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

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 8 40
Rank change year-on-year -7 +32 -12
Contract jobs citing Python 189 157 96
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 10.54% 13.07% 4.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 49.61% 44.35% 26.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 83 66
10th Percentile £335 £384 £350
25th Percentile £403 £500 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £533 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.68% +1.43% +5.00%
75th Percentile £539 £603 £650
90th Percentile £675 £638 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £533 £525
% change year-on-year -6.10% +1.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile £71.36 - -
25th Percentile £73.40 - -
Median hourly rate £82.00 - £67.50
75th Percentile £83.75 - -
90th Percentile £85.10 - -
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £61.25 £66.25
% change year-on-year -22.45% -7.55% +66.67%

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 381 354 358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 21.25% 29.48% 17.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 213 243
10th Percentile £331 £400 £335
25th Percentile £403 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.84% +3.81% -
75th Percentile £588 £638 £625
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £511
% change year-on-year -1.96% -0.20% -2.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 17
10th Percentile £54.63 £43.06 £52.10
25th Percentile £72.55 £55.87 £56.25
Median hourly rate £79.15 £60.25 £60.14
Median % change year-on-year +31.38% +0.17% -14.09%
75th Percentile £82.63 £65.62 £61.60
90th Percentile £84.43 £71.40 £68.00
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £57.54 £59.00
% change year-on-year -4.41% -2.47% +7.32%

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 8 March 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 8 March 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 -10 83 £525 -8.70% 38
Wokingham +1 82 £449 -10.30% 7
Windsor -8 12 £208 -58.50% 2
Bracknell -5 2 £425 -11.46% 4
Slough -1 1 - - 14
Maidenhead -4 1 - - 1
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 4 (2.12%) Apache
2 2 (1.06%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.06%) ArcGIS
2 2 (1.06%) Confluence
2 2 (1.06%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.53%) Appian
3 1 (0.53%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (2.12%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (2.12%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (2.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (2.12%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.53%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 81 (42.86%) Azure
2 70 (37.04%) AWS
3 42 (22.22%) GCP
4 19 (10.05%) OpenShift
5 17 (8.99%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (6.88%) GitHub
7 10 (5.29%) Serverless
8 9 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
8 9 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (4.23%) IaaS
10 7 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (3.70%) Power Platform
11 6 (3.17%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (3.17%) Azure AKS
11 6 (3.17%) Azure Functions
12 5 (2.65%) Entra ID
13 4 (2.12%) Azure Key Vault
13 4 (2.12%) Azure Machine Learning
13 4 (2.12%) Azure Sentinel
13 4 (2.12%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.94%) Network Security
2 10 (5.29%) DNS
2 10 (5.29%) Firewall
3 9 (4.76%) TCP/IP
4 8 (4.23%) Wireshark
5 7 (3.70%) BGP
5 7 (3.70%) MPLS
5 7 (3.70%) WAN
6 4 (2.12%) DHCP
6 4 (2.12%) SNMP
6 4 (2.12%) SSL
6 4 (2.12%) TACACS
7 3 (1.59%) LAN
7 3 (1.59%) VoIP
8 2 (1.06%) 2G
8 2 (1.06%) 5G
8 2 (1.06%) LTE
8 2 (1.06%) Mobile Backhaul
8 2 (1.06%) VPN
9 1 (0.53%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.99%) Relational Database
2 14 (7.41%) MySQL
3 12 (6.35%) NoSQL
4 7 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (3.70%) Power BI
5 6 (3.17%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (3.17%) MongoDB
5 6 (3.17%) Tableau
6 5 (2.65%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (1.59%) Big Data
7 3 (1.59%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.59%) Parquet
8 2 (1.06%) Couchbase
8 2 (1.06%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.53%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.53%) GIS
9 1 (0.53%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 17 (8.99%) Git
1 17 (8.99%) Jenkins
2 8 (4.23%) Burp Suite
2 8 (4.23%) Metasploit
3 5 (2.65%) JIRA
4 3 (1.59%) GitLab
5 1 (0.53%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.53%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.53%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.53%) Selenium
5 1 (0.53%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio
General
1 101 (53.44%) Social Skills
2 49 (25.93%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (13.76%) Documentation Skills
4 21 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 3 (1.59%) Legal
5 3 (1.59%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.06%) Advertising
6 2 (1.06%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.06%) Billing
6 2 (1.06%) Finance
6 2 (1.06%) Retail
7 1 (0.53%) Marketing
7 1 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 28 (14.81%) SIEM Engineer
2 25 (13.23%) Senior
3 13 (6.88%) Tester
4 11 (5.82%) Analyst
5 10 (5.29%) Architect
5 10 (5.29%) Developer
5 10 (5.29%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (4.76%) Technical Support
7 8 (4.23%) Azure Engineer
7 8 (4.23%) Penetration Tester
7 8 (4.23%) Site Engineer
7 8 (4.23%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 7 (3.70%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (3.70%) SOC Analyst
9 5 (2.65%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 5 (2.65%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (2.65%) Data Engineer
9 5 (2.65%) IP Specialist
9 5 (2.65%) Senior DevOps
9 5 (2.65%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (13.23%) LDAP
2 15 (7.94%) REST
3 11 (5.82%) Loki
4 9 (4.76%) OAuth
5 8 (4.23%) GraphQL
6 7 (3.70%) .NET
6 7 (3.70%) NETCONF
7 6 (3.17%) .NET Core
7 6 (3.17%) Pandas
7 6 (3.17%) scikit-learn
7 6 (3.17%) YANG
8 5 (2.65%) JSON
8 5 (2.65%) React
8 5 (2.65%) SAML
9 4 (2.12%) Middleware
9 4 (2.12%) Node.js
9 4 (2.12%) NumPy
9 4 (2.12%) OpenID
9 4 (2.12%) SOAP
9 4 (2.12%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.05%) Cloud Native
2 18 (9.52%) Onboarding
3 11 (5.82%) Cyber Security Posture
4 10 (5.29%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (4.76%) Algorithms
6 8 (4.23%) Operational Technology
6 8 (4.23%) Virtual Team
7 7 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (3.17%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (3.17%) Security Operations Centre
9 5 (2.65%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (2.65%) PKI
10 4 (2.12%) Data Centre
10 4 (2.12%) Management Information System
10 4 (2.12%) Security Posture
10 4 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.59%) Replication
12 2 (1.06%) Cyber Threat
12 2 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 55 (29.10%) Linux
2 27 (14.29%) Windows
3 11 (5.82%) Unix
4 10 (5.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (4.23%) Kali Linux
6 2 (1.06%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.53%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.53%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 77 (40.74%) Problem-Solving
3 70 (37.04%) DevOps
4 66 (34.92%) SIEM
5 51 (26.98%) Cybersecurity
6 33 (17.46%) DevSecOps
7 29 (15.34%) Infrastructure as Code
8 27 (14.29%) Agile
9 22 (11.64%) Observability
9 22 (11.64%) Stakeholder Management
9 22 (11.64%) Test Automation
10 21 (11.11%) Analytical Thinking
11 20 (10.58%) Analytics
11 20 (10.58%) Data Analysis
12 19 (10.05%) Containerisation
12 19 (10.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 19 (10.05%) Threat Detection
13 18 (9.52%) Machine Learning
14 17 (8.99%) AI
15 16 (8.47%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 99 (52.38%) PowerShell
2 46 (24.34%) Bash
3 36 (19.05%) SQL
4 24 (12.70%) JavaScript
5 23 (12.17%) Kusto Query Language
6 22 (11.64%) Java
7 10 (5.29%) Perl
8 7 (3.70%) C#
9 6 (3.17%) PHP
10 5 (2.65%) Go
11 3 (1.59%) R
12 2 (1.06%) Bicep
12 2 (1.06%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.53%) C++
13 1 (0.53%) Scala
Qualifications
1 101 (53.44%) Security Cleared
2 85 (44.97%) SC Cleared
3 42 (22.22%) CISSP
4 23 (12.17%) CISM
5 21 (11.11%) CEH
6 17 (8.99%) GIAC
7 15 (7.94%) Degree
8 12 (6.35%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (5.82%) AWS Certification
10 8 (4.23%) GPEN
10 8 (4.23%) OSCP
11 7 (3.70%) CCIE
11 7 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (3.17%) GCFA
12 6 (3.17%) GCIA
12 6 (3.17%) GCIH
12 6 (3.17%) JNCIE
13 5 (2.65%) Azure Certification
13 5 (2.65%) CFCE
14 3 (1.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (17.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 33 (17.46%) NIST
3 30 (15.87%) GDPR
4 7 (3.70%) QA
5 5 (2.65%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.59%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 34 (17.99%) Active Directory
2 24 (12.70%) Docker
3 16 (8.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (7.41%) vSphere
5 6 (3.17%) VMware NSX
6 4 (2.12%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.53%) NDS
8 1 (0.53%) NetIQ eDirectory
Systems Management
1 44 (23.28%) Kubernetes
2 26 (13.76%) Terraform
3 21 (11.11%) Ansible
4 17 (8.99%) Argo
4 17 (8.99%) Grafana
4 17 (8.99%) Prometheus
5 13 (6.88%) Kibana
6 11 (5.82%) Kustomize
7 8 (4.23%) Nmap
8 6 (3.17%) vCenter Server
9 3 (1.59%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 3 (1.59%) Nessus
9 3 (1.59%) OpenVAS
10 1 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.53%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.53%) Cisco UCCE
10 1 (0.53%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.53%) Puppet
Vendors
1 29 (15.34%) Microsoft
2 25 (13.23%) BeyondTrust
2 25 (13.23%) CyberArk
3 18 (9.52%) VMware
4 17 (8.99%) Red Hat
5 15 (7.94%) Tanium
6 12 (6.35%) FireEye
7 11 (5.82%) Oracle
8 10 (5.29%) Splunk
9 8 (4.23%) LogRhythm
10 7 (3.70%) Databricks
11 6 (3.17%) Cisco
11 6 (3.17%) Pure Storage
12 5 (2.65%) ArcSight
12 5 (2.65%) F5
12 5 (2.65%) Juniper
13 4 (2.12%) AppDynamics
13 4 (2.12%) Dynatrace
13 4 (2.12%) Fortinet
13 4 (2.12%) Google