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 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 10 14
Rank change year-on-year +1 +4 -2
Contract jobs citing Python 4,084 3,628 3,836
As % of all contract jobs in England 13.19% 11.97% 9.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.01% 36.79% 32.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,719 2,447 2,820
10th Percentile £360 £385 £406
25th Percentile £425 £475 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £580
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £644 £713 £700
90th Percentile £750 £838 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 64 123
10th Percentile £27.50 £21.48 £37.50
25th Percentile £41.25 £36.98 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.00 £56.25 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -6.25% -7.69%
75th Percentile £74.26 £71.94 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £76.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £50.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +6.93% -15.83% -7.69%

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 9,722 9,862 11,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.40% 32.53% 30.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,457 6,420 8,650
10th Percentile £346 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.57% -1.32% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £651 £670
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 314 254 404
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £32.10
25th Percentile £50.00 £45.00 £47.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.18
Median % change year-on-year - +4.54% -1.04%
75th Percentile £68.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £64.50 £62.50 £60.50
% change year-on-year +3.20% +3.31% -3.20%

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 7 December 2025.

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 7 December 2025.

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 7 December 2025. 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 +1 2,396 £550 -12.00% 1,166
North of England +9 565 £478 -7.41% 922
South East +4 398 £500 -4.76% 1,391
Yorkshire +9 291 £500 -6.98% 373
Midlands +10 274 £500 +5.26% 690
North West +9 238 £450 -9.04% 463
West Midlands +15 226 £507 +1.30% 386
South West -9 171 £550 -8.33% 501
East of England +8 147 £525 +5.00% 605
East Midlands -10 48 £410 +2.50% 274
North East +7 41 £515 -8.85% 92
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
1 219 (5.36%) Apache Airflow
2 174 (4.26%) Apache Spark
3 154 (3.77%) Confluence
4 149 (3.65%) Apache
5 64 (1.57%) SAS
6 48 (1.18%) SharePoint
7 33 (0.81%) OpenStack
8 29 (0.71%) nginx
9 23 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
10 20 (0.49%) Jupyter
11 12 (0.29%) Appian
11 12 (0.29%) IIS
12 9 (0.22%) Apache Pig
13 8 (0.20%) Oracle Application Server
14 6 (0.15%) JBoss
15 5 (0.12%) Camunda
15 5 (0.12%) CMS
15 5 (0.12%) Luigi
15 5 (0.12%) WebSphere
16 4 (0.098%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 123 (3.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (0.78%) Chatbot
3 23 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
4 21 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 13 (0.32%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.27%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 8 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.20%) Weka
8 5 (0.12%) Maya
8 5 (0.12%) NUKE
9 2 (0.049%) CPLEX
9 2 (0.049%) GNU Octave
10 1 (0.024%) NASTRAN
10 1 (0.024%) SPSS
10 1 (0.024%) Stata
10 1 (0.024%) Trello
10 1 (0.024%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 14 (0.34%) Aladdin
2 11 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.15%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.12%) Maximo
5 3 (0.073%) Actimize
5 3 (0.073%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.073%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.073%) Teamcenter
6 2 (0.049%) Distributed Ledger
6 2 (0.049%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.049%) Endur
6 2 (0.049%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.049%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.049%) Shopify
6 2 (0.049%) Temenos T24
7 1 (0.024%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.024%) Cloudability
7 1 (0.024%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.024%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.024%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 1,582 (38.74%) AWS
2 1,231 (30.14%) Azure
3 631 (15.45%) GCP
4 498 (12.19%) GitHub
5 379 (9.28%) Serverless
6 372 (9.11%) Power Platform
7 294 (7.20%) Amazon S3
8 258 (6.32%) GitHub Actions
9 250 (6.12%) AWS Lambda
10 242 (5.93%) Azure DevOps
11 209 (5.12%) Snowflake
12 160 (3.92%) AWS CloudFormation
13 151 (3.70%) dbt
14 147 (3.60%) Amazon EC2
15 143 (3.50%) Azure Data Factory
16 139 (3.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 133 (3.26%) Amazon ECS
18 124 (3.04%) OpenShift
19 108 (2.64%) Amazon EKS
20 97 (2.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 240 (5.88%) Firewall
2 160 (3.92%) DNS
3 120 (2.94%) TCP/IP
4 104 (2.55%) Network Security
5 79 (1.93%) VPN
6 76 (1.86%) BGP
7 70 (1.71%) HTTP
8 61 (1.49%) SSL
9 47 (1.15%) OSPF
9 47 (1.15%) WAN
10 41 (1.00%) SSH
11 40 (0.98%) MPLS
12 38 (0.93%) SMTP
13 36 (0.88%) Wireshark
14 33 (0.81%) Wireless
15 32 (0.78%) LAN
16 31 (0.76%) FTP
16 31 (0.76%) SD-WAN
17 26 (0.64%) DHCP
18 23 (0.56%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 335 (8.20%) PostgreSQL
2 325 (7.96%) Power BI
3 217 (5.31%) Data Warehouse
4 212 (5.19%) Relational Database
5 209 (5.12%) NoSQL
6 155 (3.80%) Big Data
7 152 (3.72%) Data Lake
8 138 (3.38%) Tableau
9 131 (3.21%) Amazon RDS
10 126 (3.09%) SQL Server
11 104 (2.55%) MySQL
12 96 (2.35%) MongoDB
13 86 (2.11%) BigQuery
14 83 (2.03%) Amazon Athena
15 82 (2.01%) Hadoop
16 80 (1.96%) Metadata
17 72 (1.76%) Amazon Redshift
18 64 (1.57%) DynamoDB
19 63 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
20 61 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 556 (13.61%) Git
2 512 (12.54%) Jenkins
3 349 (8.55%) GitLab
4 269 (6.59%) JIRA
5 65 (1.59%) Selenium
6 54 (1.32%) SonarQube
7 52 (1.27%) MLflow
8 45 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
9 44 (1.08%) Bitbucket
10 40 (0.98%) Liquibase
11 36 (0.88%) JUnit
12 35 (0.86%) Cucumber
13 28 (0.69%) Eclipse
14 27 (0.66%) Artifactory
15 25 (0.61%) Maven
15 25 (0.61%) Postman
15 25 (0.61%) Vagrant
16 24 (0.59%) Gradle
17 23 (0.56%) Android Studio
18 22 (0.54%) CircleCI
General
1 1,166 (28.55%) Social Skills
2 904 (22.14%) Finance
3 601 (14.72%) Analytical Skills
4 411 (10.06%) Banking
5 357 (8.74%) Public Sector
6 206 (5.04%) Front Office
7 148 (3.62%) Investment Banking
8 95 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
9 72 (1.76%) Financial Institution
9 72 (1.76%) Marketing
10 67 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
11 66 (1.62%) Telecoms
12 60 (1.47%) Retail
13 57 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 43 (1.05%) Legal
15 39 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
16 37 (0.91%) Manufacturing
17 29 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
18 27 (0.66%) Electronics
19 25 (0.61%) Military
Job Titles
1 757 (18.54%) Developer
2 585 (14.32%) Senior
3 455 (11.14%) Data Engineer
4 309 (7.57%) Python Developer
5 284 (6.95%) Analyst
6 280 (6.86%) Python Engineer
7 277 (6.78%) DevOps Engineer
8 248 (6.07%) AWS Engineer
9 233 (5.71%) Software Engineer
10 206 (5.04%) Architect
11 197 (4.82%) Lead
12 169 (4.14%) Data Scientist
13 163 (3.99%) Platform Engineer
14 156 (3.82%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 132 (3.23%) Data Analyst
16 129 (3.16%) Senior Developer
17 107 (2.62%) Automation Engineer
18 103 (2.52%) Network Engineer
19 102 (2.50%) Consultant
20 98 (2.40%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 321 (7.86%) REST
2 294 (7.20%) React
3 285 (6.98%) Kafka
4 213 (5.22%) Node.js
5 205 (5.02%) RESTful
6 195 (4.77%) Pandas
7 166 (4.06%) PySpark
8 164 (4.02%) NumPy
9 162 (3.97%) FastAPI
10 153 (3.75%) PyTorch
11 143 (3.50%) TensorFlow
12 139 (3.40%) AngularJS
13 123 (3.01%) .NET
14 117 (2.86%) Elastic Stack
15 101 (2.47%) scikit-learn
16 97 (2.38%) GraphQL
17 96 (2.35%) pytest
18 89 (2.18%) CSS
19 88 (2.15%) Flask
20 86 (2.11%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 333 (8.15%) Cloud Native
2 173 (4.24%) Algorithms
3 165 (4.04%) Distributed Systems
4 128 (3.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 126 (3.09%) Fixed Income
6 123 (3.01%) Equities
7 122 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
8 114 (2.79%) Product Ownership
9 110 (2.69%) Derivative
10 101 (2.47%) Hedge funds
11 89 (2.18%) Onboarding
12 86 (2.11%) Data Structures
13 75 (1.84%) AI Agents
14 69 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
14 69 (1.69%) Public Cloud
15 65 (1.59%) Data Centre
16 62 (1.52%) Replication
17 56 (1.37%) Management Information System
18 47 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
19 46 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 719 (17.61%) Linux
2 316 (7.74%) Windows
3 187 (4.58%) Unix
4 80 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 62 (1.52%) Windows Server
6 42 (1.03%) Ubuntu
7 39 (0.95%) Android
8 38 (0.93%) VMS
9 33 (0.81%) CentOS
10 24 (0.59%) Amazon Linux
10 24 (0.59%) Mac OS
11 17 (0.42%) Apple iOS
12 15 (0.37%) Solaris
13 12 (0.29%) Debian
14 9 (0.22%) Kali Linux
14 9 (0.22%) Windows 7
15 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
16 3 (0.073%) AIX
16 3 (0.073%) Windows 10
16 3 (0.073%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,355 (33.18%) CI/CD
2 1,144 (28.01%) DevOps
3 1,030 (25.22%) Agile
4 903 (22.11%) Problem-Solving
5 719 (17.61%) AI
6 710 (17.38%) Infrastructure as Code
7 672 (16.45%) Analytics
8 602 (14.74%) Machine Learning
9 587 (14.37%) Containerisation
10 544 (13.32%) Data Pipeline
11 519 (12.71%) Software Engineering
12 468 (11.46%) Data Science
13 452 (11.07%) Data Engineering
14 441 (10.80%) Data Modelling
15 440 (10.77%) ETL
16 425 (10.41%) Test Automation
17 366 (8.96%) Business Intelligence
18 347 (8.50%) Computer Science
19 324 (7.93%) Observability
20 315 (7.71%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 1,274 (31.19%) SQL
2 713 (17.46%) Java
3 564 (13.81%) Bash
4 527 (12.90%) PowerShell
5 453 (11.09%) JavaScript
6 264 (6.46%) Go
7 258 (6.32%) TypeScript
8 241 (5.90%) C#
9 229 (5.61%) C++
10 155 (3.80%) R
11 148 (3.62%) Perl
12 141 (3.45%) Shell Script
13 96 (2.35%) Scala
14 69 (1.69%) Ruby
15 67 (1.64%) C
16 60 (1.47%) VBA
17 55 (1.35%) PHP
18 48 (1.18%) Bicep
19 45 (1.10%) Kusto Query Language
20 44 (1.08%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 856 (20.96%) Security Cleared
2 676 (16.55%) SC Cleared
3 416 (10.19%) Degree
4 214 (5.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 139 (3.40%) DV Cleared
6 127 (3.11%) Master's Degree
7 121 (2.96%) AWS Certification
8 86 (2.11%) Cisco Certification
9 78 (1.91%) CISSP
10 73 (1.79%) Azure Certification
11 56 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
12 53 (1.30%) CCNP
13 45 (1.10%) MCP
13 45 (1.10%) PhD
14 36 (0.88%) CCIE
15 31 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 31 (0.76%) CISM
15 31 (0.76%) OSCP
16 30 (0.73%) CEH
17 28 (0.69%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 284 (6.95%) Data Quality
2 158 (3.87%) QA
3 135 (3.31%) GDPR
4 88 (2.15%) NIST
5 77 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 40 (0.98%) Accessibility
7 30 (0.73%) PCI DSS
8 28 (0.69%) HIPAA
9 23 (0.56%) NCSC
10 21 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 19 (0.47%) EU AI Act
12 17 (0.42%) SLA
13 14 (0.34%) SOC 2
14 9 (0.22%) EMIR
14 9 (0.22%) MiFID
15 7 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
15 7 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
15 7 (0.17%) PMO
16 5 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 5 (0.12%) PSD2
System Software
1 826 (20.23%) Docker
2 154 (3.77%) Active Directory
3 121 (2.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
5 33 (0.81%) vSphere
6 31 (0.76%) VMware NSX
7 22 (0.54%) Firmware
8 20 (0.49%) DFS Replication
9 17 (0.42%) Squid
10 16 (0.39%) Hyper-V
11 15 (0.37%) Postfix
12 14 (0.34%) HDFS
12 14 (0.34%) Oracle RAC
13 13 (0.32%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 11 (0.27%) Dovecot
14 11 (0.27%) KVM
14 11 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
15 10 (0.24%) GPFS
16 9 (0.22%) Lustre
17 8 (0.20%) zsh
Systems Management
1 886 (21.69%) Terraform
2 885 (21.67%) Kubernetes
3 547 (13.39%) Ansible
4 308 (7.54%) Grafana
5 270 (6.61%) Prometheus
6 79 (1.93%) Puppet
7 78 (1.91%) Argo
8 46 (1.13%) Kibana
9 38 (0.93%) Progress Chef
10 35 (0.86%) Nessus
11 32 (0.78%) Istio
12 28 (0.69%) NetBackup
13 27 (0.66%) ITRS Geneos
13 27 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
13 27 (0.66%) vRealize
14 24 (0.59%) vCenter Server
15 23 (0.56%) logstash
16 20 (0.49%) Nmap
17 19 (0.47%) Packer
18 17 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 507 (12.41%) Microsoft
2 317 (7.76%) Databricks
3 244 (5.97%) Google
4 222 (5.44%) Splunk
5 197 (4.82%) Oracle
6 195 (4.77%) VMware
7 122 (2.99%) ServiceNow
8 121 (2.96%) Red Hat
9 113 (2.77%) Cisco
10 81 (1.98%) F5
11 79 (1.93%) OpenAI
12 78 (1.91%) Palo Alto
13 62 (1.52%) Foundry
14 57 (1.40%) CyberArk
15 52 (1.27%) SAP
16 42 (1.03%) Atlassian
17 41 (1.00%) IBM
18 39 (0.95%) CrowdStrike
19 38 (0.93%) Juniper
20 36 (0.88%) CheckPoint