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 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 12 22
Rank change year-on-year -7 +10 +3
Contract jobs citing Python 172 146 135
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 9.40% 11.77% 8.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 56.58% 47.10% 35.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 92 79
10th Percentile £349 £400 £356
25th Percentile £450 £442 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £585
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -14.53% +6.36%
75th Percentile £607 £571 £638
90th Percentile £650 £600 £650
South East median daily rate £550 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 0 1
10th Percentile £39.91 - -
25th Percentile £61.74 - £27.75
Median hourly rate £71.00 - £28.50
75th Percentile £83.62 - £29.25
90th Percentile £86.35 - -
South East median hourly rate £67.47 - £29.00
% change year-on-year - - -56.23%

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 304 310 382
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 16.61% 25.00% 23.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 193 244
10th Percentile £347 £363 £387
25th Percentile £450 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £500 £580
Median % change year-on-year +5.45% -13.79% +5.45%
75th Percentile £600 £569 £641
90th Percentile £689 £620 £663
South East median daily rate £525 £490 £513
% change year-on-year +7.14% -4.39% -3.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 1 9
10th Percentile £37.49 - £50.25
25th Percentile £56.28 £18.75 £55.87
Median hourly rate £69.61 £19.50 £58.49
Median % change year-on-year +256.96% -66.66% +12.17%
75th Percentile £83.15 £20.25 £69.69
90th Percentile £85.53 - £77.39
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 £64.76
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.07% +17.75%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -20 87 £600 +9.09% 36
Wokingham +3 61 £513 +10.81% 8
Slough +3 6 £500 -9.09% 41
Bracknell -1 3 - - 11
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 7 (4.07%) Confluence
3 4 (2.33%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.74%) Apache
4 3 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.16%) Apache Superset
5 2 (1.16%) JBoss
5 2 (1.16%) WebSphere
5 2 (1.16%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.58%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (2.91%) CPLEX
1 5 (2.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.16%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.58%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 98 (56.98%) Azure
2 47 (27.33%) AWS
3 25 (14.53%) GCP
4 24 (13.95%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (13.95%) OpenShift
5 16 (9.30%) Entra ID
6 12 (6.98%) Azure Monitor
7 10 (5.81%) Azure AKS
7 10 (5.81%) Azure App Service
7 10 (5.81%) Azure Key Vault
7 10 (5.81%) GitHub
7 10 (5.81%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (5.81%) Power Platform
8 8 (4.65%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (4.07%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (4.07%) Azure Machine Learning
10 6 (3.49%) Azure Storage
10 6 (3.49%) IaaS
10 6 (3.49%) Route 53
11 5 (2.91%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 16 (9.30%) DNS
2 15 (8.72%) TCP/IP
3 14 (8.14%) BGP
3 14 (8.14%) Firewall
4 11 (6.40%) DHCP
5 9 (5.23%) Network Security
5 9 (5.23%) WAN
6 8 (4.65%) MPLS
6 8 (4.65%) VPN
7 7 (4.07%) LAN
7 7 (4.07%) Radio Access Network
8 6 (3.49%) 5G
8 6 (3.49%) Diameter Protocol
8 6 (3.49%) DNSSEC
8 6 (3.49%) LTE
8 6 (3.49%) VoLTE
8 6 (3.49%) VoWiFi
8 6 (3.49%) VXLAN
8 6 (3.49%) Wireshark
9 4 (2.33%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.14%) NoSQL
2 10 (5.81%) Power BI
3 9 (5.23%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (3.49%) MongoDB
4 6 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (3.49%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.33%) Parquet
5 4 (2.33%) Spark SQL
6 3 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.74%) GIS
7 2 (1.16%) Big Data
7 2 (1.16%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.16%) Metadata
7 2 (1.16%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.16%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.16%) Tableau
8 1 (0.58%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.58%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.58%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (0.58%) Redis
Development Applications
1 22 (12.79%) Git
2 16 (9.30%) Jenkins
3 9 (5.23%) GitLab
4 7 (4.07%) JIRA
5 2 (1.16%) JMeter
6 1 (0.58%) Burp Suite
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 64 (37.21%) Social Skills
2 50 (29.07%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (12.79%) Aerospace
4 12 (6.98%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (4.65%) Telecoms
6 6 (3.49%) Finance
7 4 (2.33%) Military
8 3 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.74%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.16%) Banking
9 2 (1.16%) Marketing
9 2 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.16%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.58%) Advertising
10 1 (0.58%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (14.53%) Developer
2 20 (11.63%) Senior
3 18 (10.47%) Architect
4 17 (9.88%) Data Engineer
5 13 (7.56%) Data Scientist
5 13 (7.56%) Full-Stack Developer
5 13 (7.56%) Python Developer
6 10 (5.81%) Network Architect
6 10 (5.81%) Systems Engineer
7 8 (4.65%) Lead
7 8 (4.65%) React Developer
8 7 (4.07%) Analyst
8 7 (4.07%) Consultant
8 7 (4.07%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (3.49%) .NET Developer
9 6 (3.49%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 6 (3.49%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
10 5 (2.91%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 5 (2.91%) Full-Stack Python Developer
10 5 (2.91%) IP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (24.42%) Terraform
2 24 (13.95%) REST
3 16 (9.30%) PySpark
4 12 (6.98%) .NET
4 12 (6.98%) ARM Templates
4 12 (6.98%) RESTful
5 11 (6.40%) .NET Core
6 10 (5.81%) NETCONF
6 10 (5.81%) React
7 9 (5.23%) FastAPI
8 8 (4.65%) .NET Framework
8 8 (4.65%) Entity Framework
8 8 (4.65%) LDAP
8 8 (4.65%) OAuth
8 8 (4.65%) SAML
8 8 (4.65%) YANG
9 7 (4.07%) OpenID
10 6 (3.49%) Kafka
10 6 (3.49%) Streamlit
11 5 (2.91%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 24 (13.95%) Hybrid Cloud
2 21 (12.21%) Cloud Native
3 10 (5.81%) Algorithms
4 8 (4.65%) Data Structures
5 7 (4.07%) Onboarding
5 7 (4.07%) Product Ownership
5 7 (4.07%) Security Posture
6 5 (2.91%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.91%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 5 (2.91%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.33%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.74%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.74%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.74%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.74%) SCADA
8 3 (1.74%) Wiki
9 2 (1.16%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.16%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 33 (19.19%) Linux
2 19 (11.05%) Windows
3 10 (5.81%) Unix
4 9 (5.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (4.07%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.58%) CentOS
6 1 (0.58%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (43.60%) DevOps
2 57 (33.14%) CI/CD
3 47 (27.33%) Problem-Solving
4 40 (23.26%) Analytics
5 39 (22.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 32 (18.60%) Agile
7 30 (17.44%) Continuous Improvement
8 27 (15.70%) Platform Engineering
9 26 (15.12%) Data Science
10 25 (14.53%) Data Engineering
11 24 (13.95%) Machine Learning
11 24 (13.95%) Validation
12 22 (12.79%) AI
13 21 (12.21%) Containerisation
13 21 (12.21%) Data Governance
13 21 (12.21%) Stakeholder Management
14 20 (11.63%) Data Pipeline
14 20 (11.63%) DevSecOps
14 20 (11.63%) Test Automation
15 19 (11.05%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 59 (34.30%) PowerShell
2 52 (30.23%) SQL
3 37 (21.51%) Bash
4 12 (6.98%) Bicep
5 11 (6.40%) C#
6 6 (3.49%) Java
7 5 (2.91%) Shell Script
8 4 (2.33%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.74%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.16%) Perl
10 2 (1.16%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.58%) Go
11 1 (0.58%) Gremlin
11 1 (0.58%) Groovy
11 1 (0.58%) R
11 1 (0.58%) Scala
Qualifications
1 68 (39.53%) Security Cleared
2 60 (34.88%) SC Cleared
3 19 (11.05%) Cisco Certification
4 17 (9.88%) CISSP
5 16 (9.30%) Azure Certification
5 16 (9.30%) Degree
6 10 (5.81%) CCIE
6 10 (5.81%) JNCIE
7 9 (5.23%) AWS Certification
7 9 (5.23%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (4.07%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 6 (3.49%) CEH
10 5 (2.91%) CISM
10 5 (2.91%) RHCE
11 4 (2.33%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (2.33%) DV Cleared
12 3 (1.74%) DBS Check
12 3 (1.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (1.74%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (1.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.47%) Data Quality
2 11 (6.40%) NIST
3 9 (5.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (4.07%) SLA
5 6 (3.49%) GDPR
6 5 (2.91%) QA
7 4 (2.33%) NCSC
8 3 (1.74%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (1.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.58%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.58%) JTAG
System Software
1 20 (11.63%) Docker
2 16 (9.30%) 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
3 5 (2.91%) QRadar
4 3 (1.74%) Istio
4 3 (1.74%) Progress Chef
4 3 (1.74%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.74%) Puppet
5 2 (1.16%) CASB
5 2 (1.16%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.58%) Amdocs OSS
6 1 (0.58%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.58%) SCOM
6 1 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.58%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 52 (30.23%) Microsoft
2 21 (12.21%) Databricks
3 13 (7.56%) Google
4 12 (6.98%) Red Hat
5 11 (6.40%) CyberArk
6 10 (5.81%) VMware
7 9 (5.23%) Cisco
8 8 (4.65%) Nokia
9 7 (4.07%) Splunk
10 6 (3.49%) BT
10 6 (3.49%) Ericsson
10 6 (3.49%) Huawei
10 6 (3.49%) Infoblox
11 5 (2.91%) BeyondTrust
11 5 (2.91%) F5
11 5 (2.91%) Fortinet
11 5 (2.91%) Juniper
12 4 (2.33%) ServiceNow
13 3 (1.74%) Foundry
13 3 (1.74%) Proofpoint