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 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 21 14
Rank change year-on-year 0 -7 +11
Contract jobs citing Python 43 70 103
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 7.23% 6.48% 9.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.50% 24.22% 30.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 27 62
10th Percentile £371 £270 £375
25th Percentile £418 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £517 £575 £655
90th Percentile £600 £618 £698
South West median daily rate £563 £600 £585
% change year-on-year -6.25% +2.65% +11.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 25 27
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 -
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 183 289 335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 30.76% 26.73% 29.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 154 236
10th Percentile £345 £313 £350
25th Percentile £375 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £459 £458
Median % change year-on-year -7.36% +0.27% -8.50%
75th Percentile £523 £550 £575
90th Percentile £636 £634 £675
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 90 53
10th Percentile £61.33 £52.50 £56.00
25th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.91
Median hourly rate £67.50 £70.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +6.87% +0.77%
75th Percentile £68.19 - £70.30
90th Percentile £69.88 £78.70 -
South West median hourly rate £67.50 £70.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -3.57% +6.87% +9.17%

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 June 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 June 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 (4.65%) Apache
2 1 (2.33%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 15 (34.88%) AWS
2 11 (25.58%) Azure
3 3 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (4.65%) Azure API Management
4 2 (4.65%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (4.65%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.33%) GCP
5 1 (2.33%) GitHub
5 1 (2.33%) Matillion
5 1 (2.33%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.33%) Serverless
5 1 (2.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.30%) DNS
1 4 (9.30%) Firewall
2 1 (2.33%) DHCP
2 1 (2.33%) HTTP
2 1 (2.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (4.65%) Redis
2 1 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.33%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.33%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.33%) Power BI
2 1 (2.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (25.58%) Git
2 7 (16.28%) GitLab
3 6 (13.95%) Jenkins
4 5 (11.63%) Bitbucket
5 2 (4.65%) Subversion
6 1 (2.33%) Artifactory
General
1 11 (25.58%) Social Skills
2 4 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.98%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.65%) Finance
4 2 (4.65%) Legal
4 2 (4.65%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.33%) Banking
5 1 (2.33%) Marketing
5 1 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (23.26%) Developer
2 7 (16.28%) Senior
3 5 (11.63%) Analyst
3 5 (11.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (11.63%) Lead
4 4 (9.30%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Administrator
5 3 (6.98%) Data Analyst
5 3 (6.98%) Data Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) DevOps Administrator
5 3 (6.98%) Linux Administrator
5 3 (6.98%) Linux DevOps Administrator
5 3 (6.98%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Linux/Unix DevOps
5 3 (6.98%) Software Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Azure Developer
6 2 (4.65%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) FPGA Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) SOC Analyst
6 2 (4.65%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (16.28%) FastAPI
1 7 (16.28%) OpenID
2 2 (4.65%) .NET
2 2 (4.65%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (4.65%) CSS
2 2 (4.65%) Django
2 2 (4.65%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (4.65%) Hugging Face
2 2 (4.65%) PyTorch
3 1 (2.33%) HTML
3 1 (2.33%) Kafka
3 1 (2.33%) Node.js
3 1 (2.33%) PySpark
3 1 (2.33%) React
3 1 (2.33%) REST
3 1 (2.33%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.28%) Onboarding
2 3 (6.98%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (4.65%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (4.65%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.65%) FPGA
3 2 (4.65%) Robotics
3 2 (4.65%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (4.65%) Security Posture
3 2 (4.65%) VHDL
4 1 (2.33%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.33%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (27.91%) Linux
2 1 (2.33%) CentOS
2 1 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.33%) Unix
2 1 (2.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (39.53%) DevOps
2 16 (37.21%) CI/CD
3 12 (27.91%) Containerisation
4 9 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (16.28%) Application Security
5 7 (16.28%) Blue-Green Deployment
5 7 (16.28%) Client Onboarding
6 6 (13.95%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (11.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (11.63%) Task Automation
8 4 (9.30%) Analytics
8 4 (9.30%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (9.30%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (9.30%) ETL
8 4 (9.30%) High Availability
8 4 (9.30%) Machine Learning
8 4 (9.30%) Software Engineering
9 3 (6.98%) Agile
9 3 (6.98%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (6.98%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 12 (27.91%) C#
2 7 (16.28%) Bash
2 7 (16.28%) SQL
3 4 (9.30%) JavaScript
3 4 (9.30%) Perl
3 4 (9.30%) PowerShell
4 2 (4.65%) C++
4 2 (4.65%) Java
4 2 (4.65%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (4.65%) Tcl
5 1 (2.33%) Go
5 1 (2.33%) R
5 1 (2.33%) Ruby
5 1 (2.33%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (41.86%) Security Cleared
2 12 (27.91%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.65%) CEH
3 2 (4.65%) CISSP
3 2 (4.65%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (4.65%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.33%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.65%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.33%) QA
System Software
1 14 (32.56%) Docker
2 2 (4.65%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (23.26%) Kubernetes
2 9 (20.93%) Ansible
3 7 (16.28%) MIIS
3 7 (16.28%) Terraform
4 6 (13.95%) Grafana
4 6 (13.95%) Puppet
5 4 (9.30%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.33%) Kibana
6 1 (2.33%) logstash
Vendors
1 6 (13.95%) VMware
2 5 (11.63%) Red Hat
3 3 (6.98%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.65%) NetApp
4 2 (4.65%) NVIDIA
5 1 (2.33%) Foundry
5 1 (2.33%) Genesys
5 1 (2.33%) Palantir