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

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 12 34
Rank change year-on-year -3 +22 -9
Contract jobs citing Python 181 133 96
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 9.77% 11.58% 4.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 50.28% 39.70% 25.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 75 67
10th Percentile £306 £377 £325
25th Percentile £398 £466 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £538 £592 £630
90th Percentile £675 £638 £680
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile £71.36 - -
25th Percentile £73.40 - -
Median hourly rate £82.00 - £67.50
75th Percentile £83.75 - £72.50
90th Percentile £85.10 - £75.50
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £61.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year -22.45% -5.77% +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 360 335 374
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 19.43% 29.16% 18.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 256 201 254
10th Percentile £321 £400 £337
25th Percentile £398 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -
75th Percentile £585 £638 £620
90th Percentile £663 £700 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £501
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.30% -4.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 15
10th Percentile £72.38 £40.50 £56.20
25th Percentile £74.60 £55.87 £56.65
Median hourly rate £81.50 £63.75 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +27.85% +3.48% -12.00%
75th Percentile £82.63 £65.62 £64.55
90th Percentile £84.43 £72.56 £68.25
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £57.25 £59.00
% change year-on-year -3.93% -2.97% +7.27%

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 4 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 4 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
Wokingham +2 81 £450 - 11
Reading -12 78 £513 -10.87% 36
Windsor -5 12 £208 -58.50% 1
Bracknell -9 3 £450 -6.25%
Slough +4 1 - - 10
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 2 (1.10%) Apache
1 2 (1.10%) ArcGIS
1 2 (1.10%) IBM HTTP Server
1 2 (1.10%) OpenStack
1 2 (1.10%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 2 (1.10%) WebSphere
1 2 (1.10%) WebSphere Application Server
1 2 (1.10%) WebSphere Portal
2 1 (0.55%) Confluence
2 1 (0.55%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (2.21%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (2.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (2.21%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.66%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 78 (43.09%) Azure
2 63 (34.81%) AWS
3 40 (22.10%) GCP
4 19 (10.50%) OpenShift
5 18 (9.94%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (8.84%) GitHub
7 11 (6.08%) Azure Monitor
7 11 (6.08%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (4.97%) Serverless
9 7 (3.87%) IaaS
9 7 (3.87%) Power Platform
10 6 (3.31%) Azure Functions
11 5 (2.76%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (2.76%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (2.76%) Azure AKS
11 5 (2.76%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (2.76%) Azure Key Vault
11 5 (2.76%) Entra ID
12 4 (2.21%) Azure Sentinel
12 4 (2.21%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 15 (8.29%) Network Security
2 12 (6.63%) DNS
3 10 (5.52%) Firewall
3 10 (5.52%) TCP/IP
4 7 (3.87%) BGP
4 7 (3.87%) MPLS
4 7 (3.87%) WAN
5 5 (2.76%) SSL
6 4 (2.21%) DHCP
6 4 (2.21%) SNMP
6 4 (2.21%) TACACS
6 4 (2.21%) Wireshark
7 3 (1.66%) LAN
8 2 (1.10%) 2G
8 2 (1.10%) 5G
8 2 (1.10%) HTTP
8 2 (1.10%) LTE
8 2 (1.10%) Mobile Backhaul
8 2 (1.10%) VoIP
8 2 (1.10%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (9.94%) Relational Database
2 14 (7.73%) MySQL
3 9 (4.97%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (4.42%) NoSQL
5 7 (3.87%) Power BI
6 6 (3.31%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.76%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (2.76%) Tableau
8 4 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.66%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.66%) Big Data
9 3 (1.66%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.66%) Parquet
9 3 (1.66%) SQL Server
10 2 (1.10%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.55%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.55%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.55%) Metadata
11 1 (0.55%) Redis
11 1 (0.55%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 18 (9.94%) Jenkins
2 15 (8.29%) Git
3 6 (3.31%) GitLab
4 4 (2.21%) Burp Suite
4 4 (2.21%) Metasploit
5 3 (1.66%) JIRA
6 2 (1.10%) Introscope
7 1 (0.55%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.55%) Visual Studio
General
1 93 (51.38%) Social Skills
2 44 (24.31%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (14.36%) Documentation Skills
4 20 (11.05%) Public Sector
5 3 (1.66%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.10%) Advertising
6 2 (1.10%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.10%) Billing
6 2 (1.10%) Legal
6 2 (1.10%) Retail
7 1 (0.55%) Finance
7 1 (0.55%) Marketing
7 1 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 30 (16.57%) Senior
2 28 (15.47%) SIEM Engineer
3 15 (8.29%) Developer
4 10 (5.52%) Analyst
4 10 (5.52%) Architect
4 10 (5.52%) DevOps Engineer
5 9 (4.97%) Azure Engineer
5 9 (4.97%) Technical Support
5 9 (4.97%) Tester
6 8 (4.42%) Python Developer
6 8 (4.42%) Site Engineer
6 8 (4.42%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 7 (3.87%) Data Engineer
7 7 (3.87%) Senior DevOps
7 7 (3.87%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 6 (3.31%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 6 (3.31%) SOC Analyst
9 5 (2.76%) IP Specialist
9 5 (2.76%) Security Engineer
10 4 (2.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (14.36%) LDAP
2 15 (8.29%) REST
3 11 (6.08%) Loki
4 10 (5.52%) OAuth
5 9 (4.97%) .NET
5 9 (4.97%) GraphQL
6 6 (3.31%) .NET Core
6 6 (3.31%) Kafka
6 6 (3.31%) Middleware
6 6 (3.31%) NETCONF
6 6 (3.31%) YANG
7 5 (2.76%) Node.js
7 5 (2.76%) OAuth2
7 5 (2.76%) Pandas
7 5 (2.76%) React
7 5 (2.76%) SAML
7 5 (2.76%) YAML
8 4 (2.21%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (2.21%) Flask
8 4 (2.21%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.05%) Cloud Native
2 18 (9.94%) Onboarding
3 11 (6.08%) Cyber Security Posture
4 10 (5.52%) Algorithms
4 10 (5.52%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (4.42%) Operational Technology
5 8 (4.42%) Virtual Team
6 7 (3.87%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (3.87%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (3.31%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (2.76%) PKI
8 5 (2.76%) Security Operations Centre
9 4 (2.21%) Data Centre
9 4 (2.21%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (2.21%) Security Posture
9 4 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.66%) Clustering
10 3 (1.66%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.66%) Management Information System
11 2 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 47 (25.97%) Linux
2 25 (13.81%) Windows
3 12 (6.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (6.08%) Unix
5 4 (2.21%) Kali Linux
6 2 (1.10%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (1.10%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.55%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.55%) VMS
7 1 (0.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (45.30%) CI/CD
2 73 (40.33%) Problem-Solving
3 71 (39.23%) DevOps
4 66 (36.46%) SIEM
5 52 (28.73%) Cybersecurity
6 34 (18.78%) DevSecOps
7 27 (14.92%) Infrastructure as Code
8 26 (14.36%) Agile
9 24 (13.26%) Analytics
10 23 (12.71%) Data Analysis
10 23 (12.71%) Observability
11 22 (12.15%) Containerisation
11 22 (12.15%) Stakeholder Management
12 21 (11.60%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 19 (10.50%) Analytical Thinking
13 19 (10.50%) Threat Detection
14 17 (9.39%) AI
15 15 (8.29%) SOAR
15 15 (8.29%) Task Automation
15 15 (8.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 95 (52.49%) PowerShell
2 44 (24.31%) Bash
3 30 (16.57%) SQL
4 23 (12.71%) Kusto Query Language
5 22 (12.15%) Java
5 22 (12.15%) JavaScript
6 12 (6.63%) Perl
7 9 (4.97%) C#
8 6 (3.31%) PHP
9 5 (2.76%) Go
10 2 (1.10%) Bicep
10 2 (1.10%) Jython
10 2 (1.10%) R
10 2 (1.10%) Scala
11 1 (0.55%) C++
Qualifications
1 93 (51.38%) Security Cleared
2 77 (42.54%) SC Cleared
3 42 (23.20%) CISSP
4 24 (13.26%) CISM
5 17 (9.39%) CEH
6 16 (8.84%) GIAC
7 12 (6.63%) Degree
8 11 (6.08%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (3.31%) AWS Certification
9 6 (3.31%) CCIE
9 6 (3.31%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (3.31%) JNCIE
10 5 (2.76%) GCFA
10 5 (2.76%) GCIA
10 5 (2.76%) GCIH
11 4 (2.21%) Azure Certification
11 4 (2.21%) CFCE
11 4 (2.21%) GPEN
11 4 (2.21%) OSCP
12 3 (1.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (18.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 33 (18.23%) NIST
2 29 (16.02%) GDPR
3 6 (3.31%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.21%) QA
5 2 (1.10%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 33 (18.23%) Active Directory
2 23 (12.71%) Docker
3 16 (8.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (7.73%) vSphere
5 6 (3.31%) VMware NSX
6 4 (2.21%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 40 (22.10%) Kubernetes
2 25 (13.81%) Terraform
3 22 (12.15%) Ansible
4 17 (9.39%) Argo
4 17 (9.39%) Grafana
4 17 (9.39%) Prometheus
5 13 (7.18%) Kibana
6 11 (6.08%) Kustomize
7 6 (3.31%) vCenter Server
8 4 (2.21%) Nmap
9 3 (1.66%) Nessus
9 3 (1.66%) OpenVAS
10 2 (1.10%) CA Wily
10 2 (1.10%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 2 (1.10%) Tivoli
11 1 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.55%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.55%) Puppet
Vendors
1 27 (14.92%) Microsoft
2 26 (14.36%) BeyondTrust
2 26 (14.36%) CyberArk
3 18 (9.94%) Red Hat
3 18 (9.94%) VMware
4 15 (8.29%) Tanium
5 12 (6.63%) FireEye
6 11 (6.08%) Oracle
6 11 (6.08%) Splunk
7 9 (4.97%) Databricks
8 7 (3.87%) LogRhythm
9 6 (3.31%) AppDynamics
9 6 (3.31%) Pure Storage
10 5 (2.76%) F5
10 5 (2.76%) Juniper
11 4 (2.21%) ArcSight
11 4 (2.21%) Cisco
11 4 (2.21%) Dynatrace
11 4 (2.21%) Fortinet
12 3 (1.66%) Rapid7