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

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 17 19
Rank change year-on-year +8 +2 -2
Contract jobs citing Python 158 94 144
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 10.53% 7.42% 7.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.92% 29.94% 27.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 56 95
10th Percentile £353 £300 £322
25th Percentile £406 £389 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -3.06% -6.67%
75th Percentile £625 £581 £575
90th Percentile £678 £625 £702
England median daily rate £525 £600 £580
% change year-on-year -12.50% +3.45% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 5 21
10th Percentile £41.25 £17.59 £47.50
25th Percentile £41.75 £20.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £54.00 £50.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -31.03% +20.83%
75th Percentile £75.63 £63.75 £73.75
90th Percentile £77.50 - £77.50
England median hourly rate £50.72 £62.50 £60.50
% change year-on-year -18.85% +3.31% -6.92%

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 406 314 520
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 27.05% 24.78% 28.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 147 282
10th Percentile £319 £293 £300
25th Percentile £406 £325 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £413 £475
Median % change year-on-year +21.21% -13.16% -9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £575
90th Percentile £683 £588 £686
England median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.74% -2.18% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 53 111
10th Percentile £41.25 £46.50 £53.75
25th Percentile £59.69 £59.00 £65.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year - -0.76% +6.94%
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.00 £80.93
90th Percentile £76.13 £95.00 £90.00
England median hourly rate £63.00 £65.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year -3.08% +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 18 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 18 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 18 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 £419 -10.81% 128
Hertfordshire +9 55 £550 +4.76% 67
Bedfordshire -6 16 £613 +11.36% 39
Essex 0 11 £641 +102.53% 54
Suffolk +1 8 £310 +3.33% 20
Norfolk -15 3 £475 - 22
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 (5.06%) OpenStack
2 6 (3.80%) Apache
2 6 (3.80%) SAS
3 5 (3.16%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.16%) IIS
3 5 (3.16%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.90%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.63%) Confluence
5 1 (0.63%) Jupyter
Applications
1 7 (4.43%) Weka
2 5 (3.16%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (1.90%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (3.16%) Maximo
2 1 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 59 (37.34%) AWS
2 53 (33.54%) Azure
3 29 (18.35%) Serverless
4 21 (13.29%) GCP
5 20 (12.66%) AWS Lambda
6 19 (12.03%) Amazon S3
7 13 (8.23%) GitHub
7 13 (8.23%) PaaS
8 12 (7.59%) Azure AKS
9 10 (6.33%) Cloud Computing
9 10 (6.33%) GitHub Copilot
9 10 (6.33%) Snowflake
10 9 (5.70%) Azure Functions
11 8 (5.06%) dbt
11 8 (5.06%) Power Platform
12 7 (4.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (4.43%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (3.80%) Azure Sentinel
14 5 (3.16%) Amazon EMR
15 4 (2.53%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 17 (10.76%) DNS
2 13 (8.23%) Firewall
3 9 (5.70%) HTTP
3 9 (5.70%) Network Security
3 9 (5.70%) SSL
4 8 (5.06%) FTP
4 8 (5.06%) SMTP
4 8 (5.06%) TCP/IP
5 6 (3.80%) VPN
6 5 (3.16%) SpaceWire
7 4 (2.53%) iSCSI
7 4 (2.53%) RS-232
7 4 (2.53%) SAN
8 3 (1.90%) BGP
8 3 (1.90%) DHCP
8 3 (1.90%) SD-WAN
8 3 (1.90%) VLAN
8 3 (1.90%) WAN
8 3 (1.90%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (1.27%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.96%) NoSQL
2 9 (5.70%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (5.06%) DynamoDB
3 8 (5.06%) Power BI
4 7 (4.43%) SQL Server
5 5 (3.16%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (3.16%) DB2
6 4 (2.53%) Tableau
7 3 (1.90%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (1.90%) Big Data
7 3 (1.90%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.90%) RDBMS
7 3 (1.90%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.90%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (1.27%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.27%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.27%) MySQL
8 2 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.63%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.63%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 11 (6.96%) GitLab
2 8 (5.06%) JIRA
3 6 (3.80%) Git
3 6 (3.80%) Robot Framework
4 5 (3.16%) TeamCity
5 3 (1.90%) Selenium
6 2 (1.27%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.27%) webpack
7 1 (0.63%) JMeter
7 1 (0.63%) Locust
7 1 (0.63%) MLflow
7 1 (0.63%) Newman
7 1 (0.63%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.63%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.63%) TestCafe
General
1 47 (29.75%) Social Skills
2 22 (13.92%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (7.59%) Finance
4 11 (6.96%) Documentation Skills
4 11 (6.96%) Electronics
5 10 (6.33%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (3.80%) Multimedia
7 5 (3.16%) Aerospace
7 5 (3.16%) Law
8 4 (2.53%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.90%) Marketing
10 2 (1.27%) Wearables
11 1 (0.63%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.63%) Agrochemical
11 1 (0.63%) Automotive
11 1 (0.63%) Banking
11 1 (0.63%) Legal
11 1 (0.63%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.63%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (12.03%) Developer
2 15 (9.49%) Architect
2 15 (9.49%) Senior
2 15 (9.49%) Software Engineer
3 11 (6.96%) Analyst
3 11 (6.96%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 11 (6.96%) Automation Engineer
4 9 (5.70%) Design Engineer
4 9 (5.70%) Network Engineer
4 9 (5.70%) Security Engineer
5 8 (5.06%) Digital Design Engineer
5 8 (5.06%) SOC Analyst
6 7 (4.43%) Administrator
6 7 (4.43%) AWS Architect
7 6 (3.80%) Consultant
7 6 (3.80%) Lead
7 6 (3.80%) Python Engineer
7 6 (3.80%) Snowflake Architect
8 5 (3.16%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
8 5 (3.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (15.19%) PyTorch
2 22 (13.92%) TensorFlow
3 20 (12.66%) RESTful
4 14 (8.86%) .NET
4 14 (8.86%) REST
4 14 (8.86%) scikit-learn
5 10 (6.33%) Flash
5 10 (6.33%) React
5 10 (6.33%) Semantic Kernel
6 9 (5.70%) LDAP
7 7 (4.43%) Web Services
8 6 (3.80%) SOAP
9 5 (3.16%) FastAPI
9 5 (3.16%) Pandas
9 5 (3.16%) XML
10 4 (2.53%) Django
10 4 (2.53%) Node.js
10 4 (2.53%) NumPy
10 4 (2.53%) pytest
11 3 (1.90%) Matplotlib
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.13%) Cloud Native
2 14 (8.86%) Algorithms
3 12 (7.59%) Cyber Threat
4 11 (6.96%) FPGA
5 10 (6.33%) VHDL
6 8 (5.06%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (5.06%) Cyberattack
6 8 (5.06%) Linux Command Line
6 8 (5.06%) Management Information System
7 7 (4.43%) CSOC
7 7 (4.43%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (4.43%) Public Cloud
7 7 (4.43%) Security Operations Centre
8 6 (3.80%) Analogue Electronics
9 5 (3.16%) Credit Risk
9 5 (3.16%) Grid Computing
9 5 (3.16%) Private Cloud
10 4 (2.53%) CAN bus
10 4 (2.53%) Security Posture
11 3 (1.90%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 31 (19.62%) Linux
2 20 (12.66%) Windows
3 9 (5.70%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.90%) CentOS
4 3 (1.90%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.27%) VMS
6 1 (0.63%) Robot Operating System
6 1 (0.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (31.65%) AI
2 39 (24.68%) Machine Learning
3 38 (24.05%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (21.52%) DevOps
5 33 (20.89%) CI/CD
6 30 (18.99%) Software Engineering
7 28 (17.72%) Agile
8 23 (14.56%) Test Automation
9 20 (12.66%) Analytics
10 19 (12.03%) LLM
11 17 (10.76%) Data Pipeline
11 17 (10.76%) Data Science
11 17 (10.76%) Validation
12 16 (10.13%) Cybersecurity
12 16 (10.13%) Prompt Engineering
12 16 (10.13%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
12 16 (10.13%) SIEM
12 16 (10.13%) SOAR
13 15 (9.49%) Data Privacy
14 14 (8.86%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 33 (20.89%) SQL
2 24 (15.19%) JavaScript
3 22 (13.92%) PowerShell
4 19 (12.03%) C
4 19 (12.03%) Java
5 17 (10.76%) Bash
6 16 (10.13%) C++
7 11 (6.96%) R
8 10 (6.33%) Shell Script
9 7 (4.43%) Tcl
10 5 (3.16%) VBA
11 3 (1.90%) C#
11 3 (1.90%) Perl
12 2 (1.27%) Ruby
12 2 (1.27%) Scala
12 2 (1.27%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.63%) Bourne shell
13 1 (0.63%) Go
13 1 (0.63%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.63%) PHP
Qualifications
1 25 (15.82%) Degree
2 21 (13.29%) Security Cleared
3 16 (10.13%) SC Cleared
4 11 (6.96%) MCP
5 8 (5.06%) Master's Degree
6 7 (4.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.16%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.53%) PhD
9 3 (1.90%) CCIE
9 3 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.27%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.27%) CCNP
10 2 (1.27%) CISSP
11 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.63%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.63%) CISA
11 1 (0.63%) CISM
11 1 (0.63%) SANS
11 1 (0.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.49%) QA
2 13 (8.23%) NIST
3 10 (6.33%) EU AI Act
4 5 (3.16%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.90%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.27%) GDPR
7 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.63%) IFRS
System Software
1 19 (12.03%) Docker
2 10 (6.33%) Firmware
3 8 (5.06%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 7 (4.43%) Active Directory
4 7 (4.43%) GPFS
4 7 (4.43%) Lustre
5 5 (3.16%) Hyper-V
6 4 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.63%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 21 (13.29%) Kubernetes
2 18 (11.39%) Ansible
3 14 (8.86%) Terraform
4 7 (4.43%) Puppet
5 5 (3.16%) Salt
6 3 (1.90%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.27%) Nagios
7 2 (1.27%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.63%) Consul
8 1 (0.63%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.63%) vRealize
Vendors
1 37 (23.42%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.86%) Foundry
3 10 (6.33%) Google
4 8 (5.06%) VMware
5 6 (3.80%) Palo Alto
5 6 (3.80%) ServiceNow
6 5 (3.16%) IBM
7 4 (2.53%) OpenAI
7 4 (2.53%) Splunk
7 4 (2.53%) StreamSets
8 3 (1.90%) Cisco
8 3 (1.90%) Citrix
8 3 (1.90%) Databricks
8 3 (1.90%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.90%) Oracle
8 3 (1.90%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.27%) HP
9 2 (1.27%) Huawei
9 2 (1.27%) Meraki
9 2 (1.27%) Wyse