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 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 15 36
Rank change year-on-year -3 +21 -18
Contract jobs citing Python 173 123 95
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 8.79% 10.08% 4.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 48.46% 36.39% 26.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 71 72
10th Percentile £329 £400 £325
25th Percentile £385 £450 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £498
Median % change year-on-year - +0.50% -9.55%
75th Percentile £600 £581 £638
90th Percentile £650 £600 £651
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £501
% change year-on-year +5.00% -0.20% -8.91%
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% +165.74%

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 357 338 358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 18.13% 27.70% 18.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 208 249
10th Percentile £310 £393 £331
25th Percentile £384 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £608
90th Percentile £676 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £510 £501 £501
% change year-on-year +1.90% -0.10% -4.57%
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 £54.88 £62.50
% change year-on-year +9.34% -12.20% +13.64%

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 10 July 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 10 July 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 89 £550 +10.00% 26
Wokingham +6 70 £450 -5.26% 2
Bracknell +4 3 £450 - 3
Windsor -12 2 £208 -58.50%
Slough +6 1 - - 5
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 15 (8.67%) OpenStack
2 4 (2.31%) WebSphere
2 4 (2.31%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (1.16%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.16%) ArcGIS
3 2 (1.16%) IBM HTTP Server
3 2 (1.16%) JBoss
3 2 (1.16%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 2 (1.16%) WebSphere Portal
4 1 (0.58%) Apache
4 1 (0.58%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (5.20%) CPLEX
2 5 (2.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.31%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (2.31%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 85 (49.13%) Azure
2 68 (39.31%) AWS
3 41 (23.70%) GCP
4 14 (8.09%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (8.09%) OpenShift
5 9 (5.20%) Azure Monitor
6 7 (4.05%) GitHub
7 6 (3.47%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (3.47%) Azure Key Vault
7 6 (3.47%) Azure Machine Learning
7 6 (3.47%) Power Platform
7 6 (3.47%) Route 53
7 6 (3.47%) Serverless
8 5 (2.89%) Amazon S3
8 5 (2.89%) Entra ID
8 5 (2.89%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (2.31%) Azure AKS
9 4 (2.31%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (1.73%) Azure App Service
10 3 (1.73%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 15 (8.67%) BGP
2 13 (7.51%) TCP/IP
3 12 (6.94%) Firewall
3 12 (6.94%) MPLS
3 12 (6.94%) WAN
4 11 (6.36%) DNS
5 10 (5.78%) LAN
6 8 (4.62%) Network Security
7 7 (4.05%) Wireshark
8 6 (3.47%) 5G
8 6 (3.47%) Diameter Protocol
8 6 (3.47%) DNSSEC
8 6 (3.47%) LTE
8 6 (3.47%) Radio Access Network
8 6 (3.47%) VoLTE
8 6 (3.47%) VoWiFi
9 5 (2.89%) DHCP
9 5 (2.89%) SNMP
10 4 (2.31%) HTTP
10 4 (2.31%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (9.83%) NoSQL
2 12 (6.94%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.78%) MongoDB
4 9 (5.20%) Relational Database
5 6 (3.47%) Power BI
6 5 (2.89%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (2.89%) Big Data
7 4 (2.31%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.31%) MySQL
7 4 (2.31%) SQL Server
7 4 (2.31%) Tableau
8 3 (1.73%) Parquet
9 2 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.16%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.16%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.16%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.16%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.58%) Db2
10 1 (0.58%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 19 (10.98%) Git
2 12 (6.94%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.47%) JIRA
4 5 (2.89%) GitLab
5 2 (1.16%) Introscope
6 1 (0.58%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.58%) JMeter
6 1 (0.58%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.58%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.58%) NeoLoad
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle Developer 2000
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle Forms
General
1 70 (40.46%) Social Skills
2 38 (21.97%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (10.40%) Documentation Skills
4 12 (6.94%) Public Sector
5 10 (5.78%) Telecoms
6 9 (5.20%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.16%) Advertising
7 2 (1.16%) Finance
7 2 (1.16%) Marketing
7 2 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.58%) Banking
8 1 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 24 (13.87%) Senior
2 21 (12.14%) Developer
3 19 (10.98%) Architect
4 16 (9.25%) Python Developer
5 14 (8.09%) Data Engineer
6 13 (7.51%) SIEM Engineer
7 8 (4.62%) Network Architect
7 8 (4.62%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (4.05%) Site Engineer
8 7 (4.05%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 6 (3.47%) Analyst
9 6 (3.47%) Consultant
9 6 (3.47%) Data Scientist
9 6 (3.47%) IP Architect
10 5 (2.89%) Network Consultant
10 5 (2.89%) Product Owner
10 5 (2.89%) Senior Data Engineer
10 5 (2.89%) Tester
11 4 (2.31%) Cloud Engineer
11 4 (2.31%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.09%) REST
2 13 (7.51%) LDAP
2 13 (7.51%) RESTful
3 12 (6.94%) Kafka
4 11 (6.36%) FastAPI
4 11 (6.36%) NETCONF
4 11 (6.36%) YANG
5 10 (5.78%) Flask
5 10 (5.78%) Pandas
5 10 (5.78%) RabbitMQ
6 9 (5.20%) Django
6 9 (5.20%) NumPy
6 9 (5.20%) OpenAPI
6 9 (5.20%) pytest
6 9 (5.20%) Swagger
7 6 (3.47%) YAML
8 5 (2.89%) Jinja
8 5 (2.89%) JSON
8 5 (2.89%) PySpark
9 4 (2.31%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 21 (12.14%) Cloud Native
2 20 (11.56%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (9.83%) Algorithms
4 16 (9.25%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (5.78%) Onboarding
6 9 (5.20%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.89%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (2.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 5 (2.89%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.31%) Data Centre
8 4 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.73%) Clustering
9 3 (1.73%) Cyber Security Posture
9 3 (1.73%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.73%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.16%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (1.16%) Private Cloud
10 2 (1.16%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 33 (19.08%) Linux
2 19 (10.98%) Windows
3 12 (6.94%) Unix
4 9 (5.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.16%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (1.16%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 2 (1.16%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.58%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.58%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (37.57%) DevOps
2 60 (34.68%) Problem-Solving
3 52 (30.06%) CI/CD
4 36 (20.81%) Analytics
5 31 (17.92%) SIEM
6 28 (16.18%) Agile
7 24 (13.87%) High Availability
8 23 (13.29%) Data Science
8 23 (13.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 22 (12.72%) Cybersecurity
9 22 (12.72%) Data Analysis
10 21 (12.14%) Infrastructure as Code
10 21 (12.14%) Machine Learning
11 20 (11.56%) Containerisation
12 19 (10.98%) Data Pipeline
13 18 (10.40%) Platform Engineering
13 18 (10.40%) Task Automation
14 17 (9.83%) Continuous Improvement
15 16 (9.25%) DevSecOps
16 15 (8.67%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 63 (36.42%) PowerShell
2 36 (20.81%) SQL
3 33 (19.08%) Bash
4 19 (10.98%) Java
5 12 (6.94%) Kusto Query Language
6 11 (6.36%) Go
7 10 (5.78%) JavaScript
8 7 (4.05%) Perl
9 5 (2.89%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.73%) C#
11 2 (1.16%) Bicep
11 2 (1.16%) Jython
11 2 (1.16%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.16%) Scala
12 1 (0.58%) Groovy
12 1 (0.58%) PHP
12 1 (0.58%) R
12 1 (0.58%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 74 (42.77%) Security Cleared
2 60 (34.68%) SC Cleared
3 21 (12.14%) CISSP
4 15 (8.67%) Cisco Certification
5 12 (6.94%) CISM
6 11 (6.36%) CCIE
6 11 (6.36%) JNCIE
7 9 (5.20%) Azure Certification
8 8 (4.62%) AWS Certification
9 7 (4.05%) Degree
9 7 (4.05%) RHCE
10 5 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (2.31%) CEH
11 4 (2.31%) DV Cleared
11 4 (2.31%) GIAC
12 2 (1.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (1.16%) CCNA
12 2 (1.16%) CCSP
12 2 (1.16%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.83%) NIST
2 15 (8.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (6.94%) GDPR
4 7 (4.05%) Data Quality
5 6 (3.47%) QA
5 6 (3.47%) SLA
6 1 (0.58%) JTAG
System Software
1 15 (8.67%) Active Directory
1 15 (8.67%) Docker
2 1 (0.58%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 40 (23.12%) Kubernetes
2 26 (15.03%) Ansible
3 20 (11.56%) Terraform
4 3 (1.73%) Argo
4 3 (1.73%) Grafana
4 3 (1.73%) Kibana
4 3 (1.73%) Kustomize
4 3 (1.73%) Nessus
4 3 (1.73%) OpenVAS
4 3 (1.73%) Progress Chef
4 3 (1.73%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.73%) Puppet
5 2 (1.16%) CA Wily
5 2 (1.16%) CASB
5 2 (1.16%) Tivoli
6 1 (0.58%) Amdocs OSS
6 1 (0.58%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 1 (0.58%) Nmap
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.58%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 27 (15.61%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.51%) CyberArk
2 13 (7.51%) Databricks
3 12 (6.94%) BeyondTrust
4 11 (6.36%) Red Hat
5 10 (5.78%) Google
6 8 (4.62%) Nokia
7 7 (4.05%) Cisco
7 7 (4.05%) Oracle
8 6 (3.47%) BT
8 6 (3.47%) Ericsson
8 6 (3.47%) Huawei
8 6 (3.47%) Infoblox
8 6 (3.47%) Splunk
9 5 (2.89%) F5
9 5 (2.89%) Juniper
9 5 (2.89%) Tanium
10 4 (2.31%) Fortinet
10 4 (2.31%) IBM
11 3 (1.73%) VMware