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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 13 38
Rank change year-on-year -5 +25 -18
Contract jobs citing Python 175 126 93
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 9.56% 10.84% 4.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 51.02% 38.18% 24.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 74 66
10th Percentile £306 £408 £325
25th Percentile £380 £476 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £598 £638
90th Percentile £675 £638 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile £71.70 - -
25th Percentile £75.36 - -
Median hourly rate £82.25 - £67.50
75th Percentile £83.75 - £72.50
90th Percentile £84.88 - £75.50
South East median hourly rate £48.02 £56.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year -14.63% -13.46% +44.44%

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 343 330 376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 18.73% 28.40% 18.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 204 253
10th Percentile £310 £400 £330
25th Percentile £385 £454 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - -
75th Percentile £587 £638 £619
90th Percentile £663 £700 £685
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 15
10th Percentile £73.06 £39.74 £56.20
25th Percentile £80.75 £53.97 £56.65
Median hourly rate £81.50 £63.75 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +27.85% +3.48% -12.00%
75th Percentile £83.38 £68.51 £64.55
90th Percentile £83.98 £73.72 £68.25
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £56.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year -7.49% -5.42% +9.09%

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 April 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 April 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 -14 81 £525 -8.70% 16
Wokingham -1 70 £430 -4.44% 9
Windsor -6 12 £208 -58.50%
Bracknell -4 3 £450 -6.25% 1
Slough +11 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 5 (2.86%) OpenStack
2 4 (2.29%) WebSphere
2 4 (2.29%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (1.14%) Apache
3 2 (1.14%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.14%) ArcGIS
3 2 (1.14%) IBM HTTP Server
3 2 (1.14%) JBoss
3 2 (1.14%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 2 (1.14%) WebSphere Portal
4 1 (0.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (2.29%) CPLEX
1 4 (2.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (2.29%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (2.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (2.29%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 77 (44.00%) Azure
2 62 (35.43%) AWS
3 42 (24.00%) GCP
4 18 (10.29%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (9.14%) GitHub
6 11 (6.29%) Azure Monitor
6 11 (6.29%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (5.71%) Serverless
8 9 (5.14%) OpenShift
9 6 (3.43%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (3.43%) Azure Functions
9 6 (3.43%) Power Platform
10 5 (2.86%) Amazon S3
10 5 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (2.86%) Azure AKS
10 5 (2.86%) Azure Key Vault
10 5 (2.86%) Azure Sentinel
10 5 (2.86%) Entra ID
11 4 (2.29%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (2.29%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.43%) Network Security
2 10 (5.71%) Firewall
2 10 (5.71%) TCP/IP
3 7 (4.00%) BGP
3 7 (4.00%) MPLS
3 7 (4.00%) WAN
4 6 (3.43%) DNS
5 5 (2.86%) SSL
6 4 (2.29%) 5G
6 4 (2.29%) DHCP
6 4 (2.29%) LTE
6 4 (2.29%) SNMP
6 4 (2.29%) TACACS
6 4 (2.29%) Wireshark
7 3 (1.71%) Diameter Protocol
7 3 (1.71%) LAN
7 3 (1.71%) Radio Access Network
7 3 (1.71%) VoLTE
7 3 (1.71%) VoWiFi
8 2 (1.14%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (9.71%) Relational Database
2 14 (8.00%) MySQL
3 12 (6.86%) NoSQL
4 10 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (4.00%) MongoDB
6 6 (3.43%) Power BI
7 5 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (2.86%) Big Data
8 4 (2.29%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (2.29%) Tableau
9 3 (1.71%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.71%) Parquet
9 3 (1.71%) SQL Server
10 2 (1.14%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (1.14%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.14%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.57%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.57%) Redis
11 1 (0.57%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 15 (8.57%) Git
2 13 (7.43%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.43%) GitLab
4 3 (1.71%) JIRA
5 2 (1.14%) Introscope
6 1 (0.57%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.57%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.57%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 79 (45.14%) Social Skills
2 40 (22.86%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (12.00%) Documentation Skills
4 15 (8.57%) Public Sector
5 5 (2.86%) Aerospace
5 5 (2.86%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.14%) Advertising
6 2 (1.14%) Billing
6 2 (1.14%) Retail
7 1 (0.57%) Legal
7 1 (0.57%) Marketing
7 1 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 31 (17.71%) Senior
2 28 (16.00%) SIEM Engineer
3 18 (10.29%) Developer
4 11 (6.29%) Data Engineer
5 10 (5.71%) DevOps Engineer
5 10 (5.71%) Python Developer
6 9 (5.14%) Azure Engineer
6 9 (5.14%) Technical Support
7 8 (4.57%) Analyst
8 7 (4.00%) Senior DevOps
8 7 (4.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 7 (4.00%) Site Engineer
8 7 (4.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 6 (3.43%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 6 (3.43%) Tester
10 5 (2.86%) Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (2.86%) IP Specialist
10 5 (2.86%) Platform Engineer
10 5 (2.86%) Security Engineer
10 5 (2.86%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (12.00%) LDAP
2 15 (8.57%) REST
3 10 (5.71%) OAuth
4 9 (5.14%) .NET
4 9 (5.14%) GraphQL
5 8 (4.57%) Middleware
6 7 (4.00%) Kafka
7 6 (3.43%) .NET Core
7 6 (3.43%) FastAPI
7 6 (3.43%) NETCONF
7 6 (3.43%) React
7 6 (3.43%) RESTful
7 6 (3.43%) YANG
8 5 (2.86%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (2.86%) Flask
8 5 (2.86%) Node.js
8 5 (2.86%) Pandas
8 5 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (2.86%) SAML
8 5 (2.86%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.29%) Onboarding
2 16 (9.14%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (7.43%) Cloud Native
4 11 (6.29%) Algorithms
4 11 (6.29%) Cyber Security Posture
5 8 (4.57%) Operational Technology
6 7 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (3.43%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (2.86%) PKI
9 4 (2.29%) Data Centre
9 4 (2.29%) Data Structures
9 4 (2.29%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (2.29%) Security Operations Centre
9 4 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.71%) Clustering
11 2 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.14%) Management Information System
11 2 (1.14%) Security Posture
12 1 (0.57%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 37 (21.14%) Linux
2 24 (13.71%) Windows
3 15 (8.57%) Unix
4 6 (3.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.14%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (1.14%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 1 (0.57%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.57%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.57%) VMS
6 1 (0.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (39.43%) CI/CD
2 68 (38.86%) Problem-Solving
3 64 (36.57%) DevOps
4 60 (34.29%) SIEM
5 44 (25.14%) Cybersecurity
6 29 (16.57%) DevSecOps
7 25 (14.29%) Analytics
8 23 (13.14%) Data Analysis
9 22 (12.57%) Infrastructure as Code
9 22 (12.57%) Stakeholder Management
10 20 (11.43%) Containerisation
10 20 (11.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 19 (10.86%) Threat Detection
12 18 (10.29%) Agile
12 18 (10.29%) AI
12 18 (10.29%) Analytical Thinking
12 18 (10.29%) Machine Learning
13 17 (9.71%) Task Automation
14 16 (9.14%) High Availability
14 16 (9.14%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 87 (49.71%) PowerShell
2 33 (18.86%) Bash
3 32 (18.29%) SQL
4 28 (16.00%) Java
5 23 (13.14%) JavaScript
5 23 (13.14%) Kusto Query Language
6 14 (8.00%) Perl
7 11 (6.29%) Go
8 9 (5.14%) C#
9 6 (3.43%) PHP
10 2 (1.14%) Bicep
10 2 (1.14%) Jython
10 2 (1.14%) Scala
10 2 (1.14%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.57%) C++
11 1 (0.57%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.57%) R
11 1 (0.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 82 (46.86%) Security Cleared
2 67 (38.29%) SC Cleared
3 35 (20.00%) CISSP
4 19 (10.86%) CISM
5 15 (8.57%) GIAC
6 14 (8.00%) CEH
7 11 (6.29%) Degree
8 10 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (3.43%) AWS Certification
9 6 (3.43%) CCIE
9 6 (3.43%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (3.43%) JNCIE
10 4 (2.29%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (1.71%) DV Cleared
11 3 (1.71%) GCFA
11 3 (1.71%) GCIA
11 3 (1.71%) GCIH
11 3 (1.71%) RHCE
11 3 (1.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (14.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 26 (14.86%) NIST
2 22 (12.57%) GDPR
3 6 (3.43%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.29%) QA
5 3 (1.71%) SLA
6 1 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.57%) HIPAA
System Software
1 28 (16.00%) Active Directory
2 21 (12.00%) Docker
3 5 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.29%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 38 (21.71%) Kubernetes
2 20 (11.43%) Ansible
2 20 (11.43%) Terraform
3 13 (7.43%) Kibana
4 10 (5.71%) Grafana
4 10 (5.71%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.29%) Argo
5 4 (2.29%) Kustomize
6 3 (1.71%) Nessus
6 3 (1.71%) OpenVAS
7 2 (1.14%) CA Wily
7 2 (1.14%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 2 (1.14%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.57%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.57%) Nmap
8 1 (0.57%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.57%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 25 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 21 (12.00%) BeyondTrust
2 21 (12.00%) CyberArk
3 15 (8.57%) Tanium
4 12 (6.86%) FireEye
4 12 (6.86%) Oracle
5 10 (5.71%) Splunk
6 9 (5.14%) Red Hat
7 8 (4.57%) Databricks
8 6 (3.43%) AppDynamics
8 6 (3.43%) LogRhythm
9 5 (2.86%) F5
9 5 (2.86%) Juniper
9 5 (2.86%) VMware
10 4 (2.29%) ArcSight
10 4 (2.29%) Cisco
10 4 (2.29%) Dynatrace
10 4 (2.29%) Fortinet
10 4 (2.29%) IBM
11 3 (1.71%) Rapid7