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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 11 14
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing Python 4,477 3,227 3,616
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.60% 13.19% 9.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.89% 38.76% 31.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,014 2,307 2,644
10th Percentile £363 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £449 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.65% -5.83%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £700
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
UK median daily rate £525 £537 £550
% change year-on-year -2.23% -2.36% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 45 99
10th Percentile £30.05 £26.79 £21.63
25th Percentile £43.81 £33.91 £46.22
Median hourly rate £55.00 £44.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.60% -31.54% -
75th Percentile £71.75 £55.00 £71.88
90th Percentile £84.88 £70.30 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £40.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year +31.25% -35.48% -4.15%

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 11,223 8,326 11,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.57% 34.03% 30.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,354 5,778 8,132
10th Percentile £358 £358 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £524 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -3.06% -4.00%
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 508 198 478
10th Percentile £36.43 £28.18 £35.52
25th Percentile £55.00 £36.06 £49.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £58.88 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.40% -5.80% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.23 £85.00 £77.65
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 10 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 10 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 10 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 2,580 £550 -4.35% 1,118
North of England +11 759 £481 -1.03% 415
Yorkshire +2 426 £489 -2.25% 121
South East -5 401 £525 +4.48% 559
North West +5 259 £481 +1.32% 225
South West -1 255 £500 -11.11% 181
Midlands -16 225 £481 +6.94% 166
West Midlands -11 176 £477 +0.42% 89
East of England -11 124 £500 - 178
North East +12 86 £475 +8.57% 70
East Midlands -22 48 £495 +16.47% 76
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
1 244 (5.45%) Apache Spark
2 204 (4.56%) Apache Airflow
3 150 (3.35%) Apache
4 122 (2.73%) Confluence
5 45 (1.01%) Jupyter
6 43 (0.96%) SAS
7 40 (0.89%) SharePoint
8 17 (0.38%) OpenStack
9 16 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
10 13 (0.29%) IIS
10 13 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
11 11 (0.25%) nginx
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 97 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (0.63%) Chatbot
3 21 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
4 18 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
5 17 (0.38%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.22%) CPLEX
7 3 (0.067%) LaTeX
7 3 (0.067%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.022%) OrCAD
8 1 (0.022%) SPSS
8 1 (0.022%) Weka
8 1 (0.022%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 22 (0.49%) Aladdin
2 19 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
3 7 (0.16%) SAP IBP
4 6 (0.13%) Fidessa
4 6 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (0.11%) BambooHR
6 4 (0.089%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.067%) Bloomberg AIM
7 3 (0.067%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.067%) SimCorp Dimension
8 2 (0.045%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (0.045%) Front Arena
8 2 (0.045%) Global One
8 2 (0.045%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.045%) Orchestrade
8 2 (0.045%) Sage X3
8 2 (0.045%) Teamcenter
9 1 (0.022%) Odoo
9 1 (0.022%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 1,710 (38.20%) AWS
2 1,517 (33.88%) Azure
3 659 (14.72%) GCP
4 539 (12.04%) GitHub
5 441 (9.85%) Power Platform
6 395 (8.82%) Serverless
7 336 (7.51%) Amazon S3
8 335 (7.48%) Azure DevOps
9 304 (6.79%) GitHub Actions
10 291 (6.50%) AWS Lambda
11 234 (5.23%) Azure Data Factory
12 209 (4.67%) Snowflake
13 171 (3.82%) dbt
14 149 (3.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 133 (2.97%) AWS CloudFormation
16 132 (2.95%) OpenShift
17 127 (2.84%) Amazon EKS
18 120 (2.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 101 (2.26%) Amazon EC2
20 94 (2.10%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 180 (4.02%) Firewall
2 124 (2.77%) DNS
3 91 (2.03%) WAN
4 84 (1.88%) BGP
5 82 (1.83%) TCP/IP
6 81 (1.81%) Network Security
7 72 (1.61%) VPN
8 51 (1.14%) BIG-IP
8 51 (1.14%) OSPF
9 44 (0.98%) HTTP
10 43 (0.96%) SD-WAN
11 42 (0.94%) VXLAN
12 35 (0.78%) SSL
12 35 (0.78%) VLAN
13 32 (0.71%) Ethernet VPN
13 32 (0.71%) SAN
14 31 (0.69%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 30 (0.67%) DHCP
15 30 (0.67%) MPLS
15 30 (0.67%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 378 (8.44%) Power BI
2 288 (6.43%) PostgreSQL
3 252 (5.63%) Data Warehouse
4 241 (5.38%) SQL Server
5 203 (4.53%) Data Lake
6 169 (3.77%) Tableau
7 147 (3.28%) NoSQL
7 147 (3.28%) Relational Database
8 136 (3.04%) Metadata
9 122 (2.73%) Delta Lake
10 119 (2.66%) BigQuery
11 118 (2.64%) Amazon Athena
12 115 (2.57%) Big Data
13 108 (2.41%) Amazon Redshift
14 88 (1.97%) MongoDB
15 83 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
16 72 (1.61%) DynamoDB
17 64 (1.43%) MySQL
18 63 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
19 61 (1.36%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 511 (11.41%) Git
2 386 (8.62%) Jenkins
3 311 (6.95%) GitLab
4 239 (5.34%) JIRA
5 63 (1.41%) Selenium
6 62 (1.38%) MLflow
7 51 (1.14%) Postman
8 29 (0.65%) Cucumber
8 29 (0.65%) JMeter
9 27 (0.60%) Bitbucket
9 27 (0.60%) Cypress.io
10 26 (0.58%) Artifactory
10 26 (0.58%) SonarQube
11 22 (0.49%) Maven
11 22 (0.49%) REST Assured
12 19 (0.42%) Gatling
12 19 (0.42%) JUnit
12 19 (0.42%) Robot Framework
13 18 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
14 13 (0.29%) SpecFlow
General
1 982 (21.93%) Social Skills
2 964 (21.53%) Finance
3 619 (13.83%) Analytical Skills
4 407 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 343 (7.66%) Banking
6 181 (4.04%) Front Office
7 115 (2.57%) Documentation Skills
8 103 (2.30%) Investment Banking
9 74 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 67 (1.50%) Marketing
11 59 (1.32%) Retail
12 54 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
13 44 (0.98%) Telecoms
14 41 (0.92%) Legal
15 39 (0.87%) Publishing
16 35 (0.78%) Financial Institution
17 34 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
18 30 (0.67%) Military
19 27 (0.60%) Manufacturing
20 26 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 802 (17.91%) Developer
2 710 (15.86%) Data Engineer
3 656 (14.65%) Senior
4 397 (8.87%) Python Developer
5 329 (7.35%) Lead
6 285 (6.37%) Architect
7 242 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
8 232 (5.18%) Software Engineer
9 231 (5.16%) Analyst
10 223 (4.98%) Python Engineer
11 202 (4.51%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 179 (4.00%) AWS Engineer
13 173 (3.86%) Data Scientist
14 149 (3.33%) Senior Developer
15 136 (3.04%) Senior Data Engineer
16 133 (2.97%) Azure Engineer
17 125 (2.79%) Data Analyst
18 123 (2.75%) Full-Stack Developer
19 115 (2.57%) Security Engineer
20 114 (2.55%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 350 (7.82%) REST
2 329 (7.35%) React
3 308 (6.88%) PySpark
4 284 (6.34%) Kafka
5 207 (4.62%) .NET
6 181 (4.04%) Node.js
7 179 (4.00%) Pandas
8 153 (3.42%) JSON
9 151 (3.37%) RESTful
10 148 (3.31%) FastAPI
11 142 (3.17%) PyTorch
12 119 (2.66%) Django
13 105 (2.35%) LangChain
14 104 (2.32%) TensorFlow
15 102 (2.28%) NumPy
16 100 (2.23%) scikit-learn
17 99 (2.21%) AngularJS
18 95 (2.12%) HTML
19 94 (2.10%) YAML
20 92 (2.05%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 562 (12.55%) Cloud Native
2 217 (4.85%) Distributed Systems
3 127 (2.84%) AI Agents
4 123 (2.75%) Data Centre
5 120 (2.68%) Onboarding
6 115 (2.57%) Product Ownership
7 113 (2.52%) Algorithms
8 104 (2.32%) Data Protection Act
9 101 (2.26%) Equities
10 100 (2.23%) Data Structures
10 100 (2.23%) Derivative
11 99 (2.21%) Fixed Income
12 94 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
13 89 (1.99%) Hybrid Cloud
14 87 (1.94%) Security Posture
15 85 (1.90%) Management Information System
16 78 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
17 52 (1.16%) Public Cloud
18 51 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
19 44 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 512 (11.44%) Linux
2 249 (5.56%) Windows
3 181 (4.04%) Unix
4 90 (2.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 63 (1.41%) Windows Server
6 38 (0.85%) Ubuntu
7 27 (0.60%) VMS
8 24 (0.54%) AIX
9 23 (0.51%) Android
10 22 (0.49%) Solaris
11 19 (0.42%) CentOS
12 16 (0.36%) Apple iOS
13 11 (0.25%) zOS
14 10 (0.22%) Mac OS
15 7 (0.16%) Debian
16 6 (0.13%) Rocky
17 5 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
17 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
18 3 (0.067%) Oracle Linux
18 3 (0.067%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,684 (37.61%) CI/CD
2 1,235 (27.59%) DevOps
3 1,096 (24.48%) AI
4 946 (21.13%) Analytics
5 945 (21.11%) Agile
6 803 (17.94%) Problem-Solving
7 794 (17.74%) Data Pipeline
8 786 (17.56%) Infrastructure as Code
9 682 (15.23%) Machine Learning
10 664 (14.83%) Data Engineering
11 616 (13.76%) Data Modelling
12 604 (13.49%) Containerisation
13 601 (13.42%) ETL
14 586 (13.09%) Software Engineering
15 512 (11.44%) Data Science
16 473 (10.57%) Observability
17 449 (10.03%) Test Automation
18 447 (9.98%) Business Intelligence
19 402 (8.98%) LLM
20 380 (8.49%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1,540 (34.40%) SQL
2 696 (15.55%) Java
3 552 (12.33%) PowerShell
4 493 (11.01%) Bash
5 393 (8.78%) JavaScript
6 321 (7.17%) TypeScript
7 300 (6.70%) C#
8 175 (3.91%) Go
9 142 (3.17%) R
10 114 (2.55%) Scala
11 111 (2.48%) C++
12 95 (2.12%) Shell Script
13 70 (1.56%) Bicep
14 57 (1.27%) PL/SQL
15 56 (1.25%) Ruby
16 51 (1.14%) Perl
17 50 (1.12%) C
17 50 (1.12%) T-SQL
18 46 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 44 (0.98%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 985 (22.00%) Security Cleared
2 790 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 351 (7.84%) Degree
4 148 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 133 (2.97%) DV Cleared
6 103 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
7 97 (2.17%) Azure Certification
8 85 (1.90%) AWS Certification
9 78 (1.74%) CISSP
10 60 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
11 59 (1.32%) Master's Degree
12 39 (0.87%) CCNP
13 37 (0.83%) CISM
14 32 (0.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 30 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
15 30 (0.67%) PhD
16 23 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 21 (0.47%) CCIE
17 21 (0.47%) ISTQB
18 18 (0.40%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 455 (10.16%) Data Quality
2 189 (4.22%) QA
3 130 (2.90%) GDPR
4 100 (2.23%) NIST
5 96 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 60 (1.34%) Accessibility
7 26 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 26 (0.58%) SLA
8 23 (0.51%) HIPAA
8 23 (0.51%) PCI DSS
9 21 (0.47%) WCAG
10 14 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
10 14 (0.31%) NCSC
11 11 (0.25%) 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
1 708 (15.81%) Docker
2 140 (3.13%) Active Directory
3 85 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 63 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
5 35 (0.78%) vSphere
6 33 (0.74%) VMware NSX
7 27 (0.60%) Firmware
8 20 (0.45%) Hyper-V
9 16 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
10 14 (0.31%) KVM
11 13 (0.29%) NFS
12 10 (0.22%) Squid
13 8 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
13 8 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
14 7 (0.16%) Postfix
15 6 (0.13%) HDFS
16 5 (0.11%) SRDF
17 4 (0.089%) Ceph
17 4 (0.089%) Slurm Workload Manager
17 4 (0.089%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 949 (21.20%) Terraform
2 813 (18.16%) Kubernetes
3 461 (10.30%) Ansible
4 258 (5.76%) Grafana
5 225 (5.03%) Prometheus
6 67 (1.50%) Puppet
7 52 (1.16%) Argo
8 36 (0.80%) Istio
8 36 (0.80%) Progress Chef
9 31 (0.69%) vCenter Server
10 26 (0.58%) Control-M
10 26 (0.58%) Kibana
11 24 (0.54%) Nessus
12 23 (0.51%) vRealize
13 21 (0.47%) Nagios
14 20 (0.45%) HAProxy
14 20 (0.45%) ZABBIX
15 17 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
15 17 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
15 17 (0.38%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 499 (11.15%) Microsoft
2 479 (10.70%) Databricks
3 226 (5.05%) Google
4 216 (4.82%) Oracle
5 184 (4.11%) Splunk
6 126 (2.81%) VMware
7 114 (2.55%) OpenAI
8 113 (2.52%) Red Hat
9 101 (2.26%) Cisco
10 87 (1.94%) ServiceNow
11 85 (1.90%) CyberArk
12 77 (1.72%) BeyondTrust
13 75 (1.68%) F5
14 71 (1.59%) Dynatrace
14 71 (1.59%) Palo Alto
15 58 (1.30%) IBM
16 56 (1.25%) Informatica
17 50 (1.12%) Foundry
18 47 (1.05%) Arista
19 46 (1.03%) SAP