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

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 16 34
Rank change year-on-year +3 +18 +5
Contract jobs citing Python 186 147 102
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 12.40% 10.01% 5.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 54.55% 38.08% 29.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 81 70
10th Percentile £344 £386 £324
25th Percentile £413 £480 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £540 £638 £638
90th Percentile £608 £650 £700
South East median daily rate £492 £529 £525
% change year-on-year -6.95% +0.71% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £72.40 - -
25th Percentile £76.00 £27.75 -
Median hourly rate £82.00 £28.50 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +187.72% -57.78% -
75th Percentile £84.00 £29.25 -
90th Percentile £85.20 - -
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £42.00 £66.25
% change year-on-year +13.10% -36.60% +43.24%

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 341 386 349
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 22.73% 26.29% 20.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 240 248
10th Percentile £341 £390 £350
25th Percentile £410 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £580 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.03% +5.45% +1.29%
75th Percentile £567 £651 £638
90th Percentile £620 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £488 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 10
10th Percentile £39.25 £44.62 £48.40
25th Percentile £70.00 £55.87 £48.73
Median hourly rate £75.00 £56.75 £55.31
Median % change year-on-year +32.17% +2.59% +0.56%
75th Percentile £82.00 £65.62 £59.91
90th Percentile £84.40 £69.32 £69.78
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £57.00 £57.41
% change year-on-year -3.50% -0.72% -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 26 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 26 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 -3 88 £535 -10.83% 78
Wokingham +9 71 £465 -12.68% 2
Windsor -10 9 £208 -53.89% 1
Bracknell -4 5 £420 -12.50%
Maidenhead -1 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 (6.45%) OpenStack
2 5 (2.69%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.15%) Apache
4 2 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.08%) Appian
4 2 (1.08%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.54%) Confluence
5 1 (0.54%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.08%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.54%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 79 (42.47%) AWS
2 74 (39.78%) Azure
3 43 (23.12%) GCP
4 20 (10.75%) OpenShift
5 15 (8.06%) GitHub
6 14 (7.53%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (6.99%) Serverless
8 10 (5.38%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (5.38%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (5.38%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (5.38%) IaaS
9 9 (4.84%) Power Platform
10 7 (3.76%) Azure AKS
11 5 (2.69%) Azure Functions
11 5 (2.69%) Azure Machine Learning
11 5 (2.69%) OCI
12 4 (2.15%) Azure Monitor
12 4 (2.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (2.15%) Datadog
12 4 (2.15%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.60%) Network Security
2 14 (7.53%) BGP
2 14 (7.53%) MPLS
2 14 (7.53%) WAN
3 12 (6.45%) LAN
4 10 (5.38%) DNS
5 8 (4.30%) Firewall
5 8 (4.30%) SNMP
5 8 (4.30%) TACACS
6 7 (3.76%) TCP/IP
6 7 (3.76%) Wireshark
7 6 (3.23%) OSPF
7 6 (3.23%) Wireless
8 4 (2.15%) DHCP
9 3 (1.61%) 2G
9 3 (1.61%) 5G
9 3 (1.61%) SSL
9 3 (1.61%) VoIP
10 2 (1.08%) LTE
10 2 (1.08%) Mobile Backhaul
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (9.68%) Relational Database
2 13 (6.99%) NoSQL
3 11 (5.91%) MySQL
4 9 (4.84%) Power BI
5 8 (4.30%) Tableau
6 7 (3.76%) Data Lake
7 6 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (3.23%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (3.23%) MongoDB
7 6 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (2.69%) Big Data
8 5 (2.69%) Couchbase
8 5 (2.69%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (2.15%) Hadoop
9 4 (2.15%) SQL Server
10 2 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.08%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.08%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.54%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 19 (10.22%) Git
1 19 (10.22%) Jenkins
2 7 (3.76%) Burp Suite
2 7 (3.76%) JIRA
2 7 (3.76%) Metasploit
3 6 (3.23%) GitLab
4 2 (1.08%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.08%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.08%) Robot Framework
4 2 (1.08%) Selenium
4 2 (1.08%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.54%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.54%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.54%) MLflow
5 1 (0.54%) Mocha
5 1 (0.54%) Visual Studio
General
1 107 (57.53%) Social Skills
2 50 (26.88%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (13.98%) Documentation Skills
4 21 (11.29%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.30%) Telecoms
6 7 (3.76%) Legal
7 6 (3.23%) Finance
8 2 (1.08%) Billing
8 2 (1.08%) Retail
9 1 (0.54%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.54%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 22 (11.83%) Senior
2 19 (10.22%) SIEM Engineer
3 18 (9.68%) Architect
4 13 (6.99%) DevOps Engineer
5 12 (6.45%) Analyst
6 10 (5.38%) Data Engineer
6 10 (5.38%) Developer
6 10 (5.38%) SOC Analyst
7 9 (4.84%) Site Engineer
7 9 (4.84%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 8 (4.30%) IP Specialist
8 8 (4.30%) Platform Engineer
9 7 (3.76%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (3.76%) Data Scientist
9 7 (3.76%) Penetration Tester
9 7 (3.76%) Tester
10 6 (3.23%) Designer
10 6 (3.23%) IP Architect
10 6 (3.23%) IP Designer
10 6 (3.23%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (10.22%) LDAP
2 17 (9.14%) REST
3 14 (7.53%) scikit-learn
4 10 (5.38%) NETCONF
4 10 (5.38%) PyTorch
4 10 (5.38%) TensorFlow
5 9 (4.84%) GraphQL
5 9 (4.84%) YANG
6 8 (4.30%) Kafka
6 8 (4.30%) Loki
6 8 (4.30%) OAuth
6 8 (4.30%) Pandas
7 7 (3.76%) NumPy
8 6 (3.23%) .NET
9 5 (2.69%) .NET Core
9 5 (2.69%) Node.js
9 5 (2.69%) OAuth2
10 4 (2.15%) Jinja
10 4 (2.15%) PySpark
10 4 (2.15%) React
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.83%) Cloud Native
2 18 (9.68%) Algorithms
3 14 (7.53%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (6.45%) Cyber Security Posture
4 12 (6.45%) Onboarding
5 9 (4.84%) Data Centre
6 8 (4.30%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (4.30%) Virtual Team
7 7 (3.76%) Security Operations Centre
7 7 (3.76%) Security Posture
8 6 (3.23%) Management Information System
8 6 (3.23%) Replication
9 5 (2.69%) Cyber Threat
9 5 (2.69%) Operational Technology
10 4 (2.15%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (2.15%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (2.15%) PKI
11 3 (1.61%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 52 (27.96%) Linux
2 24 (12.90%) Windows
3 11 (5.91%) Unix
4 8 (4.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (3.76%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.54%) VMS
6 1 (0.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (48.92%) CI/CD
2 74 (39.78%) Problem-Solving
3 69 (37.10%) DevOps
4 55 (29.57%) SIEM
5 44 (23.66%) Cybersecurity
6 28 (15.05%) DevSecOps
7 27 (14.52%) Infrastructure as Code
8 26 (13.98%) Agile
9 24 (12.90%) Machine Learning
10 23 (12.37%) Incident Response
11 22 (11.83%) Analytical Thinking
12 21 (11.29%) Containerisation
12 21 (11.29%) High Availability
13 18 (9.68%) Test Automation
13 18 (9.68%) Threat Detection
13 18 (9.68%) Validation
14 17 (9.14%) AI
14 17 (9.14%) Computer Science
15 16 (8.60%) Observability
16 15 (8.06%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 78 (41.94%) PowerShell
2 37 (19.89%) Bash
3 36 (19.35%) SQL
4 25 (13.44%) Java
5 15 (8.06%) JavaScript
6 12 (6.45%) Kusto Query Language
7 10 (5.38%) R
8 7 (3.76%) Shell Script
9 6 (3.23%) C#
9 6 (3.23%) Go
9 6 (3.23%) Perl
10 5 (2.69%) C++
10 5 (2.69%) PHP
11 3 (1.61%) C
12 1 (0.54%) Scala
Qualifications
1 82 (44.09%) Security Cleared
2 69 (37.10%) SC Cleared
3 42 (22.58%) CISSP
4 22 (11.83%) CEH
5 20 (10.75%) Degree
5 20 (10.75%) GIAC
6 18 (9.68%) AWS Certification
6 18 (9.68%) CISM
7 16 (8.60%) Cisco Certification
8 15 (8.06%) CCIE
9 14 (7.53%) JNCIE
10 13 (6.99%) Computer Science Degree
11 10 (5.38%) GCFA
11 10 (5.38%) GCIA
11 10 (5.38%) GCIH
12 8 (4.30%) CFCE
12 8 (4.30%) Master's Degree
13 7 (3.76%) GPEN
13 7 (3.76%) OSCP
14 4 (2.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (18.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 33 (17.74%) GDPR
3 32 (17.20%) NIST
4 10 (5.38%) QA
5 8 (4.30%) Data Quality
6 6 (3.23%) HIPAA
7 5 (2.69%) EU AI Act
8 2 (1.08%) GRC
9 1 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 29 (15.59%) Active Directory
2 26 (13.98%) Docker
3 23 (12.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (8.06%) vSphere
5 13 (6.99%) VMware NSX
6 4 (2.15%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.54%) NDS
8 1 (0.54%) NetIQ eDirectory
Systems Management
1 49 (26.34%) Kubernetes
2 36 (19.35%) Terraform
3 32 (17.20%) Ansible
4 14 (7.53%) Argo
4 14 (7.53%) Grafana
5 13 (6.99%) Prometheus
6 11 (5.91%) Kibana
7 8 (4.30%) Kustomize
8 7 (3.76%) Nmap
9 6 (3.23%) vCenter Server
10 5 (2.69%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 4 (2.15%) QRadar
12 2 (1.08%) logstash
12 2 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.54%) Cisco CUCM
13 1 (0.54%) Cisco UCCE
13 1 (0.54%) Kubeflow
13 1 (0.54%) Puppet
13 1 (0.54%) vRealize
13 1 (0.54%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 27 (14.52%) Microsoft
2 25 (13.44%) VMware
3 19 (10.22%) BeyondTrust
3 19 (10.22%) CyberArk
4 18 (9.68%) Splunk
5 16 (8.60%) Red Hat
6 12 (6.45%) ArcSight
7 11 (5.91%) Cisco
7 11 (5.91%) Tanium
8 10 (5.38%) FireEye
9 9 (4.84%) Databricks
9 9 (4.84%) LogRhythm
10 8 (4.30%) CrowdStrike
10 8 (4.30%) F5
10 8 (4.30%) Fortinet
10 8 (4.30%) Google
10 8 (4.30%) Juniper
10 8 (4.30%) Oracle
11 6 (3.23%) Pure Storage
12 5 (2.69%) IBM