Python Contracts in England

Python
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Python skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Python over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 14 12
Rank change year-on-year +4 -2 +1
Contract jobs citing Python 3,378 3,656 5,379
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 13.17% 9.85% 11.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.06% 32.06% 33.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,366 2,673 3,943
10th Percentile £375 £375 £421
25th Percentile £449 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £710 £725
90th Percentile £825 £850 £835
UK median daily rate £538 £560 £600
% change year-on-year -4.02% -6.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 105 116
10th Percentile £27.57 £22.00 £23.63
25th Percentile £34.54 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £65.25
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -0.38% +18.64%
75th Percentile £55.00 £71.88 £73.75
90th Percentile £63.70 £77.50 £81.25
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £62.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -27.42% -4.62% +27.93%

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 8,648 11,405 16,104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.72% 30.72% 34.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,975 8,150 11,755
10th Percentile £354 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £543 £555
Median % change year-on-year -4.15% -2.25% +0.18%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 484 407
10th Percentile £28.18 £35.60 £28.84
25th Percentile £36.25 £50.47 £50.00
Median hourly rate £56.75 £64.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.02% +3.20% +19.05%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £82.37 £75.88 £80.55
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -12.00% - +19.05%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Python in England

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python in England.

Daily rate trend for Python in England

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in England over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python in England

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python in England.

Hourly rate trend for Python in England

Python
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Python in England over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

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 1 July 2025. 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 2,203 £575 -4.17% 12,075
North of England 0 314 £480 -4.00% 2,743
South East +6 254 £503 -3.37% 3,375
Midlands +13 165 £459 +4.91% 1,498
South West +7 160 £550 -8.33% 1,287
Yorkshire -1 156 £500 - 939
North West -7 145 £475 -5.00% 1,620
East of England +27 128 £501 +0.25% 1,597
West Midlands +22 118 £475 +5.56% 880
East Midlands +1 44 £449 +10.80% 591
North East -5 17 £425 -32.00% 193
Python
UK

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 217 (6.42%) Apache Airflow
2 193 (5.71%) Apache Spark
3 192 (5.68%) Apache
4 88 (2.61%) Confluence
5 25 (0.74%) SAS
6 23 (0.68%) SharePoint
7 17 (0.50%) JBoss
7 17 (0.50%) Jupyter
8 14 (0.41%) WebSphere
9 13 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
10 12 (0.36%) OpenStack
11 11 (0.33%) nginx
12 9 (0.27%) IIS
13 5 (0.15%) ArcGIS
13 5 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
13 5 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
13 5 (0.15%) Tomcat
14 4 (0.12%) CMS
14 4 (0.12%) IBM Domino
14 4 (0.12%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 92 (2.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (0.65%) Chatbot
4 13 (0.38%) Maya
4 13 (0.38%) NUKE
5 11 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 11 (0.33%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.059%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.059%) Maple
7 2 (0.059%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 2 (0.059%) Sketch
8 1 (0.030%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.030%) EViews
8 1 (0.030%) GNU Octave
8 1 (0.030%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.030%) Revit
8 1 (0.030%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.030%) Simulink
8 1 (0.030%) Trello
Business Applications
1 44 (1.30%) Aladdin
2 19 (0.56%) thinkFolio
3 17 (0.50%) Endur
4 7 (0.21%) Kondor
4 7 (0.21%) Maximo
4 7 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.18%) SAP PM
6 5 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.089%) Bankmaster
8 2 (0.059%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (0.059%) Infor SunSystems
8 2 (0.059%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.059%) SAP BPC
9 1 (0.030%) NEC Housing
9 1 (0.030%) Oracle BPM
9 1 (0.030%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.030%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 1 (0.030%) R3 Corda
9 1 (0.030%) Shopify
9 1 (0.030%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,355 (40.11%) AWS
2 963 (28.51%) Azure
3 483 (14.30%) GCP
4 276 (8.17%) GitHub
5 240 (7.10%) Serverless
6 239 (7.08%) Power Platform
7 201 (5.95%) dbt
8 194 (5.74%) Amazon S3
9 184 (5.45%) AWS Lambda
10 177 (5.24%) Azure DevOps
11 172 (5.09%) Snowflake
12 122 (3.61%) GitHub Actions
13 103 (3.05%) AWS CloudFormation
14 101 (2.99%) Azure Data Factory
15 94 (2.78%) OpenShift
16 92 (2.72%) Amazon EC2
17 73 (2.16%) Amazon EKS
18 68 (2.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 65 (1.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 57 (1.69%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 176 (5.21%) Firewall
2 125 (3.70%) DNS
3 85 (2.52%) Network Security
3 85 (2.52%) TCP/IP
4 81 (2.40%) VPN
5 64 (1.89%) BGP
6 54 (1.60%) HTTP
7 49 (1.45%) OSPF
8 39 (1.15%) DHCP
9 35 (1.04%) WAN
10 31 (0.92%) LAN
11 30 (0.89%) MPLS
12 27 (0.80%) SAN
13 23 (0.68%) IPsec
13 23 (0.68%) Wireless
14 20 (0.59%) Multicast
14 20 (0.59%) VLAN
15 17 (0.50%) SSH
16 16 (0.47%) SSL
17 15 (0.44%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 226 (6.69%) Power BI
2 211 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
3 184 (5.45%) Data Warehouse
4 159 (4.71%) Relational Database
5 150 (4.44%) Big Data
6 145 (4.29%) Tableau
7 141 (4.17%) SQL Server
8 134 (3.97%) Data Lake
9 126 (3.73%) Amazon Athena
10 119 (3.52%) NoSQL
11 100 (2.96%) MongoDB
12 94 (2.78%) Apache Iceberg
13 93 (2.75%) Hadoop
14 90 (2.66%) Dremio
15 86 (2.55%) Apache Arrow
16 81 (2.40%) Amazon RDS
17 70 (2.07%) BigQuery
18 66 (1.95%) MySQL
19 64 (1.89%) DynamoDB
20 53 (1.57%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 428 (12.67%) Git
2 348 (10.30%) Jenkins
3 196 (5.80%) GitLab
4 195 (5.77%) JIRA
5 70 (2.07%) Selenium
6 54 (1.60%) SonarQube
7 46 (1.36%) Sonatype Nexus
8 43 (1.27%) Bitbucket
9 41 (1.21%) Artifactory
9 41 (1.21%) JUnit
10 33 (0.98%) Postman
11 30 (0.89%) TeamCity
12 27 (0.80%) Cucumber
12 27 (0.80%) JMeter
13 25 (0.74%) Maven
14 21 (0.62%) LoadRunner
15 20 (0.59%) MLflow
16 19 (0.56%) Subversion
17 16 (0.47%) Cypress.io
17 16 (0.47%) Metasploit
General
1 930 (27.53%) Finance
2 845 (25.01%) Social Skills
3 505 (14.95%) Analytical Skills
4 406 (12.02%) Banking
5 331 (9.80%) Front Office
6 216 (6.39%) Public Sector
7 201 (5.95%) Investment Banking
8 78 (2.31%) Telecoms
9 63 (1.87%) Financial Institution
10 52 (1.54%) Marketing
10 52 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
11 50 (1.48%) Retail
12 44 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
13 41 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 41 (1.21%) Legal
14 31 (0.92%) Manufacturing
14 31 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
15 25 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
15 25 (0.74%) Games
16 23 (0.68%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 831 (24.60%) Developer
2 450 (13.32%) Senior
3 396 (11.72%) Data Engineer
4 324 (9.59%) Analyst
5 320 (9.47%) Python Developer
6 250 (7.40%) Software Engineer
7 243 (7.19%) Python Engineer
8 239 (7.08%) AWS Engineer
9 208 (6.16%) DevOps Engineer
10 187 (5.54%) Architect
11 158 (4.68%) Lead
12 124 (3.67%) Data Analyst
13 112 (3.32%) Network Engineer
14 106 (3.14%) Full-Stack Developer
14 106 (3.14%) Senior Developer
15 100 (2.96%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 98 (2.90%) Data Scientist
17 94 (2.78%) Azure Engineer
17 94 (2.78%) Business Analyst
18 89 (2.63%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 302 (8.94%) React
2 211 (6.25%) Kafka
3 189 (5.60%) REST
4 174 (5.15%) PySpark
5 173 (5.12%) Pandas
6 168 (4.97%) Node.js
7 145 (4.29%) NumPy
8 140 (4.14%) AngularJS
9 127 (3.76%) .NET
10 108 (3.20%) FastAPI
11 106 (3.14%) HTML
12 92 (2.72%) Django
13 90 (2.66%) CSS
14 80 (2.37%) RESTful
15 79 (2.34%) SciPy
16 76 (2.25%) TensorFlow
16 76 (2.25%) Vue
17 74 (2.19%) Spring
18 69 (2.04%) PyTorch
19 66 (1.95%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 217 (6.42%) Fixed Income
2 181 (5.36%) Hedge funds
3 154 (4.56%) Derivative
4 150 (4.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 147 (4.35%) Equities
6 140 (4.14%) Algorithms
7 134 (3.97%) Cloud Native
8 109 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
9 85 (2.52%) Data Structures
10 84 (2.49%) Onboarding
11 74 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
12 53 (1.57%) Product Ownership
13 50 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
14 49 (1.45%) Public Cloud
15 45 (1.33%) Data Centre
15 45 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
16 43 (1.27%) Distributed Computing
17 42 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
18 38 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
19 35 (1.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 527 (15.60%) Linux
2 239 (7.08%) Windows
3 127 (3.76%) Unix
4 79 (2.34%) Windows Server
5 74 (2.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 34 (1.01%) Ubuntu
7 26 (0.77%) CentOS
8 18 (0.53%) Android
9 17 (0.50%) Solaris
9 17 (0.50%) VMS
10 16 (0.47%) Apple iOS
11 14 (0.41%) Mac OS
12 13 (0.38%) Debian
13 10 (0.30%) Amazon Linux
13 10 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
14 9 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
15 7 (0.21%) AIX
16 6 (0.18%) Rocky
17 5 (0.15%) SUSE
18 4 (0.12%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 944 (27.95%) CI/CD
2 858 (25.40%) Agile
3 793 (23.48%) DevOps
4 718 (21.26%) Problem-Solving
5 480 (14.21%) Analytics
6 474 (14.03%) Software Engineering
7 409 (12.11%) Artificial Intelligence
8 400 (11.84%) Infrastructure as Code
9 363 (10.75%) Machine Learning
10 361 (10.69%) Containerisation
11 351 (10.39%) Data Pipeline
12 341 (10.09%) ETL
13 312 (9.24%) Data Science
14 310 (9.18%) Data Engineering
15 301 (8.91%) Data Modelling
16 295 (8.73%) Business Intelligence
17 289 (8.56%) Test Automation
18 259 (7.67%) Computer Science
19 239 (7.08%) Migration
20 228 (6.75%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 1,101 (32.59%) SQL
2 676 (20.01%) Java
3 460 (13.62%) JavaScript
4 407 (12.05%) Bash
5 370 (10.95%) PowerShell
6 274 (8.11%) TypeScript
7 247 (7.31%) C#
8 224 (6.63%) C++
9 147 (4.35%) Shell Script
10 137 (4.06%) R
11 132 (3.91%) Go
12 103 (3.05%) Scala
13 94 (2.78%) Perl
14 62 (1.84%) Ruby
15 58 (1.72%) C
16 49 (1.45%) PHP
17 39 (1.15%) Groovy
17 39 (1.15%) Tcl
17 39 (1.15%) VBA
18 37 (1.10%) Rust
Qualifications
1 575 (17.02%) Security Cleared
2 454 (13.44%) SC Cleared
3 351 (10.39%) Degree
4 151 (4.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 95 (2.81%) DV Cleared
6 93 (2.75%) Master's Degree
7 86 (2.55%) AWS Certification
8 79 (2.34%) Cisco Certification
9 63 (1.87%) CCNP
10 52 (1.54%) PhD
11 31 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
11 31 (0.92%) CISSP
12 30 (0.89%) Azure Certification
13 28 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 28 (0.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 25 (0.74%) CEH
15 22 (0.65%) Oracle Certification
15 22 (0.65%) OSCP
16 21 (0.62%) CCNA
17 17 (0.50%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 205 (6.07%) Data Quality
2 164 (4.85%) QA
3 96 (2.84%) GDPR
4 52 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 52 (1.54%) NIST
5 48 (1.42%) Accessibility
6 35 (1.04%) HIPAA
6 35 (1.04%) PCI DSS
7 32 (0.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 16 (0.47%) NCSC
8 16 (0.47%) SLA
9 13 (0.38%) SOC 2
10 12 (0.36%) MiFID
11 11 (0.33%) Basel III
12 9 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
12 9 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 8 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
13 8 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 5 (0.15%) EMIR
14 5 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 518 (15.33%) Docker
2 94 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 87 (2.58%) Active Directory
4 27 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
5 24 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
5 24 (0.71%) vSphere
6 19 (0.56%) VMware NSX
7 18 (0.53%) Firmware
8 16 (0.47%) Hyper-V
9 10 (0.30%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 5 (0.15%) DFS Replication
10 5 (0.15%) VirtualBox
11 4 (0.12%) iptables
11 4 (0.12%) OpenAM
11 4 (0.12%) OpenDJ
11 4 (0.12%) OpenIDM
11 4 (0.12%) Platform Symphony
11 4 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 3 (0.089%) FreeRADIUS
12 3 (0.089%) Squid
Systems Management
1 656 (19.42%) Kubernetes
2 591 (17.50%) Terraform
3 508 (15.04%) Ansible
4 134 (3.97%) Puppet
5 115 (3.40%) Grafana
6 101 (2.99%) Prometheus
7 77 (2.28%) Progress Chef
8 37 (1.10%) Kibana
9 27 (0.80%) vCenter Server
10 21 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
10 21 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
11 14 (0.41%) Nmap
12 13 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
12 13 (0.38%) Nagios
12 13 (0.38%) Nessus
12 13 (0.38%) Packer
13 12 (0.36%) vRealize
14 11 (0.33%) PowerCLI
14 11 (0.33%) Rancher
14 11 (0.33%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 319 (9.44%) Microsoft
2 199 (5.89%) Databricks
3 167 (4.94%) Oracle
4 155 (4.59%) VMware
5 153 (4.53%) Google
6 118 (3.49%) Cisco
7 111 (3.29%) Splunk
8 90 (2.66%) Red Hat
9 78 (2.31%) ServiceNow
10 55 (1.63%) SAP
11 51 (1.51%) IBM
12 40 (1.18%) Arista
12 40 (1.18%) BISAM
12 40 (1.18%) F5
13 35 (1.04%) Fortinet
14 34 (1.01%) Informatica
15 30 (0.89%) Atlassian
16 28 (0.83%) Sybase
17 27 (0.80%) CheckPoint
18 25 (0.74%) Palo Alto