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 16 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 8 21
Rank change year-on-year -17 +13 +3
Contract jobs citing Python 140 167 97
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 5.82% 12.04% 6.72%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.24% 40.83% 28.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 81 59
10th Percentile £350 £305 £308
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £503 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.98% +0.50% -
75th Percentile £550 £613 £594
90th Percentile £755 £675 £638
England median daily rate £550 £525 £585
% change year-on-year +4.76% -10.26% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 23 6
10th Percentile £23.29 - £17.99
25th Percentile £51.50 £41.25 £26.88
Median hourly rate £60.81 £54.00 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +12.61% +0.47% -25.86%
75th Percentile £88.74 £75.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £92.11 £77.25 -
England median hourly rate £63.31 £50.00 £68.13
% change year-on-year +26.62% -26.61% +4.81%

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 463 409 341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 19.24% 29.49% 23.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 177 155
10th Percentile £350 £331 £299
25th Percentile £410 £438 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £503 £420
Median % change year-on-year +0.90% +19.64% -15.58%
75th Percentile £593 £575 £550
90th Percentile £675 £655 £600
England median daily rate £525 £513 £543
% change year-on-year +2.44% -5.53% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 78 65
10th Percentile £53.00 £33.70 £49.00
25th Percentile £65.00 £52.39 £60.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - -5.80%
75th Percentile £75.00 £72.81 £66.00
90th Percentile £84.00 £78.25 £80.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £59.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.17% -9.23% +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 16 October 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 16 October 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 16 October 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
Hertfordshire -11 60 £550 - 19
Cambridgeshire -1 40 £475 +5.56% 68
Suffolk 0 23 £367 +22.33% 8
Essex -28 8 £350 -45.40% 8
Bedfordshire -7 7 £350 -41.67% 5
Norfolk -5 2 £400 -15.79% 6
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 9 (6.43%) OpenStack
2 7 (5.00%) IIS
3 5 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.14%) Apache
4 3 (2.14%) ArcGIS
4 3 (2.14%) Confluence
5 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.43%) SAS
5 2 (1.43%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.71%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.71%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 4 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (4.29%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 41 (29.29%) Azure
2 25 (17.86%) AWS
3 16 (11.43%) GitHub
4 14 (10.00%) GCP
5 12 (8.57%) Power Platform
6 11 (7.86%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (6.43%) Azure AKS
8 7 (5.00%) Serverless
9 6 (4.29%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (3.57%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (2.86%) Azure Functions
11 4 (2.86%) OpenShift
11 4 (2.86%) Power Automate
11 4 (2.86%) Snowflake
12 3 (2.14%) Entra ID
12 3 (2.14%) Google Workspace
12 3 (2.14%) IaaS
12 3 (2.14%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (12.86%) Wi-Fi
2 15 (10.71%) Broadband
2 15 (10.71%) IPv4
2 15 (10.71%) IPv6
3 14 (10.00%) 5G
3 14 (10.00%) TCP/IP
4 13 (9.29%) 4G
5 12 (8.57%) HTTP
6 9 (6.43%) xDSL
7 8 (5.71%) DNS
7 8 (5.71%) PPP
7 8 (5.71%) UPnP
8 7 (5.00%) SNMP
8 7 (5.00%) Wireless
9 6 (4.29%) WAN
10 5 (3.57%) Firewall
10 5 (3.57%) Network Security
11 4 (2.86%) BGP
11 4 (2.86%) SSH
12 3 (2.14%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.29%) PostgreSQL
1 13 (9.29%) Relational Database
2 12 (8.57%) Power BI
3 11 (7.86%) MySQL
4 7 (5.00%) BigQuery
5 6 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (4.29%) InfluxDB
5 6 (4.29%) Looker
5 6 (4.29%) Redis
6 4 (2.86%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.86%) NoSQL
7 3 (2.14%) Geospatial Data
7 3 (2.14%) GIS
7 3 (2.14%) Metadata
7 3 (2.14%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.43%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.43%) Power Query
8 2 (1.43%) TimescaleDB
9 1 (0.71%) Flink
9 1 (0.71%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 38 (27.14%) Git
2 25 (17.86%) JIRA
3 20 (14.29%) GitLab
4 13 (9.29%) Jenkins
5 5 (3.57%) Robot Framework
6 4 (2.86%) Newman
6 4 (2.86%) Postman
7 3 (2.14%) Artifactory
7 3 (2.14%) Selenium
8 2 (1.43%) Gerrit
8 2 (1.43%) JMeter
8 2 (1.43%) Locust
8 2 (1.43%) TestCafe
9 1 (0.71%) eggPlant
9 1 (0.71%) ScriptRunner
9 1 (0.71%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.71%) Tricentis qTest
9 1 (0.71%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.71%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 30 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
2 26 (18.57%) Social Skills
3 24 (17.14%) Telecoms
4 9 (6.43%) Law
5 8 (5.71%) Pharmaceutical
6 7 (5.00%) Aerospace
7 6 (4.29%) Back Office
7 6 (4.29%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.14%) Retail
9 2 (1.43%) Automotive
9 2 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.43%) Electronics
9 2 (1.43%) Finance
9 2 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.43%) Marketing
10 1 (0.71%) Legal
10 1 (0.71%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (13.57%) Developer
1 19 (13.57%) Python Engineer
2 14 (10.00%) Data Engineer
3 11 (7.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (7.14%) Senior
4 10 (7.14%) Test Engineer
5 8 (5.71%) Security Engineer
6 7 (5.00%) Applications Developer
6 7 (5.00%) Broadband Engineer
6 7 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 7 (5.00%) Software Engineer
7 6 (4.29%) Applications Specialist
7 6 (4.29%) Consultant
7 6 (4.29%) Python Developer
7 6 (4.29%) Report Developer
7 6 (4.29%) Report Specialist
8 5 (3.57%) Customer Engineer
8 5 (3.57%) Lead
8 5 (3.57%) Technical Engineer
9 4 (2.86%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (13.57%) Terraform
2 16 (11.43%) REST
3 10 (7.14%) Kafka
4 9 (6.43%) FastAPI
4 9 (6.43%) LDAP
4 9 (6.43%) pytest
5 8 (5.71%) Pandas
6 7 (5.00%) JSON
6 7 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
6 7 (5.00%) Regular Expression
6 7 (5.00%) RESTful
7 5 (3.57%) eBPF
7 5 (3.57%) OpenTelemetry
7 5 (3.57%) SQLAlchemy
8 4 (2.86%) CSS
8 4 (2.86%) Flask
8 4 (2.86%) HTML
8 4 (2.86%) Jinja
8 4 (2.86%) XML
8 4 (2.86%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.43%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (5.71%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.71%) CMDB
2 8 (5.71%) IoT
2 8 (5.71%) Wiki
3 7 (5.00%) Cyber Threat
3 7 (5.00%) Embedded Systems
4 6 (4.29%) Life Science
4 6 (4.29%) Replication
5 5 (3.57%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.86%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.86%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.14%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.14%) Private Cloud
7 3 (2.14%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.43%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.43%) Omics
8 2 (1.43%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 37 (26.43%) Linux
2 15 (10.71%) Windows
3 10 (7.14%) VMS
4 7 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (2.86%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.86%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.43%) CentOS
6 2 (1.43%) Rocky
6 2 (1.43%) Unix
7 1 (0.71%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 36 (25.71%) Validation
3 32 (22.86%) Test Automation
4 31 (22.14%) Data Modelling
4 31 (22.14%) DevOps
5 28 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
6 26 (18.57%) Agile
6 26 (18.57%) Root Cause Analysis
7 25 (17.86%) ETL
8 23 (16.43%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (15.00%) AI
10 19 (13.57%) Scrum
10 19 (13.57%) Software Engineering
11 17 (12.14%) Analytics
11 17 (12.14%) Migration
12 16 (11.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 15 (10.71%) Infrastructure as Code
14 14 (10.00%) Machine Learning
15 13 (9.29%) Observability
15 13 (9.29%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 35 (25.00%) SQL
2 24 (17.14%) PowerShell
3 20 (14.29%) Bash
4 11 (7.86%) JavaScript
5 8 (5.71%) Java
6 6 (4.29%) C++
6 6 (4.29%) R
7 5 (3.57%) C#
7 5 (3.57%) MATLAB
8 4 (2.86%) Groovy
8 4 (2.86%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.14%) C
9 3 (2.14%) Google Apps Script
9 3 (2.14%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (1.43%) Bicep
11 1 (0.71%) Cypher
11 1 (0.71%) Perl
11 1 (0.71%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (26.43%) Security Cleared
2 29 (20.71%) SC Cleared
3 19 (13.57%) Degree
4 9 (6.43%) DV Cleared
5 8 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.57%) ISTQB
6 5 (3.57%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (2.86%) PhD
7 4 (2.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (2.14%) CCIE
8 3 (2.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (1.43%) JNCIE
9 2 (1.43%) MOS
9 2 (1.43%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.71%) CCNP
10 1 (0.71%) CCSP
10 1 (0.71%) CISSP
10 1 (0.71%) JNCIP
10 1 (0.71%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (17.86%) QA
2 23 (16.43%) Data Quality
3 6 (4.29%) SLA
4 3 (2.14%) GDPR
5 2 (1.43%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.71%) CDISC
6 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.71%) NIST
6 1 (0.71%) PMO
6 1 (0.71%) SOC 2
System Software
1 30 (21.43%) Docker
2 11 (7.86%) Active Directory
2 11 (7.86%) Virtual Machines
2 11 (7.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (6.43%) Hyper-V
4 7 (5.00%) Firmware
4 7 (5.00%) NFS
5 2 (1.43%) vSphere
6 1 (0.71%) Squid
Systems Management
1 19 (13.57%) Ansible
2 12 (8.57%) Grafana
2 12 (8.57%) Kubernetes
3 10 (7.14%) Prometheus
4 5 (3.57%) Puppet
5 4 (2.86%) vRealize
6 3 (2.14%) HP ALM
6 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.71%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.71%) Packer
7 1 (0.71%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.71%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 15 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.00%) VMware
3 10 (7.14%) Databricks
4 9 (6.43%) Google
4 9 (6.43%) ServiceNow
5 7 (5.00%) Dynatrace
6 6 (4.29%) Remedy
7 5 (3.57%) Cisco
7 5 (3.57%) Cribl.io
7 5 (3.57%) Splunk
8 4 (2.86%) IBM
8 4 (2.86%) Salesforce
8 4 (2.86%) SAP
9 3 (2.14%) ESRI
9 3 (2.14%) HP
9 3 (2.14%) Juniper
9 3 (2.14%) NetApp
10 2 (1.43%) F5
10 2 (1.43%) Fortinet
10 2 (1.43%) Red Hat