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

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 10 12
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 0
Contract jobs citing Python 4,021 3,631 4,052
As % of all contract jobs in England 13.52% 11.62% 10.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.70% 35.85% 32.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,684 2,467 2,978
10th Percentile £360 £375 £406
25th Percentile £425 £468 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £648 £713 £700
90th Percentile £753 £846 £810
UK median daily rate £525 £570 £575
% change year-on-year -7.89% -0.87% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 75 124
10th Percentile £31.25 £21.55 £37.51
25th Percentile £41.25 £46.18 £46.18
Median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £72.51 £70.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £82.75 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £57.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% -6.98%

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 9,643 10,129 12,530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.42% 32.40% 31.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,436 6,627 9,109
10th Percentile £345 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 284 250 410
10th Percentile £31.05 £27.68 £34.06
25th Percentile £45.00 £46.18 £47.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -0.53%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.13 £75.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £61.00
% change year-on-year - +2.46% -0.81%

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 November 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 November 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 November 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 2,380 £565 -9.64% 5,010
North of England +9 552 £480 -4.00% 1,063
South East +5 374 £500 -4.76% 3,537
Yorkshire +9 302 £500 -1.91% 281
Midlands +11 254 £495 +4.21% 432
North West +6 218 £440 -9.28% 676
West Midlands +11 211 £500 - 259
South West -7 176 £560 -8.01% 396
East of England +9 163 £538 +13.16% 464
East Midlands -15 41 £410 +2.50% 162
North East +5 36 £520 -11.11% 111
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
1 231 (5.74%) Apache Airflow
2 169 (4.20%) Apache Spark
3 166 (4.13%) Confluence
4 159 (3.95%) Apache
5 58 (1.44%) SAS
6 40 (0.99%) SharePoint
7 35 (0.87%) nginx
8 33 (0.82%) OpenStack
9 22 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
10 20 (0.50%) Jupyter
11 15 (0.37%) IIS
12 11 (0.27%) Appian
12 11 (0.27%) WebSphere
13 9 (0.22%) Apache Pig
13 9 (0.22%) JBoss
14 8 (0.20%) Oracle Application Server
15 5 (0.12%) CMS
15 5 (0.12%) Luigi
16 4 (0.099%) ArcGIS
16 4 (0.099%) Tomcat
Applications
1 110 (2.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (0.77%) Chatbot
3 29 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
4 17 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.30%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 10 (0.25%) Maya
6 10 (0.25%) NUKE
7 8 (0.20%) MS Visio
8 7 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
9 6 (0.15%) Weka
10 2 (0.050%) CPLEX
10 2 (0.050%) GNU Octave
10 2 (0.050%) Maple
11 1 (0.025%) NASTRAN
11 1 (0.025%) SPSS
11 1 (0.025%) Stata
11 1 (0.025%) Trello
11 1 (0.025%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 17 (0.42%) Aladdin
2 10 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.20%) Maximo
4 5 (0.12%) Fidessa
5 4 (0.099%) SAP PM
6 3 (0.075%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.075%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.075%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.075%) Teamcenter
6 3 (0.075%) thinkFolio
7 2 (0.050%) Distributed Ledger
7 2 (0.050%) Endur
7 2 (0.050%) Kondor
7 2 (0.050%) Loan IQ
7 2 (0.050%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.050%) Temenos T24
8 1 (0.025%) Cloudability
8 1 (0.025%) Exchequer
8 1 (0.025%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.025%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 1,560 (38.80%) AWS
2 1,167 (29.02%) Azure
3 638 (15.87%) GCP
4 452 (11.24%) GitHub
5 355 (8.83%) Serverless
6 345 (8.58%) Power Platform
7 283 (7.04%) Amazon S3
8 235 (5.84%) Azure DevOps
9 234 (5.82%) AWS Lambda
10 221 (5.50%) GitHub Actions
11 200 (4.97%) Snowflake
12 169 (4.20%) dbt
13 142 (3.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 138 (3.43%) Amazon EC2
15 136 (3.38%) AWS CloudFormation
16 122 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
17 117 (2.91%) OpenShift
18 108 (2.69%) Amazon ECS
19 97 (2.41%) SaaS
19 97 (2.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 257 (6.39%) Firewall
2 163 (4.05%) DNS
3 124 (3.08%) TCP/IP
4 104 (2.59%) Network Security
5 91 (2.26%) VPN
6 86 (2.14%) BGP
7 72 (1.79%) HTTP
8 62 (1.54%) SSL
9 54 (1.34%) OSPF
10 49 (1.22%) WAN
11 43 (1.07%) MPLS
12 39 (0.97%) SSH
13 37 (0.92%) LAN
13 37 (0.92%) SMTP
14 32 (0.80%) Wireless
15 31 (0.77%) FTP
15 31 (0.77%) Wireshark
16 29 (0.72%) SD-WAN
17 27 (0.67%) VLAN
18 23 (0.57%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 333 (8.28%) PostgreSQL
2 306 (7.61%) Power BI
3 218 (5.42%) Relational Database
4 214 (5.32%) NoSQL
5 209 (5.20%) Data Warehouse
6 159 (3.95%) Big Data
7 155 (3.85%) Data Lake
8 138 (3.43%) Tableau
9 126 (3.13%) SQL Server
10 117 (2.91%) Amazon RDS
11 102 (2.54%) MySQL
12 98 (2.44%) MongoDB
13 96 (2.39%) BigQuery
14 87 (2.16%) Amazon Athena
14 87 (2.16%) Hadoop
15 73 (1.82%) DynamoDB
16 68 (1.69%) Metadata
17 67 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
18 60 (1.49%) Apache Iceberg
19 57 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 541 (13.45%) Git
2 511 (12.71%) Jenkins
3 312 (7.76%) GitLab
4 280 (6.96%) JIRA
5 63 (1.57%) Selenium
5 63 (1.57%) SonarQube
6 52 (1.29%) Sonatype Nexus
7 46 (1.14%) JUnit
8 44 (1.09%) Bitbucket
9 43 (1.07%) Liquibase
10 41 (1.02%) MLflow
11 35 (0.87%) Artifactory
11 35 (0.87%) Maven
12 32 (0.80%) Cucumber
13 30 (0.75%) Eclipse
14 29 (0.72%) Gradle
15 28 (0.70%) Metasploit
15 28 (0.70%) Vagrant
16 27 (0.67%) Burp Suite
16 27 (0.67%) Postman
General
1 1,161 (28.87%) Social Skills
2 914 (22.73%) Finance
3 614 (15.27%) Analytical Skills
4 434 (10.79%) Banking
5 322 (8.01%) Public Sector
6 233 (5.79%) Front Office
7 173 (4.30%) Investment Banking
8 82 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
9 79 (1.96%) Financial Institution
10 70 (1.74%) Pharmaceutical
11 69 (1.72%) Marketing
11 69 (1.72%) Telecoms
12 67 (1.67%) Retail
13 55 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 47 (1.17%) Legal
15 41 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
16 36 (0.90%) Manufacturing
17 27 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
18 26 (0.65%) Aerospace
18 26 (0.65%) Military
Job Titles
1 767 (19.07%) Developer
2 556 (13.83%) Senior
3 428 (10.64%) Data Engineer
4 308 (7.66%) Analyst
5 302 (7.51%) Python Developer
6 289 (7.19%) Python Engineer
7 271 (6.74%) DevOps Engineer
8 260 (6.47%) AWS Engineer
9 257 (6.39%) Software Engineer
10 214 (5.32%) Architect
11 180 (4.48%) Lead
12 158 (3.93%) Platform Engineer
13 146 (3.63%) Data Analyst
14 143 (3.56%) Data Scientist
15 131 (3.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 119 (2.96%) Network Engineer
17 118 (2.93%) Senior Developer
18 111 (2.76%) Automation Engineer
19 109 (2.71%) Cloud Engineer
20 107 (2.66%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 323 (8.03%) REST
2 315 (7.83%) React
3 256 (6.37%) Kafka
4 204 (5.07%) Node.js
5 198 (4.92%) Pandas
6 197 (4.90%) RESTful
7 164 (4.08%) NumPy
8 161 (4.00%) FastAPI
9 148 (3.68%) PySpark
10 146 (3.63%) AngularJS
11 130 (3.23%) PyTorch
12 125 (3.11%) TensorFlow
13 124 (3.08%) .NET
14 111 (2.76%) Elastic Stack
14 111 (2.76%) HTML
15 109 (2.71%) CSS
16 106 (2.64%) GraphQL
17 86 (2.14%) scikit-learn
18 85 (2.11%) JSON
18 85 (2.11%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 313 (7.78%) Cloud Native
2 176 (4.38%) Algorithms
3 159 (3.95%) Distributed Systems
4 157 (3.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 147 (3.66%) Fixed Income
6 133 (3.31%) Equities
7 124 (3.08%) Data Protection Act
8 120 (2.98%) Derivative
9 117 (2.91%) Hedge funds
10 105 (2.61%) Product Ownership
11 88 (2.19%) Data Structures
12 86 (2.14%) Onboarding
13 66 (1.64%) Public Cloud
14 64 (1.59%) Data Centre
15 61 (1.52%) AI Agents
16 60 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
16 60 (1.49%) Replication
17 54 (1.34%) Management Information System
18 46 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
18 46 (1.14%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 698 (17.36%) Linux
2 310 (7.71%) Windows
3 192 (4.77%) Unix
4 81 (2.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 65 (1.62%) Windows Server
6 43 (1.07%) Android
7 42 (1.04%) Ubuntu
8 35 (0.87%) VMS
9 34 (0.85%) CentOS
10 29 (0.72%) Amazon Linux
11 25 (0.62%) Apple iOS
12 21 (0.52%) Mac OS
13 19 (0.47%) Solaris
14 9 (0.22%) Debian
14 9 (0.22%) Kali Linux
15 6 (0.15%) AIX
15 6 (0.15%) Windows 7
16 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
17 4 (0.099%) Windows Server 2019
18 3 (0.075%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,290 (32.08%) CI/CD
2 1,105 (27.48%) DevOps
3 1,042 (25.91%) Agile
4 874 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
5 662 (16.46%) AI
6 661 (16.44%) Infrastructure as Code
7 592 (14.72%) Analytics
8 565 (14.05%) Machine Learning
9 537 (13.35%) Software Engineering
10 514 (12.78%) Containerisation
11 505 (12.56%) Data Pipeline
12 430 (10.69%) Data Science
13 427 (10.62%) Data Modelling
14 420 (10.45%) ETL
15 412 (10.25%) Data Engineering
16 400 (9.95%) Test Automation
17 355 (8.83%) Computer Science
18 345 (8.58%) Business Intelligence
19 285 (7.09%) Microservices
20 281 (6.99%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 1,280 (31.83%) SQL
2 728 (18.10%) Java
3 550 (13.68%) Bash
4 501 (12.46%) PowerShell
5 499 (12.41%) JavaScript
6 280 (6.96%) TypeScript
7 259 (6.44%) C++
8 252 (6.27%) Go
9 235 (5.84%) C#
10 168 (4.18%) Shell Script
11 157 (3.90%) Perl
12 141 (3.51%) R
13 93 (2.31%) Scala
14 81 (2.01%) C
15 58 (1.44%) Ruby
16 54 (1.34%) PHP
17 53 (1.32%) Groovy
17 53 (1.32%) VBA
18 48 (1.19%) Kusto Query Language
19 44 (1.09%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 787 (19.57%) Security Cleared
2 626 (15.57%) SC Cleared
3 421 (10.47%) Degree
4 210 (5.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 129 (3.21%) DV Cleared
6 122 (3.03%) AWS Certification
7 119 (2.96%) Master's Degree
8 93 (2.31%) Cisco Certification
9 63 (1.57%) CCNP
9 63 (1.57%) CISSP
10 59 (1.47%) Azure Certification
11 50 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
12 49 (1.22%) PhD
13 39 (0.97%) OSCP
14 37 (0.92%) MCP
15 35 (0.87%) CCIE
16 34 (0.85%) CEH
17 29 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 27 (0.67%) CCNA
19 22 (0.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 271 (6.74%) Data Quality
2 163 (4.05%) QA
3 122 (3.03%) GDPR
4 82 (2.04%) NIST
5 70 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 41 (1.02%) Accessibility
7 31 (0.77%) PCI DSS
8 29 (0.72%) HIPAA
9 25 (0.62%) NCSC
10 22 (0.55%) SLA
11 21 (0.52%) SOC 2
12 19 (0.47%) EU AI Act
13 15 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 12 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
15 10 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 8 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
16 8 (0.20%) EMIR
16 8 (0.20%) MiFID
17 5 (0.12%) PSD2
18 4 (0.099%) PMO
System Software
1 757 (18.83%) Docker
2 137 (3.41%) Active Directory
3 128 (3.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 39 (0.97%) vSphere
5 33 (0.82%) VMware NSX
6 31 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
7 23 (0.57%) Firmware
8 22 (0.55%) DFS Replication
9 19 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
10 17 (0.42%) Squid
11 14 (0.35%) Oracle RAC
12 13 (0.32%) HDFS
12 13 (0.32%) Hyper-V
13 12 (0.30%) Dovecot
13 12 (0.30%) Postfix
14 11 (0.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 10 (0.25%) KVM
15 10 (0.25%) zsh
16 7 (0.17%) GPFS
17 6 (0.15%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 835 (20.77%) Kubernetes
2 801 (19.92%) Terraform
3 556 (13.83%) Ansible
4 263 (6.54%) Grafana
5 246 (6.12%) Prometheus
6 81 (2.01%) Puppet
7 63 (1.57%) Argo
8 44 (1.09%) Kibana
9 36 (0.90%) Nessus
10 33 (0.82%) Progress Chef
11 30 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
12 29 (0.72%) Nmap
13 28 (0.70%) Istio
14 27 (0.67%) NetBackup
15 26 (0.65%) vRealize
16 25 (0.62%) ITRS Geneos
16 25 (0.62%) vCenter Server
17 22 (0.55%) logstash
18 21 (0.52%) Packer
19 19 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 480 (11.94%) Microsoft
2 275 (6.84%) Databricks
3 241 (5.99%) Google
4 215 (5.35%) Splunk
5 201 (5.00%) Oracle
5 201 (5.00%) VMware
6 131 (3.26%) ServiceNow
7 125 (3.11%) Red Hat
8 121 (3.01%) Cisco
9 78 (1.94%) F5
10 77 (1.91%) Palo Alto
11 59 (1.47%) OpenAI
12 57 (1.42%) SAP
13 51 (1.27%) Foundry
14 46 (1.14%) Atlassian
15 45 (1.12%) CyberArk
16 41 (1.02%) IBM
17 39 (0.97%) Juniper
18 38 (0.95%) CrowdStrike
19 36 (0.90%) Arista