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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 8 22
Rank change year-on-year -17 +14 +2
Contract jobs citing Python 142 162 97
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 5.92% 12.04% 6.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.67% 41.22% 27.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 78 59
10th Percentile £350 £304 £308
25th Percentile £400 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £538 £495
Median % change year-on-year -11.16% +8.59% -1.00%
75th Percentile £550 £613 £584
90th Percentile £625 £680 £638
England median daily rate £550 £525 £588
% change year-on-year +4.76% -10.64% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 22 6
10th Percentile £23.29 £36.96 £17.99
25th Percentile £51.50 £41.25 £26.88
Median hourly rate £60.81 £49.50 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +22.85% -7.91% -25.86%
75th Percentile £88.74 £70.25 £63.75
90th Percentile £92.11 £76.13 -
England median hourly rate £64.99 £50.00 £69.38
% change year-on-year +29.98% -27.93% +6.73%

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 463 393 353
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 19.30% 29.22% 23.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 176 157
10th Percentile £349 £330 £299
25th Percentile £410 £448 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £515 £420
Median % change year-on-year -1.55% +22.62% -16.00%
75th Percentile £584 £575 £550
90th Percentile £640 £662 £600
England median daily rate £525 £515 £543
% change year-on-year +1.94% -5.07% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 71 70
10th Percentile £53.25 £31.25 £50.88
25th Percentile £65.00 £48.50 £60.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - -5.80%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.38 £65.75
90th Percentile £82.60 £80.00 £85.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £56.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +16.07% -13.85% -

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 9 October 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
Hertfordshire -10 63 £550 - 93
Cambridgeshire 0 42 £475 - 448
Suffolk -6 21 £367 +22.33% 37
Essex -27 8 £350 -45.40% 33
Bedfordshire -7 6 £350 -41.67% 21
Norfolk -5 2 £400 -20.00% 16
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 10 (7.04%) OpenStack
2 7 (4.93%) IIS
3 6 (4.23%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.82%) Apache
5 3 (2.11%) ArcGIS
5 3 (2.11%) Confluence
6 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (1.41%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.70%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.70%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.70%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (2.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.41%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.70%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (3.52%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 45 (31.69%) Azure
2 28 (19.72%) AWS
3 16 (11.27%) GCP
3 16 (11.27%) GitHub
4 12 (8.45%) Power Platform
5 11 (7.75%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (7.04%) Azure AKS
7 8 (5.63%) Serverless
8 6 (4.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (4.23%) Azure Monitor
8 6 (4.23%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (3.52%) Snowflake
10 4 (2.82%) Azure Functions
10 4 (2.82%) dbt
10 4 (2.82%) OpenShift
10 4 (2.82%) Power Automate
11 3 (2.11%) Amazon S3
11 3 (2.11%) IaaS
11 3 (2.11%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (11.27%) Wi-Fi
2 14 (9.86%) TCP/IP
3 13 (9.15%) 5G
3 13 (9.15%) Broadband
3 13 (9.15%) IPv4
3 13 (9.15%) IPv6
4 12 (8.45%) 4G
4 12 (8.45%) HTTP
5 8 (5.63%) DNS
5 8 (5.63%) xDSL
6 7 (4.93%) PPP
6 7 (4.93%) SNMP
6 7 (4.93%) UPnP
7 6 (4.23%) WAN
7 6 (4.23%) Wireless
8 5 (3.52%) Firewall
8 5 (3.52%) Network Security
9 4 (2.82%) BGP
9 4 (2.82%) SSH
10 3 (2.11%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.15%) PostgreSQL
1 13 (9.15%) Relational Database
2 12 (8.45%) Power BI
3 11 (7.75%) MySQL
4 7 (4.93%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (4.93%) InfluxDB
5 6 (4.23%) BigQuery
5 6 (4.23%) Redis
6 5 (3.52%) Looker
7 4 (2.82%) Metadata
7 4 (2.82%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.82%) NoSQL
8 3 (2.11%) Geospatial Data
8 3 (2.11%) GIS
8 3 (2.11%) SQL Server
9 2 (1.41%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.41%) Power Query
9 2 (1.41%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (1.41%) Tableau
9 2 (1.41%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 37 (26.06%) Git
2 23 (16.20%) JIRA
3 19 (13.38%) GitLab
4 12 (8.45%) Jenkins
5 5 (3.52%) Robot Framework
6 4 (2.82%) Newman
6 4 (2.82%) Postman
7 3 (2.11%) Artifactory
7 3 (2.11%) Selenium
8 2 (1.41%) Gerrit
8 2 (1.41%) JMeter
8 2 (1.41%) Locust
8 2 (1.41%) TestCafe
9 1 (0.70%) eggPlant
9 1 (0.70%) ScriptRunner
9 1 (0.70%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.70%) Tricentis qTest
9 1 (0.70%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 30 (21.13%) Analytical Skills
2 25 (17.61%) Social Skills
3 22 (15.49%) Telecoms
4 9 (6.34%) Law
5 7 (4.93%) Aerospace
5 7 (4.93%) Pharmaceutical
6 6 (4.23%) Back Office
6 6 (4.23%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.11%) Retail
8 2 (1.41%) Automotive
8 2 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.41%) Electronics
8 2 (1.41%) Finance
9 1 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.70%) Legal
9 1 (0.70%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.70%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 20 (14.08%) Python Engineer
2 18 (12.68%) Developer
3 15 (10.56%) Data Engineer
4 12 (8.45%) Senior
5 10 (7.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (6.34%) Test Engineer
7 8 (5.63%) Security Engineer
8 7 (4.93%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 6 (4.23%) Applications Developer
9 6 (4.23%) Broadband Engineer
9 6 (4.23%) Consultant
9 6 (4.23%) Python Developer
9 6 (4.23%) Software Engineer
10 5 (3.52%) Applications Specialist
10 5 (3.52%) Lead
10 5 (3.52%) Report Developer
10 5 (3.52%) Report Specialist
11 4 (2.82%) DevOps Engineer
11 4 (2.82%) Test Automation Engineer
11 4 (2.82%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (14.79%) Terraform
2 16 (11.27%) REST
3 10 (7.04%) Kafka
4 9 (6.34%) FastAPI
4 9 (6.34%) LDAP
4 9 (6.34%) pytest
5 8 (5.63%) Pandas
6 7 (4.93%) JSON
6 7 (4.93%) RabbitMQ
6 7 (4.93%) Regular Expression
6 7 (4.93%) RESTful
7 5 (3.52%) eBPF
7 5 (3.52%) OpenTelemetry
7 5 (3.52%) SQLAlchemy
8 4 (2.82%) CSS
8 4 (2.82%) Flask
8 4 (2.82%) HTML
8 4 (2.82%) Jinja
8 4 (2.82%) XML
8 4 (2.82%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.04%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (5.63%) Cloud Native
3 7 (4.93%) CMDB
3 7 (4.93%) Cyber Threat
3 7 (4.93%) IoT
3 7 (4.93%) Wiki
4 6 (4.23%) Embedded Systems
4 6 (4.23%) Life Science
5 5 (3.52%) Public Cloud
5 5 (3.52%) Replication
6 4 (2.82%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.82%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.82%) Private Cloud
7 3 (2.11%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.11%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.41%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.41%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.41%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 38 (26.76%) Linux
2 15 (10.56%) Windows
3 9 (6.34%) VMS
4 7 (4.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (2.82%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.82%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.41%) CentOS
6 2 (1.41%) Rocky
6 2 (1.41%) Unix
7 1 (0.70%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (40.85%) CI/CD
2 35 (24.65%) Validation
3 34 (23.94%) DevOps
4 32 (22.54%) Data Modelling
5 30 (21.13%) Data Pipeline
5 30 (21.13%) Test Automation
6 27 (19.01%) Agile
7 26 (18.31%) ETL
8 25 (17.61%) Root Cause Analysis
9 23 (16.20%) AI
10 22 (15.49%) Problem-Solving
11 19 (13.38%) Scrum
12 18 (12.68%) Analytics
12 18 (12.68%) Migration
12 18 (12.68%) Software Engineering
13 17 (11.97%) Infrastructure as Code
14 15 (10.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 15 (10.56%) Machine Learning
15 14 (9.86%) Containerisation
15 14 (9.86%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 37 (26.06%) SQL
2 25 (17.61%) PowerShell
3 22 (15.49%) Bash
4 11 (7.75%) JavaScript
5 9 (6.34%) Java
6 7 (4.93%) C++
7 6 (4.23%) C#
7 6 (4.23%) R
8 5 (3.52%) MATLAB
9 4 (2.82%) Groovy
9 4 (2.82%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (2.82%) Shell Script
10 3 (2.11%) C
10 3 (2.11%) Google Apps Script
11 2 (1.41%) Bicep
11 2 (1.41%) Perl
12 1 (0.70%) Cypher
12 1 (0.70%) Ruby
12 1 (0.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (26.06%) Security Cleared
2 28 (19.72%) SC Cleared
3 21 (14.79%) Degree
4 10 (7.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (6.34%) DV Cleared
6 5 (3.52%) ISTQB
6 5 (3.52%) Master's Degree
6 5 (3.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (2.82%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (2.82%) PhD
8 3 (2.11%) CCIE
8 3 (2.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (1.41%) JNCIE
9 2 (1.41%) MOS
9 2 (1.41%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.70%) CCNP
10 1 (0.70%) CCSP
10 1 (0.70%) CISSP
10 1 (0.70%) JNCIP
10 1 (0.70%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (16.90%) QA
2 23 (16.20%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.52%) SLA
4 3 (2.11%) GDPR
5 2 (1.41%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.70%) CDISC
6 1 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.70%) NIST
6 1 (0.70%) PMO
6 1 (0.70%) SOC 2
System Software
1 31 (21.83%) Docker
2 11 (7.75%) Active Directory
2 11 (7.75%) Virtual Machines
2 11 (7.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (6.34%) Hyper-V
4 7 (4.93%) NFS
5 6 (4.23%) Firmware
6 2 (1.41%) vSphere
7 1 (0.70%) GPFS
7 1 (0.70%) Lustre
7 1 (0.70%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.70%) Squid
Systems Management
1 21 (14.79%) Ansible
2 14 (9.86%) Kubernetes
3 12 (8.45%) Grafana
4 10 (7.04%) Prometheus
5 7 (4.93%) Puppet
6 5 (3.52%) vRealize
7 3 (2.11%) HP ALM
7 3 (2.11%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.70%) Consul
8 1 (0.70%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.70%) Packer
8 1 (0.70%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.70%) Salt
8 1 (0.70%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 16 (11.27%) Microsoft
2 15 (10.56%) VMware
3 10 (7.04%) Databricks
4 9 (6.34%) Google
5 8 (5.63%) ServiceNow
6 7 (4.93%) Dynatrace
7 5 (3.52%) Cisco
7 5 (3.52%) Cribl.io
7 5 (3.52%) Remedy
7 5 (3.52%) Splunk
8 4 (2.82%) IBM
8 4 (2.82%) Salesforce
8 4 (2.82%) SAP
9 3 (2.11%) ESRI
9 3 (2.11%) HP
9 3 (2.11%) Juniper
9 3 (2.11%) NetApp
10 2 (1.41%) F5
10 2 (1.41%) Fortinet
10 2 (1.41%) Red Hat