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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 10 14
Rank change year-on-year -4 +4 -2
Contract jobs citing Python 4,756 3,597 3,533
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.57% 13.03% 10.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.98% 39.59% 32.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,142 2,489 2,637
10th Percentile £375 £363 £375
25th Percentile £438 £435 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £725
90th Percentile £750 £800 £850
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £575
% change year-on-year -0.94% -7.83% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 60 101
10th Percentile £30.05 £29.82 £22.00
25th Percentile £42.50 £36.19 £41.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £50.72 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.37% -21.97% -
75th Percentile £77.50 £58.75 £71.88
90th Percentile £88.75 £75.37 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% -5.42%

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 11,897 9,086 10,785
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.43% 32.91% 31.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,736 6,271 7,778
10th Percentile £363 £350 £351
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £651
90th Percentile £738 £775 £789
UK median daily rate £513 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 483 227 381
10th Percentile £34.01 £29.07 £31.25
25th Percentile £53.53 £38.38 £52.50
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 £83.58 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £56.38 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.30% -13.27% +7.35%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -4 2,732 £570 -0.87% 1,575
North of England +3 774 £492 +3.58% 420
South East -10 438 £538 +7.50% 485
Yorkshire +2 409 £500 +1.75% 117
South West 0 292 £500 -6.98% 223
North West +2 288 £525 +10.53% 218
Midlands -14 255 £470 +4.44% 196
West Midlands -11 204 £469 +4.11% 103
East of England -14 138 £500 -0.50% 180
North East 0 88 £425 -2.86% 90
East Midlands -9 50 £488 +9.17% 93
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
1 254 (5.34%) Apache Spark
2 237 (4.98%) Apache Airflow
3 183 (3.85%) Apache
4 159 (3.34%) Confluence
5 49 (1.03%) Jupyter
6 45 (0.95%) SAS
7 43 (0.90%) SharePoint
8 21 (0.44%) OpenStack
9 20 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
10 18 (0.38%) ArcGIS
11 16 (0.34%) nginx
12 13 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
13 11 (0.23%) IIS
14 9 (0.19%) CMS
15 8 (0.17%) Apache Superset
16 6 (0.13%) Camunda
16 6 (0.13%) CICS
16 6 (0.13%) Tomcat
17 5 (0.11%) WebSphere
17 5 (0.11%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 105 (2.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (0.57%) Chatbot
3 23 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
4 21 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 19 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
6 17 (0.36%) CPLEX
7 15 (0.32%) MS Visio
8 3 (0.063%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.021%) Navisworks
9 1 (0.021%) OrCAD
9 1 (0.021%) Revit
9 1 (0.021%) Simulink
9 1 (0.021%) SPSS
9 1 (0.021%) Weka
9 1 (0.021%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 25 (0.53%) Aladdin
2 19 (0.40%) 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 (0.11%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.11%) Sage X3
8 4 (0.084%) Oracle ERP
9 3 (0.063%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.063%) SimCorp Dimension
9 3 (0.063%) Teamcenter
10 2 (0.042%) Bloomberg AIM
10 2 (0.042%) Front Arena
10 2 (0.042%) Global One
10 2 (0.042%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 2 (0.042%) Oracle Assets
10 2 (0.042%) Orchestrade
10 2 (0.042%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 1,803 (37.91%) AWS
2 1,634 (34.36%) Azure
3 705 (14.82%) GCP
4 558 (11.73%) GitHub
5 446 (9.38%) Power Platform
6 400 (8.41%) Serverless
7 359 (7.55%) Azure DevOps
8 348 (7.32%) Amazon S3
9 322 (6.77%) GitHub Actions
10 299 (6.29%) AWS Lambda
11 243 (5.11%) Snowflake
12 218 (4.58%) Azure Data Factory
13 201 (4.23%) dbt
14 145 (3.05%) AWS CloudFormation
15 142 (2.99%) Amazon EKS
16 140 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 138 (2.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 135 (2.84%) OpenShift
19 114 (2.40%) Entra ID
20 108 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 239 (5.03%) Firewall
2 166 (3.49%) DNS
3 125 (2.63%) TCP/IP
4 112 (2.35%) BGP
5 105 (2.21%) WAN
6 103 (2.17%) VPN
7 94 (1.98%) Network Security
8 68 (1.43%) OSPF
9 59 (1.24%) DHCP
10 51 (1.07%) VLAN
11 50 (1.05%) SD-WAN
12 49 (1.03%) BIG-IP
13 46 (0.97%) VXLAN
14 43 (0.90%) HTTP
15 41 (0.86%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 39 (0.82%) SSL
17 37 (0.78%) SNMP
18 36 (0.76%) MPLS
18 36 (0.76%) SAN
19 35 (0.74%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 395 (8.31%) Power BI
2 286 (6.01%) PostgreSQL
3 281 (5.91%) Data Warehouse
4 205 (4.31%) SQL Server
5 178 (3.74%) Tableau
6 172 (3.62%) Data Lake
7 152 (3.20%) Metadata
8 151 (3.17%) NoSQL
9 149 (3.13%) Relational Database
10 139 (2.92%) BigQuery
11 121 (2.54%) Amazon Redshift
12 120 (2.52%) Big Data
13 113 (2.38%) Amazon Athena
14 109 (2.29%) Delta Lake
15 96 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
16 95 (2.00%) MongoDB
17 85 (1.79%) DynamoDB
18 61 (1.28%) Snowflake Schema
19 57 (1.20%) MySQL
19 57 (1.20%) Redis
Development Applications
1 557 (11.71%) Git
2 412 (8.66%) Jenkins
3 345 (7.25%) GitLab
4 267 (5.61%) JIRA
5 65 (1.37%) Selenium
6 57 (1.20%) MLflow
7 39 (0.82%) Bitbucket
8 36 (0.76%) Postman
9 30 (0.63%) JMeter
10 29 (0.61%) Artifactory
10 29 (0.61%) SonarQube
11 27 (0.57%) Cucumber
12 26 (0.55%) Cypress.io
13 24 (0.50%) Maven
14 23 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
15 22 (0.46%) REST Assured
16 21 (0.44%) Gatling
17 20 (0.42%) JUnit
18 17 (0.36%) Zephyr
19 16 (0.34%) Claude Code
General
1 1,049 (22.06%) Finance
2 1,038 (21.83%) Social Skills
3 689 (14.49%) Analytical Skills
4 480 (10.09%) Public Sector
5 377 (7.93%) Banking
6 191 (4.02%) Front Office
7 106 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
8 101 (2.12%) Investment Banking
9 92 (1.93%) Retail
10 89 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 75 (1.58%) Marketing
12 61 (1.28%) Telecoms
13 59 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
14 45 (0.95%) Legal
15 44 (0.93%) Financial Institution
16 43 (0.90%) Military
16 43 (0.90%) Publishing
17 37 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
18 30 (0.63%) Aerospace
18 30 (0.63%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 790 (16.61%) Developer
2 763 (16.04%) Senior
3 730 (15.35%) Data Engineer
4 408 (8.58%) Lead
5 399 (8.39%) Python Developer
6 280 (5.89%) Python Engineer
7 278 (5.85%) DevOps Engineer
8 275 (5.78%) Software Engineer
9 252 (5.30%) Analyst
9 252 (5.30%) Architect
10 218 (4.58%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 185 (3.89%) AWS Engineer
11 185 (3.89%) Data Scientist
12 153 (3.22%) Senior Developer
13 148 (3.11%) Platform Engineer
14 147 (3.09%) Senior Data Engineer
15 142 (2.99%) Azure Engineer
16 141 (2.96%) Cloud Engineer
17 131 (2.75%) Data Analyst
18 116 (2.44%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 358 (7.53%) REST
2 315 (6.62%) PySpark
3 313 (6.58%) Kafka
4 310 (6.52%) React
5 207 (4.35%) .NET
6 181 (3.81%) JSON
7 180 (3.78%) Node.js
8 165 (3.47%) Pandas
9 164 (3.45%) FastAPI
10 160 (3.36%) RESTful
11 151 (3.17%) Django
12 128 (2.69%) PyTorch
13 124 (2.61%) LangChain
14 97 (2.04%) NumPy
15 93 (1.96%) scikit-learn
15 93 (1.96%) Spring
16 91 (1.91%) YAML
17 90 (1.89%) Flask
17 90 (1.89%) TensorFlow
18 87 (1.83%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 645 (13.56%) Cloud Native
2 275 (5.78%) Distributed Systems
3 174 (3.66%) Onboarding
4 172 (3.62%) AI Agents
5 144 (3.03%) Data Centre
6 130 (2.73%) Product Ownership
7 120 (2.52%) Algorithms
8 113 (2.38%) Data Structures
8 113 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
9 109 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
10 103 (2.17%) Derivative
10 103 (2.17%) Fixed Income
11 101 (2.12%) Data Protection Act
12 93 (1.96%) Equities
13 81 (1.70%) Management Information System
14 77 (1.62%) Security Posture
15 54 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
16 53 (1.11%) PKI
17 52 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
18 51 (1.07%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 587 (12.34%) Linux
2 291 (6.12%) Windows
3 181 (3.81%) Unix
4 114 (2.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 64 (1.35%) Windows Server
6 39 (0.82%) Ubuntu
7 27 (0.57%) AIX
7 27 (0.57%) VMS
8 21 (0.44%) Android
9 14 (0.29%) Apple iOS
9 14 (0.29%) Solaris
10 13 (0.27%) CentOS
11 11 (0.23%) zOS
12 8 (0.17%) Mac OS
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
15 5 (0.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,799 (37.83%) CI/CD
2 1,349 (28.36%) DevOps
3 1,179 (24.79%) AI
4 1,072 (22.54%) Agile
5 1,021 (21.47%) Analytics
6 908 (19.09%) Infrastructure as Code
7 866 (18.21%) Data Pipeline
8 793 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
9 751 (15.79%) Machine Learning
10 717 (15.08%) Software Engineering
11 715 (15.03%) Data Engineering
12 648 (13.62%) Containerisation
13 637 (13.39%) Data Modelling
14 583 (12.26%) ETL
15 551 (11.59%) Data Science
16 539 (11.33%) Observability
17 478 (10.05%) Test Automation
18 468 (9.84%) Business Intelligence
19 459 (9.65%) Continuous Improvement
20 436 (9.17%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1,581 (33.24%) SQL
2 704 (14.80%) Java
3 624 (13.12%) PowerShell
4 614 (12.91%) Bash
5 370 (7.78%) JavaScript
6 342 (7.19%) TypeScript
7 276 (5.80%) C#
8 186 (3.91%) Go
9 142 (2.99%) R
10 110 (2.31%) C++
11 107 (2.25%) Scala
12 103 (2.17%) Shell Script
13 97 (2.04%) Bicep
14 55 (1.16%) Rust
15 52 (1.09%) PL/SQL
16 51 (1.07%) C
16 51 (1.07%) Groovy
17 50 (1.05%) Perl
18 47 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 47 (0.99%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,062 (22.33%) Security Cleared
2 839 (17.64%) SC Cleared
3 378 (7.95%) Degree
4 177 (3.72%) DV Cleared
5 133 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 113 (2.38%) AWS Certification
7 112 (2.35%) Azure Certification
8 104 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
9 83 (1.75%) CISSP
10 77 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
11 68 (1.43%) Master's Degree
12 48 (1.01%) CCNP
13 39 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
13 39 (0.82%) PhD
14 35 (0.74%) CISM
15 33 (0.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 28 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 28 (0.59%) CCIE
17 25 (0.53%) DBS Check
18 21 (0.44%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 498 (10.47%) Data Quality
2 213 (4.48%) QA
3 108 (2.27%) GDPR
4 100 (2.10%) NIST
5 97 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 75 (1.58%) Accessibility
7 26 (0.55%) WCAG
8 25 (0.53%) SLA
9 21 (0.44%) NCSC
10 20 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 19 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
11 19 (0.40%) PCI DSS
12 18 (0.38%) HIPAA
13 10 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 9 (0.19%) SOC 2
15 7 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
15 7 (0.15%) GRC
15 7 (0.15%) ISO 20022
16 6 (0.13%) PMO
17 5 (0.11%) NIST 800
System Software
1 776 (16.32%) Docker
2 135 (2.84%) Active Directory
3 108 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 65 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
5 43 (0.90%) vSphere
6 36 (0.76%) VMware NSX
7 32 (0.67%) Hyper-V
8 29 (0.61%) Firmware
9 23 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
10 14 (0.29%) NFS
11 12 (0.25%) KVM
12 10 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
13 9 (0.19%) Squid
13 9 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
14 7 (0.15%) HDFS
14 7 (0.15%) Postfix
15 6 (0.13%) PowerHA
16 5 (0.11%) SRDF
17 4 (0.084%) Ceph
17 4 (0.084%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1,084 (22.79%) Terraform
2 909 (19.11%) Kubernetes
3 526 (11.06%) Ansible
4 287 (6.03%) Grafana
5 229 (4.81%) Prometheus
6 75 (1.58%) Puppet
7 69 (1.45%) Argo
8 52 (1.09%) Progress Chef
9 38 (0.80%) vCenter Server
10 26 (0.55%) Istio
11 25 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
12 23 (0.48%) Kibana
12 23 (0.48%) ZABBIX
13 22 (0.46%) Control-M
13 22 (0.46%) Nagios
14 21 (0.44%) vRealize
15 18 (0.38%) Nessus
16 17 (0.36%) HAProxy
16 17 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
16 17 (0.36%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 560 (11.77%) Microsoft
2 477 (10.03%) Databricks
3 266 (5.59%) Google
4 205 (4.31%) Oracle
5 183 (3.85%) Splunk
6 141 (2.96%) VMware
7 127 (2.67%) Cisco
8 125 (2.63%) OpenAI
9 104 (2.19%) ServiceNow
10 90 (1.89%) Red Hat
11 87 (1.83%) F5
12 83 (1.75%) Palo Alto
13 82 (1.72%) Dynatrace
14 66 (1.39%) Fortinet
14 66 (1.39%) IBM
15 65 (1.37%) Informatica
16 64 (1.35%) CyberArk
17 59 (1.24%) Foundry
18 51 (1.07%) Arista
19 49 (1.03%) Salesforce