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 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 9 26
Rank change year-on-year -8 +17 -1
Contract jobs citing Python 152 148 79
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 6.49% 11.35% 5.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.60% 38.05% 22.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 69 48
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £406 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £550 £613 £583
90th Percentile £573 £680 £641
England median daily rate £550 £530 £588
% change year-on-year +3.77% -9.79% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 19 6
10th Percentile £23.39 £40.30 £17.99
25th Percentile £35.19 £41.25 £26.88
Median hourly rate £60.81 £54.00 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +12.61% +0.47% -23.21%
75th Percentile £88.62 £65.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £92.11 £77.00 -
England median hourly rate £63.48 £50.00 £69.38
% change year-on-year +26.96% -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 481 389 347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 20.53% 29.83% 22.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 171 157
10th Percentile £346 £320 £292
25th Percentile £413 £450 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £503 £425
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% +18.24% -15.00%
75th Percentile £580 £575 £550
90th Percentile £623 £662 £588
England median daily rate £525 £513 £545
% change year-on-year +2.44% -5.96% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 73 80
10th Percentile £53.75 £35.10 £51.25
25th Percentile £65.00 £52.00 £60.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - -5.80%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £82.10 £83.00 £80.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £56.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.04% -13.08% -

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 61 £525 -4.55% 119
Cambridgeshire +4 55 £419 -14.10% 410
Suffolk -8 14 £384 +27.83% 51
Essex -26 8 £480 -25.12% 55
Norfolk -3 7 £425 -15.00% 21
Bedfordshire -3 7 £575 -4.17% 21
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 (5.92%) OpenStack
2 7 (4.61%) IIS
3 5 (3.29%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.97%) Apache
4 3 (1.97%) ArcGIS
4 3 (1.97%) Confluence
5 1 (0.66%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 7 (4.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.97%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.32%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.66%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 41 (26.97%) Azure
2 33 (21.71%) AWS
3 17 (11.18%) GitHub
4 13 (8.55%) GCP
5 11 (7.24%) Serverless
6 10 (6.58%) Azure AKS
6 10 (6.58%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (5.26%) Power Platform
8 7 (4.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (3.95%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (3.95%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (3.29%) Snowflake
11 4 (2.63%) Amazon S3
11 4 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.63%) Azure Functions
11 4 (2.63%) dbt
11 4 (2.63%) OpenShift
11 4 (2.63%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 12 (7.89%) HTTP
1 12 (7.89%) TCP/IP
2 10 (6.58%) Wi-Fi
3 9 (5.92%) 5G
4 8 (5.26%) 4G
4 8 (5.26%) Broadband
4 8 (5.26%) DNS
4 8 (5.26%) IPv4
4 8 (5.26%) IPv6
5 7 (4.61%) SNMP
6 6 (3.95%) Network Security
7 5 (3.29%) Firewall
7 5 (3.29%) WAN
7 5 (3.29%) xDSL
8 4 (2.63%) PPP
8 4 (2.63%) SSH
8 4 (2.63%) UPnP
8 4 (2.63%) Wireless
9 3 (1.97%) DHCP
9 3 (1.97%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (11.84%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (9.21%) MySQL
2 14 (9.21%) Relational Database
3 8 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (5.26%) Metadata
3 8 (5.26%) Power BI
4 7 (4.61%) InfluxDB
4 7 (4.61%) Redis
5 6 (3.95%) NoSQL
6 5 (3.29%) SQL Server
7 4 (2.63%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.97%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.97%) Geospatial Data
8 3 (1.97%) GIS
9 2 (1.32%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (1.32%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.32%) Data Vault
9 2 (1.32%) Power Query
9 2 (1.32%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (1.32%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 40 (26.32%) Git
2 18 (11.84%) JIRA
3 16 (10.53%) GitLab
4 10 (6.58%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.63%) Newman
5 4 (2.63%) Postman
6 3 (1.97%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.97%) Selenium
7 2 (1.32%) Gerrit
7 2 (1.32%) IntelliJ
7 2 (1.32%) JUnit
7 2 (1.32%) Robot Framework
7 2 (1.32%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.66%) eggPlant
8 1 (0.66%) JMeter
8 1 (0.66%) Locust
8 1 (0.66%) TestCafe
8 1 (0.66%) Tricentis qTest
8 1 (0.66%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 29 (19.08%) Analytical Skills
2 26 (17.11%) Social Skills
3 15 (9.87%) Telecoms
4 9 (5.92%) Law
4 9 (5.92%) Pharmaceutical
5 6 (3.95%) Back Office
5 6 (3.95%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.29%) Aerospace
7 4 (2.63%) Electronics
7 4 (2.63%) Finance
8 3 (1.97%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.97%) Retail
9 2 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.32%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.66%) Legal
10 1 (0.66%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 24 (15.79%) Python Engineer
2 17 (11.18%) Data Engineer
3 15 (9.87%) Developer
4 10 (6.58%) Senior
5 8 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (5.26%) Python Developer
5 8 (5.26%) Security Engineer
6 7 (4.61%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 7 (4.61%) VMware Engineer
7 6 (3.95%) Consultant
7 6 (3.95%) JavaScript Engineer
7 6 (3.95%) PowerShell Engineer
7 6 (3.95%) Software Engineer
7 6 (3.95%) Test Engineer
8 5 (3.29%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (3.29%) Network Engineer
9 4 (2.63%) Analyst
9 4 (2.63%) Automation Engineer
9 4 (2.63%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (2.63%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (14.47%) Terraform
2 15 (9.87%) REST
3 11 (7.24%) FastAPI
4 10 (6.58%) JSON
5 9 (5.92%) LDAP
5 9 (5.92%) Pandas
5 9 (5.92%) pytest
6 8 (5.26%) Kafka
6 8 (5.26%) RESTful
7 7 (4.61%) RabbitMQ
7 7 (4.61%) Regular Expression
8 6 (3.95%) Flask
8 6 (3.95%) OpenTelemetry
8 6 (3.95%) SQLAlchemy
9 5 (3.29%) eBPF
9 5 (3.29%) Hibernate
10 4 (2.63%) CSS
10 4 (2.63%) HTML
10 4 (2.63%) XML
10 4 (2.63%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.89%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.58%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (5.26%) Algorithms
4 7 (4.61%) Cyber Threat
5 6 (3.95%) Embedded Systems
5 6 (3.95%) Life Science
6 5 (3.29%) CRISPR
6 5 (3.29%) IoT
6 5 (3.29%) Robotics
7 4 (2.63%) Acoustics
7 4 (2.63%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.63%) Wiki
8 3 (1.97%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.97%) FPGA
8 3 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.97%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.97%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.97%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 37 (24.34%) Linux
2 15 (9.87%) Windows
3 7 (4.61%) VMS
4 6 (3.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (2.63%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.63%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.97%) Android
6 3 (1.97%) Unix
7 2 (1.32%) Rocky
8 1 (0.66%) CentOS
8 1 (0.66%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.66%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (38.16%) CI/CD
2 39 (25.66%) Validation
3 36 (23.68%) Data Pipeline
3 36 (23.68%) DevOps
4 28 (18.42%) Data Modelling
4 28 (18.42%) ETL
5 27 (17.76%) Test Automation
6 26 (17.11%) Agile
7 24 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (15.13%) Root Cause Analysis
9 22 (14.47%) Software Engineering
10 21 (13.82%) AI
11 20 (13.16%) Infrastructure as Code
12 17 (11.18%) Analytics
12 17 (11.18%) Computer Science
13 16 (10.53%) Migration
13 16 (10.53%) Scrum
14 15 (9.87%) Machine Learning
15 14 (9.21%) Event-Driven
16 13 (8.55%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 39 (25.66%) SQL
2 28 (18.42%) PowerShell
3 26 (17.11%) Bash
4 13 (8.55%) Java
5 9 (5.92%) JavaScript
5 9 (5.92%) R
6 8 (5.26%) C++
7 5 (3.29%) C
7 5 (3.29%) C#
7 5 (3.29%) MATLAB
7 5 (3.29%) Shell Script
8 4 (2.63%) Groovy
8 4 (2.63%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (1.97%) Ruby
10 2 (1.32%) Go
10 2 (1.32%) Perl
11 1 (0.66%) Cypher
11 1 (0.66%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (22.37%) Security Cleared
2 31 (20.39%) Degree
3 23 (15.13%) SC Cleared
4 14 (9.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (5.92%) DV Cleared
6 8 (5.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 5 (3.29%) ISTQB
7 5 (3.29%) Master's Degree
8 4 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (2.63%) PhD
9 3 (1.97%) CCIE
9 3 (1.97%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (1.32%) JNCIE
11 1 (0.66%) CCNP
11 1 (0.66%) CCSP
11 1 (0.66%) CISM
11 1 (0.66%) CISSP
11 1 (0.66%) JNCIP
11 1 (0.66%) JNCIS
11 1 (0.66%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (14.47%) QA
2 21 (13.82%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.29%) GDPR
4 3 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.32%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.32%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.66%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.66%) MIL-STD-1553
6 1 (0.66%) NIST
6 1 (0.66%) PMO
6 1 (0.66%) SOC 2
System Software
1 31 (20.39%) Docker
2 11 (7.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (5.92%) Active Directory
3 9 (5.92%) Hyper-V
4 8 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (4.61%) Firmware
5 7 (4.61%) NFS
6 2 (1.32%) vSphere
7 1 (0.66%) GPFS
7 1 (0.66%) Lustre
7 1 (0.66%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.66%) Squid
Systems Management
1 21 (13.82%) Ansible
2 15 (9.87%) Kubernetes
3 13 (8.55%) Grafana
4 11 (7.24%) Prometheus
5 8 (5.26%) vRealize
6 7 (4.61%) Puppet
7 3 (1.97%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.66%) Consul
8 1 (0.66%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.66%) Packer
8 1 (0.66%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.66%) Salt
8 1 (0.66%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 18 (11.84%) VMware
2 12 (7.89%) Databricks
3 11 (7.24%) Microsoft
4 8 (5.26%) Dynatrace
5 5 (3.29%) Cribl.io
5 5 (3.29%) Google
5 5 (3.29%) Splunk
6 4 (2.63%) Cisco
6 4 (2.63%) IBM
6 4 (2.63%) SAP
6 4 (2.63%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.97%) ESRI
7 3 (1.97%) HP
7 3 (1.97%) Juniper
7 3 (1.97%) NetApp
7 3 (1.97%) Oracle
8 2 (1.32%) F5
8 2 (1.32%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.32%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.32%) Salesforce