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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 10 12
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 0
Contract jobs citing Python 4,841 3,663 3,564
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.45% 13.18% 10.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.31% 40.14% 33.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,166 2,466 2,567
10th Percentile £375 £363 £375
25th Percentile £450 £435 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -10.42% -
75th Percentile £650 £656 £725
90th Percentile £750 £799 £850
UK median daily rate £538 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +2.38% -8.70% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 74 88
10th Percentile £33.51 £32.30 £24.28
25th Percentile £43.81 £36.25 £46.23
Median hourly rate £63.48 £50.00 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year +26.96% -27.27% +5.77%
75th Percentile £83.00 £58.94 £72.41
90th Percentile £92.11 £84.39 £79.13
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £50.00 £62.25
% change year-on-year +26.27% -19.68% -4.23%

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 12,008 9,125 10,558
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 25.93% 32.83% 32.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,763 6,191 7,318
10th Percentile £363 £350 £356
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £520 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 502 264 302
10th Percentile £28.50 £31.25 £30.58
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.25 £50.66
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.12% -14.62% +3.17%
75th Percentile £70.88 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £80.00 £79.92
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +4.00%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 10 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
London -3 2,876 £575 - 2,771
North of England 0 732 £500 +5.26% 511
South East -6 455 £538 +7.50% 703
Yorkshire -1 378 £500 +1.46% 172
South West 0 282 £550 +4.76% 369
North West -2 276 £525 +11.94% 264
Midlands -19 228 £500 +5.26% 254
West Midlands -20 184 £500 +4.17% 122
East of England -10 150 £494 -5.95% 329
North East -3 90 £425 -2.86% 77
East Midlands -17 44 £475 +14.46% 131
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
1 261 (5.39%) Apache Airflow
2 244 (5.04%) Apache Spark
3 194 (4.01%) Apache
4 138 (2.85%) Confluence
5 52 (1.07%) Jupyter
6 45 (0.93%) SharePoint
7 35 (0.72%) SAS
8 28 (0.58%) OpenStack
9 22 (0.45%) ArcGIS
10 21 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
11 20 (0.41%) IIS
12 18 (0.37%) nginx
13 8 (0.17%) CMS
14 7 (0.14%) Apache Superset
14 7 (0.14%) Tomcat
14 7 (0.14%) WebSphere
15 6 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
16 5 (0.10%) Apache Solr
16 5 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
17 4 (0.083%) CICS
Applications
1 98 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (0.56%) Chatbot
3 23 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
4 18 (0.37%) CPLEX
4 18 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
5 16 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 12 (0.25%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.062%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.041%) Navisworks
8 2 (0.041%) Revit
9 1 (0.021%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.021%) CINEMA 4D
9 1 (0.021%) Houdini
9 1 (0.021%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 1 (0.021%) OrCAD
9 1 (0.021%) Simulink
9 1 (0.021%) SPSS
9 1 (0.021%) Weka
9 1 (0.021%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 18 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
2 17 (0.35%) Aladdin
2 17 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.17%) Remedy AR System
4 7 (0.14%) Front Arena
4 7 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (0.14%) SAP IBP
5 5 (0.10%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.10%) Sage X3
5 5 (0.10%) Summit
6 4 (0.083%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.083%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.062%) Endur
7 3 (0.062%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.062%) Teamcenter
8 2 (0.041%) Global One
8 2 (0.041%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.041%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.041%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,824 (37.68%) AWS
2 1,671 (34.52%) Azure
3 726 (15.00%) GCP
4 624 (12.89%) GitHub
5 424 (8.76%) Power Platform
6 419 (8.66%) Serverless
7 391 (8.08%) Azure DevOps
8 379 (7.83%) GitHub Actions
9 336 (6.94%) Amazon S3
10 307 (6.34%) AWS Lambda
11 275 (5.68%) Snowflake
12 210 (4.34%) Azure Data Factory
13 209 (4.32%) dbt
14 155 (3.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 144 (2.97%) AWS CloudFormation
16 136 (2.81%) Amazon EKS
17 128 (2.64%) Entra ID
18 121 (2.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 117 (2.42%) Amazon EC2
20 115 (2.38%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 260 (5.37%) Firewall
2 183 (3.78%) DNS
3 145 (3.00%) TCP/IP
4 129 (2.66%) Network Security
5 118 (2.44%) BGP
6 115 (2.38%) VPN
7 107 (2.21%) WAN
8 78 (1.61%) DHCP
9 67 (1.38%) OSPF
10 63 (1.30%) SD-WAN
11 54 (1.12%) VLAN
12 52 (1.07%) BIG-IP
13 49 (1.01%) HTTP
14 48 (0.99%) VXLAN
15 46 (0.95%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 44 (0.91%) SSL
17 37 (0.76%) Ethernet VPN
18 34 (0.70%) MPLS
18 34 (0.70%) SNMP
19 32 (0.66%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 384 (7.93%) Power BI
2 294 (6.07%) Data Warehouse
3 273 (5.64%) PostgreSQL
4 195 (4.03%) SQL Server
5 182 (3.76%) Metadata
6 171 (3.53%) Tableau
7 167 (3.45%) Relational Database
8 159 (3.28%) Data Lake
9 150 (3.10%) NoSQL
10 145 (3.00%) BigQuery
11 116 (2.40%) Big Data
12 115 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
13 113 (2.33%) Delta Lake
14 108 (2.23%) Amazon Athena
14 108 (2.23%) Amazon RDS
15 93 (1.92%) MongoDB
16 87 (1.80%) DynamoDB
17 79 (1.63%) MySQL
18 63 (1.30%) Redis
19 53 (1.09%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 643 (13.28%) Git
2 414 (8.55%) Jenkins
3 392 (8.10%) GitLab
4 249 (5.14%) JIRA
5 94 (1.94%) Selenium
6 49 (1.01%) JMeter
7 46 (0.95%) Postman
8 43 (0.89%) SonarQube
9 42 (0.87%) MLflow
10 37 (0.76%) Bitbucket
11 32 (0.66%) Claude Code
12 29 (0.60%) Artifactory
12 29 (0.60%) Cucumber
13 28 (0.58%) Maven
14 27 (0.56%) Gatling
15 26 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
16 24 (0.50%) LoadRunner
17 23 (0.48%) Cypress.io
18 22 (0.45%) REST Assured
19 17 (0.35%) Robot Framework
General
1 1,119 (23.12%) Social Skills
2 1,059 (21.88%) Finance
3 749 (15.47%) Analytical Skills
4 473 (9.77%) Public Sector
5 398 (8.22%) Banking
6 162 (3.35%) Front Office
7 108 (2.23%) Investment Banking
8 102 (2.11%) Retail
9 94 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 88 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
11 87 (1.80%) Marketing
12 70 (1.45%) Telecoms
13 51 (1.05%) Aerospace
14 49 (1.01%) Military
15 47 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
16 42 (0.87%) Law
17 40 (0.83%) Publishing
18 39 (0.81%) Financial Institution
18 39 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
18 39 (0.81%) Legal
Job Titles
1 824 (17.02%) Senior
2 758 (15.66%) Developer
3 719 (14.85%) Data Engineer
4 435 (8.99%) Lead
5 391 (8.08%) Python Developer
6 301 (6.22%) Python Engineer
7 284 (5.87%) DevOps Engineer
8 258 (5.33%) Analyst
9 242 (5.00%) Software Engineer
10 238 (4.92%) Architect
11 235 (4.85%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 184 (3.80%) AWS Engineer
13 164 (3.39%) Senior Data Engineer
13 164 (3.39%) Senior Developer
14 163 (3.37%) Data Scientist
15 157 (3.24%) Platform Engineer
16 156 (3.22%) Cloud Engineer
17 143 (2.95%) Azure Engineer
18 128 (2.64%) Network Engineer
19 124 (2.56%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,171 (24.19%) Terraform
2 422 (8.72%) REST
3 338 (6.98%) PySpark
4 313 (6.47%) Kafka
5 273 (5.64%) React
6 229 (4.73%) .NET
7 181 (3.74%) Django
8 179 (3.70%) JSON
9 171 (3.53%) FastAPI
10 161 (3.33%) RESTful
11 149 (3.08%) Pandas
12 135 (2.79%) Node.js
13 121 (2.50%) LangChain
14 119 (2.46%) pytest
15 106 (2.19%) Flask
16 105 (2.17%) HTML
17 97 (2.00%) PyTorch
17 97 (2.00%) YAML
18 95 (1.96%) OAuth
19 92 (1.90%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 692 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 264 (5.45%) Distributed Systems
3 217 (4.48%) AI Agents
4 199 (4.11%) Onboarding
5 143 (2.95%) Product Ownership
6 142 (2.93%) Data Centre
7 126 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
8 123 (2.54%) Algorithms
9 119 (2.46%) Data Structures
10 116 (2.40%) Hybrid Cloud
11 92 (1.90%) Management Information System
12 90 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
13 87 (1.80%) Derivative
14 82 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
15 77 (1.59%) Equities
16 76 (1.57%) Security Posture
17 62 (1.28%) Public Cloud
18 60 (1.24%) PKI
19 58 (1.20%) Fixed Income
20 55 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 635 (13.12%) Linux
2 308 (6.36%) Windows
3 210 (4.34%) Unix
4 135 (2.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 82 (1.69%) Windows Server
6 40 (0.83%) Ubuntu
7 30 (0.62%) VMS
8 19 (0.39%) AIX
9 18 (0.37%) CentOS
10 17 (0.35%) Solaris
11 15 (0.31%) Android
12 9 (0.19%) Apple iOS
13 8 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
13 8 (0.17%) Mac OS
13 8 (0.17%) Windows 10
13 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
13 8 (0.17%) zOS
14 6 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
15 5 (0.10%) Debian
16 4 (0.083%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,968 (40.65%) CI/CD
2 1,414 (29.21%) DevOps
3 1,292 (26.69%) AI
4 1,078 (22.27%) Agile
5 1,047 (21.63%) Infrastructure as Code
6 985 (20.35%) Analytics
7 869 (17.95%) Data Pipeline
8 795 (16.42%) Problem-Solving
9 780 (16.11%) Software Engineering
10 721 (14.89%) Machine Learning
11 719 (14.85%) Data Engineering
12 672 (13.88%) Containerisation
13 641 (13.24%) Data Modelling
14 621 (12.83%) Observability
15 558 (11.53%) Test Automation
16 556 (11.49%) ETL
17 547 (11.30%) Continuous Improvement
18 513 (10.60%) Validation
19 500 (10.33%) Data Science
20 468 (9.67%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1,638 (33.84%) SQL
2 714 (14.75%) Java
3 684 (14.13%) PowerShell
4 661 (13.65%) Bash
5 382 (7.89%) JavaScript
6 305 (6.30%) TypeScript
7 288 (5.95%) C#
8 164 (3.39%) Go
9 138 (2.85%) R
10 123 (2.54%) Shell Script
11 121 (2.50%) Bicep
12 118 (2.44%) C++
13 112 (2.31%) Scala
14 72 (1.49%) Perl
15 56 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 51 (1.05%) Groovy
16 51 (1.05%) Rust
17 50 (1.03%) C
18 49 (1.01%) PL/SQL
19 46 (0.95%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,171 (24.19%) Security Cleared
2 943 (19.48%) SC Cleared
3 384 (7.93%) Degree
4 214 (4.42%) DV Cleared
5 141 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 134 (2.77%) Azure Certification
7 119 (2.46%) AWS Certification
8 93 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
9 92 (1.90%) CISSP
10 80 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
11 62 (1.28%) Master's Degree
12 43 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
13 40 (0.83%) CCNP
14 34 (0.70%) PhD
15 32 (0.66%) CISM
15 32 (0.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 27 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 27 (0.56%) DBS Check
17 25 (0.52%) CCIE
17 25 (0.52%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 545 (11.26%) Data Quality
2 262 (5.41%) QA
3 108 (2.23%) NIST
4 98 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 92 (1.90%) GDPR
6 73 (1.51%) Accessibility
7 34 (0.70%) SLA
8 33 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
9 28 (0.58%) NCSC
10 26 (0.54%) WCAG
11 22 (0.45%) PCI DSS
12 20 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 16 (0.33%) SOC 2
14 13 (0.27%) HIPAA
15 10 (0.21%) ISO 20022
16 8 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
17 6 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 6 (0.12%) MiFID
17 6 (0.12%) NIST 800
18 5 (0.10%) EMIR
System Software
1 829 (17.12%) Docker
2 153 (3.16%) Active Directory
3 115 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 58 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
5 46 (0.95%) Hyper-V
6 35 (0.72%) VMware NSX
7 34 (0.70%) vSphere
8 21 (0.43%) Firmware
9 20 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
10 19 (0.39%) NFS
11 11 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
11 11 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
12 10 (0.21%) Squid
13 7 (0.14%) Postfix
14 5 (0.10%) KVM
14 5 (0.10%) PowerHA
14 5 (0.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 4 (0.083%) Ceph
15 4 (0.083%) Dovecot
15 4 (0.083%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 953 (19.69%) Kubernetes
2 555 (11.46%) Ansible
3 272 (5.62%) Grafana
4 201 (4.15%) Prometheus
5 75 (1.55%) Puppet
6 69 (1.43%) Progress Chef
7 61 (1.26%) Argo
8 27 (0.56%) Control-M
8 27 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
9 24 (0.50%) Kibana
10 23 (0.48%) Istio
11 21 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
11 21 (0.43%) vCenter Server
12 20 (0.41%) ZABBIX
13 19 (0.39%) FortiGate
13 19 (0.39%) Nagios
14 18 (0.37%) Packer
14 18 (0.37%) vRealize
15 16 (0.33%) ITRS Geneos
16 15 (0.31%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 631 (13.03%) Microsoft
2 500 (10.33%) Databricks
3 304 (6.28%) Google
4 211 (4.36%) Oracle
5 189 (3.90%) Splunk
6 151 (3.12%) VMware
7 134 (2.77%) Cisco
8 129 (2.66%) OpenAI
9 109 (2.25%) ServiceNow
10 93 (1.92%) Red Hat
11 90 (1.86%) Dynatrace
12 83 (1.71%) F5
13 82 (1.69%) Palo Alto
14 77 (1.59%) IBM
15 70 (1.45%) Fortinet
16 64 (1.32%) CyberArk
17 62 (1.28%) Foundry
17 62 (1.28%) Informatica
18 57 (1.18%) SAP
19 51 (1.05%) Salesforce