Python Contracts in Berkshire

Python
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Python skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Python over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 29 21
Rank change year-on-year +16 -8 +13
Contract jobs citing Python 119 116 161
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 10.57% 6.02% 9.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.06% 31.44% 38.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 86 113
10th Percentile £401 £320 £333
25th Percentile £450 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -9.00% +4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £638
90th Percentile £630 £675 £750
South East median daily rate £509 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.10% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - - £15.60
25th Percentile - - £19.49
Median hourly rate - £67.50 £41.03
Median % change year-on-year - +64.53% -
75th Percentile - £72.50 £64.41
90th Percentile - £75.50 £71.21
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £22.73
% change year-on-year -15.38% +185.97% +8.24%

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 330 369 417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 29.31% 19.14% 23.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 253 299
10th Percentile £400 £325 £360
25th Percentile £454 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £624
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £505 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +0.80% -4.57% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 14 13
10th Percentile £39.74 £56.37 £22.55
25th Percentile £53.97 £56.65 £56.88
Median hourly rate £63.75 £61.60 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.48% -12.00% -3.45%
75th Percentile £68.51 £66.03 £79.19
90th Percentile £73.72 £68.38 £80.93
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £61.60 £55.00
% change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% +57.14%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Python in Berkshire

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Python in Berkshire

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Berkshire over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python in Berkshire

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend 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 29 May 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 +7 54 £500 -9.09% 58
Windsor - 25 £500 -
Wokingham +6 23 £463 -2.63% 1
Bracknell +18 5 £480 -4.00% 7
Maidenhead +3 4 - - 7
Slough -3 3 £550 +46.67% 11
Python
South East

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (7.56%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.36%) Apache
3 3 (2.52%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.68%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.84%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.68%) Chatbot
1 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.68%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.84%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.84%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 57 (47.90%) Azure
2 36 (30.25%) AWS
3 28 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (13.45%) GitHub
5 12 (10.08%) Serverless
6 10 (8.40%) Azure AKS
6 10 (8.40%) Azure Data Factory
7 8 (6.72%) Azure API Management
7 8 (6.72%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (5.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 7 (5.88%) Azure Service Bus
8 7 (5.88%) GCP
9 6 (5.04%) Azure Machine Learning
9 6 (5.04%) Power Automate
9 6 (5.04%) Power Platform
10 5 (4.20%) Entra ID
10 5 (4.20%) IaaS
10 5 (4.20%) PaaS
11 4 (3.36%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.24%) Firewall
2 8 (6.72%) BGP
2 8 (6.72%) Network Security
2 8 (6.72%) TCP/IP
3 7 (5.88%) OSPF
3 7 (5.88%) VLAN
4 6 (5.04%) VPN
5 1 (0.84%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (0.84%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.84%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.84%) EIGRP
5 1 (0.84%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.84%) Junos
5 1 (0.84%) LAN
5 1 (0.84%) MPLS
5 1 (0.84%) RIP
5 1 (0.84%) SMS
5 1 (0.84%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.84%) VXLAN
5 1 (0.84%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.40%) Big Data
2 8 (6.72%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (6.72%) Relational Database
3 7 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (5.88%) NoSQL
4 6 (5.04%) Data Lake
4 6 (5.04%) MongoDB
4 6 (5.04%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (5.04%) Power BI
5 4 (3.36%) Hadoop
5 4 (3.36%) MySQL
5 4 (3.36%) Spark SQL
6 2 (1.68%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.68%) Apache Hive
6 2 (1.68%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.68%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.68%) Tableau
7 1 (0.84%) Parquet
7 1 (0.84%) Power Query
7 1 (0.84%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 21 (17.65%) Git
2 18 (15.13%) Selenium
3 8 (6.72%) Jenkins
4 5 (4.20%) JIRA
5 2 (1.68%) JMeter
5 2 (1.68%) JUnit
5 2 (1.68%) Mockito
6 1 (0.84%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.84%) CMake
6 1 (0.84%) GitLab
6 1 (0.84%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.84%) MLflow
6 1 (0.84%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 27 (22.69%) Social Skills
2 18 (15.13%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (12.61%) Telecoms
4 12 (10.08%) Finance
5 9 (7.56%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.20%) Electronics
6 5 (4.20%) Manufacturing
6 5 (4.20%) Marketing
7 1 (0.84%) Games
7 1 (0.84%) Local Government
7 1 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.84%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 26 (21.85%) Developer
2 14 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
3 13 (10.92%) AWS Engineer
3 13 (10.92%) Azure Engineer
4 10 (8.40%) Azure Developer
5 8 (6.72%) Architect
5 8 (6.72%) Full-Stack Developer
6 7 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 7 (5.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 7 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (5.88%) Python Developer
6 7 (5.88%) Senior
7 6 (5.04%) Analyst
7 6 (5.04%) Data Engineer
8 5 (4.20%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
8 5 (4.20%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 5 (4.20%) Data Analyst
8 5 (4.20%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (4.20%) Python Engineer
9 4 (3.36%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.40%) JSON
2 8 (6.72%) .NET
2 8 (6.72%) ADO
2 8 (6.72%) PySpark
3 7 (5.88%) REST
4 6 (5.04%) HTML
4 6 (5.04%) OAuth
5 5 (4.20%) React
6 4 (3.36%) .NET Core
6 4 (3.36%) ARM Templates
6 4 (3.36%) CSS
6 4 (3.36%) Kafka
7 3 (2.52%) Apache Axis
7 3 (2.52%) GraphQL
7 3 (2.52%) OpenID
7 3 (2.52%) SAML
7 3 (2.52%) scikit-learn
7 3 (2.52%) TensorFlow
7 3 (2.52%) Web Services
8 2 (1.68%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.92%) Cloud Native
2 10 (8.40%) Algorithms
3 5 (4.20%) Renewable Energy
3 5 (4.20%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (3.36%) CMDB
4 4 (3.36%) Data Structures
4 4 (3.36%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.36%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.36%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.68%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.68%) Replication
6 2 (1.68%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.68%) Smart Meter
7 1 (0.84%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.84%) NHS
7 1 (0.84%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 20 (16.81%) Windows
2 15 (12.61%) Linux
3 8 (6.72%) Windows Server
4 5 (4.20%) Ubuntu
5 3 (2.52%) Unix
6 2 (1.68%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.84%) Android
7 1 (0.84%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (41.18%) DevOps
2 36 (30.25%) CI/CD
3 34 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (18.49%) Test Automation
5 21 (17.65%) Agile
6 20 (16.81%) Artificial Intelligence
7 14 (11.76%) Configuration Management
7 14 (11.76%) Data Modelling
7 14 (11.76%) High Availability
7 14 (11.76%) Machine Learning
8 12 (10.08%) Business Intelligence
8 12 (10.08%) LLM
8 12 (10.08%) Scenario Testing
9 11 (9.24%) Analytics
9 11 (9.24%) Continuous Integration
9 11 (9.24%) Data Engineering
9 11 (9.24%) Infrastructure as Code
9 11 (9.24%) Migration
9 11 (9.24%) Security Operations
10 10 (8.40%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 37 (31.09%) SQL
2 33 (27.73%) PowerShell
3 25 (21.01%) Java
4 17 (14.29%) Bash
5 15 (12.61%) JavaScript
6 14 (11.76%) C#
7 10 (8.40%) Bicep
8 6 (5.04%) R
9 5 (4.20%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.52%) Ruby
11 2 (1.68%) C++
11 2 (1.68%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.84%) C
12 1 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.84%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.84%) Scala
12 1 (0.84%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.84%) VB
12 1 (0.84%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 10 (8.40%) Security Cleared
2 8 (6.72%) CCNP
2 8 (6.72%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (6.72%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.88%) Degree
4 6 (5.04%) CCSA
4 6 (5.04%) CCSE
4 6 (5.04%) Check Point Certification
4 6 (5.04%) Master's Degree
5 5 (4.20%) CISSP
6 4 (3.36%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.52%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.52%) GCIH
7 3 (2.52%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.68%) CEH
8 2 (1.68%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.68%) GCFA
9 1 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.84%) ECSA
9 1 (0.84%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (15.97%) QA
2 4 (3.36%) GDPR
2 4 (3.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.52%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.68%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.68%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.84%) HL7
5 1 (0.84%) NIST
5 1 (0.84%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.84%) SLA
5 1 (0.84%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 15 (12.61%) Docker
2 8 (6.72%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.52%) vSphere
4 2 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (19.33%) Ansible
2 16 (13.45%) Terraform
3 15 (12.61%) Kubernetes
4 5 (4.20%) Puppet
5 4 (3.36%) Grafana
5 4 (3.36%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.68%) Kibana
6 2 (1.68%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.68%) SCCM
6 2 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.68%) WSUS
7 1 (0.84%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 23 (19.33%) Microsoft
2 13 (10.92%) Databricks
3 9 (7.56%) Cisco
4 6 (5.04%) CheckPoint
4 6 (5.04%) OpenAI
4 6 (5.04%) Palo Alto
4 6 (5.04%) SAP
4 6 (5.04%) Virgin Media
5 5 (4.20%) Splunk
6 4 (3.36%) Foundry
6 4 (3.36%) Palantir
7 3 (2.52%) Google
8 2 (1.68%) BMC
8 2 (1.68%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.68%) Remedy
8 2 (1.68%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.84%) Citrix
9 1 (0.84%) IBM
9 1 (0.84%) Juniper
9 1 (0.84%) Oracle