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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 10 14
Rank change year-on-year -2 +4 -2
Contract jobs citing Python 4,623 3,343 3,659
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.63% 13.23% 9.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.72% 39.00% 32.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,091 2,348 2,670
10th Percentile £366 £375 £375
25th Percentile £430 £447 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £630 £675 £710
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £558
% change year-on-year -2.33% -3.59% -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 52 105
10th Percentile £28.50 £27.57 £22.00
25th Percentile £42.88 £34.54 £46.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -23.08% -
75th Percentile £75.26 £55.00 £71.88
90th Percentile £85.60 £63.70 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £54.25 £45.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +20.56% -28.00% -3.85%

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 11,638 8,572 11,424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.77% 33.92% 30.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,580 5,930 8,162
10th Percentile £362 £355 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £520 £541
Median % change year-on-year -0.24% -3.93% -2.87%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £726 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £510 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -0.20% -2.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 507 204 487
10th Percentile £35.85 £28.18 £35.61
25th Percentile £55.25 £35.75 £51.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.85 £84.85 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% +1.46%

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 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 27 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 27 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 2,669 £550 -4.35% 1,032
North of England +10 781 £488 +1.56% 332
Yorkshire +2 429 £500 - 97
South East -6 422 £525 +5.00% 563
North West +3 274 £500 +5.26% 178
South West -4 258 £500 -9.09% 195
Midlands -18 234 £477 +3.53% 165
West Midlands -17 187 £472 -0.63% 86
East of England -15 128 £500 -0.50% 170
North East +9 90 £450 +5.88% 61
East Midlands -11 46 £497 +10.64% 79
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 (5.39%) Apache Spark
2 222 (4.80%) Apache Airflow
3 160 (3.46%) Apache
4 132 (2.86%) Confluence
5 50 (1.08%) Jupyter
6 46 (1.00%) SAS
7 45 (0.97%) SharePoint
8 18 (0.39%) OpenStack
8 18 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
9 14 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
10 12 (0.26%) nginx
11 11 (0.24%) ArcGIS
11 11 (0.24%) IIS
12 8 (0.17%) Apache Superset
13 7 (0.15%) Appian
14 6 (0.13%) Camunda
14 6 (0.13%) CICS
14 6 (0.13%) CMS
14 6 (0.13%) Tomcat
15 5 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 101 (2.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (0.61%) Chatbot
3 25 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
4 21 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 20 (0.43%) 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 23 (0.50%) Aladdin
2 20 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.24%) 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%) Remedy AR System
9 2 (0.043%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,764 (38.16%) AWS
2 1,591 (34.41%) Azure
3 691 (14.95%) GCP
4 536 (11.59%) GitHub
5 450 (9.73%) Power Platform
6 406 (8.78%) Serverless
7 347 (7.51%) Amazon S3
8 341 (7.38%) Azure DevOps
9 299 (6.47%) AWS Lambda
9 299 (6.47%) GitHub Actions
10 227 (4.91%) Azure Data Factory
11 224 (4.85%) Snowflake
12 186 (4.02%) dbt
13 146 (3.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 141 (3.05%) AWS CloudFormation
15 137 (2.96%) OpenShift
16 128 (2.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 127 (2.75%) Amazon EKS
18 106 (2.29%) Amazon EC2
19 96 (2.08%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 208 (4.50%) Firewall
2 138 (2.99%) DNS
3 105 (2.27%) WAN
4 102 (2.21%) BGP
5 97 (2.10%) TCP/IP
6 91 (1.97%) Network Security
7 88 (1.90%) VPN
8 60 (1.30%) OSPF
9 54 (1.17%) BIG-IP
10 49 (1.06%) SD-WAN
11 43 (0.93%) HTTP
11 43 (0.93%) VXLAN
12 40 (0.87%) DHCP
12 40 (0.87%) VLAN
13 37 (0.80%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 37 (0.80%) LAN
13 37 (0.80%) MPLS
14 35 (0.76%) SSL
15 33 (0.71%) Ethernet VPN
16 32 (0.69%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 390 (8.44%) Power BI
2 299 (6.47%) PostgreSQL
3 273 (5.91%) Data Warehouse
4 229 (4.95%) SQL Server
5 183 (3.96%) Data Lake
6 179 (3.87%) Tableau
7 152 (3.29%) Relational Database
8 149 (3.22%) NoSQL
9 137 (2.96%) Metadata
10 123 (2.66%) BigQuery
11 120 (2.60%) Delta Lake
12 119 (2.57%) Amazon Athena
12 119 (2.57%) Amazon Redshift
13 114 (2.47%) Big Data
14 92 (1.99%) MongoDB
15 87 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
16 78 (1.69%) DynamoDB
17 65 (1.41%) MySQL
18 63 (1.36%) Snowflake Schema
19 56 (1.21%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 533 (11.53%) Git
2 405 (8.76%) Jenkins
3 336 (7.27%) GitLab
4 256 (5.54%) JIRA
5 64 (1.38%) MLflow
6 59 (1.28%) Selenium
7 45 (0.97%) Postman
8 31 (0.67%) Bitbucket
8 31 (0.67%) JMeter
9 29 (0.63%) Artifactory
10 28 (0.61%) Cypress.io
11 27 (0.58%) SonarQube
12 24 (0.52%) Cucumber
12 24 (0.52%) Maven
13 22 (0.48%) Gatling
14 21 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
15 20 (0.43%) JUnit
16 19 (0.41%) REST Assured
17 17 (0.37%) Robot Framework
18 15 (0.32%) Zephyr
General
1 1,023 (22.13%) Finance
2 1,019 (22.04%) Social Skills
3 647 (14.00%) Analytical Skills
4 433 (9.37%) Public Sector
5 366 (7.92%) Banking
6 185 (4.00%) Front Office
7 114 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
8 104 (2.25%) Investment Banking
9 84 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 78 (1.69%) Retail
11 69 (1.49%) Marketing
12 55 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
13 51 (1.10%) Telecoms
14 43 (0.93%) Financial Institution
15 42 (0.91%) Legal
16 41 (0.89%) Publishing
17 36 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
18 32 (0.69%) Military
19 30 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
20 26 (0.56%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 805 (17.41%) Developer
2 737 (15.94%) Data Engineer
3 694 (15.01%) Senior
4 409 (8.85%) Python Developer
5 360 (7.79%) Lead
6 278 (6.01%) Architect
7 256 (5.54%) DevOps Engineer
8 254 (5.49%) Python Engineer
9 244 (5.28%) Software Engineer
10 239 (5.17%) Analyst
11 217 (4.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 183 (3.96%) AWS Engineer
13 180 (3.89%) Data Scientist
14 146 (3.16%) Senior Data Engineer
15 145 (3.14%) Senior Developer
16 143 (3.09%) Azure Engineer
17 128 (2.77%) Cloud Engineer
18 126 (2.73%) Platform Engineer
19 122 (2.64%) Data Analyst
20 115 (2.49%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 345 (7.46%) REST
2 324 (7.01%) React
3 321 (6.94%) PySpark
4 292 (6.32%) Kafka
5 209 (4.52%) .NET
6 178 (3.85%) Node.js
7 174 (3.76%) Pandas
8 163 (3.53%) RESTful
9 161 (3.48%) JSON
10 155 (3.35%) FastAPI
11 142 (3.07%) PyTorch
12 141 (3.05%) Django
13 119 (2.57%) LangChain
14 105 (2.27%) scikit-learn
15 104 (2.25%) NumPy
16 100 (2.16%) TensorFlow
17 93 (2.01%) Flask
18 90 (1.95%) OAuth
18 90 (1.95%) Spring
18 90 (1.95%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 614 (13.28%) Cloud Native
2 241 (5.21%) Distributed Systems
3 140 (3.03%) AI Agents
4 139 (3.01%) Onboarding
5 132 (2.86%) Data Centre
6 121 (2.62%) Product Ownership
7 120 (2.60%) Algorithms
8 106 (2.29%) Data Structures
9 104 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
10 102 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
11 101 (2.18%) Hybrid Cloud
12 98 (2.12%) Fixed Income
13 96 (2.08%) Derivative
14 95 (2.05%) Equities
15 87 (1.88%) Management Information System
16 78 (1.69%) Security Posture
17 59 (1.28%) Public Cloud
18 54 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
19 52 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
20 49 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 533 (11.53%) Linux
2 256 (5.54%) Windows
3 184 (3.98%) Unix
4 97 (2.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 61 (1.32%) Windows Server
6 39 (0.84%) Ubuntu
7 26 (0.56%) VMS
8 24 (0.52%) AIX
9 23 (0.50%) Android
10 17 (0.37%) CentOS
11 16 (0.35%) Apple iOS
11 16 (0.35%) Solaris
12 11 (0.24%) zOS
13 9 (0.19%) Mac OS
14 7 (0.15%) Debian
14 7 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
15 6 (0.13%) Rocky
16 5 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
17 3 (0.065%) Alpine Linux
17 3 (0.065%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,742 (37.68%) CI/CD
2 1,290 (27.90%) DevOps
3 1,151 (24.90%) AI
4 1,013 (21.91%) Agile
5 984 (21.28%) Analytics
6 835 (18.06%) Data Pipeline
7 834 (18.04%) Infrastructure as Code
8 808 (17.48%) Problem-Solving
9 718 (15.53%) Machine Learning
10 697 (15.08%) Data Engineering
11 633 (13.69%) Containerisation
12 630 (13.63%) Software Engineering
13 622 (13.45%) Data Modelling
14 599 (12.96%) ETL
15 539 (11.66%) Data Science
16 483 (10.45%) Observability
17 466 (10.08%) Test Automation
18 462 (9.99%) Business Intelligence
19 425 (9.19%) LLM
20 399 (8.63%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1,565 (33.85%) SQL
2 689 (14.90%) Java
3 562 (12.16%) PowerShell
4 531 (11.49%) Bash
5 377 (8.15%) JavaScript
6 333 (7.20%) TypeScript
7 293 (6.34%) C#
8 182 (3.94%) Go
9 141 (3.05%) R
10 111 (2.40%) Scala
11 106 (2.29%) C++
12 96 (2.08%) Shell Script
13 75 (1.62%) Bicep
14 52 (1.12%) PL/SQL
15 50 (1.08%) Ruby
16 49 (1.06%) C
16 49 (1.06%) Perl
17 48 (1.04%) Groovy
17 48 (1.04%) Rust
18 46 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1,002 (21.67%) Security Cleared
2 802 (17.35%) SC Cleared
3 365 (7.90%) Degree
4 146 (3.16%) DV Cleared
5 143 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 106 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
7 97 (2.10%) Azure Certification
8 94 (2.03%) AWS Certification
9 87 (1.88%) CISSP
10 70 (1.51%) Cisco Certification
11 59 (1.28%) Master's Degree
12 44 (0.95%) CCNP
13 36 (0.78%) CISM
14 33 (0.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 31 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
15 31 (0.67%) PhD
16 29 (0.63%) CCIE
17 23 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 21 (0.45%) ISTQB
19 18 (0.39%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 469 (10.14%) Data Quality
2 191 (4.13%) QA
3 121 (2.62%) GDPR
4 102 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 102 (2.21%) NIST
5 59 (1.28%) Accessibility
6 23 (0.50%) HIPAA
6 23 (0.50%) PCI DSS
6 23 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 23 (0.50%) SLA
7 22 (0.48%) WCAG
8 14 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
8 14 (0.30%) NCSC
9 13 (0.28%) SOC 2
10 10 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
11 9 (0.19%) GRC
12 8 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 7 (0.15%) ISO 20022
14 5 (0.11%) MiFID
14 5 (0.11%) PSD2
System Software
1 741 (16.03%) Docker
2 119 (2.57%) Active Directory
3 86 (1.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 67 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
5 35 (0.76%) vSphere
6 32 (0.69%) VMware NSX
7 27 (0.58%) Firmware
8 21 (0.45%) Hyper-V
9 16 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
10 13 (0.28%) KVM
10 13 (0.28%) NFS
11 9 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
11 9 (0.19%) 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 1,015 (21.96%) Terraform
2 861 (18.62%) Kubernetes
3 483 (10.45%) Ansible
4 261 (5.65%) Grafana
5 227 (4.91%) Prometheus
6 68 (1.47%) Puppet
7 47 (1.02%) Argo
8 39 (0.84%) Progress Chef
9 31 (0.67%) Istio
9 31 (0.67%) vCenter Server
10 29 (0.63%) Kibana
11 26 (0.56%) Control-M
12 24 (0.52%) Nessus
13 23 (0.50%) vRealize
14 22 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
15 21 (0.45%) Nagios
15 21 (0.45%) ZABBIX
16 20 (0.43%) HAProxy
17 17 (0.37%) IBM Guardium
17 17 (0.37%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 531 (11.49%) Microsoft
2 489 (10.58%) Databricks
3 253 (5.47%) Google
4 212 (4.59%) Oracle
5 184 (3.98%) Splunk
6 126 (2.73%) OpenAI
7 121 (2.62%) VMware
8 113 (2.44%) Cisco
9 100 (2.16%) Red Hat
10 95 (2.05%) ServiceNow
11 81 (1.75%) F5
12 78 (1.69%) Palo Alto
13 74 (1.60%) Dynatrace
14 69 (1.49%) CyberArk
15 65 (1.41%) Informatica
16 60 (1.30%) IBM
17 55 (1.19%) BeyondTrust
18 54 (1.17%) Fortinet
18 54 (1.17%) Foundry
19 50 (1.08%) Arista