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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 10 14
Rank change year-on-year -2 +4 -2
Contract jobs citing Python 4,774 3,543 3,680
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.68% 13.13% 9.87%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.87% 39.25% 31.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,192 2,478 2,712
10th Percentile £366 £369 £375
25th Percentile £431 £446 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £711
90th Percentile £750 £817 £850
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £555
% change year-on-year -2.33% -3.15% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 55 106
10th Percentile £28.50 £27.77 £22.00
25th Percentile £41.25 £34.88 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -23.08% -0.38%
75th Percentile £74.26 £56.75 £71.88
90th Percentile £88.45 £63.55 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £53.25 £45.00 £62.25
% change year-on-year +18.33% -27.71% -4.23%

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 11,974 9,026 11,540
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.78% 33.45% 30.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,808 6,220 8,272
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 £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £735 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 505 225 475
10th Percentile £34.48 £28.27 £35.55
25th Percentile £55.00 £36.48 £49.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +3.17%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £79.48 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% -

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 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 9 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 9 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 2,744 £550 -4.35% 1,579
North of England +7 794 £488 +2.09% 463
South East -7 450 £530 +5.90% 567
Yorkshire +1 432 £500 +1.46% 123
North West +7 285 £500 +5.26% 262
South West -3 273 £500 -9.09% 556
Midlands -15 256 £477 +4.89% 205
West Midlands -15 205 £476 +0.21% 109
East of England -15 133 £500 -0.50% 189
North East +9 89 £425 -2.86% 81
East Midlands -8 50 £495 +10.74% 95
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
1 253 (5.30%) Apache Spark
2 229 (4.80%) Apache Airflow
3 171 (3.58%) Apache
4 150 (3.14%) Confluence
5 48 (1.01%) Jupyter
5 48 (1.01%) SAS
6 45 (0.94%) SharePoint
7 21 (0.44%) OpenStack
8 19 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
9 15 (0.31%) 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
1 104 (2.18%) 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 3 (0.063%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.021%) LaTeX
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%) Fidessa
6 6 (0.13%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.10%) BambooHR
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%) Endur
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 1,803 (37.77%) AWS
2 1,640 (34.35%) Azure
3 700 (14.66%) GCP
4 560 (11.73%) GitHub
5 452 (9.47%) Power Platform
6 404 (8.46%) Serverless
7 364 (7.62%) Amazon S3
8 351 (7.35%) Azure DevOps
9 322 (6.74%) GitHub Actions
10 302 (6.33%) AWS Lambda
11 236 (4.94%) Snowflake
12 228 (4.78%) Azure Data Factory
13 195 (4.08%) dbt
14 148 (3.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 141 (2.95%) AWS CloudFormation
16 139 (2.91%) Amazon EKS
17 137 (2.87%) OpenShift
18 134 (2.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 112 (2.35%) Amazon EC2
20 104 (2.18%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 222 (4.65%) Firewall
2 150 (3.14%) DNS
3 110 (2.30%) WAN
4 108 (2.26%) BGP
5 107 (2.24%) TCP/IP
6 101 (2.12%) Network Security
7 94 (1.97%) VPN
8 64 (1.34%) OSPF
9 53 (1.11%) BIG-IP
10 51 (1.07%) SD-WAN
11 48 (1.01%) DHCP
12 44 (0.92%) VXLAN
13 43 (0.90%) VLAN
14 42 (0.88%) HTTP
15 39 (0.82%) LAN
15 39 (0.82%) MPLS
16 38 (0.80%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 36 (0.75%) SSL
18 35 (0.73%) SNMP
19 34 (0.71%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 395 (8.27%) Power BI
2 306 (6.41%) PostgreSQL
3 283 (5.93%) Data Warehouse
4 226 (4.73%) SQL Server
5 185 (3.88%) Tableau
6 177 (3.71%) Data Lake
7 152 (3.18%) Relational Database
8 147 (3.08%) NoSQL
9 144 (3.02%) Metadata
10 127 (2.66%) BigQuery
11 123 (2.58%) Amazon Redshift
12 119 (2.49%) Big Data
13 118 (2.47%) Amazon Athena
13 118 (2.47%) Delta Lake
14 95 (1.99%) MongoDB
15 94 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
16 79 (1.65%) DynamoDB
17 68 (1.42%) MySQL
18 65 (1.36%) Snowflake Schema
19 57 (1.19%) Redis
Development Applications
1 555 (11.63%) Git
2 413 (8.65%) Jenkins
3 344 (7.21%) GitLab
4 276 (5.78%) JIRA
5 66 (1.38%) Selenium
6 60 (1.26%) MLflow
7 45 (0.94%) Postman
8 36 (0.75%) Bitbucket
9 34 (0.71%) JMeter
10 29 (0.61%) Artifactory
11 28 (0.59%) Cypress.io
12 27 (0.57%) Cucumber
12 27 (0.57%) SonarQube
13 25 (0.52%) Gatling
13 25 (0.52%) Maven
14 24 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
15 21 (0.44%) JUnit
15 21 (0.44%) REST Assured
16 17 (0.36%) Robot Framework
17 16 (0.34%) Zephyr
General
1 1,047 (21.93%) Social Skills
2 1,041 (21.81%) Finance
3 667 (13.97%) Analytical Skills
4 463 (9.70%) Public Sector
5 375 (7.86%) Banking
6 189 (3.96%) Front Office
7 113 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
8 107 (2.24%) Investment Banking
9 88 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 82 (1.72%) Retail
11 71 (1.49%) Marketing
12 57 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
13 54 (1.13%) Telecoms
14 46 (0.96%) Legal
15 44 (0.92%) Financial Institution
16 41 (0.86%) Publishing
17 37 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
17 37 (0.78%) Military
18 29 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
19 28 (0.59%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 824 (17.26%) Developer
2 752 (15.75%) Data Engineer
3 735 (15.40%) Senior
4 417 (8.73%) Python Developer
5 389 (8.15%) Lead
6 270 (5.66%) DevOps Engineer
7 269 (5.63%) Architect
8 261 (5.47%) Python Engineer
9 260 (5.45%) Software Engineer
10 247 (5.17%) Analyst
11 214 (4.48%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 188 (3.94%) Data Scientist
13 187 (3.92%) AWS Engineer
14 154 (3.23%) Senior Data Engineer
15 150 (3.14%) Senior Developer
16 146 (3.06%) Azure Engineer
17 136 (2.85%) Platform Engineer
18 132 (2.76%) Cloud Engineer
19 125 (2.62%) Data Analyst
20 114 (2.39%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 346 (7.25%) REST
2 322 (6.74%) PySpark
3 316 (6.62%) React
4 309 (6.47%) Kafka
5 212 (4.44%) .NET
6 181 (3.79%) Node.js
7 171 (3.58%) Pandas
8 168 (3.52%) RESTful
9 167 (3.50%) JSON
10 157 (3.29%) FastAPI
11 150 (3.14%) Django
12 140 (2.93%) PyTorch
13 119 (2.49%) LangChain
14 101 (2.12%) NumPy
14 101 (2.12%) scikit-learn
15 98 (2.05%) TensorFlow
16 93 (1.95%) OpenTelemetry
17 92 (1.93%) Spring
18 90 (1.89%) YAML
19 89 (1.86%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 642 (13.45%) Cloud Native
2 262 (5.49%) Distributed Systems
3 152 (3.18%) Onboarding
4 149 (3.12%) AI Agents
5 136 (2.85%) Data Centre
6 126 (2.64%) Product Ownership
7 119 (2.49%) Algorithms
8 108 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
9 106 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
10 105 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
11 103 (2.16%) Data Structures
12 102 (2.14%) Fixed Income
13 101 (2.12%) Derivative
14 96 (2.01%) Equities
15 87 (1.82%) Management Information System
16 73 (1.53%) Security Posture
17 59 (1.24%) Public Cloud
18 51 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
19 50 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
20 48 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 561 (11.75%) Linux
2 274 (5.74%) Windows
3 186 (3.90%) Unix
4 99 (2.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 62 (1.30%) Windows Server
6 37 (0.78%) Ubuntu
7 27 (0.57%) VMS
8 24 (0.50%) AIX
9 23 (0.48%) Android
10 16 (0.34%) Apple iOS
11 15 (0.31%) Solaris
12 14 (0.29%) CentOS
13 11 (0.23%) zOS
14 9 (0.19%) Mac OS
15 7 (0.15%) Debian
15 7 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
16 6 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
16 6 (0.13%) Rocky
17 5 (0.10%) Embedded Linux
18 4 (0.084%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,809 (37.89%) CI/CD
2 1,329 (27.84%) DevOps
3 1,169 (24.49%) AI
4 1,062 (22.25%) Agile
5 1,013 (21.22%) Analytics
6 875 (18.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 864 (18.10%) Data Pipeline
8 815 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
9 747 (15.65%) Machine Learning
10 718 (15.04%) Data Engineering
11 672 (14.08%) Software Engineering
12 651 (13.64%) Containerisation
13 641 (13.43%) Data Modelling
14 606 (12.69%) ETL
15 555 (11.63%) Data Science
16 520 (10.89%) Observability
17 488 (10.22%) Test Automation
18 467 (9.78%) Business Intelligence
19 429 (8.99%) LLM
20 426 (8.92%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1,605 (33.62%) SQL
2 722 (15.12%) Java
3 585 (12.25%) PowerShell
4 573 (12.00%) Bash
5 374 (7.83%) JavaScript
6 345 (7.23%) TypeScript
7 296 (6.20%) C#
8 195 (4.08%) Go
9 145 (3.04%) R
10 120 (2.51%) Scala
11 110 (2.30%) C++
12 100 (2.09%) Shell Script
13 78 (1.63%) Bicep
14 52 (1.09%) PL/SQL
15 51 (1.07%) C
15 51 (1.07%) Rust
16 50 (1.05%) Groovy
16 50 (1.05%) Ruby
17 49 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 47 (0.98%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,042 (21.83%) Security Cleared
2 825 (17.28%) SC Cleared
3 382 (8.00%) Degree
4 162 (3.39%) DV Cleared
5 151 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 114 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
7 100 (2.09%) Azure Certification
8 97 (2.03%) AWS Certification
9 87 (1.82%) CISSP
10 76 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
11 70 (1.47%) Master's Degree
12 46 (0.96%) CCNP
13 35 (0.73%) CISM
14 34 (0.71%) PhD
15 33 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
15 33 (0.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 30 (0.63%) CCIE
17 23 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 21 (0.44%) ISTQB
19 20 (0.42%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 481 (10.08%) Data Quality
2 204 (4.27%) QA
3 122 (2.56%) GDPR
4 106 (2.22%) NIST
5 102 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 70 (1.47%) Accessibility
7 26 (0.54%) SLA
8 25 (0.52%) WCAG
9 24 (0.50%) PCI DSS
10 23 (0.48%) HIPAA
11 21 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 18 (0.38%) NCSC
13 14 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
14 13 (0.27%) SOC 2
15 9 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 9 (0.19%) GRC
16 8 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
17 7 (0.15%) ISO 20022
18 5 (0.10%) HL7
18 5 (0.10%) MiFID
System Software
1 772 (16.17%) Docker
2 117 (2.45%) Active Directory
3 95 (1.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 69 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
5 38 (0.80%) vSphere
6 34 (0.71%) VMware NSX
7 26 (0.54%) Firmware
7 26 (0.54%) Hyper-V
8 21 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
9 14 (0.29%) NFS
10 12 (0.25%) KVM
11 9 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
11 9 (0.19%) Squid
11 9 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
12 7 (0.15%) Postfix
13 6 (0.13%) HDFS
14 5 (0.10%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
14 5 (0.10%) SRDF
15 4 (0.084%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 4 (0.084%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1,060 (22.20%) Terraform
2 893 (18.71%) Kubernetes
3 511 (10.70%) Ansible
4 285 (5.97%) Grafana
5 235 (4.92%) Prometheus
6 69 (1.45%) Puppet
7 60 (1.26%) Argo
8 41 (0.86%) Progress Chef
9 36 (0.75%) vCenter Server
10 29 (0.61%) Istio
11 28 (0.59%) Kibana
12 27 (0.57%) Control-M
13 25 (0.52%) Nessus
14 23 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
14 23 (0.48%) Nagios
14 23 (0.48%) vRealize
14 23 (0.48%) ZABBIX
15 20 (0.42%) HAProxy
16 18 (0.38%) IBM Guardium
17 17 (0.36%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 553 (11.58%) Microsoft
2 492 (10.31%) Databricks
3 263 (5.51%) Google
4 222 (4.65%) Oracle
5 189 (3.96%) Splunk
6 130 (2.72%) VMware
7 122 (2.56%) Cisco
7 122 (2.56%) OpenAI
8 107 (2.24%) ServiceNow
9 92 (1.93%) Red Hat
10 85 (1.78%) F5
11 81 (1.70%) Palo Alto
12 77 (1.61%) Dynatrace
13 67 (1.40%) Informatica
14 62 (1.30%) CyberArk
14 62 (1.30%) IBM
15 61 (1.28%) Fortinet
16 57 (1.19%) Foundry
17 51 (1.07%) Arista
18 46 (0.96%) SAP