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

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 10 49
Rank change year-on-year -3 +39 -15
Contract jobs citing Python 191 159 89
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 11.69% 12.36% 4.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 52.91% 42.40% 24.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 89 60
10th Percentile £336 £397 £325
25th Percentile £403 £482 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £580
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% -5.17% +16.00%
75th Percentile £528 £625 £675
90th Percentile £638 £638 £688
South East median daily rate £492 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -10.55% +3.77% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £72.40 - -
25th Percentile £76.00 - -
Median hourly rate £82.00 - £67.50
75th Percentile £84.00 - -
90th Percentile £85.20 - -
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £61.25 £67.50
% change year-on-year -22.45% -9.26% +55.17%

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 361 375 357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 22.09% 29.16% 18.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 256 231 252
10th Percentile £335 £390 £350
25th Percentile £403 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £571 £638 £638
90th Percentile £638 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £490 £501 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -4.67% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 15
10th Percentile £39.25 - £48.40
25th Percentile £70.00 £55.87 £55.36
Median hourly rate £75.00 £60.25 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +24.49% +3.34% -16.71%
75th Percentile £82.00 £65.62 £61.60
90th Percentile £84.40 £71.40 £67.50
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £61.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year -10.57% +5.49% +6.00%

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 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 14 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 -5 86 £525 -10.26% 30
Wokingham +8 79 £447 -16.06% 7
Windsor -6 12 £208 -58.50% 2
Bracknell -5 5 £420 -12.50%
Maidenhead -4 1 - - 1
Slough -4 1 - - 8
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 10 (5.24%) OpenStack
2 4 (2.09%) Apache
3 2 (1.05%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.05%) Appian
4 1 (0.52%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.52%) Confluence
4 1 (0.52%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.05%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.52%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 81 (42.41%) Azure
2 79 (41.36%) AWS
3 43 (22.51%) GCP
4 21 (10.99%) OpenShift
5 14 (7.33%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (6.28%) Serverless
7 10 (5.24%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (5.24%) GitHub
7 10 (5.24%) IaaS
8 9 (4.71%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (3.66%) Azure AKS
9 7 (3.66%) Azure Machine Learning
9 7 (3.66%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (3.14%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (2.62%) Azure Functions
11 5 (2.62%) OCI
11 5 (2.62%) Power Platform
12 4 (2.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (2.09%) Datadog
12 4 (2.09%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.85%) Network Security
2 12 (6.28%) BGP
2 12 (6.28%) MPLS
2 12 (6.28%) WAN
3 10 (5.24%) DNS
3 10 (5.24%) LAN
4 8 (4.19%) Wireshark
5 7 (3.66%) Firewall
5 7 (3.66%) TCP/IP
6 6 (3.14%) SNMP
6 6 (3.14%) TACACS
7 4 (2.09%) DHCP
7 4 (2.09%) OSPF
7 4 (2.09%) Wireless
8 3 (1.57%) 2G
8 3 (1.57%) 5G
8 3 (1.57%) SSL
8 3 (1.57%) VoIP
9 2 (1.05%) LTE
9 2 (1.05%) Mobile Backhaul
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.38%) Relational Database
2 14 (7.33%) MySQL
2 14 (7.33%) NoSQL
3 6 (3.14%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (3.14%) Amazon Redshift
3 6 (3.14%) MongoDB
3 6 (3.14%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.62%) Couchbase
4 5 (2.62%) Data Lake
4 5 (2.62%) Power BI
5 4 (2.09%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (2.09%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.09%) Tableau
6 3 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.05%) Big Data
7 2 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.05%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.05%) Parquet
8 1 (0.52%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.52%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 18 (9.42%) Jenkins
2 14 (7.33%) Git
3 8 (4.19%) Burp Suite
3 8 (4.19%) Metasploit
4 5 (2.62%) JIRA
5 4 (2.09%) GitLab
6 2 (1.05%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.05%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.05%) Robot Framework
6 2 (1.05%) Selenium
6 2 (1.05%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.52%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.52%) Visual Studio
General
1 102 (53.40%) Social Skills
2 46 (24.08%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (15.18%) Documentation Skills
4 20 (10.47%) Public Sector
5 4 (2.09%) Telecoms
6 3 (1.57%) Finance
6 3 (1.57%) Legal
7 2 (1.05%) Billing
7 2 (1.05%) Retail
8 1 (0.52%) Advertising
8 1 (0.52%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 25 (13.09%) SIEM Engineer
2 21 (10.99%) Senior
3 13 (6.81%) Architect
3 13 (6.81%) Tester
4 12 (6.28%) DevOps Engineer
5 9 (4.71%) Technical Support
6 8 (4.19%) Analyst
6 8 (4.19%) Data Engineer
6 8 (4.19%) Developer
6 8 (4.19%) Penetration Tester
6 8 (4.19%) Platform Engineer
7 7 (3.66%) Azure Engineer
7 7 (3.66%) IP Specialist
7 7 (3.66%) Site Engineer
7 7 (3.66%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 6 (3.14%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (3.14%) SOC Analyst
9 5 (2.62%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (2.62%) IP Architect
9 5 (2.62%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (12.57%) LDAP
2 17 (8.90%) REST
3 11 (5.76%) Loki
4 10 (5.24%) NETCONF
5 9 (4.71%) scikit-learn
5 9 (4.71%) YANG
6 8 (4.19%) GraphQL
6 8 (4.19%) Kafka
7 7 (3.66%) OAuth
7 7 (3.66%) PyTorch
7 7 (3.66%) TensorFlow
8 6 (3.14%) .NET
9 5 (2.62%) .NET Core
9 5 (2.62%) JSON
9 5 (2.62%) Pandas
10 4 (2.09%) Jinja
10 4 (2.09%) Node.js
10 4 (2.09%) NumPy
10 4 (2.09%) PySpark
10 4 (2.09%) React
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.99%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.33%) Onboarding
3 12 (6.28%) Cyber Security Posture
3 12 (6.28%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (5.24%) Algorithms
4 10 (5.24%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (4.19%) Virtual Team
6 7 (3.66%) Data Centre
6 7 (3.66%) Operational Technology
7 6 (3.14%) Replication
8 5 (2.62%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.62%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (2.62%) Security Operations Centre
9 4 (2.09%) Management Information System
9 4 (2.09%) PKI
10 3 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.57%) Security Posture
11 2 (1.05%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (1.05%) Product Ownership
11 2 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 56 (29.32%) Linux
2 24 (12.57%) Windows
3 14 (7.33%) Unix
4 8 (4.19%) Kali Linux
4 8 (4.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.52%) VMS
5 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (46.07%) CI/CD
2 73 (38.22%) Problem-Solving
3 69 (36.13%) DevOps
4 60 (31.41%) SIEM
5 49 (25.65%) Cybersecurity
6 32 (16.75%) DevSecOps
7 30 (15.71%) Infrastructure as Code
8 24 (12.57%) Agile
9 23 (12.04%) Test Automation
10 22 (11.52%) Containerisation
11 21 (10.99%) Analytical Thinking
12 20 (10.47%) Observability
13 19 (9.95%) Machine Learning
14 18 (9.42%) High Availability
14 18 (9.42%) Threat Detection
15 17 (8.90%) Data Analysis
15 17 (8.90%) Stakeholder Management
16 16 (8.38%) AI
16 16 (8.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 15 (7.85%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 89 (46.60%) PowerShell
2 42 (21.99%) Bash
3 33 (17.28%) SQL
4 24 (12.57%) JavaScript
5 21 (10.99%) Java
6 18 (9.42%) Kusto Query Language
7 10 (5.24%) Perl
8 7 (3.66%) Shell Script
9 6 (3.14%) C#
9 6 (3.14%) PHP
9 6 (3.14%) R
10 5 (2.62%) Go
11 1 (0.52%) C++
Qualifications
1 93 (48.69%) Security Cleared
2 78 (40.84%) SC Cleared
3 42 (21.99%) CISSP
4 22 (11.52%) CEH
4 22 (11.52%) CISM
5 18 (9.42%) GIAC
6 16 (8.38%) AWS Certification
7 15 (7.85%) Degree
8 14 (7.33%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (6.81%) CCIE
9 13 (6.81%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (6.28%) JNCIE
11 8 (4.19%) GPEN
11 8 (4.19%) OSCP
12 6 (3.14%) GCFA
12 6 (3.14%) GCIA
12 6 (3.14%) GCIH
13 5 (2.62%) CFCE
14 4 (2.09%) Azure Certification
14 4 (2.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (17.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 33 (17.28%) NIST
3 29 (15.18%) GDPR
4 8 (4.19%) QA
5 4 (2.09%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.57%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 34 (17.80%) Active Directory
2 28 (14.66%) Docker
3 21 (10.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (7.85%) vSphere
5 11 (5.76%) VMware NSX
6 4 (2.09%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.52%) NDS
8 1 (0.52%) NetIQ eDirectory
Systems Management
1 47 (24.61%) Kubernetes
2 32 (16.75%) Terraform
3 29 (15.18%) Ansible
4 17 (8.90%) Argo
4 17 (8.90%) Grafana
4 17 (8.90%) Prometheus
5 14 (7.33%) Kibana
6 11 (5.76%) Kustomize
7 8 (4.19%) Nmap
8 6 (3.14%) vCenter Server
9 3 (1.57%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 3 (1.57%) Nessus
9 3 (1.57%) OpenVAS
10 2 (1.05%) logstash
10 2 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.52%) Cisco UCCE
11 1 (0.52%) QRadar
11 1 (0.52%) vRealize
11 1 (0.52%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 24 (12.57%) BeyondTrust
1 24 (12.57%) CyberArk
2 23 (12.04%) Microsoft
2 23 (12.04%) VMware
3 16 (8.38%) Red Hat
3 16 (8.38%) Tanium
4 13 (6.81%) FireEye
5 11 (5.76%) Oracle
5 11 (5.76%) Splunk
6 9 (4.71%) Cisco
7 7 (3.66%) LogRhythm
8 6 (3.14%) ArcSight
8 6 (3.14%) Databricks
8 6 (3.14%) F5
8 6 (3.14%) Fortinet
8 6 (3.14%) Google
8 6 (3.14%) Juniper
8 6 (3.14%) Pure Storage
9 5 (2.62%) Confluent
9 5 (2.62%) IBM