.66% +10.58% -38.67%
75th Percentile £20.25 £74.87 £62.39
90th Percentile - £79.50 £71.85
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £56.06
% change year-on-year -21.43% +24.87% -6.57%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Python 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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 +16 82 £525 -12.50% 46
Wokingham +15 26 £450 -2.70% 4
Bracknell +3 5 £420 - 2
Windsor -11 4 £460 +15.00% 5
Slough -8 2 £550 +22.22% 138
Maidenhead -5 1 - - 5
Python
South East

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 17 (13.60%) OpenStack
2 4 (3.20%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.40%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.80%) Apache
4 1 (0.80%) Appian
4 1 (0.80%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.80%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (1.60%) Chatbot
1 2 (1.60%) CPLEX
2 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.80%) Oracle BPM
1 1 (0.80%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (0.80%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 54 (43.20%) AWS
2 44 (35.20%) Azure
3 22 (17.60%) GCP
4 11 (8.80%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (8.80%) Power Platform
5 9 (7.20%) Azure AKS
5 9 (7.20%) Serverless
6 8 (6.40%) GitHub
7 7 (5.60%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (5.60%) Azure Machine Learning
7 7 (5.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 6 (4.80%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (4.80%) OpenShift
9 5 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (4.00%) OCI
10 4 (3.20%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (3.20%) dbt
10 4 (3.20%) IaaS
10 4 (3.20%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (3.20%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 19 (15.20%) BGP
2 13 (10.40%) MPLS
3 12 (9.60%) LAN
3 12 (9.60%) OSPF
3 12 (9.60%) WAN
4 11 (8.80%) Network Security
5 10 (8.00%) Firewall
6 8 (6.40%) VPN
7 7 (5.60%) TCP/IP
8 6 (4.80%) SNMP
8 6 (4.80%) TACACS
8 6 (4.80%) VLAN
8 6 (4.80%) Wireless
9 1 (0.80%) 2G
9 1 (0.80%) 3G
9 1 (0.80%) HTTP
9 1 (0.80%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.80%) SMS
9 1 (0.80%) SSL
9 1 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (12.00%) NoSQL
2 11 (8.80%) Power BI
2 11 (8.80%) Relational Database
3 9 (7.20%) Data Lake
4 8 (6.40%) Tableau
5 6 (4.80%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (4.80%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (4.00%) Couchbase
6 5 (4.00%) MongoDB
7 4 (3.20%) Big Data
7 4 (3.20%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (2.40%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (2.40%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.60%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.60%) MySQL
9 2 (1.60%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.80%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 11 (8.80%) Git
2 9 (7.20%) Jenkins
2 9 (7.20%) JIRA
3 5 (4.00%) GitLab
4 2 (1.60%) JMeter
4 2 (1.60%) JUnit
4 2 (1.60%) MLflow
4 2 (1.60%) Mockito
5 1 (0.80%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.80%) CMake
5 1 (0.80%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.80%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.80%) Mocha
5 1 (0.80%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.80%) Selenium
5 1 (0.80%) SonarQube
General
1 54 (43.20%) Social Skills
2 28 (22.40%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (12.80%) Telecoms
4 13 (10.40%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.80%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (4.80%) Finance
5 6 (4.80%) Legal
6 1 (0.80%) Digital Healthcare
6 1 (0.80%) Local Government
6 1 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (13.60%) Developer
2 14 (11.20%) Architect
3 13 (10.40%) Cloud Engineer
3 13 (10.40%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (9.60%) Data Engineer
5 11 (8.80%) Senior
6 10 (8.00%) Analyst
7 8 (6.40%) Python Developer
7 8 (6.40%) Security Architect
8 7 (5.60%) AWS Engineer
8 7 (5.60%) Senior Developer
8 7 (5.60%) Site Engineer
8 7 (5.60%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 7 (5.60%) SOC Analyst
9 6 (4.80%) Consultant
9 6 (4.80%) Data Scientist
9 6 (4.80%) Designer
9 6 (4.80%) IP Architect
9 6 (4.80%) IP Designer
9 6 (4.80%) IP Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.20%) REST
2 13 (10.40%) scikit-learn
3 12 (9.60%) PyTorch
3 12 (9.60%) TensorFlow
4 8 (6.40%) FastAPI
4 8 (6.40%) Kafka
4 8 (6.40%) NETCONF
4 8 (6.40%) YANG
5 6 (4.80%) JSON
5 6 (4.80%) Pandas
5 6 (4.80%) RESTful
5 6 (4.80%) XML
6 5 (4.00%) NumPy
7 4 (3.20%) Google JAX
7 4 (3.20%) JAX
8 3 (2.40%) .NET
8 3 (2.40%) ADO
8 3 (2.40%) Apache Axis
8 3 (2.40%) HTML
8 3 (2.40%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.40%) Algorithms
2 12 (9.60%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (8.00%) Cloud Native
3 10 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (6.40%) Onboarding
5 7 (5.60%) Data Centre
6 5 (4.00%) Replication
6 5 (4.00%) Security Posture
7 4 (3.20%) Cyber Security Posture
7 4 (3.20%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (3.20%) Management Information System
7 4 (3.20%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (1.60%) CMDB
8 2 (1.60%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 2 (1.60%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.60%) Smart Meter
9 1 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.80%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 24 (19.20%) Linux
2 15 (12.00%) Windows
3 7 (5.60%) Unix
4 4 (3.20%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.60%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.80%) Android
6 1 (0.80%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (41.60%) CI/CD
2 42 (33.60%) DevOps
3 40 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (19.20%) Incident Response
5 22 (17.60%) SIEM
6 21 (16.80%) High Availability
7 20 (16.00%) Machine Learning
8 18 (14.40%) Security Operations
8 18 (14.40%) Validation
9 17 (13.60%) Artificial Intelligence
10 16 (12.80%) Data Engineering
11 14 (11.20%) Agile
11 14 (11.20%) Data Pipeline
11 14 (11.20%) Data Science
12 13 (10.40%) Microservices
13 12 (9.60%) Analytical Thinking
13 12 (9.60%) Containerisation
13 12 (9.60%) Decision-Making
13 12 (9.60%) Infrastructure as Code
13 12 (9.60%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 39 (31.20%) SQL
2 22 (17.60%) Java
2 22 (17.60%) PowerShell
3 13 (10.40%) R
4 10 (8.00%) Bash
5 9 (7.20%) JavaScript
5 9 (7.20%) Shell Script
6 6 (4.80%) C#
6 6 (4.80%) Go
7 5 (4.00%) C++
8 4 (3.20%) Bicep
9 3 (2.40%) C
10 2 (1.60%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (1.60%) Ruby
10 2 (1.60%) Scala
11 1 (0.80%) Perl
11 1 (0.80%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (22.40%) Security Cleared
2 21 (16.80%) SC Cleared
3 19 (15.20%) Cisco Certification
4 15 (12.00%) AWS Certification
4 15 (12.00%) CISSP
5 14 (11.20%) Degree
6 12 (9.60%) CCIE
6 12 (9.60%) JNCIE
7 10 (8.00%) GCIH
8 9 (7.20%) GCFA
8 9 (7.20%) Master's Degree
9 8 (6.40%) GCIA
9 8 (6.40%) GIAC
10 7 (5.60%) CCNP
10 7 (5.60%) CEH
11 6 (4.80%) CCSA
11 6 (4.80%) CCSE
11 6 (4.80%) CFCE
11 6 (4.80%) Check Point Certification
11 6 (4.80%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (10.40%) GDPR
3 10 (8.00%) NIST
4 9 (7.20%) QA
5 8 (6.40%) Data Quality
6 5 (4.00%) EU AI Act
6 5 (4.00%) HIPAA
7 2 (1.60%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.60%) GRC
8 1 (0.80%) HL7
8 1 (0.80%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.80%) SLA
8 1 (0.80%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 16 (12.80%) Docker
2 7 (5.60%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (5.60%) VMware NSX
3 6 (4.80%) vSphere
4 5 (4.00%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.80%) NDS
5 1 (0.80%) NetIQ eDirectory
5 1 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 34 (27.20%) Kubernetes
2 28 (22.40%) Ansible
3 22 (17.60%) Terraform
4 4 (3.20%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 4 (3.20%) Grafana
4 4 (3.20%) QRadar
4 4 (3.20%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (2.40%) Kibana
5 3 (2.40%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.60%) logstash
7 1 (0.80%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.80%) Puppet
7 1 (0.80%) vRealize
7 1 (0.80%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 18 (14.40%) Microsoft
2 16 (12.80%) Splunk
3 14 (11.20%) Cisco
4 12 (9.60%) Databricks
5 9 (7.20%) ArcSight
5 9 (7.20%) Virgin Media
6 7 (5.60%) IBM
6 7 (5.60%) VMware
7 6 (4.80%) CheckPoint
7 6 (4.80%) CrowdStrike
7 6 (4.80%) F5
7 6 (4.80%) Fortinet
7 6 (4.80%) Google
7 6 (4.80%) Juniper
7 6 (4.80%) Palo Alto
8 5 (4.00%) Confluent
8 5 (4.00%) LogRhythm
9 3 (2.40%) Oracle
10 2 (1.60%) SAP
10 2 (1.60%) ServiceNow