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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 25 31
Rank change year-on-year +4 +6 -19
Contract jobs citing Python 66 38 50
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 6.02% 6.87% 4.78%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.31% 21.23% 20.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 21 24
10th Percentile £365 £341 £406
25th Percentile £450 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £515 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% -4.19% -2.27%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £673 £625 £664
South West median daily rate £538 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -6.52% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 5
10th Percentile - £61.25 £67.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £61.44 -
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 £74.44
90th Percentile £77.60 £74.72 £76.28
South West median hourly rate £51.21 £64.00 £69.62
% change year-on-year -19.98% -8.07% +6.29%

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 325 179 244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 29.65% 32.37% 23.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 82 143
10th Percentile £350 £325 £300
25th Percentile £413 £375 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +8.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £540 £588 £550
90th Percentile £625 £666 £675
South West median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 49 52
10th Percentile £60.00 £60.50 £52.50
25th Percentile £62.13 £62.00 £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 £67.65 £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 7 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 7 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 11 (16.67%) Apache
2 3 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (4.55%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.55%) Jupyter
2 3 (4.55%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (1.52%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.03%) LaTeX
1 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.52%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (3.03%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 21 (31.82%) AWS
2 18 (27.27%) GCP
3 17 (25.76%) Azure
4 16 (24.24%) Power Platform
5 11 (16.67%) GitHub
6 5 (7.58%) Microsoft Copilot
7 4 (6.06%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (6.06%) Entra ID
7 4 (6.06%) OpenShift
8 3 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (4.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 3 (4.55%) Snowflake
9 2 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (3.03%) AWS CodePipeline
9 2 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (3.03%) Serverless
10 1 (1.52%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.52%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.58%) 5G
1 5 (7.58%) Radio Access Network
2 4 (6.06%) 4G
2 4 (6.06%) Ethernet
3 3 (4.55%) 2G
4 2 (3.03%) 3GPP
4 2 (3.03%) 5G NR
4 2 (3.03%) DNS
4 2 (3.03%) LTE
4 2 (3.03%) Microwave Backhaul
4 2 (3.03%) MPLS
4 2 (3.03%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (3.03%) VoLTE
4 2 (3.03%) Wireshark
5 1 (1.52%) BGP
5 1 (1.52%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (1.52%) OSPF
5 1 (1.52%) VXLAN
5 1 (1.52%) WAN
5 1 (1.52%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (22.73%) Power BI
2 8 (12.12%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (9.09%) BigQuery
3 6 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (7.58%) Big Data
5 4 (6.06%) Star Schema
6 3 (4.55%) NoSQL
6 3 (4.55%) Oracle ODI
6 3 (4.55%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (4.55%) SQL Server
7 2 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (3.03%) Delta Lake
7 2 (3.03%) MongoDB
7 2 (3.03%) Tableau
8 1 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.52%) Metadata
8 1 (1.52%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 11 (16.67%) Git
2 9 (13.64%) GitLab
3 8 (12.12%) Jenkins
4 7 (10.61%) Artifactory
5 3 (4.55%) DBeaver
6 2 (3.03%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.52%) JIRA
7 1 (1.52%) Rational Rhapsody
7 1 (1.52%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 14 (21.21%) Finance
2 13 (19.70%) Social Skills
3 8 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 5 (7.58%) Banking
6 4 (6.06%) Telecoms
7 3 (4.55%) Aerospace
7 3 (4.55%) Manufacturing
8 2 (3.03%) Publishing
9 1 (1.52%) Billing
9 1 (1.52%) Electronics
9 1 (1.52%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.52%) French Language
9 1 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.52%) Legal
9 1 (1.52%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 11 (16.67%) Developer
2 10 (15.15%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (13.64%) Senior
4 7 (10.61%) Data Engineer
5 5 (7.58%) Analytics Manager
5 5 (7.58%) Business Intelligence Manager
5 5 (7.58%) Senior Analytics Manager
5 5 (7.58%) Senior Manager
5 5 (7.58%) Software Engineer
6 4 (6.06%) Analyst
7 3 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 3 (4.55%) Data Analyst
7 3 (4.55%) ETL Tester
7 3 (4.55%) ForgeRock Developer
7 3 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (4.55%) Network Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) Quality Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) Tester
7 3 (4.55%) Validation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (15.15%) REST
2 7 (10.61%) Apache NiFi
2 7 (10.61%) React
3 6 (9.09%) Node.js
4 4 (6.06%) .NET
4 4 (6.06%) OAuth
4 4 (6.06%) OAuth2
5 3 (4.55%) AngularJS
5 3 (4.55%) CSS
5 3 (4.55%) HTML
5 3 (4.55%) OpenID
5 3 (4.55%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 3 (4.55%) Pandas
5 3 (4.55%) RESTful
5 3 (4.55%) Ruby on Rails
5 3 (4.55%) SAML
5 3 (4.55%) Spring
5 3 (4.55%) Vue
6 2 (3.03%) Kafka
7 1 (1.52%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.64%) Cloud Native
2 6 (9.09%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.55%) Algorithms
3 3 (4.55%) PCIe
3 3 (4.55%) Replication
4 2 (3.03%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.03%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.03%) FPGA
4 2 (3.03%) IoT
4 2 (3.03%) NB-IoT
4 2 (3.03%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.03%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.52%) CUDA
5 1 (1.52%) Device Driver
5 1 (1.52%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 1 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.52%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.12%) Windows
2 6 (9.09%) Linux
3 1 (1.52%) Android
3 1 (1.52%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (36.36%) CI/CD
2 21 (31.82%) DevOps
3 20 (30.30%) Analytics
4 18 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
5 14 (21.21%) Agile
5 14 (21.21%) AI
6 12 (18.18%) Mentoring
7 11 (16.67%) Data Science
7 11 (16.67%) ETL
8 10 (15.15%) Validation
9 9 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (13.64%) Software Engineering
10 8 (12.12%) Change Management
10 8 (12.12%) Workflow
11 7 (10.61%) Computer Science
11 7 (10.61%) Decision-Making
11 7 (10.61%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (10.61%) User Experience
12 6 (9.09%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 26 (39.39%) SQL
2 11 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 7 (10.61%) JavaScript
3 7 (10.61%) TypeScript
4 5 (7.58%) C
4 5 (7.58%) C#
4 5 (7.58%) Java
4 5 (7.58%) Ruby
5 4 (6.06%) Bash
6 3 (4.55%) Embedded C
6 3 (4.55%) MATLAB
7 2 (3.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (3.03%) Go
8 1 (1.52%) Embedded C++
8 1 (1.52%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.52%) R
8 1 (1.52%) SAPscript
8 1 (1.52%) Swift
8 1 (1.52%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.52%) VBA
Qualifications
1 18 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 9 (13.64%) SC Cleared
3 8 (12.12%) Degree
4 7 (10.61%) DV Cleared
5 6 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (6.06%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (3.03%) CCNP
7 2 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.52%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.52%) GIAC
8 1 (1.52%) JNCIA
8 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.52%) OCA
8 1 (1.52%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (1.52%) RHCA
8 1 (1.52%) RHCE
8 1 (1.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (15.15%) GDPR
2 7 (10.61%) QA
3 6 (9.09%) Data Quality
4 3 (4.55%) PSD2
4 3 (4.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.52%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (9.09%) Docker
2 3 (4.55%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.03%) Firmware
3 2 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (28.79%) Kubernetes
2 17 (25.76%) Terraform
3 12 (18.18%) Ansible
4 4 (6.06%) Argo
5 3 (4.55%) Istio
5 3 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (3.03%) Progress Chef
6 2 (3.03%) Puppet
7 1 (1.52%) Grafana
7 1 (1.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (15.15%) Google
1 10 (15.15%) Red Hat
2 7 (10.61%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.06%) Databricks
4 3 (4.55%) ForgeRock
4 3 (4.55%) Oracle
4 3 (4.55%) Ping Identity
5 2 (3.03%) BMC
5 2 (3.03%) Cisco
5 2 (3.03%) Remedy
5 2 (3.03%) SAP
6 1 (1.52%) Aruba
6 1 (1.52%) Cognos
6 1 (1.52%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (1.52%) NVIDIA
6 1 (1.52%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.52%) VMware