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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 19 24
Rank change year-on-year -6 +5 -14
Contract jobs citing Python 75 41 62
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 5.85% 7.14% 5.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.07% 22.91% 22.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 28 25
10th Percentile £288 £382 £270
25th Percentile £413 £423 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £447 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.86% -14.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £567 £523 £575
90th Percentile £630 £599 £620
South West median daily rate £500 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +0.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 19
10th Percentile £26.25 £79.55 £69.25
25th Percentile £61.00 £80.83 -
Median hourly rate £66.50 £82.96 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.84% +18.51% +6.87%
75th Percentile £78.38 £88.98 £81.25
90th Percentile £80.00 £92.59 £85.00
South West median hourly rate £62.00 £82.96 £70.00
% change year-on-year -25.27% +18.51% +6.87%

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 356 179 278
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 27.75% 31.18% 26.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 104 155
10th Percentile £363 £344 £305
25th Percentile £413 £375 £348
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £430 £450
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% -4.44% -3.74%
75th Percentile £538 £523 £550
90th Percentile £638 £623 £633
South West median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 162 35 85
10th Percentile £60.00 £61.55 £52.50
25th Percentile - £65.00 £65.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% +6.87%
75th Percentile £68.00 £68.00 -
90th Percentile £68.75 £69.50 £82.20
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £67.50
% change year-on-year -3.70% - +3.85%

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 22 May 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 22 May 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 6 (8.00%) Apache
2 4 (5.33%) Apache Spark
3 3 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (4.00%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.67%) LaTeX
2 2 (2.67%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 19 (25.33%) Azure
2 16 (21.33%) AWS
3 14 (18.67%) GCP
4 12 (16.00%) GitHub
5 9 (12.00%) Power Platform
6 6 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (8.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (5.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 4 (5.33%) SaaS
8 3 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (2.67%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (2.67%) Apigee
9 2 (2.67%) AWS CodePipeline
9 2 (2.67%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (2.67%) Azure AKS
9 2 (2.67%) Serverless
10 1 (1.33%) Figma
10 1 (1.33%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.00%) DNS
2 4 (5.33%) Ethernet
2 4 (5.33%) VPN
3 2 (2.67%) 3GPP
3 2 (2.67%) 4G
3 2 (2.67%) 5G
3 2 (2.67%) 5G NR
3 2 (2.67%) Firewall
3 2 (2.67%) LTE
3 2 (2.67%) Microwave Backhaul
3 2 (2.67%) MPLS
3 2 (2.67%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (2.67%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (2.67%) VoLTE
3 2 (2.67%) Wireshark
4 1 (1.33%) NX-OS
4 1 (1.33%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.67%) Power BI
2 5 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (4.00%) Delta Lake
3 3 (4.00%) Neo4j
4 2 (2.67%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (2.67%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.67%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.67%) Star Schema
4 2 (2.67%) Tableau
5 1 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.33%) Big Data
5 1 (1.33%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.33%) Data Vault
5 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.33%) Metadata
5 1 (1.33%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.33%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 19 (25.33%) Git
2 12 (16.00%) Jenkins
3 6 (8.00%) GitLab
4 3 (4.00%) Artifactory
5 2 (2.67%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.67%) JIRA
5 2 (2.67%) SonarQube
5 2 (2.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (1.33%) Burp Suite
6 1 (1.33%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.33%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.33%) Gatling
6 1 (1.33%) Gradle
6 1 (1.33%) JUnit
6 1 (1.33%) LoadRunner
6 1 (1.33%) MLflow
6 1 (1.33%) NUnit
6 1 (1.33%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.33%) Selenium
6 1 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (21.33%) Social Skills
2 8 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (6.67%) Aerospace
4 3 (4.00%) Finance
4 3 (4.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.67%) Marketing
6 1 (1.33%) Billing
6 1 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.33%) Legal
6 1 (1.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 13 (17.33%) Software Engineer
2 12 (16.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 10 (13.33%) Developer
4 9 (12.00%) Data Engineer
5 8 (10.67%) GCP Engineer
6 6 (8.00%) GCP DevOps
6 6 (8.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
6 6 (8.00%) Lead
7 5 (6.67%) Embedded Engineer
7 5 (6.67%) Lead Software Engineer
7 5 (6.67%) Senior
8 4 (5.33%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (5.33%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 4 (5.33%) SOC Engineer
9 3 (4.00%) Analyst
9 3 (4.00%) Data Scientist
9 3 (4.00%) Python Developer
9 3 (4.00%) Senior Software Engineer
9 3 (4.00%) Validation Engineer
10 2 (2.67%) Transmission Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.33%) REST
2 5 (6.67%) .NET
2 5 (6.67%) React
3 3 (4.00%) Apache NiFi
3 3 (4.00%) Kafka
3 3 (4.00%) Pandas
3 3 (4.00%) PyTorch
3 3 (4.00%) TensorFlow
4 2 (2.67%) Flask
4 2 (2.67%) GraphQL
4 2 (2.67%) Next.js
4 2 (2.67%) PySpark
4 2 (2.67%) pytest
4 2 (2.67%) RESTful
5 1 (1.33%) Jinja
5 1 (1.33%) Node.js
5 1 (1.33%) NumPy
5 1 (1.33%) OLE
5 1 (1.33%) SOAP
5 1 (1.33%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.67%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.00%) PCIe
2 3 (4.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.67%) Algorithms
3 2 (2.67%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.67%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (2.67%) FPGA
3 2 (2.67%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (1.33%) ASIC
4 1 (1.33%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.33%) Device Driver
4 1 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.33%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.33%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 16 (21.33%) Linux
2 5 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (5.33%) Windows
4 1 (1.33%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (1.33%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (1.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (42.67%) CI/CD
2 27 (36.00%) DevOps
3 18 (24.00%) Analytics
4 17 (22.67%) Software Engineering
5 15 (20.00%) AI
6 14 (18.67%) Agile
6 14 (18.67%) Containerisation
6 14 (18.67%) Data Pipeline
6 14 (18.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 13 (17.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (16.00%) Decision-Making
8 12 (16.00%) Mentoring
8 12 (16.00%) Validation
9 11 (14.67%) Data Engineering
9 11 (14.67%) Data Modelling
9 11 (14.67%) Machine Learning
10 10 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
10 10 (13.33%) Data Science
10 10 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (10.67%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (32.00%) SQL
2 12 (16.00%) Bash
3 9 (12.00%) C
3 9 (12.00%) PowerShell
4 6 (8.00%) C++
5 5 (6.67%) C#
5 5 (6.67%) Go
5 5 (6.67%) R
6 4 (5.33%) Ada
6 4 (5.33%) Java
7 3 (4.00%) Embedded C
7 3 (4.00%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (2.67%) Groovy
8 2 (2.67%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.67%) MATLAB
8 2 (2.67%) Ruby
8 2 (2.67%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.33%) PHP
9 1 (1.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 24 (32.00%) Security Cleared
2 19 (25.33%) SC Cleared
3 7 (9.33%) Degree
4 5 (6.67%) DV Cleared
5 4 (5.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.67%) CCNP
7 2 (2.67%) CEH
7 2 (2.67%) CISM
7 2 (2.67%) CISSP
8 1 (1.33%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.33%) ISTQB
8 1 (1.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (1.33%) JNCIA
8 1 (1.33%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.33%) OCA
8 1 (1.33%) RHCA
8 1 (1.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.00%) GDPR
1 6 (8.00%) QA
2 3 (4.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 10 (13.33%) Docker
2 3 (4.00%) Firmware
3 2 (2.67%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.33%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 21 (28.00%) Kubernetes
2 17 (22.67%) Terraform
3 9 (12.00%) Ansible
4 2 (2.67%) Istio
4 2 (2.67%) Progress Chef
4 2 (2.67%) Puppet
4 2 (2.67%) QRadar
5 1 (1.33%) Argo
5 1 (1.33%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.33%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 8 (10.67%) Databricks
2 5 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.67%) Red Hat
3 3 (4.00%) Dynatrace
3 3 (4.00%) Google
4 2 (2.67%) Cisco
4 2 (2.67%) Splunk
4 2 (2.67%) VMware
5 1 (1.33%) Fortinet