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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 8 22
Rank change year-on-year -14 +14 +1
Contract jobs citing Python 144 157 91
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 5.98% 11.89% 6.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.38% 40.78% 26.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 76 54
10th Percentile £350 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £405 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £550 £455
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% +20.88% -9.00%
75th Percentile £550 £613 £586
90th Percentile £618 £680 £638
England median daily rate £550 £530 £593
% change year-on-year +3.77% -10.55% -1.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 20 6
10th Percentile £23.29 £40.77 £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 £77.13 -
England median hourly rate £64.99 £50.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +29.98% -28.57% +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 474 385 350
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 19.67% 29.17% 23.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 171 153
10th Percentile £350 £320 £286
25th Percentile £410 £450 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £420
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% +25.00% -16.00%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £550
90th Percentile £635 £662 £598
England median daily rate £525 £515 £545
% change year-on-year +1.94% -5.50% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 70 74
10th Percentile £53.50 £34.40 £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% - -6.47%
75th Percentile £75.00 £72.06 £65.75
90th Percentile £82.40 £80.00 £80.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +14.04% -12.31% -

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 2 October 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 -11 64 £550 - 117
Cambridgeshire -1 45 £469 -6.72% 457
Suffolk -6 19 £367 +22.33% 39
Essex -27 8 £380 -40.72% 48
Bedfordshire -11 5 £463 -22.92% 23
Norfolk -6 3 £413 -17.50% 28
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 (6.94%) OpenStack
2 7 (4.86%) IIS
3 5 (3.47%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.08%) Apache
4 3 (2.08%) ArcGIS
4 3 (2.08%) Confluence
5 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.69%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.39%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.69%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (2.78%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 41 (28.47%) Azure
2 29 (20.14%) AWS
3 17 (11.81%) GitHub
4 16 (11.11%) GCP
5 11 (7.64%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (7.64%) Power Platform
6 10 (6.94%) Azure AKS
7 8 (5.56%) Serverless
8 6 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
8 6 (4.17%) Azure Service Bus
9 4 (2.78%) Azure Functions
9 4 (2.78%) OpenShift
9 4 (2.78%) Power Automate
9 4 (2.78%) Snowflake
10 3 (2.08%) Amazon S3
10 3 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (2.08%) dbt
10 3 (2.08%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 14 (9.72%) Wi-Fi
2 13 (9.03%) TCP/IP
3 12 (8.33%) 5G
3 12 (8.33%) HTTP
4 11 (7.64%) 4G
4 11 (7.64%) Broadband
4 11 (7.64%) IPv4
4 11 (7.64%) IPv6
5 8 (5.56%) DNS
6 7 (4.86%) SNMP
6 7 (4.86%) xDSL
7 6 (4.17%) PPP
7 6 (4.17%) UPnP
7 6 (4.17%) WAN
8 5 (3.47%) Firewall
8 5 (3.47%) Network Security
8 5 (3.47%) Wireless
9 4 (2.78%) BGP
9 4 (2.78%) SSH
10 3 (2.08%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.42%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (9.72%) Relational Database
3 12 (8.33%) MySQL
4 11 (7.64%) Power BI
5 7 (4.86%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (4.86%) InfluxDB
5 7 (4.86%) Redis
6 5 (3.47%) BigQuery
6 5 (3.47%) Metadata
7 4 (2.78%) Looker
7 4 (2.78%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.78%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.78%) SQL Server
8 3 (2.08%) Geospatial Data
8 3 (2.08%) GIS
9 2 (1.39%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.39%) Power Query
9 2 (1.39%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (1.39%) Tableau
9 2 (1.39%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 37 (25.69%) Git
2 21 (14.58%) JIRA
3 18 (12.50%) GitLab
4 11 (7.64%) Jenkins
5 5 (3.47%) Robot Framework
6 4 (2.78%) Newman
6 4 (2.78%) Postman
7 3 (2.08%) Artifactory
7 3 (2.08%) Selenium
8 2 (1.39%) Gerrit
8 2 (1.39%) JMeter
8 2 (1.39%) Locust
8 2 (1.39%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.39%) TestCafe
9 1 (0.69%) eggPlant
9 1 (0.69%) JUnit
9 1 (0.69%) ScriptRunner
9 1 (0.69%) Tricentis qTest
9 1 (0.69%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.69%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 30 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
2 23 (15.97%) Social Skills
3 20 (13.89%) Telecoms
4 9 (6.25%) Law
5 8 (5.56%) Aerospace
6 6 (4.17%) Back Office
6 6 (4.17%) Pharmaceutical
6 6 (4.17%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.08%) Electronics
7 3 (2.08%) Finance
7 3 (2.08%) Retail
8 2 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.39%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.69%) Automotive
9 1 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.69%) Legal
9 1 (0.69%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 22 (15.28%) Python Engineer
2 19 (13.19%) Developer
3 15 (10.42%) Data Engineer
4 11 (7.64%) Senior
5 9 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (6.25%) Test Engineer
6 8 (5.56%) Python Developer
6 8 (5.56%) Security Engineer
7 7 (4.86%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 7 (4.86%) Software Engineer
8 6 (4.17%) Consultant
9 5 (3.47%) Applications Developer
9 5 (3.47%) Broadband Engineer
9 5 (3.47%) VMware Engineer
10 4 (2.78%) Automation Engineer
10 4 (2.78%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (2.78%) JavaScript Engineer
10 4 (2.78%) PowerShell Engineer
10 4 (2.78%) Report Specialist
10 4 (2.78%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (13.89%) Terraform
2 16 (11.11%) REST
3 11 (7.64%) FastAPI
4 9 (6.25%) LDAP
4 9 (6.25%) Pandas
4 9 (6.25%) pytest
5 8 (5.56%) RESTful
6 7 (4.86%) JSON
6 7 (4.86%) Kafka
6 7 (4.86%) RabbitMQ
6 7 (4.86%) Regular Expression
7 6 (4.17%) Flask
7 6 (4.17%) SQLAlchemy
8 5 (3.47%) eBPF
8 5 (3.47%) Hibernate
8 5 (3.47%) OpenTelemetry
9 4 (2.78%) CSS
9 4 (2.78%) HTML
9 4 (2.78%) XML
9 4 (2.78%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.25%) Cloud Native
1 9 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (4.86%) Cyber Threat
3 6 (4.17%) Algorithms
3 6 (4.17%) CMDB
3 6 (4.17%) Embedded Systems
3 6 (4.17%) IoT
3 6 (4.17%) Life Science
3 6 (4.17%) Wiki
4 5 (3.47%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.78%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.78%) Private Cloud
5 4 (2.78%) Replication
6 3 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.08%) Robotics
6 3 (2.08%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.39%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 38 (26.39%) Linux
2 16 (11.11%) Windows
3 8 (5.56%) VMS
4 7 (4.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (2.78%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.78%) Windows Server
6 3 (2.08%) Unix
7 2 (1.39%) CentOS
7 2 (1.39%) Rocky
8 1 (0.69%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.69%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (40.97%) CI/CD
2 36 (25.00%) Validation
3 35 (24.31%) DevOps
4 30 (20.83%) Data Modelling
4 30 (20.83%) Data Pipeline
5 29 (20.14%) Test Automation
6 28 (19.44%) ETL
7 26 (18.06%) Agile
8 24 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
9 22 (15.28%) AI
9 22 (15.28%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (15.28%) Software Engineering
10 18 (12.50%) Migration
10 18 (12.50%) Scrum
11 17 (11.81%) Analytics
11 17 (11.81%) Infrastructure as Code
12 15 (10.42%) Machine Learning
13 14 (9.72%) Computer Science
13 14 (9.72%) Containerisation
14 13 (9.03%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 38 (26.39%) SQL
2 25 (17.36%) PowerShell
3 23 (15.97%) Bash
4 11 (7.64%) Java
4 11 (7.64%) JavaScript
5 8 (5.56%) C++
6 5 (3.47%) C
6 5 (3.47%) C#
6 5 (3.47%) MATLAB
6 5 (3.47%) R
6 5 (3.47%) Shell Script
7 4 (2.78%) Groovy
7 4 (2.78%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (2.08%) Google Apps Script
9 2 (1.39%) Perl
10 1 (0.69%) Bicep
10 1 (0.69%) Cypher
10 1 (0.69%) Go
10 1 (0.69%) Ruby
10 1 (0.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 27 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 23 (15.97%) Degree
4 12 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (6.25%) DV Cleared
6 6 (4.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 5 (3.47%) ISTQB
7 5 (3.47%) Master's Degree
8 4 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (2.78%) PhD
9 3 (2.08%) CCIE
9 3 (2.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (1.39%) JNCIE
10 2 (1.39%) MOS
11 1 (0.69%) CCNP
11 1 (0.69%) CCSP
11 1 (0.69%) CISM
11 1 (0.69%) CISSP
11 1 (0.69%) JNCIP
11 1 (0.69%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (16.67%) QA
2 20 (13.89%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.78%) SLA
4 3 (2.08%) GDPR
5 2 (1.39%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.69%) MIL-STD-1553
6 1 (0.69%) NIST
6 1 (0.69%) PMO
6 1 (0.69%) SOC 2
System Software
1 32 (22.22%) Docker
2 11 (7.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (6.94%) Active Directory
3 10 (6.94%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (6.25%) Hyper-V
5 7 (4.86%) NFS
6 5 (3.47%) Firmware
7 2 (1.39%) vSphere
8 1 (0.69%) GPFS
8 1 (0.69%) Lustre
8 1 (0.69%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.69%) Squid
Systems Management
1 21 (14.58%) Ansible
2 14 (9.72%) Kubernetes
3 12 (8.33%) Grafana
4 10 (6.94%) Prometheus
5 7 (4.86%) Puppet
6 6 (4.17%) vRealize
7 3 (2.08%) HP ALM
8 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.69%) Consul
9 1 (0.69%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.69%) Packer
9 1 (0.69%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.69%) Salt
9 1 (0.69%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 16 (11.11%) VMware
2 14 (9.72%) Microsoft
3 10 (6.94%) Databricks
4 9 (6.25%) Google
5 7 (4.86%) Dynatrace
5 7 (4.86%) ServiceNow
6 5 (3.47%) Cisco
6 5 (3.47%) Cribl.io
6 5 (3.47%) Splunk
7 4 (2.78%) IBM
7 4 (2.78%) Remedy
7 4 (2.78%) SAP
8 3 (2.08%) ESRI
8 3 (2.08%) HP
8 3 (2.08%) Juniper
8 3 (2.08%) NetApp
8 3 (2.08%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.39%) F5
9 2 (1.39%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.39%) Red Hat