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 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 14 25
Rank change year-on-year -3 +11 -4
Contract jobs citing Python 171 128 122
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 9.35% 10.69% 7.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 56.07% 41.03% 33.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 75 77
10th Percentile £335 £385 £348
25th Percentile £424 £441 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -2.22%
75th Percentile £600 £574 £638
90th Percentile £650 £600 £650
South East median daily rate £545 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +9.00% -2.44% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 0 2
10th Percentile £61.74 - £32.23
25th Percentile £65.00 - £38.94
Median hourly rate £71.00 - £51.75
75th Percentile £83.68 - £65.44
90th Percentile £85.15 - £72.68
South East median hourly rate £67.47 £57.50 £29.00
% change year-on-year +17.34% +98.28% -53.60%

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 305 312 363
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 16.68% 26.07% 21.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 188 240
10th Percentile £335 £359 £363
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £500 £580
Median % change year-on-year +4.25% -13.79% +5.45%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £638
90th Percentile £675 £620 £663
South East median daily rate £521 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +4.20% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 1 9
10th Percentile £59.56 - £50.25
25th Percentile £65.75 £18.75 £55.87
Median hourly rate £71.22 £19.50 £58.49
Median % change year-on-year +265.21% -66.66% +12.17%
75th Percentile £83.15 £20.25 £74.87
90th Percentile £85.03 - £79.50
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 £69.69
% change year-on-year +9.09% -21.08% +26.70%

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 25 September 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Python in Berkshire over the 6 months to 25 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Python in Berkshire

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 25 September 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 -13 88 £600 +14.29% 61
Wokingham +8 60 £500 +12.36% 13
Slough +8 6 £500 -9.09% 54
Bracknell -1 1 - - 14
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 14 (8.19%) OpenStack
2 5 (2.92%) Confluence
3 3 (1.75%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.17%) Apache
4 2 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.17%) Apache Superset
4 2 (1.17%) JBoss
4 2 (1.17%) WebSphere
4 2 (1.17%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.58%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 6 (3.51%) CPLEX
2 5 (2.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 94 (54.97%) Azure
2 56 (32.75%) AWS
3 31 (18.13%) GCP
4 22 (12.87%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (12.87%) OpenShift
5 12 (7.02%) Azure Monitor
5 12 (7.02%) Entra ID
6 11 (6.43%) GitHub
6 11 (6.43%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (5.85%) Power Platform
8 8 (4.68%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (4.68%) Azure Key Vault
9 7 (4.09%) Azure AKS
9 7 (4.09%) Azure App Service
9 7 (4.09%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (3.51%) Azure Machine Learning
10 6 (3.51%) Route 53
11 4 (2.34%) Azure Storage
11 4 (2.34%) IaaS
11 4 (2.34%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 16 (9.36%) DNS
2 15 (8.77%) TCP/IP
3 14 (8.19%) BGP
3 14 (8.19%) Firewall
4 11 (6.43%) DHCP
5 9 (5.26%) Network Security
5 9 (5.26%) WAN
6 8 (4.68%) MPLS
6 8 (4.68%) VPN
7 7 (4.09%) LAN
7 7 (4.09%) Radio Access Network
8 6 (3.51%) 5G
8 6 (3.51%) Diameter Protocol
8 6 (3.51%) DNSSEC
8 6 (3.51%) LTE
8 6 (3.51%) VoLTE
8 6 (3.51%) VoWiFi
8 6 (3.51%) VXLAN
8 6 (3.51%) Wireshark
9 4 (2.34%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.77%) NoSQL
2 10 (5.85%) Power BI
3 7 (4.09%) MongoDB
3 7 (4.09%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (3.51%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (3.51%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (1.75%) Big Data
5 3 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.75%) GIS
5 3 (1.75%) Hadoop
5 3 (1.75%) Spark SQL
6 2 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.17%) Metadata
6 2 (1.17%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.17%) Parquet
6 2 (1.17%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.17%) Tableau
7 1 (0.58%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (0.58%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (11.11%) Git
2 14 (8.19%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.68%) GitLab
4 5 (2.92%) JIRA
5 2 (1.17%) JMeter
6 1 (0.58%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.58%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.58%) NeoLoad
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle Developer 2000
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.58%) Selenium
General
1 65 (38.01%) Social Skills
2 50 (29.24%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (14.04%) Aerospace
4 12 (7.02%) Documentation Skills
4 12 (7.02%) Telecoms
5 5 (2.92%) Finance
6 3 (1.75%) Military
7 2 (1.17%) Banking
7 2 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.17%) Marketing
7 2 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.17%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.58%) Advertising
8 1 (0.58%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 24 (14.04%) Senior
2 23 (13.45%) Developer
3 20 (11.70%) Data Engineer
4 18 (10.53%) Architect
5 13 (7.60%) Python Developer
6 12 (7.02%) Data Scientist
7 10 (5.85%) Network Architect
7 10 (5.85%) Systems Engineer
8 8 (4.68%) Full-Stack Developer
8 8 (4.68%) Lead
9 7 (4.09%) Analyst
9 7 (4.09%) Platform Engineer
9 7 (4.09%) Senior Data Engineer
10 6 (3.51%) Consultant
10 6 (3.51%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 5 (2.92%) Azure Engineer
11 5 (2.92%) IP Architect
11 5 (2.92%) Network Consultant
11 5 (2.92%) Product Owner
12 4 (2.34%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (23.39%) Terraform
2 21 (12.28%) REST
3 13 (7.60%) PySpark
3 13 (7.60%) RESTful
4 10 (5.85%) ARM Templates
4 10 (5.85%) NETCONF
5 9 (5.26%) FastAPI
6 8 (4.68%) .NET
6 8 (4.68%) YANG
7 7 (4.09%) Flask
7 7 (4.09%) OAuth
8 6 (3.51%) Django
8 6 (3.51%) Kafka
8 6 (3.51%) LDAP
8 6 (3.51%) NumPy
8 6 (3.51%) OpenAPI
8 6 (3.51%) Pandas
8 6 (3.51%) pytest
8 6 (3.51%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (3.51%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (14.04%) Hybrid Cloud
2 21 (12.28%) Cloud Native
3 14 (8.19%) Algorithms
4 10 (5.85%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (5.26%) Data Structures
6 7 (4.09%) Product Ownership
7 6 (3.51%) Security Posture
8 5 (2.92%) Data Centre
8 5 (2.92%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 5 (2.92%) Onboarding
9 4 (2.34%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.75%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.75%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.75%) SCADA
11 2 (1.17%) Cyber Security Posture
11 2 (1.17%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (1.17%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (1.17%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (1.17%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 30 (17.54%) Linux
2 18 (10.53%) Windows
3 8 (4.68%) Unix
4 7 (4.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (4.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (42.69%) DevOps
2 55 (32.16%) CI/CD
3 46 (26.90%) Problem-Solving
4 40 (23.39%) Analytics
5 39 (22.81%) Infrastructure as Code
6 31 (18.13%) Agile
7 29 (16.96%) Data Science
8 28 (16.37%) Continuous Improvement
9 25 (14.62%) Machine Learning
9 25 (14.62%) Platform Engineering
10 23 (13.45%) Data Pipeline
10 23 (13.45%) Validation
11 22 (12.87%) Containerisation
11 22 (12.87%) Data Engineering
12 19 (11.11%) Data Governance
12 19 (11.11%) DevSecOps
12 19 (11.11%) High Availability
12 19 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
13 18 (10.53%) AI
13 18 (10.53%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 56 (32.75%) PowerShell
2 50 (29.24%) SQL
3 36 (21.05%) Bash
4 11 (6.43%) Java
5 10 (5.85%) Bicep
6 7 (4.09%) C#
7 6 (3.51%) Go
8 5 (2.92%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.75%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.17%) Perl
10 2 (1.17%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.17%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.58%) Groovy
11 1 (0.58%) R
11 1 (0.58%) Scala
Qualifications
1 69 (40.35%) Security Cleared
2 64 (37.43%) SC Cleared
3 19 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
4 17 (9.94%) CISSP
5 14 (8.19%) Azure Certification
5 14 (8.19%) Degree
6 10 (5.85%) CCIE
6 10 (5.85%) JNCIE
7 9 (5.26%) AWS Certification
7 9 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (4.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 6 (3.51%) CEH
10 5 (2.92%) CISM
10 5 (2.92%) RHCE
11 4 (2.34%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (1.75%) CCSP
12 3 (1.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (1.75%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (1.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.36%) Data Quality
2 11 (6.43%) NIST
3 9 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (3.51%) GDPR
4 6 (3.51%) SLA
5 5 (2.92%) QA
6 4 (2.34%) NCSC
7 3 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.58%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.58%) JTAG
System Software
1 19 (11.11%) Docker
2 12 (7.02%) Active Directory
3 8 (4.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (3.51%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 48 (28.07%) Kubernetes
2 39 (22.81%) Ansible
3 5 (2.92%) Grafana
3 5 (2.92%) QRadar
4 3 (1.75%) Istio
4 3 (1.75%) Progress Chef
4 3 (1.75%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.75%) Puppet
5 2 (1.17%) CASB
5 2 (1.17%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.58%) Amdocs OSS
6 1 (0.58%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.58%) SCOM
6 1 (0.58%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 46 (26.90%) Microsoft
2 19 (11.11%) Databricks
3 13 (7.60%) Google
4 11 (6.43%) Red Hat
5 10 (5.85%) Splunk
5 10 (5.85%) VMware
6 9 (5.26%) Cisco
6 9 (5.26%) CyberArk
7 8 (4.68%) Nokia
8 6 (3.51%) BT
8 6 (3.51%) Ericsson
8 6 (3.51%) Huawei
8 6 (3.51%) Infoblox
9 5 (2.92%) BeyondTrust
9 5 (2.92%) F5
9 5 (2.92%) Fortinet
9 5 (2.92%) Juniper
10 3 (1.75%) ArcSight
10 3 (1.75%) Arista
10 3 (1.75%) Proofpoint