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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 11 14
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 -1
Contract jobs citing Python 4,458 3,190 3,589
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.57% 13.19% 9.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.69% 38.80% 32.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,006 2,284 2,625
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 £523 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.79% -2.27% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 44 98
10th Percentile £30.49 £26.67 £21.59
25th Percentile £43.81 £33.91 £46.20
Median hourly rate £55.00 £42.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.18% -35.00% -
75th Percentile £74.45 £55.00 £71.72
90th Percentile £83.75 £71.48 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £61.00
% change year-on-year +37.50% -34.43% -6.15%

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 11,233 8,221 11,175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.63% 34.00% 30.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,371 5,694 8,040
10th Percentile £358 £358 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.29% -2.87% -4.00%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 531 193 471
10th Percentile £37.25 £28.23 £35.52
25th Percentile £55.00 £36.00 £49.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% -1.60% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £85.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £62.25
% change year-on-year +14.54% -8.84% -0.40%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 2,556 £550 -4.35% 1,758
North of England +10 759 £480 -1.03% 485
Yorkshire +2 427 £489 -2.25% 135
South East -6 397 £525 +5.00% 607
North West +6 260 £481 +1.32% 269
South West 0 250 £500 -11.11% 247
Midlands -14 231 £488 +8.33% 206
West Midlands -15 181 £481 +6.94% 112
East of England -9 127 £500 - 231
North East +11 84 £475 +8.57% 83
East Midlands -17 49 £495 +16.47% 93
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
1 245 (5.50%) Apache Spark
2 201 (4.51%) Apache Airflow
3 153 (3.43%) Apache
4 119 (2.67%) Confluence
5 44 (0.99%) Jupyter
6 41 (0.92%) SAS
7 38 (0.85%) SharePoint
8 16 (0.36%) OpenStack
9 15 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
10 13 (0.29%) IIS
10 13 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
11 11 (0.25%) nginx
12 10 (0.22%) Appian
13 8 (0.18%) Apache Superset
13 8 (0.18%) ArcGIS
14 7 (0.16%) Camunda
14 7 (0.16%) CMS
15 6 (0.13%) CICS
15 6 (0.13%) Tomcat
16 5 (0.11%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 99 (2.22%) 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 4 (0.090%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.067%) LaTeX
9 1 (0.022%) OrCAD
9 1 (0.022%) SPSS
9 1 (0.022%) Weka
9 1 (0.022%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 23 (0.52%) Aladdin
2 18 (0.40%) 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 (0.090%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.067%) Bloomberg AIM
7 3 (0.067%) SimCorp Dimension
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%) Teamcenter
9 1 (0.022%) Endur
9 1 (0.022%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 1 (0.022%) NetSuite
9 1 (0.022%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.022%) SAP APO
Cloud Services
1 1,696 (38.04%) AWS
2 1,515 (33.98%) Azure
3 662 (14.85%) GCP
4 537 (12.05%) GitHub
5 441 (9.89%) Power Platform
6 379 (8.50%) Serverless
7 330 (7.40%) Azure DevOps
8 319 (7.16%) Amazon S3
9 302 (6.77%) GitHub Actions
10 277 (6.21%) AWS Lambda
11 235 (5.27%) Azure Data Factory
12 206 (4.62%) Snowflake
13 168 (3.77%) dbt
14 150 (3.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 137 (3.07%) OpenShift
16 130 (2.92%) AWS CloudFormation
17 122 (2.74%) Amazon EKS
18 118 (2.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 102 (2.29%) Amazon EC2
20 91 (2.04%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 180 (4.04%) Firewall
2 129 (2.89%) DNS
3 93 (2.09%) Network Security
4 89 (2.00%) WAN
5 83 (1.86%) TCP/IP
6 81 (1.82%) BGP
7 71 (1.59%) VPN
8 50 (1.12%) BIG-IP
8 50 (1.12%) OSPF
9 49 (1.10%) HTTP
10 42 (0.94%) SD-WAN
11 41 (0.92%) VXLAN
12 38 (0.85%) SSL
13 34 (0.76%) VLAN
14 32 (0.72%) SAN
15 31 (0.70%) DHCP
16 30 (0.67%) Ethernet VPN
16 30 (0.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 30 (0.67%) SNMP
17 29 (0.65%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 378 (8.48%) Power BI
2 282 (6.33%) PostgreSQL
3 243 (5.45%) Data Warehouse
4 240 (5.38%) SQL Server
5 193 (4.33%) Data Lake
6 171 (3.84%) Tableau
7 149 (3.34%) NoSQL
8 145 (3.25%) Relational Database
9 133 (2.98%) Metadata
10 122 (2.74%) Delta Lake
11 118 (2.65%) BigQuery
12 114 (2.56%) Big Data
13 105 (2.36%) Amazon Athena
14 94 (2.11%) Amazon Redshift
15 86 (1.93%) MongoDB
16 81 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
17 72 (1.62%) DynamoDB
18 65 (1.46%) Azure SQL Database
19 63 (1.41%) MySQL
20 58 (1.30%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 501 (11.24%) Git
2 389 (8.73%) Jenkins
3 316 (7.09%) GitLab
4 234 (5.25%) JIRA
5 64 (1.44%) Selenium
6 63 (1.41%) MLflow
7 51 (1.14%) Postman
8 31 (0.70%) Cucumber
9 30 (0.67%) Artifactory
9 30 (0.67%) Cypress.io
10 29 (0.65%) JMeter
11 27 (0.61%) Bitbucket
12 26 (0.58%) SonarQube
13 22 (0.49%) Maven
14 21 (0.47%) REST Assured
14 21 (0.47%) Robot Framework
15 19 (0.43%) Gatling
15 19 (0.43%) JUnit
15 19 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
16 14 (0.31%) SpecFlow
General
1 982 (22.03%) Social Skills
2 969 (21.74%) Finance
3 623 (13.97%) Analytical Skills
4 396 (8.88%) Public Sector
5 339 (7.60%) Banking
6 179 (4.02%) Front Office
7 113 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
8 101 (2.27%) Investment Banking
9 68 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 68 (1.53%) Marketing
10 57 (1.28%) Retail
11 55 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
12 42 (0.94%) Legal
12 42 (0.94%) Telecoms
13 37 (0.83%) Publishing
14 36 (0.81%) Financial Institution
15 34 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
16 30 (0.67%) Military
17 28 (0.63%) Manufacturing
18 26 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 801 (17.97%) Developer
2 691 (15.50%) Data Engineer
3 649 (14.56%) Senior
4 397 (8.91%) Python Developer
5 321 (7.20%) Lead
6 290 (6.51%) Architect
7 244 (5.47%) DevOps Engineer
8 233 (5.23%) Software Engineer
9 231 (5.18%) Analyst
10 220 (4.93%) Python Engineer
11 200 (4.49%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 177 (3.97%) Data Scientist
13 173 (3.88%) AWS Engineer
14 148 (3.32%) Senior Developer
15 134 (3.01%) Senior Data Engineer
16 133 (2.98%) Azure Engineer
17 125 (2.80%) Data Analyst
18 121 (2.71%) Full-Stack Developer
19 119 (2.67%) Security Engineer
20 113 (2.53%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 347 (7.78%) REST
2 324 (7.27%) React
3 305 (6.84%) PySpark
4 282 (6.33%) Kafka
5 204 (4.58%) .NET
6 184 (4.13%) Node.js
7 179 (4.02%) Pandas
8 154 (3.45%) JSON
9 146 (3.28%) PyTorch
9 146 (3.28%) RESTful
10 145 (3.25%) FastAPI
11 117 (2.62%) Django
12 107 (2.40%) TensorFlow
13 103 (2.31%) LangChain
14 102 (2.29%) scikit-learn
15 101 (2.27%) NumPy
16 99 (2.22%) AngularJS
17 96 (2.15%) YAML
18 93 (2.09%) LDAP
19 92 (2.06%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 539 (12.09%) Cloud Native
2 209 (4.69%) Distributed Systems
3 122 (2.74%) AI Agents
4 121 (2.71%) Data Centre
5 118 (2.65%) Algorithms
6 115 (2.58%) Product Ownership
7 112 (2.51%) Onboarding
8 106 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
9 104 (2.33%) Equities
10 102 (2.29%) Derivative
11 99 (2.22%) Data Structures
11 99 (2.22%) Fixed Income
12 89 (2.00%) Security Posture
13 88 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
13 88 (1.97%) Management Information System
14 85 (1.91%) Hybrid Cloud
15 80 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
16 53 (1.19%) Public Cloud
17 49 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
18 44 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 524 (11.75%) Linux
2 249 (5.59%) Windows
3 180 (4.04%) Unix
4 93 (2.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 64 (1.44%) Windows Server
6 39 (0.87%) Ubuntu
7 28 (0.63%) VMS
8 24 (0.54%) AIX
8 24 (0.54%) Android
9 22 (0.49%) Solaris
10 20 (0.45%) CentOS
11 16 (0.36%) Apple iOS
12 11 (0.25%) zOS
13 10 (0.22%) Mac OS
14 7 (0.16%) Debian
15 6 (0.13%) Rocky
15 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
16 5 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
17 4 (0.090%) Embedded Linux
18 3 (0.067%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,664 (37.33%) CI/CD
2 1,231 (27.61%) DevOps
3 1,064 (23.87%) AI
4 941 (21.11%) Agile
5 929 (20.84%) Analytics
6 801 (17.97%) Problem-Solving
7 774 (17.36%) Data Pipeline
8 773 (17.34%) Infrastructure as Code
9 680 (15.25%) Machine Learning
10 641 (14.38%) Data Engineering
11 609 (13.66%) Data Modelling
12 599 (13.44%) Containerisation
13 598 (13.41%) ETL
14 575 (12.90%) Software Engineering
15 505 (11.33%) Data Science
16 460 (10.32%) Observability
17 455 (10.21%) Test Automation
18 435 (9.76%) Business Intelligence
19 390 (8.75%) LLM
20 371 (8.32%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1,533 (34.39%) SQL
2 691 (15.50%) Java
3 566 (12.70%) PowerShell
4 490 (10.99%) Bash
5 396 (8.88%) JavaScript
6 310 (6.95%) TypeScript
7 295 (6.62%) C#
8 177 (3.97%) Go
9 142 (3.19%) R
10 115 (2.58%) Scala
11 114 (2.56%) C++
12 97 (2.18%) Shell Script
13 68 (1.53%) Bicep
14 57 (1.28%) PL/SQL
14 57 (1.28%) Ruby
15 52 (1.17%) C
16 49 (1.10%) Perl
17 48 (1.08%) T-SQL
18 44 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 44 (0.99%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 986 (22.12%) Security Cleared
2 794 (17.81%) SC Cleared
3 355 (7.96%) Degree
4 152 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 134 (3.01%) DV Cleared
6 97 (2.18%) Azure Certification
6 97 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
7 83 (1.86%) CISSP
8 79 (1.77%) AWS Certification
9 60 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
9 60 (1.35%) Master's Degree
10 39 (0.87%) CCNP
11 37 (0.83%) CISM
12 31 (0.70%) PhD
13 30 (0.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 25 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
15 24 (0.54%) ISTQB
16 21 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 20 (0.45%) CCIE
18 18 (0.40%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 441 (9.89%) Data Quality
2 192 (4.31%) QA
3 132 (2.96%) GDPR
4 96 (2.15%) NIST
5 89 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 55 (1.23%) Accessibility
7 27 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 27 (0.61%) SLA
8 23 (0.52%) HIPAA
8 23 (0.52%) PCI DSS
9 16 (0.36%) WCAG
10 15 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
11 11 (0.25%) 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
1 707 (15.86%) Docker
2 141 (3.16%) Active Directory
3 83 (1.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 65 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
5 35 (0.79%) vSphere
6 33 (0.74%) VMware NSX
7 27 (0.61%) 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%) HDFS
13 8 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
14 7 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
14 7 (0.16%) Postfix
15 5 (0.11%) SRDF
16 4 (0.090%) Ceph
16 4 (0.090%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 4 (0.090%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 930 (20.86%) Terraform
2 815 (18.28%) Kubernetes
3 464 (10.41%) Ansible
4 257 (5.76%) Grafana
5 227 (5.09%) Prometheus
6 64 (1.44%) Puppet
7 51 (1.14%) Argo
8 36 (0.81%) Istio
9 33 (0.74%) Progress Chef
10 31 (0.70%) Kibana
10 31 (0.70%) vCenter Server
11 26 (0.58%) Control-M
12 24 (0.54%) Nessus
13 21 (0.47%) Nagios
13 21 (0.47%) vRealize
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
1 502 (11.26%) Microsoft
2 475 (10.66%) Databricks
3 227 (5.09%) Google
4 215 (4.82%) Oracle
5 188 (4.22%) Splunk
6 129 (2.89%) VMware
7 120 (2.69%) Red Hat
8 110 (2.47%) OpenAI
9 101 (2.27%) Cisco
10 87 (1.95%) ServiceNow
11 85 (1.91%) CyberArk
12 76 (1.70%) BeyondTrust
13 74 (1.66%) F5
14 69 (1.55%) Dynatrace
14 69 (1.55%) Palo Alto
15 57 (1.28%) IBM
16 55 (1.23%) Informatica
17 50 (1.12%) Foundry
18 46 (1.03%) SAP
19 45 (1.01%) Arista