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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 10 13
Rank change year-on-year -4 +3 -1
Contract jobs citing Python 4,760 3,628 3,489
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.45% 13.04% 10.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.71% 39.86% 33.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,142 2,488 2,580
10th Percentile £375 £360 £375
25th Percentile £447 £435 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £542 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% -5.83% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £725
90th Percentile £750 £800 £850
UK median daily rate £525 £528 £575
% change year-on-year -0.47% -8.26% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 62 102
10th Percentile £30.77 £30.39 £22.00
25th Percentile £43.48 £36.06 £40.17
Median hourly rate £60.37 £50.72 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.02% -21.97% -
75th Percentile £77.63 £58.94 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.75 £82.53 £77.25
UK median hourly rate £55.50 £50.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +11.00% -13.04% -9.72%

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 11,986 9,101 10,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.31% 32.70% 31.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,763 6,255 7,550
10th Percentile £363 £345 £356
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £655
90th Percentile £738 £763 £788
UK median daily rate £513 £504 £530
% change year-on-year +1.69% -4.91% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 496 236 359
10th Percentile £33.70 £29.07 £30.00
25th Percentile £52.88 £37.45 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £84.75 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +14.54% -12.69% +7.96%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 10 August 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 -4 2,766 £575 - 3,020
North of England +2 751 £500 +4.17% 572
South East -10 444 £537 +7.40% 646
Yorkshire +1 384 £500 +0.70% 171
South West -3 290 £505 -6.05% 312
North West +2 285 £525 +10.53% 307
Midlands -15 246 £470 +4.44% 246
West Midlands -10 196 £469 +4.22% 138
East of England -12 138 £500 -0.25% 300
North East -2 93 £425 -18.27% 99
East Midlands -6 49 £488 +15.50% 108
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
1 256 (5.38%) Apache Airflow
2 249 (5.23%) Apache Spark
3 186 (3.91%) Apache
4 148 (3.11%) Confluence
5 53 (1.11%) Jupyter
6 45 (0.95%) SAS
7 35 (0.74%) SharePoint
8 25 (0.53%) OpenStack
9 20 (0.42%) ArcGIS
9 20 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
10 15 (0.32%) nginx
11 12 (0.25%) IIS
12 9 (0.19%) Apache Superset
12 9 (0.19%) CMS
13 6 (0.13%) CICS
13 6 (0.13%) Tomcat
13 6 (0.13%) WebSphere
14 5 (0.11%) Camunda
14 5 (0.11%) WebSphere Application Server
15 4 (0.084%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 99 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (0.57%) Chatbot
3 22 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
4 19 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 18 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
6 16 (0.34%) CPLEX
7 15 (0.32%) MS Visio
8 3 (0.063%) Microsoft Project
9 2 (0.042%) Navisworks
9 2 (0.042%) Revit
10 1 (0.021%) CINEMA 4D
10 1 (0.021%) Houdini
10 1 (0.021%) OrCAD
10 1 (0.021%) Simulink
10 1 (0.021%) SPSS
10 1 (0.021%) Weka
10 1 (0.021%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 23 (0.48%) Aladdin
2 19 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
3 14 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
4 7 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (0.15%) SAP IBP
5 6 (0.13%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.11%) BambooHR
6 5 (0.11%) Remedy AR System
6 5 (0.11%) Sage X3
7 4 (0.084%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.063%) Endur
8 3 (0.063%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.063%) SimCorp Dimension
8 3 (0.063%) Teamcenter
9 2 (0.042%) Front Arena
9 2 (0.042%) Oracle Assets
9 2 (0.042%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.042%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 2 (0.042%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,814 (38.11%) AWS
2 1,660 (34.87%) Azure
3 718 (15.08%) GCP
4 581 (12.21%) GitHub
5 432 (9.08%) Power Platform
6 392 (8.24%) Serverless
7 377 (7.92%) Azure DevOps
8 345 (7.25%) GitHub Actions
9 336 (7.06%) Amazon S3
10 298 (6.26%) AWS Lambda
11 257 (5.40%) Snowflake
12 216 (4.54%) Azure Data Factory
13 202 (4.24%) dbt
14 146 (3.07%) AWS CloudFormation
15 144 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 141 (2.96%) Amazon EKS
17 135 (2.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 121 (2.54%) OpenShift
19 117 (2.46%) Entra ID
20 110 (2.31%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 256 (5.38%) Firewall
2 181 (3.80%) DNS
3 137 (2.88%) TCP/IP
4 110 (2.31%) BGP
4 110 (2.31%) VPN
5 102 (2.14%) WAN
6 97 (2.04%) Network Security
7 73 (1.53%) DHCP
8 66 (1.39%) OSPF
9 55 (1.16%) SD-WAN
10 51 (1.07%) VLAN
11 48 (1.01%) VXLAN
12 46 (0.97%) BIG-IP
12 46 (0.97%) HTTP
13 41 (0.86%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 41 (0.86%) SSL
14 38 (0.80%) Ethernet VPN
14 38 (0.80%) SNMP
15 34 (0.71%) MPLS
15 34 (0.71%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 398 (8.36%) Power BI
2 295 (6.20%) Data Warehouse
3 277 (5.82%) PostgreSQL
4 199 (4.18%) SQL Server
5 170 (3.57%) Tableau
6 163 (3.42%) Data Lake
7 160 (3.36%) Metadata
8 158 (3.32%) Relational Database
9 152 (3.19%) NoSQL
10 138 (2.90%) BigQuery
11 119 (2.50%) Big Data
12 118 (2.48%) Amazon Redshift
13 111 (2.33%) Amazon Athena
14 110 (2.31%) Delta Lake
15 97 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
16 94 (1.97%) MongoDB
17 84 (1.76%) DynamoDB
18 62 (1.30%) MySQL
19 58 (1.22%) Redis
20 56 (1.18%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 587 (12.33%) Git
2 414 (8.70%) Jenkins
3 372 (7.82%) GitLab
4 251 (5.27%) JIRA
5 74 (1.55%) Selenium
6 47 (0.99%) MLflow
7 41 (0.86%) Bitbucket
8 36 (0.76%) Postman
9 35 (0.74%) JMeter
10 33 (0.69%) SonarQube
11 28 (0.59%) Artifactory
11 28 (0.59%) Gatling
12 26 (0.55%) Cucumber
12 26 (0.55%) Cypress.io
12 26 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
13 24 (0.50%) Maven
14 22 (0.46%) Claude Code
15 21 (0.44%) REST Assured
16 17 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 17 (0.36%) Zephyr
General
1 1,054 (22.14%) Finance
2 1,036 (21.76%) Social Skills
3 705 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
4 483 (10.15%) Public Sector
5 375 (7.88%) Banking
6 187 (3.93%) Front Office
7 104 (2.18%) Investment Banking
8 100 (2.10%) Retail
9 96 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
10 95 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 79 (1.66%) Marketing
12 64 (1.34%) Telecoms
13 52 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
14 45 (0.95%) Aerospace
14 45 (0.95%) Military
15 43 (0.90%) Financial Institution
15 43 (0.90%) Legal
16 40 (0.84%) Publishing
17 36 (0.76%) Manufacturing
18 33 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 789 (16.58%) Developer
2 774 (16.26%) Senior
3 719 (15.11%) Data Engineer
4 423 (8.89%) Lead
5 411 (8.63%) Python Developer
6 295 (6.20%) Python Engineer
7 274 (5.76%) Software Engineer
8 273 (5.74%) DevOps Engineer
9 248 (5.21%) Analyst
10 240 (5.04%) Architect
11 215 (4.52%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 186 (3.91%) AWS Engineer
13 172 (3.61%) Data Scientist
14 153 (3.21%) Senior Developer
15 151 (3.17%) Cloud Engineer
15 151 (3.17%) Platform Engineer
16 146 (3.07%) Senior Data Engineer
17 143 (3.00%) Azure Engineer
18 125 (2.63%) Data Analyst
19 117 (2.46%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 369 (7.75%) REST
2 322 (6.76%) PySpark
3 307 (6.45%) Kafka
4 301 (6.32%) React
5 207 (4.35%) .NET
6 172 (3.61%) JSON
7 166 (3.49%) FastAPI
7 166 (3.49%) Node.js
8 164 (3.45%) RESTful
9 159 (3.34%) Pandas
10 157 (3.30%) Django
11 122 (2.56%) LangChain
12 119 (2.50%) PyTorch
13 95 (2.00%) YAML
14 94 (1.97%) Flask
14 94 (1.97%) NumPy
15 92 (1.93%) HTML
16 91 (1.91%) scikit-learn
17 90 (1.89%) pytest
18 88 (1.85%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 657 (13.80%) Cloud Native
2 266 (5.59%) Distributed Systems
3 186 (3.91%) AI Agents
4 180 (3.78%) Onboarding
5 144 (3.03%) Data Centre
6 134 (2.82%) Product Ownership
7 120 (2.52%) Algorithms
8 119 (2.50%) Data Structures
9 117 (2.46%) Hybrid Cloud
10 111 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
11 106 (2.23%) Derivative
12 98 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
13 93 (1.95%) Equities
14 91 (1.91%) Fixed Income
15 84 (1.76%) Management Information System
16 74 (1.55%) Security Posture
17 58 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
18 55 (1.16%) PKI
19 54 (1.13%) Public Cloud
20 52 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 600 (12.61%) Linux
2 296 (6.22%) Windows
3 195 (4.10%) Unix
4 119 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 70 (1.47%) Windows Server
6 37 (0.78%) Ubuntu
7 28 (0.59%) AIX
8 26 (0.55%) VMS
9 16 (0.34%) Solaris
10 14 (0.29%) Android
10 14 (0.29%) CentOS
11 10 (0.21%) zOS
12 9 (0.19%) Apple iOS
12 9 (0.19%) Mac OS
13 7 (0.15%) Windows 10
13 7 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
14 6 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
14 6 (0.13%) Debian
14 6 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
15 5 (0.11%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,850 (38.87%) CI/CD
2 1,395 (29.31%) DevOps
3 1,202 (25.25%) AI
4 1,083 (22.75%) Agile
5 1,007 (21.16%) Analytics
6 951 (19.98%) Infrastructure as Code
7 880 (18.49%) Data Pipeline
8 798 (16.76%) Problem-Solving
9 743 (15.61%) Software Engineering
10 740 (15.55%) Machine Learning
11 707 (14.85%) Data Engineering
12 644 (13.53%) Data Modelling
13 643 (13.51%) Containerisation
14 577 (12.12%) ETL
15 560 (11.76%) Observability
16 523 (10.99%) Data Science
17 513 (10.78%) Test Automation
18 487 (10.23%) Continuous Improvement
19 465 (9.77%) Business Intelligence
20 457 (9.60%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1,587 (33.34%) SQL
2 714 (15.00%) Java
3 656 (13.78%) PowerShell
4 639 (13.42%) Bash
5 385 (8.09%) JavaScript
6 329 (6.91%) TypeScript
7 273 (5.74%) C#
8 171 (3.59%) Go
9 132 (2.77%) R
10 115 (2.42%) C++
11 112 (2.35%) Scala
12 109 (2.29%) Bicep
13 105 (2.21%) Shell Script
14 57 (1.20%) Perl
15 53 (1.11%) C
15 53 (1.11%) Rust
16 52 (1.09%) PL/SQL
17 51 (1.07%) Groovy
18 48 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 45 (0.95%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,098 (23.07%) Security Cleared
2 888 (18.66%) SC Cleared
3 381 (8.00%) Degree
4 175 (3.68%) DV Cleared
5 145 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 121 (2.54%) Azure Certification
7 115 (2.42%) AWS Certification
8 94 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
9 83 (1.74%) CISSP
10 80 (1.68%) Cisco Certification
11 63 (1.32%) Master's Degree
12 47 (0.99%) CCNP
13 43 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
14 35 (0.74%) PhD
15 34 (0.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 28 (0.59%) CISM
17 27 (0.57%) CCIE
18 26 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 25 (0.53%) DBS Check
20 21 (0.44%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 506 (10.63%) Data Quality
2 229 (4.81%) QA
3 107 (2.25%) GDPR
4 96 (2.02%) NIST
5 92 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 72 (1.51%) Accessibility
7 29 (0.61%) SLA
8 27 (0.57%) WCAG
9 26 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 24 (0.50%) NCSC
10 24 (0.50%) PCI DSS
11 22 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
12 18 (0.38%) HIPAA
13 10 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 10 (0.21%) ISO 20022
14 9 (0.19%) SOC 2
15 7 (0.15%) GRC
16 6 (0.13%) NIST 800
17 5 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
17 5 (0.11%) HL7
System Software
1 805 (16.91%) Docker
2 144 (3.03%) Active Directory
3 108 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 56 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
5 39 (0.82%) vSphere
6 36 (0.76%) Hyper-V
7 34 (0.71%) VMware NSX
8 27 (0.57%) Firmware
9 20 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
10 13 (0.27%) NFS
11 12 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
12 10 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
13 9 (0.19%) Squid
14 7 (0.15%) HDFS
14 7 (0.15%) KVM
14 7 (0.15%) Postfix
14 7 (0.15%) PowerHA
15 5 (0.11%) SRDF
16 4 (0.084%) Ceph
16 4 (0.084%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1,118 (23.49%) Terraform
2 921 (19.35%) Kubernetes
3 544 (11.43%) Ansible
4 281 (5.90%) Grafana
5 221 (4.64%) Prometheus
6 82 (1.72%) Puppet
7 63 (1.32%) Progress Chef
8 61 (1.28%) Argo
9 28 (0.59%) vCenter Server
10 27 (0.57%) Istio
11 24 (0.50%) Control-M
11 24 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
11 24 (0.50%) ZABBIX
12 21 (0.44%) Nagios
13 20 (0.42%) Kibana
13 20 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
13 20 (0.42%) vRealize
14 17 (0.36%) HAProxy
14 17 (0.36%) Packer
14 17 (0.36%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 587 (12.33%) Microsoft
2 469 (9.85%) Databricks
3 281 (5.90%) Google
4 206 (4.33%) Oracle
5 185 (3.89%) Splunk
6 139 (2.92%) VMware
7 127 (2.67%) Cisco
8 118 (2.48%) OpenAI
9 113 (2.37%) ServiceNow
10 89 (1.87%) Dynatrace
11 87 (1.83%) Red Hat
12 85 (1.79%) F5
13 81 (1.70%) Palo Alto
14 71 (1.49%) IBM
15 68 (1.43%) Informatica
16 65 (1.37%) Fortinet
17 61 (1.28%) CyberArk
18 57 (1.20%) Foundry
19 53 (1.11%) SAP
20 52 (1.09%) Arista