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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 11 44
Rank change year-on-year -7 +33 -18
Contract jobs citing Python 184 144 92
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 10.07% 12.57% 4.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 50.97% 41.50% 25.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 80 62
10th Percentile £306 £380 £325
25th Percentile £403 £482 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £508 £501
Median % change year-on-year -8.37% +1.30% +0.20%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £638 £686
South East median daily rate £500 £529 £525
% change year-on-year -5.44% +0.71% -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 £65.00
% change year-on-year -22.45% -5.77% +46.89%

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 361 347 367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 19.75% 30.28% 17.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 214 244
10th Percentile £327 £400 £350
25th Percentile £403 £459 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.44% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £586 £650 £625
90th Percentile £655 £700 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £511
% change year-on-year -2.44% +0.29% -2.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 15
10th Percentile £72.04 £40.50 £56.20
25th Percentile £74.20 £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 £83.00 £65.62 £64.55
90th Percentile £84.65 £72.56 £68.25
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £57.65 £59.00
% change year-on-year -4.59% -2.30% +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 25 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 25 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
Wokingham +3 82 £450 -5.26% 11
Reading -9 79 £525 -8.70% 37
Windsor -5 12 £208 -58.50% 1
Bracknell -7 3 £450 -6.25%
Slough -1 1 - - 9
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 (2.17%) Apache
2 2 (1.09%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.09%) ArcGIS
2 2 (1.09%) Confluence
2 2 (1.09%) IBM HTTP Server
2 2 (1.09%) OpenStack
2 2 (1.09%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 2 (1.09%) WebSphere
2 2 (1.09%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (1.09%) WebSphere Portal
3 1 (0.54%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (2.17%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.63%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 78 (42.39%) Azure
2 65 (35.33%) AWS
3 42 (22.83%) GCP
4 19 (10.33%) OpenShift
5 17 (9.24%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (7.07%) GitHub
7 9 (4.89%) Azure Monitor
8 8 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (4.35%) Serverless
9 7 (3.80%) IaaS
10 6 (3.26%) Azure Functions
10 6 (3.26%) Power Platform
11 5 (2.72%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (2.72%) Azure AKS
12 4 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (2.17%) Azure Key Vault
12 4 (2.17%) Azure Sentinel
12 4 (2.17%) Datadog
12 4 (2.17%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 15 (8.15%) Network Security
2 12 (6.52%) DNS
3 10 (5.43%) Firewall
3 10 (5.43%) TCP/IP
4 7 (3.80%) BGP
4 7 (3.80%) MPLS
4 7 (3.80%) WAN
5 6 (3.26%) Wireshark
6 5 (2.72%) SSL
7 4 (2.17%) DHCP
7 4 (2.17%) SNMP
7 4 (2.17%) TACACS
8 3 (1.63%) LAN
8 3 (1.63%) VoIP
9 2 (1.09%) 2G
9 2 (1.09%) 5G
9 2 (1.09%) HTTP
9 2 (1.09%) LTE
9 2 (1.09%) Mobile Backhaul
9 2 (1.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.33%) Relational Database
2 13 (7.07%) MySQL
3 10 (5.43%) NoSQL
4 8 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (3.80%) MongoDB
6 6 (3.26%) Power BI
7 5 (2.72%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (2.72%) Big Data
7 5 (2.72%) Tableau
8 4 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (2.17%) SQL Server
9 3 (1.63%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.63%) Parquet
10 2 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.09%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.09%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.54%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.54%) GIS
11 1 (0.54%) Metadata
11 1 (0.54%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 18 (9.78%) Git
1 18 (9.78%) Jenkins
2 6 (3.26%) Burp Suite
2 6 (3.26%) Metasploit
3 5 (2.72%) GitLab
3 5 (2.72%) JIRA
4 2 (1.09%) Introscope
5 1 (0.54%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.54%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.54%) Visual Studio
General
1 99 (53.80%) Social Skills
2 46 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (14.13%) Documentation Skills
4 21 (11.41%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.09%) Advertising
5 2 (1.09%) Aerospace
5 2 (1.09%) Billing
5 2 (1.09%) Legal
5 2 (1.09%) Retail
5 2 (1.09%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.54%) Finance
6 1 (0.54%) Marketing
6 1 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 28 (15.22%) SIEM Engineer
2 27 (14.67%) Senior
3 12 (6.52%) Developer
4 11 (5.98%) Architect
4 11 (5.98%) Tester
5 10 (5.43%) Analyst
6 9 (4.89%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (4.89%) Technical Support
7 8 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
7 8 (4.35%) Site Engineer
7 8 (4.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 6 (3.26%) Data Engineer
8 6 (3.26%) Penetration Tester
8 6 (3.26%) SOC Analyst
9 5 (2.72%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 5 (2.72%) IP Specialist
9 5 (2.72%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (2.72%) Security Engineer
9 5 (2.72%) Senior DevOps
9 5 (2.72%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (14.13%) LDAP
2 15 (8.15%) REST
3 11 (5.98%) Loki
4 9 (4.89%) OAuth
5 8 (4.35%) GraphQL
6 7 (3.80%) .NET
6 7 (3.80%) Pandas
7 6 (3.26%) .NET Core
7 6 (3.26%) Kafka
7 6 (3.26%) Middleware
7 6 (3.26%) NETCONF
7 6 (3.26%) NumPy
7 6 (3.26%) YANG
8 5 (2.72%) Node.js
8 5 (2.72%) React
8 5 (2.72%) SAML
9 4 (2.17%) OpenID
9 4 (2.17%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (2.17%) SOAP
9 4 (2.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.87%) Cloud Native
2 18 (9.78%) Onboarding
3 11 (5.98%) Cyber Security Posture
4 10 (5.43%) Algorithms
4 10 (5.43%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (4.35%) Operational Technology
5 8 (4.35%) Virtual Team
6 7 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (3.80%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (3.26%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (2.72%) PKI
8 5 (2.72%) Security Operations Centre
9 4 (2.17%) Data Centre
9 4 (2.17%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (2.17%) Security Posture
9 4 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.63%) Clustering
10 3 (1.63%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.63%) Management Information System
11 2 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 50 (27.17%) Linux
2 26 (14.13%) Windows
3 12 (6.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (5.98%) Unix
5 6 (3.26%) Kali Linux
6 2 (1.09%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (1.09%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 2 (1.09%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.54%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.54%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (44.02%) CI/CD
2 76 (41.30%) Problem-Solving
3 71 (38.59%) DevOps
4 66 (35.87%) SIEM
5 52 (28.26%) Cybersecurity
6 34 (18.48%) DevSecOps
7 29 (15.76%) Agile
8 26 (14.13%) Infrastructure as Code
9 22 (11.96%) Analytics
9 22 (11.96%) Observability
9 22 (11.96%) Stakeholder Management
10 21 (11.41%) Data Analysis
10 21 (11.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 20 (10.87%) Analytical Thinking
11 20 (10.87%) Containerisation
12 19 (10.33%) Threat Detection
13 18 (9.78%) Test Automation
14 17 (9.24%) AI
15 15 (8.15%) SOAR
15 15 (8.15%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 98 (53.26%) PowerShell
2 46 (25.00%) Bash
3 32 (17.39%) SQL
4 23 (12.50%) Java
4 23 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 23 (12.50%) Kusto Query Language
5 12 (6.52%) Perl
6 7 (3.80%) C#
7 6 (3.26%) PHP
8 5 (2.72%) Go
9 2 (1.09%) Bicep
9 2 (1.09%) Jython
9 2 (1.09%) R
9 2 (1.09%) Scala
10 1 (0.54%) C++
Qualifications
1 98 (53.26%) Security Cleared
2 82 (44.57%) SC Cleared
3 42 (22.83%) CISSP
4 24 (13.04%) CISM
5 19 (10.33%) CEH
6 16 (8.70%) GIAC
7 14 (7.61%) Degree
8 11 (5.98%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (3.80%) AWS Certification
9 7 (3.80%) CCIE
9 7 (3.80%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (3.26%) GPEN
10 6 (3.26%) JNCIE
10 6 (3.26%) OSCP
11 5 (2.72%) GCFA
11 5 (2.72%) GCIA
11 5 (2.72%) GCIH
12 4 (2.17%) Azure Certification
12 4 (2.17%) CFCE
13 3 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (17.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 33 (17.93%) NIST
2 29 (15.76%) GDPR
3 6 (3.26%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.26%) QA
4 2 (1.09%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 34 (18.48%) Active Directory
2 22 (11.96%) Docker
3 16 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (7.61%) vSphere
5 6 (3.26%) VMware NSX
6 4 (2.17%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 43 (23.37%) Kubernetes
2 23 (12.50%) Terraform
3 22 (11.96%) Ansible
4 17 (9.24%) Argo
4 17 (9.24%) Grafana
4 17 (9.24%) Prometheus
5 13 (7.07%) Kibana
6 11 (5.98%) Kustomize
7 6 (3.26%) Nmap
7 6 (3.26%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.63%) Nessus
8 3 (1.63%) OpenVAS
9 2 (1.09%) CA Wily
9 2 (1.09%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 2 (1.09%) Tivoli
10 1 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.54%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.54%) Cisco UCCE
10 1 (0.54%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.54%) Puppet
Vendors
1 26 (14.13%) BeyondTrust
1 26 (14.13%) CyberArk
1 26 (14.13%) Microsoft
2 18 (9.78%) Red Hat
2 18 (9.78%) VMware
3 15 (8.15%) Tanium
4 12 (6.52%) FireEye
5 11 (5.98%) Oracle
6 9 (4.89%) Splunk
7 8 (4.35%) Databricks
8 7 (3.80%) LogRhythm
9 6 (3.26%) AppDynamics
9 6 (3.26%) Pure Storage
10 5 (2.72%) Cisco
10 5 (2.72%) F5
10 5 (2.72%) Juniper
11 4 (2.17%) ArcSight
11 4 (2.17%) Dynatrace
11 4 (2.17%) Fortinet
11 4 (2.17%) Google