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 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 22 14
Rank change year-on-year -3 -8 +3
Contract jobs citing Python 75 52 83
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 5.53% 7.53% 8.97%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.15% 28.57% 32.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 27 33
10th Percentile £413 £362 £385
25th Percentile £419 £414 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £447 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.86% -18.73% +11.39%
75th Percentile £588 £500 £638
90th Percentile £644 £588 £728
South West median daily rate £534 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +1.67% -8.70% +5.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 6 33
10th Percentile £51.82 £54.35 -
25th Percentile £63.38 £79.77 -
Median hourly rate £67.25 £86.48 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.24% +23.54% +6.70%
75th Percentile £72.00 £95.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £78.68 - £85.00
South West median hourly rate £77.00 £82.96 £70.00
% change year-on-year -7.18% +18.51% -4.11%

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 324 182 258
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 23.88% 26.34% 27.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 104 130
10th Percentile £346 £322 £363
25th Percentile £413 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +9.29%
75th Percentile £588 £500 £579
90th Percentile £638 £588 £653
South West median daily rate £525 £475 £533
% change year-on-year +10.53% -10.88% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 39 76
10th Percentile £61.25 £64.50 £65.00
25th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 -
Median hourly rate £67.75 £68.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.37% -2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £68.75 £71.88 £73.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £79.55 £85.00
South West median hourly rate £67.50 £68.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -0.74% -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 29 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 29 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 (2.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.33%) Apache
2 1 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.33%) Confluence
2 1 (1.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (5.33%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 21 (28.00%) AWS
2 19 (25.33%) Azure
3 18 (24.00%) GCP
4 10 (13.33%) Power Platform
5 8 (10.67%) GitHub
6 5 (6.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 5 (6.67%) Snowflake
7 4 (5.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (5.33%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (5.33%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (5.33%) SaaS
8 3 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (4.00%) dbt
9 2 (2.67%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.67%) Apigee
9 2 (2.67%) Azure AKS
10 1 (1.33%) Google Workspace
10 1 (1.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.00%) DNS
1 6 (8.00%) VPN
2 4 (5.33%) Firewall
3 2 (2.67%) NX-OS
3 2 (2.67%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.67%) tcpdump
4 1 (1.33%) 3GPP
4 1 (1.33%) 4G
4 1 (1.33%) 5G
4 1 (1.33%) 5G NR
4 1 (1.33%) BGP
4 1 (1.33%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (1.33%) LTE
4 1 (1.33%) Microwave Backhaul
4 1 (1.33%) MPLS
4 1 (1.33%) Network Security
4 1 (1.33%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (1.33%) VoLTE
4 1 (1.33%) VXLAN
4 1 (1.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (13.33%) Power BI
2 4 (5.33%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (5.33%) Tableau
3 3 (4.00%) Neo4j
3 3 (4.00%) SQLite
4 2 (2.67%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.67%) Power Query
4 2 (2.67%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.67%) Star Schema
5 1 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.33%) Big Data
5 1 (1.33%) Data Vault
5 1 (1.33%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.33%) Metadata
5 1 (1.33%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.33%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.33%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (18.67%) Git
2 9 (12.00%) Jenkins
3 6 (8.00%) GitLab
4 5 (6.67%) JIRA
5 4 (5.33%) Rational DOORS
5 4 (5.33%) Rational Rhapsody
6 2 (2.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (1.33%) Burp Suite
7 1 (1.33%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.33%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.33%) Gatling
7 1 (1.33%) Gradle
7 1 (1.33%) JUnit
7 1 (1.33%) LoadRunner
7 1 (1.33%) MLflow
7 1 (1.33%) NUnit
7 1 (1.33%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.33%) Selenium
7 1 (1.33%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 18 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (10.67%) Finance
4 5 (6.67%) Aerospace
4 5 (6.67%) Banking
5 4 (5.33%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.67%) Marketing
7 1 (1.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 13 (17.33%) Software Engineer
2 11 (14.67%) Developer
3 9 (12.00%) Data Engineer
3 9 (12.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (10.67%) Senior
5 7 (9.33%) GCP Engineer
5 7 (9.33%) Lead
6 6 (8.00%) Embedded Engineer
6 6 (8.00%) GCP DevOps
6 6 (8.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
7 5 (6.67%) Analyst
7 5 (6.67%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 5 (6.67%) Lead Software Engineer
8 4 (5.33%) Data Analyst
8 4 (5.33%) Python Developer
8 4 (5.33%) Site Engineer
8 4 (5.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 3 (4.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 3 (4.00%) Network Engineer
10 2 (2.67%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (25.33%) Terraform
2 7 (9.33%) REST
3 4 (5.33%) PyTorch
3 4 (5.33%) TensorFlow
4 3 (4.00%) .NET
4 3 (4.00%) FastAPI
4 3 (4.00%) pydantic
4 3 (4.00%) React
4 3 (4.00%) RESTful
5 2 (2.67%) Flask
5 2 (2.67%) GraphQL
5 2 (2.67%) Kafka
5 2 (2.67%) PySpark
5 2 (2.67%) pytest
5 2 (2.67%) scikit-learn
6 1 (1.33%) NETCONF
6 1 (1.33%) Playwright
6 1 (1.33%) Pulumi
6 1 (1.33%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.33%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.33%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.67%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.67%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (1.33%) ASIC
4 1 (1.33%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.33%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.33%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (1.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.33%) PKI
4 1 (1.33%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 18 (24.00%) Linux
2 8 (10.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (5.33%) FreeRTOS
4 3 (4.00%) CentOS
5 1 (1.33%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (1.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (44.00%) CI/CD
2 31 (41.33%) DevOps
3 19 (25.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (22.67%) Software Engineering
5 16 (21.33%) Analytics
6 14 (18.67%) Containerisation
6 14 (18.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (17.33%) Configuration Management
8 12 (16.00%) Agile
8 12 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (14.67%) Data Modelling
9 11 (14.67%) Data Pipeline
9 11 (14.67%) Observability
9 11 (14.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 10 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
11 9 (12.00%) AI
11 9 (12.00%) Machine Learning
11 9 (12.00%) Project Management
11 9 (12.00%) Visualisation
12 8 (10.67%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 20 (26.67%) SQL
2 16 (21.33%) Bash
3 9 (12.00%) C++
4 8 (10.67%) PowerShell
5 7 (9.33%) Ada
6 6 (8.00%) Go
7 5 (6.67%) C
7 5 (6.67%) Java
8 4 (5.33%) R
9 3 (4.00%) C#
9 3 (4.00%) Groovy
10 2 (2.67%) JavaScript
10 2 (2.67%) Shell Script
10 2 (2.67%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (1.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 21 (28.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.33%) AWS Certification
3 4 (5.33%) Degree
4 3 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (4.00%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.67%) CEH
5 2 (2.67%) CISM
5 2 (2.67%) CISSP
6 1 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.33%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.33%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.33%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.33%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.33%) QA
2 3 (4.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.00%) MISRA
2 3 (4.00%) MISRA C
2 3 (4.00%) NCSC
3 2 (2.67%) GDPR
3 2 (2.67%) SLA
4 1 (1.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.33%) PMO
System Software
1 12 (16.00%) Docker
2 2 (2.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.33%) Firmware
3 1 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 19 (25.33%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.67%) Ansible
3 3 (4.00%) Grafana
3 3 (4.00%) Istio
3 3 (4.00%) QRadar
4 2 (2.67%) Puppet
5 1 (1.33%) Argo
5 1 (1.33%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.33%) Kubeflow
5 1 (1.33%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.33%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 6 (8.00%) Databricks
1 6 (8.00%) Dynatrace
1 6 (8.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.67%) Google
3 4 (5.33%) Splunk
4 3 (4.00%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.67%) Cisco
5 2 (2.67%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.33%) ArcSight
6 1 (1.33%) Cribl.io
6 1 (1.33%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.33%) Oracle
6 1 (1.33%) SAP
6 1 (1.33%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.33%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.33%) VMware