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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 8 35
Rank change year-on-year -12 +27 -14
Contract jobs citing Python 135 140 80
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 6.17% 11.21% 4.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.54% 35.26% 22.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 72 55
10th Percentile £300 £305 £305
25th Percentile £406 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% +0.50% +1.27%
75th Percentile £550 £578 £581
90th Percentile £583 £675 £650
England median daily rate £538 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 6
10th Percentile £23.77 £40.74 £17.99
25th Percentile £32.16 £49.69 £22.19
Median hourly rate £52.75 £54.25 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.76% +21.91% -20.89%
75th Percentile £58.50 £75.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £73.35 £80.00 -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £51.97 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.64% -20.05% -

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 442 397 348
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 20.19% 31.79% 20.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 190 160
10th Percentile £350 £306 £312
25th Percentile £413 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £470
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% +6.38% -1.47%
75th Percentile £589 £575 £564
90th Percentile £638 £650 £625
England median daily rate £523 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.55% -6.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 79 108
10th Percentile £51.95 £31.25 £51.25
25th Percentile £62.50 £52.00 £60.00
Median hourly rate £68.21 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.94% - -
75th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £67.81
90th Percentile £75.00 £87.60 £81.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +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 30 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 30 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 30 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 +7 48 £413 -17.91% 82
Hertfordshire -15 48 £550 - 37
Bedfordshire 0 15 £500 -16.67% 9
Essex -17 14 £500 +57.23% 26
Norfolk -10 6 £425 -15.00% 7
Suffolk -16 4 £603 +100.83% 10
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 6 (4.44%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.70%) OpenStack
3 3 (2.22%) Confluence
3 3 (2.22%) NetWeaver
4 2 (1.48%) Apache
5 1 (0.74%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (5.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.22%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.48%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.74%) OrCAD
4 1 (0.74%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (2.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.74%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 39 (28.89%) Azure
2 31 (22.96%) AWS
3 16 (11.85%) GitHub
4 13 (9.63%) GCP
5 12 (8.89%) Azure AKS
5 12 (8.89%) Serverless
6 10 (7.41%) Power Platform
7 9 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
8 8 (5.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (5.19%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (4.44%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (3.70%) Snowflake
12 4 (2.96%) Amazon S3
12 4 (2.96%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (2.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 4 (2.96%) Azure Functions
12 4 (2.96%) dbt
13 3 (2.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.19%) SNMP
2 5 (3.70%) Firewall
2 5 (3.70%) Network Security
3 4 (2.96%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.96%) VPN
3 4 (2.96%) WAN
4 2 (1.48%) ADSL
4 2 (1.48%) BGP
4 2 (1.48%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (1.48%) DNS
4 2 (1.48%) IPsec
4 2 (1.48%) LAN
4 2 (1.48%) MPLS
4 2 (1.48%) SSL
4 2 (1.48%) TACACS
4 2 (1.48%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.74%) DHCP
5 1 (0.74%) HTTP
5 1 (0.74%) InfiniBand
5 1 (0.74%) SpaceWire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.63%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (8.15%) Relational Database
3 10 (7.41%) Power BI
4 9 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (6.67%) MySQL
5 6 (4.44%) Metadata
6 5 (3.70%) InfluxDB
6 5 (3.70%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (2.22%) Redis
7 3 (2.22%) SAP HANA
7 3 (2.22%) Sybase ASE
8 2 (1.48%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.48%) Data Vault
8 2 (1.48%) MaxDB
8 2 (1.48%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.48%) Power Query
8 2 (1.48%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (1.48%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 26 (19.26%) Git
2 7 (5.19%) Jenkins
2 7 (5.19%) JIRA
3 6 (4.44%) GitLab
3 6 (4.44%) Postman
4 5 (3.70%) JUnit
4 5 (3.70%) SonarQube
5 4 (2.96%) Newman
6 3 (2.22%) IntelliJ
7 2 (1.48%) Android Studio
7 2 (1.48%) Appium
7 2 (1.48%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.48%) Selenium
7 2 (1.48%) Sourcetree
7 2 (1.48%) Xcode
8 1 (0.74%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.74%) MLflow
8 1 (0.74%) ScriptRunner
General
1 26 (19.26%) Social Skills
2 22 (16.30%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (8.89%) Pharmaceutical
4 7 (5.19%) Finance
5 5 (3.70%) Electronics
6 4 (2.96%) Law
6 4 (2.96%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.22%) Retail
7 3 (2.22%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.48%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.48%) Automotive
8 2 (1.48%) Banking
8 2 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.74%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.74%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 20 (14.81%) Python Engineer
2 18 (13.33%) Data Engineer
3 12 (8.89%) Developer
4 10 (7.41%) Software Engineer
5 7 (5.19%) Senior
6 6 (4.44%) Consultant
6 6 (4.44%) JavaScript Engineer
6 6 (4.44%) PowerShell Engineer
6 6 (4.44%) VMware Engineer
7 5 (3.70%) Lead
7 5 (3.70%) Systems Engineer
8 4 (2.96%) Architect
8 4 (2.96%) Java Developer
9 3 (2.22%) Network Engineer
9 3 (2.22%) Principal Engineer
9 3 (2.22%) Principal Software Engineer
9 3 (2.22%) Python Developer
9 3 (2.22%) SAP Engineer
9 3 (2.22%) Security Engineer
9 3 (2.22%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.67%) REST
2 8 (5.93%) RESTful
2 8 (5.93%) Spring
2 8 (5.93%) Spring Boot
3 7 (5.19%) pytest
4 6 (4.44%) FastAPI
4 6 (4.44%) Kafka
4 6 (4.44%) OpenTelemetry
5 5 (3.70%) eBPF
5 5 (3.70%) Hibernate
5 5 (3.70%) Node.js
5 5 (3.70%) Pandas
5 5 (3.70%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (3.70%) SQLAlchemy
6 4 (2.96%) JSON
6 4 (2.96%) OAuth
6 4 (2.96%) XML
6 4 (2.96%) XML Schema
7 3 (2.22%) Django
7 3 (2.22%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.85%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (5.93%) CRISPR
4 7 (5.19%) Embedded Systems
5 6 (4.44%) Algorithms
5 6 (4.44%) Life Science
6 5 (3.70%) Robotics
7 3 (2.22%) Acoustics
7 3 (2.22%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (2.22%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.22%) FPGA
7 3 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.22%) IoT
7 3 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (2.22%) PKI
7 3 (2.22%) Private Cloud
7 3 (2.22%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.22%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 25 (18.52%) Linux
2 6 (4.44%) Windows
3 5 (3.70%) Android
3 5 (3.70%) Unix
4 3 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.48%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.48%) VMS
5 2 (1.48%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.74%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (36.30%) CI/CD
2 38 (28.15%) Data Pipeline
3 33 (24.44%) DevOps
4 30 (22.22%) ETL
5 25 (18.52%) Software Engineering
5 25 (18.52%) Validation
6 21 (15.56%) Data Modelling
7 20 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (14.07%) Analytics
8 19 (14.07%) Test Automation
9 18 (13.33%) Agile
9 18 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
10 15 (11.11%) AI
11 13 (9.63%) Computer Science
11 13 (9.63%) Data Engineering
11 13 (9.63%) Event-Driven
11 13 (9.63%) Migration
11 13 (9.63%) Performance Tuning
12 12 (8.89%) Data Governance
13 11 (8.15%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 29 (21.48%) SQL
2 21 (15.56%) Java
3 18 (13.33%) PowerShell
4 15 (11.11%) Bash
5 12 (8.89%) C++
6 10 (7.41%) JavaScript
6 10 (7.41%) R
7 7 (5.19%) C
8 4 (2.96%) C#
8 4 (2.96%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (2.22%) Embedded C
9 3 (2.22%) Go
9 3 (2.22%) MATLAB
9 3 (2.22%) Ruby
10 2 (1.48%) Groovy
11 1 (0.74%) Cypher
11 1 (0.74%) Perl
11 1 (0.74%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 33 (24.44%) Security Cleared
2 22 (16.30%) Degree
2 22 (16.30%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (5.93%) DV Cleared
5 7 (5.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 5 (3.70%) ISTQB
6 5 (3.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 3 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.48%) CCIE
8 2 (1.48%) JNCIE
9 1 (0.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.74%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.74%) CCSP
9 1 (0.74%) CISM
9 1 (0.74%) CISSP
9 1 (0.74%) CRISC
9 1 (0.74%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.74%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.74%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (14.07%) Data Quality
2 12 (8.89%) QA
3 6 (4.44%) GDPR
4 5 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.48%) ISA99
5 2 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (1.48%) NCSC
5 2 (1.48%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.74%) MIL-STD-1553
6 1 (0.74%) NIST
6 1 (0.74%) PMO
6 1 (0.74%) SOC 2
System Software
1 21 (15.56%) Docker
2 5 (3.70%) Firmware
3 4 (2.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.48%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.74%) GPFS
5 1 (0.74%) Lustre
5 1 (0.74%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.74%) Squid
5 1 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (14.07%) Terraform
2 17 (12.59%) Ansible
3 16 (11.85%) Kubernetes
4 10 (7.41%) Grafana
5 7 (5.19%) vRealize
6 6 (4.44%) Prometheus
7 4 (2.96%) Puppet
8 2 (1.48%) Kibana
8 2 (1.48%) Rundeck
9 1 (0.74%) Consul
9 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.74%) Packer
9 1 (0.74%) Salt
9 1 (0.74%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 14 (10.37%) Databricks
2 13 (9.63%) Microsoft
3 10 (7.41%) VMware
4 9 (6.67%) Dynatrace
5 6 (4.44%) Google
5 6 (4.44%) SAP
6 5 (3.70%) Checkmarx
6 5 (3.70%) Cisco
6 5 (3.70%) Cribl.io
6 5 (3.70%) Splunk
7 4 (2.96%) Fortinet
7 4 (2.96%) Oracle
7 4 (2.96%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.22%) Atlassian
8 3 (2.22%) Sybase
9 2 (1.48%) F5
9 2 (1.48%) Juniper
9 2 (1.48%) NetApp
9 2 (1.48%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.74%) New Relic