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 24 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 10 48
Rank change year-on-year -4 +38 -19
Contract jobs citing Python 192 160 90
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 11.25% 12.71% 4.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 51.47% 43.84% 25.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 87 58
10th Percentile £336 £382 £325
25th Percentile £403 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £533 £563
Median % change year-on-year -15.49% -5.33% +12.50%
75th Percentile £534 £603 £675
90th Percentile £675 £638 £688
South East median daily rate £492 £539 £530
% change year-on-year -8.68% +1.65% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile £71.36 - -
25th Percentile £73.40 - -
Median hourly rate £82.00 - £67.50
75th Percentile £83.75 - -
90th Percentile £85.10 - -
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £61.25 £68.75
% change year-on-year -22.45% -10.91% +58.05%

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 373 365 358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 21.86% 28.99% 18.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 221 244
10th Percentile £335 £386 £337
25th Percentile £403 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.80% -3.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £638
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £492 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -1.60% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 17
10th Percentile £54.63 - £48.40
25th Percentile £72.55 £55.87 £56.16
Median hourly rate £79.15 £60.25 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +31.38% +3.34% -16.71%
75th Percentile £82.63 £65.62 £61.60
90th Percentile £84.43 £71.40 £68.00
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £60.50 £59.00
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.54% +7.27%

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 24 February 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 24 February 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 -6 86 £525 -8.70% 33
Wokingham +7 80 £446 -16.24% 7
Windsor -6 12 £208 -58.50% 1
Bracknell -3 5 £420 -12.50%
Slough -3 1 - - 8
Maidenhead -5 1 - -
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 6 (3.13%) OpenStack
2 4 (2.08%) Apache
3 2 (1.04%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.04%) Confluence
4 1 (0.52%) Appian
4 1 (0.52%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.52%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.04%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.52%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 79 (41.15%) Azure
2 74 (38.54%) AWS
3 43 (22.40%) GCP
4 21 (10.94%) OpenShift
5 15 (7.81%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (5.73%) Serverless
7 10 (5.21%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (5.21%) GitHub
7 10 (5.21%) IaaS
8 8 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (3.65%) Azure Monitor
9 7 (3.65%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (3.65%) Power Platform
10 6 (3.13%) Azure AKS
11 5 (2.60%) Azure Functions
11 5 (2.60%) Azure Machine Learning
11 5 (2.60%) Entra ID
11 5 (2.60%) OCI
12 4 (2.08%) Datadog
12 4 (2.08%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.81%) Network Security
2 10 (5.21%) DNS
3 8 (4.17%) BGP
3 8 (4.17%) MPLS
3 8 (4.17%) WAN
3 8 (4.17%) Wireshark
4 7 (3.65%) Firewall
4 7 (3.65%) TCP/IP
5 6 (3.13%) LAN
6 4 (2.08%) DHCP
6 4 (2.08%) SNMP
6 4 (2.08%) TACACS
7 3 (1.56%) SSL
7 3 (1.56%) VoIP
8 2 (1.04%) 2G
8 2 (1.04%) 5G
8 2 (1.04%) LTE
8 2 (1.04%) Mobile Backhaul
8 2 (1.04%) OSPF
8 2 (1.04%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.33%) Relational Database
2 15 (7.81%) NoSQL
3 14 (7.29%) MySQL
4 7 (3.65%) Power BI
5 6 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (3.13%) MongoDB
5 6 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (3.13%) Tableau
6 5 (2.60%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (2.60%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (2.60%) Couchbase
6 5 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.08%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.56%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.56%) Parquet
9 2 (1.04%) Big Data
9 2 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.04%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.52%) GIS
10 1 (0.52%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 20 (10.42%) Jenkins
2 15 (7.81%) Git
3 8 (4.17%) Burp Suite
3 8 (4.17%) Metasploit
4 6 (3.13%) JIRA
5 3 (1.56%) GitLab
6 1 (0.52%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.52%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.52%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.52%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.52%) Selenium
6 1 (0.52%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.52%) Visual Studio
General
1 100 (52.08%) Social Skills
2 47 (24.48%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (14.06%) Documentation Skills
4 20 (10.42%) Public Sector
5 3 (1.56%) Legal
5 3 (1.56%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.04%) Advertising
6 2 (1.04%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.04%) Billing
6 2 (1.04%) Finance
6 2 (1.04%) Retail
7 1 (0.52%) Marketing
7 1 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 29 (15.10%) SIEM Engineer
2 25 (13.02%) Senior
3 13 (6.77%) Tester
4 12 (6.25%) Architect
4 12 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
5 11 (5.73%) Analyst
6 10 (5.21%) Platform Engineer
7 9 (4.69%) Developer
7 9 (4.69%) Technical Support
8 8 (4.17%) Penetration Tester
9 7 (3.65%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (3.65%) Data Engineer
9 7 (3.65%) Site Engineer
9 7 (3.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 7 (3.65%) SOC Analyst
10 5 (2.60%) AWS Engineer
10 5 (2.60%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (2.60%) IP Specialist
10 5 (2.60%) Senior DevOps
10 5 (2.60%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (12.50%) LDAP
2 16 (8.33%) REST
3 11 (5.73%) Loki
4 8 (4.17%) GraphQL
4 8 (4.17%) Kafka
4 8 (4.17%) OAuth
5 7 (3.65%) .NET
5 7 (3.65%) NETCONF
5 7 (3.65%) scikit-learn
6 6 (3.13%) .NET Core
6 6 (3.13%) YANG
7 5 (2.60%) Pandas
7 5 (2.60%) PyTorch
7 5 (2.60%) React
7 5 (2.60%) SAML
7 5 (2.60%) TensorFlow
8 4 (2.08%) JSON
8 4 (2.08%) Middleware
8 4 (2.08%) NumPy
8 4 (2.08%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.42%) Cloud Native
2 17 (8.85%) Onboarding
3 12 (6.25%) Cyber Security Posture
4 11 (5.73%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (5.21%) Algorithms
6 8 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (4.17%) Operational Technology
6 8 (4.17%) Virtual Team
7 6 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (3.13%) Replication
7 6 (3.13%) Security Operations Centre
8 5 (2.60%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (2.08%) Data Centre
9 4 (2.08%) Management Information System
9 4 (2.08%) PKI
10 3 (1.56%) Security Posture
11 2 (1.04%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (1.04%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (1.04%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 58 (30.21%) Linux
2 24 (12.50%) Windows
3 14 (7.29%) Unix
4 10 (5.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (4.17%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.52%) VMS
6 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (45.31%) CI/CD
2 75 (39.06%) Problem-Solving
3 72 (37.50%) DevOps
4 65 (33.85%) SIEM
5 50 (26.04%) Cybersecurity
6 32 (16.67%) DevSecOps
7 30 (15.63%) Infrastructure as Code
8 26 (13.54%) Agile
9 24 (12.50%) Test Automation
10 22 (11.46%) Analytical Thinking
10 22 (11.46%) Stakeholder Management
11 21 (10.94%) Observability
12 20 (10.42%) Containerisation
12 20 (10.42%) Data Analysis
13 19 (9.90%) Analytics
13 19 (9.90%) High Availability
13 19 (9.90%) Threat Detection
14 18 (9.38%) Machine Learning
14 18 (9.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 16 (8.33%) AI
Programming Languages
1 94 (48.96%) PowerShell
2 44 (22.92%) Bash
3 36 (18.75%) SQL
4 24 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 23 (11.98%) Kusto Query Language
6 21 (10.94%) Java
7 10 (5.21%) Perl
8 7 (3.65%) C#
8 7 (3.65%) Shell Script
9 6 (3.13%) PHP
10 5 (2.60%) Go
11 4 (2.08%) R
12 1 (0.52%) Bicep
12 1 (0.52%) C++
Qualifications
1 101 (52.60%) Security Cleared
2 87 (45.31%) SC Cleared
3 42 (21.88%) CISSP
4 22 (11.46%) CEH
4 22 (11.46%) CISM
5 18 (9.38%) GIAC
6 15 (7.81%) Degree
7 14 (7.29%) AWS Certification
8 12 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (5.21%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (4.69%) CCIE
11 8 (4.17%) GPEN
11 8 (4.17%) JNCIE
11 8 (4.17%) OSCP
12 6 (3.13%) GCFA
12 6 (3.13%) GCIA
12 6 (3.13%) GCIH
13 5 (2.60%) Azure Certification
13 5 (2.60%) CFCE
14 3 (1.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (17.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 33 (17.19%) NIST
3 29 (15.10%) GDPR
4 9 (4.69%) QA
5 4 (2.08%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.56%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 35 (18.23%) Active Directory
2 25 (13.02%) Docker
3 18 (9.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (7.29%) vSphere
5 8 (4.17%) VMware NSX
6 4 (2.08%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.52%) NDS
8 1 (0.52%) NetIQ eDirectory
Systems Management
1 47 (24.48%) Kubernetes
2 30 (15.63%) Terraform
3 24 (12.50%) Ansible
4 17 (8.85%) Argo
4 17 (8.85%) Grafana
4 17 (8.85%) Prometheus
5 14 (7.29%) Kibana
6 11 (5.73%) Kustomize
7 8 (4.17%) Nmap
8 6 (3.13%) vCenter Server
9 3 (1.56%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 3 (1.56%) Nessus
9 3 (1.56%) OpenVAS
10 2 (1.04%) logstash
10 2 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.52%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.52%) Cisco UCCE
11 1 (0.52%) QRadar
Vendors
1 24 (12.50%) BeyondTrust
1 24 (12.50%) CyberArk
1 24 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 20 (10.42%) VMware
3 17 (8.85%) Red Hat
4 16 (8.33%) Tanium
5 13 (6.77%) FireEye
6 11 (5.73%) Oracle
6 11 (5.73%) Splunk
7 8 (4.17%) LogRhythm
8 6 (3.13%) ArcSight
8 6 (3.13%) Cisco
8 6 (3.13%) Databricks
8 6 (3.13%) Google
8 6 (3.13%) Pure Storage
9 5 (2.60%) Confluent
9 5 (2.60%) F5
9 5 (2.60%) IBM
10 4 (2.08%) AppDynamics
10 4 (2.08%) Dynatrace