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

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 10 48
Rank change year-on-year -5 +38 -17
Contract jobs citing Python 193 161 90
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 11.18% 12.55% 4.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 51.60% 43.75% 25.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 87 58
10th Percentile £336 £382 £325
25th Percentile £403 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £533 £563
Median % change year-on-year -15.49% -5.33% +12.50%
75th Percentile £534 £603 £675
90th Percentile £675 £638 £688
South East median daily rate £492 £535 £530
% change year-on-year -7.99% +0.90% -3.64%
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 £68.75
% change year-on-year -22.45% -10.91% +52.78%

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 374 368 354
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 21.67% 28.68% 18.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 222 243
10th Percentile £335 £386 £335
25th Percentile £404 £427 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.80% -3.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £631
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 17
10th Percentile £54.63 - £48.40
25th Percentile £72.55 £55.87 £56.16
Median hourly rate £79.15 £60.25 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +31.38% +3.34% -16.71%
75th Percentile £82.63 £65.62 £61.60
90th Percentile £84.43 £71.40 £68.00
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £60.50 £59.00
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.54% +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 26 February 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 26 February 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 -8 87 £525 -8.70% 24
Wokingham +6 80 £446 -16.24% 6
Windsor -7 12 £208 -58.50% 1
Bracknell -3 5 £420 -12.50% 1
Slough -3 1 - - 6
Maidenhead -4 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 6 (3.11%) OpenStack
2 4 (2.07%) Apache
3 2 (1.04%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.04%) Confluence
4 1 (0.52%) Appian
4 1 (0.52%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.52%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (1.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.55%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.52%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 79 (40.93%) Azure
2 74 (38.34%) AWS
3 43 (22.28%) GCP
4 21 (10.88%) OpenShift
5 15 (7.77%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (5.70%) Serverless
7 10 (5.18%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (5.18%) GitHub
7 10 (5.18%) IaaS
8 8 (4.15%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (3.63%) Azure Monitor
9 7 (3.63%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (3.63%) Power Platform
10 6 (3.11%) Azure AKS
11 5 (2.59%) Azure Functions
11 5 (2.59%) Azure Machine Learning
11 5 (2.59%) Entra ID
11 5 (2.59%) OCI
12 4 (2.07%) Azure Sentinel
12 4 (2.07%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.77%) Network Security
2 10 (5.18%) DNS
3 9 (4.66%) BGP
3 9 (4.66%) MPLS
3 9 (4.66%) WAN
4 8 (4.15%) TCP/IP
4 8 (4.15%) Wireshark
5 7 (3.63%) Firewall
6 6 (3.11%) LAN
7 5 (2.59%) SNMP
7 5 (2.59%) TACACS
8 4 (2.07%) DHCP
9 3 (1.55%) SSL
9 3 (1.55%) VoIP
10 2 (1.04%) 2G
10 2 (1.04%) 5G
10 2 (1.04%) LTE
10 2 (1.04%) Mobile Backhaul
10 2 (1.04%) OSPF
10 2 (1.04%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.29%) Relational Database
2 15 (7.77%) NoSQL
3 14 (7.25%) MySQL
4 7 (3.63%) Power BI
5 6 (3.11%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (3.11%) MongoDB
5 6 (3.11%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (3.11%) Tableau
6 5 (2.59%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (2.59%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (2.59%) Couchbase
6 5 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.07%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.55%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.55%) Parquet
9 2 (1.04%) Big Data
9 2 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.04%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.52%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 20 (10.36%) Jenkins
2 15 (7.77%) Git
3 8 (4.15%) Burp Suite
3 8 (4.15%) Metasploit
4 6 (3.11%) JIRA
5 3 (1.55%) GitLab
6 1 (0.52%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.52%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.52%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.52%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.52%) Selenium
6 1 (0.52%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.52%) Visual Studio
General
1 101 (52.33%) Social Skills
2 48 (24.87%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (13.99%) Documentation Skills
4 20 (10.36%) Public Sector
5 3 (1.55%) Legal
5 3 (1.55%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.04%) Advertising
6 2 (1.04%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.04%) Billing
6 2 (1.04%) Finance
6 2 (1.04%) Retail
7 1 (0.52%) Marketing
7 1 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 29 (15.03%) SIEM Engineer
2 25 (12.95%) Senior
3 13 (6.74%) Tester
4 12 (6.22%) Architect
4 12 (6.22%) DevOps Engineer
5 11 (5.70%) Analyst
6 10 (5.18%) Platform Engineer
7 9 (4.66%) Developer
7 9 (4.66%) Technical Support
8 8 (4.15%) Penetration Tester
9 7 (3.63%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (3.63%) Data Engineer
9 7 (3.63%) Site Engineer
9 7 (3.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 7 (3.63%) SOC Analyst
10 6 (3.11%) IP Specialist
11 5 (2.59%) AWS Engineer
11 5 (2.59%) Cloud Engineer
11 5 (2.59%) Senior DevOps
11 5 (2.59%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (12.44%) LDAP
2 16 (8.29%) REST
3 11 (5.70%) Loki
4 8 (4.15%) GraphQL
4 8 (4.15%) Kafka
4 8 (4.15%) NETCONF
4 8 (4.15%) OAuth
5 7 (3.63%) .NET
5 7 (3.63%) scikit-learn
5 7 (3.63%) YANG
6 6 (3.11%) .NET Core
7 5 (2.59%) Pandas
7 5 (2.59%) PyTorch
7 5 (2.59%) React
7 5 (2.59%) SAML
7 5 (2.59%) TensorFlow
8 4 (2.07%) JSON
8 4 (2.07%) Middleware
8 4 (2.07%) Node.js
8 4 (2.07%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.36%) Cloud Native
2 17 (8.81%) Onboarding
3 12 (6.22%) Cyber Security Posture
4 11 (5.70%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (5.18%) Algorithms
6 9 (4.66%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (4.15%) Operational Technology
7 8 (4.15%) Virtual Team
8 6 (3.11%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (3.11%) Replication
8 6 (3.11%) Security Operations Centre
9 5 (2.59%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (2.59%) Data Centre
9 5 (2.59%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (2.07%) Management Information System
10 4 (2.07%) PKI
11 3 (1.55%) Security Posture
11 3 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (1.04%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (1.04%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 58 (30.05%) Linux
2 24 (12.44%) Windows
3 14 (7.25%) Unix
4 10 (5.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (4.15%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.52%) VMS
6 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (45.08%) CI/CD
2 76 (39.38%) Problem-Solving
3 72 (37.31%) DevOps
4 65 (33.68%) SIEM
5 50 (25.91%) Cybersecurity
6 32 (16.58%) DevSecOps
7 30 (15.54%) Infrastructure as Code
8 26 (13.47%) Agile
9 24 (12.44%) Test Automation
10 22 (11.40%) Analytical Thinking
10 22 (11.40%) Stakeholder Management
11 21 (10.88%) Observability
12 20 (10.36%) Containerisation
12 20 (10.36%) Data Analysis
13 19 (9.84%) Analytics
13 19 (9.84%) High Availability
13 19 (9.84%) Threat Detection
14 18 (9.33%) Machine Learning
14 18 (9.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 16 (8.29%) AI
Programming Languages
1 94 (48.70%) PowerShell
2 44 (22.80%) Bash
3 36 (18.65%) SQL
4 24 (12.44%) JavaScript
5 23 (11.92%) Kusto Query Language
6 21 (10.88%) Java
7 10 (5.18%) Perl
8 7 (3.63%) C#
8 7 (3.63%) Shell Script
9 6 (3.11%) PHP
10 5 (2.59%) Go
11 4 (2.07%) R
12 1 (0.52%) Bicep
12 1 (0.52%) C++
Qualifications
1 101 (52.33%) Security Cleared
2 87 (45.08%) SC Cleared
3 42 (21.76%) CISSP
4 22 (11.40%) CEH
4 22 (11.40%) CISM
5 18 (9.33%) GIAC
6 15 (7.77%) Degree
7 14 (7.25%) AWS Certification
8 12 (6.22%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (5.70%) Cisco Certification
10 10 (5.18%) CCIE
11 9 (4.66%) JNCIE
12 8 (4.15%) GPEN
12 8 (4.15%) OSCP
13 6 (3.11%) GCFA
13 6 (3.11%) GCIA
13 6 (3.11%) GCIH
14 5 (2.59%) Azure Certification
14 5 (2.59%) CFCE
15 3 (1.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (17.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 33 (17.10%) NIST
3 29 (15.03%) GDPR
4 9 (4.66%) QA
5 4 (2.07%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.55%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 35 (18.13%) Active Directory
2 25 (12.95%) Docker
3 18 (9.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (7.25%) vSphere
5 8 (4.15%) VMware NSX
6 4 (2.07%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.52%) NDS
8 1 (0.52%) NetIQ eDirectory
Systems Management
1 47 (24.35%) Kubernetes
2 30 (15.54%) Terraform
3 25 (12.95%) Ansible
4 17 (8.81%) Argo
4 17 (8.81%) Grafana
4 17 (8.81%) Prometheus
5 14 (7.25%) Kibana
6 11 (5.70%) Kustomize
7 8 (4.15%) Nmap
8 6 (3.11%) vCenter Server
9 3 (1.55%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 3 (1.55%) Nessus
9 3 (1.55%) OpenVAS
10 2 (1.04%) logstash
10 2 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.52%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.52%) Cisco UCCE
11 1 (0.52%) QRadar
Vendors
1 25 (12.95%) Microsoft
2 24 (12.44%) BeyondTrust
2 24 (12.44%) CyberArk
3 20 (10.36%) VMware
4 17 (8.81%) Red Hat
5 16 (8.29%) Tanium
6 13 (6.74%) FireEye
7 11 (5.70%) Oracle
7 11 (5.70%) Splunk
8 8 (4.15%) LogRhythm
9 7 (3.63%) Cisco
10 6 (3.11%) ArcSight
10 6 (3.11%) Databricks
10 6 (3.11%) F5
10 6 (3.11%) Google
10 6 (3.11%) Pure Storage
11 5 (2.59%) Confluent
11 5 (2.59%) Fortinet
11 5 (2.59%) IBM
11 5 (2.59%) Juniper