Python Contracts in Bristol

Python
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol requiring Python skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Python over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 27 10
Rank change year-on-year +7 -17 +17
Contract jobs citing Python 37 54 124
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 6.89% 5.11% 9.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.14% 21.09% 31.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 21 77
10th Percentile £327 £375 £375
25th Percentile £429 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £523 £569 £656
90th Percentile £603 £625 £713
South West median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 14 33
10th Percentile £75.74 - -
25th Percentile £76.85 £70.00 £60.91
Median hourly rate £78.70 £74.72 £65.61
Median % change year-on-year +5.33% +13.89% +0.93%
75th Percentile £80.83 £85.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £82.11 - £75.00
South West median hourly rate £76.85 £74.44 £65.50
% change year-on-year +3.24% +13.65% +16.44%

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 175 256 396
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 32.59% 24.22% 31.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 140 271
10th Percentile £336 £300 £358
25th Percentile £363 £325 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £524 £541 £588
90th Percentile £621 £639 £675
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 75 64
10th Percentile £61.25 £52.50 £54.13
25th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £60.91
Median hourly rate £66.50 £70.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +6.87% +0.77%
75th Percentile £68.00 - £70.30
90th Percentile £68.75 £85.00 -
South West median hourly rate £67.50 £67.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +0.37% +3.46% +6.12%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Job vacancy trend for Python in Bristol

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python in Bristol.

Daily rate trend for Python in Bristol

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Bristol over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python in Bristol

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python in Bristol.

Hourly rate trend for Python in Bristol

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.41%) Apache
2 1 (2.70%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 15 (40.54%) AWS
2 10 (27.03%) Azure
3 2 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (5.41%) GCP
4 1 (2.70%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (2.70%) GitHub
4 1 (2.70%) IaaS
4 1 (2.70%) Matillion
4 1 (2.70%) PaaS
4 1 (2.70%) SaaS
4 1 (2.70%) Serverless
4 1 (2.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.81%) DNS
2 3 (8.11%) Firewall
3 1 (2.70%) DHCP
3 1 (2.70%) HTTP
3 1 (2.70%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.41%) Redis
2 1 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.70%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.70%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (35.14%) Git
2 7 (18.92%) GitLab
3 6 (16.22%) Jenkins
4 5 (13.51%) Bitbucket
5 2 (5.41%) Subversion
6 1 (2.70%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.70%) JIRA
6 1 (2.70%) MLflow
General
1 5 (13.51%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.81%) Legal
2 4 (10.81%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.70%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 7 (18.92%) Developer
2 5 (13.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (13.51%) Lead
2 5 (13.51%) Senior
3 4 (10.81%) Linux Engineer
3 4 (10.81%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Administrator
4 3 (8.11%) Data Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) DevOps Administrator
4 3 (8.11%) Linux Administrator
4 3 (8.11%) Linux DevOps Administrator
4 3 (8.11%) Linux/Unix DevOps
5 2 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) FPGA Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Analyst
6 1 (2.70%) C# Developer
6 1 (2.70%) Data Analyst
6 1 (2.70%) Linux Specialist
6 1 (2.70%) Python Developer
6 1 (2.70%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (18.92%) FastAPI
1 7 (18.92%) OpenID
2 3 (8.11%) CSS
2 3 (8.11%) PyTorch
3 2 (5.41%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (5.41%) Django
3 2 (5.41%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (5.41%) HTML
3 2 (5.41%) Hugging Face
3 2 (5.41%) Node.js
4 1 (2.70%) Angular 2
4 1 (2.70%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.70%) HTML5
4 1 (2.70%) Kafka
4 1 (2.70%) PySpark
4 1 (2.70%) REST
4 1 (2.70%) Tailwind CSS
4 1 (2.70%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.92%) Onboarding
2 3 (8.11%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (5.41%) Algorithms
3 2 (5.41%) FPGA
3 2 (5.41%) VHDL
4 1 (2.70%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.70%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.70%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 15 (40.54%) Linux
2 2 (5.41%) Windows
3 1 (2.70%) CentOS
3 1 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (45.95%) DevOps
2 15 (40.54%) Containerisation
3 14 (37.84%) CI/CD
4 7 (18.92%) Application Security
4 7 (18.92%) Blue-Green Deployment
4 7 (18.92%) Client Onboarding
4 7 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (18.92%) Task Automation
5 6 (16.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (16.22%) Machine Learning
6 5 (13.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (10.81%) Agile
7 4 (10.81%) Analytics
7 4 (10.81%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (10.81%) High Availability
7 4 (10.81%) LLM
8 3 (8.11%) Artificial Intelligence
8 3 (8.11%) Data Modelling
8 3 (8.11%) Decision-Making
8 3 (8.11%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 10 (27.03%) Bash
2 7 (18.92%) C#
3 5 (13.51%) Perl
3 5 (13.51%) SQL
4 2 (5.41%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.41%) PowerShell
4 2 (5.41%) Ruby
4 2 (5.41%) Tcl
5 1 (2.70%) C++
5 1 (2.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.70%) Fortran
5 1 (2.70%) Java
5 1 (2.70%) MATLAB
5 1 (2.70%) R
5 1 (2.70%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (59.46%) Security Cleared
2 16 (43.24%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.41%) Degree
3 2 (5.41%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.70%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.70%) MCITP
4 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.70%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 16 (43.24%) Docker
2 4 (10.81%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (35.14%) Kubernetes
2 11 (29.73%) Ansible
3 7 (18.92%) MIIS
3 7 (18.92%) Terraform
4 6 (16.22%) Grafana
4 6 (16.22%) Puppet
5 5 (13.51%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.70%) Kibana
6 1 (2.70%) logstash
Vendors
1 8 (21.62%) VMware
2 7 (18.92%) Red Hat
3 4 (10.81%) NetApp
4 3 (8.11%) Microsoft
5 2 (5.41%) NVIDIA
6 1 (2.70%) Databricks
6 1 (2.70%) Foundry
6 1 (2.70%) Google
6 1 (2.70%) Palantir