Python Contracts in the East of England

Python
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring Python skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Python over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 32 17
Rank change year-on-year +23 -15 -3
Contract jobs citing Python 129 91 156
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 11.55% 4.74% 7.86%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.05% 21.62% 26.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 57 112
10th Percentile £305 £338 £416
25th Percentile £367 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.25% - -10.11%
75th Percentile £575 £581 £673
90th Percentile £675 £650 £704
England median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 16
10th Percentile £34.93 £19.60 -
25th Percentile £36.11 £34.38 £47.50
Median hourly rate £53.50 £57.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% -11.54% +16.07%
75th Percentile £55.00 £66.25 £73.75
90th Percentile £61.00 £66.75 -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £65.25
% change year-on-year -23.08% -0.38% +18.64%

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 368 421 587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 32.95% 21.92% 29.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 175 360
10th Percentile £306 £325 £312
25th Percentile £406 £369 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £483
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -1.55% +1.58%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £635 £633 £700
England median daily rate £520 £540 £555
% change year-on-year -3.70% -2.70% +0.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 148 102
10th Percentile £31.64 £52.50 £47.88
25th Percentile £54.44 £59.69 £53.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.07%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £88.00 £85.00 £90.00
England median hourly rate £56.38 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -13.27% +4.00% +18.99%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Python in the East of England

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Python in the East of England

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 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python in the East of England

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Python in the East of England

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 3 July 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 3 July 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
Hertfordshire +35 47 £550 +9.45% 110
Cambridgeshire +10 36 £503 +4.15% 258
Essex +25 22 £318 +15.80% 94
Suffolk 0 12 £300 -40.74% 18
Bedfordshire -2 10 £600 +6.67% 44
Norfolk - 2 £500 - 22
Python
England

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (9.30%) Apache Spark
2 9 (6.98%) Apache
2 9 (6.98%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.88%) OpenStack
4 4 (3.10%) Confluence
4 4 (3.10%) IIS
4 4 (3.10%) WebSphere
5 3 (2.33%) SAS
6 2 (1.55%) IBM Domino
7 1 (0.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (6.20%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.78%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (3.10%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 50 (38.76%) AWS
2 31 (24.03%) Azure
3 15 (11.63%) GCP
4 14 (10.85%) AWS Lambda
4 14 (10.85%) Serverless
5 13 (10.08%) Amazon S3
6 9 (6.98%) GitHub
7 8 (6.20%) Cloud Computing
7 8 (6.20%) dbt
8 7 (5.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (3.88%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (3.88%) Power Platform
10 4 (3.10%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (3.10%) Snowflake
11 3 (2.33%) Vertex AI
12 2 (1.55%) AWS Direct Connect
12 2 (1.55%) Azure Logic Apps
12 2 (1.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 1 (0.78%) Amazon EMR
13 1 (0.78%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (10.08%) Firewall
2 12 (9.30%) Wireless
3 9 (6.98%) DNS
4 6 (4.65%) Network Security
5 5 (3.88%) iSCSI
5 5 (3.88%) SAN
5 5 (3.88%) SpaceWire
6 4 (3.10%) VSAN
7 3 (2.33%) BGP
7 3 (2.33%) OSPF
7 3 (2.33%) VLAN
7 3 (2.33%) VPN
8 2 (1.55%) 3GPP
8 2 (1.55%) 4G
8 2 (1.55%) 5G
8 2 (1.55%) LAN
8 2 (1.55%) SD-WAN
8 2 (1.55%) WAN
9 1 (0.78%) Cisco Wireless
9 1 (0.78%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (14.73%) Tableau
2 14 (10.85%) Hadoop
3 13 (10.08%) Big Data
4 9 (6.98%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (5.43%) DynamoDB
6 6 (4.65%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (3.88%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (3.88%) Power BI
7 5 (3.88%) SQL Server
8 4 (3.10%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (3.10%) BigQuery
8 4 (3.10%) DB2
8 4 (3.10%) Metadata
8 4 (3.10%) Oracle Database
8 4 (3.10%) RDBMS
8 4 (3.10%) Relational Database
9 3 (2.33%) Looker
9 3 (2.33%) MySQL
10 2 (1.55%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (1.55%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 15 (11.63%) JIRA
2 8 (6.20%) GitLab
2 8 (6.20%) TeamCity
3 5 (3.88%) Robot Framework
4 3 (2.33%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.55%) Git
6 1 (0.78%) Redmine
6 1 (0.78%) Selenium
6 1 (0.78%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.78%) Subversion
6 1 (0.78%) webpack
General
1 32 (24.81%) Social Skills
2 21 (16.28%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (6.20%) Pharmaceutical
3 8 (6.20%) Telecoms
4 4 (3.10%) Aerospace
4 4 (3.10%) Electronics
5 2 (1.55%) Automotive
6 1 (0.78%) Aviation
6 1 (0.78%) Avionics
6 1 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.78%) Law
6 1 (0.78%) Legal
6 1 (0.78%) Local Government
6 1 (0.78%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (30.23%) Developer
2 14 (10.85%) Architect
3 13 (10.08%) Data Science Developer
4 11 (8.53%) Administrator
4 11 (8.53%) Senior
5 8 (6.20%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 8 (6.20%) Automation Engineer
5 8 (6.20%) Python Developer
5 8 (6.20%) Software Developer
6 7 (5.43%) AWS Architect
6 7 (5.43%) Network Engineer
6 7 (5.43%) Systems Engineer
7 6 (4.65%) AWS Developer
7 6 (4.65%) Data Engineer
7 6 (4.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (4.65%) Security Engineer
7 6 (4.65%) Systems Administrator
7 6 (4.65%) Trainer
8 5 (3.88%) Technical Manager
8 5 (3.88%) Technical Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (13.18%) NumPy
1 17 (13.18%) Pandas
2 15 (11.63%) Matplotlib
2 15 (11.63%) PyTorch
2 15 (11.63%) scikit-learn
2 15 (11.63%) Seaborn
2 15 (11.63%) TensorFlow
3 8 (6.20%) HTML
3 8 (6.20%) REST
4 7 (5.43%) PySpark
5 6 (4.65%) React
6 5 (3.88%) AngularJS
6 5 (3.88%) Web Services
6 5 (3.88%) XML
7 4 (3.10%) Kafka
7 4 (3.10%) SOAP
8 3 (2.33%) Node.js
8 3 (2.33%) RESTful
9 2 (1.55%) JSON
9 2 (1.55%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.85%) Algorithms
2 6 (4.65%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (3.88%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (3.88%) Data Centre
3 5 (3.88%) Enterprise Storage
3 5 (3.88%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (3.10%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.33%) Cyber Defence
5 3 (2.33%) FPGA
5 3 (2.33%) Life Science
5 3 (2.33%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.55%) CRISPR
6 2 (1.55%) VHDL
6 2 (1.55%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.78%) Analogue Electronics
7 1 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.78%) CAN bus
7 1 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.78%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.78%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 25 (19.38%) Linux
2 8 (6.20%) Windows
3 6 (4.65%) Unix
4 5 (3.88%) CentOS
4 5 (3.88%) Ubuntu
5 4 (3.10%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.55%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (21.71%) Artificial Intelligence
1 28 (21.71%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (20.93%) Computer Science
3 26 (20.16%) Data Science
4 24 (18.60%) CI/CD
5 23 (17.83%) Analytics
6 22 (17.05%) Visualisation
7 19 (14.73%) Containerisation
8 18 (13.95%) Data Analysis
8 18 (13.95%) Machine Learning
8 18 (13.95%) Task Automation
9 17 (13.18%) Decision-Making
9 17 (13.18%) Generative AI
10 15 (11.63%) Data Munging
10 15 (11.63%) ITSM
10 15 (11.63%) LLM
11 14 (10.85%) Agile
12 13 (10.08%) Statistical Modelling
12 13 (10.08%) System Testing
12 13 (10.08%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 32 (24.81%) SQL
2 22 (17.05%) Java
2 22 (17.05%) JavaScript
3 20 (15.50%) R
4 13 (10.08%) PowerShell
5 11 (8.53%) Bash
5 11 (8.53%) C#
5 11 (8.53%) C++
6 10 (7.75%) Shell Script
7 6 (4.65%) C
7 6 (4.65%) Tcl
8 4 (3.10%) Perl
8 4 (3.10%) VBA
9 2 (1.55%) Go
9 2 (1.55%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (1.55%) MATLAB
9 2 (1.55%) PHP
10 1 (0.78%) Cypher
10 1 (0.78%) Scala
10 1 (0.78%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 38 (29.46%) Degree
2 14 (10.85%) Security Cleared
3 12 (9.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (9.30%) PhD
4 11 (8.53%) SC Cleared
5 10 (7.75%) Master's Degree
6 5 (3.88%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.33%) VCAP
7 3 (2.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.78%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.78%) CCNP
8 1 (0.78%) CISA
8 1 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.78%) CISM
8 1 (0.78%) CISSP
8 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.78%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (16.28%) Data Quality
2 9 (6.98%) PCI DSS
2 9 (6.98%) QA
3 4 (3.10%) GDPR
4 2 (1.55%) NIST
5 1 (0.78%) ECSS
5 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (7.75%) Docker
2 6 (4.65%) Hyper-V
2 6 (4.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.88%) Active Directory
4 4 (3.10%) VMware NSX
4 4 (3.10%) vSphere
5 2 (1.55%) Firmware
6 1 (0.78%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 24 (18.60%) Ansible
2 21 (16.28%) Terraform
3 12 (9.30%) Kubernetes
4 5 (3.88%) Puppet
5 4 (3.10%) PowerCLI
5 4 (3.10%) Progress Chef
5 4 (3.10%) Salt
5 4 (3.10%) vCenter Server
5 4 (3.10%) VxRail
6 1 (0.78%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (0.78%) Nagios
Vendors
1 18 (13.95%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.53%) VMware
3 9 (6.98%) ServiceNow
4 8 (6.20%) Google
5 7 (5.43%) IBM
6 6 (4.65%) PayPal
7 5 (3.88%) EMC
7 5 (3.88%) Oracle
8 4 (3.10%) Dell
8 4 (3.10%) Palo Alto
8 4 (3.10%) Red Hat
8 4 (3.10%) Splunk
8 4 (3.10%) StreamSets
9 2 (1.55%) Cisco
9 2 (1.55%) Databricks
9 2 (1.55%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.55%) Huawei
9 2 (1.55%) SAP
10 1 (0.78%) HP
10 1 (0.78%) NetApp