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 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 17 27
Rank change year-on-year 0 +10 -6
Contract jobs citing Python 134 93 116
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 7.31% 8.72% 6.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.54% 35.77% 24.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 61 76
10th Percentile £354 £315 £306
25th Percentile £408 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £495 £444
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% +11.55% -13.41%
75th Percentile £634 £600 £553
90th Percentile £662 £675 £644
England median daily rate £520 £575 £558
% change year-on-year -9.57% +3.14% -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 2 13
10th Percentile £35.00 £36.25 £33.25
25th Percentile £41.25 £38.13 £55.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £42.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +52.94% -32.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £76.25 £48.13 £77.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £50.75 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -7.69%

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 388 260 472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 21.16% 24.39% 24.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 133 215
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £399 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £454 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.13% -4.42% -5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £538 £563
90th Percentile £698 £675 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 47 141
10th Percentile £53.53 £50.50 £52.50
25th Percentile £64.49 £61.38 £61.25
Median hourly rate £68.00 £66.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +1.54% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £71.25
90th Percentile £77.05 £95.00 £90.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.17% +5.00% -7.69%

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 27 February 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 27 February 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 27 February 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 +13 59 £475 +4.63% 59
Hertfordshire -16 35 £563 -6.15% 18
Bedfordshire +1 17 £625 +13.64% 16
Essex -1 14 £641 +101.57% 17
Suffolk -4 7 £550 +25.71% 4
Norfolk -23 2 £475 - 11
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 5 (3.73%) OpenStack
1 5 (3.73%) SAS
2 4 (2.99%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.24%) Confluence
4 2 (1.49%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.75%) Apache
5 1 (0.75%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (5.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (5.22%) Weka
2 6 (4.48%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.75%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.49%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 52 (38.81%) Azure
2 40 (29.85%) AWS
3 22 (16.42%) GCP
4 19 (14.18%) Power Platform
5 18 (13.43%) Serverless
6 14 (10.45%) Azure AKS
6 14 (10.45%) GitHub
7 13 (9.70%) PaaS
8 11 (8.21%) Azure AI
8 11 (8.21%) Azure Functions
9 10 (7.46%) GitHub Copilot
10 9 (6.72%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (6.72%) Copilot Studio
10 9 (6.72%) Microsoft Copilot
11 7 (5.22%) Amazon S3
11 7 (5.22%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (5.22%) Snowflake
12 6 (4.48%) dbt
13 5 (3.73%) Azure Logic Apps
13 5 (3.73%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.21%) DNS
2 7 (5.22%) TCP/IP
3 5 (3.73%) DHCP
3 5 (3.73%) Firewall
3 5 (3.73%) FTP
3 5 (3.73%) HTTP
3 5 (3.73%) Network Security
3 5 (3.73%) SMTP
3 5 (3.73%) SSL
4 4 (2.99%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (2.24%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (1.49%) Bluetooth
6 2 (1.49%) RS-232
6 2 (1.49%) SpaceWire
6 2 (1.49%) VPN
7 1 (0.75%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.75%) Internet
7 1 (0.75%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.75%) VoIP
7 1 (0.75%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (12.69%) Power BI
2 13 (9.70%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.24%) MySQL
3 3 (2.24%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.49%) MS Access
4 2 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.49%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.49%) SAP HANA
4 2 (1.49%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (1.49%) Sybase ASE
5 1 (0.75%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.75%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.75%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.75%) GIS
5 1 (0.75%) MaxDB
5 1 (0.75%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.75%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 8 (5.97%) Git
2 7 (5.22%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.73%) GitLab
4 4 (2.99%) JIRA
5 3 (2.24%) Selenium
6 2 (1.49%) Android Studio
6 2 (1.49%) Appium
6 2 (1.49%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.49%) Postman
6 2 (1.49%) Robot Framework
6 2 (1.49%) Sourcetree
6 2 (1.49%) Xcode
7 1 (0.75%) JMeter
7 1 (0.75%) Locust
7 1 (0.75%) MLflow
7 1 (0.75%) Newman
7 1 (0.75%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.75%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.75%) TestCafe
General
1 49 (36.57%) Social Skills
2 20 (14.93%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (13.43%) Finance
4 15 (11.19%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (7.46%) Electronics
5 10 (7.46%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (3.73%) Law
6 5 (3.73%) Multimedia
7 4 (2.99%) Aerospace
7 4 (2.99%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (2.24%) Banking
9 2 (1.49%) Advertising
10 1 (0.75%) Automotive
10 1 (0.75%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.75%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.75%) Marketing
10 1 (0.75%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.75%) Retail
10 1 (0.75%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 17 (12.69%) Software Engineer
2 15 (11.19%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 12 (8.96%) Developer
3 12 (8.96%) Senior
4 8 (5.97%) Analyst
5 7 (5.22%) Lead
6 6 (4.48%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (4.48%) Data Engineer
6 6 (4.48%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (3.73%) Architect
7 5 (3.73%) Automation Engineer
7 5 (3.73%) Data Scientist
7 5 (3.73%) Design Engineer
7 5 (3.73%) Digital Design Engineer
7 5 (3.73%) SOC Analyst
7 5 (3.73%) Test Engineer
8 4 (2.99%) Audio Engineer
8 4 (2.99%) Security Engineer
8 4 (2.99%) Snowflake Architect
9 3 (2.24%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (19.40%) PyTorch
2 25 (18.66%) TensorFlow
3 19 (14.18%) REST
3 19 (14.18%) RESTful
4 15 (11.19%) .NET
4 15 (11.19%) scikit-learn
5 11 (8.21%) A2A Protocol
5 11 (8.21%) Model Context Protocol
6 10 (7.46%) Semantic Kernel
7 7 (5.22%) Flash
8 6 (4.48%) LDAP
8 6 (4.48%) pytest
9 5 (3.73%) React
10 4 (2.99%) Node.js
11 3 (2.24%) FastAPI
11 3 (2.24%) JSON
12 2 (1.49%) Kafka
12 2 (1.49%) Pandas
12 2 (1.49%) Spring
12 2 (1.49%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.43%) Cloud Native
2 12 (8.96%) Algorithms
3 8 (5.97%) Cyber Threat
3 8 (5.97%) FPGA
4 7 (5.22%) VHDL
5 6 (4.48%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (4.48%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (4.48%) Management Information System
5 6 (4.48%) Public Cloud
6 5 (3.73%) Credit Risk
6 5 (3.73%) CSOC
6 5 (3.73%) Cyberattack
6 5 (3.73%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (3.73%) Grid Computing
6 5 (3.73%) Private Cloud
6 5 (3.73%) Security Operations Centre
7 4 (2.99%) Augmented Reality
7 4 (2.99%) Embedded Systems
7 4 (2.99%) Virtual Reality
8 3 (2.24%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (17.16%) Linux
2 14 (10.45%) Windows
3 3 (2.24%) Robot Operating System
3 3 (2.24%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.49%) Android
4 2 (1.49%) Unix
4 2 (1.49%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (38.06%) AI
2 45 (33.58%) Machine Learning
3 40 (29.85%) Problem-Solving
4 39 (29.10%) DevOps
5 36 (26.87%) Software Engineering
6 33 (24.63%) Agile
7 30 (22.39%) CI/CD
8 26 (19.40%) Test Automation
9 25 (18.66%) LLM
10 24 (17.91%) Analytics
10 24 (17.91%) Prompt Engineering
11 23 (17.16%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
12 21 (15.67%) Data Science
13 20 (14.93%) Data Pipeline
14 18 (13.43%) Business Intelligence
15 16 (11.94%) Validation
16 15 (11.19%) Data Privacy
17 13 (9.70%) Microservices
18 12 (8.96%) API Development
18 12 (8.96%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 30 (22.39%) SQL
2 18 (13.43%) Java
3 17 (12.69%) C++
4 14 (10.45%) C
5 13 (9.70%) PowerShell
6 11 (8.21%) Bash
7 8 (5.97%) JavaScript
8 7 (5.22%) C#
8 7 (5.22%) R
9 3 (2.24%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.24%) Tcl
10 2 (1.49%) Perl
10 2 (1.49%) Ruby
10 2 (1.49%) SystemVerilog
10 2 (1.49%) VBA
11 1 (0.75%) Bourne shell
11 1 (0.75%) Embedded C
11 1 (0.75%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.75%) PHP
11 1 (0.75%) VB
Qualifications
1 21 (15.67%) Degree
2 17 (12.69%) Security Cleared
3 11 (8.21%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 11 (8.21%) SC Cleared
4 8 (5.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (5.22%) DV Cleared
6 5 (3.73%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.24%) ISTQB
7 3 (2.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (1.49%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.49%) CCIE
8 2 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.49%) PhD
9 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.75%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.75%) CCNP
9 1 (0.75%) CISSP
9 1 (0.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.21%) NIST
2 10 (7.46%) EU AI Act
3 8 (5.97%) QA
4 4 (2.99%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.75%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.75%) GDPR
6 1 (0.75%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (17.16%) Docker
2 7 (5.22%) GPFS
2 7 (5.22%) Lustre
2 7 (5.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 5 (3.73%) Firmware
4 3 (2.24%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (18.66%) Kubernetes
2 12 (8.96%) Ansible
3 10 (7.46%) Terraform
4 4 (2.99%) Puppet
5 3 (2.24%) Grafana
5 3 (2.24%) HAProxy
5 3 (2.24%) Salt
5 3 (2.24%) Stealthwatch
6 2 (1.49%) Kibana
6 2 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.49%) Rundeck
6 2 (1.49%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.75%) Consul
7 1 (0.75%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.75%) Nagios
7 1 (0.75%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.75%) vRealize
Vendors
1 34 (25.37%) Microsoft
2 21 (15.67%) Foundry
3 14 (10.45%) Google
4 12 (8.96%) OpenAI
5 5 (3.73%) Databricks
6 4 (2.99%) Cisco
6 4 (2.99%) SAP
7 3 (2.24%) Infoblox
7 3 (2.24%) Palo Alto
7 3 (2.24%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.24%) StreamSets
7 3 (2.24%) VMware
8 2 (1.49%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.49%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.49%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.49%) Oracle
8 2 (1.49%) Pega
8 2 (1.49%) Splunk
8 2 (1.49%) Sybase
8 2 (1.49%) Wyse