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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 11 14
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing Python 4,606 3,293 3,646
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.60% 13.15% 9.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.72% 38.81% 32.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,084 2,328 2,668
10th Percentile £364 £375 £375
25th Percentile £430 £449 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £630 £675 £700
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £551
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.36% -8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 50 102
10th Percentile £28.50 £27.38 £21.76
25th Percentile £42.41 £34.12 £46.20
Median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -23.08% -0.38%
75th Percentile £74.20 £55.00 £71.72
90th Percentile £85.00 £64.88 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £45.00 £61.00
% change year-on-year +20.00% -26.23% -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 11,596 8,484 11,395
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.69% 33.88% 30.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,566 5,895 8,143
10th Percentile £360 £356 £350
25th Percentile £423 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £520 £540
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% -3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £726 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £510 £510 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 521 200 497
10th Percentile £36.25 £28.16 £35.52
25th Percentile £55.00 £35.75 £49.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.00 £85.00 £77.50
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 24 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 24 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 24 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 2,650 £550 -4.35% 1,088
North of England +9 786 £488 +2.63% 355
Yorkshire +2 431 £500 - 108
South East -5 414 £525 +4.48% 563
North West +4 276 £496 +4.42% 186
South West -5 258 £500 -9.09% 186
Midlands -14 237 £479 +3.99% 166
West Midlands -17 190 £477 +0.42% 81
East of England -14 129 £500 -0.25% 177
North East +9 91 £450 +5.88% 65
East Midlands -13 46 £497 +9.18% 85
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
1 249 (5.41%) Apache Spark
2 220 (4.78%) Apache Airflow
3 158 (3.43%) Apache
4 131 (2.84%) Confluence
5 50 (1.09%) Jupyter
6 45 (0.98%) SAS
6 45 (0.98%) SharePoint
7 18 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
8 17 (0.37%) OpenStack
9 14 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
10 12 (0.26%) nginx
11 10 (0.22%) ArcGIS
11 10 (0.22%) IIS
12 8 (0.17%) Apache Superset
12 8 (0.17%) Appian
13 6 (0.13%) Camunda
13 6 (0.13%) CICS
13 6 (0.13%) CMS
13 6 (0.13%) Tomcat
14 5 (0.11%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 102 (2.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (0.59%) Chatbot
3 24 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
4 20 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 19 (0.41%) MS Visio
6 18 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
7 14 (0.30%) CPLEX
8 4 (0.087%) Microsoft Project
9 2 (0.043%) LaTeX
10 1 (0.022%) OrCAD
10 1 (0.022%) SPSS
10 1 (0.022%) Weka
10 1 (0.022%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 22 (0.48%) Aladdin
2 20 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
4 7 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (0.15%) SAP IBP
5 6 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.13%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.11%) BambooHR
6 5 (0.11%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.087%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.087%) Sage X3
8 3 (0.065%) Bloomberg AIM
8 3 (0.065%) SimCorp Dimension
9 2 (0.043%) Endur
9 2 (0.043%) Front Arena
9 2 (0.043%) Global One
9 2 (0.043%) Oracle Assets
9 2 (0.043%) Orchestrade
9 2 (0.043%) Teamcenter
10 1 (0.022%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 1,761 (38.23%) AWS
2 1,590 (34.52%) Azure
3 682 (14.81%) GCP
4 542 (11.77%) GitHub
5 458 (9.94%) Power Platform
6 411 (8.92%) Serverless
7 348 (7.56%) Amazon S3
8 344 (7.47%) Azure DevOps
9 304 (6.60%) GitHub Actions
10 301 (6.53%) AWS Lambda
11 232 (5.04%) Azure Data Factory
12 221 (4.80%) Snowflake
13 181 (3.93%) dbt
14 149 (3.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 137 (2.97%) OpenShift
16 136 (2.95%) AWS CloudFormation
17 128 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 128 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
18 108 (2.34%) Amazon EC2
19 96 (2.08%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 208 (4.52%) Firewall
2 137 (2.97%) DNS
3 103 (2.24%) WAN
4 99 (2.15%) BGP
5 97 (2.11%) TCP/IP
6 88 (1.91%) Network Security
7 85 (1.85%) VPN
8 58 (1.26%) OSPF
9 54 (1.17%) BIG-IP
10 48 (1.04%) SD-WAN
11 45 (0.98%) HTTP
12 43 (0.93%) VXLAN
13 39 (0.85%) DHCP
13 39 (0.85%) VLAN
14 36 (0.78%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 36 (0.78%) SSL
15 35 (0.76%) LAN
15 35 (0.76%) MPLS
16 33 (0.72%) Ethernet VPN
17 32 (0.69%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 396 (8.60%) Power BI
2 296 (6.43%) PostgreSQL
3 270 (5.86%) Data Warehouse
4 226 (4.91%) SQL Server
5 189 (4.10%) Data Lake
6 178 (3.86%) Tableau
7 155 (3.37%) Relational Database
8 150 (3.26%) NoSQL
9 135 (2.93%) Metadata
10 120 (2.61%) Amazon Athena
10 120 (2.61%) Amazon Redshift
10 120 (2.61%) BigQuery
10 120 (2.61%) Delta Lake
11 114 (2.48%) Big Data
12 92 (2.00%) MongoDB
13 86 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
14 77 (1.67%) DynamoDB
15 64 (1.39%) MySQL
16 61 (1.32%) Snowflake Schema
17 60 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 529 (11.49%) Git
2 402 (8.73%) Jenkins
3 334 (7.25%) GitLab
4 251 (5.45%) JIRA
5 63 (1.37%) MLflow
6 57 (1.24%) Selenium
7 44 (0.96%) Postman
8 30 (0.65%) Bitbucket
9 29 (0.63%) JMeter
10 28 (0.61%) Artifactory
11 27 (0.59%) Cypress.io
11 27 (0.59%) SonarQube
12 25 (0.54%) Cucumber
13 24 (0.52%) Maven
14 20 (0.43%) Gatling
14 20 (0.43%) JUnit
15 19 (0.41%) REST Assured
16 18 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
17 17 (0.37%) Robot Framework
18 13 (0.28%) Claude Code
General
1 1,018 (22.10%) Social Skills
2 1,016 (22.06%) Finance
3 644 (13.98%) Analytical Skills
4 431 (9.36%) Public Sector
5 354 (7.69%) Banking
6 182 (3.95%) Front Office
7 118 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
8 102 (2.21%) Investment Banking
9 84 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 74 (1.61%) Retail
11 67 (1.45%) Marketing
12 55 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
13 49 (1.06%) Telecoms
14 42 (0.91%) Financial Institution
14 42 (0.91%) Legal
15 41 (0.89%) Publishing
16 35 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
17 32 (0.69%) Military
18 31 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
19 26 (0.56%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 804 (17.46%) Developer
2 736 (15.98%) Data Engineer
3 689 (14.96%) Senior
4 405 (8.79%) Python Developer
5 356 (7.73%) Lead
6 283 (6.14%) Architect
7 253 (5.49%) Python Engineer
8 249 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
9 243 (5.28%) Software Engineer
10 240 (5.21%) Analyst
11 219 (4.75%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 179 (3.89%) AWS Engineer
13 176 (3.82%) Data Scientist
14 146 (3.17%) Senior Developer
15 145 (3.15%) Azure Engineer
15 145 (3.15%) Senior Data Engineer
16 127 (2.76%) Cloud Engineer
17 124 (2.69%) Data Analyst
18 123 (2.67%) Platform Engineer
19 122 (2.65%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 347 (7.53%) REST
2 330 (7.16%) React
3 323 (7.01%) PySpark
4 289 (6.27%) Kafka
5 206 (4.47%) .NET
6 178 (3.86%) Node.js
7 174 (3.78%) Pandas
8 165 (3.58%) RESTful
9 157 (3.41%) JSON
10 156 (3.39%) FastAPI
11 143 (3.10%) PyTorch
12 137 (2.97%) Django
13 121 (2.63%) LangChain
14 103 (2.24%) NumPy
14 103 (2.24%) scikit-learn
15 100 (2.17%) TensorFlow
16 97 (2.11%) YAML
17 95 (2.06%) Flask
18 90 (1.95%) OAuth
18 90 (1.95%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 608 (13.20%) Cloud Native
2 241 (5.23%) Distributed Systems
3 139 (3.02%) AI Agents
4 133 (2.89%) Onboarding
5 130 (2.82%) Data Centre
6 121 (2.63%) Algorithms
7 120 (2.61%) Product Ownership
8 108 (2.34%) Data Structures
9 100 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
10 99 (2.15%) Derivative
10 99 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
11 98 (2.13%) Equities
11 98 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
12 96 (2.08%) Fixed Income
13 87 (1.89%) Management Information System
14 81 (1.76%) Security Posture
15 58 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
15 58 (1.26%) Public Cloud
16 51 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
17 47 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 526 (11.42%) Linux
2 255 (5.54%) Windows
3 179 (3.89%) Unix
4 99 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 61 (1.32%) Windows Server
6 42 (0.91%) Ubuntu
7 26 (0.56%) VMS
8 24 (0.52%) AIX
9 23 (0.50%) Android
10 20 (0.43%) CentOS
11 17 (0.37%) Solaris
12 16 (0.35%) Apple iOS
13 11 (0.24%) zOS
14 9 (0.20%) Mac OS
15 7 (0.15%) Debian
15 7 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
16 6 (0.13%) Rocky
17 5 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
18 3 (0.065%) Oracle Linux
18 3 (0.065%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,747 (37.93%) CI/CD
2 1,294 (28.09%) DevOps
3 1,147 (24.90%) AI
4 1,005 (21.82%) Agile
5 977 (21.21%) Analytics
6 837 (18.17%) Data Pipeline
7 829 (18.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 813 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
9 710 (15.41%) Machine Learning
10 697 (15.13%) Data Engineering
11 631 (13.70%) Containerisation
12 629 (13.66%) Software Engineering
13 623 (13.53%) Data Modelling
14 597 (12.96%) ETL
15 535 (11.62%) Data Science
16 486 (10.55%) Observability
17 467 (10.14%) Business Intelligence
18 462 (10.03%) Test Automation
19 425 (9.23%) LLM
20 395 (8.58%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1,559 (33.85%) SQL
2 688 (14.94%) Java
3 561 (12.18%) PowerShell
4 519 (11.27%) Bash
5 381 (8.27%) JavaScript
6 334 (7.25%) TypeScript
7 292 (6.34%) C#
8 181 (3.93%) Go
9 139 (3.02%) R
10 109 (2.37%) C++
10 109 (2.37%) Scala
11 94 (2.04%) Shell Script
12 75 (1.63%) Bicep
13 54 (1.17%) Ruby
14 52 (1.13%) Perl
15 49 (1.06%) PL/SQL
16 48 (1.04%) C
16 48 (1.04%) Groovy
16 48 (1.04%) Rust
17 47 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1,000 (21.71%) Security Cleared
2 803 (17.43%) SC Cleared
3 363 (7.88%) Degree
4 145 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 145 (3.15%) DV Cleared
5 105 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
6 99 (2.15%) Azure Certification
7 93 (2.02%) AWS Certification
8 87 (1.89%) CISSP
9 67 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
10 60 (1.30%) Master's Degree
11 43 (0.93%) CCNP
12 37 (0.80%) CISM
13 33 (0.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 32 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
14 32 (0.69%) PhD
15 27 (0.59%) CCIE
16 23 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 21 (0.46%) ISTQB
18 19 (0.41%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 473 (10.27%) Data Quality
2 182 (3.95%) QA
3 123 (2.67%) GDPR
4 101 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 100 (2.17%) NIST
6 59 (1.28%) Accessibility
7 25 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 23 (0.50%) HIPAA
8 23 (0.50%) PCI DSS
8 23 (0.50%) SLA
9 22 (0.48%) WCAG
10 14 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
11 13 (0.28%) NCSC
12 12 (0.26%) SOC 2
13 10 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
14 8 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 8 (0.17%) GRC
15 7 (0.15%) ISO 20022
16 5 (0.11%) MiFID
16 5 (0.11%) PMO
System Software
1 737 (16.00%) Docker
2 123 (2.67%) Active Directory
3 87 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 65 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
5 35 (0.76%) vSphere
6 33 (0.72%) VMware NSX
7 27 (0.59%) Firmware
8 21 (0.46%) Hyper-V
9 16 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
10 13 (0.28%) KVM
10 13 (0.28%) NFS
11 9 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
11 9 (0.20%) Squid
12 8 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
13 7 (0.15%) Postfix
14 5 (0.11%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
14 5 (0.11%) HDFS
14 5 (0.11%) SRDF
15 4 (0.087%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 4 (0.087%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1,008 (21.88%) Terraform
2 850 (18.45%) Kubernetes
3 482 (10.46%) Ansible
4 260 (5.64%) Grafana
5 228 (4.95%) Prometheus
6 70 (1.52%) Puppet
7 47 (1.02%) Argo
8 38 (0.83%) Progress Chef
9 32 (0.69%) Istio
10 31 (0.67%) vCenter Server
11 29 (0.63%) Kibana
12 26 (0.56%) Control-M
13 24 (0.52%) Nessus
14 23 (0.50%) vRealize
15 22 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
16 21 (0.46%) Nagios
16 21 (0.46%) ZABBIX
17 20 (0.43%) HAProxy
18 17 (0.37%) IBM Guardium
18 17 (0.37%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 531 (11.53%) Microsoft
2 486 (10.55%) Databricks
3 250 (5.43%) Google
4 208 (4.52%) Oracle
5 184 (3.99%) Splunk
6 130 (2.82%) OpenAI
7 122 (2.65%) VMware
8 111 (2.41%) Cisco
9 108 (2.34%) Red Hat
10 93 (2.02%) ServiceNow
11 80 (1.74%) F5
12 77 (1.67%) Palo Alto
13 76 (1.65%) Dynatrace
14 72 (1.56%) CyberArk
15 62 (1.35%) Informatica
16 60 (1.30%) IBM
17 58 (1.26%) BeyondTrust
18 56 (1.22%) Foundry
19 53 (1.15%) Fortinet
20 50 (1.09%) Arista