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 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 18 32
Rank change year-on-year +7 +14 +7
Contract jobs citing Python 167 141 109
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 12.35% 8.74% 6.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 51.38% 35.34% 30.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 80 79
10th Percentile £399 £374 £342
25th Percentile £427 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £563 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £554 £638 £638
90th Percentile £600 £651 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £28.50 -
South East median hourly rate £30.00 £29.00 £66.25
% change year-on-year +3.45% -56.23% +1.92%

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 325 399 354
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 24.04% 24.74% 19.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 251 264
10th Percentile £363 £390 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £643 £638
90th Percentile £625 £670 £699
South East median daily rate £486 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -5.12% -2.38% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 7
10th Percentile £24.38 £50.25 -
25th Percentile £32.81 £55.87 £48.40
Median hourly rate £47.25 £58.49 £49.73
Median % change year-on-year -19.22% +17.62% -35.42%
75th Percentile £61.31 £69.69 £55.31
90th Percentile £69.53 £77.39 £69.74
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -13.67%

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 14 November 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 14 November 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 +5 87 £550 -8.33% 59
Wokingham +22 57 £475 -26.92% 7
Windsor -14 8 £413 +3.13% 1
Bracknell -2 5 £420 - 5
Maidenhead -3 2 - - 5
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 16 (9.58%) OpenStack
2 5 (2.99%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.40%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.80%) Apache
5 2 (1.20%) Appian
5 2 (1.20%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.60%) Confluence
6 1 (0.60%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (1.20%) CPLEX
2 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.60%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Oracle BPM
1 1 (0.60%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (0.60%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 75 (44.91%) AWS
2 62 (37.13%) Azure
3 38 (22.75%) GCP
4 20 (11.98%) OpenShift
5 14 (8.38%) GitHub
6 11 (6.59%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (6.59%) Power Platform
6 11 (6.59%) Serverless
7 10 (5.99%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (5.99%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (5.99%) IaaS
8 7 (4.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 6 (3.59%) Azure Machine Learning
10 5 (2.99%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (2.99%) Azure AKS
10 5 (2.99%) OCI
11 4 (2.40%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (2.40%) dbt
11 4 (2.40%) Entra ID
12 3 (1.80%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 14 (8.38%) BGP
1 14 (8.38%) MPLS
2 13 (7.78%) WAN
3 12 (7.19%) LAN
4 11 (6.59%) Network Security
5 7 (4.19%) SNMP
5 7 (4.19%) TACACS
5 7 (4.19%) Wireshark
6 6 (3.59%) DNS
6 6 (3.59%) OSPF
6 6 (3.59%) Wireless
7 4 (2.40%) Firewall
8 3 (1.80%) 2G
8 3 (1.80%) 5G
8 3 (1.80%) SSL
8 3 (1.80%) VoIP
9 2 (1.20%) LTE
9 2 (1.20%) Mobile Backhaul
9 2 (1.20%) TCP/IP
9 2 (1.20%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (10.18%) NoSQL
1 17 (10.18%) Relational Database
2 11 (6.59%) Power BI
3 10 (5.99%) MongoDB
3 10 (5.99%) Tableau
4 9 (5.39%) Data Lake
5 7 (4.19%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (4.19%) MySQL
6 6 (3.59%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (3.59%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (3.59%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (2.99%) Big Data
7 5 (2.99%) Couchbase
8 4 (2.40%) Hadoop
8 4 (2.40%) SQL Server
9 2 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.20%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.60%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.60%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.60%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (9.58%) Jenkins
2 15 (8.98%) Git
3 10 (5.99%) JIRA
4 7 (4.19%) Burp Suite
4 7 (4.19%) Metasploit
5 6 (3.59%) GitLab
6 2 (1.20%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.20%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.20%) MLflow
6 2 (1.20%) Robot Framework
6 2 (1.20%) Selenium
6 2 (1.20%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.60%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.60%) Mocha
General
1 95 (56.89%) Social Skills
2 46 (27.54%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (11.98%) Public Sector
4 18 (10.78%) Documentation Skills
4 18 (10.78%) Telecoms
5 8 (4.79%) Legal
6 6 (3.59%) Finance
7 2 (1.20%) Billing
8 1 (0.60%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (0.60%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (11.38%) Developer
2 18 (10.78%) Architect
3 13 (7.78%) Analyst
3 13 (7.78%) Senior
4 12 (7.19%) Cloud Engineer
4 12 (7.19%) DevOps Engineer
5 11 (6.59%) Data Engineer
6 10 (5.99%) Python Developer
6 10 (5.99%) SOC Analyst
7 9 (5.39%) Site Engineer
7 9 (5.39%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 8 (4.79%) AWS Engineer
8 8 (4.79%) SIEM Engineer
9 7 (4.19%) Consultant
9 7 (4.19%) Data Scientist
9 7 (4.19%) IP Specialist
9 7 (4.19%) Penetration Tester
9 7 (4.19%) Platform Engineer
9 7 (4.19%) Tester
10 6 (3.59%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (10.78%) REST
2 15 (8.98%) scikit-learn
3 11 (6.59%) LDAP
3 11 (6.59%) PyTorch
3 11 (6.59%) TensorFlow
4 10 (5.99%) NETCONF
5 9 (5.39%) Pandas
5 9 (5.39%) YANG
6 8 (4.79%) Kafka
6 8 (4.79%) Loki
6 8 (4.79%) NumPy
6 8 (4.79%) OAuth
7 7 (4.19%) FastAPI
7 7 (4.19%) GraphQL
8 6 (3.59%) RESTful
9 5 (2.99%) JSON
9 5 (2.99%) PySpark
9 5 (2.99%) React
9 5 (2.99%) SOAP
9 5 (2.99%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (11.38%) Cloud Native
2 18 (10.78%) Algorithms
3 13 (7.78%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (4.79%) Cyber Security Posture
4 8 (4.79%) Data Centre
4 8 (4.79%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (4.79%) Virtual Team
5 7 (4.19%) Security Operations Centre
6 6 (3.59%) Management Information System
6 6 (3.59%) Onboarding
6 6 (3.59%) Replication
6 6 (3.59%) Security Posture
7 5 (2.99%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (2.40%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.80%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.20%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 2 (1.20%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.20%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 48 (28.74%) Linux
2 16 (9.58%) Windows
3 8 (4.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (4.79%) Unix
4 7 (4.19%) Kali Linux
5 2 (1.20%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.60%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (49.70%) CI/CD
2 67 (40.12%) Problem-Solving
3 63 (37.72%) DevOps
4 33 (19.76%) SIEM
5 28 (16.77%) Cybersecurity
6 26 (15.57%) Agile
7 25 (14.97%) Incident Response
8 24 (14.37%) Machine Learning
9 23 (13.77%) High Availability
10 22 (13.17%) Infrastructure as Code
11 21 (12.57%) Test Automation
11 21 (12.57%) Validation
12 19 (11.38%) Analytical Thinking
13 18 (10.78%) AI
14 17 (10.18%) Containerisation
14 17 (10.18%) Data Engineering
14 17 (10.18%) Data Pipeline
15 16 (9.58%) Analytics
15 16 (9.58%) Data Science
15 16 (9.58%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 46 (27.54%) PowerShell
2 40 (23.95%) SQL
3 31 (18.56%) Bash
4 24 (14.37%) Java
5 14 (8.38%) R
6 13 (7.78%) JavaScript
7 7 (4.19%) Shell Script
8 6 (3.59%) Go
9 5 (2.99%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (2.40%) C++
11 3 (1.80%) C
11 3 (1.80%) C#
11 3 (1.80%) PHP
12 2 (1.20%) Perl
13 1 (0.60%) Scala
Qualifications
1 62 (37.13%) Security Cleared
2 52 (31.14%) SC Cleared
3 30 (17.96%) CISSP
4 18 (10.78%) CEH
5 17 (10.18%) Degree
6 16 (9.58%) AWS Certification
7 15 (8.98%) Cisco Certification
8 14 (8.38%) CCIE
8 14 (8.38%) GIAC
9 13 (7.78%) JNCIE
10 12 (7.19%) CISM
10 12 (7.19%) GCFA
10 12 (7.19%) GCIA
10 12 (7.19%) GCIH
11 10 (5.99%) Master's Degree
12 8 (4.79%) CFCE
12 8 (4.79%) Computer Science Degree
13 7 (4.19%) GPEN
13 7 (4.19%) OSCP
14 2 (1.20%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (15.57%) GDPR
1 26 (15.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (14.37%) NIST
3 11 (6.59%) Data Quality
3 11 (6.59%) QA
4 7 (4.19%) HIPAA
5 5 (2.99%) EU AI Act
6 2 (1.20%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.20%) GRC
7 1 (0.60%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 20 (11.98%) Docker
2 19 (11.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (11.38%) vSphere
3 17 (10.18%) Active Directory
4 13 (7.78%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.60%) NDS
6 1 (0.60%) NetIQ eDirectory
Systems Management
1 44 (26.35%) Kubernetes
2 29 (17.37%) Ansible
3 28 (16.77%) Terraform
4 14 (8.38%) Argo
5 9 (5.39%) Grafana
6 8 (4.79%) Kustomize
6 8 (4.79%) Prometheus
7 7 (4.19%) Nmap
8 6 (3.59%) vCenter Server
9 5 (2.99%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 5 (2.99%) Kibana
10 4 (2.40%) QRadar
11 2 (1.20%) logstash
11 2 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.60%) Cisco CUCM
12 1 (0.60%) Cisco UCCE
12 1 (0.60%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.60%) Puppet
12 1 (0.60%) vRealize
12 1 (0.60%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 21 (12.57%) VMware
2 20 (11.98%) Microsoft
3 17 (10.18%) Splunk
4 15 (8.98%) Red Hat
5 12 (7.19%) ArcSight
5 12 (7.19%) Databricks
6 11 (6.59%) BeyondTrust
6 11 (6.59%) Cisco
6 11 (6.59%) CyberArk
7 9 (5.39%) Virgin Media
8 8 (4.79%) CrowdStrike
8 8 (4.79%) Google
9 7 (4.19%) F5
9 7 (4.19%) Fortinet
9 7 (4.19%) IBM
9 7 (4.19%) Juniper
9 7 (4.19%) LogRhythm
10 6 (3.59%) Pure Storage
11 5 (2.99%) FireEye
11 5 (2.99%) Tanium