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 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 18 34
Rank change year-on-year -6 +16 -22
Contract jobs citing Python 61 47 51
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 5.96% 8.17% 4.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.61% 25.82% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 23 25
10th Percentile £340 £413 £406
25th Percentile £463 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £578 £619 £624
90th Percentile £698 £767 £675
South West median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +7.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 5
10th Percentile - £61.25 -
25th Percentile £26.25 £61.44 £65.00
Median hourly rate £46.25 £64.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.73% -8.57% +6.70%
75th Percentile £69.50 £72.33 -
90th Percentile £77.60 £74.72 -
South West median hourly rate £51.21 £64.00 £69.62
% change year-on-year -19.98% -8.07% +6.12%

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 296 182 255
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 28.91% 31.65% 24.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 79 154
10th Percentile £348 £348 £300
25th Percentile £413 £394 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £544 £594 £572
90th Percentile £626 £675 £675
South West median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 46 52
10th Percentile £61.25 £59.38 £52.50
25th Percentile - £61.63 £54.38
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.76%
75th Percentile - £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £68.75 -
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -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 21 February 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 21 February 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 11 (18.03%) Apache
2 4 (6.56%) Oracle Application Server
3 3 (4.92%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (4.92%) Apache Spark
3 3 (4.92%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (3.28%) LaTeX
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 22 (36.07%) AWS
2 18 (29.51%) GCP
3 16 (26.23%) Azure
4 14 (22.95%) Power Platform
5 11 (18.03%) GitHub
6 5 (8.20%) Microsoft Copilot
7 4 (6.56%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (6.56%) OpenShift
7 4 (6.56%) Snowflake
8 3 (4.92%) Entra ID
8 3 (4.92%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (4.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (3.28%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (3.28%) AWS CodePipeline
9 2 (3.28%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (3.28%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (3.28%) Serverless
10 1 (1.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (1.64%) Datadog
10 1 (1.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.92%) 2G
1 3 (4.92%) 5G
1 3 (4.92%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (3.28%) 4G
2 2 (3.28%) DNS
2 2 (3.28%) Ethernet
2 2 (3.28%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (1.64%) BGP
3 1 (1.64%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (1.64%) LAN
3 1 (1.64%) OSPF
3 1 (1.64%) TACACS
3 1 (1.64%) VXLAN
3 1 (1.64%) WAN
3 1 (1.64%) Wireless
3 1 (1.64%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (21.31%) Power BI
2 9 (14.75%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (11.48%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (9.84%) BigQuery
5 5 (8.20%) Big Data
6 4 (6.56%) Oracle ODI
6 4 (6.56%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (6.56%) Star Schema
7 3 (4.92%) NoSQL
8 2 (3.28%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (3.28%) Delta Lake
8 2 (3.28%) MongoDB
8 2 (3.28%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 9 (14.75%) Git
1 9 (14.75%) GitLab
2 7 (11.48%) Artifactory
2 7 (11.48%) Jenkins
3 4 (6.56%) DBeaver
4 1 (1.64%) Rational Rhapsody
4 1 (1.64%) SonarQube
General
1 13 (21.31%) Finance
2 12 (19.67%) Social Skills
3 9 (14.75%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (9.84%) Public Sector
5 5 (8.20%) Banking
6 4 (6.56%) Telecoms
7 3 (4.92%) Aerospace
7 3 (4.92%) Manufacturing
8 2 (3.28%) Publishing
9 1 (1.64%) Billing
9 1 (1.64%) Electronics
9 1 (1.64%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.64%) French Language
9 1 (1.64%) Legal
9 1 (1.64%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 10 (16.39%) Developer
1 10 (16.39%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (14.75%) Senior
3 8 (13.11%) Data Engineer
4 5 (8.20%) Analytics Manager
4 5 (8.20%) Business Intelligence Manager
4 5 (8.20%) Senior Analytics Manager
4 5 (8.20%) Senior Manager
5 4 (6.56%) Analyst
5 4 (6.56%) Quality Engineer
5 4 (6.56%) Software Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 3 (4.92%) Data Analyst
6 3 (4.92%) ETL Tester
6 3 (4.92%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (4.92%) GCP Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) Network Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) Tester
6 3 (4.92%) Validation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (13.11%) REST
2 7 (11.48%) Apache NiFi
2 7 (11.48%) React
3 6 (9.84%) Node.js
4 4 (6.56%) .NET
4 4 (6.56%) OAuth
4 4 (6.56%) OAuth2
4 4 (6.56%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 3 (4.92%) AngularJS
5 3 (4.92%) CSS
5 3 (4.92%) HTML
5 3 (4.92%) OpenID
5 3 (4.92%) Pandas
5 3 (4.92%) RESTful
5 3 (4.92%) Ruby on Rails
5 3 (4.92%) SAML
5 3 (4.92%) Spring
5 3 (4.92%) Vue
6 2 (3.28%) Kafka
7 1 (1.64%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.48%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.20%) Onboarding
3 4 (6.56%) Replication
4 3 (4.92%) Algorithms
4 3 (4.92%) PCIe
5 2 (3.28%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.28%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.28%) FPGA
5 2 (3.28%) IoT
5 2 (3.28%) NB-IoT
5 2 (3.28%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.28%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.64%) CUDA
6 1 (1.64%) Device Driver
6 1 (1.64%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 1 (1.64%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.48%) Windows
2 5 (8.20%) Linux
3 1 (1.64%) Android
3 1 (1.64%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (40.98%) CI/CD
2 21 (34.43%) DevOps
3 17 (27.87%) Analytics
4 16 (26.23%) Business Intelligence
5 14 (22.95%) AI
6 13 (21.31%) Agile
7 12 (19.67%) ETL
7 12 (19.67%) Mentoring
8 11 (18.03%) Data Science
9 10 (16.39%) Validation
10 9 (14.75%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (14.75%) Infrastructure as Code
11 8 (13.11%) Change Management
11 8 (13.11%) Software Engineering
11 8 (13.11%) Workflow
12 7 (11.48%) Decision-Making
12 7 (11.48%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (11.48%) User Experience
13 6 (9.84%) Actionable Insight
13 6 (9.84%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 23 (37.70%) SQL
2 10 (16.39%) PowerShell
3 7 (11.48%) JavaScript
3 7 (11.48%) TypeScript
4 5 (8.20%) C#
4 5 (8.20%) Java
4 5 (8.20%) Ruby
5 3 (4.92%) C
5 3 (4.92%) Embedded C
5 3 (4.92%) MATLAB
6 2 (3.28%) Bash
6 2 (3.28%) Go
7 1 (1.64%) C++
7 1 (1.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.64%) Embedded C++
7 1 (1.64%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.64%) R
7 1 (1.64%) SAPscript
7 1 (1.64%) Scala
7 1 (1.64%) Swift
Qualifications
1 16 (26.23%) Security Cleared
2 8 (13.11%) SC Cleared
3 7 (11.48%) Degree
3 7 (11.48%) DV Cleared
4 6 (9.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (4.92%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.64%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.64%) CCNP
6 1 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.64%) GIAC
6 1 (1.64%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (16.39%) GDPR
2 7 (11.48%) QA
3 6 (9.84%) Data Quality
4 3 (4.92%) PSD2
4 3 (4.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.64%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (9.84%) Docker
2 2 (3.28%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.28%) Firmware
2 2 (3.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (31.15%) Kubernetes
2 17 (27.87%) Terraform
3 10 (16.39%) Ansible
4 4 (6.56%) Argo
5 3 (4.92%) Istio
5 3 (4.92%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.64%) Grafana
6 1 (1.64%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (16.39%) Google
1 10 (16.39%) Red Hat
2 7 (11.48%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.56%) Oracle
4 3 (4.92%) Databricks
4 3 (4.92%) ForgeRock
4 3 (4.92%) Ping Identity
5 2 (3.28%) BMC
5 2 (3.28%) Cisco
5 2 (3.28%) Remedy
5 2 (3.28%) SAP
6 1 (1.64%) Aruba
6 1 (1.64%) Cognos
6 1 (1.64%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (1.64%) NVIDIA
6 1 (1.64%) SolarWinds