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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 11 14
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing Python 4,550 3,254 3,663
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.58% 13.12% 9.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.72% 38.74% 32.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,046 2,317 2,682
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% -3.04% -5.46%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £700
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 48 101
10th Percentile £28.80 £27.15 £21.73
25th Percentile £43.81 £33.91 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £47.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -26.92% -
75th Percentile £73.50 £55.00 £71.25
90th Percentile £84.75 £67.13 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £44.50 £61.00
% change year-on-year +17.98% -27.05% -2.46%

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 11,454 8,399 11,431
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.65% 33.85% 30.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,487 5,832 8,173
10th Percentile £360 £356 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £522 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.53% -2.97% -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 520 198 491
10th Percentile £36.25 £28.13 £35.52
25th Percentile £55.00 £35.25 £49.25
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 £79.00 £85.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% -

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -2 2,618 £550 -4.35% 1,347
North of England +10 779 £481 +0.26% 413
Yorkshire +2 432 £500 - 120
South East -7 401 £525 +3.96% 598
North West +6 270 £481 +1.32% 232
South West 0 264 £500 -9.09% 205
Midlands -12 230 £484 +7.64% 188
West Midlands -12 183 £477 +0.42% 92
East of England -13 126 £500 - 214
North East +7 89 £450 +5.88% 64
East Midlands -16 46 £498 +17.18% 95
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 (5.45%) Apache Spark
2 212 (4.66%) Apache Airflow
3 155 (3.41%) Apache
4 130 (2.86%) Confluence
5 51 (1.12%) Jupyter
6 44 (0.97%) SAS
7 43 (0.95%) 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 99 (2.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (0.64%) Chatbot
3 22 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
4 18 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.40%) MS Visio
4 18 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
5 14 (0.31%) 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 (0.48%) 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 1,731 (38.04%) AWS
2 1,555 (34.18%) Azure
3 666 (14.64%) GCP
4 538 (11.82%) GitHub
5 454 (9.98%) Power Platform
6 412 (9.05%) Serverless
7 351 (7.71%) Amazon S3
8 344 (7.56%) Azure DevOps
9 304 (6.68%) AWS Lambda
10 303 (6.66%) GitHub Actions
11 233 (5.12%) Azure Data Factory
12 217 (4.77%) Snowflake
13 179 (3.93%) dbt
14 146 (3.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 131 (2.88%) AWS CloudFormation
16 130 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
16 130 (2.86%) OpenShift
17 129 (2.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 109 (2.40%) Amazon EC2
19 97 (2.13%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 189 (4.15%) Firewall
2 126 (2.77%) DNS
3 98 (2.15%) WAN
4 92 (2.02%) BGP
5 87 (1.91%) Network Security
6 82 (1.80%) TCP/IP
7 80 (1.76%) VPN
8 54 (1.19%) OSPF
9 53 (1.16%) BIG-IP
10 45 (0.99%) HTTP
10 45 (0.99%) SD-WAN
11 43 (0.95%) VXLAN
12 37 (0.81%) SSL
12 37 (0.81%) VLAN
13 34 (0.75%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 33 (0.73%) Ethernet VPN
15 32 (0.70%) LAN
15 32 (0.70%) MPLS
15 32 (0.70%) SAN
16 31 (0.68%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 392 (8.62%) Power BI
2 294 (6.46%) PostgreSQL
3 262 (5.76%) Data Warehouse
4 230 (5.05%) SQL Server
5 195 (4.29%) Data Lake
6 179 (3.93%) Tableau
7 150 (3.30%) NoSQL
8 149 (3.27%) Relational Database
9 138 (3.03%) Metadata
10 120 (2.64%) Amazon Athena
10 120 (2.64%) BigQuery
10 120 (2.64%) Delta Lake
11 119 (2.62%) Amazon Redshift
12 115 (2.53%) Big Data
13 91 (2.00%) MongoDB
14 87 (1.91%) Amazon RDS
15 75 (1.65%) DynamoDB
16 62 (1.36%) MySQL
17 61 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
17 61 (1.34%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 535 (11.76%) Git
2 395 (8.68%) Jenkins
3 323 (7.10%) GitLab
4 244 (5.36%) JIRA
5 60 (1.32%) MLflow
6 57 (1.25%) Selenium
7 44 (0.97%) Postman
8 30 (0.66%) Bitbucket
9 29 (0.64%) JMeter
10 28 (0.62%) Artifactory
11 27 (0.59%) Cypress.io
11 27 (0.59%) SonarQube
12 26 (0.57%) Cucumber
13 24 (0.53%) Maven
14 21 (0.46%) JUnit
15 20 (0.44%) Gatling
16 19 (0.42%) REST Assured
17 18 (0.40%) Robot Framework
17 18 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
18 13 (0.29%) SpecFlow
General
1 1,002 (22.02%) Finance
2 986 (21.67%) Social Skills
3 631 (13.87%) Analytical Skills
4 416 (9.14%) Public Sector
5 350 (7.69%) Banking
6 178 (3.91%) Front Office
7 114 (2.51%) Documentation Skills
8 101 (2.22%) Investment Banking
9 81 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 69 (1.52%) Retail
11 65 (1.43%) Marketing
12 55 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
13 47 (1.03%) Telecoms
14 41 (0.90%) Financial Institution
14 41 (0.90%) Legal
15 40 (0.88%) Publishing
16 34 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
17 31 (0.68%) Military
18 29 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
19 24 (0.53%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 810 (17.80%) Developer
2 728 (16.00%) Data Engineer
3 680 (14.95%) Senior
4 405 (8.90%) Python Developer
5 332 (7.30%) Lead
6 278 (6.11%) Architect
7 248 (5.45%) DevOps Engineer
8 239 (5.25%) Analyst
9 236 (5.19%) Python Engineer
10 228 (5.01%) Software Engineer
11 215 (4.73%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 182 (4.00%) AWS Engineer
13 172 (3.78%) Data Scientist
14 148 (3.25%) Senior Developer
15 144 (3.16%) Senior Data Engineer
16 140 (3.08%) Azure Engineer
17 127 (2.79%) Data Analyst
18 124 (2.73%) Full-Stack Developer
19 122 (2.68%) Cloud Engineer
20 120 (2.64%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 352 (7.74%) REST
2 334 (7.34%) React
3 316 (6.95%) PySpark
4 285 (6.26%) Kafka
5 206 (4.53%) .NET
6 184 (4.04%) Node.js
7 177 (3.89%) Pandas
8 163 (3.58%) RESTful
9 156 (3.43%) FastAPI
9 156 (3.43%) JSON
10 144 (3.16%) PyTorch
11 125 (2.75%) Django
12 113 (2.48%) LangChain
13 105 (2.31%) NumPy
14 103 (2.26%) TensorFlow
15 102 (2.24%) scikit-learn
16 97 (2.13%) Flask
17 94 (2.07%) AngularJS
18 93 (2.04%) HTML
18 93 (2.04%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 595 (13.08%) Cloud Native
2 233 (5.12%) Distributed Systems
3 137 (3.01%) AI Agents
4 131 (2.88%) Onboarding
5 127 (2.79%) Data Centre
6 121 (2.66%) Algorithms
7 117 (2.57%) Product Ownership
8 108 (2.37%) Data Structures
9 102 (2.24%) Data Protection Act
10 100 (2.20%) Derivative
11 98 (2.15%) Equities
12 97 (2.13%) Fixed Income
12 97 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
13 94 (2.07%) Hybrid Cloud
14 88 (1.93%) Management Information System
15 81 (1.78%) Security Posture
16 69 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
17 54 (1.19%) Public Cloud
18 52 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
19 47 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 513 (11.27%) Linux
2 247 (5.43%) Windows
3 180 (3.96%) Unix
4 96 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 62 (1.36%) 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 1,723 (37.87%) CI/CD
2 1,272 (27.96%) DevOps
3 1,137 (24.99%) AI
4 975 (21.43%) Agile
5 970 (21.32%) Analytics
6 820 (18.02%) Data Pipeline
7 813 (17.87%) Infrastructure as Code
8 807 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
9 703 (15.45%) Machine Learning
10 684 (15.03%) Data Engineering
11 622 (13.67%) Containerisation
12 619 (13.60%) Data Modelling
13 600 (13.19%) Software Engineering
14 598 (13.14%) ETL
15 524 (11.52%) Data Science
16 479 (10.53%) Observability
17 461 (10.13%) Business Intelligence
18 459 (10.09%) Test Automation
19 425 (9.34%) LLM
20 392 (8.62%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1,558 (34.24%) SQL
2 687 (15.10%) Java
3 551 (12.11%) PowerShell
4 499 (10.97%) Bash
5 383 (8.42%) JavaScript
6 332 (7.30%) TypeScript
7 297 (6.53%) C#
8 177 (3.89%) Go
9 143 (3.14%) R
10 110 (2.42%) C++
10 110 (2.42%) Scala
11 94 (2.07%) Shell Script
12 73 (1.60%) Bicep
13 56 (1.23%) Ruby
14 53 (1.16%) Perl
15 52 (1.14%) PL/SQL
16 51 (1.12%) C
17 49 (1.08%) T-SQL
18 47 (1.03%) Rust
19 46 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 971 (21.34%) Security Cleared
2 778 (17.10%) SC Cleared
3 348 (7.65%) Degree
4 142 (3.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 139 (3.05%) DV Cleared
6 103 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
7 100 (2.20%) Azure Certification
8 91 (2.00%) AWS Certification
9 81 (1.78%) CISSP
10 63 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
11 58 (1.27%) Master's Degree
12 41 (0.90%) CCNP
13 36 (0.79%) CISM
14 32 (0.70%) 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
1 469 (10.31%) Data Quality
2 181 (3.98%) QA
3 125 (2.75%) GDPR
4 99 (2.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 97 (2.13%) NIST
6 64 (1.41%) Accessibility
7 25 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 23 (0.51%) HIPAA
8 23 (0.51%) PCI DSS
8 23 (0.51%) SLA
8 23 (0.51%) WCAG
9 15 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
10 12 (0.26%) NCSC
10 12 (0.26%) SOC 2
11 10 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 8 (0.18%) GRC
12 8 (0.18%) ISO 20022
13 5 (0.11%) MiFID
13 5 (0.11%) PMO
System Software
1 729 (16.02%) Docker
2 130 (2.86%) Active Directory
3 86 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 66 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
5 35 (0.77%) vSphere
6 32 (0.70%) 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
1 988 (21.71%) Terraform
2 829 (18.22%) Kubernetes
3 471 (10.35%) Ansible
4 257 (5.65%) Grafana
5 228 (5.01%) Prometheus
6 69 (1.52%) Puppet
7 48 (1.05%) Argo
8 37 (0.81%) Progress Chef
9 34 (0.75%) 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 (0.48%) 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
1 514 (11.30%) Microsoft
2 488 (10.73%) Databricks
3 233 (5.12%) Google
4 212 (4.66%) Oracle
5 181 (3.98%) Splunk
6 126 (2.77%) OpenAI
7 121 (2.66%) VMware
8 108 (2.37%) Red Hat
9 106 (2.33%) Cisco
10 92 (2.02%) ServiceNow
11 79 (1.74%) CyberArk
12 77 (1.69%) F5
13 75 (1.65%) Palo Alto
14 74 (1.63%) Dynatrace
15 65 (1.43%) BeyondTrust
16 59 (1.30%) IBM
16 59 (1.30%) Informatica
17 54 (1.19%) Foundry
18 50 (1.10%) Arista
19 48 (1.05%) Fortinet