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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 10 14
Rank change year-on-year -3 +4 -2
Contract jobs citing Python 4,785 3,586 3,515
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.59% 13.04% 10.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.02% 39.71% 32.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,160 2,473 2,619
10th Percentile £375 £363 £375
25th Percentile £446 £435 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £646 £670 £725
90th Percentile £750 £800 £850
UK median daily rate £525 £531 £575
% change year-on-year -1.06% -7.72% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 60 100
10th Percentile £30.15 £29.82 £22.00
25th Percentile £42.83 £36.19 £40.39
Median hourly rate £57.50 £51.97 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.64% -20.05% -
75th Percentile £77.50 £58.81 £70.47
90th Percentile £88.75 £75.37 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% -6.66%

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 11,958 9,030 10,715
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.46% 32.83% 31.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,763 6,226 7,721
10th Percentile £363 £345 £353
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.55% -6.45% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £653
90th Percentile £738 £772 £800
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 489 226 373
10th Percentile £33.96 £29.07 £31.25
25th Percentile £53.53 £40.00 £51.25
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 £80.04 £83.73 £77.90
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.13 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.79% -12.12% +8.33%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 2,756 £575 - 1,660
North of England +1 772 £500 +4.17% 414
South East -10 448 £538 +7.50% 468
Yorkshire +1 400 £500 +0.70% 118
North West +3 295 £525 +10.53% 215
South West -3 289 £500 -8.05% 221
Midlands -15 253 £477 +6.00% 184
West Midlands -13 202 £469 +4.22% 106
East of England -12 135 £500 -0.50% 171
North East -4 88 £425 -2.86% 87
East Midlands -6 50 £488 +11.93% 78
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
1 252 (5.27%) Apache Spark
2 241 (5.04%) Apache Airflow
3 184 (3.85%) Apache
4 154 (3.22%) Confluence
5 49 (1.02%) Jupyter
6 45 (0.94%) SAS
7 37 (0.77%) SharePoint
8 21 (0.44%) OpenStack
8 21 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
9 18 (0.38%) ArcGIS
10 16 (0.33%) nginx
11 11 (0.23%) IIS
12 9 (0.19%) CMS
13 8 (0.17%) Apache Superset
14 6 (0.13%) CICS
14 6 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
14 6 (0.13%) Tomcat
15 5 (0.10%) Camunda
15 5 (0.10%) WebSphere
15 5 (0.10%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 104 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (0.54%) Chatbot
3 23 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
4 21 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 19 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
6 17 (0.36%) CPLEX
7 16 (0.33%) MS Visio
8 3 (0.063%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.021%) CINEMA 4D
9 1 (0.021%) Houdini
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 24 (0.50%) Aladdin
2 19 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.27%) 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 (0.10%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.10%) Sage X3
8 4 (0.084%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.084%) Remedy AR System
9 3 (0.063%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.063%) SimCorp Dimension
9 3 (0.063%) Teamcenter
10 2 (0.042%) Fidessa
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%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,825 (38.14%) AWS
2 1,648 (34.44%) Azure
3 720 (15.05%) GCP
4 569 (11.89%) GitHub
5 442 (9.24%) Power Platform
6 394 (8.23%) Serverless
7 360 (7.52%) Azure DevOps
8 346 (7.23%) Amazon S3
9 333 (6.96%) GitHub Actions
10 296 (6.19%) AWS Lambda
11 246 (5.14%) Snowflake
12 216 (4.51%) Azure Data Factory
13 206 (4.31%) dbt
14 146 (3.05%) AWS CloudFormation
15 142 (2.97%) Amazon EKS
16 139 (2.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 138 (2.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 127 (2.65%) OpenShift
19 110 (2.30%) Entra ID
20 107 (2.24%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 243 (5.08%) Firewall
2 170 (3.55%) DNS
3 129 (2.70%) TCP/IP
4 110 (2.30%) BGP
5 105 (2.19%) VPN
6 101 (2.11%) WAN
7 94 (1.96%) Network Security
8 68 (1.42%) OSPF
9 63 (1.32%) DHCP
10 51 (1.07%) SD-WAN
10 51 (1.07%) VLAN
11 50 (1.04%) BIG-IP
12 46 (0.96%) VXLAN
13 43 (0.90%) HTTP
14 41 (0.86%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 39 (0.82%) SSL
16 38 (0.79%) SNMP
17 35 (0.73%) Ethernet VPN
17 35 (0.73%) SAN
18 34 (0.71%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 398 (8.32%) Power BI
2 288 (6.02%) PostgreSQL
3 286 (5.98%) Data Warehouse
4 206 (4.31%) SQL Server
5 180 (3.76%) Tableau
6 170 (3.55%) Data Lake
7 154 (3.22%) Metadata
8 153 (3.20%) Relational Database
9 152 (3.18%) NoSQL
10 140 (2.93%) BigQuery
11 119 (2.49%) Amazon Redshift
11 119 (2.49%) Big Data
12 113 (2.36%) Amazon Athena
13 109 (2.28%) Delta Lake
14 96 (2.01%) MongoDB
15 95 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
16 85 (1.78%) DynamoDB
17 62 (1.30%) Snowflake Schema
18 58 (1.21%) MySQL
19 56 (1.17%) Redis
Development Applications
1 563 (11.77%) Git
2 416 (8.69%) Jenkins
3 354 (7.40%) GitLab
4 259 (5.41%) JIRA
5 66 (1.38%) Selenium
6 58 (1.21%) MLflow
7 40 (0.84%) Bitbucket
8 36 (0.75%) Postman
9 33 (0.69%) JMeter
10 29 (0.61%) Artifactory
11 28 (0.59%) SonarQube
12 27 (0.56%) Cucumber
12 27 (0.56%) Cypress.io
13 25 (0.52%) REST Assured
13 25 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
14 24 (0.50%) Gatling
15 23 (0.48%) Maven
16 20 (0.42%) JUnit
17 18 (0.38%) Zephyr
18 16 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 1,067 (22.30%) Finance
2 1,037 (21.67%) Social Skills
3 696 (14.55%) Analytical Skills
4 483 (10.09%) Public Sector
5 378 (7.90%) Banking
6 195 (4.08%) Front Office
7 103 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
7 103 (2.15%) Investment Banking
8 94 (1.96%) Retail
9 90 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 75 (1.57%) Marketing
11 62 (1.30%) Telecoms
12 60 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
13 48 (1.00%) Military
14 46 (0.96%) Legal
15 45 (0.94%) Financial Institution
16 42 (0.88%) Publishing
17 36 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
18 33 (0.69%) Aerospace
19 31 (0.65%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 798 (16.68%) Developer
2 776 (16.22%) Senior
3 728 (15.21%) Data Engineer
4 419 (8.76%) Lead
5 405 (8.46%) Python Developer
6 285 (5.96%) Python Engineer
7 282 (5.89%) Software Engineer
8 275 (5.75%) DevOps Engineer
9 255 (5.33%) Analyst
10 249 (5.20%) Architect
11 215 (4.49%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 183 (3.82%) Data Scientist
13 181 (3.78%) AWS Engineer
14 156 (3.26%) Senior Developer
15 149 (3.11%) Senior Data Engineer
16 148 (3.09%) Platform Engineer
17 146 (3.05%) Cloud Engineer
18 141 (2.95%) Azure Engineer
19 131 (2.74%) Data Analyst
20 119 (2.49%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 359 (7.50%) REST
2 319 (6.67%) PySpark
3 316 (6.60%) React
4 315 (6.58%) Kafka
5 206 (4.31%) .NET
6 179 (3.74%) Node.js
7 176 (3.68%) JSON
8 164 (3.43%) FastAPI
8 164 (3.43%) Pandas
9 161 (3.36%) RESTful
10 153 (3.20%) Django
11 131 (2.74%) PyTorch
12 125 (2.61%) LangChain
13 99 (2.07%) NumPy
14 96 (2.01%) scikit-learn
15 94 (1.96%) Flask
16 93 (1.94%) TensorFlow
17 91 (1.90%) Spring
18 90 (1.88%) YAML
19 84 (1.76%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 654 (13.67%) Cloud Native
2 275 (5.75%) Distributed Systems
3 178 (3.72%) Onboarding
4 174 (3.64%) AI Agents
5 145 (3.03%) Data Centre
6 129 (2.70%) Product Ownership
7 121 (2.53%) Algorithms
8 115 (2.40%) Data Structures
9 113 (2.36%) Hybrid Cloud
10 109 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
11 107 (2.24%) Derivative
12 104 (2.17%) Fixed Income
13 99 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
14 96 (2.01%) Equities
15 83 (1.73%) Management Information System
16 77 (1.61%) Security Posture
17 53 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
17 53 (1.11%) PKI
18 52 (1.09%) Public Cloud
18 52 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 590 (12.33%) Linux
2 289 (6.04%) Windows
3 189 (3.95%) Unix
4 116 (2.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 67 (1.40%) Windows Server
6 38 (0.79%) Ubuntu
7 28 (0.59%) AIX
8 27 (0.56%) VMS
9 21 (0.44%) Android
10 16 (0.33%) Solaris
11 13 (0.27%) Apple iOS
11 13 (0.27%) CentOS
12 11 (0.23%) zOS
13 7 (0.15%) 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 (0.10%) Rocky
15 5 (0.10%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,823 (38.10%) CI/CD
2 1,359 (28.40%) DevOps
3 1,195 (24.97%) AI
4 1,079 (22.55%) Agile
5 1,024 (21.40%) Analytics
6 925 (19.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 874 (18.27%) Data Pipeline
8 797 (16.66%) Problem-Solving
9 755 (15.78%) Machine Learning
10 727 (15.19%) Software Engineering
11 719 (15.03%) Data Engineering
12 647 (13.52%) Data Modelling
13 646 (13.50%) Containerisation
14 582 (12.16%) ETL
15 549 (11.47%) Data Science
16 547 (11.43%) Observability
17 489 (10.22%) Test Automation
18 470 (9.82%) Business Intelligence
19 468 (9.78%) Continuous Improvement
20 441 (9.22%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1,592 (33.27%) SQL
2 714 (14.92%) Java
3 626 (13.08%) PowerShell
4 619 (12.94%) Bash
5 384 (8.03%) JavaScript
6 344 (7.19%) TypeScript
7 272 (5.68%) C#
8 186 (3.89%) Go
9 143 (2.99%) R
10 116 (2.42%) C++
11 108 (2.26%) Scala
12 103 (2.15%) Shell Script
13 101 (2.11%) Bicep
14 56 (1.17%) Rust
15 54 (1.13%) C
15 54 (1.13%) Perl
16 51 (1.07%) Groovy
17 50 (1.04%) PL/SQL
18 47 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 47 (0.98%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,085 (22.68%) Security Cleared
2 866 (18.10%) SC Cleared
3 384 (8.03%) Degree
4 179 (3.74%) DV Cleared
5 136 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 115 (2.40%) Azure Certification
7 113 (2.36%) AWS Certification
8 104 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
9 80 (1.67%) CISSP
10 79 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
11 67 (1.40%) Master's Degree
12 49 (1.02%) CCNP
13 40 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
14 39 (0.82%) PhD
15 35 (0.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 30 (0.63%) CISM
17 28 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 28 (0.59%) CCIE
18 25 (0.52%) DBS Check
19 22 (0.46%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 509 (10.64%) Data Quality
2 226 (4.72%) QA
3 105 (2.19%) GDPR
4 98 (2.05%) NIST
5 94 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 75 (1.57%) Accessibility
7 26 (0.54%) SLA
7 26 (0.54%) WCAG
8 22 (0.46%) NCSC
9 21 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
9 21 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 20 (0.42%) PCI DSS
11 18 (0.38%) HIPAA
12 10 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 9 (0.19%) SOC 2
14 7 (0.15%) GRC
14 7 (0.15%) ISO 20022
15 5 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
15 5 (0.10%) HL7
15 5 (0.10%) PMO
System Software
1 788 (16.47%) Docker
2 137 (2.86%) Active Directory
3 106 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 63 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
5 42 (0.88%) vSphere
6 36 (0.75%) VMware NSX
7 33 (0.69%) Hyper-V
8 28 (0.59%) Firmware
9 21 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
10 13 (0.27%) NFS
11 10 (0.21%) KVM
11 10 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
11 10 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
12 9 (0.19%) Squid
13 7 (0.15%) HDFS
13 7 (0.15%) Postfix
13 7 (0.15%) PowerHA
14 5 (0.10%) SRDF
15 4 (0.084%) Ceph
15 4 (0.084%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1,100 (22.99%) Terraform
2 917 (19.16%) Kubernetes
3 532 (11.12%) Ansible
4 283 (5.91%) Grafana
5 223 (4.66%) Prometheus
6 78 (1.63%) Puppet
7 68 (1.42%) Argo
8 56 (1.17%) Progress Chef
9 34 (0.71%) vCenter Server
10 27 (0.56%) Istio
11 23 (0.48%) Kibana
11 23 (0.48%) ZABBIX
12 22 (0.46%) Nagios
13 21 (0.44%) vRealize
14 20 (0.42%) Control-M
15 19 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
16 18 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
17 17 (0.36%) HAProxy
17 17 (0.36%) Tivoli
18 16 (0.33%) Netcool
Vendors
1 559 (11.68%) Microsoft
2 481 (10.05%) Databricks
3 274 (5.73%) Google
4 207 (4.33%) Oracle
5 183 (3.82%) Splunk
6 139 (2.90%) VMware
7 124 (2.59%) Cisco
8 120 (2.51%) OpenAI
9 105 (2.19%) ServiceNow
10 90 (1.88%) Red Hat
11 88 (1.84%) F5
12 86 (1.80%) Dynatrace
13 82 (1.71%) Palo Alto
14 67 (1.40%) IBM
15 66 (1.38%) Fortinet
16 65 (1.36%) Informatica
17 63 (1.32%) CyberArk
18 56 (1.17%) Foundry
19 52 (1.09%) Arista
20 50 (1.04%) Salesforce