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 13 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 19 24
Rank change year-on-year 0 +5 -1
Contract jobs citing Python 132 77 120
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 6.28% 8.24% 6.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.07% 32.08% 27.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 50 81
10th Percentile £279 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £345 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £438
Median % change year-on-year - +14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £573 £619 £573
90th Percentile £638 £675 £650
England median daily rate £518 £554 £550
% change year-on-year -6.50% +0.64% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 5 9
10th Percentile £30.19 £35.59 £26.10
25th Percentile £46.44 £36.48 £51.25
Median hourly rate £60.25 £52.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.76% -16.00% -
75th Percentile £75.00 £55.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £76.88 - £67.65
England median hourly rate £55.50 £47.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +16.84% -17.39% -11.54%

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 439 240 440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 20.89% 25.67% 22.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 130 199
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £548 £563
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -5.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 60 141
10th Percentile £55.00 £34.66 £52.50
25th Percentile £62.97 £59.00 £60.00
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 £75.25 £90.50 £90.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £61.60
% change year-on-year +3.59% +1.87% -1.44%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +20 57 £413 -17.91% 97
Hertfordshire -25 29 £507 -7.82% 31
Bedfordshire +9 19 £625 +11.11% 15
Essex -6 12 £500 +57.12% 33
Suffolk -3 9 £550 +49.15% 16
Norfolk -20 6 £475 - 17
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 3 (2.27%) OpenStack
2 2 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.52%) Confluence
2 2 (1.52%) NetWeaver
3 1 (0.76%) Apache
3 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
1 34 (25.76%) Azure
2 21 (15.91%) GCP
3 18 (13.64%) Power Platform
4 12 (9.09%) GitHub
5 10 (7.58%) Azure AI
6 9 (6.82%) Serverless
7 8 (6.06%) Copilot Studio
7 8 (6.06%) Microsoft Copilot
8 7 (5.30%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (3.79%) Azure AKS
9 5 (3.79%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (3.03%) PaaS
10 4 (3.03%) Route 53
11 3 (2.27%) Amazon S3
11 3 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (2.27%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (2.27%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.58%) DNS
2 8 (6.06%) Network Security
3 5 (3.79%) Cisco ISE
3 5 (3.79%) DHCP
3 5 (3.79%) Firewall
3 5 (3.79%) FTP
3 5 (3.79%) HTTP
3 5 (3.79%) SMTP
3 5 (3.79%) SSL
3 5 (3.79%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.27%) VPN
4 3 (2.27%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (1.52%) ADSL
5 2 (1.52%) Bluetooth
5 2 (1.52%) IPsec
6 1 (0.76%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.76%) Internet
6 1 (0.76%) Modbus
6 1 (0.76%) SpaceWire
6 1 (0.76%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (12.12%) Power BI
2 11 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 7 (5.30%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.79%) SQL Server
5 4 (3.03%) Metadata
5 4 (3.03%) MySQL
6 3 (2.27%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.52%) Data Vault
7 2 (1.52%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.52%) SAP HANA
7 2 (1.52%) Sybase ASE
8 1 (0.76%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.76%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.76%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.76%) MaxDB
8 1 (0.76%) Parquet
8 1 (0.76%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (12.88%) Git
2 7 (5.30%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.55%) GitLab
4 5 (3.79%) JUnit
4 5 (3.79%) SonarQube
5 4 (3.03%) JIRA
6 3 (2.27%) IntelliJ
6 3 (2.27%) Selenium
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%) Robot Framework
7 2 (1.52%) Sourcetree
7 2 (1.52%) Xcode
8 1 (0.76%) Locust
8 1 (0.76%) MLflow
8 1 (0.76%) Newman
8 1 (0.76%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.76%) TestCafe
General
1 42 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 16 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (11.36%) Finance
4 11 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (6.06%) Electronics
6 7 (5.30%) Pharmaceutical
7 6 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.27%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.27%) Multimedia
9 2 (1.52%) Advertising
9 2 (1.52%) Automotive
9 2 (1.52%) Banking
9 2 (1.52%) Law
9 2 (1.52%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.76%) Marketing
10 1 (0.76%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (10.61%) Software Engineer
2 11 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 10 (7.58%) Developer
4 9 (6.82%) Data Engineer
5 7 (5.30%) Analyst
6 6 (4.55%) Python Engineer
6 6 (4.55%) Senior
7 5 (3.79%) Lead
7 5 (3.79%) SOC Analyst
7 5 (3.79%) Systems Engineer
7 5 (3.79%) Test Engineer
8 4 (3.03%) Architect
8 4 (3.03%) Audio Engineer
8 4 (3.03%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (3.03%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (3.03%) Java Developer
8 4 (3.03%) JavaScript Engineer
8 4 (3.03%) PowerShell Engineer
8 4 (3.03%) VMware Engineer
9 3 (2.27%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (14.39%) REST
2 14 (10.61%) PyTorch
2 14 (10.61%) TensorFlow
3 11 (8.33%) scikit-learn
4 9 (6.82%) Node.js
5 8 (6.06%) Spring
5 8 (6.06%) Spring Boot
6 7 (5.30%) .NET
6 7 (5.30%) JSON
6 7 (5.30%) RESTful
7 5 (3.79%) LDAP
8 4 (3.03%) pytest
9 3 (2.27%) FastAPI
9 3 (2.27%) Flask
9 3 (2.27%) GraphQL
9 3 (2.27%) Kafka
10 2 (1.52%) A2A Protocol
10 2 (1.52%) AWS CDK
10 2 (1.52%) Model Context Protocol
10 2 (1.52%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.82%) Algorithms
2 9 (6.82%) Cyber Threat
3 8 (6.06%) Robotics
4 6 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (4.55%) CRISPR
4 6 (4.55%) Embedded Systems
4 6 (4.55%) Management Information System
5 5 (3.79%) Augmented Reality
5 5 (3.79%) CSOC
5 5 (3.79%) Cyberattack
5 5 (3.79%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (3.79%) Security Operations Centre
5 5 (3.79%) Virtual Reality
6 4 (3.03%) Acoustics
6 4 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (3.03%) FPGA
6 4 (3.03%) PKI
7 3 (2.27%) Private Cloud
7 3 (2.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (16.67%) Linux
2 10 (7.58%) Windows
3 5 (3.79%) Android
4 3 (2.27%) Robot Operating System
4 3 (2.27%) Unix
5 2 (1.52%) VMS
5 2 (1.52%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.76%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (28.03%) CI/CD
1 37 (28.03%) DevOps
2 33 (25.00%) AI
3 32 (24.24%) Machine Learning
4 31 (23.48%) Software Engineering
5 25 (18.94%) Analytics
5 25 (18.94%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (15.91%) Data Pipeline
6 21 (15.91%) Test Automation
7 17 (12.88%) Agile
7 17 (12.88%) Business Intelligence
7 17 (12.88%) Data Science
7 17 (12.88%) ETL
8 16 (12.12%) Validation
9 15 (11.36%) Computer Science
9 15 (11.36%) LLM
10 14 (10.61%) Prompt Engineering
11 13 (9.85%) Cybersecurity
11 13 (9.85%) MLOps
12 12 (9.09%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 25 (18.94%) SQL
2 18 (13.64%) PowerShell
3 16 (12.12%) Java
4 12 (9.09%) C++
5 10 (7.58%) C
6 9 (6.82%) JavaScript
7 8 (6.06%) Bash
8 7 (5.30%) R
9 6 (4.55%) C#
10 3 (2.27%) Embedded C
10 3 (2.27%) Go
11 2 (1.52%) Ruby
11 2 (1.52%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.52%) SystemVerilog
12 1 (0.76%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.76%) PHP
12 1 (0.76%) Tcl
12 1 (0.76%) VB
Qualifications
1 24 (18.18%) Degree
2 23 (17.42%) Security Cleared
3 15 (11.36%) SC Cleared
4 12 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (8.33%) DV Cleared
6 4 (3.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (2.27%) ISTQB
7 3 (2.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 3 (2.27%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.76%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.76%) CCIE
9 1 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.76%) CISSP
9 1 (0.76%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.58%) QA
2 5 (3.79%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.27%) GDPR
3 3 (2.27%) NIST
4 2 (1.52%) EU AI Act
4 2 (1.52%) ISA99
4 2 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (1.52%) NCSC
4 2 (1.52%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.76%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.76%) MIL-STD-1553
5 1 (0.76%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (13.64%) Docker
2 5 (3.79%) Firmware
3 4 (3.03%) GPFS
3 4 (3.03%) Lustre
3 4 (3.03%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 4 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (13.64%) Kubernetes
2 10 (7.58%) Terraform
3 9 (6.82%) Ansible
4 4 (3.03%) Grafana
4 4 (3.03%) vRealize
5 3 (2.27%) HAProxy
5 3 (2.27%) Stealthwatch
6 2 (1.52%) Kibana
6 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.52%) Rundeck
6 2 (1.52%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.76%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.76%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.76%) Puppet
7 1 (0.76%) Salt
Vendors
1 23 (17.42%) Microsoft
2 17 (12.88%) Google
3 12 (9.09%) Foundry
4 11 (8.33%) OpenAI
5 8 (6.06%) VMware
6 7 (5.30%) Databricks
7 5 (3.79%) Checkmarx
7 5 (3.79%) Cisco
8 4 (3.03%) SAP
8 4 (3.03%) ServiceNow
9 3 (2.27%) Dynatrace
9 3 (2.27%) Fortinet
9 3 (2.27%) Infoblox
9 3 (2.27%) Oracle
10 2 (1.52%) Atlassian
10 2 (1.52%) Citrix
10 2 (1.52%) Pega
10 2 (1.52%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.52%) Sybase
10 2 (1.52%) Wyse