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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 8 27
Rank change year-on-year -14 +19 -1
Contract jobs citing Python 153 151 79
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 6.31% 11.54% 5.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.78% 39.43% 22.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 70 47
10th Percentile £314 £298 £300
25th Percentile £400 £402 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - +5.53%
75th Percentile £550 £613 £613
90th Percentile £610 £680 £650
England median daily rate £550 £530 £593
% change year-on-year +3.77% -10.55% -1.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 19 6
10th Percentile £23.29 £40.30 £17.99
25th Percentile £51.25 £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 £78.00 -
England median hourly rate £64.99 £50.00 £69.38
% change year-on-year +29.98% -27.93% +6.73%

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 497 383 345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 20.49% 29.28% 22.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 167 152
10th Percentile £343 £323 £284
25th Percentile £413 £450 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £423
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% +24.26% -15.50%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £552
90th Percentile £628 £662 £599
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 71 77
10th Percentile £55.88 £34.75 £51.25
25th Percentile £65.00 £52.00 £60.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - -5.80%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £81.50 £80.00 £80.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% -

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -10 63 £550 - 100
Cambridgeshire +3 50 £438 -7.89% 366
Suffolk -5 19 £367 +22.33% 34
Essex -26 8 £380 -40.72% 47
Norfolk -4 7 £425 -15.00% 25
Bedfordshire -5 6 £575 -4.17% 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 10 (6.54%) OpenStack
2 7 (4.58%) IIS
3 5 (3.27%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.96%) Apache
4 3 (1.96%) ArcGIS
4 3 (1.96%) Confluence
5 1 (0.65%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 5 (3.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.31%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.65%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (1.96%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.31%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 40 (26.14%) Azure
2 33 (21.57%) AWS
3 18 (11.76%) GitHub
4 15 (9.80%) GCP
5 11 (7.19%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (7.19%) Power Platform
5 11 (7.19%) Serverless
6 10 (6.54%) Azure AKS
7 7 (4.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (3.92%) Azure Monitor
8 6 (3.92%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (3.27%) Snowflake
10 4 (2.61%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.61%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (2.61%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (2.61%) Azure Functions
10 4 (2.61%) dbt
10 4 (2.61%) OpenShift
10 4 (2.61%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 14 (9.15%) Wi-Fi
2 13 (8.50%) TCP/IP
3 12 (7.84%) 5G
3 12 (7.84%) HTTP
4 11 (7.19%) 4G
4 11 (7.19%) Broadband
4 11 (7.19%) IPv4
4 11 (7.19%) IPv6
5 8 (5.23%) DNS
6 7 (4.58%) SNMP
6 7 (4.58%) xDSL
7 6 (3.92%) PPP
7 6 (3.92%) UPnP
7 6 (3.92%) WAN
8 5 (3.27%) Firewall
8 5 (3.27%) Network Security
8 5 (3.27%) Wireless
9 4 (2.61%) BGP
9 4 (2.61%) SSH
10 3 (1.96%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (9.15%) MySQL
2 14 (9.15%) Relational Database
3 11 (7.19%) Power BI
4 8 (5.23%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (4.58%) InfluxDB
5 7 (4.58%) Metadata
5 7 (4.58%) Redis
6 6 (3.92%) NoSQL
7 5 (3.27%) SQL Server
8 4 (2.61%) BigQuery
8 4 (2.61%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.96%) Geospatial Data
9 3 (1.96%) GIS
9 3 (1.96%) Looker
10 2 (1.31%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (1.31%) Data Vault
10 2 (1.31%) Power Query
10 2 (1.31%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 40 (26.14%) Git
2 22 (14.38%) JIRA
3 18 (11.76%) GitLab
4 11 (7.19%) Jenkins
5 5 (3.27%) Robot Framework
6 4 (2.61%) Newman
6 4 (2.61%) Postman
7 3 (1.96%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.96%) Selenium
8 2 (1.31%) Gerrit
8 2 (1.31%) JMeter
8 2 (1.31%) Locust
8 2 (1.31%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.31%) TestCafe
9 1 (0.65%) eggPlant
9 1 (0.65%) JUnit
9 1 (0.65%) ScriptRunner
9 1 (0.65%) Tricentis qTest
9 1 (0.65%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 31 (20.26%) Analytical Skills
2 25 (16.34%) Social Skills
3 20 (13.07%) Telecoms
4 9 (5.88%) Law
5 8 (5.23%) Aerospace
6 7 (4.58%) Pharmaceutical
7 6 (3.92%) Back Office
7 6 (3.92%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.96%) Electronics
8 3 (1.96%) Finance
8 3 (1.96%) Retail
9 2 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.31%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.65%) Legal
10 1 (0.65%) Marketing
10 1 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (15.03%) Python Engineer
2 19 (12.42%) Developer
3 17 (11.11%) Data Engineer
4 11 (7.19%) Senior
5 9 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (5.88%) Python Developer
5 9 (5.88%) Test Engineer
6 8 (5.23%) Security Engineer
7 7 (4.58%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 7 (4.58%) Software Engineer
8 6 (3.92%) Consultant
8 6 (3.92%) VMware Engineer
9 5 (3.27%) Broadband Engineer
9 5 (3.27%) JavaScript Engineer
9 5 (3.27%) PowerShell Engineer
10 4 (2.61%) Applications Developer
10 4 (2.61%) Automation Engineer
10 4 (2.61%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (2.61%) Network Engineer
10 4 (2.61%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (14.38%) Terraform
2 18 (11.76%) REST
3 11 (7.19%) FastAPI
4 9 (5.88%) JSON
4 9 (5.88%) LDAP
4 9 (5.88%) Pandas
4 9 (5.88%) pytest
5 8 (5.23%) Kafka
5 8 (5.23%) RESTful
6 7 (4.58%) RabbitMQ
6 7 (4.58%) Regular Expression
7 6 (3.92%) Flask
7 6 (3.92%) OpenTelemetry
7 6 (3.92%) SQLAlchemy
8 5 (3.27%) eBPF
8 5 (3.27%) Hibernate
9 4 (2.61%) CSS
9 4 (2.61%) HTML
9 4 (2.61%) XML
9 4 (2.61%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.19%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.54%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.58%) Algorithms
3 7 (4.58%) Cyber Threat
4 6 (3.92%) Embedded Systems
4 6 (3.92%) IoT
4 6 (3.92%) Life Science
4 6 (3.92%) Wiki
5 5 (3.27%) CMDB
5 5 (3.27%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.61%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.61%) Private Cloud
6 4 (2.61%) Replication
6 4 (2.61%) Robotics
7 3 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.96%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.96%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 39 (25.49%) Linux
2 16 (10.46%) Windows
3 8 (5.23%) VMS
4 7 (4.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (2.61%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.61%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.96%) Unix
7 2 (1.31%) CentOS
7 2 (1.31%) Rocky
8 1 (0.65%) Android
8 1 (0.65%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.65%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (41.18%) CI/CD
2 40 (26.14%) Validation
3 36 (23.53%) DevOps
4 34 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
5 31 (20.26%) Data Modelling
5 31 (20.26%) ETL
6 30 (19.61%) Test Automation
7 28 (18.30%) Agile
8 24 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
8 24 (15.69%) Root Cause Analysis
9 23 (15.03%) Software Engineering
10 22 (14.38%) AI
11 19 (12.42%) Analytics
11 19 (12.42%) Infrastructure as Code
12 18 (11.76%) Scrum
13 17 (11.11%) Migration
14 15 (9.80%) Computer Science
14 15 (9.80%) Containerisation
14 15 (9.80%) Machine Learning
15 14 (9.15%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 42 (27.45%) SQL
2 27 (17.65%) PowerShell
3 25 (16.34%) Bash
4 12 (7.84%) Java
5 11 (7.19%) JavaScript
6 8 (5.23%) C++
7 6 (3.92%) R
8 5 (3.27%) C
8 5 (3.27%) C#
8 5 (3.27%) MATLAB
8 5 (3.27%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.61%) Groovy
9 4 (2.61%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (1.96%) Google Apps Script
10 3 (1.96%) Ruby
11 2 (1.31%) Perl
12 1 (0.65%) Cypher
12 1 (0.65%) Go
12 1 (0.65%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (24.18%) Security Cleared
2 26 (16.99%) Degree
2 26 (16.99%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (5.88%) DV Cleared
5 7 (4.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 5 (3.27%) ISTQB
6 5 (3.27%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.61%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (2.61%) PhD
8 3 (1.96%) CCIE
8 3 (1.96%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (1.31%) JNCIE
9 2 (1.31%) MOS
10 1 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.65%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.65%) CISM
10 1 (0.65%) JNCIP
10 1 (0.65%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (15.69%) QA
2 22 (14.38%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.27%) GDPR
4 3 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.96%) SLA
5 2 (1.31%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.31%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.65%) MIL-STD-1553
6 1 (0.65%) NIST
6 1 (0.65%) PMO
6 1 (0.65%) SOC 2
System Software
1 33 (21.57%) Docker
2 11 (7.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (5.88%) Active Directory
3 9 (5.88%) Hyper-V
3 9 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (4.58%) NFS
5 6 (3.92%) Firmware
6 2 (1.31%) vSphere
7 1 (0.65%) GPFS
7 1 (0.65%) Lustre
7 1 (0.65%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.65%) Squid
Systems Management
1 21 (13.73%) Ansible
2 15 (9.80%) Kubernetes
3 13 (8.50%) Grafana
4 11 (7.19%) Prometheus
5 7 (4.58%) Puppet
5 7 (4.58%) vRealize
6 3 (1.96%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.65%) Consul
7 1 (0.65%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.65%) Packer
7 1 (0.65%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.65%) Salt
7 1 (0.65%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 17 (11.11%) VMware
2 13 (8.50%) Microsoft
3 12 (7.84%) Databricks
4 8 (5.23%) Dynatrace
4 8 (5.23%) Google
5 7 (4.58%) ServiceNow
6 5 (3.27%) Cisco
6 5 (3.27%) Cribl.io
6 5 (3.27%) Splunk
7 4 (2.61%) IBM
7 4 (2.61%) SAP
8 3 (1.96%) ESRI
8 3 (1.96%) HP
8 3 (1.96%) Juniper
8 3 (1.96%) NetApp
8 3 (1.96%) Oracle
8 3 (1.96%) Remedy
9 2 (1.31%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.31%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.31%) Salesforce