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 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 10 14
Rank change year-on-year -4 +4 -3
Contract jobs citing Python 4,766 3,560 3,625
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.63% 13.04% 9.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.84% 39.25% 31.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,174 2,482 2,673
10th Percentile £366 £367 £375
25th Percentile £431 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £713
90th Percentile £750 £813 £850
UK median daily rate £525 £536 £555
% change year-on-year -1.96% -3.51% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 61 101
10th Percentile £28.50 £28.18 £22.00
25th Percentile £41.25 £35.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -23.08% -
75th Percentile £77.50 £58.75 £71.88
90th Percentile £88.75 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £53.25 £47.50 £61.00
% change year-on-year +12.11% -22.13% -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 11,962 9,069 11,381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.68% 33.23% 31.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,791 6,248 8,148
10th Percentile £360 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £520 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -3.70% -1.82%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 502 233 461
10th Percentile £34.22 £28.54 £35.64
25th Percentile £55.00 £37.50 £50.00
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 £81.00 £80.00 £75.00
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 13 July 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 13 July 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 13 July 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 2,740 £550 -4.35% 1,611
North of England +5 790 £490 +3.16% 433
South East -8 450 £532 +6.45% 529
Yorkshire +1 430 £500 +1.75% 119
North West +4 283 £500 +5.26% 237
South West -4 277 £500 -9.09% 419
Midlands -16 253 £477 +6.00% 210
West Midlands -17 202 £475 +2.70% 114
East of England -14 133 £500 -0.50% 172
North East +6 89 £425 -5.56% 80
East Midlands -8 50 £495 +10.74% 96
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
1 252 (5.29%) Apache Spark
2 230 (4.83%) Apache Airflow
3 170 (3.57%) Apache
4 148 (3.11%) Confluence
5 48 (1.01%) SAS
6 47 (0.99%) Jupyter
7 44 (0.92%) SharePoint
8 23 (0.48%) OpenStack
9 19 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
10 14 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
10 14 (0.29%) nginx
11 13 (0.27%) ArcGIS
12 11 (0.23%) IIS
13 8 (0.17%) Apache Superset
13 8 (0.17%) CMS
14 6 (0.13%) Camunda
14 6 (0.13%) CICS
14 6 (0.13%) Tomcat
15 5 (0.10%) WebSphere
15 5 (0.10%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 106 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (0.61%) Chatbot
3 27 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
4 22 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 21 (0.44%) MS Visio
6 18 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
7 14 (0.29%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.042%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.021%) OrCAD
9 1 (0.021%) Simulink
9 1 (0.021%) SPSS
9 1 (0.021%) Weka
9 1 (0.021%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 24 (0.50%) Aladdin
2 20 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
4 8 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.15%) SAP IBP
6 6 (0.13%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.10%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.10%) Fidessa
7 5 (0.10%) Sage X3
8 4 (0.084%) Oracle ERP
9 3 (0.063%) Bloomberg AIM
9 3 (0.063%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.063%) SimCorp Dimension
10 2 (0.042%) Front Arena
10 2 (0.042%) Global One
10 2 (0.042%) Oracle Assets
10 2 (0.042%) Orchestrade
10 2 (0.042%) Remedy AR System
10 2 (0.042%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,813 (38.04%) AWS
2 1,637 (34.35%) Azure
3 699 (14.67%) GCP
4 559 (11.73%) GitHub
5 452 (9.48%) Power Platform
6 405 (8.50%) Serverless
7 364 (7.64%) Amazon S3
8 353 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
9 322 (6.76%) GitHub Actions
10 303 (6.36%) AWS Lambda
11 235 (4.93%) Snowflake
12 225 (4.72%) Azure Data Factory
13 194 (4.07%) dbt
14 146 (3.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 140 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
16 137 (2.87%) Amazon EKS
16 137 (2.87%) OpenShift
17 136 (2.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 111 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
19 105 (2.20%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 223 (4.68%) Firewall
2 156 (3.27%) DNS
3 114 (2.39%) TCP/IP
4 111 (2.33%) WAN
5 109 (2.29%) BGP
6 100 (2.10%) Network Security
7 95 (1.99%) VPN
8 64 (1.34%) OSPF
9 52 (1.09%) BIG-IP
10 50 (1.05%) DHCP
10 50 (1.05%) SD-WAN
11 44 (0.92%) HTTP
11 44 (0.92%) VXLAN
12 43 (0.90%) VLAN
13 40 (0.84%) LAN
13 40 (0.84%) MPLS
14 37 (0.78%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 37 (0.78%) SNMP
15 36 (0.76%) SSL
16 34 (0.71%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 394 (8.27%) Power BI
2 304 (6.38%) PostgreSQL
3 283 (5.94%) Data Warehouse
4 226 (4.74%) SQL Server
5 185 (3.88%) Tableau
6 177 (3.71%) Data Lake
7 149 (3.13%) Relational Database
8 145 (3.04%) Metadata
9 143 (3.00%) NoSQL
10 130 (2.73%) BigQuery
11 124 (2.60%) Amazon Redshift
12 119 (2.50%) Big Data
13 118 (2.48%) Amazon Athena
13 118 (2.48%) Delta Lake
14 96 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
15 94 (1.97%) MongoDB
16 82 (1.72%) DynamoDB
17 65 (1.36%) MySQL
18 64 (1.34%) Snowflake Schema
19 57 (1.20%) Redis
Development Applications
1 558 (11.71%) Git
2 415 (8.71%) Jenkins
3 343 (7.20%) GitLab
4 274 (5.75%) JIRA
5 66 (1.38%) Selenium
6 60 (1.26%) MLflow
7 43 (0.90%) Postman
8 36 (0.76%) Bitbucket
9 34 (0.71%) JMeter
10 29 (0.61%) Artifactory
11 28 (0.59%) Cypress.io
11 28 (0.59%) SonarQube
12 27 (0.57%) Cucumber
13 25 (0.52%) Gatling
13 25 (0.52%) Maven
14 22 (0.46%) JUnit
14 22 (0.46%) REST Assured
14 22 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
15 16 (0.34%) Zephyr
16 15 (0.31%) Robot Framework
General
1 1,049 (22.01%) Social Skills
2 1,037 (21.76%) Finance
3 672 (14.10%) Analytical Skills
4 471 (9.88%) Public Sector
5 375 (7.87%) Banking
6 190 (3.99%) Front Office
7 111 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
8 106 (2.22%) Investment Banking
9 89 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 86 (1.80%) Retail
11 72 (1.51%) Marketing
12 57 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
13 55 (1.15%) Telecoms
14 45 (0.94%) Legal
15 44 (0.92%) Financial Institution
16 41 (0.86%) Publishing
17 40 (0.84%) Military
18 37 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
19 28 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
20 27 (0.57%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 818 (17.16%) Developer
2 745 (15.63%) Senior
3 744 (15.61%) Data Engineer
4 414 (8.69%) Python Developer
5 392 (8.22%) Lead
6 276 (5.79%) DevOps Engineer
7 267 (5.60%) Architect
8 265 (5.56%) Python Engineer
9 258 (5.41%) Software Engineer
10 250 (5.25%) Analyst
11 212 (4.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 187 (3.92%) AWS Engineer
13 184 (3.86%) Data Scientist
14 153 (3.21%) Senior Developer
15 151 (3.17%) Senior Data Engineer
16 143 (3.00%) Azure Engineer
17 140 (2.94%) Platform Engineer
18 133 (2.79%) Cloud Engineer
19 127 (2.66%) Data Analyst
20 113 (2.37%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 349 (7.32%) REST
2 318 (6.67%) PySpark
2 318 (6.67%) React
3 312 (6.55%) Kafka
4 211 (4.43%) .NET
5 182 (3.82%) Node.js
6 171 (3.59%) Pandas
7 170 (3.57%) RESTful
8 167 (3.50%) JSON
9 159 (3.34%) FastAPI
10 150 (3.15%) Django
11 135 (2.83%) PyTorch
12 119 (2.50%) LangChain
13 101 (2.12%) NumPy
14 99 (2.08%) scikit-learn
15 95 (1.99%) TensorFlow
16 92 (1.93%) OpenTelemetry
17 90 (1.89%) Spring
18 89 (1.87%) Flask
19 88 (1.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 644 (13.51%) Cloud Native
2 263 (5.52%) Distributed Systems
3 160 (3.36%) Onboarding
4 151 (3.17%) AI Agents
5 137 (2.87%) Data Centre
6 122 (2.56%) Product Ownership
7 116 (2.43%) Algorithms
8 112 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
9 107 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
10 104 (2.18%) Data Protection Act
11 103 (2.16%) Fixed Income
12 102 (2.14%) Data Structures
13 101 (2.12%) Derivative
14 95 (1.99%) Equities
15 87 (1.83%) Management Information System
16 73 (1.53%) Security Posture
17 61 (1.28%) Public Cloud
18 50 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
18 50 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
19 47 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 561 (11.77%) Linux
2 274 (5.75%) Windows
3 181 (3.80%) Unix
4 100 (2.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 60 (1.26%) Windows Server
6 35 (0.73%) Ubuntu
7 27 (0.57%) VMS
8 24 (0.50%) AIX
9 22 (0.46%) Android
10 15 (0.31%) Apple iOS
11 14 (0.29%) Solaris
12 13 (0.27%) CentOS
13 11 (0.23%) zOS
14 9 (0.19%) Mac OS
15 7 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
16 6 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
16 6 (0.13%) Debian
16 6 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
17 5 (0.10%) Rocky
18 3 (0.063%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,812 (38.02%) CI/CD
2 1,340 (28.12%) DevOps
3 1,166 (24.46%) AI
4 1,062 (22.28%) Agile
5 1,013 (21.25%) Analytics
6 883 (18.53%) Infrastructure as Code
7 861 (18.07%) Data Pipeline
8 814 (17.08%) Problem-Solving
9 746 (15.65%) Machine Learning
10 714 (14.98%) Data Engineering
11 675 (14.16%) Software Engineering
12 654 (13.72%) Containerisation
13 642 (13.47%) Data Modelling
14 600 (12.59%) ETL
15 552 (11.58%) Data Science
16 522 (10.95%) Observability
17 485 (10.18%) Test Automation
18 466 (9.78%) Business Intelligence
19 430 (9.02%) Continuous Improvement
20 426 (8.94%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 1,596 (33.49%) SQL
2 717 (15.04%) Java
3 589 (12.36%) PowerShell
4 578 (12.13%) Bash
5 376 (7.89%) JavaScript
6 347 (7.28%) TypeScript
7 290 (6.08%) C#
8 196 (4.11%) Go
9 146 (3.06%) R
10 120 (2.52%) Scala
11 107 (2.25%) C++
12 99 (2.08%) Shell Script
13 79 (1.66%) Bicep
14 51 (1.07%) C
14 51 (1.07%) PL/SQL
14 51 (1.07%) Rust
15 49 (1.03%) Groovy
15 49 (1.03%) Ruby
16 48 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 45 (0.94%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,051 (22.05%) Security Cleared
2 832 (17.46%) SC Cleared
3 380 (7.97%) Degree
4 165 (3.46%) DV Cleared
5 148 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 115 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
7 101 (2.12%) Azure Certification
8 100 (2.10%) AWS Certification
9 88 (1.85%) CISSP
10 77 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
11 70 (1.47%) Master's Degree
12 46 (0.97%) CCNP
13 36 (0.76%) CISM
14 33 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
14 33 (0.69%) PhD
14 33 (0.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 30 (0.63%) CCIE
16 25 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 21 (0.44%) CCNA
17 21 (0.44%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 479 (10.05%) Data Quality
2 204 (4.28%) QA
3 120 (2.52%) GDPR
4 107 (2.25%) NIST
5 101 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 73 (1.53%) Accessibility
7 26 (0.55%) WCAG
8 25 (0.52%) SLA
9 24 (0.50%) PCI DSS
10 23 (0.48%) HIPAA
11 21 (0.44%) NCSC
12 20 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 15 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
14 13 (0.27%) SOC 2
15 9 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 9 (0.19%) GRC
16 7 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
16 7 (0.15%) ISO 20022
17 5 (0.10%) NIST 800
17 5 (0.10%) PSD2
System Software
1 772 (16.20%) Docker
2 120 (2.52%) Active Directory
3 99 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 68 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
5 38 (0.80%) vSphere
6 34 (0.71%) VMware NSX
7 28 (0.59%) Hyper-V
8 26 (0.55%) Firmware
9 22 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
10 14 (0.29%) NFS
11 12 (0.25%) KVM
12 9 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
12 9 (0.19%) Squid
12 9 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
13 7 (0.15%) HDFS
13 7 (0.15%) Postfix
14 5 (0.10%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
14 5 (0.10%) SRDF
15 4 (0.084%) Ceph
15 4 (0.084%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1,061 (22.26%) Terraform
2 899 (18.86%) Kubernetes
3 511 (10.72%) Ansible
4 284 (5.96%) Grafana
5 235 (4.93%) Prometheus
6 68 (1.43%) Puppet
7 63 (1.32%) Argo
8 42 (0.88%) Progress Chef
9 37 (0.78%) vCenter Server
10 29 (0.61%) Istio
11 27 (0.57%) Control-M
11 27 (0.57%) Kibana
12 25 (0.52%) Nessus
13 23 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
13 23 (0.48%) Nagios
13 23 (0.48%) ZABBIX
14 22 (0.46%) vRealize
15 20 (0.42%) HAProxy
16 18 (0.38%) IBM Guardium
17 17 (0.36%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 550 (11.54%) Microsoft
2 485 (10.18%) Databricks
3 264 (5.54%) Google
4 221 (4.64%) Oracle
5 189 (3.97%) Splunk
6 133 (2.79%) VMware
7 123 (2.58%) Cisco
7 123 (2.58%) OpenAI
8 107 (2.25%) ServiceNow
9 91 (1.91%) Red Hat
10 85 (1.78%) F5
11 81 (1.70%) Palo Alto
12 77 (1.62%) Dynatrace
13 66 (1.38%) Informatica
14 65 (1.36%) CyberArk
15 63 (1.32%) IBM
16 62 (1.30%) Fortinet
17 58 (1.22%) Foundry
18 51 (1.07%) Arista
19 46 (0.97%) SAP