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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 18 26
Rank change year-on-year -1 +8 -12
Contract jobs citing Python 62 53 54
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 7.35% 8.03% 5.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.07% 27.18% 21.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 24 31
10th Percentile £375 £440 £406
25th Percentile £463 £469 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £563 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.07% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £567 £659 £610
90th Percentile £661 £784 £688
South West median daily rate £550 £605 £600
% change year-on-year -9.09% +0.83% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 10
10th Percentile £44.00 - £64.75
25th Percentile £65.00 £61.25 -
Median hourly rate £83.00 £64.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.69% -1.54% -0.92%
75th Percentile £95.00 £74.44 £70.00
90th Percentile - £75.00 -
South West median hourly rate £58.11 £65.00 £69.62
% change year-on-year -10.61% -6.64% +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 229 195 254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 27.13% 29.55% 26.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 84 172
10th Percentile £259 £354 £313
25th Percentile £412 £411 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £591
90th Percentile £647 £687 £687
South West median daily rate £525 £539 £550
% change year-on-year -2.55% -2.05% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 46 39
10th Percentile £61.25 £61.25 £56.00
25th Percentile - £62.00 £63.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.76%
75th Percentile - £68.56 £70.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 -
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 4 January 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 January 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 12 (19.35%) Apache
2 5 (8.06%) Oracle Application Server
3 3 (4.84%) Apache Spark
4 2 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (3.23%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (3.23%) LaTeX
2 1 (1.61%) NASTRAN
2 1 (1.61%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.61%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 24 (38.71%) AWS
2 19 (30.65%) Azure
3 18 (29.03%) GCP
4 13 (20.97%) Power Platform
5 10 (16.13%) GitHub
6 5 (8.06%) Microsoft Copilot
6 5 (8.06%) Snowflake
7 4 (6.45%) OpenShift
8 3 (4.84%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (4.84%) Entra ID
8 3 (4.84%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (4.84%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (3.23%) AWS CodePipeline
9 2 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (3.23%) Serverless
10 1 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.61%) Datadog
10 1 (1.61%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.84%) 2G
1 3 (4.84%) 5G
1 3 (4.84%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (3.23%) 4G
2 2 (3.23%) DNS
2 2 (3.23%) Ethernet
2 2 (3.23%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (1.61%) BGP
3 1 (1.61%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (1.61%) LAN
3 1 (1.61%) OSPF
3 1 (1.61%) TACACS
3 1 (1.61%) VXLAN
3 1 (1.61%) WAN
3 1 (1.61%) Wireless
3 1 (1.61%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (19.35%) Power BI
2 10 (16.13%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (9.68%) Big Data
3 6 (9.68%) BigQuery
3 6 (9.68%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (8.06%) Oracle ODI
4 5 (8.06%) Oracle Reports
4 5 (8.06%) Star Schema
5 3 (4.84%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.23%) ClickHouse
6 2 (3.23%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.23%) MySQL
6 2 (3.23%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.61%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.61%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 9 (14.52%) Git
1 9 (14.52%) GitLab
2 8 (12.90%) Artifactory
3 5 (8.06%) DBeaver
4 4 (6.45%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.61%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 13 (20.97%) Social Skills
2 12 (19.35%) Finance
3 9 (14.52%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (9.68%) Telecoms
5 5 (8.06%) Aerospace
5 5 (8.06%) Banking
5 5 (8.06%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.84%) Manufacturing
7 2 (3.23%) Publishing
7 2 (3.23%) Tech for Good
8 1 (1.61%) Electronics
8 1 (1.61%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.61%) French Language
8 1 (1.61%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 12 (19.35%) Data Engineer
2 10 (16.13%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (16.13%) Senior
3 9 (14.52%) Developer
4 5 (8.06%) Analytics Manager
4 5 (8.06%) Business Intelligence Manager
4 5 (8.06%) Quality Engineer
4 5 (8.06%) Senior Analytics Manager
4 5 (8.06%) Senior Manager
5 4 (6.45%) Software Engineer
5 4 (6.45%) Tester
6 3 (4.84%) ETL Tester
6 3 (4.84%) ForgeRock Developer
6 3 (4.84%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (4.84%) GCP Engineer
6 3 (4.84%) Network Engineer
6 3 (4.84%) Validation Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) Power BI Analyst
7 2 (3.23%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.13%) REST
2 9 (14.52%) Apache NiFi
3 6 (9.68%) Node.js
4 5 (8.06%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 5 (8.06%) React
4 5 (8.06%) RESTful
5 4 (6.45%) AngularJS
5 4 (6.45%) OAuth
5 4 (6.45%) OAuth2
6 3 (4.84%) CSS
6 3 (4.84%) HTML
6 3 (4.84%) OpenID
6 3 (4.84%) Ruby on Rails
6 3 (4.84%) SAML
6 3 (4.84%) Spring
6 3 (4.84%) Vue
7 2 (3.23%) .NET
7 2 (3.23%) Kafka
7 2 (3.23%) XML
8 1 (1.61%) D3.js
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.90%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.06%) Onboarding
2 5 (8.06%) Replication
3 4 (6.45%) FPGA
3 4 (6.45%) IoT
4 3 (4.84%) Algorithms
4 3 (4.84%) PCIe
5 2 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (3.23%) NB-IoT
5 2 (3.23%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.23%) Verilog
5 2 (3.23%) VHDL
6 1 (1.61%) CUDA
6 1 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.61%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.61%) Device Driver
6 1 (1.61%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 1 (1.61%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.90%) Windows
2 3 (4.84%) Linux
3 1 (1.61%) Android
3 1 (1.61%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (41.94%) CI/CD
2 21 (33.87%) DevOps
3 19 (30.65%) Analytics
4 15 (24.19%) Agile
4 15 (24.19%) Business Intelligence
5 12 (19.35%) ETL
6 11 (17.74%) AI
6 11 (17.74%) Software Engineering
7 10 (16.13%) Mentoring
8 9 (14.52%) Data Science
8 9 (14.52%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (14.52%) Validation
8 9 (14.52%) Workflow
9 8 (12.90%) Change Management
9 8 (12.90%) Computer Science
9 8 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (12.90%) User Experience
10 7 (11.29%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (11.29%) Decision-Making
11 6 (9.68%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 22 (35.48%) SQL
2 13 (20.97%) PowerShell
3 8 (12.90%) TypeScript
4 7 (11.29%) JavaScript
5 5 (8.06%) C
5 5 (8.06%) C#
5 5 (8.06%) Java
5 5 (8.06%) Ruby
6 3 (4.84%) C++
6 3 (4.84%) Embedded C
6 3 (4.84%) MATLAB
7 2 (3.23%) Bash
7 2 (3.23%) VBA
8 1 (1.61%) Embedded C++
8 1 (1.61%) Go
8 1 (1.61%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.61%) Perl
8 1 (1.61%) R
8 1 (1.61%) Swift
8 1 (1.61%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 20 (32.26%) Security Cleared
2 9 (14.52%) DV Cleared
2 9 (14.52%) SC Cleared
3 8 (12.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (12.90%) Degree
4 3 (4.84%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.61%) CCNP
5 1 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.61%) GIAC
5 1 (1.61%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.52%) QA
2 8 (12.90%) GDPR
3 6 (9.68%) Data Quality
4 3 (4.84%) PSD2
4 3 (4.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.61%) SLA
5 1 (1.61%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 8 (12.90%) Docker
2 2 (3.23%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.23%) Firmware
2 2 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (29.03%) Terraform
2 17 (27.42%) Kubernetes
3 11 (17.74%) Ansible
4 3 (4.84%) Argo
4 3 (4.84%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (3.23%) Grafana
5 2 (3.23%) Istio
5 2 (3.23%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.61%) Kibana
6 1 (1.61%) logstash
Vendors
1 11 (17.74%) Red Hat
2 10 (16.13%) Google
2 10 (16.13%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.06%) Oracle
4 4 (6.45%) Databricks
5 3 (4.84%) ForgeRock
5 3 (4.84%) Ping Identity
6 2 (3.23%) BMC
6 2 (3.23%) Cisco
6 2 (3.23%) Remedy
6 2 (3.23%) SAP
7 1 (1.61%) Aruba
7 1 (1.61%) Cognos
7 1 (1.61%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (1.61%) NVIDIA
7 1 (1.61%) SolarWinds