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 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 9 29
Rank change year-on-year -9 +20 -8
Contract jobs citing Python 146 140 74
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 6.53% 11.04% 4.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.81% 36.27% 22.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 71 46
10th Percentile £305 £300 £300
25th Percentile £406 £403 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £581
90th Percentile £585 £680 £644
England median daily rate £550 £543 £588
% change year-on-year +1.29% -7.57% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 18 5
10th Percentile £23.29 £39.82 £17.59
25th Percentile £34.13 £42.19 £20.00
Median hourly rate £55.50 £54.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -6.09% -11.54%
75th Percentile £74.00 £70.25 £63.75
90th Percentile £92.11 £78.00 -
England median hourly rate £63.14 £50.00 £68.75
% change year-on-year +26.27% -27.27% +5.77%

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 459 386 334
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 20.53% 30.44% 22.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 177 156
10th Percentile £346 £310 £290
25th Percentile £413 £450 £343
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £505 £420
Median % change year-on-year - +20.24% -13.85%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £550
90th Percentile £625 £653 £588
England median daily rate £525 £514 £550
% change year-on-year +2.24% -6.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 75 82
10th Percentile £53.00 £31.64 £52.50
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 £74.81 £73.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £79.90 £84.50 £84.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 4 September 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 -6 60 £550 - 102
Cambridgeshire +3 50 £413 -17.91% 312
Essex -27 11 £500 -22.00% 47
Suffolk -8 10 £413 +37.50% 38
Bedfordshire -2 8 £575 -4.17% 15
Norfolk -7 7 £425 -15.00% 13
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 (6.16%) OpenStack
2 5 (3.42%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.42%) IIS
3 2 (1.37%) Apache
3 2 (1.37%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.68%) Confluence
4 1 (0.68%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 7 (4.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.05%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.37%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.68%) OrCAD
4 1 (0.68%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.68%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 40 (27.40%) Azure
2 32 (21.92%) AWS
3 17 (11.64%) GitHub
4 15 (10.27%) GCP
5 12 (8.22%) Serverless
6 10 (6.85%) Azure AKS
7 8 (5.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 8 (5.48%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (5.48%) Power Platform
8 7 (4.79%) Azure Service Bus
9 6 (4.11%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (4.11%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (3.42%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (3.42%) Snowflake
11 4 (2.74%) Amazon S3
11 4 (2.74%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (2.74%) Azure Functions
11 4 (2.74%) dbt
11 4 (2.74%) OpenShift
11 4 (2.74%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.85%) HTTP
2 9 (6.16%) TCP/IP
3 8 (5.48%) DNS
4 7 (4.79%) Firewall
4 7 (4.79%) Network Security
4 7 (4.79%) SNMP
5 5 (3.42%) 5G
6 4 (2.74%) 4G
6 4 (2.74%) SSH
6 4 (2.74%) VPN
6 4 (2.74%) WAN
6 4 (2.74%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (2.05%) DHCP
8 2 (1.37%) ADSL
8 2 (1.37%) Broadband
8 2 (1.37%) IPsec
8 2 (1.37%) IPv4
8 2 (1.37%) IPv6
8 2 (1.37%) LAN
8 2 (1.37%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (10.96%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (9.59%) Relational Database
3 13 (8.90%) MySQL
4 8 (5.48%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (5.48%) Power BI
5 7 (4.79%) Metadata
5 7 (4.79%) Redis
6 6 (4.11%) NoSQL
7 5 (3.42%) InfluxDB
7 5 (3.42%) SQL Server
8 4 (2.74%) MongoDB
9 3 (2.05%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.37%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.37%) Data Vault
10 2 (1.37%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (1.37%) GIS
10 2 (1.37%) Power Query
10 2 (1.37%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (1.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (23.29%) Git
2 10 (6.85%) GitLab
2 10 (6.85%) JIRA
3 6 (4.11%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.42%) JUnit
4 5 (3.42%) SonarQube
5 4 (2.74%) Newman
5 4 (2.74%) Postman
6 3 (2.05%) IntelliJ
6 3 (2.05%) Selenium
7 1 (0.68%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.68%) eggPlant
7 1 (0.68%) JMeter
7 1 (0.68%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.68%) Locust
7 1 (0.68%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.68%) ScriptRunner
7 1 (0.68%) TestCafe
7 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 26 (17.81%) Analytical Skills
2 25 (17.12%) Social Skills
3 10 (6.85%) Telecoms
4 9 (6.16%) Law
4 9 (6.16%) Pharmaceutical
5 7 (4.79%) Finance
6 6 (4.11%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.42%) Aerospace
7 5 (3.42%) Electronics
8 4 (2.74%) Back Office
9 3 (2.05%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.05%) Retail
10 2 (1.37%) Automotive
10 2 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.37%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.68%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 24 (16.44%) Python Engineer
2 17 (11.64%) Data Engineer
2 17 (11.64%) Developer
3 8 (5.48%) Python Developer
3 8 (5.48%) Security Engineer
4 7 (4.79%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 7 (4.79%) Senior
4 7 (4.79%) VMware Engineer
5 6 (4.11%) Consultant
5 6 (4.11%) JavaScript Engineer
5 6 (4.11%) PowerShell Engineer
5 6 (4.11%) Software Engineer
6 5 (3.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (3.42%) Systems Engineer
7 4 (2.74%) Architect
7 4 (2.74%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (2.74%) Test Engineer
8 3 (2.05%) Automation Engineer
8 3 (2.05%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (2.05%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (13.70%) Terraform
2 15 (10.27%) REST
3 11 (7.53%) FastAPI
4 9 (6.16%) JSON
4 9 (6.16%) Pandas
4 9 (6.16%) pytest
4 9 (6.16%) RESTful
5 8 (5.48%) Kafka
6 7 (4.79%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (4.11%) Flask
7 6 (4.11%) LDAP
7 6 (4.11%) OpenTelemetry
7 6 (4.11%) Spring
7 6 (4.11%) Spring Boot
7 6 (4.11%) SQLAlchemy
8 5 (3.42%) eBPF
8 5 (3.42%) Hibernate
8 5 (3.42%) Node.js
8 5 (3.42%) Regular Expression
9 4 (2.74%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.90%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.85%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (5.48%) Algorithms
4 6 (4.11%) Cyber Threat
4 6 (4.11%) Life Science
4 6 (4.11%) Robotics
5 5 (3.42%) CRISPR
6 4 (2.74%) Acoustics
6 4 (2.74%) Embedded Systems
7 3 (2.05%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.05%) FPGA
7 3 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.05%) IoT
7 3 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.05%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (2.05%) PKI
7 3 (2.05%) Private Cloud
7 3 (2.05%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.05%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 31 (21.23%) Linux
2 12 (8.22%) Windows
3 4 (2.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.74%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.05%) Android
4 3 (2.05%) Unix
4 3 (2.05%) VMS
5 2 (1.37%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.68%) CentOS
6 1 (0.68%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.68%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (40.41%) CI/CD
2 38 (26.03%) Validation
3 37 (25.34%) DevOps
4 35 (23.97%) Data Pipeline
5 29 (19.86%) ETL
6 25 (17.12%) Data Modelling
7 22 (15.07%) Software Engineering
7 22 (15.07%) Test Automation
8 21 (14.38%) Agile
8 21 (14.38%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (13.70%) AI
9 20 (13.70%) Infrastructure as Code
10 18 (12.33%) Computer Science
10 18 (12.33%) Root Cause Analysis
11 17 (11.64%) Analytics
12 15 (10.27%) Machine Learning
12 15 (10.27%) Migration
13 14 (9.59%) Event-Driven
14 12 (8.22%) Cybersecurity
14 12 (8.22%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 37 (25.34%) SQL
2 26 (17.81%) PowerShell
3 23 (15.75%) Bash
4 16 (10.96%) Java
5 9 (6.16%) C++
6 8 (5.48%) JavaScript
7 7 (4.79%) R
8 6 (4.11%) C
9 5 (3.42%) C#
9 5 (3.42%) MATLAB
9 5 (3.42%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.74%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (2.05%) Go
11 3 (2.05%) Ruby
12 2 (1.37%) Groovy
13 1 (0.68%) Cypher
13 1 (0.68%) Embedded C
13 1 (0.68%) Perl
13 1 (0.68%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (24.66%) Security Cleared
2 29 (19.86%) Degree
3 25 (17.12%) SC Cleared
4 15 (10.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (6.85%) DV Cleared
6 7 (4.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 5 (3.42%) ISTQB
8 3 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (2.05%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 3 (2.05%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.37%) CCIE
9 2 (1.37%) JNCIE
9 2 (1.37%) PhD
10 1 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.68%) CCSP
10 1 (0.68%) CISM
10 1 (0.68%) CISSP
10 1 (0.68%) CRISC
10 1 (0.68%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (13.70%) Data Quality
2 19 (13.01%) QA
3 5 (3.42%) GDPR
3 5 (3.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.37%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.37%) ISA99
4 2 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (1.37%) NCSC
4 2 (1.37%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.68%) MIL-STD-1553
5 1 (0.68%) NIST
5 1 (0.68%) PMO
5 1 (0.68%) SOC 2
System Software
1 25 (17.12%) Docker
2 11 (7.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (4.79%) Active Directory
3 7 (4.79%) Hyper-V
4 6 (4.11%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (3.42%) Firmware
5 5 (3.42%) NFS
6 2 (1.37%) vSphere
7 1 (0.68%) GPFS
7 1 (0.68%) Lustre
7 1 (0.68%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.68%) Squid
Systems Management
1 19 (13.01%) Ansible
2 15 (10.27%) Kubernetes
3 10 (6.85%) Grafana
4 9 (6.16%) Prometheus
5 7 (4.79%) vRealize
6 5 (3.42%) Puppet
7 3 (2.05%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.68%) Consul
8 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.68%) Packer
8 1 (0.68%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.68%) Salt
8 1 (0.68%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 17 (11.64%) VMware
2 13 (8.90%) Microsoft
3 12 (8.22%) Databricks
4 7 (4.79%) Dynatrace
4 7 (4.79%) Google
5 5 (3.42%) Checkmarx
5 5 (3.42%) Cisco
5 5 (3.42%) Cribl.io
5 5 (3.42%) Splunk
6 4 (2.74%) Fortinet
6 4 (2.74%) SAP
7 3 (2.05%) HP
7 3 (2.05%) IBM
7 3 (2.05%) NetApp
7 3 (2.05%) Oracle
7 3 (2.05%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.37%) ESRI
8 2 (1.37%) F5
8 2 (1.37%) Juniper
8 2 (1.37%) Salesforce