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 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 9 33
Rank change year-on-year -15 +24 -14
Contract jobs citing Python 133 133 90
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 5.86% 11.23% 4.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.98% 34.55% 21.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 75 56
10th Percentile £300 £306 £334
25th Percentile £406 £371 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £513
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -1.95% +2.50%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £583
90th Percentile £605 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 10
10th Percentile £25.97 £34.95 £19.60
25th Percentile £38.41 £36.48 £34.38
Median hourly rate £53.75 £54.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.46% -6.09% -11.54%
75th Percentile £64.50 £55.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £59.80 £66.75
England median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.00% -23.08% -0.38%

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 459 385 411
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 20.22% 32.52% 21.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 198 171
10th Percentile £340 £306 £325
25th Percentile £413 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% +5.26% -1.55%
75th Percentile £589 £575 £574
90th Percentile £638 £633 £625
England median daily rate £520 £520 £540
% change year-on-year - -3.70% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 68 144
10th Percentile £55.65 £31.64 £52.50
25th Percentile £62.97 £54.81 £58.75
Median hourly rate £68.21 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.94% - -
75th Percentile £73.73 £74.06 £67.81
90th Percentile £75.00 £88.00 £80.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +3.17%

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 9 July 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 9 July 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 9 July 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 +9 49 £413 -17.91% 90
Hertfordshire -17 41 £550 - 34
Essex -17 17 £500 +57.01% 31
Bedfordshire -2 14 £500 -16.67% 15
Suffolk -14 6 £550 +83.33% 12
Norfolk -15 6 £425 -15.00% 7
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 5 (3.76%) OpenStack
2 4 (3.01%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.26%) Confluence
3 3 (2.26%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.75%) Apache
4 1 (0.75%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (4.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.26%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.50%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.75%) OrCAD
4 1 (0.75%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (3.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.75%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 40 (30.08%) Azure
2 32 (24.06%) AWS
3 15 (11.28%) GitHub
4 13 (9.77%) GCP
4 13 (9.77%) Serverless
5 11 (8.27%) Azure AKS
6 10 (7.52%) Power Platform
7 8 (6.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 8 (6.02%) Azure Service Bus
8 6 (4.51%) Azure Monitor
8 6 (4.51%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (3.76%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (3.76%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (3.76%) Azure Functions
10 4 (3.01%) Amazon S3
10 4 (3.01%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (3.01%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (3.01%) dbt
10 4 (3.01%) Route 53
10 4 (3.01%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.26%) SNMP
2 5 (3.76%) Cisco ISE
2 5 (3.76%) DNS
2 5 (3.76%) Firewall
2 5 (3.76%) Network Security
3 4 (3.01%) DHCP
3 4 (3.01%) TCP/IP
3 4 (3.01%) VPN
3 4 (3.01%) WAN
3 4 (3.01%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (1.50%) ADSL
4 2 (1.50%) BGP
4 2 (1.50%) Bluetooth
4 2 (1.50%) IPsec
4 2 (1.50%) LAN
4 2 (1.50%) MPLS
4 2 (1.50%) SSL
4 2 (1.50%) TACACS
5 1 (0.75%) InfiniBand
5 1 (0.75%) SpaceWire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.27%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (6.02%) Power BI
3 7 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (5.26%) MySQL
4 5 (3.76%) Metadata
4 5 (3.76%) Relational Database
4 5 (3.76%) SQL Server
5 4 (3.01%) InfluxDB
6 3 (2.26%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (2.26%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.26%) Redis
6 3 (2.26%) SAP HANA
6 3 (2.26%) Sybase ASE
7 2 (1.50%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.50%) Data Vault
7 2 (1.50%) MaxDB
7 2 (1.50%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.75%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.75%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 23 (17.29%) Git
2 7 (5.26%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.51%) GitLab
3 6 (4.51%) JIRA
4 5 (3.76%) JUnit
4 5 (3.76%) Postman
4 5 (3.76%) SonarQube
5 3 (2.26%) IntelliJ
5 3 (2.26%) Newman
6 2 (1.50%) Android Studio
6 2 (1.50%) Appium
6 2 (1.50%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.50%) Selenium
6 2 (1.50%) Sourcetree
6 2 (1.50%) Xcode
7 1 (0.75%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.75%) MLflow
7 1 (0.75%) ScriptRunner
General
1 32 (24.06%) Social Skills
2 16 (12.03%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (7.52%) Pharmaceutical
4 9 (6.77%) Finance
5 7 (5.26%) Electronics
6 3 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (2.26%) Retail
7 2 (1.50%) Advertising
7 2 (1.50%) Automotive
7 2 (1.50%) Banking
7 2 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.50%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.75%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.75%) Law
8 1 (0.75%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.75%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 19 (14.29%) Python Engineer
2 14 (10.53%) Data Engineer
3 11 (8.27%) Software Engineer
4 10 (7.52%) Developer
5 7 (5.26%) Consultant
5 7 (5.26%) Senior
6 6 (4.51%) JavaScript Engineer
6 6 (4.51%) PowerShell Engineer
6 6 (4.51%) VMware Engineer
7 5 (3.76%) Architect
7 5 (3.76%) Lead
7 5 (3.76%) Systems Engineer
8 4 (3.01%) Java Developer
9 3 (2.26%) Network Engineer
9 3 (2.26%) Network Manager
9 3 (2.26%) Principal Engineer
9 3 (2.26%) SAP Engineer
9 3 (2.26%) Service Manager
9 3 (2.26%) Support Engineer
9 3 (2.26%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (8.27%) REST
2 8 (6.02%) Spring
2 8 (6.02%) Spring Boot
3 7 (5.26%) Node.js
4 6 (4.51%) JSON
4 6 (4.51%) OpenTelemetry
4 6 (4.51%) RESTful
5 5 (3.76%) eBPF
5 5 (3.76%) pytest
6 4 (3.01%) FastAPI
6 4 (3.01%) Kafka
6 4 (3.01%) OAuth
6 4 (3.01%) Pandas
7 3 (2.26%) Celery
7 3 (2.26%) Django
7 3 (2.26%) Hibernate
7 3 (2.26%) JWT
7 3 (2.26%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (2.26%) SQLAlchemy
7 3 (2.26%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.28%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.02%) CRISPR
3 7 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (5.26%) Embedded Systems
4 6 (4.51%) Algorithms
5 5 (3.76%) Robotics
6 4 (3.01%) Data Centre
6 4 (3.01%) Life Science
7 3 (2.26%) Acoustics
7 3 (2.26%) Augmented Reality
7 3 (2.26%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (2.26%) FPGA
7 3 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.26%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (2.26%) PKI
7 3 (2.26%) Private Cloud
7 3 (2.26%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.26%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.26%) Virtual Reality
7 3 (2.26%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 25 (18.80%) Linux
2 10 (7.52%) Windows
3 5 (3.76%) Android
3 5 (3.76%) Unix
4 3 (2.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.50%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.50%) VMS
5 2 (1.50%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.75%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (34.59%) CI/CD
2 32 (24.06%) DevOps
3 31 (23.31%) Data Pipeline
4 28 (21.05%) Software Engineering
5 22 (16.54%) ETL
6 20 (15.04%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (15.04%) Test Automation
7 19 (14.29%) AI
8 18 (13.53%) Infrastructure as Code
8 18 (13.53%) Validation
9 17 (12.78%) Agile
10 16 (12.03%) Analytics
11 14 (10.53%) Computer Science
11 14 (10.53%) Data Modelling
11 14 (10.53%) Machine Learning
12 13 (9.77%) Performance Tuning
13 11 (8.27%) Data Engineering
14 10 (7.52%) Data Governance
14 10 (7.52%) Data Science
14 10 (7.52%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 23 (17.29%) SQL
2 19 (14.29%) Java
3 18 (13.53%) PowerShell
4 15 (11.28%) Bash
5 12 (9.02%) C++
6 10 (7.52%) JavaScript
6 10 (7.52%) R
7 9 (6.77%) C
8 6 (4.51%) C#
9 4 (3.01%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (2.26%) Embedded C
10 3 (2.26%) Go
10 3 (2.26%) MATLAB
10 3 (2.26%) Ruby
11 2 (1.50%) Groovy
11 2 (1.50%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.75%) Cypher
12 1 (0.75%) Perl
12 1 (0.75%) SystemVerilog
12 1 (0.75%) VB
Qualifications
1 29 (21.80%) Security Cleared
2 22 (16.54%) Degree
3 18 (13.53%) SC Cleared
4 13 (9.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (6.02%) DV Cleared
6 7 (5.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 5 (3.76%) ISTQB
7 5 (3.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 3 (2.26%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.50%) CCIE
9 2 (1.50%) JNCIE
10 1 (0.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.75%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.75%) CCSP
10 1 (0.75%) CISM
10 1 (0.75%) CISSP
10 1 (0.75%) CRISC
10 1 (0.75%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.75%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.75%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.52%) Data Quality
2 9 (6.77%) QA
3 5 (3.76%) GDPR
3 5 (3.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.50%) ISA99
4 2 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (1.50%) NCSC
4 2 (1.50%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.75%) MIL-STD-1553
5 1 (0.75%) NIST
5 1 (0.75%) SLA
5 1 (0.75%) SOC 2
System Software
1 18 (13.53%) Docker
2 5 (3.76%) Firmware
3 4 (3.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.50%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.75%) GPFS
5 1 (0.75%) Lustre
5 1 (0.75%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.75%) Squid
5 1 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (15.04%) Ansible
2 19 (14.29%) Terraform
3 15 (11.28%) Kubernetes
4 10 (7.52%) Grafana
5 7 (5.26%) vRealize
6 6 (4.51%) Prometheus
7 4 (3.01%) Puppet
8 3 (2.26%) HAProxy
8 3 (2.26%) Stealthwatch
9 2 (1.50%) Kibana
9 2 (1.50%) Rundeck
10 1 (0.75%) Consul
10 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.75%) Packer
10 1 (0.75%) Salt
10 1 (0.75%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 14 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.52%) Databricks
2 10 (7.52%) VMware
3 9 (6.77%) Dynatrace
4 8 (6.02%) Google
5 7 (5.26%) Cisco
6 5 (3.76%) Checkmarx
6 5 (3.76%) Cribl.io
6 5 (3.76%) SAP
6 5 (3.76%) Splunk
7 4 (3.01%) Fortinet
7 4 (3.01%) OpenAI
7 4 (3.01%) Oracle
8 3 (2.26%) Atlassian
8 3 (2.26%) Foundry
8 3 (2.26%) Infoblox
8 3 (2.26%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.26%) Sybase
9 2 (1.50%) Juniper
9 2 (1.50%) NetApp