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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 25 35
Rank change year-on-year +3 +10 -22
Contract jobs citing Python 63 35 45
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 5.65% 6.70% 4.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.87% 20.96% 19.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 25 19
10th Percentile £320 £319 £379
25th Percentile £425 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £567 £575 £572
90th Percentile £668 £623 £628
South West median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 5
10th Percentile - - £61.60
25th Percentile £26.25 £62.00 £70.00
Median hourly rate £46.25 £75.00 £74.44
Median % change year-on-year -38.33% +0.75% +13.47%
75th Percentile £69.50 £78.70 £75.00
90th Percentile £77.60 £81.26 £76.50
South West median hourly rate £51.21 £70.00 £56.00
% change year-on-year -26.84% +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 317 167 228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 28.43% 31.99% 22.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 88 130
10th Percentile £338 £325 £300
25th Percentile £405 £363 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £550
90th Percentile £600 £670 £639
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 149 43 56
10th Percentile £60.00 £61.25 £52.50
25th Percentile - £62.25 £55.81
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 £70.63
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 26 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 26 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 (15.87%) Apache
2 4 (6.35%) Apache Spark
3 3 (4.76%) Jupyter
4 2 (3.17%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (3.17%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (1.59%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.17%) LaTeX
1 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.59%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 16 (25.40%) AWS
2 15 (23.81%) Azure
3 13 (20.63%) GCP
4 12 (19.05%) Power Platform
5 8 (12.70%) GitHub
6 4 (6.35%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (6.35%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (4.76%) Entra ID
7 3 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (4.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (3.17%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (3.17%) AWS CodePipeline
8 2 (3.17%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (3.17%) Serverless
8 2 (3.17%) Snowflake
9 1 (1.59%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (1.59%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.59%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.94%) 5G
1 5 (7.94%) Radio Access Network
2 4 (6.35%) 4G
2 4 (6.35%) Ethernet
3 3 (4.76%) 2G
4 2 (3.17%) 3GPP
4 2 (3.17%) 5G NR
4 2 (3.17%) DNS
4 2 (3.17%) LTE
4 2 (3.17%) Microwave Backhaul
4 2 (3.17%) MPLS
4 2 (3.17%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (3.17%) VoLTE
4 2 (3.17%) Wireshark
5 1 (1.59%) BGP
5 1 (1.59%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (1.59%) OSPF
5 1 (1.59%) TACACS
5 1 (1.59%) VXLAN
5 1 (1.59%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (17.46%) Power BI
2 5 (7.94%) Big Data
2 5 (7.94%) BigQuery
2 5 (7.94%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (6.35%) Star Schema
4 3 (4.76%) Delta Lake
5 2 (3.17%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (3.17%) Neo4j
5 2 (3.17%) Oracle ODI
5 2 (3.17%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.17%) Tableau
6 1 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.59%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.59%) Metadata
6 1 (1.59%) Power Query
6 1 (1.59%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (14.29%) Git
1 9 (14.29%) GitLab
1 9 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 7 (11.11%) Artifactory
3 2 (3.17%) Bitbucket
3 2 (3.17%) DBeaver
4 1 (1.59%) JIRA
4 1 (1.59%) MLflow
4 1 (1.59%) Rational Rhapsody
4 1 (1.59%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.59%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 10 (15.87%) Finance
1 10 (15.87%) Social Skills
2 9 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.35%) Banking
4 4 (6.35%) Telecoms
5 2 (3.17%) Aerospace
5 2 (3.17%) Publishing
6 1 (1.59%) Billing
6 1 (1.59%) Electronics
6 1 (1.59%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.59%) French Language
6 1 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.59%) Legal
6 1 (1.59%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.59%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 10 (15.87%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (12.70%) Developer
2 8 (12.70%) Senior
3 6 (9.52%) Data Engineer
4 5 (7.94%) Software Engineer
5 4 (6.35%) Analytics Manager
5 4 (6.35%) Business Intelligence Manager
5 4 (6.35%) Lead
5 4 (6.35%) Senior Analytics Manager
5 4 (6.35%) Senior Manager
6 3 (4.76%) Analyst
6 3 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (4.76%) GCP Engineer
6 3 (4.76%) Network Engineer
6 3 (4.76%) Validation Engineer
7 2 (3.17%) Architect
7 2 (3.17%) Linux Engineer
7 2 (3.17%) Quality Engineer
7 2 (3.17%) Technical Architect
7 2 (3.17%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (14.29%) REST
2 7 (11.11%) Apache NiFi
3 4 (6.35%) Pandas
4 3 (4.76%) React
5 2 (3.17%) .NET
5 2 (3.17%) Kafka
5 2 (3.17%) Next.js
5 2 (3.17%) NumPy
5 2 (3.17%) OAuth
5 2 (3.17%) OAuth2
5 2 (3.17%) OpenID
5 2 (3.17%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 2 (3.17%) PySpark
5 2 (3.17%) RESTful
5 2 (3.17%) SAML
6 1 (1.59%) 802.1X
6 1 (1.59%) GraphQL
6 1 (1.59%) PyTorch
6 1 (1.59%) Shiny
6 1 (1.59%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.52%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.76%) Algorithms
2 3 (4.76%) Onboarding
2 3 (4.76%) PCIe
3 2 (3.17%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.17%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.17%) FPGA
3 2 (3.17%) IoT
3 2 (3.17%) NB-IoT
3 2 (3.17%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.17%) Public Cloud
3 2 (3.17%) Replication
4 1 (1.59%) ASIC
4 1 (1.59%) CUDA
4 1 (1.59%) Device Driver
4 1 (1.59%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.59%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.59%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (14.29%) Linux
2 8 (12.70%) Windows
3 2 (3.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.59%) Android
4 1 (1.59%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.59%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (1.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (36.51%) CI/CD
2 20 (31.75%) Analytics
3 19 (30.16%) DevOps
4 14 (22.22%) AI
4 14 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
5 13 (20.63%) Mentoring
6 11 (17.46%) Continuous Improvement
6 11 (17.46%) Data Science
6 11 (17.46%) Infrastructure as Code
7 10 (15.87%) ETL
7 10 (15.87%) Validation
8 8 (12.70%) Agile
8 8 (12.70%) Decision-Making
8 8 (12.70%) Software Engineering
9 7 (11.11%) Change Management
9 7 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
9 7 (11.11%) User Experience
9 7 (11.11%) Workflow
10 6 (9.52%) Data Modelling
10 6 (9.52%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 25 (39.68%) SQL
2 10 (15.87%) PowerShell
3 5 (7.94%) C
4 4 (6.35%) Bash
5 3 (4.76%) Embedded C
5 3 (4.76%) MATLAB
6 2 (3.17%) C#
6 2 (3.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (3.17%) Go
6 2 (3.17%) R
6 2 (3.17%) Ruby
6 2 (3.17%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.59%) C++
7 1 (1.59%) Java
7 1 (1.59%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.59%) Objective-C
7 1 (1.59%) Perl
7 1 (1.59%) PHP
7 1 (1.59%) Scala
7 1 (1.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 9 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 7 (11.11%) DV Cleared
4 5 (7.94%) Degree
5 4 (6.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (3.17%) CCNP
7 2 (3.17%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.59%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.59%) GIAC
8 1 (1.59%) JNCIA
8 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.59%) OCA
8 1 (1.59%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (1.59%) RHCA
8 1 (1.59%) RHCE
8 1 (1.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.70%) GDPR
2 7 (11.11%) QA
3 5 (7.94%) Data Quality
4 2 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (3.17%) NCSC
4 2 (3.17%) PSD2
4 2 (3.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (11.11%) Docker
2 3 (4.76%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.76%) Firmware
3 2 (3.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (30.16%) Kubernetes
2 17 (26.98%) Terraform
3 12 (19.05%) Ansible
4 3 (4.76%) Istio
5 2 (3.17%) Progress Chef
5 2 (3.17%) Puppet
5 2 (3.17%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.59%) Argo
6 1 (1.59%) Grafana
6 1 (1.59%) Kubeflow
6 1 (1.59%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (14.29%) Red Hat
2 7 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 6 (9.52%) Databricks
3 6 (9.52%) Google
4 2 (3.17%) BMC
4 2 (3.17%) Cisco
4 2 (3.17%) ForgeRock
4 2 (3.17%) Oracle
4 2 (3.17%) Ping Identity
4 2 (3.17%) Remedy
5 1 (1.59%) Aruba
5 1 (1.59%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (1.59%) NVIDIA
5 1 (1.59%) SAP
5 1 (1.59%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.59%) VMware