Python Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Python
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Python skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 18 17
Rank change year-on-year -8 -1 -3
Contract jobs citing Python 69 53 71
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 5.24% 7.76% 7.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.12% 28.96% 26.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 28 25
10th Percentile £413 £330 £375
25th Percentile £417 £414 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £447 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.86% -18.73% +12.82%
75th Percentile £575 £526 £613
90th Percentile £613 £595 £668
South West median daily rate £503 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -8.64% -8.33% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 35
10th Percentile £50.20 £44.61 -
25th Percentile £58.63 £66.53 -
Median hourly rate £66.50 £80.83 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.73% +15.47% +6.70%
75th Percentile £75.50 £85.97 £75.00
90th Percentile £78.88 £91.39 £85.00
South West median hourly rate £72.50 £80.83 £70.00
% change year-on-year -10.31% +15.47% +6.70%

All Programming Languages
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 343 183 265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 26.04% 26.79% 27.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 106 129
10th Percentile £371 £320 £338
25th Percentile £419 £363 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £418 £488
Median % change year-on-year +19.76% -14.36% +8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £497 £575
90th Percentile £629 £588 £665
South West median daily rate £513 £475 £538
% change year-on-year +7.89% -11.63% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 30 87
10th Percentile £53.53 £64.75 £65.00
25th Percentile - £65.00 £66.69
Median hourly rate £65.00 £68.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% -2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £68.00 £68.56 £73.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.37 £80.80
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £68.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -4.41% -2.86% +7.69%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Python job vacancy trend in Bristol

Python
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Python

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Bristol over the 6 months to 1 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Python in Bristol

Python
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Python.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Python

Python
Hourly Rate Histogram in Bristol

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Python in Bristol over the 6 months to 1 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Python in Bristol

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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 2 (2.90%) Apache
1 2 (2.90%) Apache Spark
1 2 (2.90%) Confluence
2 1 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.45%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.90%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 19 (27.54%) AWS
2 17 (24.64%) Azure
3 13 (18.84%) GCP
4 9 (13.04%) Power Platform
5 8 (11.59%) GitHub
6 5 (7.25%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (7.25%) Snowflake
7 4 (5.80%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (5.80%) SaaS
8 3 (4.35%) Amazon S3
8 3 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (4.35%) dbt
8 3 (4.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (2.90%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (2.90%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (2.90%) Apigee
9 2 (2.90%) Azure AKS
9 2 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.80%) DNS
1 4 (5.80%) VPN
2 2 (2.90%) 3GPP
2 2 (2.90%) 4G
2 2 (2.90%) 5G
2 2 (2.90%) 5G NR
2 2 (2.90%) Ethernet
2 2 (2.90%) Firewall
2 2 (2.90%) LTE
2 2 (2.90%) Microwave Backhaul
2 2 (2.90%) MPLS
2 2 (2.90%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (2.90%) VoLTE
2 2 (2.90%) Wireshark
3 1 (1.45%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (13.04%) Power BI
2 4 (5.80%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (5.80%) Tableau
3 3 (4.35%) Neo4j
3 3 (4.35%) SQLite
4 2 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.90%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.90%) Power Query
4 2 (2.90%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.90%) Star Schema
5 1 (1.45%) Big Data
5 1 (1.45%) Data Vault
5 1 (1.45%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.45%) Metadata
5 1 (1.45%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.45%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.45%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 15 (21.74%) Git
2 11 (15.94%) Jenkins
3 5 (7.25%) GitLab
4 3 (4.35%) JIRA
5 2 (2.90%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.90%) SonarQube
5 2 (2.90%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (1.45%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.45%) Burp Suite
6 1 (1.45%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.45%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.45%) Gatling
6 1 (1.45%) Gradle
6 1 (1.45%) JUnit
6 1 (1.45%) LoadRunner
6 1 (1.45%) NUnit
6 1 (1.45%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (1.45%) Rational Rhapsody
6 1 (1.45%) Selenium
6 1 (1.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 17 (24.64%) Social Skills
2 8 (11.59%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (8.70%) Aerospace
4 5 (7.25%) Finance
5 3 (4.35%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.90%) Marketing
7 1 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (17.39%) Software Engineer
2 11 (15.94%) Developer
3 9 (13.04%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (11.59%) Data Engineer
5 7 (10.14%) GCP Engineer
5 7 (10.14%) Lead
6 6 (8.70%) GCP DevOps
6 6 (8.70%) GCP DevOps Engineer
7 5 (7.25%) Embedded Engineer
7 5 (7.25%) Lead Software Engineer
8 4 (5.80%) Analyst
8 4 (5.80%) Data Analyst
8 4 (5.80%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 4 (5.80%) Python Developer
9 3 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
9 3 (4.35%) Data Scientist
9 3 (4.35%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 3 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
9 3 (4.35%) Site Engineer
9 3 (4.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.59%) REST
2 4 (5.80%) PyTorch
2 4 (5.80%) TensorFlow
3 3 (4.35%) .NET
3 3 (4.35%) FastAPI
3 3 (4.35%) pydantic
3 3 (4.35%) React
3 3 (4.35%) RESTful
4 2 (2.90%) Flask
4 2 (2.90%) GraphQL
4 2 (2.90%) Kafka
4 2 (2.90%) Pandas
4 2 (2.90%) PySpark
4 2 (2.90%) pytest
4 2 (2.90%) scikit-learn
5 1 (1.45%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (1.45%) Loki
5 1 (1.45%) ModSecurity
5 1 (1.45%) Next.js
5 1 (1.45%) Quarkus
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.70%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.80%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.90%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.90%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (1.45%) ASIC
4 1 (1.45%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.45%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.45%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.45%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.45%) PKI
4 1 (1.45%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 16 (23.19%) Linux
2 6 (8.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (4.35%) Windows
4 1 (1.45%) CentOS
4 1 (1.45%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (1.45%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (1.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (42.03%) CI/CD
1 29 (42.03%) DevOps
2 16 (23.19%) Analytics
2 16 (23.19%) Containerisation
2 16 (23.19%) Software Engineering
3 14 (20.29%) Agile
3 14 (20.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (18.84%) Continuous Improvement
5 12 (17.39%) Data Pipeline
6 10 (14.49%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (13.04%) Business Intelligence
7 9 (13.04%) Configuration Management
7 9 (13.04%) Data Modelling
7 9 (13.04%) Machine Learning
7 9 (13.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 8 (11.59%) AI
9 7 (10.14%) Root Cause Analysis
9 7 (10.14%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (10.14%) Validation
9 7 (10.14%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 20 (28.99%) SQL
2 17 (24.64%) Bash
3 9 (13.04%) PowerShell
4 6 (8.70%) C
4 6 (8.70%) C++
4 6 (8.70%) Go
5 5 (7.25%) Java
6 4 (5.80%) Ada
6 4 (5.80%) R
7 3 (4.35%) C#
8 2 (2.90%) Groovy
8 2 (2.90%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.90%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (36.23%) Security Cleared
2 21 (30.43%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.80%) Degree
4 3 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (4.35%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.90%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.90%) CEH
5 2 (2.90%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.90%) CISM
5 2 (2.90%) CISSP
6 1 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.45%) CCNP
6 1 (1.45%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.45%) OCA
6 1 (1.45%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.45%) RHCA
6 1 (1.45%) RHCE
6 1 (1.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.80%) Data Quality
1 4 (5.80%) QA
2 2 (2.90%) GDPR
2 2 (2.90%) NCSC
3 1 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.45%) PMO
System Software
1 14 (20.29%) Docker
2 2 (2.90%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.45%) Firmware
3 1 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (26.09%) Kubernetes
2 15 (21.74%) Terraform
3 7 (10.14%) Ansible
4 3 (4.35%) Grafana
5 2 (2.90%) Argo
5 2 (2.90%) Istio
5 2 (2.90%) Progress Chef
5 2 (2.90%) Puppet
5 2 (2.90%) QRadar
6 1 (1.45%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.45%) Kubeflow
6 1 (1.45%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.45%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 6 (8.70%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.25%) Databricks
2 5 (7.25%) Google
3 3 (4.35%) Dynatrace
3 3 (4.35%) Red Hat
3 3 (4.35%) Splunk
4 2 (2.90%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.90%) VMware
5 1 (1.45%) Cisco
5 1 (1.45%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.45%) Oracle
5 1 (1.45%) SAP
5 1 (1.45%) SolarWinds