Python Contracts in Berkshire

Python
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Python skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Python over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 39 20
Rank change year-on-year +26 -19 +14
Contract jobs citing Python 125 92 156
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 10.66% 4.64% 8.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.65% 24.66% 36.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 64 112
10th Percentile £407 £325 £376
25th Percentile £475 £381 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £594 £638 £638
90th Percentile £638 £675 £750
South East median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - - £15.60
25th Percentile - - £19.49
Median hourly rate - £67.50 £41.03
Median % change year-on-year - +64.53% -
75th Percentile - £72.50 £64.41
90th Percentile - £75.50 £71.21
South East median hourly rate £56.25 £65.00 £43.50
% change year-on-year -13.46% +49.43% +19.18%

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 332 373 433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 28.30% 18.80% 23.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 250 320
10th Percentile £400 £325 £363
25th Percentile £454 £413 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £624 £625
90th Percentile £700 £688 £694
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.80% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 15 14
10th Percentile £39.74 £56.20 £22.99
25th Percentile £53.97 £56.65 £53.59
Median hourly rate £63.75 £61.60 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.48% -12.00% -12.50%
75th Percentile £68.51 £64.55 £79.19
90th Percentile £73.72 £68.25 £80.72
South East median hourly rate £56.75 £60.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -5.42% +9.09% +26.03%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Python in Berkshire

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python in Berkshire

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend 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 1 May 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 +14 58 £575 +4.55% 77
Windsor - 25 £500 - 2
Wokingham +6 23 £450 -15.49% 2
Bracknell +21 5 £480 -4.00% 2
Maidenhead +6 5 £500 +93.24% 9
Slough -6 2 £600 +60.00% 55
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 15 (12.00%) Apache Spark
2 6 (4.80%) Apache
3 2 (1.60%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.80%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.80%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.60%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 70 (56.00%) Azure
2 34 (27.20%) AWS
3 32 (25.60%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (15.20%) Azure Data Factory
5 17 (13.60%) Serverless
6 16 (12.80%) GitHub
7 13 (10.40%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 12 (9.60%) Azure Monitor
9 11 (8.80%) GCP
10 9 (7.20%) Azure AKS
10 9 (7.20%) Azure API Management
10 9 (7.20%) Entra ID
11 8 (6.40%) Azure Service Bus
12 7 (5.60%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (5.60%) Azure Functions
13 6 (4.80%) Azure Machine Learning
14 5 (4.00%) IaaS
14 5 (4.00%) PaaS
14 5 (4.00%) Power Automate
15 4 (3.20%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.80%) BGP
2 10 (8.00%) TCP/IP
3 9 (7.20%) Firewall
3 9 (7.20%) VLAN
4 6 (4.80%) MPLS
4 6 (4.80%) Network Security
5 5 (4.00%) OSPF
5 5 (4.00%) VPN
6 2 (1.60%) BIG-IP
6 2 (1.60%) Ethernet VPN
6 2 (1.60%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 2 (1.60%) SSL
7 1 (0.80%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (0.80%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (0.80%) EIGRP
7 1 (0.80%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.80%) LAN
7 1 (0.80%) RIP
7 1 (0.80%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.80%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (14.40%) Big Data
2 9 (7.20%) Azure SQL Database
2 9 (7.20%) NoSQL
3 8 (6.40%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (6.40%) Relational Database
4 7 (5.60%) Data Lake
4 7 (5.60%) MongoDB
5 6 (4.80%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (4.00%) Hadoop
7 4 (3.20%) MySQL
7 4 (3.20%) Power BI
7 4 (3.20%) Spark SQL
7 4 (3.20%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.60%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.60%) Apache Hive
8 2 (1.60%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 1 (0.80%) Parquet
9 1 (0.80%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.80%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (22.40%) Git
2 22 (17.60%) Selenium
3 9 (7.20%) Jenkins
4 5 (4.00%) Robot Framework
5 3 (2.40%) GitLab
5 3 (2.40%) JIRA
6 2 (1.60%) Burp Suite
6 2 (1.60%) JMeter
6 2 (1.60%) JUnit
6 2 (1.60%) Metasploit
6 2 (1.60%) Mockito
7 1 (0.80%) CMake
7 1 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 31 (24.80%) Social Skills
2 20 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (12.00%) Telecoms
4 10 (8.00%) Finance
5 8 (6.40%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.00%) Electronics
6 5 (4.00%) Manufacturing
6 5 (4.00%) Marketing
7 1 (0.80%) Games
7 1 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.80%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 30 (24.00%) Developer
2 15 (12.00%) Azure Developer
3 14 (11.20%) Full-Stack Developer
4 13 (10.40%) Azure Engineer
5 11 (8.80%) AWS Engineer
5 11 (8.80%) Python Developer
6 10 (8.00%) Data Engineer
6 10 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (6.40%) Architect
8 7 (5.60%) Full-Stack Python Developer
8 7 (5.60%) React Developer
8 7 (5.60%) Senior
8 7 (5.60%) Tester
9 6 (4.80%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 6 (4.80%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 5 (4.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
10 5 (4.00%) Automation Tester
10 5 (4.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 5 (4.00%) Platform Engineer
10 5 (4.00%) Telecoms Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.20%) PySpark
2 11 (8.80%) JSON
3 10 (8.00%) React
4 9 (7.20%) .NET
5 8 (6.40%) ADO
5 8 (6.40%) HTML
6 6 (4.80%) CSS
6 6 (4.80%) OAuth
6 6 (4.80%) REST
7 4 (3.20%) Kafka
7 4 (3.20%) scikit-learn
7 4 (3.20%) TensorFlow
8 3 (2.40%) .NET Core
8 3 (2.40%) Apache Axis
8 3 (2.40%) ARM Templates
8 3 (2.40%) OpenID
8 3 (2.40%) PyTorch
8 3 (2.40%) SOAP
8 3 (2.40%) Web Services
8 3 (2.40%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (13.60%) Cloud Native
2 11 (8.80%) Algorithms
3 10 (8.00%) Product Ownership
4 9 (7.20%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (4.80%) Renewable Energy
6 4 (3.20%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (3.20%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.20%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.40%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.60%) CMDB
8 2 (1.60%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.60%) Replication
8 2 (1.60%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.80%) IoT
9 1 (0.80%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.80%) NHS
9 1 (0.80%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 20 (16.00%) Windows
2 15 (12.00%) Linux
3 8 (6.40%) Windows Server
4 5 (4.00%) Ubuntu
5 4 (3.20%) Unix
6 2 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.60%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.80%) Android
7 1 (0.80%) CentOS
7 1 (0.80%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (40.00%) DevOps
2 39 (31.20%) Problem-Solving
3 35 (28.00%) CI/CD
4 31 (24.80%) Agile
5 26 (20.80%) Test Automation
6 25 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
7 14 (11.20%) Configuration Management
7 14 (11.20%) Data Pipeline
7 14 (11.20%) Full-Stack Development
7 14 (11.20%) LLM
8 13 (10.40%) Continuous Integration
8 13 (10.40%) Data Engineering
8 13 (10.40%) Data Modelling
8 13 (10.40%) High Availability
8 13 (10.40%) Machine Learning
8 13 (10.40%) SDLC
9 12 (9.60%) Containerisation
9 12 (9.60%) ETL
10 11 (8.80%) Microservices
10 11 (8.80%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 39 (31.20%) SQL
2 33 (26.40%) PowerShell
3 26 (20.80%) Java
4 16 (12.80%) Bash
4 16 (12.80%) C#
5 14 (11.20%) JavaScript
6 8 (6.40%) Bicep
7 4 (3.20%) Ruby
7 4 (3.20%) T-SQL
7 4 (3.20%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.40%) C++
8 3 (2.40%) R
9 2 (1.60%) C
9 2 (1.60%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.80%) Scala
10 1 (0.80%) VB
10 1 (0.80%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 9 (7.20%) Degree
2 8 (6.40%) Master's Degree
3 7 (5.60%) Security Cleared
4 6 (4.80%) CCNP
4 6 (4.80%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (4.00%) CISSP
5 5 (4.00%) SC Cleared
6 4 (3.20%) CCSA
6 4 (3.20%) CCSE
6 4 (3.20%) Check Point Certification
7 3 (2.40%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.60%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.60%) GCIH
8 2 (1.60%) GPEN
8 2 (1.60%) GWAPT
8 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.60%) OSCE
8 2 (1.60%) OSCP
9 1 (0.80%) CFCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (13.60%) QA
2 5 (4.00%) GDPR
3 4 (3.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.40%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.60%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.60%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.80%) NIST
6 1 (0.80%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 19 (15.20%) Docker
2 13 (10.40%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (17.60%) Ansible
2 16 (12.80%) Kubernetes
3 14 (11.20%) Terraform
4 5 (4.00%) Puppet
5 3 (2.40%) Grafana
5 3 (2.40%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.60%) Kibana
6 2 (1.60%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.60%) SCCM
6 2 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.60%) WSUS
7 1 (0.80%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 26 (20.80%) Microsoft
2 17 (13.60%) Databricks
3 9 (7.20%) OpenAI
4 8 (6.40%) Cisco
5 5 (4.00%) SAP
5 5 (4.00%) Virgin Media
6 4 (3.20%) CheckPoint
6 4 (3.20%) Foundry
6 4 (3.20%) Palantir
6 4 (3.20%) Palo Alto
6 4 (3.20%) Splunk
7 3 (2.40%) F5
7 3 (2.40%) Google
8 2 (1.60%) BMC
8 2 (1.60%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.60%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.60%) Remedy
9 1 (0.80%) Citrix
9 1 (0.80%) Juniper
9 1 (0.80%) VMware