Python Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Python
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Python skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 19 30
Rank change year-on-year -1 +11 -7
Contract jobs citing Python 132 83 101
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 6.20% 8.81% 5.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.63% 32.81% 24.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 56 68
10th Percentile £282 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £399 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £445
Median % change year-on-year -0.25% +12.64% -11.00%
75th Percentile £560 £616 £573
90th Percentile £638 £675 £650
England median daily rate £520 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -5.45% -1.79% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 5 8
10th Percentile £30.19 £35.59 £44.50
25th Percentile £46.44 £36.48 £54.06
Median hourly rate £60.25 £52.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.76% -16.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £75.00 £55.00 £66.38
90th Percentile £76.88 - £68.10
England median hourly rate £55.50 £43.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +27.59% -27.50% -7.69%

All Programming Languages
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 431 253 416
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 20.24% 26.86% 22.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 143 186
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £403 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £560 £563
90th Percentile £688 £675 £638
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -4.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 59 140
10th Percentile £55.00 £34.33 £52.50
25th Percentile £62.97 £59.00 £59.69
Median hourly rate £68.21 £66.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.35% +1.54% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.63 £91.00 £88.88
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £62.18
% change year-on-year +3.59% +0.92% -0.52%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Python relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Python job vacancy trend in the East of England

Python
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Python.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Python

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in the East of England over the 6 months to 21 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Python in the East of England

Python
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Python.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Python

Python
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Python in the East of England over the 6 months to 21 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Python in the East of England

Python
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the East of England region over the 6 months to 21 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridgeshire +18 54 £413 -17.91% 97
Hertfordshire -24 34 £507 -9.87% 46
Bedfordshire +7 19 £625 +11.11% 19
Essex -7 12 £500 +57.12% 54
Suffolk -4 8 £528 +43.05% 19
Norfolk -23 5 £450 - 21
Python
England

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 4 (3.03%) OpenStack
2 3 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.52%) Apache
3 2 (1.52%) Confluence
3 2 (1.52%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.76%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 8 (6.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (5.30%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (3.03%) Weka
4 1 (0.76%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.76%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 2 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.76%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 34 (25.76%) AWS
2 33 (25.00%) Azure
3 21 (15.91%) GCP
4 19 (14.39%) Power Platform
5 12 (9.09%) GitHub
6 10 (7.58%) Azure AI
6 10 (7.58%) Serverless
7 8 (6.06%) Copilot Studio
7 8 (6.06%) Microsoft Copilot
8 6 (4.55%) Azure AKS
8 6 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (3.79%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (3.79%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (3.03%) Amazon S3
10 4 (3.03%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (3.03%) Route 53
10 4 (3.03%) Snowflake
11 3 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (2.27%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.33%) DNS
2 9 (6.82%) Network Security
3 7 (5.30%) Firewall
3 7 (5.30%) TCP/IP
4 6 (4.55%) DHCP
5 5 (3.79%) Cisco ISE
5 5 (3.79%) FTP
5 5 (3.79%) HTTP
5 5 (3.79%) SMTP
5 5 (3.79%) SSL
6 4 (3.03%) VPN
7 3 (2.27%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (1.52%) ADSL
8 2 (1.52%) Bluetooth
8 2 (1.52%) IPsec
9 1 (0.76%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.76%) InfiniBand
9 1 (0.76%) Internet
9 1 (0.76%) Modbus
9 1 (0.76%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (12.88%) Power BI
2 11 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 7 (5.30%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (4.55%) SQL Server
5 5 (3.79%) Metadata
6 4 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (3.03%) MySQL
7 3 (2.27%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.52%) Data Vault
8 2 (1.52%) InfluxDB
8 2 (1.52%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.52%) SAP HANA
8 2 (1.52%) Sybase ASE
9 1 (0.76%) MS Access
9 1 (0.76%) Parquet
9 1 (0.76%) Redis
9 1 (0.76%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.76%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 17 (12.88%) Git
2 7 (5.30%) GitLab
3 6 (4.55%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.79%) JUnit
4 5 (3.79%) SonarQube
5 4 (3.03%) JIRA
6 3 (2.27%) IntelliJ
7 2 (1.52%) Android Studio
7 2 (1.52%) Appium
7 2 (1.52%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.52%) Postman
7 2 (1.52%) Selenium
7 2 (1.52%) Sourcetree
7 2 (1.52%) Xcode
8 1 (0.76%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.76%) MLflow
8 1 (0.76%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.76%) Robot Framework
General
1 40 (30.30%) Social Skills
2 16 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (12.12%) Finance
3 10 (7.58%) Documentation Skills
4 9 (6.82%) Electronics
5 6 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (4.55%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (2.27%) Aerospace
6 3 (2.27%) Multimedia
7 2 (1.52%) Advertising
7 2 (1.52%) Automotive
7 2 (1.52%) Banking
7 2 (1.52%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.52%) Retail
8 1 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.76%) Law
8 1 (0.76%) Marketing
8 1 (0.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (10.61%) Software Engineer
2 9 (6.82%) Data Engineer
3 8 (6.06%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 8 (6.06%) Developer
3 8 (6.06%) Python Engineer
3 8 (6.06%) Senior
4 7 (5.30%) Analyst
5 5 (3.79%) Architect
5 5 (3.79%) JavaScript Engineer
5 5 (3.79%) Lead
5 5 (3.79%) PowerShell Engineer
5 5 (3.79%) SOC Analyst
5 5 (3.79%) Systems Engineer
5 5 (3.79%) VMware Engineer
6 4 (3.03%) Audio Engineer
6 4 (3.03%) Automation Engineer
6 4 (3.03%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (3.03%) Java Developer
7 3 (2.27%) Service Manager
7 3 (2.27%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (13.64%) REST
2 10 (7.58%) PyTorch
2 10 (7.58%) TensorFlow
3 9 (6.82%) Node.js
4 8 (6.06%) scikit-learn
4 8 (6.06%) Spring
4 8 (6.06%) Spring Boot
5 7 (5.30%) JSON
6 6 (4.55%) LDAP
7 5 (3.79%) .NET
7 5 (3.79%) RESTful
8 3 (2.27%) Kafka
9 2 (1.52%) ADO
9 2 (1.52%) Flask
9 2 (1.52%) GraphQL
9 2 (1.52%) OAuth
9 2 (1.52%) OAuth2
9 2 (1.52%) PySpark
9 2 (1.52%) pytest
9 2 (1.52%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.82%) Cloud Native
1 9 (6.82%) Cyber Threat
2 8 (6.06%) Algorithms
2 8 (6.06%) Robotics
3 6 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (4.55%) CRISPR
3 6 (4.55%) Embedded Systems
3 6 (4.55%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.79%) Augmented Reality
4 5 (3.79%) CSOC
4 5 (3.79%) Cyberattack
4 5 (3.79%) FPGA
4 5 (3.79%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (3.79%) PKI
4 5 (3.79%) Security Operations Centre
4 5 (3.79%) Virtual Reality
5 4 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (3.03%) Grid Computing
5 4 (3.03%) Private Cloud
5 4 (3.03%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (18.94%) Linux
2 10 (7.58%) Windows
3 5 (3.79%) Android
4 3 (2.27%) Robot Operating System
4 3 (2.27%) Unix
4 3 (2.27%) VMS
4 3 (2.27%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.76%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (28.79%) CI/CD
1 38 (28.79%) DevOps
2 29 (21.97%) AI
3 28 (21.21%) Analytics
4 27 (20.45%) Machine Learning
4 27 (20.45%) Software Engineering
5 20 (15.15%) Data Pipeline
5 20 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (13.64%) Business Intelligence
7 17 (12.88%) Agile
7 17 (12.88%) ETL
7 17 (12.88%) Test Automation
8 16 (12.12%) Computer Science
8 16 (12.12%) Data Science
8 16 (12.12%) Validation
9 15 (11.36%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (10.61%) LLM
11 13 (9.85%) Cybersecurity
11 13 (9.85%) Prompt Engineering
12 12 (9.09%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 27 (20.45%) SQL
2 21 (15.91%) PowerShell
3 16 (12.12%) Java
4 14 (10.61%) C++
5 11 (8.33%) C
6 10 (7.58%) Bash
7 9 (6.82%) JavaScript
8 8 (6.06%) C#
8 8 (6.06%) R
9 3 (2.27%) Embedded C
9 3 (2.27%) Go
9 3 (2.27%) Ruby
10 2 (1.52%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (1.52%) MATLAB
10 2 (1.52%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.52%) SystemVerilog
11 1 (0.76%) Perl
11 1 (0.76%) PHP
11 1 (0.76%) Tcl
11 1 (0.76%) VB
Qualifications
1 27 (20.45%) Degree
2 24 (18.18%) Security Cleared
3 16 (12.12%) SC Cleared
4 13 (9.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (9.09%) DV Cleared
6 5 (3.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (3.03%) Master's Degree
8 3 (2.27%) ISTQB
8 3 (2.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.52%) CISSP
10 1 (0.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.76%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.76%) CCIE
10 1 (0.76%) CCSP
10 1 (0.76%) CISM
10 1 (0.76%) CRISC
10 1 (0.76%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.30%) QA
2 6 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (3.79%) Data Quality
4 4 (3.03%) GDPR
5 3 (2.27%) NIST
6 2 (1.52%) ISA99
6 2 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (1.52%) NCSC
6 2 (1.52%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.76%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.76%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.76%) MIL-STD-1553
7 1 (0.76%) SLA
7 1 (0.76%) SOC 2
System Software
1 20 (15.15%) Docker
2 6 (4.55%) Firmware
3 5 (3.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (3.03%) GPFS
4 4 (3.03%) Lustre
4 4 (3.03%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 3 (2.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (14.39%) Kubernetes
2 12 (9.09%) Terraform
3 9 (6.82%) Ansible
4 5 (3.79%) vRealize
5 4 (3.03%) Grafana
6 3 (2.27%) HAProxy
6 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (2.27%) Stealthwatch
6 3 (2.27%) vCenter Server
7 2 (1.52%) Kibana
7 2 (1.52%) Puppet
7 2 (1.52%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.76%) Consul
8 1 (0.76%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.76%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.76%) Salt
Vendors
1 23 (17.42%) Microsoft
2 18 (13.64%) Google
3 11 (8.33%) Foundry
3 11 (8.33%) OpenAI
4 10 (7.58%) VMware
5 7 (5.30%) Databricks
6 5 (3.79%) Checkmarx
6 5 (3.79%) Cisco
7 3 (2.27%) Citrix
7 3 (2.27%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.27%) Fortinet
7 3 (2.27%) Infoblox
7 3 (2.27%) Oracle
7 3 (2.27%) SAP
7 3 (2.27%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.27%) Wyse
8 2 (1.52%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.52%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.52%) Sybase
9 1 (0.76%) Adobe