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

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 21 33
Rank change year-on-year -3 +12 -23
Contract jobs citing Python 69 37 53
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 5.65% 6.88% 5.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.12% 21.26% 21.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 27 20
10th Percentile £263 £327 £365
25th Percentile £413 £429 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £447 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.86% -14.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £523 £564
90th Percentile £696 £603 £626
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 14
10th Percentile £26.25 £75.74 -
25th Percentile £58.63 £76.85 £70.00
Median hourly rate £67.25 £78.70 £74.72
Median % change year-on-year -14.55% +5.33% +13.89%
75th Percentile £78.56 £80.83 £85.00
90th Percentile £80.30 £82.11 -
South West median hourly rate £62.00 £76.85 £74.44
% change year-on-year -19.32% +3.24% +13.65%

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 343 174 252
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 28.07% 32.34% 24.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 98 137
10th Percentile £350 £336 £300
25th Percentile £400 £363 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £434 £450
Median % change year-on-year +15.27% -3.61% -5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £525 £538
90th Percentile £588 £625 £643
South West median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 45 73
10th Percentile £60.00 £61.25 £52.50
25th Percentile - £65.00 £61.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £66.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% -5.00% +6.87%
75th Percentile £67.25 £68.00 -
90th Percentile £68.75 £68.75 £85.00
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £67.14
% change year-on-year -2.99% -0.20% +3.28%

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 27 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 27 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 5 (7.25%) Apache
2 3 (4.35%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.35%) Jupyter
3 2 (2.90%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.45%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.90%) LaTeX
2 2 (2.90%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (20.29%) AWS
1 14 (20.29%) Azure
1 14 (20.29%) GCP
2 9 (13.04%) GitHub
3 7 (10.14%) Power Platform
4 6 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (7.25%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (5.80%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (5.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 4 (5.80%) SaaS
7 2 (2.90%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (2.90%) Apigee
7 2 (2.90%) AWS CodePipeline
7 2 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.90%) Azure AKS
7 2 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.90%) Serverless
8 1 (1.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.45%) dbt
8 1 (1.45%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.70%) DNS
2 4 (5.80%) Ethernet
2 4 (5.80%) VPN
3 2 (2.90%) 3GPP
3 2 (2.90%) 4G
3 2 (2.90%) 5G
3 2 (2.90%) 5G NR
3 2 (2.90%) LTE
3 2 (2.90%) Microwave Backhaul
3 2 (2.90%) MPLS
3 2 (2.90%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (2.90%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (2.90%) VoLTE
3 2 (2.90%) Wireshark
4 1 (1.45%) Firewall
4 1 (1.45%) NX-OS
4 1 (1.45%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.70%) Power BI
2 4 (5.80%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (4.35%) Delta Lake
3 3 (4.35%) Neo4j
4 2 (2.90%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (2.90%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.90%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.90%) Star Schema
4 2 (2.90%) Tableau
5 1 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.45%) Big Data
5 1 (1.45%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.45%) Data Vault
5 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.45%) Metadata
5 1 (1.45%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 17 (24.64%) Git
2 12 (17.39%) Jenkins
3 6 (8.70%) GitLab
4 3 (4.35%) Artifactory
5 2 (2.90%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.90%) JIRA
5 2 (2.90%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (1.45%) JUnit
6 1 (1.45%) MLflow
6 1 (1.45%) NUnit
6 1 (1.45%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (1.45%) Rational Rhapsody
6 1 (1.45%) Selenium
6 1 (1.45%) SonarQube
General
1 12 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 7 (10.14%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (7.25%) Aerospace
4 4 (5.80%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.35%) Finance
6 1 (1.45%) Billing
6 1 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.45%) Legal
6 1 (1.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 12 (17.39%) Software Engineer
2 11 (15.94%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (13.04%) Developer
4 8 (11.59%) GCP Engineer
5 7 (10.14%) Lead
6 6 (8.70%) Data Engineer
6 6 (8.70%) Senior
7 5 (7.25%) GCP DevOps
7 5 (7.25%) GCP DevOps Engineer
7 5 (7.25%) Lead Software Engineer
8 4 (5.80%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (5.80%) Embedded Engineer
8 4 (5.80%) SOC Engineer
9 3 (4.35%) Analyst
9 3 (4.35%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 3 (4.35%) Python Developer
9 3 (4.35%) Senior Software Engineer
9 3 (4.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 3 (4.35%) Validation Engineer
10 2 (2.90%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.70%) REST
2 5 (7.25%) .NET
3 4 (5.80%) React
4 3 (4.35%) Apache NiFi
4 3 (4.35%) Pandas
5 2 (2.90%) Flask
5 2 (2.90%) Kafka
5 2 (2.90%) Next.js
5 2 (2.90%) PySpark
5 2 (2.90%) pytest
5 2 (2.90%) RESTful
6 1 (1.45%) GraphQL
6 1 (1.45%) Jinja
6 1 (1.45%) NumPy
6 1 (1.45%) OLE
6 1 (1.45%) PyTorch
6 1 (1.45%) scikit-learn
6 1 (1.45%) Shiny
6 1 (1.45%) SOAP
6 1 (1.45%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.14%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.35%) PCIe
3 2 (2.90%) Algorithms
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%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.90%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (1.45%) ASIC
4 1 (1.45%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.45%) Device Driver
4 1 (1.45%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.45%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.45%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.45%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (20.29%) Linux
2 5 (7.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (5.80%) Windows
4 1 (1.45%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (1.45%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (1.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (43.48%) CI/CD
2 26 (37.68%) DevOps
3 16 (23.19%) Analytics
3 16 (23.19%) Infrastructure as Code
3 16 (23.19%) Software Engineering
4 14 (20.29%) Containerisation
5 12 (17.39%) AI
5 12 (17.39%) Mentoring
6 11 (15.94%) Agile
6 11 (15.94%) Continuous Improvement
6 11 (15.94%) Validation
7 10 (14.49%) Decision-Making
8 9 (13.04%) Data Pipeline
8 9 (13.04%) Machine Learning
8 9 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (13.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 8 (11.59%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (11.59%) Data Engineering
9 8 (11.59%) Data Modelling
9 8 (11.59%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 21 (30.43%) SQL
2 11 (15.94%) Bash
3 9 (13.04%) PowerShell
4 8 (11.59%) C
5 6 (8.70%) Go
6 5 (7.25%) C#
7 3 (4.35%) Ada
7 3 (4.35%) C++
7 3 (4.35%) Embedded C
7 3 (4.35%) R
8 2 (2.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (2.90%) Groovy
8 2 (2.90%) MATLAB
8 2 (2.90%) Ruby
8 2 (2.90%) T-SQL
8 2 (2.90%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.45%) Java
9 1 (1.45%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.45%) PHP
9 1 (1.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 24 (34.78%) Security Cleared
2 18 (26.09%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.70%) Degree
4 5 (7.25%) DV Cleared
5 4 (5.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.90%) CCNP
7 2 (2.90%) CEH
7 2 (2.90%) CISM
7 2 (2.90%) CISSP
8 1 (1.45%) AWS Certification
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%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.70%) QA
2 5 (7.25%) GDPR
3 3 (4.35%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.90%) NCSC
System Software
1 11 (15.94%) Docker
2 3 (4.35%) Firmware
3 2 (2.90%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.45%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 22 (31.88%) Kubernetes
2 18 (26.09%) Terraform
3 9 (13.04%) Ansible
4 2 (2.90%) Istio
4 2 (2.90%) Progress Chef
4 2 (2.90%) Puppet
4 2 (2.90%) QRadar
5 1 (1.45%) Argo
5 1 (1.45%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.45%) Grafana
5 1 (1.45%) Kubeflow
5 1 (1.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (11.59%) Databricks
2 5 (7.25%) Red Hat
3 4 (5.80%) Google
4 3 (4.35%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.90%) Cisco
5 2 (2.90%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.90%) Splunk
5 2 (2.90%) VMware
6 1 (1.45%) Fortinet