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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 15 23
Rank change year-on-year -4 +8 -9
Contract jobs citing Python 63 59 62
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 7.57% 8.37% 6.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.90% 28.78% 23.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 27 35
10th Percentile £363 £440 £409
25th Percentile £463 £488 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.87% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £594 £638 £610
90th Percentile £668 £780 £683
South West median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 12 10
10th Percentile £44.00 £61.25 £64.75
25th Percentile £65.00 £61.81 -
Median hourly rate £83.00 £72.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.28% +10.77% -0.92%
75th Percentile £95.00 £74.58 £70.00
90th Percentile - £75.00 -
South West median hourly rate £67.35 £70.00 £69.62
% change year-on-year -3.79% +0.55% +6.12%

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 218 205 263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 26.20% 29.08% 26.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 87 173
10th Percentile £258 £360 £313
25th Percentile £400 £419 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £600
90th Percentile £625 £680 £688
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £548
% change year-on-year - -4.11% +2.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 52 38
10th Percentile £61.25 £61.25 £59.75
25th Percentile - £62.38 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.76%
75th Percentile £67.25 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £73.60 -
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £65.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year -1.14% +1.15% -

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 20 December 2025.

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 20 December 2025.

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 12 (19.05%) Apache
2 6 (9.52%) Oracle Application Server
3 3 (4.76%) Apache Spark
4 2 (3.17%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (1.59%) NASTRAN
1 1 (1.59%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.59%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (1.59%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 25 (39.68%) AWS
2 21 (33.33%) Azure
3 18 (28.57%) GCP
4 15 (23.81%) Power Platform
5 11 (17.46%) GitHub
6 6 (9.52%) Snowflake
7 5 (7.94%) Microsoft Copilot
8 4 (6.35%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (6.35%) OpenShift
9 3 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (4.76%) Entra ID
9 3 (4.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (3.17%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (3.17%) AWS CodePipeline
10 2 (3.17%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (3.17%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (3.17%) Serverless
11 1 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (1.59%) Boomi
11 1 (1.59%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.76%) 2G
1 3 (4.76%) 5G
1 3 (4.76%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (3.17%) 4G
2 2 (3.17%) DNS
2 2 (3.17%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (1.59%) BGP
3 1 (1.59%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (1.59%) LAN
3 1 (1.59%) OSPF
3 1 (1.59%) TACACS
3 1 (1.59%) VXLAN
3 1 (1.59%) WAN
3 1 (1.59%) Wireless
3 1 (1.59%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (22.22%) Power BI
2 11 (17.46%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (9.52%) Big Data
4 6 (9.52%) BigQuery
4 6 (9.52%) Oracle ODI
4 6 (9.52%) Oracle Reports
4 6 (9.52%) Star Schema
5 3 (4.76%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.17%) ClickHouse
6 2 (3.17%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.17%) MySQL
6 2 (3.17%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.59%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.59%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 9 (14.29%) Git
1 9 (14.29%) GitLab
2 8 (12.70%) Artifactory
3 6 (9.52%) DBeaver
4 4 (6.35%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.59%) CMake
5 1 (1.59%) Gradle
5 1 (1.59%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (1.59%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 13 (20.63%) Social Skills
2 12 (19.05%) Finance
3 11 (17.46%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 6 (9.52%) Telecoms
6 5 (7.94%) Aerospace
6 5 (7.94%) Banking
7 3 (4.76%) Manufacturing
8 2 (3.17%) Publishing
8 2 (3.17%) Tech for Good
9 1 (1.59%) Electronics
9 1 (1.59%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.59%) French Language
9 1 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.59%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 14 (22.22%) Data Engineer
2 11 (17.46%) DevOps Engineer
3 10 (15.87%) Developer
3 10 (15.87%) Senior
4 6 (9.52%) Quality Engineer
5 5 (7.94%) Analytics Manager
5 5 (7.94%) Business Intelligence Manager
5 5 (7.94%) Senior Analytics Manager
5 5 (7.94%) Senior Manager
6 4 (6.35%) Software Engineer
6 4 (6.35%) Tester
7 3 (4.76%) Architect
7 3 (4.76%) ETL Tester
7 3 (4.76%) ForgeRock Developer
7 3 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (4.76%) GCP Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Network Engineer
8 2 (3.17%) Lead
8 2 (3.17%) Power BI Analyst
8 2 (3.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (15.87%) REST
2 9 (14.29%) Apache NiFi
3 6 (9.52%) Node.js
3 6 (9.52%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 5 (7.94%) React
4 5 (7.94%) RESTful
5 4 (6.35%) AngularJS
5 4 (6.35%) OAuth
5 4 (6.35%) OAuth2
6 3 (4.76%) CSS
6 3 (4.76%) HTML
6 3 (4.76%) OpenID
6 3 (4.76%) Ruby on Rails
6 3 (4.76%) SAML
6 3 (4.76%) Spring
6 3 (4.76%) Vue
7 2 (3.17%) .NET
7 2 (3.17%) Kafka
7 2 (3.17%) PySpark
7 2 (3.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.52%) Cloud Native
1 6 (9.52%) Replication
2 5 (7.94%) Onboarding
3 4 (6.35%) IoT
4 2 (3.17%) FPGA
4 2 (3.17%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.17%) NB-IoT
4 2 (3.17%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.17%) Verilog
4 2 (3.17%) VHDL
5 1 (1.59%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.59%) CUDA
5 1 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.59%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.59%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.59%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.59%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.70%) Windows
2 3 (4.76%) Linux
3 1 (1.59%) Android
3 1 (1.59%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 22 (34.92%) DevOps
3 20 (31.75%) Analytics
4 17 (26.98%) Agile
4 17 (26.98%) Business Intelligence
5 14 (22.22%) ETL
6 12 (19.05%) Software Engineering
7 10 (15.87%) AI
8 9 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (14.29%) User Experience
8 9 (14.29%) Workflow
9 8 (12.70%) Change Management
9 8 (12.70%) Computer Science
9 8 (12.70%) Mentoring
10 7 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (11.11%) Data Science
10 7 (11.11%) Decision-Making
10 7 (11.11%) Dimensional Modelling
10 7 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (11.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 23 (36.51%) SQL
2 14 (22.22%) PowerShell
3 8 (12.70%) TypeScript
4 7 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 5 (7.94%) C#
5 5 (7.94%) Java
5 5 (7.94%) Ruby
6 4 (6.35%) C++
7 3 (4.76%) C
8 2 (3.17%) Bash
8 2 (3.17%) VBA
9 1 (1.59%) Embedded C++
9 1 (1.59%) Go
9 1 (1.59%) MATLAB
9 1 (1.59%) Objective-C
9 1 (1.59%) Perl
9 1 (1.59%) R
9 1 (1.59%) SAPscript
9 1 (1.59%) Swift
9 1 (1.59%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 22 (34.92%) Security Cleared
2 10 (15.87%) DV Cleared
2 10 (15.87%) SC Cleared
3 8 (12.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (12.70%) Degree
4 3 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.59%) CCNP
5 1 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.59%) GIAC
5 1 (1.59%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.29%) QA
2 8 (12.70%) GDPR
3 7 (11.11%) Data Quality
4 3 (4.76%) PSD2
4 3 (4.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.59%) SLA
5 1 (1.59%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 9 (14.29%) Docker
2 2 (3.17%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (30.16%) Kubernetes
1 19 (30.16%) Terraform
2 11 (17.46%) Ansible
3 3 (4.76%) Argo
3 3 (4.76%) Grafana
3 3 (4.76%) Prometheus
3 3 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (3.17%) Istio
5 1 (1.59%) Kibana
5 1 (1.59%) logstash
Vendors
1 11 (17.46%) Microsoft
1 11 (17.46%) Red Hat
2 10 (15.87%) Google
3 7 (11.11%) Oracle
4 5 (7.94%) Databricks
5 3 (4.76%) ForgeRock
5 3 (4.76%) Ping Identity
6 2 (3.17%) BMC
6 2 (3.17%) Cisco
6 2 (3.17%) Remedy
6 2 (3.17%) SAP
7 1 (1.59%) Aruba
7 1 (1.59%) Cognos
7 1 (1.59%) Dell
7 1 (1.59%) IBM
7 1 (1.59%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (1.59%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.59%) NVIDIA
7 1 (1.59%) SolarWinds