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

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 21 35
Rank change year-on-year -2 +14 -24
Contract jobs citing Python 69 37 44
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 6.06% 6.99% 4.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.30% 22.29% 18.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 27 18
10th Percentile £306 £327 £365
25th Percentile £425 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £538
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -11.63% -2.27%
75th Percentile £571 £575 £564
90th Percentile £645 £621 £624
South West median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 5
10th Percentile £26.25 - £61.60
25th Percentile £41.25 £62.00 £70.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £75.00 £74.44
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +0.75% +13.47%
75th Percentile £78.38 £78.70 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.45 £81.26 £76.50
South West median hourly rate £54.00 £70.00 £56.00
% change year-on-year -22.86% +25.00% -14.50%

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 324 166 233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 28.47% 31.38% 22.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 90 131
10th Percentile £325 £325 £300
25th Percentile £405 £363 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £573 £544
90th Percentile £590 £668 £638
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 152 43 58
10th Percentile £60.00 £61.25 £52.50
25th Percentile £64.38 £62.25 £56.06
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.76%
75th Percentile - £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £68.75 £70.38
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £65.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year -1.14% +5.20% -3.85%

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 29 March 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 29 March 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 10 (14.49%) Apache
2 4 (5.80%) Apache Spark
3 3 (4.35%) Jupyter
4 2 (2.90%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (2.90%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (1.45%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.90%) LaTeX
1 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.45%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.90%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 18 (26.09%) AWS
2 16 (23.19%) Azure
3 13 (18.84%) GCP
4 12 (17.39%) Power Platform
5 8 (11.59%) GitHub
6 4 (5.80%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (5.80%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (4.35%) Entra ID
7 3 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (4.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (2.90%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (2.90%) AWS CodePipeline
8 2 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.90%) Serverless
8 2 (2.90%) Snowflake
9 1 (1.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.45%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.25%) 5G
1 5 (7.25%) Radio Access Network
2 4 (5.80%) 4G
2 4 (5.80%) Ethernet
3 3 (4.35%) 2G
4 2 (2.90%) 3GPP
4 2 (2.90%) 5G NR
4 2 (2.90%) DNS
4 2 (2.90%) LTE
4 2 (2.90%) Microwave Backhaul
4 2 (2.90%) MPLS
4 2 (2.90%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (2.90%) VoLTE
4 2 (2.90%) Wireshark
5 1 (1.45%) BGP
5 1 (1.45%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (1.45%) OSPF
5 1 (1.45%) TACACS
5 1 (1.45%) VXLAN
5 1 (1.45%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (15.94%) Power BI
2 5 (7.25%) Big Data
2 5 (7.25%) BigQuery
2 5 (7.25%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (5.80%) Star Schema
4 3 (4.35%) Delta Lake
5 2 (2.90%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (2.90%) Neo4j
5 2 (2.90%) Oracle ODI
5 2 (2.90%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (2.90%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.90%) Tableau
6 1 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.45%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.45%) Metadata
6 1 (1.45%) Power Query
6 1 (1.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (15.94%) Git
2 10 (14.49%) GitLab
2 10 (14.49%) Jenkins
3 7 (10.14%) Artifactory
4 2 (2.90%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.90%) DBeaver
5 1 (1.45%) JIRA
5 1 (1.45%) JUnit
5 1 (1.45%) MLflow
5 1 (1.45%) NUnit
5 1 (1.45%) Rational Rhapsody
5 1 (1.45%) Selenium
5 1 (1.45%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 11 (15.94%) Social Skills
2 10 (14.49%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (14.49%) Finance
3 6 (8.70%) Public Sector
4 5 (7.25%) Aerospace
5 4 (5.80%) Banking
5 4 (5.80%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.90%) Publishing
7 1 (1.45%) Billing
7 1 (1.45%) Electronics
7 1 (1.45%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.45%) French Language
7 1 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.45%) Legal
7 1 (1.45%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.45%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 11 (15.94%) Senior
2 10 (14.49%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (13.04%) Developer
3 9 (13.04%) Software Engineer
4 6 (8.70%) Data Engineer
4 6 (8.70%) Lead
5 4 (5.80%) Analytics Manager
5 4 (5.80%) Business Intelligence Manager
5 4 (5.80%) Lead Software Engineer
5 4 (5.80%) Senior Analytics Manager
5 4 (5.80%) Senior Manager
6 3 (4.35%) Analyst
6 3 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (4.35%) GCP Engineer
6 3 (4.35%) Network Engineer
6 3 (4.35%) Senior Software Engineer
6 3 (4.35%) Validation Engineer
7 2 (2.90%) ETL Tester
7 2 (2.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 2 (2.90%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (13.04%) REST
2 7 (10.14%) Apache NiFi
3 4 (5.80%) .NET
3 4 (5.80%) Pandas
4 3 (4.35%) React
5 2 (2.90%) Flask
5 2 (2.90%) Kafka
5 2 (2.90%) Next.js
5 2 (2.90%) NumPy
5 2 (2.90%) OAuth
5 2 (2.90%) OAuth2
5 2 (2.90%) OpenID
5 2 (2.90%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 2 (2.90%) PySpark
5 2 (2.90%) pytest
5 2 (2.90%) RESTful
5 2 (2.90%) SAML
6 1 (1.45%) OLE
6 1 (1.45%) PyTorch
6 1 (1.45%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.70%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.35%) Algorithms
2 3 (4.35%) Onboarding
2 3 (4.35%) PCIe
3 2 (2.90%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.90%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.90%) FPGA
3 2 (2.90%) IoT
3 2 (2.90%) NB-IoT
3 2 (2.90%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.90%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.90%) Replication
4 1 (1.45%) ASIC
4 1 (1.45%) CUDA
4 1 (1.45%) Device Driver
4 1 (1.45%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.45%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.45%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (15.94%) Linux
2 8 (11.59%) Windows
3 4 (5.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.45%) Android
4 1 (1.45%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.45%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (1.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (37.68%) CI/CD
2 21 (30.43%) Analytics
2 21 (30.43%) DevOps
3 15 (21.74%) AI
3 15 (21.74%) Mentoring
4 14 (20.29%) Business Intelligence
5 12 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
5 12 (17.39%) Software Engineering
6 11 (15.94%) Data Science
6 11 (15.94%) Infrastructure as Code
7 10 (14.49%) Agile
7 10 (14.49%) ETL
7 10 (14.49%) Validation
8 9 (13.04%) Machine Learning
9 8 (11.59%) Data Pipeline
9 8 (11.59%) Decision-Making
10 7 (10.14%) Actionable Insight
10 7 (10.14%) Containerisation
10 7 (10.14%) Technical Leadership
10 7 (10.14%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 26 (37.68%) SQL
2 10 (14.49%) PowerShell
3 5 (7.25%) C
4 4 (5.80%) Bash
4 4 (5.80%) C#
5 3 (4.35%) Embedded C
5 3 (4.35%) MATLAB
5 3 (4.35%) R
6 2 (2.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (2.90%) Go
6 2 (2.90%) Ruby
6 2 (2.90%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.45%) C++
7 1 (1.45%) Embedded C++
7 1 (1.45%) Java
7 1 (1.45%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.45%) Objective-C
7 1 (1.45%) Perl
7 1 (1.45%) PHP
7 1 (1.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 23 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 14 (20.29%) SC Cleared
3 7 (10.14%) DV Cleared
4 5 (7.25%) Degree
5 4 (5.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.90%) CCNP
7 2 (2.90%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.45%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.45%) GIAC
8 1 (1.45%) ISTQB
8 1 (1.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (1.45%) JNCIA
8 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.45%) OCA
8 1 (1.45%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (1.45%) RHCA
8 1 (1.45%) RHCE
8 1 (1.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.59%) GDPR
1 8 (11.59%) QA
2 5 (7.25%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.90%) NCSC
3 2 (2.90%) PSD2
3 2 (2.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (13.04%) Docker
2 3 (4.35%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.35%) Firmware
3 2 (2.90%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (28.99%) Kubernetes
2 17 (24.64%) Terraform
3 12 (17.39%) Ansible
4 3 (4.35%) Istio
5 2 (2.90%) Progress Chef
5 2 (2.90%) Puppet
5 2 (2.90%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.45%) Argo
6 1 (1.45%) Grafana
6 1 (1.45%) Kubeflow
6 1 (1.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (13.04%) Red Hat
2 7 (10.14%) Microsoft
3 6 (8.70%) Databricks
3 6 (8.70%) Google
4 2 (2.90%) BMC
4 2 (2.90%) Cisco
4 2 (2.90%) ForgeRock
4 2 (2.90%) Oracle
4 2 (2.90%) Ping Identity
4 2 (2.90%) Remedy
5 1 (1.45%) Aruba
5 1 (1.45%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (1.45%) NVIDIA
5 1 (1.45%) SAP
5 1 (1.45%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.45%) VMware