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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 10 14
Rank change year-on-year -2 +4 -2
Contract jobs citing Python 4,784 3,533 3,664
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.67% 13.07% 9.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.85% 39.20% 31.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,196 2,472 2,705
10th Percentile £366 £368 £375
25th Percentile £431 £442 £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 £814 £850
UK median daily rate £525 £537 £560
% change year-on-year -2.23% -4.11% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 56 104
10th Percentile £28.50 £27.84 £22.00
25th Percentile £41.56 £34.54 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.25 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.50% -23.08% -0.38%
75th Percentile £76.69 £56.38 £71.88
90th Percentile £88.75 £63.50 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £45.00 £62.25
% change year-on-year +20.00% -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 12,004 9,012 11,491
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.78% 33.34% 31.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,827 6,215 8,231
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 £737 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 506 229 471
10th Percentile £34.57 £28.36 £35.58
25th Percentile £55.00 £36.25 £50.00
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 £80.60 £78.96 £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 10 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 10 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 10 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 2,746 £550 -4.35% 1,201
North of England +6 794 £488 +2.63% 373
South East -6 452 £525 +5.00% 535
Yorkshire +1 432 £500 +1.46% 107
North West +4 286 £500 +5.26% 194
South West -2 278 £500 -9.09% 219
Midlands -15 255 £477 +5.88% 197
West Midlands -18 204 £476 +0.21% 99
East of England -16 133 £500 -0.25% 181
North East +6 88 £425 -2.86% 75
East Midlands -10 50 £495 +13.53% 98
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 (5.29%) Apache Spark
2 229 (4.79%) Apache Airflow
3 172 (3.60%) Apache
4 148 (3.09%) Confluence
5 48 (1.00%) Jupyter
5 48 (1.00%) SAS
6 44 (0.92%) SharePoint
7 22 (0.46%) 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 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (0.61%) Chatbot
3 28 (0.59%) 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%) 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%) 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 1,814 (37.92%) AWS
2 1,648 (34.45%) Azure
3 703 (14.69%) GCP
4 561 (11.73%) GitHub
5 453 (9.47%) Power Platform
6 406 (8.49%) Serverless
7 365 (7.63%) Amazon S3
8 353 (7.38%) Azure DevOps
9 321 (6.71%) GitHub Actions
10 303 (6.33%) AWS Lambda
11 237 (4.95%) Snowflake
12 228 (4.77%) Azure Data Factory
13 195 (4.08%) dbt
14 149 (3.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 143 (2.99%) AWS CloudFormation
16 138 (2.88%) Amazon EKS
16 138 (2.88%) OpenShift
17 135 (2.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 111 (2.32%) Amazon EC2
19 106 (2.22%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 222 (4.64%) Firewall
2 155 (3.24%) DNS
3 112 (2.34%) TCP/IP
4 110 (2.30%) WAN
5 108 (2.26%) BGP
6 99 (2.07%) Network Security
7 93 (1.94%) VPN
8 63 (1.32%) 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%) MPLS
14 39 (0.82%) LAN
15 37 (0.77%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 37 (0.77%) SNMP
16 36 (0.75%) SSL
17 34 (0.71%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 395 (8.26%) Power BI
2 308 (6.44%) PostgreSQL
3 283 (5.92%) Data Warehouse
4 228 (4.77%) SQL Server
5 185 (3.87%) Tableau
6 178 (3.72%) Data Lake
7 153 (3.20%) Relational Database
8 147 (3.07%) NoSQL
9 144 (3.01%) Metadata
10 129 (2.70%) BigQuery
11 123 (2.57%) Amazon Redshift
12 119 (2.49%) Big Data
13 118 (2.47%) Amazon Athena
13 118 (2.47%) Delta Lake
14 95 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
14 95 (1.99%) MongoDB
15 82 (1.71%) DynamoDB
16 67 (1.40%) MySQL
17 65 (1.36%) Snowflake Schema
18 57 (1.19%) Redis
Development Applications
1 559 (11.68%) Git
2 415 (8.67%) Jenkins
3 345 (7.21%) GitLab
4 275 (5.75%) JIRA
5 66 (1.38%) Selenium
6 60 (1.25%) 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
11 28 (0.59%) SonarQube
12 27 (0.56%) Cucumber
13 26 (0.54%) Maven
14 25 (0.52%) Gatling
15 23 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
16 22 (0.46%) JUnit
17 21 (0.44%) REST Assured
18 16 (0.33%) Robot Framework
18 16 (0.33%) Zephyr
General
1 1,051 (21.97%) Social Skills
2 1,043 (21.80%) Finance
3 671 (14.03%) Analytical Skills
4 468 (9.78%) Public Sector
5 375 (7.84%) Banking
6 189 (3.95%) Front Office
7 113 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
8 107 (2.24%) Investment Banking
9 88 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 83 (1.73%) Retail
11 72 (1.51%) Marketing
12 57 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
13 54 (1.13%) Telecoms
14 45 (0.94%) Legal
15 44 (0.92%) Financial Institution
16 41 (0.86%) Publishing
17 38 (0.79%) Military
18 37 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
19 29 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
20 28 (0.59%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 826 (17.27%) Developer
2 749 (15.66%) Data Engineer
3 740 (15.47%) Senior
4 417 (8.72%) Python Developer
5 394 (8.24%) Lead
6 274 (5.73%) DevOps Engineer
7 268 (5.60%) Architect
8 263 (5.50%) Python Engineer
9 261 (5.46%) Software Engineer
10 248 (5.18%) Analyst
11 213 (4.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 188 (3.93%) Data Scientist
13 187 (3.91%) AWS Engineer
14 154 (3.22%) Senior Data Engineer
15 151 (3.16%) Senior Developer
16 145 (3.03%) Azure Engineer
17 137 (2.86%) Platform Engineer
18 133 (2.78%) Cloud Engineer
19 125 (2.61%) Data Analyst
20 114 (2.38%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 349 (7.30%) REST
2 320 (6.69%) PySpark
2 320 (6.69%) React
3 311 (6.50%) Kafka
4 213 (4.45%) .NET
5 182 (3.80%) Node.js
6 171 (3.57%) Pandas
6 171 (3.57%) RESTful
7 168 (3.51%) JSON
8 159 (3.32%) FastAPI
9 151 (3.16%) Django
10 138 (2.88%) PyTorch
11 119 (2.49%) LangChain
12 101 (2.11%) NumPy
12 101 (2.11%) scikit-learn
13 97 (2.03%) TensorFlow
14 93 (1.94%) OpenTelemetry
14 93 (1.94%) Spring
15 90 (1.88%) Flask
15 90 (1.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 647 (13.52%) Cloud Native
2 263 (5.50%) Distributed Systems
3 156 (3.26%) Onboarding
4 150 (3.14%) AI Agents
5 137 (2.86%) Data Centre
6 126 (2.63%) Product Ownership
7 119 (2.49%) Algorithms
8 108 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
9 106 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
10 105 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
11 103 (2.15%) Data Structures
12 102 (2.13%) Fixed Income
13 101 (2.11%) Derivative
14 96 (2.01%) Equities
15 86 (1.80%) Management Information System
16 73 (1.53%) Security Posture
17 61 (1.28%) Public Cloud
18 51 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
19 50 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
20 48 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 566 (11.83%) Linux
2 275 (5.75%) Windows
3 184 (3.85%) Unix
4 101 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 62 (1.30%) Windows Server
6 37 (0.77%) Ubuntu
7 27 (0.56%) VMS
8 24 (0.50%) AIX
9 23 (0.48%) Android
10 16 (0.33%) Apple iOS
11 14 (0.29%) CentOS
11 14 (0.29%) Solaris
12 11 (0.23%) zOS
13 9 (0.19%) Mac OS
14 7 (0.15%) Debian
14 7 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
15 6 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
15 6 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
15 6 (0.13%) Rocky
16 4 (0.084%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,819 (38.02%) CI/CD
2 1,341 (28.03%) DevOps
3 1,168 (24.41%) AI
4 1,065 (22.26%) Agile
5 1,017 (21.26%) Analytics
6 882 (18.44%) Infrastructure as Code
7 865 (18.08%) Data Pipeline
8 817 (17.08%) Problem-Solving
9 746 (15.59%) Machine Learning
10 717 (14.99%) Data Engineering
11 674 (14.09%) Software Engineering
12 657 (13.73%) Containerisation
13 640 (13.38%) Data Modelling
14 605 (12.65%) ETL
15 553 (11.56%) Data Science
16 525 (10.97%) Observability
17 491 (10.26%) Test Automation
18 466 (9.74%) Business Intelligence
19 431 (9.01%) LLM
20 426 (8.90%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,602 (33.49%) SQL
2 723 (15.11%) Java
3 589 (12.31%) PowerShell
4 577 (12.06%) Bash
5 378 (7.90%) JavaScript
6 346 (7.23%) TypeScript
7 295 (6.17%) C#
8 196 (4.10%) Go
9 146 (3.05%) R
10 120 (2.51%) Scala
11 109 (2.28%) C++
12 101 (2.11%) Shell Script
13 78 (1.63%) Bicep
14 52 (1.09%) PL/SQL
15 51 (1.07%) Rust
16 50 (1.05%) C
16 50 (1.05%) Groovy
16 50 (1.05%) Ruby
17 49 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 46 (0.96%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,049 (21.93%) Security Cleared
2 831 (17.37%) SC Cleared
3 381 (7.96%) Degree
4 164 (3.43%) DV Cleared
5 150 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 114 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
7 100 (2.09%) AWS Certification
7 100 (2.09%) Azure Certification
8 87 (1.82%) CISSP
9 77 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
10 71 (1.48%) Master's Degree
11 46 (0.96%) CCNP
12 35 (0.73%) CISM
13 34 (0.71%) PhD
14 33 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
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%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 481 (10.05%) Data Quality
2 207 (4.33%) QA
3 122 (2.55%) GDPR
4 107 (2.24%) NIST
5 102 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 72 (1.51%) 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 20 (0.42%) 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
1 775 (16.20%) Docker
2 119 (2.49%) Active Directory
3 97 (2.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 69 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
5 38 (0.79%) vSphere
6 34 (0.71%) VMware NSX
7 28 (0.59%) Hyper-V
8 26 (0.54%) Firmware
9 21 (0.44%) 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%) Postfix
14 6 (0.13%) HDFS
15 5 (0.10%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
15 5 (0.10%) SRDF
16 4 (0.084%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 4 (0.084%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1,066 (22.28%) Terraform
2 898 (18.77%) Kubernetes
3 513 (10.72%) Ansible
4 285 (5.96%) Grafana
5 236 (4.93%) Prometheus
6 69 (1.44%) Puppet
7 61 (1.28%) Argo
8 42 (0.88%) Progress Chef
9 37 (0.77%) vCenter Server
10 29 (0.61%) Istio
11 27 (0.56%) Control-M
11 27 (0.56%) 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
1 556 (11.62%) Microsoft
2 494 (10.33%) Databricks
3 263 (5.50%) Google
4 222 (4.64%) Oracle
5 190 (3.97%) Splunk
6 131 (2.74%) VMware
7 124 (2.59%) OpenAI
8 122 (2.55%) Cisco
9 108 (2.26%) ServiceNow
10 93 (1.94%) Red Hat
11 85 (1.78%) F5
12 81 (1.69%) Palo Alto
13 77 (1.61%) Dynatrace
14 67 (1.40%) Informatica
15 65 (1.36%) CyberArk
16 62 (1.30%) Fortinet
16 62 (1.30%) IBM
17 58 (1.21%) Foundry
18 51 (1.07%) Arista
19 46 (0.96%) SAP