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

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 12 47
Rank change year-on-year -1 +35 -11
Contract jobs citing Python 190 154 88
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 12.01% 11.87% 4.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 54.91% 41.07% 24.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 84 59
10th Percentile £336 £390 £325
25th Percentile £403 £482 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £550 £580
Median % change year-on-year -18.73% -5.17% +16.00%
75th Percentile £525 £638 £675
90th Percentile £625 £646 £688
South East median daily rate £488 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -11.36% +3.29% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £72.40 - -
25th Percentile £76.00 - -
Median hourly rate £82.00 - £67.50
75th Percentile £84.00 - -
90th Percentile £85.20 - -
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £67.02 £67.50
% change year-on-year -29.13% -0.71% +52.54%

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 346 375 356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 21.87% 28.91% 18.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 227 249
10th Percentile £335 £390 £345
25th Percentile £403 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £554 £638 £638
90th Percentile £635 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £488 £505 £525
% change year-on-year -3.47% -3.81% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 16
10th Percentile £39.25 - £48.40
25th Percentile £70.00 £55.87 £53.02
Median hourly rate £75.00 £63.75 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +17.66% +9.34% -19.86%
75th Percentile £82.00 £70.24 £61.60
90th Percentile £84.40 £75.80 £67.50
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £61.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year -10.57% +5.49% +3.24%

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 4 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 4 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 -7 86 £525 -10.45% 32
Wokingham +8 79 £445 -16.43% 8
Windsor -6 12 £208 -58.50%
Bracknell -6 5 £420 -12.50%
Maidenhead -4 1 - - 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 12 (6.32%) OpenStack
2 4 (2.11%) Apache
3 2 (1.05%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.05%) Appian
4 1 (0.53%) Confluence
4 1 (0.53%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.05%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 80 (42.11%) AWS
2 77 (40.53%) Azure
3 42 (22.11%) GCP
4 22 (11.58%) OpenShift
5 12 (6.32%) Serverless
6 11 (5.79%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (5.26%) GitHub
7 10 (5.26%) IaaS
8 9 (4.74%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (3.68%) Azure AKS
9 7 (3.68%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (2.63%) Azure Functions
10 5 (2.63%) Azure Machine Learning
10 5 (2.63%) OCI
10 5 (2.63%) Power Platform
11 4 (2.11%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (2.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 4 (2.11%) Datadog
11 4 (2.11%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 18 (9.47%) Network Security
2 14 (7.37%) BGP
2 14 (7.37%) MPLS
2 14 (7.37%) WAN
3 12 (6.32%) LAN
4 10 (5.26%) DNS
5 8 (4.21%) Wireshark
6 7 (3.68%) Firewall
6 7 (3.68%) SNMP
6 7 (3.68%) TACACS
6 7 (3.68%) TCP/IP
7 5 (2.63%) OSPF
7 5 (2.63%) Wireless
8 4 (2.11%) DHCP
9 3 (1.58%) 2G
9 3 (1.58%) 5G
9 3 (1.58%) SSL
9 3 (1.58%) VoIP
10 2 (1.05%) LTE
10 2 (1.05%) Mobile Backhaul
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.42%) Relational Database
2 14 (7.37%) MySQL
3 12 (6.32%) NoSQL
4 6 (3.16%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (3.16%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (2.63%) Couchbase
5 5 (2.63%) Data Lake
5 5 (2.63%) MongoDB
5 5 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.63%) Power BI
6 4 (2.11%) SQL Server
6 4 (2.11%) Tableau
7 3 (1.58%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.05%) Big Data
8 2 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.05%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.53%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.53%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.53%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 18 (9.47%) Jenkins
2 13 (6.84%) Git
3 8 (4.21%) Burp Suite
3 8 (4.21%) Metasploit
4 6 (3.16%) JIRA
5 4 (2.11%) GitLab
6 2 (1.05%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.05%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.05%) Robot Framework
6 2 (1.05%) Selenium
6 2 (1.05%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.53%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio
General
1 106 (55.79%) Social Skills
2 48 (25.26%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (15.79%) Documentation Skills
4 19 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 4 (2.11%) Telecoms
6 3 (1.58%) Finance
6 3 (1.58%) Legal
7 2 (1.05%) Billing
7 2 (1.05%) Retail
8 1 (0.53%) Advertising
8 1 (0.53%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 28 (14.74%) SIEM Engineer
2 21 (11.05%) Senior
3 13 (6.84%) Architect
3 13 (6.84%) DevOps Engineer
3 13 (6.84%) Tester
4 9 (4.74%) Technical Support
5 8 (4.21%) Analyst
5 8 (4.21%) IP Specialist
5 8 (4.21%) Penetration Tester
5 8 (4.21%) Platform Engineer
6 7 (3.68%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (3.68%) Data Engineer
6 7 (3.68%) Developer
6 7 (3.68%) Site Engineer
6 7 (3.68%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 6 (3.16%) Azure Engineer
7 6 (3.16%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (3.16%) IP Architect
7 6 (3.16%) SOC Analyst
8 5 (2.63%) IP Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (12.63%) LDAP
2 17 (8.95%) REST
3 11 (5.79%) Loki
3 11 (5.79%) NETCONF
4 10 (5.26%) YANG
5 8 (4.21%) GraphQL
6 7 (3.68%) Kafka
6 7 (3.68%) scikit-learn
7 6 (3.16%) .NET
7 6 (3.16%) OAuth
8 5 (2.63%) .NET Core
8 5 (2.63%) PyTorch
8 5 (2.63%) TensorFlow
9 4 (2.11%) Jinja
9 4 (2.11%) Middleware
9 4 (2.11%) Node.js
9 4 (2.11%) Pandas
9 4 (2.11%) React
10 3 (1.58%) NumPy
10 3 (1.58%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.53%) Cloud Native
2 15 (7.89%) Cyber Security Posture
3 14 (7.37%) Hybrid Cloud
3 14 (7.37%) Onboarding
4 10 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (4.74%) Algorithms
6 8 (4.21%) Data Centre
6 8 (4.21%) Virtual Team
7 7 (3.68%) Operational Technology
8 6 (3.16%) Replication
9 5 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (2.63%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (2.63%) Security Operations Centre
10 4 (2.11%) PKI
11 3 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.58%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.58%) Security Posture
12 2 (1.05%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (1.05%) Product Ownership
12 2 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 56 (29.47%) Linux
2 24 (12.63%) Windows
3 14 (7.37%) Unix
4 8 (4.21%) Kali Linux
4 8 (4.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.53%) VMS
5 1 (0.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (45.79%) CI/CD
2 70 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
3 66 (34.74%) DevOps
4 63 (33.16%) SIEM
5 52 (27.37%) Cybersecurity
6 32 (16.84%) DevSecOps
7 30 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
8 25 (13.16%) Analytical Thinking
9 24 (12.63%) Test Automation
10 23 (12.11%) Agile
11 21 (11.05%) Threat Detection
12 20 (10.53%) Observability
13 18 (9.47%) Containerisation
13 18 (9.47%) High Availability
14 17 (8.95%) Data Analysis
14 17 (8.95%) Stakeholder Management
15 16 (8.42%) Incident Response
15 16 (8.42%) Machine Learning
15 16 (8.42%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 15 (7.89%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 91 (47.89%) PowerShell
2 42 (22.11%) Bash
3 30 (15.79%) SQL
4 23 (12.11%) JavaScript
5 21 (11.05%) Java
6 18 (9.47%) Kusto Query Language
7 10 (5.26%) Perl
8 7 (3.68%) Shell Script
9 6 (3.16%) C#
9 6 (3.16%) PHP
9 6 (3.16%) R
10 5 (2.63%) Go
11 1 (0.53%) C++
Qualifications
1 96 (50.53%) Security Cleared
2 82 (43.16%) SC Cleared
3 45 (23.68%) CISSP
4 25 (13.16%) CEH
5 22 (11.58%) CISM
6 21 (11.05%) GIAC
7 18 (9.47%) AWS Certification
8 16 (8.42%) Cisco Certification
9 15 (7.89%) CCIE
9 15 (7.89%) Degree
10 14 (7.37%) JNCIE
11 13 (6.84%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (4.21%) GPEN
12 8 (4.21%) OSCP
13 6 (3.16%) GCFA
13 6 (3.16%) GCIA
13 6 (3.16%) GCIH
14 5 (2.63%) CFCE
15 4 (2.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 3 (1.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (17.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 32 (16.84%) NIST
3 29 (15.26%) GDPR
4 9 (4.74%) QA
5 4 (2.11%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.58%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 34 (17.89%) Active Directory
2 25 (13.16%) Docker
3 22 (11.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (7.89%) vSphere
5 12 (6.32%) VMware NSX
6 4 (2.11%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.53%) NDS
8 1 (0.53%) NetIQ eDirectory
Systems Management
1 46 (24.21%) Kubernetes
2 33 (17.37%) Terraform
3 31 (16.32%) Ansible
4 17 (8.95%) Argo
4 17 (8.95%) Grafana
4 17 (8.95%) Prometheus
5 14 (7.37%) Kibana
6 11 (5.79%) Kustomize
7 8 (4.21%) Nmap
8 6 (3.16%) vCenter Server
9 4 (2.11%) QRadar
10 3 (1.58%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 2 (1.05%) logstash
11 2 (1.05%) Nessus
11 2 (1.05%) OpenVAS
11 2 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.53%) Cisco CUCM
12 1 (0.53%) Cisco UCCE
12 1 (0.53%) vRealize
12 1 (0.53%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 24 (12.63%) BeyondTrust
1 24 (12.63%) CyberArk
1 24 (12.63%) VMware
2 22 (11.58%) Microsoft
3 16 (8.42%) Red Hat
3 16 (8.42%) Tanium
4 14 (7.37%) Splunk
5 13 (6.84%) FireEye
6 11 (5.79%) Oracle
7 10 (5.26%) Cisco
8 9 (4.74%) ArcSight
9 7 (3.68%) F5
9 7 (3.68%) Fortinet
9 7 (3.68%) Juniper
9 7 (3.68%) LogRhythm
10 6 (3.16%) Pure Storage
11 5 (2.63%) Confluent
11 5 (2.63%) Databricks
11 5 (2.63%) Google
11 5 (2.63%) IBM