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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 16 26
Rank change year-on-year +1 +10 -2
Contract jobs citing Python 139 90 121
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 7.05% 9.31% 6.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.57% 35.57% 27.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 61 83
10th Percentile £313 £315 £313
25th Percentile £406 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% +10.00% -10.00%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £563
90th Percentile £638 £675 £648
England median daily rate £518 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -8.20% +2.50% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 4 9
10th Percentile £30.75 £39.88 £26.10
25th Percentile £39.69 £47.19 £51.25
Median hourly rate £60.25 £53.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.09% -14.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £75.31 £55.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £77.50 - £67.65
England median hourly rate £54.25 £50.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +8.50% -4.76% -19.23%

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 414 253 447
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 20.98% 26.16% 23.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 140 203
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.21% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £556
90th Percentile £688 £675 £635
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -5.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 59 138
10th Percentile £53.53 £34.33 £52.50
25th Percentile £62.97 £59.00 £60.00
Median hourly rate £68.21 £67.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £95.00 £90.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.17% +5.00% -4.00%

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 27 March 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 27 March 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 27 March 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 +12 66 £475 -3.06% 86
Hertfordshire -25 29 £550 -4.35% 30
Bedfordshire +5 18 £625 +13.64% 19
Essex -3 11 £500 +57.12% 45
Suffolk -2 9 £550 +25.71% 15
Norfolk -21 6 £475 - 20
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 (3.60%) OpenStack
2 2 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.44%) Confluence
2 2 (1.44%) NetWeaver
3 1 (0.72%) Apache
3 1 (0.72%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 10 (7.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (6.47%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (5.04%) Weka
4 1 (0.72%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.72%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 2 (1.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.72%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 47 (33.81%) Azure
2 39 (28.06%) AWS
3 25 (17.99%) GCP
4 19 (13.67%) Power Platform
5 15 (10.79%) GitHub
5 15 (10.79%) Serverless
6 11 (7.91%) Azure AI
6 11 (7.91%) Azure AKS
6 11 (7.91%) PaaS
7 9 (6.47%) Copilot Studio
7 9 (6.47%) Microsoft Copilot
8 8 (5.76%) Azure Functions
9 7 (5.04%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (5.04%) GitHub Copilot
10 5 (3.60%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (3.60%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (3.60%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (3.60%) Route 53
11 4 (2.88%) Amazon S3
11 4 (2.88%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.91%) DNS
2 8 (5.76%) Network Security
3 7 (5.04%) TCP/IP
4 5 (3.60%) Cisco ISE
4 5 (3.60%) DHCP
4 5 (3.60%) Firewall
4 5 (3.60%) FTP
4 5 (3.60%) HTTP
4 5 (3.60%) SMTP
4 5 (3.60%) SSL
5 4 (2.88%) VPN
6 3 (2.16%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (1.44%) ADSL
7 2 (1.44%) Bluetooth
7 2 (1.44%) IPsec
8 1 (0.72%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.72%) Internet
8 1 (0.72%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.72%) Modbus
8 1 (0.72%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (12.23%) Power BI
2 12 (8.63%) NoSQL
3 5 (3.60%) MySQL
4 4 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.88%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.16%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (2.16%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (2.16%) Metadata
6 2 (1.44%) Data Vault
6 2 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.44%) MS Access
6 2 (1.44%) SAP HANA
6 2 (1.44%) Sybase ASE
7 1 (0.72%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.72%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.72%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.72%) MaxDB
7 1 (0.72%) Parquet
7 1 (0.72%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (10.79%) Git
2 8 (5.76%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.32%) GitLab
4 4 (2.88%) JIRA
4 4 (2.88%) JUnit
4 4 (2.88%) SonarQube
5 3 (2.16%) Selenium
6 2 (1.44%) Android Studio
6 2 (1.44%) Appium
6 2 (1.44%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.44%) IntelliJ
6 2 (1.44%) Postman
6 2 (1.44%) Robot Framework
6 2 (1.44%) Sourcetree
6 2 (1.44%) Xcode
7 1 (0.72%) Locust
7 1 (0.72%) MLflow
7 1 (0.72%) Newman
7 1 (0.72%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.72%) TestCafe
General
1 47 (33.81%) Social Skills
2 16 (11.51%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (11.51%) Finance
3 13 (9.35%) Documentation Skills
4 10 (7.19%) Electronics
5 8 (5.76%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (5.04%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (2.88%) Multimedia
8 3 (2.16%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.16%) Law
9 2 (1.44%) Advertising
9 2 (1.44%) Automotive
9 2 (1.44%) Banking
10 1 (0.72%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.72%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.72%) Marketing
10 1 (0.72%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (10.07%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 13 (9.35%) Software Engineer
3 12 (8.63%) Developer
4 11 (7.91%) Senior
5 7 (5.04%) Analyst
5 7 (5.04%) Data Engineer
5 7 (5.04%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (4.32%) Lead
7 5 (3.60%) Audio Engineer
7 5 (3.60%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (3.60%) SOC Analyst
7 5 (3.60%) Test Engineer
8 4 (2.88%) Architect
8 4 (2.88%) Data Scientist
8 4 (2.88%) Java Developer
8 4 (2.88%) Systems Engineer
9 3 (2.16%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
9 3 (2.16%) Automation Engineer
9 3 (2.16%) Network Services Manager
9 3 (2.16%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (16.55%) PyTorch
2 22 (15.83%) TensorFlow
3 20 (14.39%) REST
4 14 (10.07%) RESTful
4 14 (10.07%) scikit-learn
5 13 (9.35%) .NET
6 8 (5.76%) A2A Protocol
6 8 (5.76%) Model Context Protocol
6 8 (5.76%) Node.js
7 7 (5.04%) JSON
7 7 (5.04%) Semantic Kernel
8 6 (4.32%) LDAP
8 6 (4.32%) Spring
8 6 (4.32%) Spring Boot
9 5 (3.60%) Flash
9 5 (3.60%) pytest
10 3 (2.16%) Kafka
11 2 (1.44%) ADO
11 2 (1.44%) GraphQL
11 2 (1.44%) React
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.67%) Cloud Native
2 12 (8.63%) Algorithms
3 9 (6.47%) Cyber Threat
4 7 (5.04%) FPGA
4 7 (5.04%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (4.32%) Acoustics
5 6 (4.32%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (4.32%) Management Information System
6 5 (3.60%) Augmented Reality
6 5 (3.60%) CRISPR
6 5 (3.60%) CSOC
6 5 (3.60%) Cyberattack
6 5 (3.60%) Embedded Systems
6 5 (3.60%) Grid Computing
6 5 (3.60%) Private Cloud
6 5 (3.60%) Public Cloud
6 5 (3.60%) Robotics
6 5 (3.60%) Security Operations Centre
6 5 (3.60%) VHDL
6 5 (3.60%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 24 (17.27%) Linux
2 10 (7.19%) Windows
3 5 (3.60%) Android
4 3 (2.16%) Robot Operating System
4 3 (2.16%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.44%) Unix
5 2 (1.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (33.09%) AI
2 44 (31.65%) Machine Learning
3 42 (30.22%) DevOps
4 35 (25.18%) CI/CD
5 31 (22.30%) Problem-Solving
5 31 (22.30%) Software Engineering
6 26 (18.71%) Agile
7 25 (17.99%) Analytics
7 25 (17.99%) Test Automation
8 23 (16.55%) Data Pipeline
9 22 (15.83%) LLM
10 21 (15.11%) Prompt Engineering
11 19 (13.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
12 18 (12.95%) Business Intelligence
12 18 (12.95%) Data Science
13 16 (11.51%) Validation
14 14 (10.07%) ETL
14 14 (10.07%) MLOps
15 13 (9.35%) Microservices
16 12 (8.63%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 24 (17.27%) SQL
2 17 (12.23%) C++
3 16 (11.51%) Java
3 16 (11.51%) PowerShell
4 12 (8.63%) C
5 11 (7.91%) Bash
6 7 (5.04%) C#
6 7 (5.04%) JavaScript
7 6 (4.32%) R
8 4 (2.88%) Ruby
9 3 (2.16%) Embedded C
10 2 (1.44%) Go
10 2 (1.44%) MATLAB
10 2 (1.44%) Perl
10 2 (1.44%) SystemVerilog
11 1 (0.72%) PHP
11 1 (0.72%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.72%) Tcl
11 1 (0.72%) VB
Qualifications
1 25 (17.99%) Degree
2 24 (17.27%) Security Cleared
3 15 (10.79%) SC Cleared
4 11 (7.91%) DV Cleared
5 9 (6.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (5.76%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 4 (2.88%) Master's Degree
8 3 (2.16%) AWS Certification
8 3 (2.16%) ISTQB
8 3 (2.16%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (1.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.72%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.72%) CCIE
10 1 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.72%) CISSP
10 1 (0.72%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.72%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.19%) QA
2 7 (5.04%) EU AI Act
2 7 (5.04%) NIST
3 5 (3.60%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.16%) GDPR
5 2 (1.44%) ISA99
5 2 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (1.44%) NCSC
5 2 (1.44%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.72%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.72%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (15.11%) Docker
2 7 (5.04%) Firmware
2 7 (5.04%) GPFS
2 7 (5.04%) Lustre
2 7 (5.04%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 4 (2.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.16%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (16.55%) Kubernetes
2 12 (8.63%) Ansible
2 12 (8.63%) Terraform
3 4 (2.88%) Grafana
3 4 (2.88%) Puppet
4 3 (2.16%) HAProxy
4 3 (2.16%) Salt
4 3 (2.16%) Stealthwatch
5 2 (1.44%) Kibana
5 2 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.44%) Rundeck
5 2 (1.44%) vCenter Server
5 2 (1.44%) vRealize
6 1 (0.72%) Consul
6 1 (0.72%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.72%) Nagios
6 1 (0.72%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.72%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 33 (23.74%) Microsoft
2 18 (12.95%) Foundry
3 17 (12.23%) Google
4 12 (8.63%) OpenAI
5 6 (4.32%) VMware
6 5 (3.60%) Cisco
6 5 (3.60%) Databricks
7 4 (2.88%) Checkmarx
7 4 (2.88%) SAP
7 4 (2.88%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.16%) Dynatrace
8 3 (2.16%) Fortinet
8 3 (2.16%) Infoblox
8 3 (2.16%) Oracle
9 2 (1.44%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.44%) Citrix
9 2 (1.44%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.44%) Pega
9 2 (1.44%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.44%) Sybase