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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 11 14
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing Python 4,534 3,234 3,653
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.59% 13.10% 9.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.71% 38.65% 32.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,040 2,299 2,669
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 £524 £537 £550
% change year-on-year -2.42% -2.36% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 48 101
10th Percentile £28.65 £27.15 £21.73
25th Percentile £42.41 £33.91 £46.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £47.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -26.92% -
75th Percentile £71.75 £55.00 £71.25
90th Percentile £84.88 £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 11,419 8,368 11,394
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.66% 33.89% 30.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,471 5,801 8,147
10th Percentile £358 £356 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £521 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% -3.25% -4.36%
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 519 197 490
10th Percentile £36.25 £28.18 £35.52
25th Percentile £55.00 £36.00 £49.53
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 £78.15 £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 15 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 15 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 15 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 2,607 £550 -4.35% 892
North of England +10 770 £481 -0.77% 372
Yorkshire +2 427 £500 - 110
South East -5 399 £525 +3.19% 524
North West +5 266 £490 +3.16% 206
South West +1 264 £500 -9.09% 160
Midlands -14 231 £477 +6.00% 153
West Midlands -14 183 £476 +2.92% 85
East of England -14 126 £500 - 142
North East +10 89 £450 +2.86% 57
East Midlands -19 47 £495 +16.47% 67
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
1 246 (5.43%) Apache Spark
2 209 (4.61%) Apache Airflow
3 154 (3.40%) Apache
4 125 (2.76%) Confluence
5 49 (1.08%) Jupyter
6 44 (0.97%) SAS
7 41 (0.90%) SharePoint
8 17 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
9 16 (0.35%) OpenStack
10 13 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
11 11 (0.24%) nginx
12 10 (0.22%) IIS
13 9 (0.20%) Appian
13 9 (0.20%) ArcGIS
14 8 (0.18%) Apache Superset
15 6 (0.13%) Camunda
15 6 (0.13%) CICS
15 6 (0.13%) CMS
15 6 (0.13%) Tomcat
16 5 (0.11%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 99 (2.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (0.62%) Chatbot
3 21 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
4 18 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
5 17 (0.37%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.24%) CPLEX
7 3 (0.066%) LaTeX
7 3 (0.066%) 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 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
7 4 (0.088%) 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%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 1,732 (38.20%) AWS
2 1,544 (34.05%) Azure
3 663 (14.62%) GCP
4 551 (12.15%) GitHub
5 450 (9.93%) Power Platform
6 408 (9.00%) Serverless
7 345 (7.61%) Amazon S3
8 341 (7.52%) Azure DevOps
9 313 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
10 298 (6.57%) AWS Lambda
11 235 (5.18%) Azure Data Factory
12 214 (4.72%) Snowflake
13 174 (3.84%) dbt
14 148 (3.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 136 (3.00%) AWS CloudFormation
16 133 (2.93%) OpenShift
17 128 (2.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 128 (2.82%) Amazon EKS
18 106 (2.34%) Amazon EC2
19 94 (2.07%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 189 (4.17%) Firewall
2 127 (2.80%) DNS
3 93 (2.05%) WAN
4 86 (1.90%) BGP
5 84 (1.85%) TCP/IP
6 83 (1.83%) Network Security
7 75 (1.65%) VPN
8 53 (1.17%) BIG-IP
9 52 (1.15%) OSPF
10 45 (0.99%) HTTP
11 44 (0.97%) SD-WAN
12 42 (0.93%) VXLAN
13 36 (0.79%) SSL
13 36 (0.79%) VLAN
14 33 (0.73%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 32 (0.71%) Ethernet VPN
15 32 (0.71%) SAN
16 31 (0.68%) LAN
17 30 (0.66%) DHCP
17 30 (0.66%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 385 (8.49%) Power BI
2 295 (6.51%) PostgreSQL
3 260 (5.73%) Data Warehouse
4 233 (5.14%) SQL Server
5 203 (4.48%) Data Lake
6 174 (3.84%) Tableau
7 148 (3.26%) Relational Database
8 146 (3.22%) NoSQL
9 140 (3.09%) Metadata
10 121 (2.67%) Delta Lake
11 120 (2.65%) BigQuery
12 119 (2.62%) Amazon Athena
13 118 (2.60%) Big Data
14 115 (2.54%) Amazon Redshift
15 91 (2.01%) MongoDB
16 84 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
17 73 (1.61%) DynamoDB
18 61 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
18 61 (1.35%) MySQL
18 61 (1.35%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 527 (11.62%) Git
2 392 (8.65%) Jenkins
3 322 (7.10%) GitLab
4 240 (5.29%) JIRA
5 62 (1.37%) MLflow
6 59 (1.30%) Selenium
7 45 (0.99%) 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
14 19 (0.42%) Robot Framework
14 19 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
15 13 (0.29%) SpecFlow
General
1 992 (21.88%) Social Skills
2 985 (21.72%) Finance
3 634 (13.98%) Analytical Skills
4 415 (9.15%) Public Sector
5 351 (7.74%) Banking
6 178 (3.93%) Front Office
7 116 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
8 101 (2.23%) Investment Banking
9 78 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 66 (1.46%) Marketing
10 66 (1.46%) Retail
11 55 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
12 45 (0.99%) Telecoms
13 41 (0.90%) Legal
14 40 (0.88%) Publishing
15 37 (0.82%) Financial Institution
16 33 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
17 31 (0.68%) Military
18 27 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
19 25 (0.55%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 812 (17.91%) Developer
2 723 (15.95%) Data Engineer
3 678 (14.95%) Senior
4 400 (8.82%) Python Developer
5 328 (7.23%) Lead
6 283 (6.24%) Architect
7 249 (5.49%) DevOps Engineer
8 238 (5.25%) Analyst
9 229 (5.05%) Python Engineer
10 227 (5.01%) Software Engineer
11 210 (4.63%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 180 (3.97%) AWS Engineer
13 175 (3.86%) Data Scientist
14 154 (3.40%) Senior Developer
15 142 (3.13%) Senior Data Engineer
16 133 (2.93%) Azure Engineer
17 127 (2.80%) Data Analyst
18 124 (2.73%) Full-Stack Developer
19 118 (2.60%) Cloud Engineer
19 118 (2.60%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 346 (7.63%) REST
2 330 (7.28%) React
3 311 (6.86%) PySpark
4 288 (6.35%) Kafka
5 206 (4.54%) .NET
6 184 (4.06%) Node.js
7 177 (3.90%) Pandas
8 157 (3.46%) RESTful
9 155 (3.42%) JSON
10 149 (3.29%) FastAPI
11 142 (3.13%) PyTorch
12 123 (2.71%) Django
13 108 (2.38%) LangChain
14 103 (2.27%) scikit-learn
14 103 (2.27%) TensorFlow
15 102 (2.25%) NumPy
16 95 (2.10%) AngularJS
17 93 (2.05%) Flask
17 93 (2.05%) HTML
17 93 (2.05%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 583 (12.86%) Cloud Native
2 228 (5.03%) Distributed Systems
3 131 (2.89%) AI Agents
4 126 (2.78%) Data Centre
5 125 (2.76%) Onboarding
6 120 (2.65%) Algorithms
7 115 (2.54%) Product Ownership
8 106 (2.34%) Data Structures
9 101 (2.23%) Data Protection Act
9 101 (2.23%) Derivative
10 100 (2.21%) Equities
11 98 (2.16%) Fixed Income
12 96 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
13 93 (2.05%) Hybrid Cloud
14 86 (1.90%) Management Information System
15 85 (1.87%) Security Posture
16 77 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
17 52 (1.15%) Public Cloud
18 51 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
19 47 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 519 (11.45%) Linux
2 247 (5.45%) Windows
3 184 (4.06%) Unix
4 94 (2.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 61 (1.35%) Windows Server
6 41 (0.90%) Ubuntu
7 26 (0.57%) VMS
8 24 (0.53%) AIX
8 24 (0.53%) Android
9 22 (0.49%) Solaris
10 20 (0.44%) CentOS
11 16 (0.35%) Apple iOS
12 11 (0.24%) zOS
13 10 (0.22%) 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%) Alpine Linux
17 3 (0.066%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,724 (38.02%) CI/CD
2 1,263 (27.86%) DevOps
3 1,124 (24.79%) AI
4 958 (21.13%) Analytics
5 956 (21.09%) Agile
6 815 (17.98%) Problem-Solving
7 811 (17.89%) Infrastructure as Code
8 808 (17.82%) Data Pipeline
9 692 (15.26%) Machine Learning
10 673 (14.84%) Data Engineering
11 623 (13.74%) Data Modelling
12 619 (13.65%) Containerisation
13 604 (13.32%) ETL
14 590 (13.01%) Software Engineering
15 518 (11.42%) Data Science
16 487 (10.74%) Observability
17 455 (10.04%) Test Automation
18 454 (10.01%) Business Intelligence
19 411 (9.06%) LLM
20 384 (8.47%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1,554 (34.27%) SQL
2 691 (15.24%) Java
3 555 (12.24%) PowerShell
4 500 (11.03%) Bash
5 383 (8.45%) JavaScript
6 325 (7.17%) TypeScript
7 297 (6.55%) C#
8 178 (3.93%) Go
9 145 (3.20%) R
10 111 (2.45%) C++
11 110 (2.43%) Scala
12 96 (2.12%) Shell Script
13 70 (1.54%) Bicep
14 57 (1.26%) PL/SQL
14 57 (1.26%) Ruby
15 52 (1.15%) Perl
16 51 (1.12%) T-SQL
17 50 (1.10%) C
18 47 (1.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 46 (1.01%) Rust
Qualifications
1 985 (21.72%) Security Cleared
2 787 (17.36%) SC Cleared
3 349 (7.70%) Degree
4 144 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 137 (3.02%) DV Cleared
6 107 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
7 99 (2.18%) Azure Certification
8 89 (1.96%) AWS Certification
9 77 (1.70%) CISSP
10 60 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
11 58 (1.28%) Master's Degree
12 39 (0.86%) CCNP
13 37 (0.82%) CISM
14 33 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
15 31 (0.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 30 (0.66%) PhD
17 23 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 21 (0.46%) CCIE
18 21 (0.46%) ISTQB
19 18 (0.40%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 464 (10.23%) Data Quality
2 184 (4.06%) QA
3 129 (2.85%) GDPR
4 99 (2.18%) NIST
5 98 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 59 (1.30%) Accessibility
7 26 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 26 (0.57%) SLA
8 24 (0.53%) PCI DSS
9 23 (0.51%) HIPAA
10 21 (0.46%) WCAG
11 14 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
12 13 (0.29%) NCSC
13 12 (0.26%) SOC 2
14 10 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
15 9 (0.20%) ISO 20022
16 8 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 8 (0.18%) GRC
17 6 (0.13%) PSD2
18 5 (0.11%) PMO
System Software
1 723 (15.95%) Docker
2 134 (2.96%) Active Directory
3 85 (1.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 62 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
5 35 (0.77%) vSphere
6 33 (0.73%) VMware NSX
7 28 (0.62%) Firmware
8 20 (0.44%) 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
1 979 (21.59%) Terraform
2 830 (18.31%) Kubernetes
3 474 (10.45%) Ansible
4 266 (5.87%) Grafana
5 233 (5.14%) Prometheus
6 70 (1.54%) Puppet
7 53 (1.17%) Argo
8 38 (0.84%) Istio
9 36 (0.79%) Progress Chef
10 31 (0.68%) vCenter Server
11 26 (0.57%) Control-M
11 26 (0.57%) Kibana
12 24 (0.53%) Nessus
13 22 (0.49%) vRealize
14 21 (0.46%) Nagios
14 21 (0.46%) ZABBIX
15 20 (0.44%) HAProxy
15 20 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
16 17 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
16 17 (0.37%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 509 (11.23%) Microsoft
2 484 (10.67%) Databricks
3 231 (5.09%) Google
4 218 (4.81%) Oracle
5 190 (4.19%) Splunk
6 125 (2.76%) VMware
7 120 (2.65%) OpenAI
8 111 (2.45%) Red Hat
9 105 (2.32%) Cisco
10 91 (2.01%) ServiceNow
11 81 (1.79%) CyberArk
12 78 (1.72%) F5
13 77 (1.70%) Dynatrace
14 73 (1.61%) Palo Alto
15 71 (1.57%) BeyondTrust
16 59 (1.30%) Informatica
17 58 (1.28%) IBM
18 53 (1.17%) Foundry
19 47 (1.04%) Arista
20 46 (1.01%) SAP