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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 26 25
Rank change year-on-year +17 -1 -12
Contract jobs citing Python 148 79 130
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 11.35% 5.14% 6.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.05% 22.77% 24.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 48 91
10th Percentile £300 £300 £413
25th Percentile £400 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +1.01% -10.00%
75th Percentile £613 £583 £650
90th Percentile £680 £641 £725
England median daily rate £530 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -9.79% -2.08% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 6 19
10th Percentile £40.30 £17.99 £47.50
25th Percentile £41.25 £26.88 £49.38
Median hourly rate £54.00 £53.75 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% -23.21% +25.00%
75th Percentile £65.50 £63.75 £73.75
90th Percentile £77.00 - £75.50
England median hourly rate £50.00 £69.38 £65.00
% change year-on-year -27.93% +6.73% +16.07%

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 389 347 524
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 29.83% 22.58% 28.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 157 301
10th Percentile £320 £292 £325
25th Percentile £450 £340 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +18.24% -15.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £662 £588 £700
England median daily rate £513 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 80 108
10th Percentile £35.10 £51.25 £51.25
25th Percentile £52.00 £60.00 £65.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £69.00
Median % change year-on-year - -5.80% +21.05%
75th Percentile £73.75 £67.50 £84.36
90th Percentile £83.00 £80.50 £90.00
England median hourly rate £56.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -13.08% - +13.04%

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
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 19 September 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 +33 60 £550 +30.95% 57
Cambridgeshire +8 46 £488 -4.88% 82
Essex +15 22 £641 +356.15% 41
Bedfordshire -7 12 £600 +7.38% 24
Suffolk +7 7 £300 - 10
Norfolk - 1 £500 - 21
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 8 (5.41%) Apache Spark
1 8 (5.41%) SAS
2 6 (4.05%) Apache
2 6 (4.05%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.38%) IIS
3 5 (3.38%) OpenStack
3 5 (3.38%) WebSphere
4 3 (2.03%) Confluence
5 1 (0.68%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.35%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.68%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (3.38%) Maximo
2 1 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 55 (37.16%) AWS
2 35 (23.65%) Azure
3 21 (14.19%) Serverless
4 19 (12.84%) AWS Lambda
5 18 (12.16%) Amazon S3
6 12 (8.11%) GCP
7 9 (6.08%) dbt
7 9 (6.08%) Snowflake
8 8 (5.41%) Cloud Computing
9 7 (4.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (4.05%) Azure Sentinel
11 5 (3.38%) Amazon EMR
12 4 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (2.70%) GitHub
13 3 (2.03%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (2.03%) PaaS
14 2 (1.35%) AWS Direct Connect
14 2 (1.35%) Azure Functions
14 2 (1.35%) Azure Logic Apps
14 2 (1.35%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 18 (12.16%) DNS
2 12 (8.11%) Firewall
3 10 (6.76%) Network Security
4 9 (6.08%) HTTP
4 9 (6.08%) SSL
5 8 (5.41%) FTP
5 8 (5.41%) SMTP
6 7 (4.73%) SpaceWire
7 6 (4.05%) iSCSI
7 6 (4.05%) SAN
8 5 (3.38%) RS-232
8 5 (3.38%) VPN
8 5 (3.38%) Wireless
9 4 (2.70%) VLAN
9 4 (2.70%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (2.03%) 802.11
10 3 (2.03%) BGP
10 3 (2.03%) SD-WAN
10 3 (2.03%) WAN
11 2 (1.35%) 3GPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.43%) Tableau
2 9 (6.08%) Big Data
2 9 (6.08%) Hadoop
3 8 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (4.73%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (4.73%) DynamoDB
5 5 (3.38%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (3.38%) DB2
5 5 (3.38%) Oracle Database
5 5 (3.38%) RDBMS
5 5 (3.38%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.38%) SQL Server
6 4 (2.70%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.70%) Snowflake Schema
7 3 (2.03%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.35%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.35%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (1.35%) Power BI
8 2 (1.35%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 15 (10.14%) JIRA
2 10 (6.76%) GitLab
3 8 (5.41%) TeamCity
4 6 (4.05%) Robot Framework
5 4 (2.70%) Git
6 3 (2.03%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.35%) Selenium
7 2 (1.35%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.35%) webpack
8 1 (0.68%) MLflow
8 1 (0.68%) Redmine
8 1 (0.68%) Subversion
General
1 38 (25.68%) Social Skills
2 24 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (5.41%) Electronics
4 7 (4.73%) Finance
4 7 (4.73%) Pharmaceutical
5 6 (4.05%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (4.05%) Telecoms
6 5 (3.38%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.03%) Aerospace
7 3 (2.03%) Law
8 2 (1.35%) Marketing
8 2 (1.35%) Multimedia
8 2 (1.35%) Retail
9 1 (0.68%) Agriculture
9 1 (0.68%) Agrochemical
9 1 (0.68%) Automotive
9 1 (0.68%) Banking
9 1 (0.68%) Legal
9 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.68%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 25 (16.89%) Developer
2 17 (11.49%) Architect
3 11 (7.43%) Administrator
3 11 (7.43%) Analyst
3 11 (7.43%) Automation Engineer
4 10 (6.76%) Network Engineer
5 9 (6.08%) Security Engineer
5 9 (6.08%) Software Engineer
6 8 (5.41%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 8 (5.41%) Data Science Developer
6 8 (5.41%) Python Developer
6 8 (5.41%) Senior
6 8 (5.41%) Snowflake Architect
6 8 (5.41%) SOC Analyst
7 7 (4.73%) AWS Architect
7 7 (4.73%) Consultant
7 7 (4.73%) Python Engineer
8 6 (4.05%) Design Engineer
8 6 (4.05%) Systems Administrator
8 6 (4.05%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.78%) PyTorch
2 12 (8.11%) TensorFlow
3 11 (7.43%) NumPy
3 11 (7.43%) scikit-learn
4 10 (6.76%) Matplotlib
4 10 (6.76%) Pandas
4 10 (6.76%) Seaborn
5 8 (5.41%) LDAP
5 8 (5.41%) RESTful
6 7 (4.73%) React
6 7 (4.73%) Web Services
7 6 (4.05%) REST
8 5 (3.38%) Flash
8 5 (3.38%) SOAP
8 5 (3.38%) XML
9 3 (2.03%) .NET
9 3 (2.03%) 802.1X
9 3 (2.03%) Django
9 3 (2.03%) FastAPI
9 3 (2.03%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.78%) Cyber Threat
2 11 (7.43%) Algorithms
3 8 (5.41%) Cyberattack
4 7 (4.73%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (4.73%) CSOC
4 7 (4.73%) Management Information System
4 7 (4.73%) Security Operations Centre
5 6 (4.05%) FPGA
5 6 (4.05%) VHDL
6 5 (3.38%) Analogue Electronics
6 5 (3.38%) CAN bus
6 5 (3.38%) Credit Risk
6 5 (3.38%) Data Centre
6 5 (3.38%) Enterprise Storage
6 5 (3.38%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (3.38%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.70%) Life Science
8 3 (2.03%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (18.92%) Linux
2 16 (10.81%) Windows
3 6 (4.05%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.38%) CentOS
4 5 (3.38%) Ubuntu
5 3 (2.03%) Unix
6 2 (1.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (20.27%) Artificial Intelligence
2 29 (19.59%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (16.22%) Computer Science
4 23 (15.54%) Analytics
5 22 (14.86%) Data Science
6 21 (14.19%) CI/CD
6 21 (14.19%) Machine Learning
7 18 (12.16%) Containerisation
7 18 (12.16%) DevOps
7 18 (12.16%) Software Engineering
8 17 (11.49%) Cybersecurity
8 17 (11.49%) System Testing
8 17 (11.49%) Task Automation
9 16 (10.81%) ITSM
9 16 (10.81%) SOAR
10 15 (10.14%) Agile
10 15 (10.14%) Migration
10 15 (10.14%) SIEM
10 15 (10.14%) Visualisation
11 14 (9.46%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 30 (20.27%) SQL
2 23 (15.54%) Java
3 21 (14.19%) JavaScript
3 21 (14.19%) R
4 20 (13.51%) PowerShell
5 14 (9.46%) C
6 13 (8.78%) Bash
7 12 (8.11%) Shell Script
8 9 (6.08%) C++
9 8 (5.41%) Tcl
10 6 (4.05%) VBA
11 4 (2.70%) Perl
12 3 (2.03%) Go
13 2 (1.35%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (1.35%) MATLAB
13 2 (1.35%) Scala
13 2 (1.35%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.68%) C#
14 1 (0.68%) Cypher
14 1 (0.68%) PHP
Qualifications
1 31 (20.95%) Degree
2 20 (13.51%) Security Cleared
3 16 (10.81%) SC Cleared
4 13 (8.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (5.41%) PhD
6 7 (4.73%) Master's Degree
7 6 (4.05%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (2.03%) CCIE
9 3 (2.03%) CCNP
10 2 (1.35%) MCP
11 1 (0.68%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.68%) CISA
11 1 (0.68%) CISM
11 1 (0.68%) CISSP
11 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.68%) SANS
11 1 (0.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.11%) Data Quality
2 11 (7.43%) QA
3 9 (6.08%) PCI DSS
4 4 (2.70%) NIST
5 2 (1.35%) EU AI Act
5 2 (1.35%) GDPR
6 1 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.68%) ECSS
6 1 (0.68%) IFRS
6 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (7.43%) Docker
2 7 (4.73%) Firmware
2 7 (4.73%) Hyper-V
3 6 (4.05%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.68%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.68%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 23 (15.54%) Ansible
2 15 (10.14%) Terraform
3 12 (8.11%) Kubernetes
4 5 (3.38%) Puppet
5 4 (2.70%) Progress Chef
5 4 (2.70%) Salt
6 1 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.68%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (0.68%) Nagios
6 1 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.68%) vRealize
Vendors
1 21 (14.19%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.08%) ServiceNow
3 8 (5.41%) IBM
3 8 (5.41%) VMware
4 7 (4.73%) Google
5 6 (4.05%) Palo Alto
5 6 (4.05%) StreamSets
6 5 (3.38%) Databricks
6 5 (3.38%) Oracle
7 4 (2.70%) Cisco
7 4 (2.70%) Splunk
8 3 (2.03%) EMC
8 3 (2.03%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.35%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.35%) Foundry
9 2 (1.35%) HP
9 2 (1.35%) Huawei
9 2 (1.35%) Meraki
9 2 (1.35%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.35%) SAP