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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 14 35
Rank change year-on-year -3 +21 -15
Contract jobs citing Python 172 122 93
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 9.37% 10.45% 4.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 51.04% 37.31% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 71 65
10th Percentile £306 £406 £325
25th Percentile £383 £456 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.80% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £585 £597 £638
90th Percentile £679 £638 £675
South East median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile £71.70 - -
25th Percentile £75.36 - -
Median hourly rate £82.25 - £67.50
75th Percentile £83.75 - £72.50
90th Percentile £84.88 - £75.50
South East median hourly rate £48.02 £56.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year -14.63% -13.46% +80.56%

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 337 327 372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 18.37% 28.00% 18.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 203 251
10th Percentile £310 £400 £325
25th Percentile £385 £452 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.38% - -
75th Percentile £591 £638 £624
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.58% +2.65% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 15
10th Percentile £73.06 £39.74 £56.20
25th Percentile £80.75 £53.97 £56.65
Median hourly rate £81.50 £63.75 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +27.85% +3.48% -12.00%
75th Percentile £83.38 £68.51 £64.55
90th Percentile £83.98 £73.72 £68.25
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £56.75 £60.14
% change year-on-year -3.08% -5.64% +9.35%

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 3 May 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 3 May 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 81 £525 -8.70% 28
Wokingham -2 68 £430 -4.44% 10
Windsor -6 12 £208 -58.50%
Bracknell -2 3 £450 -6.25% 4
Slough +10 1 - - 4
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 8 (4.65%) OpenStack
2 4 (2.33%) WebSphere
2 4 (2.33%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (1.16%) Apache
3 2 (1.16%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.16%) ArcGIS
3 2 (1.16%) IBM HTTP Server
3 2 (1.16%) JBoss
3 2 (1.16%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 2 (1.16%) WebSphere Portal
4 1 (0.58%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (2.33%) CPLEX
1 4 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (2.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 78 (45.35%) Azure
2 65 (37.79%) AWS
3 43 (25.00%) GCP
4 15 (8.72%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (7.56%) GitHub
6 8 (4.65%) Azure Monitor
6 8 (4.65%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (4.65%) OpenShift
7 7 (4.07%) Serverless
8 6 (3.49%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (3.49%) Power Platform
9 5 (2.91%) Amazon S3
9 5 (2.91%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (2.91%) Azure AKS
9 5 (2.91%) Azure Key Vault
9 5 (2.91%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (2.33%) Azure Machine Learning
10 4 (2.33%) Datadog
11 3 (1.74%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.81%) Firewall
1 10 (5.81%) Network Security
1 10 (5.81%) TCP/IP
2 9 (5.23%) BGP
2 9 (5.23%) MPLS
2 9 (5.23%) WAN
3 6 (3.49%) DNS
4 5 (2.91%) 5G
4 5 (2.91%) LAN
4 5 (2.91%) LTE
4 5 (2.91%) Wireshark
5 4 (2.33%) DHCP
5 4 (2.33%) Diameter Protocol
5 4 (2.33%) Radio Access Network
5 4 (2.33%) SNMP
5 4 (2.33%) TACACS
5 4 (2.33%) VoLTE
5 4 (2.33%) VoWiFi
6 3 (1.74%) SSL
7 2 (1.16%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (9.88%) Relational Database
2 14 (8.14%) MySQL
3 12 (6.98%) NoSQL
4 10 (5.81%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (4.07%) MongoDB
6 6 (3.49%) Power BI
7 5 (2.91%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (2.91%) Big Data
8 4 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (2.33%) Tableau
9 3 (1.74%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.74%) Parquet
9 3 (1.74%) SQL Server
10 2 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (1.16%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.16%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.58%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.58%) Redis
11 1 (0.58%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 16 (9.30%) Git
2 10 (5.81%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.49%) GitLab
4 3 (1.74%) JIRA
5 2 (1.16%) Introscope
6 1 (0.58%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.58%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.58%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.58%) Visual Studio
General
1 76 (44.19%) Social Skills
2 34 (19.77%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (12.79%) Documentation Skills
4 13 (7.56%) Public Sector
5 5 (2.91%) Aerospace
5 5 (2.91%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.16%) Advertising
7 1 (0.58%) Marketing
7 1 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.58%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (16.86%) Senior
2 25 (14.53%) SIEM Engineer
3 19 (11.05%) Developer
4 11 (6.40%) Data Engineer
4 11 (6.40%) Python Developer
5 9 (5.23%) Technical Support
6 7 (4.07%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (4.07%) Site Engineer
6 7 (4.07%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 6 (3.49%) Analyst
7 6 (3.49%) Architect
7 6 (3.49%) Azure Engineer
7 6 (3.49%) Full-Stack Developer
7 6 (3.49%) Tester
8 5 (2.91%) IP Specialist
8 5 (2.91%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (2.91%) Security Engineer
8 5 (2.91%) Senior Data Engineer
8 5 (2.91%) Senior DevOps
8 5 (2.91%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (12.79%) LDAP
2 14 (8.14%) REST
3 8 (4.65%) Middleware
3 8 (4.65%) NETCONF
3 8 (4.65%) YANG
4 7 (4.07%) Kafka
4 7 (4.07%) OAuth
5 6 (3.49%) .NET
5 6 (3.49%) FastAPI
5 6 (3.49%) GraphQL
5 6 (3.49%) React
5 6 (3.49%) RESTful
6 5 (2.91%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (2.91%) Flask
6 5 (2.91%) Node.js
6 5 (2.91%) Pandas
6 5 (2.91%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (2.91%) YAML
7 4 (2.33%) pytest
7 4 (2.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 19 (11.05%) Onboarding
2 16 (9.30%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (8.14%) Cloud Native
4 11 (6.40%) Algorithms
5 9 (5.23%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (4.65%) Cyber Security Posture
6 8 (4.65%) Operational Technology
7 7 (4.07%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (3.49%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (2.91%) PKI
10 4 (2.33%) Data Centre
10 4 (2.33%) Data Structures
10 4 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.74%) Clustering
12 2 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (1.16%) Security Operations Centre
12 2 (1.16%) Security Posture
13 1 (0.58%) Distributed Architecture
13 1 (0.58%) Linux Command Line
13 1 (0.58%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 35 (20.35%) Linux
2 22 (12.79%) Windows
3 16 (9.30%) Unix
4 5 (2.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.16%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (1.16%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 1 (0.58%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.58%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.58%) VMS
6 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (38.37%) CI/CD
2 64 (37.21%) DevOps
3 63 (36.63%) Problem-Solving
4 56 (32.56%) SIEM
5 41 (23.84%) Cybersecurity
6 27 (15.70%) DevSecOps
7 23 (13.37%) Data Analysis
8 22 (12.79%) Analytics
9 20 (11.63%) Containerisation
9 20 (11.63%) Stakeholder Management
10 19 (11.05%) Machine Learning
10 19 (11.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 18 (10.47%) Infrastructure as Code
12 17 (9.88%) Agile
12 17 (9.88%) AI
12 17 (9.88%) High Availability
13 16 (9.30%) SOAR
13 16 (9.30%) Task Automation
14 15 (8.72%) Threat Detection
15 14 (8.14%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 80 (46.51%) PowerShell
2 32 (18.60%) SQL
3 29 (16.86%) Bash
4 26 (15.12%) Java
5 20 (11.63%) JavaScript
5 20 (11.63%) Kusto Query Language
6 14 (8.14%) Perl
7 11 (6.40%) Go
8 6 (3.49%) C#
9 3 (1.74%) PHP
10 2 (1.16%) Bicep
10 2 (1.16%) Jython
10 2 (1.16%) Scala
10 2 (1.16%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.58%) C++
11 1 (0.58%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.58%) R
11 1 (0.58%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 78 (45.35%) Security Cleared
2 63 (36.63%) SC Cleared
3 31 (18.02%) CISSP
4 20 (11.63%) CISM
5 11 (6.40%) CEH
5 11 (6.40%) Degree
5 11 (6.40%) GIAC
6 10 (5.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (4.65%) CCIE
7 8 (4.65%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (4.65%) JNCIE
8 6 (3.49%) AWS Certification
9 4 (2.33%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.74%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.74%) RHCE
10 3 (1.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.58%) GCFA
11 1 (0.58%) GCIA
11 1 (0.58%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (14.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 25 (14.53%) NIST
2 22 (12.79%) GDPR
3 4 (2.33%) SLA
4 3 (1.74%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.74%) QA
5 1 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 27 (15.70%) Active Directory
2 21 (12.21%) Docker
3 4 (2.33%) Hyper-V
3 4 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.58%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (22.09%) Kubernetes
2 22 (12.79%) Ansible
3 17 (9.88%) Terraform
4 10 (5.81%) Kibana
5 9 (5.23%) Grafana
5 9 (5.23%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.74%) Argo
6 3 (1.74%) Kustomize
6 3 (1.74%) Nessus
6 3 (1.74%) OpenVAS
7 2 (1.16%) CA Wily
7 2 (1.16%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.58%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 1 (0.58%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.58%) Nmap
8 1 (0.58%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.58%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.58%) Puppet
Vendors
1 22 (12.79%) BeyondTrust
1 22 (12.79%) CyberArk
2 21 (12.21%) Microsoft
3 12 (6.98%) Oracle
3 12 (6.98%) Tanium
4 9 (5.23%) FireEye
5 8 (4.65%) Databricks
5 8 (4.65%) Red Hat
5 8 (4.65%) Splunk
6 6 (3.49%) AppDynamics
7 5 (2.91%) F5
7 5 (2.91%) Juniper
7 5 (2.91%) LogRhythm
8 4 (2.33%) BT
8 4 (2.33%) Cisco
8 4 (2.33%) Ericsson
8 4 (2.33%) Huawei
8 4 (2.33%) IBM
8 4 (2.33%) Nokia
8 4 (2.33%) VMware