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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 23 34
Rank change year-on-year +11 +11 +4
Contract jobs citing Python 181 142 103
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 12.72% 8.88% 5.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 55.69% 34.89% 29.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 73 74
10th Percentile £385 £385 £363
25th Percentile £420 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £558 £638 £638
90th Percentile £606 £651 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £71.20 - -
25th Percentile £73.00 £27.75 -
Median hourly rate £79.50 £28.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +178.95% - -
75th Percentile £84.50 £29.25 -
90th Percentile £85.40 - -
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £42.00 £66.25
% change year-on-year +13.10% -36.60% +24.79%

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 325 407 350
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 22.84% 25.44% 19.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 251 259
10th Percentile £358 £390 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.43% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £573 £650 £638
90th Percentile £618 £670 £695
South East median daily rate £488 £504 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% -4.05% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 9
10th Percentile £34.13 £44.62 -
25th Percentile £57.19 £55.87 £48.40
Median hourly rate £75.00 £56.75 £54.56
Median % change year-on-year +32.17% +4.00% -26.02%
75th Percentile £81.50 £72.28 £58.48
90th Percentile £84.20 £79.92 £66.36
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £57.41
% change year-on-year -12.00% +8.87% -4.32%

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 +5 93 £550 -8.33% 44
Wokingham +19 64 £473 -27.23% 7
Windsor -10 7 £208 -48.13% 5
Bracknell -3 5 £420 - 1
Maidenhead -2 2 - - 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 (6.63%) OpenStack
2 5 (2.76%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.21%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.66%) Apache
5 2 (1.10%) Appian
5 2 (1.10%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.55%) Confluence
6 1 (0.55%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (1.10%) CPLEX
1 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.10%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 79 (43.65%) AWS
2 73 (40.33%) Azure
3 43 (23.76%) GCP
4 20 (11.05%) OpenShift
5 16 (8.84%) GitHub
6 13 (7.18%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (7.18%) Serverless
7 12 (6.63%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (6.08%) Power Platform
9 10 (5.52%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (5.52%) IaaS
10 9 (4.97%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (3.31%) Azure AKS
12 5 (2.76%) Azure Functions
12 5 (2.76%) Azure Machine Learning
12 5 (2.76%) OCI
13 4 (2.21%) Azure Monitor
13 4 (2.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 4 (2.21%) dbt
13 4 (2.21%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 15 (8.29%) BGP
1 15 (8.29%) MPLS
2 14 (7.73%) WAN
3 12 (6.63%) LAN
4 11 (6.08%) Network Security
5 10 (5.52%) DNS
6 8 (4.42%) Firewall
6 8 (4.42%) SNMP
6 8 (4.42%) TACACS
7 7 (3.87%) TCP/IP
7 7 (3.87%) Wireshark
8 6 (3.31%) OSPF
8 6 (3.31%) Wireless
9 4 (2.21%) DHCP
10 3 (1.66%) 2G
10 3 (1.66%) 5G
10 3 (1.66%) SSL
10 3 (1.66%) VoIP
11 2 (1.10%) Mobile Backhaul
11 2 (1.10%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.50%) Relational Database
2 16 (8.84%) NoSQL
3 11 (6.08%) Power BI
4 10 (5.52%) MongoDB
4 10 (5.52%) Tableau
5 9 (4.97%) MySQL
6 7 (3.87%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (3.31%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (3.31%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (3.31%) Data Lake
7 6 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (2.76%) Big Data
8 5 (2.76%) Couchbase
9 4 (2.21%) Hadoop
9 4 (2.21%) SQL Server
10 2 (1.10%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.10%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.55%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.55%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 18 (9.94%) Jenkins
2 17 (9.39%) Git
3 9 (4.97%) JIRA
4 7 (3.87%) Burp Suite
4 7 (3.87%) Metasploit
5 6 (3.31%) GitLab
6 2 (1.10%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.10%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.10%) Robot Framework
6 2 (1.10%) Selenium
6 2 (1.10%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.55%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.55%) MLflow
7 1 (0.55%) Mocha
General
1 100 (55.25%) Social Skills
2 46 (25.41%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (13.81%) Documentation Skills
4 21 (11.60%) Public Sector
5 13 (7.18%) Telecoms
6 8 (4.42%) Legal
7 6 (3.31%) Finance
8 2 (1.10%) Billing
9 1 (0.55%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.55%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (0.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (13.26%) Senior
2 18 (9.94%) Architect
3 15 (8.29%) Developer
4 14 (7.73%) DevOps Engineer
5 13 (7.18%) SIEM Engineer
6 11 (6.08%) Analyst
6 11 (6.08%) Data Engineer
7 10 (5.52%) SOC Analyst
8 9 (4.97%) Python Developer
8 9 (4.97%) Site Engineer
8 9 (4.97%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 8 (4.42%) Data Scientist
9 8 (4.42%) IP Specialist
9 8 (4.42%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (3.87%) AWS Engineer
10 7 (3.87%) Cloud Engineer
10 7 (3.87%) Penetration Tester
10 7 (3.87%) Tester
11 6 (3.31%) Consultant
11 6 (3.31%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (10.50%) REST
2 18 (9.94%) LDAP
3 14 (7.73%) scikit-learn
4 11 (6.08%) NETCONF
5 10 (5.52%) PyTorch
5 10 (5.52%) TensorFlow
5 10 (5.52%) YANG
6 9 (4.97%) GraphQL
6 9 (4.97%) Pandas
7 8 (4.42%) Kafka
7 8 (4.42%) Loki
7 8 (4.42%) NumPy
7 8 (4.42%) OAuth
8 6 (3.31%) FastAPI
8 6 (3.31%) RESTful
9 5 (2.76%) .NET Core
9 5 (2.76%) JSON
9 5 (2.76%) OAuth2
9 5 (2.76%) PySpark
9 5 (2.76%) React
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.50%) Algorithms
1 19 (10.50%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.73%) Hybrid Cloud
2 14 (7.73%) Onboarding
3 9 (4.97%) Data Centre
4 8 (4.42%) Cyber Security Posture
4 8 (4.42%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (4.42%) Virtual Team
5 7 (3.87%) Security Operations Centre
5 7 (3.87%) Security Posture
6 6 (3.31%) Management Information System
6 6 (3.31%) Replication
7 5 (2.76%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (2.76%) Operational Technology
8 4 (2.21%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (2.21%) PKI
9 3 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.66%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.10%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 50 (27.62%) Linux
2 22 (12.15%) Windows
3 10 (5.52%) Unix
4 8 (4.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (3.87%) Kali Linux
6 2 (1.10%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.55%) CentOS
7 1 (0.55%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (49.17%) CI/CD
2 74 (40.88%) Problem-Solving
3 65 (35.91%) DevOps
4 49 (27.07%) SIEM
5 38 (20.99%) Cybersecurity
6 28 (15.47%) Agile
7 26 (14.36%) DevSecOps
7 26 (14.36%) Infrastructure as Code
8 24 (13.26%) Incident Response
9 23 (12.71%) Machine Learning
10 22 (12.15%) Containerisation
10 22 (12.15%) High Availability
11 21 (11.60%) Validation
12 20 (11.05%) AI
12 20 (11.05%) Test Automation
13 19 (10.50%) Analytical Thinking
14 17 (9.39%) Data Pipeline
15 16 (8.84%) Data Engineering
15 16 (8.84%) Data Science
15 16 (8.84%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 68 (37.57%) PowerShell
2 37 (20.44%) SQL
3 34 (18.78%) Bash
4 23 (12.71%) Java
5 14 (7.73%) JavaScript
6 10 (5.52%) R
7 7 (3.87%) Kusto Query Language
7 7 (3.87%) Shell Script
8 6 (3.31%) Go
9 5 (2.76%) C#
9 5 (2.76%) PHP
10 4 (2.21%) C++
10 4 (2.21%) Perl
11 3 (1.66%) C
12 1 (0.55%) Scala
Qualifications
1 74 (40.88%) Security Cleared
2 61 (33.70%) SC Cleared
3 36 (19.89%) CISSP
4 19 (10.50%) AWS Certification
4 19 (10.50%) Degree
5 18 (9.94%) CEH
6 17 (9.39%) CISM
7 16 (8.84%) Cisco Certification
8 15 (8.29%) CCIE
8 15 (8.29%) GIAC
9 14 (7.73%) JNCIE
10 11 (6.08%) GCFA
10 11 (6.08%) GCIA
10 11 (6.08%) GCIH
11 10 (5.52%) Computer Science Degree
11 10 (5.52%) Master's Degree
12 8 (4.42%) CFCE
13 7 (3.87%) GPEN
13 7 (3.87%) OSCP
14 4 (2.21%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (18.23%) GDPR
1 33 (18.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 31 (17.13%) NIST
3 10 (5.52%) Data Quality
3 10 (5.52%) QA
4 7 (3.87%) HIPAA
5 5 (2.76%) EU AI Act
6 2 (1.10%) GRC
7 1 (0.55%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 28 (15.47%) Active Directory
2 24 (13.26%) Docker
3 23 (12.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (8.29%) vSphere
5 13 (7.18%) VMware NSX
6 4 (2.21%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.55%) NDS
8 1 (0.55%) NetIQ eDirectory
Systems Management
1 46 (25.41%) Kubernetes
2 33 (18.23%) Terraform
3 30 (16.57%) Ansible
4 14 (7.73%) Argo
5 10 (5.52%) Grafana
6 9 (4.97%) Prometheus
7 8 (4.42%) Kustomize
8 7 (3.87%) Nmap
9 6 (3.31%) Kibana
9 6 (3.31%) vCenter Server
10 5 (2.76%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 4 (2.21%) QRadar
12 2 (1.10%) logstash
12 2 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.55%) Cisco CUCM
13 1 (0.55%) Cisco UCCE
13 1 (0.55%) Kubeflow
13 1 (0.55%) Puppet
13 1 (0.55%) vRealize
13 1 (0.55%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 25 (13.81%) Microsoft
1 25 (13.81%) VMware
2 18 (9.94%) BeyondTrust
2 18 (9.94%) CyberArk
3 16 (8.84%) Splunk
4 15 (8.29%) Red Hat
5 13 (7.18%) Databricks
6 12 (6.63%) ArcSight
6 12 (6.63%) Cisco
7 9 (4.97%) LogRhythm
8 8 (4.42%) CrowdStrike
8 8 (4.42%) F5
8 8 (4.42%) Fortinet
8 8 (4.42%) Google
8 8 (4.42%) Juniper
8 8 (4.42%) Virgin Media
9 6 (3.31%) FireEye
9 6 (3.31%) IBM
9 6 (3.31%) Oracle
9 6 (3.31%) Tanium