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 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 17 33
Rank change year-on-year -2 +16 -15
Contract jobs citing Python 164 111 97
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 8.64% 9.70% 4.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 49.10% 35.46% 26.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 64 72
10th Percentile £325 £368 £325
25th Percentile £385 £450 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £596 £588 £638
90th Percentile £650 £600 £651
South East median daily rate £525 £505 £520
% change year-on-year +3.96% -2.88% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £77.20 - -
25th Percentile £81.06 - £72.50
Median hourly rate £82.50 - £75.00
75th Percentile £84.69 - £77.50
90th Percentile £86.50 - -
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £56.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% -13.46% +172.19%

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 334 313 362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 17.59% 27.36% 18.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 194 248
10th Percentile £310 £400 £331
25th Percentile £375 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £608
90th Percentile £673 £700 £654
South East median daily rate £513 £501 £513
% change year-on-year +2.40% -2.34% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 15
10th Percentile £73.40 £34.94 £56.41
25th Percentile £80.75 £41.99 £56.65
Median hourly rate £81.50 £54.35 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +49.97% -11.78% -12.00%
75th Percentile £83.75 £66.08 £65.18
90th Percentile £85.00 £72.75 £74.38
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £54.94 £62.50
% change year-on-year +9.22% -12.10% +12.37%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 -4 85 £550 +10.00% 21
Wokingham +5 67 £449 -0.33% 3
Bracknell +4 3 £450 - 3
Windsor -11 3 £208 -58.50%
Slough +7 1 - - 6
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 (8.54%) OpenStack
2 4 (2.44%) WebSphere
2 4 (2.44%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (1.22%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.22%) ArcGIS
3 2 (1.22%) IBM HTTP Server
3 2 (1.22%) JBoss
3 2 (1.22%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 2 (1.22%) WebSphere Portal
4 1 (0.61%) Apache
4 1 (0.61%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (5.49%) CPLEX
2 4 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.83%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 79 (48.17%) Azure
2 64 (39.02%) AWS
3 40 (24.39%) GCP
4 13 (7.93%) OpenShift
5 12 (7.32%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (4.27%) Azure Monitor
6 7 (4.27%) GitHub
7 6 (3.66%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (3.66%) Power Platform
7 6 (3.66%) Route 53
7 6 (3.66%) Serverless
8 5 (3.05%) Amazon S3
8 5 (3.05%) Azure Machine Learning
8 5 (3.05%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (2.44%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (2.44%) Azure Key Vault
10 3 (1.83%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.83%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (1.22%) AWS Step Functions
11 2 (1.22%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (8.54%) BGP
2 12 (7.32%) Firewall
3 11 (6.71%) MPLS
3 11 (6.71%) TCP/IP
3 11 (6.71%) WAN
4 9 (5.49%) LAN
5 8 (4.88%) DNS
6 7 (4.27%) Wireshark
7 6 (3.66%) 5G
7 6 (3.66%) Diameter Protocol
7 6 (3.66%) DNSSEC
7 6 (3.66%) LTE
7 6 (3.66%) Network Security
7 6 (3.66%) Radio Access Network
7 6 (3.66%) VoLTE
7 6 (3.66%) VoWiFi
8 5 (3.05%) DHCP
9 3 (1.83%) HTTP
9 3 (1.83%) SNMP
9 3 (1.83%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (10.37%) NoSQL
2 12 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (6.10%) MongoDB
3 10 (6.10%) Relational Database
4 6 (3.66%) Power BI
5 5 (3.05%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (3.05%) Big Data
5 5 (3.05%) MySQL
6 4 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.44%) Tableau
7 3 (1.83%) Parquet
7 3 (1.83%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.22%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.22%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.22%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.22%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.61%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (0.61%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (9.76%) Git
2 11 (6.71%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.66%) JIRA
4 5 (3.05%) GitLab
5 2 (1.22%) Introscope
6 1 (0.61%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.61%) JMeter
6 1 (0.61%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.61%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.61%) NeoLoad
6 1 (0.61%) Oracle Developer 2000
6 1 (0.61%) Oracle Forms
General
1 64 (39.02%) Social Skills
2 33 (20.12%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (9.76%) Documentation Skills
4 11 (6.71%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.88%) Aerospace
5 8 (4.88%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.22%) Advertising
6 2 (1.22%) Marketing
6 2 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.61%) Banking
7 1 (0.61%) Finance
7 1 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 23 (14.02%) Senior
2 21 (12.80%) Developer
3 18 (10.98%) Architect
4 16 (9.76%) Python Developer
5 14 (8.54%) Data Engineer
6 13 (7.93%) SIEM Engineer
7 8 (4.88%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (4.27%) Network Architect
8 7 (4.27%) Site Engineer
8 7 (4.27%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 6 (3.66%) Analyst
9 6 (3.66%) IP Architect
9 6 (3.66%) Tester
10 5 (3.05%) Consultant
10 5 (3.05%) Senior Data Engineer
11 4 (2.44%) Data Analyst
11 4 (2.44%) Data Scientist
11 4 (2.44%) Middleware Engineer
11 4 (2.44%) Network Consultant
11 4 (2.44%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.32%) Kafka
1 12 (7.32%) LDAP
1 12 (7.32%) RESTful
2 11 (6.71%) FastAPI
2 11 (6.71%) REST
3 10 (6.10%) Flask
3 10 (6.10%) NETCONF
3 10 (6.10%) Pandas
3 10 (6.10%) RabbitMQ
3 10 (6.10%) YANG
4 9 (5.49%) Django
4 9 (5.49%) NumPy
4 9 (5.49%) OpenAPI
4 9 (5.49%) pytest
4 9 (5.49%) Swagger
5 5 (3.05%) Jinja
5 5 (3.05%) Middleware
5 5 (3.05%) PySpark
6 4 (2.44%) .NET
6 4 (2.44%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.20%) Cloud Native
1 20 (12.20%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (9.76%) Algorithms
3 14 (8.54%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (6.10%) Onboarding
5 9 (5.49%) Data Structures
6 5 (3.05%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 5 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (2.44%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.83%) Clustering
8 3 (1.83%) Cyber Security Posture
8 3 (1.83%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.83%) Operational Technology
9 2 (1.22%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.22%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.22%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.22%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 31 (18.90%) Linux
2 17 (10.37%) Windows
3 13 (7.93%) Unix
4 9 (5.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.22%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (1.22%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 1 (0.61%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.61%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (37.20%) DevOps
2 58 (35.37%) Problem-Solving
3 49 (29.88%) CI/CD
4 31 (18.90%) Analytics
4 31 (18.90%) SIEM
5 24 (14.63%) Agile
6 23 (14.02%) High Availability
6 23 (14.02%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 22 (13.41%) Cybersecurity
8 21 (12.80%) Data Analysis
9 20 (12.20%) Data Science
10 19 (11.59%) Containerisation
10 19 (11.59%) Data Pipeline
10 19 (11.59%) Machine Learning
11 18 (10.98%) Infrastructure as Code
12 16 (9.76%) Platform Engineering
12 16 (9.76%) Task Automation
13 15 (9.15%) AI
14 14 (8.54%) DevSecOps
14 14 (8.54%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 59 (35.98%) PowerShell
2 35 (21.34%) SQL
3 31 (18.90%) Bash
4 19 (11.59%) Java
5 12 (7.32%) JavaScript
5 12 (7.32%) Kusto Query Language
6 11 (6.71%) Go
7 8 (4.88%) Perl
8 3 (1.83%) C#
8 3 (1.83%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.22%) Bicep
9 2 (1.22%) Jython
9 2 (1.22%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.22%) Scala
10 1 (0.61%) Groovy
10 1 (0.61%) PHP
10 1 (0.61%) R
10 1 (0.61%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 70 (42.68%) Security Cleared
2 56 (34.15%) SC Cleared
3 21 (12.80%) CISSP
4 12 (7.32%) Cisco Certification
4 12 (7.32%) CISM
5 10 (6.10%) CCIE
5 10 (6.10%) JNCIE
6 8 (4.88%) AWS Certification
6 8 (4.88%) Azure Certification
6 8 (4.88%) Degree
7 7 (4.27%) RHCE
8 6 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (2.44%) CEH
9 4 (2.44%) DV Cleared
9 4 (2.44%) GIAC
10 2 (1.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (1.22%) CCSP
10 2 (1.22%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.61%) GPEN
11 1 (0.61%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.37%) NIST
2 15 (9.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (7.32%) GDPR
4 6 (3.66%) SLA
5 5 (3.05%) Data Quality
5 5 (3.05%) QA
6 1 (0.61%) JTAG
System Software
1 15 (9.15%) Docker
2 13 (7.93%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.61%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (23.17%) Kubernetes
2 23 (14.02%) Ansible
3 17 (10.37%) Terraform
4 4 (2.44%) Grafana
4 4 (2.44%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.83%) Argo
5 3 (1.83%) Kibana
5 3 (1.83%) Kustomize
5 3 (1.83%) Nessus
5 3 (1.83%) OpenVAS
5 3 (1.83%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.83%) Puppet
6 2 (1.22%) CA Wily
6 2 (1.22%) CASB
6 2 (1.22%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.61%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 1 (0.61%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.61%) Nmap
7 1 (0.61%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 22 (13.41%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.32%) BeyondTrust
2 12 (7.32%) CyberArk
2 12 (7.32%) Databricks
3 11 (6.71%) Red Hat
4 9 (5.49%) Google
5 7 (4.27%) Nokia
5 7 (4.27%) Oracle
6 6 (3.66%) BT
6 6 (3.66%) Ericsson
6 6 (3.66%) Huawei
6 6 (3.66%) Infoblox
7 5 (3.05%) Splunk
7 5 (3.05%) Tanium
8 4 (2.44%) Cisco
8 4 (2.44%) F5
8 4 (2.44%) IBM
8 4 (2.44%) Juniper
9 3 (1.83%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.83%) Qualys