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 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 15 39
Rank change year-on-year +3 +24 -2
Contract jobs citing Python 176 148 91
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 11.92% 10.62% 5.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 54.83% 38.74% 27.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 82 61
10th Percentile £336 £387 £350
25th Percentile £410 £480 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.18% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £539 £638 £638
90th Percentile £609 £650 £688
South East median daily rate £485 £539 £525
% change year-on-year -9.98% +2.62% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £72.40 - -
25th Percentile £76.00 £27.75 -
Median hourly rate £82.00 £28.50 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +187.72% -57.78% -10.60%
75th Percentile £84.00 £29.25 -
90th Percentile £85.20 - -
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £42.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year +13.10% -37.78% +45.95%

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 321 382 334
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 21.75% 27.40% 20.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 234 236
10th Percentile £335 £390 £350
25th Percentile £410 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.30% +4.55% +1.29%
75th Percentile £569 £651 £628
90th Percentile £625 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £485 £501 £525
% change year-on-year -3.10% -4.67% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 11
10th Percentile £39.25 £44.62 £48.40
25th Percentile £70.00 £55.87 £49.07
Median hourly rate £75.00 £56.75 £56.06
Median % change year-on-year +32.17% +1.22% -10.30%
75th Percentile £82.00 £65.62 £63.95
90th Percentile £84.40 £69.32 £67.50
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £56.75 £57.50
% change year-on-year -3.08% -1.31% -4.17%

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 7 January 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 7 January 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 -7 79 £543 -9.58% 25
Wokingham +11 71 £463 -13.15% 5
Windsor -11 10 £208 -58.50% 1
Bracknell -5 5 £420 -12.50%
Maidenhead -1 1 - - 2
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 12 (6.82%) OpenStack
2 5 (2.84%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.27%) Apache
4 2 (1.14%) Appian
4 2 (1.14%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.57%) Confluence
5 1 (0.57%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.14%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.57%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 77 (43.75%) AWS
2 73 (41.48%) Azure
3 40 (22.73%) GCP
4 20 (11.36%) OpenShift
5 14 (7.95%) GitHub
6 13 (7.39%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (7.39%) Serverless
7 10 (5.68%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (5.68%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (5.68%) IaaS
8 9 (5.11%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (3.98%) Azure AKS
10 6 (3.41%) Power Platform
11 5 (2.84%) Azure Functions
11 5 (2.84%) Azure Machine Learning
11 5 (2.84%) Datadog
11 5 (2.84%) OCI
12 4 (2.27%) Azure Monitor
12 4 (2.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (2.27%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 16 (9.09%) Network Security
2 14 (7.95%) BGP
2 14 (7.95%) MPLS
2 14 (7.95%) WAN
3 12 (6.82%) LAN
4 10 (5.68%) DNS
5 8 (4.55%) Firewall
5 8 (4.55%) SNMP
5 8 (4.55%) TACACS
6 7 (3.98%) TCP/IP
6 7 (3.98%) Wireshark
7 6 (3.41%) OSPF
7 6 (3.41%) Wireless
8 4 (2.27%) DHCP
9 3 (1.70%) 2G
9 3 (1.70%) 5G
9 3 (1.70%) SSL
9 3 (1.70%) VoIP
10 2 (1.14%) LTE
10 2 (1.14%) Mobile Backhaul
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.23%) Relational Database
2 13 (7.39%) NoSQL
3 12 (6.82%) MySQL
4 6 (3.41%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (3.41%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (3.41%) MongoDB
4 6 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (3.41%) Power BI
5 5 (2.84%) Big Data
5 5 (2.84%) Couchbase
5 5 (2.84%) Data Lake
5 5 (2.84%) Tableau
6 4 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.27%) Hadoop
6 4 (2.27%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.14%) Delta Lake
7 2 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.14%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.57%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 19 (10.80%) Jenkins
2 15 (8.52%) Git
3 7 (3.98%) Burp Suite
3 7 (3.98%) JIRA
3 7 (3.98%) Metasploit
4 6 (3.41%) GitLab
5 2 (1.14%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.14%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.14%) Robot Framework
5 2 (1.14%) Selenium
5 2 (1.14%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.57%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.57%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.57%) MLflow
6 1 (0.57%) Mocha
6 1 (0.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 101 (57.39%) Social Skills
2 44 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (14.77%) Documentation Skills
4 19 (10.80%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.98%) Telecoms
6 5 (2.84%) Legal
7 4 (2.27%) Finance
8 2 (1.14%) Billing
8 2 (1.14%) Retail
9 1 (0.57%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.57%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 21 (11.93%) Senior
2 19 (10.80%) SIEM Engineer
3 14 (7.95%) Architect
4 13 (7.39%) DevOps Engineer
5 9 (5.11%) Analyst
5 9 (5.11%) Data Engineer
5 9 (5.11%) Developer
5 9 (5.11%) Site Engineer
5 9 (5.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 8 (4.55%) IP Specialist
6 8 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
7 7 (3.98%) AWS Engineer
7 7 (3.98%) Data Scientist
7 7 (3.98%) Penetration Tester
7 7 (3.98%) SOC Analyst
7 7 (3.98%) Technical Support
7 7 (3.98%) Tester
8 6 (3.41%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (3.41%) Designer
8 6 (3.41%) IP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (10.80%) LDAP
2 17 (9.66%) REST
3 10 (5.68%) NETCONF
3 10 (5.68%) scikit-learn
4 9 (5.11%) GraphQL
4 9 (5.11%) YANG
5 8 (4.55%) Kafka
5 8 (4.55%) Loki
5 8 (4.55%) OAuth
5 8 (4.55%) Pandas
6 7 (3.98%) NumPy
7 6 (3.41%) .NET
7 6 (3.41%) PyTorch
7 6 (3.41%) TensorFlow
8 5 (2.84%) .NET Core
8 5 (2.84%) Node.js
8 5 (2.84%) OAuth2
9 4 (2.27%) JSON
9 4 (2.27%) OpenID
9 4 (2.27%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 22 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.95%) Algorithms
2 14 (7.95%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (6.82%) Cyber Security Posture
3 12 (6.82%) Onboarding
4 9 (5.11%) Data Centre
5 8 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (4.55%) Virtual Team
6 6 (3.41%) Replication
6 6 (3.41%) Security Operations Centre
7 5 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.84%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.84%) Operational Technology
8 4 (2.27%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (2.27%) PKI
8 4 (2.27%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.70%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (1.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 51 (28.98%) Linux
2 23 (13.07%) Windows
3 12 (6.82%) Unix
4 8 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (3.98%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.57%) VMS
6 1 (0.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (49.43%) CI/CD
2 68 (38.64%) Problem-Solving
3 65 (36.93%) DevOps
4 52 (29.55%) SIEM
5 43 (24.43%) Cybersecurity
6 28 (15.91%) DevSecOps
7 27 (15.34%) Infrastructure as Code
8 25 (14.20%) Agile
9 22 (12.50%) Analytical Thinking
10 21 (11.93%) High Availability
11 20 (11.36%) Containerisation
11 20 (11.36%) Machine Learning
12 18 (10.23%) Test Automation
13 17 (9.66%) Incident Response
13 17 (9.66%) Observability
13 17 (9.66%) Threat Detection
13 17 (9.66%) Validation
14 15 (8.52%) Computer Science
15 14 (7.95%) Microservices
15 14 (7.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 76 (43.18%) PowerShell
2 38 (21.59%) Bash
3 34 (19.32%) SQL
4 22 (12.50%) Java
5 16 (9.09%) JavaScript
6 12 (6.82%) Kusto Query Language
7 7 (3.98%) Perl
7 7 (3.98%) Shell Script
8 6 (3.41%) C#
8 6 (3.41%) Go
8 6 (3.41%) R
9 5 (2.84%) PHP
10 1 (0.57%) C++
10 1 (0.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 81 (46.02%) Security Cleared
2 70 (39.77%) SC Cleared
3 39 (22.16%) CISSP
4 22 (12.50%) CEH
5 19 (10.80%) GIAC
6 18 (10.23%) AWS Certification
6 18 (10.23%) CISM
7 17 (9.66%) Degree
8 16 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
9 15 (8.52%) CCIE
10 14 (7.95%) JNCIE
11 12 (6.82%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (3.98%) GCFA
12 7 (3.98%) GCIA
12 7 (3.98%) GCIH
12 7 (3.98%) GPEN
12 7 (3.98%) OSCP
13 6 (3.41%) CFCE
14 4 (2.27%) Master's Degree
14 4 (2.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (15.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 28 (15.91%) NIST
2 27 (15.34%) GDPR
3 9 (5.11%) QA
4 5 (2.84%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.84%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.57%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 29 (16.48%) Active Directory
2 27 (15.34%) Docker
3 23 (13.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (8.52%) vSphere
5 13 (7.39%) VMware NSX
6 4 (2.27%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.57%) NDS
8 1 (0.57%) NetIQ eDirectory
Systems Management
1 46 (26.14%) Kubernetes
2 36 (20.45%) Terraform
3 32 (18.18%) Ansible
4 15 (8.52%) Grafana
5 14 (7.95%) Argo
5 14 (7.95%) Prometheus
6 11 (6.25%) Kibana
7 8 (4.55%) Kustomize
8 7 (3.98%) Nmap
9 6 (3.41%) vCenter Server
10 4 (2.27%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 4 (2.27%) QRadar
11 2 (1.14%) logstash
11 2 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.57%) Cisco CUCM
12 1 (0.57%) Cisco UCCE
12 1 (0.57%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.57%) Puppet
12 1 (0.57%) vRealize
12 1 (0.57%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 25 (14.20%) VMware
2 24 (13.64%) Microsoft
3 19 (10.80%) BeyondTrust
3 19 (10.80%) CyberArk
4 16 (9.09%) Red Hat
4 16 (9.09%) Splunk
5 11 (6.25%) Cisco
5 11 (6.25%) Tanium
6 10 (5.68%) ArcSight
6 10 (5.68%) FireEye
7 9 (5.11%) Oracle
8 8 (4.55%) Databricks
8 8 (4.55%) F5
8 8 (4.55%) Fortinet
8 8 (4.55%) Juniper
9 7 (3.98%) LogRhythm
10 6 (3.41%) Google
10 6 (3.41%) Pure Storage
11 5 (2.84%) CrowdStrike
11 5 (2.84%) IBM