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 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 9 35
Rank change year-on-year -9 +26 -16
Contract jobs citing Python 141 134 77
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 6.49% 10.61% 4.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.61% 34.72% 22.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 67 50
10th Percentile £292 £303 £300
25th Percentile £406 £403 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £513
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -1.95% +4.59%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £581
90th Percentile £583 £675 £650
England median daily rate £544 £538 £575
% change year-on-year +1.16% -6.52% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 16 6
10th Percentile £23.10 £40.74 £17.99
25th Percentile £26.25 £49.69 £22.19
Median hourly rate £52.50 £54.25 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +21.91% -20.89%
75th Percentile £55.50 £75.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £72.70 £80.00 -
England median hourly rate £62.00 £52.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.10% -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 446 386 336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 20.53% 30.56% 20.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 178 150
10th Percentile £348 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £425 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% +17.65% -10.53%
75th Percentile £580 £575 £561
90th Percentile £625 £641 £603
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 78 101
10th Percentile £53.40 £31.25 £51.25
25th Percentile £62.97 £52.00 £60.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - -
75th Percentile £73.73 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £87.50 £85.00
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 14 August 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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -12 53 £550 - 76
Cambridgeshire +4 50 £413 -17.91% 276
Bedfordshire +7 13 £498 -17.08% 8
Essex -22 12 £500 +11.11% 44
Norfolk -7 7 £425 -15.00% 9
Suffolk -12 6 £425 +41.67% 25
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 8 (5.67%) OpenStack
2 5 (3.55%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.13%) NetWeaver
4 2 (1.42%) Apache
5 1 (0.71%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.71%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (4.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.13%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.42%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.71%) OrCAD
4 1 (0.71%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (2.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.71%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 39 (27.66%) Azure
2 33 (23.40%) AWS
3 15 (10.64%) GCP
3 15 (10.64%) GitHub
4 12 (8.51%) Serverless
5 10 (7.09%) Azure AKS
5 10 (7.09%) Power Platform
6 8 (5.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (4.96%) Azure Service Bus
7 7 (4.96%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (4.26%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (3.55%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (3.55%) Snowflake
10 4 (2.84%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.84%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.84%) Azure Functions
10 4 (2.84%) dbt
11 3 (2.13%) OpenShift
11 3 (2.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.96%) SNMP
1 7 (4.96%) TCP/IP
2 6 (4.26%) DNS
2 6 (4.26%) Firewall
2 6 (4.26%) Network Security
3 4 (2.84%) HTTP
3 4 (2.84%) VPN
3 4 (2.84%) WAN
4 3 (2.13%) 5G
4 3 (2.13%) SSH
5 2 (1.42%) 4G
5 2 (1.42%) ADSL
5 2 (1.42%) BGP
5 2 (1.42%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (1.42%) DHCP
5 2 (1.42%) IPsec
5 2 (1.42%) MPLS
5 2 (1.42%) SSL
5 2 (1.42%) TACACS
5 2 (1.42%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.64%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (9.22%) Relational Database
3 12 (8.51%) MySQL
4 10 (7.09%) Power BI
5 8 (5.67%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (4.26%) Metadata
6 6 (4.26%) Redis
7 5 (3.55%) InfluxDB
7 5 (3.55%) NoSQL
7 5 (3.55%) SQL Server
8 3 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (2.13%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.13%) SAP HANA
8 3 (2.13%) Sybase ASE
9 2 (1.42%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.42%) Data Vault
9 2 (1.42%) MaxDB
9 2 (1.42%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (1.42%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 32 (22.70%) Git
2 8 (5.67%) GitLab
3 5 (3.55%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.55%) JIRA
3 5 (3.55%) JUnit
3 5 (3.55%) SonarQube
4 4 (2.84%) Newman
4 4 (2.84%) Postman
5 3 (2.13%) IntelliJ
6 2 (1.42%) Selenium
7 1 (0.71%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.71%) ScriptRunner
7 1 (0.71%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.71%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 28 (19.86%) Social Skills
2 25 (17.73%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (7.80%) Pharmaceutical
4 7 (4.96%) Finance
4 7 (4.96%) Telecoms
5 6 (4.26%) Law
5 6 (4.26%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.55%) Electronics
7 3 (2.13%) Aerospace
7 3 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.13%) Retail
8 2 (1.42%) Automotive
8 2 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.42%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.71%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 23 (16.31%) Python Engineer
2 20 (14.18%) Data Engineer
3 15 (10.64%) Developer
4 10 (7.09%) Software Engineer
5 7 (4.96%) Senior
5 7 (4.96%) VMware Engineer
6 6 (4.26%) Consultant
6 6 (4.26%) JavaScript Engineer
6 6 (4.26%) PowerShell Engineer
6 6 (4.26%) Python Developer
7 5 (3.55%) Lead
7 5 (3.55%) Systems Engineer
8 4 (2.84%) Architect
8 4 (2.84%) AWS Engineer
9 3 (2.13%) Automation Engineer
9 3 (2.13%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (2.13%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (2.13%) Network Engineer
9 3 (2.13%) Platform Engineer
9 3 (2.13%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.22%) REST
2 10 (7.09%) FastAPI
3 9 (6.38%) RESTful
4 8 (5.67%) Pandas
4 8 (5.67%) pytest
5 7 (4.96%) Kafka
6 6 (4.26%) OpenTelemetry
6 6 (4.26%) RabbitMQ
6 6 (4.26%) Spring
6 6 (4.26%) Spring Boot
6 6 (4.26%) SQLAlchemy
7 5 (3.55%) eBPF
7 5 (3.55%) Flask
7 5 (3.55%) Hibernate
7 5 (3.55%) Node.js
8 4 (2.84%) JSON
8 4 (2.84%) OAuth
8 4 (2.84%) XML
8 4 (2.84%) XML Schema
9 3 (2.13%) Celery
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.22%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.09%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.96%) Algorithms
3 7 (4.96%) CRISPR
3 7 (4.96%) Embedded Systems
4 6 (4.26%) Life Science
4 6 (4.26%) Robotics
5 3 (2.13%) Acoustics
5 3 (2.13%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (2.13%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.13%) FPGA
5 3 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.13%) IoT
5 3 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.13%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (2.13%) PKI
5 3 (2.13%) Private Cloud
5 3 (2.13%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.13%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 30 (21.28%) Linux
2 7 (4.96%) Windows
3 5 (3.55%) Unix
4 3 (2.13%) Android
4 3 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (2.13%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.42%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.42%) VMS
6 1 (0.71%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.71%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (36.88%) CI/CD
2 39 (27.66%) Data Pipeline
3 35 (24.82%) DevOps
4 33 (23.40%) Validation
5 31 (21.99%) ETL
6 27 (19.15%) Software Engineering
7 22 (15.60%) Data Modelling
7 22 (15.60%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (14.89%) Test Automation
9 20 (14.18%) Infrastructure as Code
10 18 (12.77%) Agile
10 18 (12.77%) Analytics
10 18 (12.77%) Computer Science
11 15 (10.64%) AI
11 15 (10.64%) Migration
12 14 (9.93%) Event-Driven
13 13 (9.22%) Data Engineering
13 13 (9.22%) Performance Tuning
14 11 (7.80%) Data Governance
14 11 (7.80%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 35 (24.82%) SQL
2 20 (14.18%) Bash
2 20 (14.18%) PowerShell
3 17 (12.06%) Java
4 13 (9.22%) C++
5 9 (6.38%) R
6 8 (5.67%) JavaScript
7 7 (4.96%) C
8 5 (3.55%) C#
9 4 (2.84%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (2.84%) MATLAB
9 4 (2.84%) Shell Script
10 3 (2.13%) Embedded C
10 3 (2.13%) Go
10 3 (2.13%) Ruby
11 2 (1.42%) Groovy
12 1 (0.71%) Cypher
12 1 (0.71%) Perl
Qualifications
1 36 (25.53%) Security Cleared
2 27 (19.15%) Degree
3 25 (17.73%) SC Cleared
4 16 (11.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (5.67%) DV Cleared
6 7 (4.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 5 (3.55%) ISTQB
7 5 (3.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 3 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.42%) CCIE
9 2 (1.42%) JNCIE
9 2 (1.42%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.42%) PhD
10 1 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.71%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.71%) CCSP
10 1 (0.71%) CISM
10 1 (0.71%) CISSP
10 1 (0.71%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (14.89%) Data Quality
2 15 (10.64%) QA
3 6 (4.26%) GDPR
4 5 (3.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.42%) ISA99
5 2 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (1.42%) NCSC
5 2 (1.42%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.71%) MIL-STD-1553
6 1 (0.71%) NIST
6 1 (0.71%) PMO
6 1 (0.71%) SOC 2
System Software
1 22 (15.60%) Docker
2 5 (3.55%) Firmware
2 5 (3.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.42%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.71%) GPFS
4 1 (0.71%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.71%) Lustre
4 1 (0.71%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.71%) Squid
4 1 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.71%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (14.18%) Terraform
2 19 (13.48%) Ansible
3 14 (9.93%) Kubernetes
4 10 (7.09%) Grafana
5 8 (5.67%) Prometheus
6 7 (4.96%) vRealize
7 5 (3.55%) Puppet
8 1 (0.71%) Consul
8 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.71%) Packer
8 1 (0.71%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.71%) Salt
8 1 (0.71%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 13 (9.22%) Databricks
2 11 (7.80%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.80%) VMware
3 9 (6.38%) Dynatrace
4 7 (4.96%) Google
5 6 (4.26%) SAP
6 5 (3.55%) Checkmarx
6 5 (3.55%) Cisco
6 5 (3.55%) Cribl.io
6 5 (3.55%) Splunk
7 4 (2.84%) Fortinet
7 4 (2.84%) Oracle
7 4 (2.84%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.13%) NetApp
8 3 (2.13%) Sybase
9 2 (1.42%) F5
9 2 (1.42%) Juniper
9 2 (1.42%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.71%) Braze
10 1 (0.71%) NVIDIA