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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 19 12
Rank change year-on-year -12 -7 +7
Contract jobs citing Python 74 57 95
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 5.49% 7.62% 10.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.42% 29.69% 34.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 33 33
10th Percentile £413 £380 £381
25th Percentile £453 £425 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £512 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% -7.00% +10.00%
75th Percentile £597 £575 £638
90th Percentile £686 £647 £728
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £605
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +8.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 35
10th Percentile £41.13 £46.50 £63.70
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 £70.00 £95.00 £74.44
90th Percentile - - £85.00
South West median hourly rate £70.00 £90.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -22.22% +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 330 192 276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 24.50% 25.67% 31.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 110 123
10th Percentile £399 £320 £353
25th Percentile £450 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £581
90th Percentile £675 £625 £675
South West median daily rate £533 £511 £538
% change year-on-year +4.26% -4.98% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 44 76
10th Percentile £55.13 £62.15 £63.75
25th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £66.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £67.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.75% -4.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.94 -
90th Percentile - £75.00 £85.00
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% +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 11 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 11 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 3 (4.05%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.70%) Apache
2 2 (2.70%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.35%) Confluence
3 1 (1.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (8.11%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.35%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 28 (37.84%) GCP
2 20 (27.03%) AWS
3 13 (17.57%) dbt
4 12 (16.22%) Azure
5 10 (13.51%) GitHub
6 9 (12.16%) Power Platform
7 6 (8.11%) Snowflake
8 5 (6.76%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (6.76%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (6.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (4.05%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (4.05%) Amazon S3
9 3 (4.05%) Power Automate
10 2 (2.70%) AWS CodeBuild
10 2 (2.70%) AWS CodePipeline
10 2 (2.70%) Azure AKS
10 2 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (2.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (2.70%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.41%) DNS
1 4 (5.41%) VPN
2 3 (4.05%) Firewall
3 2 (2.70%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.70%) tcpdump
4 1 (1.35%) BGP
4 1 (1.35%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (1.35%) Network Security
4 1 (1.35%) NX-OS
4 1 (1.35%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.16%) Power BI
2 4 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (4.05%) SQLite
3 3 (4.05%) Tableau
4 2 (2.70%) Amazon QuickSight
4 2 (2.70%) BigQuery
4 2 (2.70%) Metadata
4 2 (2.70%) MySQL
4 2 (2.70%) Power Query
5 1 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.35%) Big Data
5 1 (1.35%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.35%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.35%) Parquet
5 1 (1.35%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.35%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (14.86%) Git
2 10 (13.51%) JIRA
3 6 (8.11%) GitLab
3 6 (8.11%) Jenkins
3 6 (8.11%) Rational DOORS
3 6 (8.11%) Rational Rhapsody
4 1 (1.35%) Burp Suite
4 1 (1.35%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.35%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.35%) Gatling
4 1 (1.35%) Gradle
4 1 (1.35%) LoadRunner
4 1 (1.35%) REST Assured
4 1 (1.35%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (20.27%) Social Skills
2 8 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (8.11%) Banking
3 6 (8.11%) Finance
3 6 (8.11%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.05%) Aerospace
5 2 (2.70%) Law
5 2 (2.70%) Marketing
6 1 (1.35%) Automotive
6 1 (1.35%) Avionics
6 1 (1.35%) Electronics
6 1 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (25.68%) Data Engineer
2 14 (18.92%) GCP Engineer
3 12 (16.22%) Developer
4 9 (12.16%) GCP Data Engineer
5 8 (10.81%) Senior
6 7 (9.46%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (9.46%) Python Developer
7 6 (8.11%) Software Engineer
8 5 (6.76%) Analyst
8 5 (6.76%) Embedded Engineer
8 5 (6.76%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 4 (5.41%) GCP DevOps
9 4 (5.41%) GCP DevOps Engineer
9 4 (5.41%) Site Engineer
9 4 (5.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 3 (4.05%) Data Analyst
10 3 (4.05%) Lead
10 3 (4.05%) Senior Developer
11 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Engineer
11 2 (2.70%) Salesforce Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (31.08%) Terraform
2 6 (8.11%) REST
3 5 (6.76%) FastAPI
4 4 (5.41%) AWS CDK
5 3 (4.05%) pydantic
5 3 (4.05%) PyTorch
5 3 (4.05%) TensorFlow
6 2 (2.70%) Django
6 2 (2.70%) Kafka
6 2 (2.70%) Pandas
6 2 (2.70%) RESTful
6 2 (2.70%) SQLAlchemy
7 1 (1.35%) ActiveMQ
7 1 (1.35%) JSON
7 1 (1.35%) Middleware
7 1 (1.35%) Node.js
7 1 (1.35%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.35%) scikit-learn
7 1 (1.35%) Spring
7 1 (1.35%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.11%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.41%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.70%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.35%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.35%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.35%) FPGA
4 1 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.35%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.35%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (1.35%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.35%) PKI
4 1 (1.35%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.35%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (1.35%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.35%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 15 (20.27%) Linux
2 6 (8.11%) FreeRTOS
3 3 (4.05%) CentOS
3 3 (4.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.70%) Unix
5 1 (1.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (44.59%) DevOps
2 25 (33.78%) CI/CD
3 23 (31.08%) Data Modelling
4 21 (28.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (22.97%) AI
5 17 (22.97%) Data Engineering
5 17 (22.97%) Validation
6 13 (17.57%) Analytics
7 12 (16.22%) Agile
7 12 (16.22%) Configuration Management
8 11 (14.86%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (14.86%) ETL
8 11 (14.86%) Observability
8 11 (14.86%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (14.86%) Software Engineering
9 10 (13.51%) Business Intelligence
9 10 (13.51%) Data Pipeline
9 10 (13.51%) Project Management
10 9 (12.16%) Integration Testing
10 9 (12.16%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 25 (33.78%) SQL
2 14 (18.92%) Bash
3 10 (13.51%) C++
4 8 (10.81%) Ada
5 7 (9.46%) PowerShell
6 6 (8.11%) Java
7 5 (6.76%) Shell Script
8 4 (5.41%) Go
9 3 (4.05%) Groovy
9 3 (4.05%) JavaScript
10 2 (2.70%) C
10 2 (2.70%) R
11 1 (1.35%) SystemVerilog
11 1 (1.35%) Tcl
11 1 (1.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (25.68%) Security Cleared
2 16 (21.62%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.41%) AWS Certification
3 4 (5.41%) Degree
4 3 (4.05%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.35%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.35%) CEH
5 1 (1.35%) CISM
5 1 (1.35%) CISSP
5 1 (1.35%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.35%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (13.51%) QA
2 5 (6.76%) MISRA
2 5 (6.76%) MISRA C
3 3 (4.05%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.70%) PMO
4 2 (2.70%) SLA
5 1 (1.35%) DO-254
5 1 (1.35%) GDPR
5 1 (1.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.35%) NCSC
System Software
1 7 (9.46%) Docker
2 1 (1.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (18.92%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.76%) Ansible
3 3 (4.05%) Grafana
3 3 (4.05%) Istio
4 2 (2.70%) Puppet
4 2 (2.70%) QRadar
5 1 (1.35%) Argo
5 1 (1.35%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.35%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 15 (20.27%) Google
2 6 (8.11%) Dynatrace
3 4 (5.41%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.05%) Databricks
4 3 (4.05%) Splunk
5 2 (2.70%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.70%) SAP
6 1 (1.35%) Altera
6 1 (1.35%) ArcSight
6 1 (1.35%) Cisco
6 1 (1.35%) Cribl.io
6 1 (1.35%) Intel
6 1 (1.35%) Oracle
6 1 (1.35%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.35%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.35%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.35%) Xilinx