Python Contract Job Trends in England

Python
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Python skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 11 14
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing Python 4,534 3,251 3,641
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.56% 13.14% 9.72%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.67% 38.79% 32.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,036 2,315 2,663
10th Percentile £363 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £449 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £567
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -3.00% -5.50%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £700
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 48 100
10th Percentile £28.65 £27.15 £21.68
25th Percentile £43.81 £33.91 £46.23
Median hourly rate £55.00 £47.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -26.92% -
75th Percentile £72.25 £55.00 £71.41
90th Percentile £84.88 £67.13 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £44.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +17.98% -28.23% -0.86%

All Programming Languages
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 11,428 8,381 11,359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.62% 33.88% 30.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,471 5,816 8,125
10th Percentile £359 £356 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £521 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.25% -3.25% -3.93%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 521 196 488
10th Percentile £36.25 £28.18 £35.52
25th Percentile £55.00 £35.75 £49.84
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.54% -9.20% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £85.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% +2.97%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Python relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Python job vacancy trend in England

Python
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Python.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Python

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in England over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Python in England

Python
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Python.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Python

Python
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Python in England over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Python in England

Python
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 17 June 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
London -3 2,609 £550 -4.35% 1,397
North of England +10 774 £481 -1.28% 841
Yorkshire 0 427 £500 - 291
South East -6 399 £525 +3.19% 1,068
North West +5 269 £490 +3.16% 399
South West -3 263 £500 -9.09% 365
Midlands -14 229 £484 +7.64% 471
West Midlands -12 181 £477 +3.14% 211
East of England -11 127 £500 - 559
North East +9 90 £450 +2.86% 154
East Midlands -14 47 £498 +17.18% 259
Python
UK

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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
1 248 (5.47%) Apache Spark
2 211 (4.65%) Apache Airflow
3 157 (3.46%) Apache
4 129 (2.85%) Confluence
5 51 (1.12%) Jupyter
6 44 (0.97%) SAS
7 41 (0.90%) SharePoint
8 17 (0.37%) OpenStack
8 17 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
9 13 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
10 11 (0.24%) nginx
11 10 (0.22%) IIS
12 9 (0.20%) Appian
12 9 (0.20%) ArcGIS
13 8 (0.18%) Apache Superset
14 6 (0.13%) Camunda
14 6 (0.13%) CICS
14 6 (0.13%) CMS
14 6 (0.13%) Tomcat
15 5 (0.11%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 100 (2.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (0.62%) Chatbot
3 22 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
4 18 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.40%) MS Visio
4 18 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
5 12 (0.26%) CPLEX
6 3 (0.066%) LaTeX
6 3 (0.066%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.022%) OrCAD
7 1 (0.022%) SPSS
7 1 (0.022%) Weka
7 1 (0.022%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 22 (0.49%) Aladdin
2 19 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
4 7 (0.15%) SAP IBP
5 6 (0.13%) Fidessa
5 6 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.11%) BambooHR
6 5 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
7 4 (0.088%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.088%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.066%) Bloomberg AIM
8 3 (0.066%) Sage X3
8 3 (0.066%) SimCorp Dimension
9 2 (0.044%) Endur
9 2 (0.044%) Front Arena
9 2 (0.044%) Global One
9 2 (0.044%) Oracle Assets
9 2 (0.044%) Orchestrade
9 2 (0.044%) Teamcenter
10 1 (0.022%) SAP APO
Cloud Services
1 1,726 (38.07%) AWS
2 1,551 (34.21%) Azure
3 660 (14.56%) GCP
4 541 (11.93%) GitHub
5 453 (9.99%) Power Platform
6 408 (9.00%) Serverless
7 348 (7.68%) Amazon S3
8 345 (7.61%) Azure DevOps
9 302 (6.66%) GitHub Actions
10 299 (6.59%) AWS Lambda
11 234 (5.16%) Azure Data Factory
12 215 (4.74%) Snowflake
13 178 (3.93%) dbt
14 148 (3.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 133 (2.93%) AWS CloudFormation
16 130 (2.87%) OpenShift
17 129 (2.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 127 (2.80%) Amazon EKS
19 107 (2.36%) Amazon EC2
20 94 (2.07%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 189 (4.17%) Firewall
2 126 (2.78%) DNS
3 97 (2.14%) WAN
4 91 (2.01%) BGP
5 85 (1.87%) Network Security
6 82 (1.81%) TCP/IP
7 79 (1.74%) VPN
8 54 (1.19%) OSPF
9 52 (1.15%) BIG-IP
10 45 (0.99%) HTTP
10 45 (0.99%) SD-WAN
11 43 (0.95%) VXLAN
12 37 (0.82%) SSL
13 36 (0.79%) VLAN
14 33 (0.73%) Ethernet VPN
14 33 (0.73%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 33 (0.73%) SAN
15 32 (0.71%) LAN
15 32 (0.71%) MPLS
16 31 (0.68%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 390 (8.60%) Power BI
2 291 (6.42%) PostgreSQL
3 261 (5.76%) Data Warehouse
4 229 (5.05%) SQL Server
5 198 (4.37%) Data Lake
6 176 (3.88%) Tableau
7 149 (3.29%) Relational Database
8 148 (3.26%) NoSQL
9 138 (3.04%) Metadata
10 120 (2.65%) Amazon Athena
10 120 (2.65%) BigQuery
11 119 (2.62%) Delta Lake
12 117 (2.58%) Amazon Redshift
13 115 (2.54%) Big Data
14 90 (1.99%) MongoDB
15 86 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
16 74 (1.63%) DynamoDB
17 62 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
17 62 (1.37%) MySQL
18 60 (1.32%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 534 (11.78%) Git
2 393 (8.67%) Jenkins
3 320 (7.06%) GitLab
4 243 (5.36%) JIRA
5 61 (1.35%) MLflow
6 57 (1.26%) Selenium
7 44 (0.97%) Postman
8 29 (0.64%) Bitbucket
8 29 (0.64%) JMeter
9 27 (0.60%) Artifactory
9 27 (0.60%) Cypress.io
10 26 (0.57%) Cucumber
10 26 (0.57%) SonarQube
11 24 (0.53%) Maven
12 21 (0.46%) JUnit
13 20 (0.44%) Gatling
14 19 (0.42%) REST Assured
15 18 (0.40%) Robot Framework
15 18 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
16 13 (0.29%) SpecFlow
General
1 989 (21.81%) Finance
2 981 (21.64%) Social Skills
3 629 (13.87%) Analytical Skills
4 413 (9.11%) Public Sector
5 351 (7.74%) Banking
6 177 (3.90%) Front Office
7 116 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
8 102 (2.25%) Investment Banking
9 81 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 68 (1.50%) Retail
11 65 (1.43%) Marketing
12 55 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
13 46 (1.01%) Telecoms
14 41 (0.90%) Financial Institution
14 41 (0.90%) Legal
15 40 (0.88%) Publishing
16 33 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
17 31 (0.68%) Military
18 28 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
19 24 (0.53%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 809 (17.84%) Developer
2 726 (16.01%) Data Engineer
3 676 (14.91%) Senior
4 401 (8.84%) Python Developer
5 329 (7.26%) Lead
6 281 (6.20%) Architect
7 246 (5.43%) DevOps Engineer
8 240 (5.29%) Analyst
9 231 (5.09%) Python Engineer
10 226 (4.98%) Software Engineer
11 213 (4.70%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 181 (3.99%) AWS Engineer
13 175 (3.86%) Data Scientist
14 151 (3.33%) Senior Developer
15 143 (3.15%) Senior Data Engineer
16 139 (3.07%) Azure Engineer
17 128 (2.82%) Data Analyst
18 124 (2.73%) Full-Stack Developer
19 120 (2.65%) Platform Engineer
20 119 (2.62%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 349 (7.70%) REST
2 332 (7.32%) React
3 314 (6.93%) PySpark
4 285 (6.29%) Kafka
5 207 (4.57%) .NET
6 183 (4.04%) Node.js
7 175 (3.86%) Pandas
8 161 (3.55%) RESTful
9 156 (3.44%) JSON
10 152 (3.35%) FastAPI
11 142 (3.13%) PyTorch
12 124 (2.73%) Django
13 111 (2.45%) LangChain
14 102 (2.25%) NumPy
14 102 (2.25%) TensorFlow
15 100 (2.21%) scikit-learn
16 94 (2.07%) AngularJS
16 94 (2.07%) Flask
17 93 (2.05%) HTML
17 93 (2.05%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 589 (12.99%) Cloud Native
2 229 (5.05%) Distributed Systems
3 135 (2.98%) AI Agents
4 127 (2.80%) Onboarding
5 126 (2.78%) Data Centre
6 120 (2.65%) Algorithms
7 115 (2.54%) Product Ownership
8 107 (2.36%) Data Structures
9 102 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
10 101 (2.23%) Derivative
11 99 (2.18%) Equities
12 97 (2.14%) Fixed Income
13 96 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
14 94 (2.07%) Hybrid Cloud
15 87 (1.92%) Management Information System
16 83 (1.83%) Security Posture
17 71 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
18 53 (1.17%) Public Cloud
19 52 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
20 47 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 511 (11.27%) Linux
2 246 (5.43%) Windows
3 180 (3.97%) Unix
4 95 (2.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 62 (1.37%) Windows Server
6 41 (0.90%) Ubuntu
7 29 (0.64%) VMS
8 24 (0.53%) AIX
9 23 (0.51%) Android
10 20 (0.44%) CentOS
10 20 (0.44%) Solaris
11 16 (0.35%) Apple iOS
12 11 (0.24%) zOS
13 9 (0.20%) Mac OS
14 7 (0.15%) Debian
15 6 (0.13%) Rocky
15 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
16 5 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
17 3 (0.066%) Oracle Linux
17 3 (0.066%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,722 (37.98%) CI/CD
2 1,269 (27.99%) DevOps
3 1,132 (24.97%) AI
4 968 (21.35%) Agile
5 964 (21.26%) Analytics
6 815 (17.98%) Infrastructure as Code
7 812 (17.91%) Data Pipeline
8 807 (17.80%) Problem-Solving
9 696 (15.35%) Machine Learning
10 676 (14.91%) Data Engineering
11 621 (13.70%) Containerisation
12 619 (13.65%) Data Modelling
13 599 (13.21%) ETL
14 593 (13.08%) Software Engineering
15 522 (11.51%) Data Science
16 481 (10.61%) Observability
17 460 (10.15%) Test Automation
18 457 (10.08%) Business Intelligence
19 417 (9.20%) LLM
20 391 (8.62%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1,552 (34.23%) SQL
2 690 (15.22%) Java
3 551 (12.15%) PowerShell
4 501 (11.05%) Bash
5 383 (8.45%) JavaScript
6 330 (7.28%) TypeScript
7 298 (6.57%) C#
8 177 (3.90%) Go
9 143 (3.15%) R
10 110 (2.43%) C++
11 109 (2.40%) Scala
12 95 (2.10%) Shell Script
13 73 (1.61%) Bicep
14 57 (1.26%) Ruby
15 53 (1.17%) PL/SQL
16 52 (1.15%) Perl
17 50 (1.10%) C
18 49 (1.08%) T-SQL
19 46 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 46 (1.01%) Rust
Qualifications
1 973 (21.46%) Security Cleared
2 780 (17.20%) SC Cleared
3 351 (7.74%) Degree
4 143 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 136 (3.00%) DV Cleared
6 104 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
7 99 (2.18%) Azure Certification
8 91 (2.01%) AWS Certification
9 79 (1.74%) CISSP
10 63 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
11 58 (1.28%) Master's Degree
12 41 (0.90%) CCNP
13 36 (0.79%) CISM
14 32 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
15 31 (0.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 30 (0.66%) PhD
17 24 (0.53%) CCIE
18 23 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 21 (0.46%) ISTQB
20 18 (0.40%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 470 (10.37%) Data Quality
2 181 (3.99%) QA
3 127 (2.80%) GDPR
4 98 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 98 (2.16%) NIST
5 63 (1.39%) Accessibility
6 25 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 24 (0.53%) SLA
8 23 (0.51%) HIPAA
8 23 (0.51%) PCI DSS
8 23 (0.51%) WCAG
9 15 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
10 13 (0.29%) NCSC
11 12 (0.26%) SOC 2
12 10 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
13 9 (0.20%) ISO 20022
14 8 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 8 (0.18%) GRC
15 6 (0.13%) PSD2
16 5 (0.11%) PMO
System Software
1 726 (16.01%) Docker
2 131 (2.89%) Active Directory
3 86 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 64 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
5 35 (0.77%) vSphere
6 32 (0.71%) VMware NSX
7 28 (0.62%) Firmware
8 21 (0.46%) Hyper-V
9 16 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
10 13 (0.29%) KVM
10 13 (0.29%) NFS
11 10 (0.22%) Squid
12 9 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
13 8 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
14 7 (0.15%) Postfix
15 6 (0.13%) HDFS
16 5 (0.11%) SRDF
17 4 (0.088%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
17 4 (0.088%) Slurm Workload Manager
17 4 (0.088%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 984 (21.70%) Terraform
2 828 (18.26%) Kubernetes
3 471 (10.39%) Ansible
4 258 (5.69%) Grafana
5 228 (5.03%) Prometheus
6 68 (1.50%) Puppet
7 49 (1.08%) Argo
8 37 (0.82%) Progress Chef
9 35 (0.77%) Istio
10 31 (0.68%) vCenter Server
11 26 (0.57%) Control-M
12 25 (0.55%) Kibana
13 24 (0.53%) Nessus
14 22 (0.49%) vRealize
15 21 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
15 21 (0.46%) Nagios
15 21 (0.46%) ZABBIX
16 20 (0.44%) HAProxy
17 17 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
17 17 (0.37%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 509 (11.23%) Microsoft
2 487 (10.74%) Databricks
3 233 (5.14%) Google
4 212 (4.68%) Oracle
5 182 (4.01%) Splunk
6 123 (2.71%) OpenAI
7 122 (2.69%) VMware
8 109 (2.40%) Red Hat
9 106 (2.34%) Cisco
10 90 (1.99%) ServiceNow
11 77 (1.70%) CyberArk
12 76 (1.68%) F5
13 74 (1.63%) Dynatrace
13 74 (1.63%) Palo Alto
14 67 (1.48%) BeyondTrust
15 59 (1.30%) Informatica
16 58 (1.28%) IBM
17 54 (1.19%) Foundry
18 50 (1.10%) Arista
19 47 (1.04%) Fortinet