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 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 18 19
Rank change year-on-year -7 +1 -7
Contract jobs citing Python 72 55 73
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 5.50% 7.93% 7.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.69% 28.95% 25.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 30 29
10th Percentile £398 £337 £375
25th Percentile £415 £418 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £447 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.86% -18.73% +6.02%
75th Percentile £575 £524 £613
90th Percentile £618 £590 £648
South West median daily rate £500 £538 £600
% change year-on-year -6.98% -10.42% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 33
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 £68.00 £80.83 £70.00
% change year-on-year -15.87% +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 348 190 281
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 26.59% 27.38% 27.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 112 141
10th Percentile £368 £321 £338
25th Percentile £418 £363 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £575 £506 £575
90th Percentile £633 £600 £675
South West median daily rate £510 £475 £533
% change year-on-year +7.37% -10.88% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 31 92
10th Percentile £53.53 - £65.00
25th Percentile - £65.00 £65.94
Median hourly rate £65.00 £68.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% -2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £68.00 £68.38 £70.31
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.95
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 25 July 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 25 July 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 3 (4.17%) Apache
1 3 (4.17%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.78%) Confluence
3 1 (1.39%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.78%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 20 (27.78%) AWS
1 20 (27.78%) Azure
2 14 (19.44%) GCP
3 10 (13.89%) Power Platform
4 9 (12.50%) GitHub
5 5 (6.94%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (6.94%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (6.94%) Snowflake
6 4 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (5.56%) SaaS
7 3 (4.17%) Amazon S3
7 3 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (4.17%) dbt
7 3 (4.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (2.78%) Apigee
8 2 (2.78%) Azure AKS
8 2 (2.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.56%) DNS
1 4 (5.56%) VPN
2 2 (2.78%) 3GPP
2 2 (2.78%) 4G
2 2 (2.78%) 5G
2 2 (2.78%) 5G NR
2 2 (2.78%) Ethernet
2 2 (2.78%) Firewall
2 2 (2.78%) LTE
2 2 (2.78%) Microwave Backhaul
2 2 (2.78%) MPLS
2 2 (2.78%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (2.78%) VoLTE
2 2 (2.78%) Wireshark
3 1 (1.39%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (13.89%) Power BI
2 5 (6.94%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (5.56%) Tableau
4 3 (4.17%) Neo4j
4 3 (4.17%) SQLite
5 2 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.78%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.78%) Delta Lake
5 2 (2.78%) Power Query
5 2 (2.78%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.78%) Star Schema
6 1 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.39%) Big Data
6 1 (1.39%) Data Vault
6 1 (1.39%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.39%) Metadata
6 1 (1.39%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.39%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.39%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (22.22%) Git
2 11 (15.28%) Jenkins
3 5 (6.94%) GitLab
4 3 (4.17%) JIRA
5 2 (2.78%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.78%) SonarQube
5 2 (2.78%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (1.39%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.39%) Burp Suite
6 1 (1.39%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.39%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.39%) Gatling
6 1 (1.39%) Gradle
6 1 (1.39%) JUnit
6 1 (1.39%) LoadRunner
6 1 (1.39%) NUnit
6 1 (1.39%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (1.39%) Rational Rhapsody
6 1 (1.39%) Selenium
6 1 (1.39%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 18 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (8.33%) Aerospace
4 5 (6.94%) Finance
5 3 (4.17%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.78%) Marketing
7 1 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.39%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (16.67%) Software Engineer
2 11 (15.28%) Developer
3 9 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 9 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (9.72%) GCP Engineer
4 7 (9.72%) Lead
5 6 (8.33%) GCP DevOps
5 6 (8.33%) GCP DevOps Engineer
6 5 (6.94%) Analyst
6 5 (6.94%) Data Analyst
6 5 (6.94%) Embedded Engineer
6 5 (6.94%) Lead Software Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) Python Developer
8 3 (4.17%) Data Scientist
8 3 (4.17%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) Site Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.11%) REST
2 4 (5.56%) PyTorch
2 4 (5.56%) TensorFlow
3 3 (4.17%) .NET
3 3 (4.17%) FastAPI
3 3 (4.17%) Kafka
3 3 (4.17%) pydantic
3 3 (4.17%) React
3 3 (4.17%) RESTful
4 2 (2.78%) Flask
4 2 (2.78%) GraphQL
4 2 (2.78%) Pandas
4 2 (2.78%) PySpark
4 2 (2.78%) pytest
4 2 (2.78%) scikit-learn
5 1 (1.39%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.39%) Loki
5 1 (1.39%) ModSecurity
5 1 (1.39%) Next.js
5 1 (1.39%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.78%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.78%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (1.39%) ASIC
4 1 (1.39%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.39%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.39%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.39%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.39%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.39%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.39%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 16 (22.22%) Linux
2 6 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (4.17%) Windows
4 1 (1.39%) CentOS
4 1 (1.39%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (1.39%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (1.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (43.06%) DevOps
2 30 (41.67%) CI/CD
3 19 (26.39%) Analytics
4 17 (23.61%) Software Engineering
5 16 (22.22%) Agile
5 16 (22.22%) Containerisation
6 15 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
6 15 (20.83%) Infrastructure as Code
7 14 (19.44%) Data Pipeline
8 11 (15.28%) Business Intelligence
8 11 (15.28%) Data Modelling
8 11 (15.28%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (12.50%) AI
9 9 (12.50%) Configuration Management
9 9 (12.50%) Data Engineering
9 9 (12.50%) Decision-Making
9 9 (12.50%) Machine Learning
9 9 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 8 (11.11%) Validation
11 7 (9.72%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (31.94%) SQL
2 17 (23.61%) Bash
3 9 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 6 (8.33%) C
4 6 (8.33%) C++
4 6 (8.33%) Go
5 5 (6.94%) Java
6 4 (5.56%) Ada
6 4 (5.56%) R
7 3 (4.17%) C#
8 2 (2.78%) Groovy
8 2 (2.78%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.78%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.39%) Scala
9 1 (1.39%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (34.72%) Security Cleared
2 21 (29.17%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.94%) Degree
4 3 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (4.17%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.78%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.78%) CEH
5 2 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.78%) CISM
5 2 (2.78%) CISSP
6 1 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.39%) CCNP
6 1 (1.39%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.39%) OCA
6 1 (1.39%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.39%) RHCA
6 1 (1.39%) RHCE
6 1 (1.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.56%) Data Quality
1 4 (5.56%) GDPR
1 4 (5.56%) QA
2 2 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.78%) NCSC
3 1 (1.39%) PMO
System Software
1 14 (19.44%) Docker
2 2 (2.78%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.39%) Firmware
3 1 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.39%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 16 (22.22%) Terraform
3 7 (9.72%) Ansible
4 3 (4.17%) Grafana
5 2 (2.78%) Argo
5 2 (2.78%) Istio
5 2 (2.78%) Progress Chef
5 2 (2.78%) Puppet
5 2 (2.78%) QRadar
6 1 (1.39%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.39%) Kubeflow
6 1 (1.39%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.39%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 7 (9.72%) Databricks
2 6 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.94%) Google
4 3 (4.17%) Dynatrace
4 3 (4.17%) Red Hat
4 3 (4.17%) Splunk
5 2 (2.78%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.78%) VMware
6 1 (1.39%) Cisco
6 1 (1.39%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.39%) Oracle
6 1 (1.39%) SAP
6 1 (1.39%) SolarWinds