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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 19 20
Rank change year-on-year +11 +1 -4
Contract jobs citing Python 165 93 139
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 11.58% 7.10% 7.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.05% 28.88% 26.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 56 94
10th Percentile £303 £300 £322
25th Percentile £405 £389 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £465 £498
Median % change year-on-year +10.87% -6.63% -9.55%
75th Percentile £620 £577 £575
90th Percentile £678 £625 £704
England median daily rate £525 £585 £600
% change year-on-year -10.26% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 5 21
10th Percentile - £17.59 £47.50
25th Percentile £41.25 £20.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £54.00 £50.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -31.03% +31.82%
75th Percentile £75.31 £63.75 £73.75
90th Percentile £77.50 - £77.50
England median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +4.17% -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 412 322 529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 28.91% 24.58% 28.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 145 292
10th Percentile £307 £290 £300
25th Percentile £413 £325 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £420 £493
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -14.72% -6.19%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £575
90th Percentile £662 £588 £699
England median daily rate £513 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 56 112
10th Percentile £40.60 £46.88 £53.88
25th Percentile £54.08 £56.80 £65.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year - -2.99% +11.67%
75th Percentile £70.94 £67.50 £78.00
90th Percentile £77.75 £95.00 £90.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -0.13%

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 +7 65 £450 -7.22% 159
Hertfordshire +13 57 £550 +10.00% 90
Essex +8 18 £641 +102.53% 67
Bedfordshire -5 14 £600 +9.09% 38
Suffolk +1 8 £300 - 20
Norfolk -14 3 £475 - 36
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 (4.85%) OpenStack
2 6 (3.64%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.64%) SAS
3 5 (3.03%) Apache
3 5 (3.03%) IIS
3 5 (3.03%) WebSphere
4 4 (2.42%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.61%) Confluence
5 1 (0.61%) Jupyter
Applications
1 5 (3.03%) Weka
2 2 (1.21%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.21%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (3.03%) Maximo
2 1 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 62 (37.58%) AWS
2 53 (32.12%) Azure
3 30 (18.18%) Serverless
4 21 (12.73%) AWS Lambda
5 20 (12.12%) Amazon S3
6 17 (10.30%) GCP
7 13 (7.88%) GitHub
7 13 (7.88%) PaaS
8 12 (7.27%) Azure AKS
9 11 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
9 11 (6.67%) dbt
9 11 (6.67%) Snowflake
10 10 (6.06%) GitHub Copilot
11 9 (5.45%) Azure Functions
12 7 (4.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (4.24%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (4.24%) Azure Sentinel
13 5 (3.03%) Amazon EMR
14 4 (2.42%) AWS CloudFormation
14 4 (2.42%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 21 (12.73%) DNS
2 14 (8.48%) Firewall
3 9 (5.45%) HTTP
3 9 (5.45%) Network Security
3 9 (5.45%) SSL
4 8 (4.85%) FTP
4 8 (4.85%) SMTP
5 6 (3.64%) iSCSI
5 6 (3.64%) SAN
5 6 (3.64%) TCP/IP
5 6 (3.64%) VPN
6 5 (3.03%) SpaceWire
7 4 (2.42%) RS-232
8 3 (1.82%) BGP
8 3 (1.82%) DHCP
8 3 (1.82%) SD-WAN
8 3 (1.82%) VLAN
8 3 (1.82%) WAN
8 3 (1.82%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (1.21%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.85%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (4.85%) NoSQL
2 7 (4.24%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (4.24%) DynamoDB
2 7 (4.24%) SQL Server
3 5 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (3.03%) Big Data
3 5 (3.03%) DB2
3 5 (3.03%) Oracle Database
3 5 (3.03%) RDBMS
3 5 (3.03%) Relational Database
3 5 (3.03%) Tableau
4 4 (2.42%) Power BI
4 4 (2.42%) Snowflake Schema
5 3 (1.82%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.21%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.21%) MySQL
6 2 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.61%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 14 (8.48%) GitLab
2 13 (7.88%) JIRA
3 8 (4.85%) TeamCity
4 7 (4.24%) Robot Framework
5 6 (3.64%) Git
6 3 (1.82%) Selenium
7 2 (1.21%) Jenkins
7 2 (1.21%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.21%) webpack
8 1 (0.61%) JMeter
8 1 (0.61%) Locust
8 1 (0.61%) MLflow
8 1 (0.61%) Newman
8 1 (0.61%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.61%) Redmine
8 1 (0.61%) Subversion
8 1 (0.61%) TestCafe
General
1 48 (29.09%) Social Skills
2 21 (12.73%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (7.88%) Electronics
4 10 (6.06%) Finance
5 8 (4.85%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (4.85%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (3.64%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (3.03%) Aerospace
7 5 (3.03%) Law
8 4 (2.42%) Multimedia
9 2 (1.21%) Marketing
9 2 (1.21%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.21%) Wearables
10 1 (0.61%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.61%) Agrochemical
10 1 (0.61%) Automotive
10 1 (0.61%) Banking
10 1 (0.61%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.61%) Legal
10 1 (0.61%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 22 (13.33%) Developer
2 17 (10.30%) Architect
3 15 (9.09%) Senior
4 13 (7.88%) Software Engineer
5 12 (7.27%) Automation Engineer
6 11 (6.67%) Administrator
6 11 (6.67%) Analyst
7 10 (6.06%) Security Engineer
8 9 (5.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 9 (5.45%) Design Engineer
8 9 (5.45%) Network Engineer
9 8 (4.85%) Digital Design Engineer
9 8 (4.85%) Snowflake Architect
9 8 (4.85%) SOC Analyst
10 7 (4.24%) AWS Architect
10 7 (4.24%) Consultant
10 7 (4.24%) Lead
10 7 (4.24%) Test Engineer
11 6 (3.64%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
11 6 (3.64%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (13.94%) PyTorch
2 21 (12.73%) TensorFlow
3 20 (12.12%) RESTful
4 13 (7.88%) .NET
4 13 (7.88%) scikit-learn
5 11 (6.67%) REST
6 10 (6.06%) Flash
6 10 (6.06%) Semantic Kernel
7 9 (5.45%) LDAP
7 9 (5.45%) React
8 7 (4.24%) Web Services
9 6 (3.64%) Pandas
9 6 (3.64%) SOAP
10 5 (3.03%) FastAPI
10 5 (3.03%) NumPy
10 5 (3.03%) XML
11 4 (2.42%) Django
11 4 (2.42%) Matplotlib
11 4 (2.42%) pytest
11 4 (2.42%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.70%) Cloud Native
2 14 (8.48%) Algorithms
3 13 (7.88%) Cyber Threat
4 11 (6.67%) FPGA
4 11 (6.67%) VHDL
5 8 (4.85%) Cyberattack
5 8 (4.85%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (4.24%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (4.24%) CSOC
6 7 (4.24%) Management Information System
6 7 (4.24%) Security Operations Centre
7 6 (3.64%) Analogue Electronics
7 6 (3.64%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (3.03%) Credit Risk
8 5 (3.03%) Data Centre
8 5 (3.03%) Enterprise Storage
8 5 (3.03%) Public Cloud
9 4 (2.42%) CAN bus
10 3 (1.82%) Grid Computing
10 3 (1.82%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 31 (18.79%) Linux
2 20 (12.12%) Windows
3 9 (5.45%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.03%) CentOS
4 5 (3.03%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.42%) VMS
6 1 (0.61%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (28.48%) AI
2 39 (23.64%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (21.82%) Machine Learning
4 33 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 30 (18.18%) DevOps
6 29 (17.58%) Software Engineering
7 26 (15.76%) Agile
8 23 (13.94%) Test Automation
9 21 (12.73%) Data Science
10 19 (11.52%) Analytics
11 18 (10.91%) Computer Science
11 18 (10.91%) Data Pipeline
11 18 (10.91%) Validation
12 17 (10.30%) Containerisation
12 17 (10.30%) Cybersecurity
12 17 (10.30%) LLM
12 17 (10.30%) SOAR
13 16 (9.70%) SIEM
14 15 (9.09%) ITSM
14 15 (9.09%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 35 (21.21%) SQL
2 23 (13.94%) JavaScript
2 23 (13.94%) PowerShell
3 19 (11.52%) Java
4 18 (10.91%) C
5 15 (9.09%) Bash
5 15 (9.09%) C++
6 14 (8.48%) R
6 14 (8.48%) Shell Script
7 6 (3.64%) Tcl
8 5 (3.03%) VBA
9 3 (1.82%) Perl
10 2 (1.21%) C#
10 2 (1.21%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (1.21%) Ruby
10 2 (1.21%) Scala
10 2 (1.21%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.61%) Bicep
11 1 (0.61%) Bourne shell
11 1 (0.61%) Go
Qualifications
1 27 (16.36%) Degree
2 20 (12.12%) Security Cleared
3 15 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 11 (6.67%) MCP
5 9 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.64%) Master's Degree
7 5 (3.03%) DV Cleared
7 5 (3.03%) PhD
8 3 (1.82%) CCIE
8 3 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.21%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.21%) CCNP
10 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.61%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.61%) CISA
10 1 (0.61%) CISM
10 1 (0.61%) CISSP
10 1 (0.61%) SANS
10 1 (0.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.09%) QA
2 12 (7.27%) NIST
3 10 (6.06%) EU AI Act
4 9 (5.45%) PCI DSS
5 6 (3.64%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.21%) GDPR
6 2 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.61%) ECSS
7 1 (0.61%) IFRS
System Software
1 17 (10.30%) Docker
2 9 (5.45%) Active Directory
2 9 (5.45%) Firmware
3 7 (4.24%) Hyper-V
4 6 (3.64%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 5 (3.03%) GPFS
5 5 (3.03%) Lustre
6 4 (2.42%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.61%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 22 (13.33%) Ansible
2 19 (11.52%) Kubernetes
3 16 (9.70%) Terraform
4 9 (5.45%) Puppet
5 7 (4.24%) Salt
6 5 (3.03%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.21%) Nagios
7 2 (1.21%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.61%) Consul
8 1 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.61%) vRealize
Vendors
1 38 (23.03%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.27%) Foundry
3 10 (6.06%) ServiceNow
3 10 (6.06%) VMware
4 8 (4.85%) Google
5 6 (3.64%) Palo Alto
5 6 (3.64%) StreamSets
6 5 (3.03%) Databricks
6 5 (3.03%) IBM
6 5 (3.03%) Oracle
7 4 (2.42%) Splunk
8 3 (1.82%) Cisco
8 3 (1.82%) Citrix
8 3 (1.82%) EMC
8 3 (1.82%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.21%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.21%) HP
9 2 (1.21%) Huawei
9 2 (1.21%) Meraki
9 2 (1.21%) Wyse