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 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 19 30
Rank change year-on-year +3 +11 -7
Contract jobs citing Python 132 80 108
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 6.27% 8.60% 5.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.91% 32.52% 25.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 53 73
10th Percentile £282 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £438
Median % change year-on-year - +14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £560 £625 £575
90th Percentile £638 £675 £650
England median daily rate £518 £560 £555
% change year-on-year -7.59% +0.90% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 5 9
10th Percentile £30.19 £35.59 £26.10
25th Percentile £46.44 £36.48 £51.25
Median hourly rate £60.25 £52.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.76% -16.00% -
75th Percentile £75.00 £55.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £76.88 - £67.65
England median hourly rate £56.50 £45.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +25.56% -21.74% -11.54%

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 427 246 425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 20.28% 26.45% 22.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 136 189
10th Percentile £303 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £563
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -5.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 59 142
10th Percentile £55.00 £34.33 £52.50
25th Percentile £62.97 £59.00 £59.06
Median hourly rate £68.21 £66.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.35% +1.54% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.88 £91.00 £88.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year +4.00% +1.46% -1.44%

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 17 April 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 17 April 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 17 April 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 +19 53 £413 -17.91% 96
Hertfordshire -21 35 £507 -7.82% 35
Bedfordshire +6 19 £625 +11.11% 18
Essex -6 12 £500 +57.12% 49
Suffolk -5 8 £528 +43.05% 18
Norfolk -24 5 £450 - 20
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 (3.03%) OpenStack
2 3 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.52%) Apache
3 2 (1.52%) Confluence
3 2 (1.52%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.76%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 8 (6.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (5.30%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (3.03%) Weka
4 1 (0.76%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.76%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 2 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.76%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 35 (26.52%) AWS
2 34 (25.76%) Azure
3 21 (15.91%) GCP
4 19 (14.39%) Power Platform
5 12 (9.09%) GitHub
6 10 (7.58%) Azure AI
6 10 (7.58%) Serverless
7 8 (6.06%) Copilot Studio
7 8 (6.06%) Microsoft Copilot
8 7 (5.30%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (4.55%) Azure AKS
10 5 (3.79%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (3.79%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (3.79%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (3.03%) Amazon S3
11 4 (3.03%) Route 53
11 4 (3.03%) Snowflake
12 3 (2.27%) Amazon Bedrock
12 3 (2.27%) dbt
12 3 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.33%) DNS
2 9 (6.82%) Network Security
3 7 (5.30%) Firewall
3 7 (5.30%) TCP/IP
4 6 (4.55%) DHCP
5 5 (3.79%) Cisco ISE
5 5 (3.79%) FTP
5 5 (3.79%) HTTP
5 5 (3.79%) SMTP
5 5 (3.79%) SSL
6 4 (3.03%) VPN
7 3 (2.27%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (1.52%) ADSL
8 2 (1.52%) Bluetooth
8 2 (1.52%) IPsec
9 1 (0.76%) InfiniBand
9 1 (0.76%) Internet
9 1 (0.76%) Modbus
9 1 (0.76%) SpaceWire
9 1 (0.76%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (12.88%) Power BI
2 11 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 7 (5.30%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (4.55%) SQL Server
5 5 (3.79%) Metadata
6 4 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (3.03%) MySQL
7 3 (2.27%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.52%) Data Vault
8 2 (1.52%) InfluxDB
8 2 (1.52%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.52%) SAP HANA
8 2 (1.52%) Sybase ASE
9 1 (0.76%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.76%) MS Access
9 1 (0.76%) Redis
9 1 (0.76%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.76%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (13.64%) Git
2 7 (5.30%) GitLab
3 6 (4.55%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.79%) JUnit
4 5 (3.79%) SonarQube
5 4 (3.03%) JIRA
6 3 (2.27%) IntelliJ
7 2 (1.52%) Android Studio
7 2 (1.52%) Appium
7 2 (1.52%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.52%) Postman
7 2 (1.52%) Selenium
7 2 (1.52%) Sourcetree
7 2 (1.52%) Xcode
8 1 (0.76%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.76%) MLflow
8 1 (0.76%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.76%) Robot Framework
General
1 41 (31.06%) Social Skills
2 16 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (12.12%) Finance
3 11 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
4 8 (6.06%) Electronics
5 6 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (4.55%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (2.27%) Aerospace
6 3 (2.27%) Multimedia
7 2 (1.52%) Advertising
7 2 (1.52%) Automotive
7 2 (1.52%) Banking
7 2 (1.52%) Law
7 2 (1.52%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.52%) Retail
8 1 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.76%) Marketing
8 1 (0.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (10.61%) Software Engineer
2 9 (6.82%) Data Engineer
3 8 (6.06%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 8 (6.06%) Developer
3 8 (6.06%) Python Engineer
3 8 (6.06%) Senior
4 7 (5.30%) Analyst
5 5 (3.79%) Architect
5 5 (3.79%) JavaScript Engineer
5 5 (3.79%) Lead
5 5 (3.79%) PowerShell Engineer
5 5 (3.79%) SOC Analyst
5 5 (3.79%) Systems Engineer
5 5 (3.79%) VMware Engineer
6 4 (3.03%) Audio Engineer
6 4 (3.03%) Automation Engineer
6 4 (3.03%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (3.03%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (3.03%) Java Developer
7 3 (2.27%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (14.39%) REST
2 10 (7.58%) PyTorch
2 10 (7.58%) TensorFlow
3 9 (6.82%) Node.js
4 8 (6.06%) scikit-learn
4 8 (6.06%) Spring
4 8 (6.06%) Spring Boot
5 7 (5.30%) JSON
6 6 (4.55%) LDAP
7 5 (3.79%) .NET
7 5 (3.79%) RESTful
8 3 (2.27%) Kafka
9 2 (1.52%) Flask
9 2 (1.52%) GraphQL
9 2 (1.52%) OAuth
9 2 (1.52%) OAuth2
9 2 (1.52%) PySpark
9 2 (1.52%) pytest
9 2 (1.52%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (1.52%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.82%) Cloud Native
1 9 (6.82%) Cyber Threat
2 8 (6.06%) Algorithms
2 8 (6.06%) Robotics
3 6 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (4.55%) CRISPR
3 6 (4.55%) Embedded Systems
3 6 (4.55%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.79%) Augmented Reality
4 5 (3.79%) CSOC
4 5 (3.79%) Cyberattack
4 5 (3.79%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (3.79%) PKI
4 5 (3.79%) Security Operations Centre
4 5 (3.79%) Virtual Reality
5 4 (3.03%) Acoustics
5 4 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (3.03%) FPGA
5 4 (3.03%) Private Cloud
5 4 (3.03%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (18.94%) Linux
2 10 (7.58%) Windows
3 5 (3.79%) Android
4 3 (2.27%) Robot Operating System
4 3 (2.27%) Unix
4 3 (2.27%) VMS
4 3 (2.27%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.76%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (29.55%) CI/CD
1 39 (29.55%) DevOps
2 29 (21.97%) AI
3 28 (21.21%) Analytics
3 28 (21.21%) Software Engineering
4 27 (20.45%) Machine Learning
5 20 (15.15%) Data Pipeline
5 20 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (13.64%) Business Intelligence
6 18 (13.64%) ETL
7 17 (12.88%) Agile
7 17 (12.88%) Computer Science
7 17 (12.88%) Test Automation
8 16 (12.12%) Data Science
9 15 (11.36%) Infrastructure as Code
9 15 (11.36%) Validation
10 14 (10.61%) LLM
11 13 (9.85%) Cybersecurity
11 13 (9.85%) Prompt Engineering
12 12 (9.09%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 27 (20.45%) SQL
2 21 (15.91%) PowerShell
3 16 (12.12%) Java
4 13 (9.85%) C++
5 10 (7.58%) Bash
5 10 (7.58%) C
5 10 (7.58%) JavaScript
6 8 (6.06%) R
7 7 (5.30%) C#
8 3 (2.27%) Embedded C
8 3 (2.27%) Go
8 3 (2.27%) Ruby
9 2 (1.52%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (1.52%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.52%) SystemVerilog
10 1 (0.76%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.76%) Perl
10 1 (0.76%) PHP
10 1 (0.76%) Tcl
10 1 (0.76%) VB
Qualifications
1 28 (21.21%) Degree
2 24 (18.18%) Security Cleared
3 15 (11.36%) SC Cleared
4 14 (10.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (8.33%) DV Cleared
6 5 (3.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (3.03%) Master's Degree
8 3 (2.27%) ISTQB
8 3 (2.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.52%) CISSP
10 1 (0.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.76%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.76%) CCIE
10 1 (0.76%) CCSP
10 1 (0.76%) CISM
10 1 (0.76%) CRISC
10 1 (0.76%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.06%) QA
2 6 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (3.79%) Data Quality
4 4 (3.03%) GDPR
5 3 (2.27%) NIST
6 2 (1.52%) ISA99
6 2 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (1.52%) NCSC
6 2 (1.52%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.76%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.76%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.76%) MIL-STD-1553
7 1 (0.76%) SLA
7 1 (0.76%) SOC 2
System Software
1 20 (15.15%) Docker
2 5 (3.79%) Firmware
2 5 (3.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.03%) GPFS
3 4 (3.03%) Lustre
3 4 (3.03%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 3 (2.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (14.39%) Kubernetes
2 12 (9.09%) Terraform
3 9 (6.82%) Ansible
4 5 (3.79%) vRealize
5 4 (3.03%) Grafana
6 3 (2.27%) HAProxy
6 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (2.27%) Stealthwatch
6 3 (2.27%) vCenter Server
7 2 (1.52%) Kibana
7 2 (1.52%) Puppet
7 2 (1.52%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.76%) Consul
8 1 (0.76%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.76%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.76%) Salt
Vendors
1 23 (17.42%) Microsoft
2 18 (13.64%) Google
3 11 (8.33%) Foundry
3 11 (8.33%) OpenAI
4 10 (7.58%) VMware
5 7 (5.30%) Databricks
6 5 (3.79%) Checkmarx
6 5 (3.79%) Cisco
7 4 (3.03%) SAP
7 4 (3.03%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.27%) Citrix
8 3 (2.27%) Dynatrace
8 3 (2.27%) Fortinet
8 3 (2.27%) Infoblox
8 3 (2.27%) Oracle
8 3 (2.27%) Wyse
9 2 (1.52%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.52%) Pega
9 2 (1.52%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.52%) Sybase