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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 11 14
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing Python 4,493 3,216 3,590
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.59% 13.20% 9.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.79% 38.84% 31.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,026 2,297 2,624
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 £523 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.70% -2.27% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 45 98
10th Percentile £30.34 £26.79 £21.59
25th Percentile £43.81 £33.91 £46.20
Median hourly rate £55.00 £44.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.60% -31.54% -
75th Percentile £74.07 £55.00 £71.72
90th Percentile £84.13 £70.30 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £61.00
% change year-on-year +37.50% -34.43% -5.70%

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 11,292 8,280 11,241
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.63% 33.97% 30.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,403 5,727 8,077
10th Percentile £358 £358 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £523 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.01% -3.15% -4.00%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £502 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.08% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 526 195 475
10th Percentile £37.25 £28.27 £35.52
25th Percentile £55.00 £36.13 £49.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.38 £85.00 £77.80
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +14.54% -9.20% -

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 2,588 £550 -4.35% 1,051
North of England +10 761 £481 -0.77% 383
Yorkshire +2 426 £491 -1.75% 105
South East -5 401 £525 +5.00% 544
North West +6 262 £481 +1.32% 214
South West 0 251 £500 -11.11% 183
Midlands -15 231 £481 +6.94% 153
West Midlands -15 181 £477 +6.00% 80
East of England -13 126 £500 - 165
North East +10 85 £475 +8.57% 65
East Midlands -21 49 £495 +16.47% 72
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 (5.45%) Apache Spark
2 204 (4.54%) Apache Airflow
3 154 (3.43%) Apache
4 119 (2.65%) Confluence
5 44 (0.98%) Jupyter
6 42 (0.93%) SAS
7 39 (0.87%) SharePoint
8 17 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
9 16 (0.36%) OpenStack
10 13 (0.29%) IIS
10 13 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
11 11 (0.24%) nginx
12 9 (0.20%) Appian
13 8 (0.18%) Apache Superset
13 8 (0.18%) ArcGIS
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
Applications
1 99 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (0.62%) 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 (0.089%) 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 (0.51%) 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 (0.089%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.067%) Bloomberg AIM
7 3 (0.067%) NetSuite
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%) Sage X3
8 2 (0.045%) Teamcenter
9 1 (0.022%) NEC Housing
9 1 (0.022%) Odoo
9 1 (0.022%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 1,714 (38.15%) AWS
2 1,518 (33.79%) Azure
3 663 (14.76%) GCP
4 539 (12.00%) GitHub
5 445 (9.90%) Power Platform
6 392 (8.72%) Serverless
7 332 (7.39%) Amazon S3
8 331 (7.37%) Azure DevOps
9 306 (6.81%) GitHub Actions
10 289 (6.43%) AWS Lambda
11 236 (5.25%) Azure Data Factory
12 209 (4.65%) Snowflake
13 171 (3.81%) dbt
14 151 (3.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 135 (3.00%) OpenShift
16 133 (2.96%) AWS CloudFormation
17 124 (2.76%) Amazon EKS
18 118 (2.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 102 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
20 92 (2.05%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 181 (4.03%) Firewall
2 126 (2.80%) DNS
3 90 (2.00%) WAN
4 88 (1.96%) Network Security
5 82 (1.83%) BGP
5 82 (1.83%) TCP/IP
6 72 (1.60%) VPN
7 51 (1.14%) BIG-IP
7 51 (1.14%) OSPF
8 46 (1.02%) HTTP
9 43 (0.96%) SD-WAN
10 41 (0.91%) VXLAN
11 36 (0.80%) SSL
12 35 (0.78%) VLAN
13 32 (0.71%) SAN
14 31 (0.69%) Ethernet VPN
14 31 (0.69%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 30 (0.67%) DHCP
15 30 (0.67%) SNMP
16 29 (0.65%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 382 (8.50%) Power BI
2 288 (6.41%) PostgreSQL
3 251 (5.59%) Data Warehouse
4 240 (5.34%) SQL Server
5 205 (4.56%) Data Lake
6 171 (3.81%) Tableau
7 151 (3.36%) Relational Database
8 148 (3.29%) NoSQL
9 136 (3.03%) Metadata
10 123 (2.74%) Delta Lake
11 120 (2.67%) BigQuery
12 116 (2.58%) Amazon Athena
13 114 (2.54%) Big Data
14 107 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
15 88 (1.96%) MongoDB
16 84 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
17 72 (1.60%) DynamoDB
18 65 (1.45%) MySQL
19 64 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
20 60 (1.34%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 507 (11.28%) Git
2 387 (8.61%) Jenkins
3 315 (7.01%) GitLab
4 235 (5.23%) JIRA
5 64 (1.42%) Selenium
6 63 (1.40%) MLflow
7 52 (1.16%) Postman
8 31 (0.69%) Cucumber
9 30 (0.67%) Artifactory
10 29 (0.65%) Cypress.io
10 29 (0.65%) JMeter
11 27 (0.60%) Bitbucket
12 26 (0.58%) SonarQube
13 22 (0.49%) Maven
13 22 (0.49%) REST Assured
14 21 (0.47%) Robot Framework
15 19 (0.42%) Gatling
15 19 (0.42%) JUnit
15 19 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
16 14 (0.31%) SpecFlow
General
1 984 (21.90%) Social Skills
2 968 (21.54%) Finance
3 621 (13.82%) Analytical Skills
4 405 (9.01%) Public Sector
5 345 (7.68%) Banking
6 179 (3.98%) Front Office
7 116 (2.58%) Documentation Skills
8 102 (2.27%) Investment Banking
9 70 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 67 (1.49%) Marketing
11 59 (1.31%) Retail
12 55 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
13 43 (0.96%) Telecoms
14 42 (0.93%) Legal
15 38 (0.85%) Publishing
16 36 (0.80%) Financial Institution
17 34 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
18 31 (0.69%) Military
19 27 (0.60%) Manufacturing
20 26 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 803 (17.87%) Developer
2 709 (15.78%) Data Engineer
3 655 (14.58%) Senior
4 399 (8.88%) Python Developer
5 325 (7.23%) Lead
6 289 (6.43%) Architect
7 244 (5.43%) DevOps Engineer
8 235 (5.23%) Software Engineer
9 231 (5.14%) Analyst
10 225 (5.01%) Python Engineer
11 205 (4.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 180 (4.01%) AWS Engineer
13 177 (3.94%) Data Scientist
14 148 (3.29%) Senior Developer
15 137 (3.05%) Senior Data Engineer
16 134 (2.98%) Azure Engineer
17 125 (2.78%) Data Analyst
18 123 (2.74%) Full-Stack Developer
19 117 (2.60%) Security Engineer
20 112 (2.49%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 348 (7.75%) REST
2 327 (7.28%) React
3 313 (6.97%) PySpark
4 283 (6.30%) Kafka
5 203 (4.52%) .NET
6 182 (4.05%) Node.js
7 179 (3.98%) Pandas
8 154 (3.43%) JSON
9 147 (3.27%) RESTful
10 146 (3.25%) FastAPI
11 145 (3.23%) PyTorch
12 118 (2.63%) Django
13 106 (2.36%) TensorFlow
14 104 (2.31%) LangChain
15 101 (2.25%) NumPy
15 101 (2.25%) scikit-learn
16 99 (2.20%) AngularJS
17 95 (2.11%) YAML
18 92 (2.05%) Flask
18 92 (2.05%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 547 (12.17%) Cloud Native
2 213 (4.74%) Distributed Systems
3 125 (2.78%) AI Agents
4 122 (2.72%) Data Centre
5 117 (2.60%) Product Ownership
6 116 (2.58%) Algorithms
7 115 (2.56%) Onboarding
8 105 (2.34%) Data Protection Act
9 103 (2.29%) Equities
10 102 (2.27%) Derivative
11 101 (2.25%) Data Structures
12 98 (2.18%) Fixed Income
13 94 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
14 88 (1.96%) Security Posture
15 87 (1.94%) Hybrid Cloud
16 86 (1.91%) Management Information System
17 79 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
18 53 (1.18%) Public Cloud
19 51 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
20 44 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 518 (11.53%) Linux
2 248 (5.52%) Windows
3 182 (4.05%) Unix
4 91 (2.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 64 (1.42%) Windows Server
6 39 (0.87%) Ubuntu
7 27 (0.60%) VMS
8 24 (0.53%) AIX
8 24 (0.53%) Android
9 22 (0.49%) Solaris
10 20 (0.45%) CentOS
11 16 (0.36%) Apple iOS
12 11 (0.24%) zOS
13 10 (0.22%) Mac OS
14 7 (0.16%) Debian
15 6 (0.13%) Rocky
16 5 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
16 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
17 3 (0.067%) Oracle Linux
17 3 (0.067%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,683 (37.46%) CI/CD
2 1,238 (27.55%) DevOps
3 1,089 (24.24%) AI
4 947 (21.08%) Agile
5 946 (21.05%) Analytics
6 806 (17.94%) Problem-Solving
7 795 (17.69%) Data Pipeline
8 778 (17.32%) Infrastructure as Code
9 686 (15.27%) Machine Learning
10 669 (14.89%) Data Engineering
11 616 (13.71%) Data Modelling
12 606 (13.49%) ETL
13 599 (13.33%) Containerisation
14 584 (13.00%) Software Engineering
15 515 (11.46%) Data Science
16 467 (10.39%) Observability
17 452 (10.06%) Test Automation
18 448 (9.97%) Business Intelligence
19 396 (8.81%) LLM
20 375 (8.35%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1,550 (34.50%) SQL
2 698 (15.54%) Java
3 558 (12.42%) PowerShell
4 486 (10.82%) Bash
5 394 (8.77%) JavaScript
6 314 (6.99%) TypeScript
7 297 (6.61%) C#
8 176 (3.92%) Go
9 144 (3.20%) R
10 115 (2.56%) Scala
11 113 (2.52%) C++
12 97 (2.16%) Shell Script
13 67 (1.49%) Bicep
14 59 (1.31%) PL/SQL
15 57 (1.27%) Ruby
16 51 (1.14%) C
17 49 (1.09%) Perl
17 49 (1.09%) T-SQL
18 45 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 44 (0.98%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 987 (21.97%) Security Cleared
2 794 (17.67%) SC Cleared
3 356 (7.92%) Degree
4 152 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 132 (2.94%) DV Cleared
6 102 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
7 98 (2.18%) Azure Certification
8 83 (1.85%) CISSP
9 80 (1.78%) AWS Certification
10 60 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
11 59 (1.31%) Master's Degree
12 39 (0.87%) CCNP
13 37 (0.82%) CISM
14 31 (0.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 30 (0.67%) PhD
16 26 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
17 24 (0.53%) ISTQB
18 21 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 20 (0.45%) CCIE
20 18 (0.40%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 456 (10.15%) Data Quality
2 194 (4.32%) QA
3 131 (2.92%) GDPR
4 97 (2.16%) NIST
5 90 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 57 (1.27%) Accessibility
7 27 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 27 (0.60%) SLA
8 23 (0.51%) HIPAA
8 23 (0.51%) PCI DSS
9 18 (0.40%) WCAG
10 15 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
11 11 (0.24%) NCSC
11 11 (0.24%) 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
1 706 (15.71%) Docker
2 142 (3.16%) Active Directory
3 84 (1.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 65 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
5 35 (0.78%) vSphere
6 33 (0.73%) 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%) HDFS
13 8 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
13 8 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
14 7 (0.16%) Postfix
15 5 (0.11%) SRDF
16 4 (0.089%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
16 4 (0.089%) Ceph
16 4 (0.089%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 945 (21.03%) Terraform
2 815 (18.14%) Kubernetes
3 463 (10.30%) Ansible
4 256 (5.70%) Grafana
5 226 (5.03%) Prometheus
6 65 (1.45%) Puppet
7 51 (1.14%) Argo
8 36 (0.80%) Istio
9 33 (0.73%) Progress Chef
10 31 (0.69%) Kibana
10 31 (0.69%) vCenter Server
11 26 (0.58%) Control-M
12 24 (0.53%) Nessus
13 22 (0.49%) vRealize
14 21 (0.47%) Nagios
15 20 (0.45%) HAProxy
15 20 (0.45%) ZABBIX
16 17 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
16 17 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
16 17 (0.38%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 499 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 486 (10.82%) Databricks
3 227 (5.05%) Google
4 218 (4.85%) Oracle
5 186 (4.14%) Splunk
6 127 (2.83%) VMware
7 118 (2.63%) Red Hat
8 112 (2.49%) OpenAI
9 101 (2.25%) Cisco
10 86 (1.91%) CyberArk
10 86 (1.91%) ServiceNow
11 77 (1.71%) BeyondTrust
12 75 (1.67%) F5
13 71 (1.58%) Palo Alto
14 69 (1.54%) Dynatrace
15 58 (1.29%) IBM
16 55 (1.22%) Informatica
17 52 (1.16%) Foundry
18 46 (1.02%) Arista
19 45 (1.00%) SAP