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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 14 34
Rank change year-on-year -6 +20 -18
Contract jobs citing Python 160 131 98
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 8.23% 10.87% 5.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 48.19% 38.99% 28.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 74 74
10th Percentile £327 £368 £340
25th Percentile £400 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £501
Median % change year-on-year - -0.20% -8.91%
75th Percentile £606 £575 £638
90th Percentile £670 £600 £651
South East median daily rate £538 £500 £501
% change year-on-year +7.50% -0.20% -8.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile £77.20 - £32.23
25th Percentile £81.06 - £38.94
Median hourly rate £82.50 - £51.75
75th Percentile £84.69 - £65.44
90th Percentile £86.50 - £72.68
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £56.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year -2.22% -13.46% +36.84%

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 332 336 347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 17.08% 27.88% 18.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 203 244
10th Percentile £313 £400 £363
25th Percentile £392 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -13.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £623
90th Percentile £675 £700 £660
South East median daily rate £513 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +2.65% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 11
10th Percentile £73.40 - £56.25
25th Percentile £80.75 £30.25 £56.65
Median hourly rate £81.50 £31.50 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +158.73% -48.86% -2.22%
75th Percentile £83.75 £32.75 £69.22
90th Percentile £85.00 - £77.50
South East median hourly rate £62.50 £51.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +21.95% -21.15% +18.18%

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 23 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 23 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 -12 84 £550 +10.00% 28
Wokingham +2 62 £500 +8.11% 2
Bracknell +3 3 £450 - 5
Slough +5 1 - - 4
Windsor -12 1 £208 -58.50% 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 13 (8.13%) OpenStack
2 6 (3.75%) Confluence
3 4 (2.50%) WebSphere
3 4 (2.50%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (1.25%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.25%) ArcGIS
4 2 (1.25%) IBM HTTP Server
4 2 (1.25%) JBoss
4 2 (1.25%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 2 (1.25%) WebSphere Portal
5 1 (0.63%) Apache
Applications
1 9 (5.63%) CPLEX
2 5 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (2.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 82 (51.25%) Azure
2 59 (36.88%) AWS
3 33 (20.63%) GCP
4 19 (11.88%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (8.75%) Azure Monitor
6 13 (8.13%) OpenShift
7 11 (6.88%) Azure Key Vault
8 10 (6.25%) Entra ID
9 9 (5.63%) Azure AKS
10 8 (5.00%) Azure App Service
11 7 (4.38%) GitHub
12 6 (3.75%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (3.75%) Azure Machine Learning
12 6 (3.75%) Power Platform
12 6 (3.75%) Route 53
12 6 (3.75%) Serverless
13 5 (3.13%) Amazon S3
13 5 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (3.13%) PaaS
14 4 (2.50%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.13%) BGP
1 13 (8.13%) TCP/IP
2 12 (7.50%) Firewall
3 11 (6.88%) DNS
4 10 (6.25%) MPLS
4 10 (6.25%) WAN
5 8 (5.00%) LAN
6 6 (3.75%) 5G
6 6 (3.75%) Diameter Protocol
6 6 (3.75%) DNSSEC
6 6 (3.75%) LTE
6 6 (3.75%) Radio Access Network
6 6 (3.75%) VoLTE
6 6 (3.75%) VoWiFi
6 6 (3.75%) Wireshark
7 5 (3.13%) DHCP
7 5 (3.13%) Network Security
7 5 (3.13%) SNMP
8 4 (2.50%) HTTP
8 4 (2.50%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (13.75%) NoSQL
2 12 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (6.25%) MongoDB
4 9 (5.63%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (5.00%) Relational Database
6 6 (3.75%) Power BI
7 5 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (3.13%) Big Data
8 4 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (2.50%) Parquet
8 4 (2.50%) SQL Server
8 4 (2.50%) Tableau
9 3 (1.88%) MySQL
10 2 (1.25%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (1.25%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.25%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.25%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.25%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.63%) Oracle Database 12c
11 1 (0.63%) Redis
Development Applications
1 22 (13.75%) Git
2 12 (7.50%) Jenkins
3 7 (4.38%) JIRA
4 5 (3.13%) GitLab
5 2 (1.25%) Introscope
6 1 (0.63%) JMeter
6 1 (0.63%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.63%) NeoLoad
6 1 (0.63%) Oracle Developer 2000
6 1 (0.63%) Oracle Forms
General
1 56 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 34 (21.25%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
4 10 (6.25%) Telecoms
5 9 (5.63%) Aerospace
5 9 (5.63%) Public Sector
6 3 (1.88%) Marketing
7 2 (1.25%) Finance
7 2 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.63%) Advertising
8 1 (0.63%) Banking
8 1 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 26 (16.25%) Developer
2 24 (15.00%) Senior
3 18 (11.25%) Architect
4 16 (10.00%) Python Developer
5 15 (9.38%) Data Engineer
6 9 (5.63%) Full-Stack Developer
6 9 (5.63%) SIEM Engineer
7 8 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (4.38%) Network Architect
9 6 (3.75%) Consultant
9 6 (3.75%) Data Scientist
9 6 (3.75%) Site Engineer
9 6 (3.75%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 5 (3.13%) Analyst
10 5 (3.13%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (3.13%) IP Architect
10 5 (3.13%) Network Consultant
10 5 (3.13%) Product Owner
10 5 (3.13%) Senior Data Engineer
11 4 (2.50%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (10.63%) REST
2 16 (10.00%) RESTful
3 12 (7.50%) Kafka
4 11 (6.88%) FastAPI
4 11 (6.88%) LDAP
5 10 (6.25%) Flask
5 10 (6.25%) Pandas
5 10 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
6 9 (5.63%) .NET
6 9 (5.63%) Django
6 9 (5.63%) NETCONF
6 9 (5.63%) NumPy
6 9 (5.63%) OAuth
6 9 (5.63%) OpenAPI
6 9 (5.63%) pytest
6 9 (5.63%) Swagger
6 9 (5.63%) YANG
7 7 (4.38%) SAML
8 6 (3.75%) OpenID
8 6 (3.75%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 17 (10.63%) Algorithms
3 14 (8.75%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (8.75%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (6.25%) Onboarding
5 9 (5.63%) Data Structures
6 5 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (3.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 5 (3.13%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.50%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.88%) Clustering
8 3 (1.88%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.88%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.25%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.25%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.25%) Private Cloud
9 2 (1.25%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 30 (18.75%) Linux
2 18 (11.25%) Windows
3 11 (6.88%) Unix
4 10 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.25%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (1.25%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 2 (1.25%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.63%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (41.25%) DevOps
2 50 (31.25%) CI/CD
2 50 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
3 41 (25.63%) Analytics
4 27 (16.88%) Agile
5 24 (15.00%) Data Science
5 24 (15.00%) SIEM
6 22 (13.75%) Data Analysis
7 21 (13.13%) Infrastructure as Code
7 21 (13.13%) Machine Learning
8 20 (12.50%) Containerisation
8 20 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
9 19 (11.88%) High Availability
10 18 (11.25%) Platform Engineering
11 17 (10.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 16 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (9.38%) Cybersecurity
13 15 (9.38%) Migration
14 14 (8.75%) Stakeholder Management
14 14 (8.75%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 58 (36.25%) PowerShell
2 41 (25.63%) SQL
3 32 (20.00%) Bash
4 13 (8.13%) Java
5 9 (5.63%) Kusto Query Language
6 8 (5.00%) C#
7 7 (4.38%) JavaScript
8 6 (3.75%) Go
8 6 (3.75%) Perl
9 5 (3.13%) Bicep
9 5 (3.13%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.25%) Jython
10 2 (1.25%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.25%) Scala
11 1 (0.63%) Groovy
11 1 (0.63%) PHP
11 1 (0.63%) R
11 1 (0.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 61 (38.13%) Security Cleared
2 48 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 15 (9.38%) CISSP
4 13 (8.13%) Cisco Certification
5 12 (7.50%) Azure Certification
6 10 (6.25%) CISM
7 9 (5.63%) AWS Certification
7 9 (5.63%) CCIE
7 9 (5.63%) JNCIE
8 7 (4.38%) RHCE
9 6 (3.75%) Degree
10 4 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (2.50%) DV Cleared
11 2 (1.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (1.25%) CCNA
11 2 (1.25%) CCSP
11 2 (1.25%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.63%) CCNP
12 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.75%) NIST
2 12 (7.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (6.25%) GDPR
4 7 (4.38%) Data Quality
5 6 (3.75%) QA
5 6 (3.75%) SLA
6 1 (0.63%) JTAG
System Software
1 18 (11.25%) Active Directory
2 15 (9.38%) Docker
3 1 (0.63%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 34 (21.25%) Kubernetes
2 25 (15.63%) Ansible
3 24 (15.00%) Terraform
4 4 (2.50%) Progress Chef
4 4 (2.50%) Puppet
5 2 (1.25%) Argo
5 2 (1.25%) CA Wily
5 2 (1.25%) CASB
5 2 (1.25%) Grafana
5 2 (1.25%) Kustomize
5 2 (1.25%) Nessus
5 2 (1.25%) OpenVAS
5 2 (1.25%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.25%) Tivoli
6 1 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.63%) Amdocs OSS
6 1 (0.63%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.63%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.63%) SCOM
6 1 (0.63%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 32 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.75%) Databricks
3 11 (6.88%) CyberArk
3 11 (6.88%) Red Hat
4 10 (6.25%) BeyondTrust
5 9 (5.63%) Google
6 8 (5.00%) Nokia
7 7 (4.38%) Cisco
8 6 (3.75%) BT
8 6 (3.75%) Ericsson
8 6 (3.75%) Huawei
8 6 (3.75%) Infoblox
8 6 (3.75%) Oracle
9 5 (3.13%) F5
9 5 (3.13%) Juniper
9 5 (3.13%) Splunk
10 4 (2.50%) Fortinet
10 4 (2.50%) IBM
11 3 (1.88%) ServiceNow
11 3 (1.88%) VMware