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 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 20 22
Rank change year-on-year +7 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing Python 137 86 117
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 8.56% 7.63% 6.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.33% 31.05% 26.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 54 81
10th Percentile £365 £303 £313
25th Percentile £406 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% +1.05% -9.52%
75th Percentile £638 £597 £550
90th Percentile £680 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 2 10
10th Percentile £40.00 £22.75 £47.68
25th Percentile £41.25 £26.88 £54.50
Median hourly rate £54.70 £35.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +56.29% -51.72% +26.09%
75th Percentile £75.00 £44.38 £77.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £49.25 -
England median hourly rate £54.00 £52.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +2.86% -12.50% -7.69%

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 367 277 445
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 22.92% 24.58% 26.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 133 232
10th Percentile £326 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £340 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £638 £544 £566
90th Percentile £688 £620 £675
England median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 45 102
10th Percentile £41.65 £46.75 -
25th Percentile £62.50 £61.50 £65.00
Median hourly rate £67.00 £66.00 £67.25
Median % change year-on-year +1.52% -1.86% +3.46%
75th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £84.36
90th Percentile £77.30 £95.00 £90.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -3.47%

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 30 December 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 30 December 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 30 December 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 +9 61 £419 -7.76% 272
Hertfordshire +5 51 £569 -3.14% 314
Bedfordshire -7 10 £625 +16.28% 217
Essex +2 8 £662 +108.02% 320
Suffolk -3 5 £425 +41.67% 97
Norfolk -18 2 £475 - 109
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 5 (3.65%) OpenStack
1 5 (3.65%) SAS
2 3 (2.19%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.46%) Apache
4 1 (0.73%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.73%) Confluence
4 1 (0.73%) IIS
4 1 (0.73%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.73%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (5.11%) Weka
2 6 (4.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.38%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.73%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Maximo
1 1 (0.73%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 48 (35.04%) Azure
2 39 (28.47%) AWS
3 23 (16.79%) GCP
4 17 (12.41%) Serverless
5 13 (9.49%) GitHub
5 13 (9.49%) PaaS
6 12 (8.76%) Azure AKS
6 12 (8.76%) Power Platform
7 10 (7.30%) GitHub Copilot
8 9 (6.57%) Azure Functions
9 8 (5.84%) Amazon S3
9 8 (5.84%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (5.84%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (5.84%) Snowflake
10 7 (5.11%) Azure AI
10 7 (5.11%) Copilot Studio
10 7 (5.11%) Microsoft Copilot
11 6 (4.38%) dbt
12 5 (3.65%) Azure Sentinel
12 5 (3.65%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 17 (12.41%) DNS
2 14 (10.22%) HTTP
2 14 (10.22%) SSL
3 13 (9.49%) FTP
3 13 (9.49%) Network Security
3 13 (9.49%) SMTP
4 9 (6.57%) Firewall
5 8 (5.84%) TCP/IP
6 4 (2.92%) RS-232
6 4 (2.92%) SpaceWire
6 4 (2.92%) VPN
6 4 (2.92%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (2.19%) DHCP
8 2 (1.46%) 802.11
8 2 (1.46%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (1.46%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (1.46%) SD-WAN
8 2 (1.46%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (1.46%) WAN
9 1 (0.73%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.22%) NoSQL
2 12 (8.76%) Power BI
3 3 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.19%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.19%) MySQL
3 3 (2.19%) Snowflake Schema
3 3 (2.19%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.46%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.46%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.73%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.73%) DB2
5 1 (0.73%) GIS
5 1 (0.73%) MS Access
5 1 (0.73%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.73%) Parquet
5 1 (0.73%) Pentaho
5 1 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.73%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.73%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (5.11%) Git
2 6 (4.38%) GitLab
3 3 (2.19%) Robot Framework
4 2 (1.46%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.46%) JIRA
4 2 (1.46%) Selenium
4 2 (1.46%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.73%) JMeter
5 1 (0.73%) Locust
5 1 (0.73%) MLflow
5 1 (0.73%) Newman
5 1 (0.73%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.73%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.73%) TestCafe
5 1 (0.73%) webpack
General
1 45 (32.85%) Social Skills
2 20 (14.60%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (10.95%) Documentation Skills
3 15 (10.95%) Finance
4 11 (8.03%) Electronics
4 11 (8.03%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (5.11%) Multimedia
6 6 (4.38%) Law
7 4 (2.92%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.19%) Marketing
8 3 (2.19%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.46%) Retail
9 2 (1.46%) Wearables
10 1 (0.73%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.73%) Agrochemical
10 1 (0.73%) Automotive
10 1 (0.73%) Banking
10 1 (0.73%) Legal
10 1 (0.73%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.73%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (12.41%) Analyst
1 17 (12.41%) Software Engineer
2 15 (10.95%) Senior
3 13 (9.49%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 13 (9.49%) SOC Analyst
4 12 (8.76%) Developer
5 9 (6.57%) Design Engineer
6 8 (5.84%) Digital Design Engineer
7 7 (5.11%) Automation Engineer
7 7 (5.11%) Security Engineer
8 6 (4.38%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (4.38%) Lead
9 5 (3.65%) Architect
10 4 (2.92%) Audio Engineer
10 4 (2.92%) Data Scientist
10 4 (2.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (2.92%) Network Engineer
10 4 (2.92%) Python Engineer
10 4 (2.92%) Snowflake Architect
10 4 (2.92%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (17.52%) PyTorch
2 22 (16.06%) TensorFlow
3 20 (14.60%) RESTful
4 18 (13.14%) REST
5 15 (10.95%) .NET
6 14 (10.22%) LDAP
6 14 (10.22%) scikit-learn
7 10 (7.30%) Flash
7 10 (7.30%) Semantic Kernel
8 9 (6.57%) React
9 5 (3.65%) FastAPI
10 4 (2.92%) pytest
11 3 (2.19%) Django
11 3 (2.19%) Pandas
11 3 (2.19%) SOAP
12 2 (1.46%) 802.1X
12 2 (1.46%) JSON
12 2 (1.46%) Node.js
12 2 (1.46%) NumPy
12 2 (1.46%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.68%) Cloud Native
1 16 (11.68%) Cyber Threat
2 13 (9.49%) Analytical Mindset
2 13 (9.49%) Cyberattack
2 13 (9.49%) Management Information System
3 12 (8.76%) Algorithms
3 12 (8.76%) CSOC
3 12 (8.76%) Security Operations Centre
4 11 (8.03%) FPGA
5 10 (7.30%) VHDL
6 7 (5.11%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (5.11%) Public Cloud
7 6 (4.38%) Analogue Electronics
7 6 (4.38%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (3.65%) Credit Risk
8 5 (3.65%) Grid Computing
8 5 (3.65%) Private Cloud
9 4 (2.92%) CAN bus
9 4 (2.92%) Security Posture
10 3 (2.19%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 27 (19.71%) Linux
2 15 (10.95%) Windows
3 5 (3.65%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.19%) Robot Operating System
5 2 (1.46%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (38.69%) AI
2 44 (32.12%) Machine Learning
3 34 (24.82%) DevOps
4 32 (23.36%) Software Engineering
5 30 (21.90%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (20.44%) Agile
7 25 (18.25%) CI/CD
8 24 (17.52%) Analytics
9 20 (14.60%) SOAR
10 19 (13.87%) Cybersecurity
10 19 (13.87%) LLM
10 19 (13.87%) Prompt Engineering
10 19 (13.87%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
10 19 (13.87%) SIEM
10 19 (13.87%) Test Automation
11 18 (13.14%) Continuous Improvement
11 18 (13.14%) Security Operations
11 18 (13.14%) Validation
12 17 (12.41%) Data Pipeline
12 17 (12.41%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 29 (21.17%) SQL
2 22 (16.06%) PowerShell
3 18 (13.14%) C
3 18 (13.14%) C++
4 16 (11.68%) Java
5 14 (10.22%) Bash
6 11 (8.03%) JavaScript
7 7 (5.11%) R
8 6 (4.38%) Tcl
9 5 (3.65%) C#
9 5 (3.65%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.92%) VBA
11 3 (2.19%) Perl
12 2 (1.46%) PHP
12 2 (1.46%) Ruby
12 2 (1.46%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.73%) Bicep
13 1 (0.73%) Go
13 1 (0.73%) Scala
13 1 (0.73%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 21 (15.33%) Degree
1 21 (15.33%) Security Cleared
2 17 (12.41%) SC Cleared
3 11 (8.03%) MCP
4 9 (6.57%) DV Cleared
5 6 (4.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.38%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.92%) CCIE
6 4 (2.92%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.46%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.46%) CCNP
7 2 (1.46%) PhD
8 1 (0.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.73%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.73%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.73%) CISSP
8 1 (0.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.03%) NIST
2 10 (7.30%) EU AI Act
3 9 (6.57%) QA
4 2 (1.46%) GDPR
4 2 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.73%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.73%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.73%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.73%) IFRS
System Software
1 22 (16.06%) Docker
2 10 (7.30%) Firmware
3 7 (5.11%) GPFS
3 7 (5.11%) Lustre
3 7 (5.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 4 (2.92%) Active Directory
5 3 (2.19%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.73%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.73%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 23 (16.79%) Kubernetes
2 12 (8.76%) Ansible
2 12 (8.76%) Terraform
3 4 (2.92%) Puppet
4 3 (2.19%) Salt
5 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.46%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.73%) Consul
6 1 (0.73%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.73%) Nagios
6 1 (0.73%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.73%) vRealize
Vendors
1 32 (23.36%) Microsoft
2 17 (12.41%) Foundry
3 13 (9.49%) Google
4 7 (5.11%) OpenAI
5 6 (4.38%) Palo Alto
6 4 (2.92%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.92%) Splunk
6 4 (2.92%) VMware
7 3 (2.19%) Cisco
7 3 (2.19%) Citrix
7 3 (2.19%) Databricks
8 2 (1.46%) Meraki
8 2 (1.46%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.46%) Pega
8 2 (1.46%) SAP
8 2 (1.46%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.46%) StreamSets
8 2 (1.46%) Wyse
9 1 (0.73%) Cadence
9 1 (0.73%) Juniper