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 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 10 37
Rank change year-on-year -9 +27 -20
Contract jobs citing Python 129 112 84
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 5.77% 11.74% 4.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.45% 37.46% 20.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 69 57
10th Percentile £277 £313 £285
25th Percentile £406 £379 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £575
90th Percentile £613 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £568
% change year-on-year -4.55% -3.08% -5.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 7 7
10th Percentile £25.42 £34.90 £42.25
25th Percentile £38.81 £35.74 £53.13
Median hourly rate £55.50 £52.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% -16.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £74.00 £55.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £75.38 £63.00 £68.25
England median hourly rate £55.00 £44.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +23.60% -31.54% -

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 438 299 402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 19.59% 31.34% 21.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 174 175
10th Percentile £325 £313 £318
25th Percentile £413 £425 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -2.56%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £575
90th Percentile £650 £654 £638
England median daily rate £513 £525 £548
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.11% -2.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 54 143
10th Percentile £54.41 £31.64 £52.50
25th Percentile £62.97 £55.00 £60.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.46% +1.15% -
75th Percentile £73.46 £85.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £88.00 £85.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.84% -0.80% -

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 28 May 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 +12 46 £413 -17.91% 87
Hertfordshire -19 39 £507 -7.82% 26
Bedfordshire -2 17 £575 -4.17% 11
Essex -13 14 £500 +57.23% 23
Suffolk -9 7 £550 +65.41% 17
Norfolk -13 6 £425 - 6
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 4 (3.10%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.33%) Confluence
2 3 (2.33%) NetWeaver
3 1 (0.78%) Apache
3 1 (0.78%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.78%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.10%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.78%) OrCAD
3 1 (0.78%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (2.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.78%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 31 (24.03%) AWS
1 31 (24.03%) Azure
2 14 (10.85%) GCP
2 14 (10.85%) GitHub
2 14 (10.85%) Power Platform
3 12 (9.30%) Serverless
4 7 (5.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 7 (5.43%) Azure AKS
4 7 (5.43%) Azure Service Bus
5 6 (4.65%) Azure AI
5 6 (4.65%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (3.88%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (3.88%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (3.10%) Amazon S3
7 4 (3.10%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (3.10%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (3.10%) Azure Functions
7 4 (3.10%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (3.10%) Microsoft Copilot
7 4 (3.10%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.75%) DNS
1 10 (7.75%) Network Security
2 6 (4.65%) SSL
3 5 (3.88%) Cisco ISE
3 5 (3.88%) Firewall
3 5 (3.88%) FTP
3 5 (3.88%) HTTP
3 5 (3.88%) SMTP
4 4 (3.10%) DHCP
4 4 (3.10%) SNMP
4 4 (3.10%) VPN
5 3 (2.33%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (1.55%) ADSL
6 2 (1.55%) Bluetooth
6 2 (1.55%) IPsec
6 2 (1.55%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.55%) WAN
7 1 (0.78%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.78%) InfiniBand
7 1 (0.78%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.30%) Power BI
2 7 (5.43%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (4.65%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.88%) Metadata
4 5 (3.88%) SQL Server
5 4 (3.10%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (3.10%) InfluxDB
5 4 (3.10%) MySQL
6 3 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (2.33%) SAP HANA
6 3 (2.33%) Sybase ASE
7 2 (1.55%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.55%) Data Vault
7 2 (1.55%) MaxDB
7 2 (1.55%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.78%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.78%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.78%) Redis
8 1 (0.78%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 20 (15.50%) Git
2 7 (5.43%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.65%) GitLab
3 6 (4.65%) JIRA
4 5 (3.88%) JUnit
4 5 (3.88%) Postman
4 5 (3.88%) SonarQube
5 3 (2.33%) IntelliJ
5 3 (2.33%) Newman
6 2 (1.55%) Android Studio
6 2 (1.55%) Appium
6 2 (1.55%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.55%) Selenium
6 2 (1.55%) Sourcetree
6 2 (1.55%) Xcode
7 1 (0.78%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.78%) MLflow
7 1 (0.78%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.78%) ScriptRunner
General
1 35 (27.13%) Social Skills
2 17 (13.18%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (9.30%) Finance
4 8 (6.20%) Electronics
5 7 (5.43%) Pharmaceutical
6 5 (3.88%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.10%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.55%) Advertising
8 2 (1.55%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.55%) Automotive
8 2 (1.55%) Banking
8 2 (1.55%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.55%) Retail
9 1 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.78%) Law
9 1 (0.78%) Multimedia
9 1 (0.78%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (10.08%) Data Engineer
1 13 (10.08%) Software Engineer
2 11 (8.53%) Python Engineer
3 8 (6.20%) Developer
4 7 (5.43%) Analyst
5 6 (4.65%) Consultant
5 6 (4.65%) JavaScript Engineer
5 6 (4.65%) PowerShell Engineer
5 6 (4.65%) VMware Engineer
6 5 (3.88%) Architect
6 5 (3.88%) SOC Analyst
6 5 (3.88%) Systems Engineer
7 4 (3.10%) Java Developer
7 4 (3.10%) Lead
7 4 (3.10%) Senior
7 4 (3.10%) Test Engineer
8 3 (2.33%) Automation Engineer
8 3 (2.33%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (2.33%) GCP Engineer
8 3 (2.33%) GCP Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (9.30%) REST
2 8 (6.20%) Spring
2 8 (6.20%) Spring Boot
3 7 (5.43%) Node.js
4 6 (4.65%) JSON
4 6 (4.65%) LDAP
5 5 (3.88%) OpenTelemetry
5 5 (3.88%) pytest
5 5 (3.88%) PyTorch
5 5 (3.88%) TensorFlow
6 4 (3.10%) .NET
6 4 (3.10%) eBPF
6 4 (3.10%) Pandas
6 4 (3.10%) RESTful
6 4 (3.10%) scikit-learn
7 3 (2.33%) Kafka
7 3 (2.33%) SAP Basis
7 3 (2.33%) XML
7 3 (2.33%) XML Schema
8 2 (1.55%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.30%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.20%) Cyber Threat
3 7 (5.43%) CRISPR
3 7 (5.43%) Embedded Systems
3 7 (5.43%) Robotics
4 6 (4.65%) Algorithms
5 5 (3.88%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (3.88%) CSOC
5 5 (3.88%) Cyberattack
5 5 (3.88%) Management Information System
5 5 (3.88%) Security Operations Centre
6 4 (3.10%) Acoustics
6 4 (3.10%) FPGA
6 4 (3.10%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (2.33%) Augmented Reality
7 3 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.33%) Life Science
7 3 (2.33%) PKI
7 3 (2.33%) Virtual Reality
7 3 (2.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (16.28%) Linux
2 10 (7.75%) Windows
3 5 (3.88%) Android
4 4 (3.10%) Unix
5 2 (1.55%) Robot Operating System
5 2 (1.55%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.78%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.78%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (31.01%) CI/CD
2 31 (24.03%) DevOps
3 26 (20.16%) Data Pipeline
4 25 (19.38%) Software Engineering
5 23 (17.83%) Analytics
6 22 (17.05%) AI
7 20 (15.50%) Machine Learning
8 19 (14.73%) ETL
8 19 (14.73%) Test Automation
9 18 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (13.18%) Validation
11 16 (12.40%) Computer Science
12 15 (11.63%) Agile
13 14 (10.85%) Infrastructure as Code
14 13 (10.08%) Business Intelligence
14 13 (10.08%) Data Science
15 12 (9.30%) Cybersecurity
15 12 (9.30%) Data Modelling
16 11 (8.53%) Performance Tuning
16 11 (8.53%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 26 (20.16%) SQL
2 22 (17.05%) PowerShell
3 16 (12.40%) Java
4 15 (11.63%) C++
5 13 (10.08%) Bash
6 10 (7.75%) C
7 9 (6.98%) C#
7 9 (6.98%) JavaScript
7 9 (6.98%) R
8 4 (3.10%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (2.33%) Embedded C
9 3 (2.33%) Go
9 3 (2.33%) MATLAB
9 3 (2.33%) Ruby
10 2 (1.55%) Groovy
10 2 (1.55%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.78%) Perl
11 1 (0.78%) PHP
11 1 (0.78%) SystemVerilog
11 1 (0.78%) VB
Qualifications
1 31 (24.03%) Security Cleared
2 23 (17.83%) Degree
3 21 (16.28%) SC Cleared
4 13 (10.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (10.08%) DV Cleared
5 6 (4.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 5 (3.88%) ISTQB
6 5 (3.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.78%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.78%) CCSP
7 1 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.78%) CISM
7 1 (0.78%) CISSP
7 1 (0.78%) CRISC
7 1 (0.78%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.78%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.75%) QA
2 8 (6.20%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.88%) GDPR
3 5 (3.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.55%) ISA99
4 2 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (1.55%) NCSC
4 2 (1.55%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.78%) MIL-STD-1553
5 1 (0.78%) NIST
5 1 (0.78%) SLA
5 1 (0.78%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (11.63%) Docker
2 5 (3.88%) Firmware
3 3 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.55%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.78%) GPFS
5 1 (0.78%) Lustre
5 1 (0.78%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.78%) Squid
Systems Management
1 14 (10.85%) Kubernetes
1 14 (10.85%) Terraform
2 13 (10.08%) Ansible
3 9 (6.98%) Grafana
4 6 (4.65%) vRealize
5 5 (3.88%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.10%) Puppet
7 3 (2.33%) HAProxy
7 3 (2.33%) Stealthwatch
8 2 (1.55%) Kibana
8 2 (1.55%) Rundeck
9 1 (0.78%) Consul
9 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.78%) Packer
9 1 (0.78%) Salt
9 1 (0.78%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 15 (11.63%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.53%) Google
3 10 (7.75%) Databricks
4 9 (6.98%) VMware
5 8 (6.20%) Dynatrace
6 7 (5.43%) OpenAI
7 6 (4.65%) Foundry
8 5 (3.88%) Checkmarx
8 5 (3.88%) Cisco
9 4 (3.10%) Cribl.io
9 4 (3.10%) Oracle
9 4 (3.10%) SAP
9 4 (3.10%) Splunk
10 3 (2.33%) Atlassian
10 3 (2.33%) Infoblox
10 3 (2.33%) ServiceNow
10 3 (2.33%) Sybase
11 2 (1.55%) Fortinet
12 1 (0.78%) Cadence
12 1 (0.78%) Pega