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 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 24 14
Rank change year-on-year -2 -10 +8
Contract jobs citing Python 73 51 94
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 5.41% 6.94% 10.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.05% 26.98% 34.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 28 33
10th Percentile £413 £375 £381
25th Percentile £444 £422 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £512 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% -7.00% +10.00%
75th Percentile £609 £588 £638
90th Percentile £690 £649 £728
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.37% +7.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 34
10th Percentile £41.13 £46.50 £67.38
25th Percentile £54.08 £71.25 -
Median hourly rate £66.50 £90.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.11% +28.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £68.50 £95.00 £74.44
90th Percentile £70.00 - £85.00
South West median hourly rate £67.25 £90.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -25.28% +28.57% -

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 331 189 273
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 24.54% 25.71% 30.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 106 124
10th Percentile £396 £328 £366
25th Percentile £450 £400 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £575
90th Percentile £675 £625 £675
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 46 74
10th Percentile £55.75 £63.75 £65.00
25th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £66.25
Median hourly rate £66.50 £67.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% -3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £69.38 £69.69 -
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £85.00
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £67.75 £70.00
% change year-on-year -4.06% -3.21% +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 4 October 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 4 October 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 (2.74%) Apache
1 2 (2.74%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (2.74%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.37%) Confluence
2 1 (1.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (8.22%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.37%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 26 (35.62%) GCP
2 20 (27.40%) AWS
3 13 (17.81%) Azure
4 12 (16.44%) dbt
5 9 (12.33%) GitHub
5 9 (12.33%) Power Platform
6 6 (8.22%) Snowflake
7 5 (6.85%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (6.85%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (6.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 3 (4.11%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (4.11%) Amazon S3
8 3 (4.11%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (4.11%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (4.11%) Power Automate
8 3 (4.11%) SaaS
9 2 (2.74%) AWS CodePipeline
9 2 (2.74%) Azure AKS
9 2 (2.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (2.74%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.85%) DNS
1 5 (6.85%) VPN
2 3 (4.11%) Firewall
3 2 (2.74%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.74%) tcpdump
4 1 (1.37%) BGP
4 1 (1.37%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (1.37%) Network Security
4 1 (1.37%) NX-OS
4 1 (1.37%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.33%) Power BI
2 5 (6.85%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (4.11%) SQLite
3 3 (4.11%) Tableau
4 2 (2.74%) Amazon QuickSight
4 2 (2.74%) Metadata
4 2 (2.74%) MySQL
4 2 (2.74%) Power Query
5 1 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.37%) Big Data
5 1 (1.37%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.37%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.37%) Data Vault
5 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.37%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.37%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.37%) Parquet
5 1 (1.37%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.37%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (15.07%) Git
2 10 (13.70%) JIRA
3 6 (8.22%) GitLab
3 6 (8.22%) Jenkins
3 6 (8.22%) Rational DOORS
3 6 (8.22%) Rational Rhapsody
4 1 (1.37%) Burp Suite
4 1 (1.37%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.37%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.37%) Gatling
4 1 (1.37%) Gradle
4 1 (1.37%) LoadRunner
4 1 (1.37%) REST Assured
4 1 (1.37%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.37%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (21.92%) Social Skills
2 8 (10.96%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (9.59%) Finance
4 6 (8.22%) Banking
4 6 (8.22%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.74%) Aerospace
5 2 (2.74%) Law
5 2 (2.74%) Marketing
6 1 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (23.29%) Data Engineer
2 13 (17.81%) GCP Engineer
3 12 (16.44%) Developer
4 8 (10.96%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (10.96%) Senior
5 7 (9.59%) GCP Data Engineer
5 7 (9.59%) Python Developer
5 7 (9.59%) Software Engineer
6 6 (8.22%) Embedded Engineer
6 6 (8.22%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 5 (6.85%) Analyst
7 5 (6.85%) GCP DevOps
7 5 (6.85%) GCP DevOps Engineer
8 4 (5.48%) Site Engineer
8 4 (5.48%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 3 (4.11%) Data Analyst
9 3 (4.11%) Senior Developer
10 2 (2.74%) Network Engineer
10 2 (2.74%) Platform Engineer
10 2 (2.74%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (30.14%) Terraform
2 6 (8.22%) REST
3 5 (6.85%) FastAPI
4 4 (5.48%) AWS CDK
5 3 (4.11%) pydantic
5 3 (4.11%) PyTorch
5 3 (4.11%) TensorFlow
6 2 (2.74%) Django
6 2 (2.74%) Kafka
6 2 (2.74%) Pandas
6 2 (2.74%) RESTful
6 2 (2.74%) SQLAlchemy
7 1 (1.37%) ActiveMQ
7 1 (1.37%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.37%) JSON
7 1 (1.37%) Middleware
7 1 (1.37%) Node.js
7 1 (1.37%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.37%) Spring
7 1 (1.37%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.22%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.48%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.74%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.74%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.37%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.37%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.37%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.37%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (1.37%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.37%) PKI
4 1 (1.37%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.37%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (1.37%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (21.92%) Linux
2 6 (8.22%) FreeRTOS
3 3 (4.11%) CentOS
3 3 (4.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.74%) Unix
5 1 (1.37%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (47.95%) DevOps
2 26 (35.62%) CI/CD
3 22 (30.14%) Data Modelling
4 20 (27.40%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (21.92%) Validation
6 15 (20.55%) AI
6 15 (20.55%) Data Engineering
7 13 (17.81%) Agile
7 13 (17.81%) Configuration Management
8 12 (16.44%) Analytics
8 12 (16.44%) Software Engineering
9 11 (15.07%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (15.07%) Observability
9 11 (15.07%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (15.07%) Project Management
10 10 (13.70%) Data Pipeline
10 10 (13.70%) Integration Testing
10 10 (13.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 9 (12.33%) Multithreading
11 9 (12.33%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 23 (31.51%) SQL
2 15 (20.55%) Bash
3 11 (15.07%) C++
4 9 (12.33%) Ada
5 7 (9.59%) PowerShell
6 6 (8.22%) Java
7 5 (6.85%) Go
8 4 (5.48%) C
8 4 (5.48%) Shell Script
9 3 (4.11%) Groovy
9 3 (4.11%) JavaScript
10 2 (2.74%) R
11 1 (1.37%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (24.66%) Security Cleared
2 15 (20.55%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.48%) AWS Certification
3 4 (5.48%) Degree
4 3 (4.11%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.37%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.37%) CEH
5 1 (1.37%) CISM
5 1 (1.37%) CISSP
5 1 (1.37%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.37%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (13.70%) QA
2 4 (5.48%) MISRA
2 4 (5.48%) MISRA C
3 3 (4.11%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.74%) GDPR
4 2 (2.74%) PMO
4 2 (2.74%) SLA
5 1 (1.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.37%) NCSC
System Software
1 7 (9.59%) Docker
2 1 (1.37%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (20.55%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.85%) Ansible
3 3 (4.11%) Grafana
3 3 (4.11%) Istio
4 2 (2.74%) Puppet
4 2 (2.74%) QRadar
5 1 (1.37%) Argo
5 1 (1.37%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.37%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 12 (16.44%) Google
2 6 (8.22%) Dynatrace
3 4 (5.48%) Databricks
3 4 (5.48%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.11%) Splunk
5 2 (2.74%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.74%) SAP
6 1 (1.37%) ArcSight
6 1 (1.37%) Cisco
6 1 (1.37%) Cribl.io
6 1 (1.37%) Oracle
6 1 (1.37%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.37%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.37%) SolarWinds