Python Contracts in Berkshire

Python
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for Python skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Python over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 19 35
Rank change year-on-year -15 +16 -6
Contract jobs citing Python 94 160 125
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 4.82% 8.90% 5.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 25.47% 36.12% 23.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 115 79
10th Percentile £325 £368 £390
25th Percentile £381 £444 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +20.12%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £613
90th Percentile £675 £750 £717
South East median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 0
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 £65.00 £24.46 £36.50
% change year-on-year +165.74% -32.99% -21.93%

All Programming Languages
Berkshire

Python is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 369 443 529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 18.92% 24.65% 22.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 326 386
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £413 £432 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £531 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.53% +6.25% +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £588
90th Percentile £688 £692 £638
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 14 4
10th Percentile £56.20 £22.99 £63.18
25th Percentile £56.65 £53.59 £64.19
Median hourly rate £61.60 £70.00 £72.75
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -3.78% +81.88%
75th Percentile £64.55 £79.19 £80.93
90th Percentile £68.25 £80.72 £81.87
South East median hourly rate £60.14 £55.00 £40.92
% change year-on-year +9.35% +34.41% -3.72%

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 5 May 2024.

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 5 May 2024. 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 -11 71 £550 -8.41% 42
Newbury +4 8 £350 +16.67% 5
Wokingham -7 6 £475 -9.52%
Maidenhead +1 4 £259 -42.50% 1
Slough +3 2 £375 -9.09% 6
Bracknell -17 2 £500 +16.62% 2
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 12 (12.77%) Apache
2 11 (11.70%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (8.51%) SAS
4 1 (1.06%) Appian
4 1 (1.06%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.06%) Oracle Spatial
4 1 (1.06%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (7.45%) SPSS
2 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.06%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 43 (45.74%) Azure
2 20 (21.28%) Azure Data Factory
2 20 (21.28%) Entra ID
3 19 (20.21%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 16 (17.02%) Azure Monitor
5 14 (14.89%) Serverless
6 12 (12.77%) Azure Functions
7 8 (8.51%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (8.51%) Power Platform
8 6 (6.38%) AWS
9 5 (5.32%) Power Automate
10 4 (4.26%) Azure AKS
10 4 (4.26%) PaaS
11 3 (3.19%) Azure API Management
11 3 (3.19%) Azure Event Grid
11 3 (3.19%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (3.19%) IaaS
11 3 (3.19%) OpenShift
11 3 (3.19%) SaaS
12 1 (1.06%) Azure Cognitive Services
Communications & Networking
1 14 (14.89%) VPN
2 11 (11.70%) BGP
2 11 (11.70%) Ethernet VPN
2 11 (11.70%) MPLS
2 11 (11.70%) Radio Access Network
3 4 (4.26%) Network Security
4 1 (1.06%) Firewall
4 1 (1.06%) HTTP
4 1 (1.06%) Internet
4 1 (1.06%) Junos
4 1 (1.06%) RNC
4 1 (1.06%) SGSN
4 1 (1.06%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (29.79%) NoSQL
2 18 (19.15%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (14.89%) MongoDB
4 7 (7.45%) GIS
4 7 (7.45%) Qlik Sense
4 7 (7.45%) Tableau
5 4 (4.26%) Redis
6 3 (3.19%) Big Data
6 3 (3.19%) Data Mining
6 3 (3.19%) Power BI
7 2 (2.13%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.13%) Oracle Database
7 2 (2.13%) PowerPivot
7 2 (2.13%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.06%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.06%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.06%) MySQL
8 1 (1.06%) Neo4j
8 1 (1.06%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 21 (22.34%) Git
2 14 (14.89%) JIRA
2 14 (14.89%) Robot Framework
3 13 (13.83%) GitLab
4 11 (11.70%) TestRail
5 8 (8.51%) Selenium
6 4 (4.26%) Visual Studio
7 2 (2.13%) Jenkins
8 1 (1.06%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.06%) CMake
8 1 (1.06%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.06%) JMeter
8 1 (1.06%) JUnit
8 1 (1.06%) Maven
8 1 (1.06%) Mockito
8 1 (1.06%) SonarQube
General
1 25 (26.60%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (11.70%) Social Skills
3 10 (10.64%) Telecoms
4 8 (8.51%) Pharmaceutical
5 5 (5.32%) Finance
6 4 (4.26%) Local Government
6 4 (4.26%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.06%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 35 (37.23%) Developer
2 23 (24.47%) Full Stack Developer
3 16 (17.02%) Azure Developer
4 14 (14.89%) Analyst
5 13 (13.83%) Python Developer
6 11 (11.70%) Network Engineer
6 11 (11.70%) Test Engineer
7 10 (10.64%) Data Analyst
8 7 (7.45%) Full Stack Python Developer
8 7 (7.45%) Senior
9 6 (6.38%) Lead
10 4 (4.26%) Applications Developer
10 4 (4.26%) Data Engineer
10 4 (4.26%) GIS Developer
10 4 (4.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (4.26%) Power Apps Developer
10 4 (4.26%) Solutions Analyst
10 4 (4.26%) SQL Analyst
10 4 (4.26%) SQL Data Analyst
11 3 (3.19%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (23.40%) React
2 12 (12.77%) REST
3 11 (11.70%) NETCONF
3 11 (11.70%) RESTCONF
3 11 (11.70%) SOAP
3 11 (11.70%) YANG
4 7 (7.45%) D3.js
5 6 (6.38%) CSS
5 6 (6.38%) Django
5 6 (6.38%) HTML
6 5 (5.32%) OpenLayers
7 4 (4.26%) Celery
7 4 (4.26%) GeoPandas
7 4 (4.26%) Node.js
7 4 (4.26%) PostGIS
7 4 (4.26%) Web Services
8 3 (3.19%) .NET
8 3 (3.19%) AngularJS
8 3 (3.19%) jQuery
8 3 (3.19%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.83%) Product Ownership
2 7 (7.45%) Client/Server
3 5 (5.32%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.19%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (3.19%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.13%) Biopharmaceutical
5 2 (2.13%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.13%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.13%) NHS
6 1 (1.06%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.06%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.06%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.06%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 14 (14.89%) Linux
2 11 (11.70%) Windows
3 9 (9.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (8.51%) Windows Server
5 3 (3.19%) Unix
6 2 (2.13%) Android
6 2 (2.13%) VMS
7 1 (1.06%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.06%) Debian
7 1 (1.06%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (43.62%) Agile
2 34 (36.17%) CI/CD
2 34 (36.17%) DevOps
3 25 (26.60%) Full Stack Development
4 24 (25.53%) Microservices
5 22 (23.40%) Unit Testing
6 21 (22.34%) Test Automation
7 17 (18.09%) SDLC
8 16 (17.02%) Containerisation
8 16 (17.02%) Scrum
9 13 (13.83%) Product Backlog
9 13 (13.83%) Security Testing
9 13 (13.83%) Workflow
10 12 (12.77%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (12.77%) Performance Testing
11 11 (11.70%) Change Management
11 11 (11.70%) Integration Testing
11 11 (11.70%) Regression Testing
12 10 (10.64%) Data Modelling
13 9 (9.57%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 26 (27.66%) SQL
2 13 (13.83%) Java
2 13 (13.83%) PowerShell
3 8 (8.51%) R
4 7 (7.45%) JavaScript
4 7 (7.45%) VBScript
5 6 (6.38%) C#
6 5 (5.32%) Bash
7 4 (4.26%) Shell Script
8 3 (3.19%) C++
8 3 (3.19%) PHP
8 3 (3.19%) Ruby
9 2 (2.13%) C
10 1 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (1.06%) Perl
10 1 (1.06%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (13.83%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.51%) DV Cleared
3 5 (5.32%) Degree
3 5 (5.32%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.19%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.13%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.06%) CEH
6 1 (1.06%) CISSP
6 1 (1.06%) HP ASE
6 1 (1.06%) JNCIE
6 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.26%) QA
2 3 (3.19%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.06%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.06%) CDISC
System Software
1 20 (21.28%) Active Directory
2 17 (18.09%) Docker
3 13 (13.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (5.32%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (4.26%) Hyper-V
6 2 (2.13%) vSphere
7 1 (1.06%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 11 (11.70%) Kubernetes
2 6 (6.38%) Ansible
3 3 (3.19%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (2.13%) Packer
4 2 (2.13%) Terraform
4 2 (2.13%) vRealize
5 1 (1.06%) Kibana
5 1 (1.06%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (13.83%) VMware
2 6 (6.38%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.32%) Red Hat
4 4 (4.26%) Databricks
4 4 (4.26%) Oracle
5 2 (2.13%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.13%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.13%) Splunk
6 1 (1.06%) Checkmarx
6 1 (1.06%) Cisco
6 1 (1.06%) Ericsson
6 1 (1.06%) IBM
6 1 (1.06%) Juniper
6 1 (1.06%) Mapinfo
6 1 (1.06%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.06%) Nokia
6 1 (1.06%) TIBCO