Python Contracts in Bristol

Python
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol requiring Python skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Python over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 17 11
Rank change year-on-year -3 -6 +13
Contract jobs citing Python 50 79 111
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 7.70% 7.11% 9.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.32% 26.25% 32.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 30 60
10th Percentile £382 £270 £375
25th Percentile £423 £431 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -14.86% -3.67% +3.81%
75th Percentile £523 £597 £650
90th Percentile £595 £638 £675
South West median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 32 25
10th Percentile £79.55 - -
25th Percentile £80.83 - £60.91
Median hourly rate £82.96 £70.00 £65.61
Median % change year-on-year +18.51% +6.70% +0.93%
75th Percentile £88.98 £75.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £92.59 £85.00 £73.12
South West median hourly rate £82.96 £70.00 £65.61
% change year-on-year +18.51% +6.70% +0.93%

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 183 301 346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 28.20% 27.09% 29.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 149 233
10th Percentile £329 £313 £350
25th Percentile £363 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £475 £455
Median % change year-on-year -13.68% +4.40% -9.00%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £575
90th Percentile £620 £650 £675
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 100 52
10th Percentile £63.00 £54.98 £53.88
25th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.91
Median hourly rate £67.50 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £68.75 - £70.30
90th Percentile £74.75 £77.55 -
South West median hourly rate £68.00 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -2.86% +7.69% +8.33%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Job vacancy trend for Python in Bristol

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python in Bristol.

Daily rate trend for Python in Bristol

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Bristol over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python in Bristol

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python in Bristol.

Hourly rate trend for Python in Bristol

Python
Hourly Rate Histogram in Bristol

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Python in Bristol over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Python in Bristol

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.00%) Apache
1 2 (4.00%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (2.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 17 (34.00%) AWS
2 12 (24.00%) Azure
3 4 (8.00%) Power Platform
4 3 (6.00%) Snowflake
5 2 (4.00%) Azure API Management
5 2 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (4.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (4.00%) GitHub
6 1 (2.00%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (2.00%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.00%) Boomi
6 1 (2.00%) GCP
6 1 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.00%) Matillion
6 1 (2.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.00%) DNS
1 4 (8.00%) Firewall
2 1 (2.00%) DHCP
2 1 (2.00%) HTTP
2 1 (2.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (8.00%) Power BI
2 3 (6.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.00%) Oracle ODI
3 2 (4.00%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (4.00%) Redis
3 2 (4.00%) Star Schema
4 1 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.00%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.00%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (20.00%) Git
2 7 (14.00%) GitLab
3 6 (12.00%) Jenkins
4 5 (10.00%) Bitbucket
5 2 (4.00%) DBeaver
5 2 (4.00%) Subversion
6 1 (2.00%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.00%) CMake
6 1 (2.00%) Gradle
6 1 (2.00%) Rational DOORS
General
1 11 (22.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.00%) Finance
4 2 (4.00%) Legal
4 2 (4.00%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.00%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.00%) Banking
5 1 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.00%) Marketing
5 1 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (22.00%) Developer
2 7 (14.00%) Senior
3 6 (12.00%) Data Engineer
3 6 (12.00%) Lead
4 5 (10.00%) Analyst
4 5 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Administrator
6 3 (6.00%) Data Analyst
6 3 (6.00%) DevOps Administrator
6 3 (6.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Linux Administrator
6 3 (6.00%) Linux DevOps Administrator
6 3 (6.00%) Linux Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
6 3 (6.00%) Software Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Systems Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Azure Developer
7 2 (4.00%) Quality Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.00%) FastAPI
1 7 (14.00%) OpenID
2 3 (6.00%) Hugging Face
3 2 (4.00%) .NET
3 2 (4.00%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (4.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 2 (4.00%) PySpark
3 2 (4.00%) PyTorch
4 1 (2.00%) Bazel
4 1 (2.00%) CSS
4 1 (2.00%) Django
4 1 (2.00%) Kafka
4 1 (2.00%) Node.js
4 1 (2.00%) React
4 1 (2.00%) REST
4 1 (2.00%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.00%) Onboarding
2 3 (6.00%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (6.00%) Replication
3 2 (4.00%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (4.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.00%) FPGA
3 2 (4.00%) Robotics
3 2 (4.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (4.00%) Security Posture
3 2 (4.00%) VHDL
4 1 (2.00%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.00%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (24.00%) Linux
2 1 (2.00%) CentOS
2 1 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.00%) Unix
2 1 (2.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (36.00%) CI/CD
2 17 (34.00%) DevOps
3 13 (26.00%) Containerisation
4 10 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (14.00%) Application Security
5 7 (14.00%) Blue-Green Deployment
5 7 (14.00%) Client Onboarding
5 7 (14.00%) ETL
5 7 (14.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 6 (12.00%) Agile
6 6 (12.00%) Analytics
6 6 (12.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (10.00%) Software Engineering
7 5 (10.00%) Task Automation
8 4 (8.00%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (8.00%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (8.00%) Data Engineering
8 4 (8.00%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (8.00%) High Availability
8 4 (8.00%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 12 (24.00%) C#
2 10 (20.00%) SQL
3 7 (14.00%) Bash
4 5 (10.00%) PowerShell
5 4 (8.00%) JavaScript
5 4 (8.00%) Perl
6 3 (6.00%) C++
7 2 (4.00%) Java
7 2 (4.00%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (4.00%) Tcl
8 1 (2.00%) C
8 1 (2.00%) Go
8 1 (2.00%) R
8 1 (2.00%) Ruby
8 1 (2.00%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (26.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.00%) CEH
4 2 (4.00%) CISSP
4 2 (4.00%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (2.00%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.00%) QA
System Software
1 15 (30.00%) Docker
2 2 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (24.00%) Kubernetes
2 9 (18.00%) Ansible
3 8 (16.00%) Terraform
4 7 (14.00%) Grafana
4 7 (14.00%) MIIS
5 6 (12.00%) Puppet
6 5 (10.00%) Prometheus
7 1 (2.00%) Kibana
7 1 (2.00%) logstash
Vendors
1 6 (12.00%) VMware
2 5 (10.00%) Red Hat
3 4 (8.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.00%) Oracle
5 2 (4.00%) NetApp
5 2 (4.00%) NVIDIA
6 1 (2.00%) Databricks
6 1 (2.00%) Dell
6 1 (2.00%) Foundry
6 1 (2.00%) Genesys
6 1 (2.00%) IBM
6 1 (2.00%) MuleSoft
6 1 (2.00%) Palantir