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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 16 35
Rank change year-on-year -9 +19 -24
Contract jobs citing Python 66 39 44
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 5.56% 7.34% 4.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.82% 22.67% 18.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 29 18
10th Percentile £269 £334 £365
25th Percentile £416 £432 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £447 £538
Median % change year-on-year +11.86% -16.84% -2.27%
75th Percentile £578 £523 £574
90th Percentile £691 £595 £629
South West median daily rate £500 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 7
10th Percentile £26.25 £75.74 £65.90
25th Percentile £58.44 £76.85 £73.47
Median hourly rate £67.25 £78.70 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.55% +4.93% +14.32%
75th Percentile £78.56 £80.83 £85.00
90th Percentile £80.30 £82.11 £87.00
South West median hourly rate £61.25 £76.85 £68.22
% change year-on-year -20.30% +12.65% +4.15%

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 333 172 238
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 28.03% 32.39% 22.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 99 135
10th Percentile £350 £348 £300
25th Percentile £413 £363 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £440 £439
Median % change year-on-year +13.77% +0.06% -7.53%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £550
90th Percentile £608 £630 £650
South West median daily rate £500 £501 £525
% change year-on-year -0.10% -4.67% +0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 40 62
10th Percentile £60.63 £61.25 £52.50
25th Percentile - £65.00 £61.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.75 £67.25
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% -2.23% +2.67%
75th Percentile £67.25 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £68.75 £77.95
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £66.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -2.26% +2.31% -

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 16 April 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 16 April 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 7 (10.61%) Apache
2 4 (6.06%) Apache Spark
3 3 (4.55%) Jupyter
4 2 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.52%) Confluence
5 1 (1.52%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.03%) LaTeX
2 2 (3.03%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (21.21%) AWS
1 14 (21.21%) Azure
2 11 (16.67%) GCP
3 9 (13.64%) GitHub
4 7 (10.61%) Power Platform
5 4 (6.06%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (6.06%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (4.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (4.55%) SaaS
7 2 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (3.03%) AWS CodePipeline
7 2 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.03%) Serverless
8 1 (1.52%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.52%) dbt
8 1 (1.52%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.52%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.58%) DNS
2 4 (6.06%) Ethernet
3 3 (4.55%) VPN
4 2 (3.03%) 3GPP
4 2 (3.03%) 4G
4 2 (3.03%) 5G
4 2 (3.03%) 5G NR
4 2 (3.03%) LTE
4 2 (3.03%) Microwave Backhaul
4 2 (3.03%) MPLS
4 2 (3.03%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (3.03%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (3.03%) VoLTE
4 2 (3.03%) Wireshark
5 1 (1.52%) Firewall
5 1 (1.52%) NX-OS
5 1 (1.52%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.09%) Power BI
2 5 (7.58%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (4.55%) Delta Lake
3 3 (4.55%) Neo4j
3 3 (4.55%) Star Schema
4 2 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (3.03%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.03%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.03%) Tableau
5 1 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.52%) Big Data
5 1 (1.52%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.52%) Data Vault
5 1 (1.52%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.52%) Metadata
5 1 (1.52%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (1.52%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.52%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 14 (21.21%) Git
2 11 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 8 (12.12%) GitLab
4 4 (6.06%) Artifactory
5 2 (3.03%) Bitbucket
5 2 (3.03%) JIRA
5 2 (3.03%) Rational Rhapsody
5 2 (3.03%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (1.52%) DBeaver
6 1 (1.52%) JUnit
6 1 (1.52%) MLflow
6 1 (1.52%) NUnit
6 1 (1.52%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (1.52%) Selenium
6 1 (1.52%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 8 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 5 (7.58%) Aerospace
5 4 (6.06%) Finance
6 1 (1.52%) Billing
6 1 (1.52%) Electronics
6 1 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.52%) Legal
6 1 (1.52%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.52%) Marketing
6 1 (1.52%) Publishing
6 1 (1.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (18.18%) Software Engineer
2 10 (15.15%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (13.64%) Developer
4 7 (10.61%) Lead
4 7 (10.61%) Senior
5 6 (9.09%) Data Engineer
5 6 (9.09%) GCP Engineer
6 5 (7.58%) Lead Software Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) Embedded Engineer
8 3 (4.55%) Analyst
8 3 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (4.55%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 3 (4.55%) GCP DevOps
8 3 (4.55%) GCP DevOps Engineer
8 3 (4.55%) Senior Software Engineer
8 3 (4.55%) SOC Engineer
8 3 (4.55%) Validation Engineer
9 2 (3.03%) Data Migration Engineer
9 2 (3.03%) RAN Engineer
9 2 (3.03%) Transmission Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.61%) REST
2 5 (7.58%) .NET
3 4 (6.06%) Apache NiFi
3 4 (6.06%) Pandas
3 4 (6.06%) React
4 3 (4.55%) PySpark
5 2 (3.03%) Flask
5 2 (3.03%) Kafka
5 2 (3.03%) Next.js
5 2 (3.03%) NumPy
5 2 (3.03%) pytest
6 1 (1.52%) Jinja
6 1 (1.52%) OLE
6 1 (1.52%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (1.52%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 1 (1.52%) PyTorch
6 1 (1.52%) RESTful
6 1 (1.52%) scikit-learn
6 1 (1.52%) Shiny
6 1 (1.52%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.55%) Algorithms
2 3 (4.55%) PCIe
3 2 (3.03%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.03%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.03%) FPGA
3 2 (3.03%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.03%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.52%) ASIC
4 1 (1.52%) CUDA
4 1 (1.52%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.52%) Device Driver
4 1 (1.52%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.52%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.52%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.52%) Replication
4 1 (1.52%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 14 (21.21%) Linux
2 5 (7.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (7.58%) Windows
3 1 (1.52%) Android
3 1 (1.52%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.52%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (1.52%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (1.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (43.94%) CI/CD
2 22 (33.33%) DevOps
3 15 (22.73%) Analytics
3 15 (22.73%) Software Engineering
4 13 (19.70%) AI
5 12 (18.18%) Containerisation
5 12 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (16.67%) Agile
6 11 (16.67%) Mentoring
7 10 (15.15%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (15.15%) Machine Learning
7 10 (15.15%) Validation
8 9 (13.64%) Business Intelligence
8 9 (13.64%) Decision-Making
9 8 (12.12%) Data Pipeline
9 8 (12.12%) Technical Leadership
10 7 (10.61%) Data Engineering
10 7 (10.61%) Data Modelling
10 7 (10.61%) Data Science
11 6 (9.09%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 21 (31.82%) SQL
2 7 (10.61%) Bash
2 7 (10.61%) C
3 6 (9.09%) PowerShell
4 5 (7.58%) C#
4 5 (7.58%) Go
5 3 (4.55%) C++
5 3 (4.55%) Embedded C
5 3 (4.55%) MATLAB
5 3 (4.55%) R
6 2 (3.03%) Ada
6 2 (3.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (3.03%) Ruby
6 2 (3.03%) T-SQL
6 2 (3.03%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.52%) Embedded C++
7 1 (1.52%) Java
7 1 (1.52%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.52%) Objective-C
7 1 (1.52%) PHP
Qualifications
1 24 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 17 (25.76%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.58%) Degree
3 5 (7.58%) DV Cleared
4 4 (6.06%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.03%) CCNP
7 1 (1.52%) CEH
7 1 (1.52%) CISM
7 1 (1.52%) CISSP
7 1 (1.52%) GIAC
7 1 (1.52%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.52%) JNCIA
7 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.52%) OCA
7 1 (1.52%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.52%) RHCA
7 1 (1.52%) RHCE
7 1 (1.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.58%) Data Quality
1 5 (7.58%) GDPR
1 5 (7.58%) QA
2 2 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.03%) NCSC
System Software
1 10 (15.15%) Docker
2 3 (4.55%) Firmware
3 2 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.52%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.52%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 20 (30.30%) Kubernetes
2 15 (22.73%) Terraform
3 10 (15.15%) Ansible
4 3 (4.55%) Istio
5 2 (3.03%) Progress Chef
5 2 (3.03%) Puppet
6 1 (1.52%) Argo
6 1 (1.52%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.52%) Grafana
6 1 (1.52%) Kubeflow
6 1 (1.52%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.52%) QRadar
Vendors
1 7 (10.61%) Databricks
2 6 (9.09%) Red Hat
3 4 (6.06%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.03%) Cisco
4 2 (3.03%) Google
4 2 (3.03%) VMware
5 1 (1.52%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.52%) NVIDIA
5 1 (1.52%) Oracle
5 1 (1.52%) SAP
5 1 (1.52%) Splunk