Python Contract Job Trends in Brentwood

Python
Essex > Brentwood

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Brentwood requiring Python skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 - 11
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Python 5 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Brentwood 41.67% - 8.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 62.50% - 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £300
Essex median daily rate £500 £318 £275
% change year-on-year +57.12% +15.72% -37.50%

All Programming Languages
Brentwood

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 Brentwood.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 8 8 27
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Brentwood 66.67% 72.73% 77.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 9
10th Percentile - £355 £290
25th Percentile £500 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £400 £300
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% +33.33% -
75th Percentile £600 £438 £323
90th Percentile - £461 £423
Essex median daily rate £500 £400 £479
% change year-on-year +25.00% -16.49% +0.31%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Brentwood

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Python relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Brentwood.

Python job vacancy trend in Brentwood

Python
Daily Rate Trend in Brentwood

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Brentwood citing Python.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Brentwood citing Python

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Brentwood 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) GCP
1 3 (60.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Bluetooth
1 2 (40.00%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
1 3 (60.00%) IntelliJ
1 3 (60.00%) JUnit
1 3 (60.00%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Electronics
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) GCP Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) GCP Software Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Hardware Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Java Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Node.js
1 3 (60.00%) Spring
1 3 (60.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Application Security
2 3 (60.00%) Architectural Design
2 3 (60.00%) BDD
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Code Quality
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (60.00%) Open Source
2 3 (60.00%) Process Improvement
2 3 (60.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 3 (60.00%) Security Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 3 (60.00%) TDD
3 2 (40.00%) AI
3 2 (40.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Project Management
3 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Go
1 3 (60.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) C
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Checkmarx
1 3 (60.00%) Google