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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 9 32
Rank change year-on-year -10 +23 -12
Contract jobs citing Python 139 135 79
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 6.34% 10.66% 5.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.75% 34.62% 23.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 67 52
10th Percentile £300 £300 £301
25th Percentile £406 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% +0.50% +2.56%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £581
90th Percentile £573 £675 £649
England median daily rate £549 £537 £580
% change year-on-year +2.23% -7.41% -3.33%
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% -25.83%
75th Percentile £55.00 £75.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £70.30 £80.00 -
England median hourly rate £58.74 £51.44 £65.00
% change year-on-year +14.18% -20.86% -

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 452 390 339
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 20.61% 30.81% 21.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 180 155
10th Percentile £350 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £425 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% +17.65% -10.53%
75th Percentile £579 £575 £556
90th Percentile £629 £626 £600
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 77 97
10th Percentile £51.60 £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 £86.00 £85.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £56.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.04% -13.08% +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 20 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 20 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 20 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 54 £550 - 47
Cambridgeshire +3 52 £413 -17.91% 82
Essex -17 12 £500 +11.11% 29
Bedfordshire +2 8 £575 -4.17% 8
Norfolk -8 7 £425 -15.00% 7
Suffolk -13 6 £425 +41.67% 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 8 (5.76%) OpenStack
2 5 (3.60%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.16%) NetWeaver
4 2 (1.44%) Apache
5 1 (0.72%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.72%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (5.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.16%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.44%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.72%) OrCAD
4 1 (0.72%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (2.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.72%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 39 (28.06%) Azure
2 32 (23.02%) AWS
3 16 (11.51%) GitHub
4 15 (10.79%) GCP
5 12 (8.63%) Serverless
6 10 (7.19%) Azure AKS
6 10 (7.19%) Power Platform
7 8 (5.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 8 (5.76%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (5.04%) Azure Service Bus
9 6 (4.32%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (3.60%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (3.60%) Snowflake
11 4 (2.88%) Amazon S3
11 4 (2.88%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (2.88%) Azure Functions
11 4 (2.88%) dbt
11 4 (2.88%) OpenShift
12 3 (2.16%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.04%) DNS
1 7 (5.04%) Firewall
1 7 (5.04%) Network Security
1 7 (5.04%) SNMP
1 7 (5.04%) TCP/IP
2 4 (2.88%) HTTP
2 4 (2.88%) VPN
2 4 (2.88%) WAN
3 3 (2.16%) 5G
3 3 (2.16%) DHCP
3 3 (2.16%) SSH
4 2 (1.44%) 4G
4 2 (1.44%) ADSL
4 2 (1.44%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (1.44%) IPsec
4 2 (1.44%) LAN
4 2 (1.44%) MPLS
4 2 (1.44%) SSL
4 2 (1.44%) TACACS
4 2 (1.44%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.79%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (10.07%) Relational Database
3 12 (8.63%) MySQL
4 10 (7.19%) Power BI
5 8 (5.76%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (4.32%) Metadata
6 6 (4.32%) Redis
7 5 (3.60%) InfluxDB
7 5 (3.60%) NoSQL
7 5 (3.60%) SQL Server
8 3 (2.16%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (2.16%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.16%) SAP HANA
8 3 (2.16%) Sybase ASE
9 2 (1.44%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.44%) Data Vault
9 2 (1.44%) MaxDB
9 2 (1.44%) Power Query
9 2 (1.44%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 33 (23.74%) Git
2 8 (5.76%) GitLab
3 6 (4.32%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.60%) JIRA
4 5 (3.60%) JUnit
4 5 (3.60%) SonarQube
5 4 (2.88%) Newman
5 4 (2.88%) Postman
6 3 (2.16%) IntelliJ
7 2 (1.44%) Selenium
8 1 (0.72%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.72%) eggPlant
8 1 (0.72%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.72%) ScriptRunner
8 1 (0.72%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 26 (18.71%) Social Skills
2 25 (17.99%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (7.91%) Pharmaceutical
4 7 (5.04%) Law
4 7 (5.04%) Telecoms
5 6 (4.32%) Finance
5 6 (4.32%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.60%) Electronics
7 4 (2.88%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.16%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.16%) Retail
9 2 (1.44%) Automotive
9 2 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.44%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.72%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 23 (16.55%) Python Engineer
2 20 (14.39%) Data Engineer
3 15 (10.79%) Developer
4 8 (5.76%) Software Engineer
5 7 (5.04%) Senior
5 7 (5.04%) VMware Engineer
6 6 (4.32%) Consultant
6 6 (4.32%) JavaScript Engineer
6 6 (4.32%) PowerShell Engineer
6 6 (4.32%) Python Developer
7 5 (3.60%) Systems Engineer
8 4 (2.88%) Architect
8 4 (2.88%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (2.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (2.16%) Automation Engineer
9 3 (2.16%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (2.16%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (2.16%) Network Engineer
9 3 (2.16%) Platform Engineer
9 3 (2.16%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (14.39%) Terraform
2 14 (10.07%) REST
3 10 (7.19%) FastAPI
4 9 (6.47%) RESTful
5 8 (5.76%) Pandas
5 8 (5.76%) pytest
6 7 (5.04%) Kafka
7 6 (4.32%) OpenTelemetry
7 6 (4.32%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (4.32%) Spring
7 6 (4.32%) Spring Boot
7 6 (4.32%) SQLAlchemy
8 5 (3.60%) eBPF
8 5 (3.60%) Flask
8 5 (3.60%) Hibernate
8 5 (3.60%) Node.js
9 4 (2.88%) JSON
9 4 (2.88%) OAuth
9 4 (2.88%) XML
9 4 (2.88%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.35%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.19%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (5.76%) Algorithms
4 7 (5.04%) CRISPR
5 6 (4.32%) Life Science
5 6 (4.32%) Robotics
6 4 (2.88%) Acoustics
6 4 (2.88%) Embedded Systems
7 3 (2.16%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (2.16%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.16%) FPGA
7 3 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.16%) IoT
7 3 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.16%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (2.16%) PKI
7 3 (2.16%) Private Cloud
7 3 (2.16%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.16%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 31 (22.30%) Linux
2 8 (5.76%) Windows
3 5 (3.60%) Unix
4 4 (2.88%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.16%) Android
5 3 (2.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.44%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.44%) VMS
7 1 (0.72%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.72%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (37.41%) CI/CD
2 40 (28.78%) Data Pipeline
3 35 (25.18%) Validation
4 33 (23.74%) DevOps
5 32 (23.02%) ETL
6 24 (17.27%) Software Engineering
7 23 (16.55%) Data Modelling
8 20 (14.39%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (13.67%) Test Automation
10 18 (12.95%) Analytics
10 18 (12.95%) Computer Science
10 18 (12.95%) Infrastructure as Code
11 17 (12.23%) Agile
12 16 (11.51%) Migration
13 14 (10.07%) AI
13 14 (10.07%) Event-Driven
14 12 (8.63%) Data Engineering
14 12 (8.63%) Performance Tuning
14 12 (8.63%) Root Cause Analysis
15 11 (7.91%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 35 (25.18%) SQL
2 22 (15.83%) PowerShell
3 21 (15.11%) Bash
4 16 (11.51%) Java
5 11 (7.91%) C++
6 9 (6.47%) R
7 8 (5.76%) C
7 8 (5.76%) JavaScript
8 5 (3.60%) C#
8 5 (3.60%) MATLAB
8 5 (3.60%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.88%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (2.16%) Embedded C
10 3 (2.16%) Go
10 3 (2.16%) Ruby
11 2 (1.44%) Groovy
12 1 (0.72%) Cypher
12 1 (0.72%) Perl
Qualifications
1 34 (24.46%) Security Cleared
2 28 (20.14%) Degree
3 25 (17.99%) SC Cleared
4 15 (10.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (5.76%) DV Cleared
6 7 (5.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (2.16%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.16%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.44%) CCIE
8 2 (1.44%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (1.44%) JNCIE
8 2 (1.44%) PhD
9 1 (0.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.72%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.72%) CCSP
9 1 (0.72%) CISM
9 1 (0.72%) CISSP
9 1 (0.72%) CRISC
9 1 (0.72%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (15.83%) Data Quality
2 17 (12.23%) QA
3 6 (4.32%) GDPR
4 5 (3.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
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%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.72%) MIL-STD-1553
6 1 (0.72%) NIST
6 1 (0.72%) PMO
6 1 (0.72%) SOC 2
System Software
1 23 (16.55%) Docker
2 6 (4.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.60%) Firmware
4 2 (1.44%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.44%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.44%) vSphere
5 1 (0.72%) GPFS
5 1 (0.72%) Lustre
5 1 (0.72%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.72%) Squid
5 1 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (13.67%) Ansible
2 15 (10.79%) Kubernetes
3 10 (7.19%) Grafana
4 8 (5.76%) Prometheus
5 7 (5.04%) vRealize
6 5 (3.60%) Puppet
7 1 (0.72%) Consul
7 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.72%) Packer
7 1 (0.72%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.72%) Salt
7 1 (0.72%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 13 (9.35%) Databricks
2 12 (8.63%) VMware
3 11 (7.91%) Microsoft
4 9 (6.47%) Dynatrace
5 7 (5.04%) Google
6 6 (4.32%) SAP
7 5 (3.60%) Checkmarx
7 5 (3.60%) Cisco
7 5 (3.60%) Cribl.io
7 5 (3.60%) Splunk
8 4 (2.88%) Fortinet
8 4 (2.88%) Oracle
8 4 (2.88%) ServiceNow
9 3 (2.16%) NetApp
9 3 (2.16%) Sybase
10 2 (1.44%) F5
10 2 (1.44%) Juniper
10 2 (1.44%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.72%) New Relic
11 1 (0.72%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud