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 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 18 22
Rank change year-on-year +7 +4 -3
Contract jobs citing Python 147 94 137
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 9.63% 7.34% 7.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.03% 29.75% 26.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 56 90
10th Percentile £349 £300 £319
25th Percentile £406 £389 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £480 £493
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -2.54% -6.19%
75th Percentile £634 £583 £573
90th Percentile £680 £644 £689
England median daily rate £525 £600 £580
% change year-on-year -12.50% +3.45% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 5 20
10th Percentile £41.25 £17.59 £47.50
25th Percentile £41.75 £20.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £54.00 £50.00 £71.25
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -29.82% +23.91%
75th Percentile £75.63 £63.75 £74.06
90th Percentile £77.50 - £77.50
England median hourly rate £54.00 £61.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -12.20% +2.50% -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 397 316 508
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 26.00% 24.67% 27.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 145 272
10th Percentile £313 £299 £300
25th Percentile £406 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £420 £475
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -11.58% -9.52%
75th Percentile £616 £538 £575
90th Percentile £688 £588 £675
England median daily rate £513 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -5.53% -1.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 56 111
10th Percentile £41.25 £46.88 £53.75
25th Percentile £61.25 £60.69 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.33%
75th Percentile £68.75 £69.38 £80.93
90th Percentile £75.00 £95.00 £90.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.50
% change year-on-year - +7.44% -3.20%

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 25 November 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 25 November 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 25 November 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 +10 63 £425 -9.48% 81
Hertfordshire +9 53 £550 -2.22% 45
Essex +3 11 £641 +102.53% 50
Bedfordshire -8 10 £625 +13.64% 31
Suffolk +2 7 £305 +1.67% 19
Norfolk -16 3 £475 - 17
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 6 (4.08%) OpenStack
1 6 (4.08%) SAS
2 5 (3.40%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.72%) Apache
4 3 (2.04%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.04%) IIS
4 3 (2.04%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.68%) Confluence
5 1 (0.68%) Jupyter
Applications
1 7 (4.76%) Weka
2 5 (3.40%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (2.72%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (2.04%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.04%) Maximo
2 1 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 54 (36.73%) Azure
2 51 (34.69%) AWS
3 22 (14.97%) GCP
3 22 (14.97%) Serverless
4 13 (8.84%) AWS Lambda
4 13 (8.84%) GitHub
4 13 (8.84%) PaaS
5 12 (8.16%) Amazon S3
5 12 (8.16%) Azure AKS
6 10 (6.80%) GitHub Copilot
6 10 (6.80%) Snowflake
7 9 (6.12%) Azure Functions
7 9 (6.12%) Power Platform
8 8 (5.44%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (5.44%) Cloud Computing
8 8 (5.44%) dbt
9 6 (4.08%) Azure Sentinel
10 5 (3.40%) Azure AI
10 5 (3.40%) Copilot Studio
10 5 (3.40%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 15 (10.20%) DNS
2 11 (7.48%) Firewall
3 9 (6.12%) HTTP
3 9 (6.12%) SSL
4 8 (5.44%) FTP
4 8 (5.44%) Network Security
4 8 (5.44%) SMTP
4 8 (5.44%) TCP/IP
5 5 (3.40%) SpaceWire
5 5 (3.40%) VPN
6 4 (2.72%) RS-232
7 3 (2.04%) DHCP
7 3 (2.04%) SD-WAN
7 3 (2.04%) WAN
7 3 (2.04%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (1.36%) 802.11
8 2 (1.36%) BGP
8 2 (1.36%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (1.36%) iSCSI
8 2 (1.36%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.16%) NoSQL
2 9 (6.12%) Power BI
3 7 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (3.40%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (3.40%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.72%) Tableau
6 3 (2.04%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (2.04%) Big Data
6 3 (2.04%) DB2
6 3 (2.04%) Oracle Database
6 3 (2.04%) RDBMS
6 3 (2.04%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.04%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (1.36%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.36%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.36%) MySQL
7 2 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.68%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.68%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 9 (6.12%) GitLab
2 7 (4.76%) Git
3 6 (4.08%) JIRA
4 5 (3.40%) Robot Framework
5 3 (2.04%) Selenium
5 3 (2.04%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.36%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.36%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.36%) webpack
7 1 (0.68%) JMeter
7 1 (0.68%) Locust
7 1 (0.68%) MLflow
7 1 (0.68%) Newman
7 1 (0.68%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.68%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.68%) TestCafe
General
1 41 (27.89%) Social Skills
2 18 (12.24%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (8.84%) Documentation Skills
3 13 (8.84%) Finance
4 11 (7.48%) Electronics
5 10 (6.80%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (4.08%) Law
6 6 (4.08%) Multimedia
7 5 (3.40%) Aerospace
8 4 (2.72%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (2.04%) Marketing
10 2 (1.36%) Wearables
11 1 (0.68%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.68%) Agrochemical
11 1 (0.68%) Automotive
11 1 (0.68%) Banking
11 1 (0.68%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.68%) Legal
11 1 (0.68%) Retail
11 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (12.93%) Developer
2 15 (10.20%) Senior
2 15 (10.20%) Software Engineer
3 12 (8.16%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 11 (7.48%) Analyst
5 10 (6.80%) Automation Engineer
6 9 (6.12%) Design Engineer
7 8 (5.44%) Architect
7 8 (5.44%) Digital Design Engineer
7 8 (5.44%) Security Engineer
7 8 (5.44%) SOC Analyst
8 7 (4.76%) Network Engineer
9 6 (4.08%) Lead
9 6 (4.08%) Python Engineer
9 6 (4.08%) Snowflake Architect
10 5 (3.40%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
10 5 (3.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (2.72%) Administrator
11 4 (2.72%) Consultant
11 4 (2.72%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (17.01%) PyTorch
2 23 (15.65%) TensorFlow
3 20 (13.61%) RESTful
4 16 (10.88%) REST
5 15 (10.20%) scikit-learn
6 14 (9.52%) .NET
7 10 (6.80%) Flash
7 10 (6.80%) React
7 10 (6.80%) Semantic Kernel
8 9 (6.12%) LDAP
9 5 (3.40%) FastAPI
9 5 (3.40%) Pandas
9 5 (3.40%) SOAP
9 5 (3.40%) Web Services
10 4 (2.72%) Django
10 4 (2.72%) Node.js
10 4 (2.72%) NumPy
10 4 (2.72%) pytest
11 3 (2.04%) Matplotlib
11 3 (2.04%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.88%) Cloud Native
2 14 (9.52%) Algorithms
3 12 (8.16%) Cyber Threat
4 11 (7.48%) FPGA
5 10 (6.80%) VHDL
6 8 (5.44%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (5.44%) Cyberattack
6 8 (5.44%) Management Information System
7 7 (4.76%) CSOC
7 7 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (4.76%) Public Cloud
7 7 (4.76%) Security Operations Centre
8 6 (4.08%) Analogue Electronics
8 6 (4.08%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (3.40%) Credit Risk
9 5 (3.40%) Grid Computing
9 5 (3.40%) Private Cloud
10 4 (2.72%) CAN bus
10 4 (2.72%) Security Posture
11 3 (2.04%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 29 (19.73%) Linux
2 18 (12.24%) Windows
3 7 (4.76%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.36%) VMS
5 1 (0.68%) CentOS
5 1 (0.68%) Robot Operating System
5 1 (0.68%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.68%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (34.69%) AI
2 40 (27.21%) Machine Learning
3 33 (22.45%) DevOps
4 31 (21.09%) Problem-Solving
4 31 (21.09%) Software Engineering
5 30 (20.41%) CI/CD
6 28 (19.05%) Agile
7 22 (14.97%) Test Automation
8 21 (14.29%) Analytics
9 20 (13.61%) LLM
10 18 (12.24%) Data Science
11 17 (11.56%) Data Pipeline
11 17 (11.56%) Prompt Engineering
11 17 (11.56%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
11 17 (11.56%) Validation
12 16 (10.88%) Cybersecurity
12 16 (10.88%) SIEM
12 16 (10.88%) SOAR
13 15 (10.20%) Data Privacy
14 14 (9.52%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 32 (21.77%) SQL
2 21 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 19 (12.93%) C
3 19 (12.93%) Java
4 16 (10.88%) Bash
4 16 (10.88%) C++
4 16 (10.88%) JavaScript
5 11 (7.48%) R
6 8 (5.44%) Shell Script
7 7 (4.76%) Tcl
8 5 (3.40%) VBA
9 3 (2.04%) C#
9 3 (2.04%) Perl
10 2 (1.36%) Ruby
10 2 (1.36%) Scala
10 2 (1.36%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.68%) Bourne shell
11 1 (0.68%) Go
11 1 (0.68%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.68%) PHP
Qualifications
1 24 (16.33%) Degree
2 19 (12.93%) Security Cleared
3 15 (10.20%) SC Cleared
4 11 (7.48%) MCP
5 8 (5.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (5.44%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.72%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.72%) PhD
7 3 (2.04%) CCIE
7 3 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.36%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.36%) CCNP
8 2 (1.36%) CISSP
9 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.68%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.68%) CISA
9 1 (0.68%) CISM
9 1 (0.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.84%) QA
2 12 (8.16%) NIST
3 10 (6.80%) EU AI Act
4 3 (2.04%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.04%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.36%) GDPR
6 1 (0.68%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.68%) IFRS
System Software
1 20 (13.61%) Docker
2 10 (6.80%) Firmware
3 8 (5.44%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 7 (4.76%) GPFS
4 7 (4.76%) Lustre
5 5 (3.40%) Active Directory
6 4 (2.72%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (2.04%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.68%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 21 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 15 (10.20%) Ansible
3 13 (8.84%) Terraform
4 7 (4.76%) Puppet
5 5 (3.40%) Salt
6 3 (2.04%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.36%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.68%) Consul
8 1 (0.68%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.68%) Nagios
8 1 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.68%) vRealize
Vendors
1 34 (23.13%) Microsoft
2 15 (10.20%) Foundry
3 11 (7.48%) Google
4 6 (4.08%) Palo Alto
4 6 (4.08%) VMware
5 5 (3.40%) OpenAI
5 5 (3.40%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.72%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.72%) Splunk
6 4 (2.72%) StreamSets
7 3 (2.04%) Cisco
7 3 (2.04%) Citrix
7 3 (2.04%) Databricks
7 3 (2.04%) IBM
7 3 (2.04%) Oracle
8 2 (1.36%) HP
8 2 (1.36%) Meraki
8 2 (1.36%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.36%) SAP
8 2 (1.36%) Wyse