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 27 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 9 28
Rank change year-on-year -13 +19 -6
Contract jobs citing Python 137 138 77
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 6.20% 10.87% 4.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.44% 35.66% 22.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 67 49
10th Percentile £303 £300 £300
25th Percentile £406 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% +0.50% +2.56%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £581
90th Percentile £586 £675 £640
England median daily rate £549 £537 £577
% change year-on-year +2.14% -6.97% -3.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 19 5
10th Percentile £23.00 £40.30 £17.59
25th Percentile £24.87 £45.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £54.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.56% -6.09% -11.54%
75th Percentile £54.63 £65.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.00 -
England median hourly rate £63.14 £50.00 £67.02
% change year-on-year +26.27% -25.40% +3.11%

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 450 387 340
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 20.36% 30.50% 21.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 176 155
10th Percentile £347 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £444 £348
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £503 £425
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% +18.24% -12.82%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £556
90th Percentile £625 £641 £595
England median daily rate £525 £514 £550
% change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 79 91
10th Percentile £52.30 £31.25 £52.50
25th Percentile £62.97 £51.63 £60.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - -
75th Percentile £74.25 £74.38 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.50 £85.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +4.00%

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 27 August 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 27 August 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 27 August 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 -12 53 £550 - 100
Cambridgeshire +3 52 £413 -17.91% 275
Essex -23 10 £500 +11.11% 53
Bedfordshire +2 8 £575 -4.17% 14
Norfolk -7 7 £425 -15.00% 13
Suffolk -13 7 £425 +41.67% 33
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 9 (6.57%) OpenStack
2 5 (3.65%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.46%) Apache
4 1 (0.73%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.73%) Confluence
4 1 (0.73%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 7 (5.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.19%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.46%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.73%) OrCAD
4 1 (0.73%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (1.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.73%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 39 (28.47%) Azure
2 32 (23.36%) AWS
3 17 (12.41%) GitHub
4 15 (10.95%) GCP
5 12 (8.76%) Serverless
6 10 (7.30%) Azure AKS
7 8 (5.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 8 (5.84%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (5.84%) Power Platform
8 7 (5.11%) Azure Service Bus
9 6 (4.38%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (3.65%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (3.65%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (3.65%) Snowflake
11 4 (2.92%) Amazon S3
11 4 (2.92%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (2.92%) Azure Functions
11 4 (2.92%) dbt
11 4 (2.92%) OpenShift
11 4 (2.92%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.84%) DNS
1 8 (5.84%) TCP/IP
2 7 (5.11%) Firewall
2 7 (5.11%) Network Security
2 7 (5.11%) SNMP
3 5 (3.65%) HTTP
4 4 (2.92%) 5G
4 4 (2.92%) SSH
4 4 (2.92%) VPN
4 4 (2.92%) WAN
5 3 (2.19%) 4G
5 3 (2.19%) DHCP
6 2 (1.46%) ADSL
6 2 (1.46%) BGP
6 2 (1.46%) IPsec
6 2 (1.46%) LAN
6 2 (1.46%) MPLS
6 2 (1.46%) SSL
6 2 (1.46%) TACACS
6 2 (1.46%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (11.68%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (10.22%) Relational Database
3 13 (9.49%) MySQL
4 8 (5.84%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (5.84%) Power BI
5 7 (5.11%) Metadata
5 7 (5.11%) Redis
6 6 (4.38%) NoSQL
7 5 (3.65%) InfluxDB
7 5 (3.65%) SQL Server
8 4 (2.92%) MongoDB
9 3 (2.19%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.46%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.46%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.46%) Data Vault
10 2 (1.46%) Power Query
10 2 (1.46%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (1.46%) Tableau
10 2 (1.46%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 32 (23.36%) Git
2 8 (5.84%) GitLab
3 6 (4.38%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.65%) JUnit
4 5 (3.65%) SonarQube
5 4 (2.92%) JIRA
5 4 (2.92%) Newman
5 4 (2.92%) Postman
6 3 (2.19%) IntelliJ
6 3 (2.19%) Selenium
7 1 (0.73%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.73%) eggPlant
7 1 (0.73%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.73%) ScriptRunner
7 1 (0.73%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 26 (18.98%) Analytical Skills
2 25 (18.25%) Social Skills
3 11 (8.03%) Pharmaceutical
4 8 (5.84%) Telecoms
5 7 (5.11%) Finance
5 7 (5.11%) Law
6 6 (4.38%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.65%) Electronics
8 4 (2.92%) Aerospace
9 3 (2.19%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.19%) Retail
10 2 (1.46%) Automotive
10 2 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.46%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.73%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 23 (16.79%) Python Engineer
2 17 (12.41%) Data Engineer
2 17 (12.41%) Developer
3 8 (5.84%) Python Developer
4 7 (5.11%) Senior
4 7 (5.11%) Software Engineer
4 7 (5.11%) VMware Engineer
5 6 (4.38%) Consultant
5 6 (4.38%) JavaScript Engineer
5 6 (4.38%) PowerShell Engineer
6 5 (3.65%) Systems Engineer
7 4 (2.92%) Architect
7 4 (2.92%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (2.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (2.19%) Analyst
8 3 (2.19%) Automation Engineer
8 3 (2.19%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (2.19%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (2.19%) Network Engineer
8 3 (2.19%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (14.60%) Terraform
2 15 (10.95%) REST
3 11 (8.03%) FastAPI
4 9 (6.57%) Pandas
4 9 (6.57%) pytest
4 9 (6.57%) RESTful
5 8 (5.84%) Kafka
6 7 (5.11%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (4.38%) Flask
7 6 (4.38%) OpenTelemetry
7 6 (4.38%) Spring
7 6 (4.38%) Spring Boot
7 6 (4.38%) SQLAlchemy
8 5 (3.65%) eBPF
8 5 (3.65%) Hibernate
8 5 (3.65%) Node.js
9 4 (2.92%) CSS
9 4 (2.92%) Jinja
9 4 (2.92%) XML
9 4 (2.92%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.49%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.30%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (5.84%) Algorithms
4 7 (5.11%) CRISPR
5 6 (4.38%) Life Science
5 6 (4.38%) Robotics
6 4 (2.92%) Acoustics
6 4 (2.92%) Embedded Systems
7 3 (2.19%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.19%) FPGA
7 3 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.19%) IoT
7 3 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.19%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (2.19%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.19%) PKI
7 3 (2.19%) Private Cloud
7 3 (2.19%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.19%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 29 (21.17%) Linux
2 6 (4.38%) Windows
3 4 (2.92%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.19%) Android
4 3 (2.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (2.19%) Unix
5 2 (1.46%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.46%) VMS
6 1 (0.73%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.73%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (39.42%) CI/CD
2 37 (27.01%) Data Pipeline
3 35 (25.55%) DevOps
4 34 (24.82%) Validation
5 29 (21.17%) ETL
6 23 (16.79%) Software Engineering
7 21 (15.33%) Data Modelling
8 20 (14.60%) Infrastructure as Code
8 20 (14.60%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (13.87%) Test Automation
10 18 (13.14%) Computer Science
11 17 (12.41%) Analytics
12 16 (11.68%) Agile
13 15 (10.95%) AI
14 14 (10.22%) Event-Driven
14 14 (10.22%) Migration
15 13 (9.49%) Root Cause Analysis
16 12 (8.76%) Data Engineering
17 11 (8.03%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 11 (8.03%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 36 (26.28%) SQL
2 23 (16.79%) Bash
3 21 (15.33%) PowerShell
4 16 (11.68%) Java
5 10 (7.30%) C++
6 9 (6.57%) R
7 8 (5.84%) JavaScript
8 7 (5.11%) C
9 5 (3.65%) C#
9 5 (3.65%) MATLAB
9 5 (3.65%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.92%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (2.19%) Go
11 3 (2.19%) Ruby
12 2 (1.46%) Embedded C
12 2 (1.46%) Groovy
13 1 (0.73%) Cypher
13 1 (0.73%) Perl
13 1 (0.73%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (23.36%) Security Cleared
2 28 (20.44%) Degree
3 23 (16.79%) SC Cleared
4 15 (10.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (5.11%) DV Cleared
5 7 (5.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 3 (2.19%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.19%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.46%) CCIE
7 2 (1.46%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (1.46%) JNCIE
7 2 (1.46%) PhD
8 1 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.73%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.73%) CCSP
8 1 (0.73%) CISM
8 1 (0.73%) CISSP
8 1 (0.73%) CRISC
8 1 (0.73%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (14.60%) Data Quality
2 18 (13.14%) QA
3 5 (3.65%) GDPR
3 5 (3.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.46%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.46%) ISA99
4 2 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (1.46%) NCSC
4 2 (1.46%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.73%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.73%) MIL-STD-1553
5 1 (0.73%) NIST
5 1 (0.73%) PMO
5 1 (0.73%) SOC 2
System Software
1 24 (17.52%) Docker
2 6 (4.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.65%) Firmware
4 2 (1.46%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.46%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.46%) vSphere
5 1 (0.73%) GPFS
5 1 (0.73%) Lustre
5 1 (0.73%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.73%) Squid
5 1 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (13.87%) Ansible
2 15 (10.95%) Kubernetes
3 10 (7.30%) Grafana
4 9 (6.57%) Prometheus
5 7 (5.11%) vRealize
6 5 (3.65%) Puppet
7 1 (0.73%) Consul
7 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.73%) Packer
7 1 (0.73%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.73%) Salt
7 1 (0.73%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 13 (9.49%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.76%) Databricks
2 12 (8.76%) VMware
3 7 (5.11%) Dynatrace
3 7 (5.11%) Google
4 5 (3.65%) Checkmarx
4 5 (3.65%) Cisco
4 5 (3.65%) Cribl.io
4 5 (3.65%) Splunk
5 4 (2.92%) Fortinet
5 4 (2.92%) SAP
6 3 (2.19%) NetApp
6 3 (2.19%) Oracle
6 3 (2.19%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.46%) F5
7 2 (1.46%) Juniper
7 2 (1.46%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.73%) Citrix
8 1 (0.73%) EMC
8 1 (0.73%) Red Hat