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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 10 14
Rank change year-on-year -4 +4 -2
Contract jobs citing Python 4,767 3,577 3,532
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.57% 13.04% 10.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.01% 39.58% 32.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,141 2,469 2,635
10th Percentile £375 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £435 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £545 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% -5.25% -4.17%
75th Percentile £644 £669 £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 114 60 101
10th Percentile £30.15 £29.82 £22.00
25th Percentile £42.83 £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% -4.00%

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 11,916 9,037 10,779
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.43% 32.94% 31.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,730 6,231 7,773
10th Percentile £363 £350 £351
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.07% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £651
90th Percentile £738 £775 £793
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 485 226 381
10th Percentile £34.01 £29.07 £31.25
25th Percentile £53.53 £39.25 £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 £80.12 £83.73 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +14.54% -12.69% +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 28 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 28 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 28 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 2,741 £573 -0.43% 1,593
North of England +3 778 £500 +5.26% 411
South East -11 438 £541 +8.25% 493
Yorkshire +2 412 £500 +1.46% 119
South West +1 291 £500 -6.98% 222
North West +4 289 £525 +10.53% 215
Midlands -14 254 £473 +5.00% 185
West Midlands -13 203 £469 +4.22% 104
East of England -14 139 £500 -0.50% 173
North East 0 88 £425 -2.86% 83
East Midlands -10 50 £488 +11.93% 81
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 (5.29%) Apache Spark
2 237 (4.97%) Apache Airflow
3 182 (3.82%) Apache
4 158 (3.31%) Confluence
5 49 (1.03%) Jupyter
6 45 (0.94%) 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 (0.10%) WebSphere
17 5 (0.10%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 105 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (0.55%) Chatbot
3 22 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
4 21 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 19 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
6 17 (0.36%) CPLEX
7 15 (0.31%) 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 24 (0.50%) 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 (0.10%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.10%) 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%) Endur
10 2 (0.042%) Front Arena
10 2 (0.042%) Global One
10 2 (0.042%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 2 (0.042%) Remedy AR System
10 2 (0.042%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,809 (37.95%) AWS
2 1,639 (34.38%) Azure
3 709 (14.87%) GCP
4 564 (11.83%) GitHub
5 445 (9.34%) Power Platform
6 402 (8.43%) Serverless
7 359 (7.53%) Azure DevOps
8 348 (7.30%) Amazon S3
9 326 (6.84%) GitHub Actions
10 299 (6.27%) AWS Lambda
11 245 (5.14%) Snowflake
12 217 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
13 202 (4.24%) dbt
14 144 (3.02%) AWS CloudFormation
15 141 (2.96%) Amazon EKS
16 139 (2.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 138 (2.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 131 (2.75%) OpenShift
19 116 (2.43%) Entra ID
20 107 (2.24%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 239 (5.01%) Firewall
2 166 (3.48%) DNS
3 124 (2.60%) TCP/IP
4 112 (2.35%) BGP
5 105 (2.20%) WAN
6 103 (2.16%) VPN
7 94 (1.97%) 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 (0.96%) 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 (0.73%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 394 (8.27%) Power BI
2 287 (6.02%) PostgreSQL
3 282 (5.92%) Data Warehouse
4 206 (4.32%) SQL Server
5 180 (3.78%) Tableau
6 172 (3.61%) Data Lake
7 152 (3.19%) Metadata
7 152 (3.19%) NoSQL
8 151 (3.17%) Relational Database
9 137 (2.87%) BigQuery
10 120 (2.52%) Amazon Redshift
10 120 (2.52%) Big Data
11 113 (2.37%) Amazon Athena
12 110 (2.31%) Delta Lake
13 97 (2.03%) MongoDB
14 95 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
15 85 (1.78%) DynamoDB
16 62 (1.30%) Snowflake Schema
17 58 (1.22%) MySQL
18 57 (1.20%) Redis
Development Applications
1 558 (11.71%) Git
2 410 (8.60%) Jenkins
3 346 (7.26%) GitLab
4 266 (5.58%) JIRA
5 65 (1.36%) Selenium
6 57 (1.20%) MLflow
7 39 (0.82%) Bitbucket
8 36 (0.76%) Postman
9 32 (0.67%) JMeter
10 29 (0.61%) Artifactory
11 28 (0.59%) SonarQube
12 27 (0.57%) Cucumber
13 26 (0.55%) Cypress.io
14 23 (0.48%) Gatling
14 23 (0.48%) Maven
14 23 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
15 22 (0.46%) REST Assured
16 20 (0.42%) JUnit
17 17 (0.36%) Zephyr
18 16 (0.34%) Claude Code
General
1 1,055 (22.13%) Finance
2 1,038 (21.77%) Social Skills
3 689 (14.45%) Analytical Skills
4 482 (10.11%) Public Sector
5 380 (7.97%) Banking
6 193 (4.05%) Front Office
7 104 (2.18%) Documentation Skills
8 102 (2.14%) Investment Banking
9 93 (1.95%) Retail
10 89 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 75 (1.57%) Marketing
12 61 (1.28%) Telecoms
13 60 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
14 47 (0.99%) Military
15 45 (0.94%) Legal
16 44 (0.92%) Financial Institution
17 43 (0.90%) Publishing
18 37 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
19 31 (0.65%) Aerospace
19 31 (0.65%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 797 (16.72%) Developer
2 768 (16.11%) Senior
3 731 (15.33%) Data Engineer
4 410 (8.60%) Lead
5 403 (8.45%) Python Developer
6 282 (5.92%) Python Engineer
7 277 (5.81%) Software Engineer
8 276 (5.79%) DevOps Engineer
9 252 (5.29%) Analyst
10 249 (5.22%) Architect
11 218 (4.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 187 (3.92%) Data Scientist
13 183 (3.84%) AWS Engineer
14 154 (3.23%) Senior Developer
15 149 (3.13%) Senior Data Engineer
16 148 (3.10%) Platform Engineer
17 143 (3.00%) Cloud Engineer
18 142 (2.98%) Azure Engineer
19 131 (2.75%) Data Analyst
20 118 (2.48%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 359 (7.53%) REST
2 317 (6.65%) PySpark
3 315 (6.61%) React
4 312 (6.54%) Kafka
5 207 (4.34%) .NET
6 180 (3.78%) JSON
7 179 (3.75%) Node.js
8 165 (3.46%) Pandas
9 163 (3.42%) FastAPI
10 161 (3.38%) RESTful
11 150 (3.15%) Django
12 130 (2.73%) PyTorch
13 124 (2.60%) LangChain
14 98 (2.06%) NumPy
15 95 (1.99%) scikit-learn
16 93 (1.95%) Spring
17 92 (1.93%) Flask
17 92 (1.93%) TensorFlow
18 90 (1.89%) YAML
19 86 (1.80%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 651 (13.66%) Cloud Native
2 275 (5.77%) Distributed Systems
3 176 (3.69%) Onboarding
4 172 (3.61%) AI Agents
5 145 (3.04%) Data Centre
6 130 (2.73%) Product Ownership
7 121 (2.54%) Algorithms
8 115 (2.41%) Data Structures
9 113 (2.37%) Hybrid Cloud
10 109 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
11 105 (2.20%) Derivative
12 103 (2.16%) Fixed Income
13 100 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
14 96 (2.01%) Equities
15 83 (1.74%) Management Information System
16 77 (1.62%) Security Posture
17 55 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
18 53 (1.11%) PKI
18 53 (1.11%) Public Cloud
19 52 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 588 (12.33%) Linux
2 292 (6.13%) Windows
3 183 (3.84%) Unix
4 113 (2.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 65 (1.36%) Windows Server
6 39 (0.82%) Ubuntu
7 28 (0.59%) AIX
8 27 (0.57%) VMS
9 21 (0.44%) Android
10 14 (0.29%) Apple iOS
10 14 (0.29%) Solaris
11 13 (0.27%) CentOS
12 11 (0.23%) zOS
13 8 (0.17%) Mac OS
14 7 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
15 6 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
15 6 (0.13%) Debian
15 6 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
16 5 (0.10%) Rocky
16 5 (0.10%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,803 (37.82%) CI/CD
2 1,352 (28.36%) DevOps
3 1,180 (24.75%) AI
4 1,078 (22.61%) Agile
5 1,024 (21.48%) Analytics
6 912 (19.13%) Infrastructure as Code
7 870 (18.25%) Data Pipeline
8 790 (16.57%) Problem-Solving
9 754 (15.82%) Machine Learning
10 722 (15.15%) Software Engineering
11 721 (15.12%) Data Engineering
12 647 (13.57%) Containerisation
13 642 (13.47%) Data Modelling
14 587 (12.31%) ETL
15 551 (11.56%) Data Science
16 541 (11.35%) Observability
17 476 (9.99%) Test Automation
18 467 (9.80%) Business Intelligence
19 461 (9.67%) Continuous Improvement
20 440 (9.23%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1,585 (33.25%) SQL
2 707 (14.83%) Java
3 624 (13.09%) PowerShell
4 613 (12.86%) Bash
5 375 (7.87%) JavaScript
6 342 (7.17%) TypeScript
7 275 (5.77%) C#
8 186 (3.90%) Go
9 142 (2.98%) R
10 110 (2.31%) C++
11 108 (2.27%) Scala
12 103 (2.16%) Shell Script
13 98 (2.06%) Bicep
14 55 (1.15%) Rust
15 52 (1.09%) PL/SQL
16 51 (1.07%) C
16 51 (1.07%) Perl
17 50 (1.05%) Groovy
18 47 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 47 (0.99%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,067 (22.38%) Security Cleared
2 847 (17.77%) SC Cleared
3 384 (8.06%) Degree
4 178 (3.73%) DV Cleared
5 134 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 113 (2.37%) AWS Certification
6 113 (2.37%) Azure Certification
7 103 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
8 80 (1.68%) CISSP
9 77 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
10 68 (1.43%) Master's Degree
11 48 (1.01%) CCNP
12 40 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
12 40 (0.84%) PhD
13 33 (0.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 32 (0.67%) CISM
15 28 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 28 (0.59%) CCIE
16 25 (0.52%) DBS Check
17 21 (0.44%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 502 (10.53%) Data Quality
2 215 (4.51%) QA
3 104 (2.18%) GDPR
4 99 (2.08%) NIST
5 95 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 75 (1.57%) Accessibility
7 26 (0.55%) WCAG
8 25 (0.52%) 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 5 (0.10%) HL7
16 5 (0.10%) PMO
System Software
1 778 (16.32%) Docker
2 135 (2.83%) Active Directory
3 108 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 65 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
5 43 (0.90%) vSphere
6 36 (0.76%) VMware NSX
7 32 (0.67%) Hyper-V
8 30 (0.63%) Firmware
9 23 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
10 13 (0.27%) 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
14 7 (0.15%) PowerHA
15 5 (0.10%) SRDF
16 4 (0.084%) Ceph
16 4 (0.084%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1,089 (22.84%) Terraform
2 908 (19.05%) Kubernetes
3 525 (11.01%) Ansible
4 284 (5.96%) Grafana
5 225 (4.72%) Prometheus
6 75 (1.57%) Puppet
7 68 (1.43%) Argo
8 52 (1.09%) Progress Chef
9 38 (0.80%) vCenter Server
10 26 (0.55%) Istio
11 25 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
12 23 (0.48%) Kibana
12 23 (0.48%) ZABBIX
13 22 (0.46%) Nagios
14 21 (0.44%) Control-M
14 21 (0.44%) vRealize
15 18 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
16 17 (0.36%) HAProxy
16 17 (0.36%) Nessus
16 17 (0.36%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 559 (11.73%) Microsoft
2 480 (10.07%) Databricks
3 268 (5.62%) Google
4 206 (4.32%) Oracle
5 183 (3.84%) Splunk
6 141 (2.96%) VMware
7 126 (2.64%) Cisco
8 125 (2.62%) OpenAI
9 105 (2.20%) ServiceNow
10 89 (1.87%) Red Hat
11 87 (1.83%) F5
12 83 (1.74%) Palo Alto
13 82 (1.72%) Dynatrace
14 67 (1.41%) IBM
15 66 (1.38%) Fortinet
16 65 (1.36%) Informatica
17 62 (1.30%) CyberArk
18 59 (1.24%) Foundry
19 51 (1.07%) Arista
20 49 (1.03%) Salesforce