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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 10 14
Rank change year-on-year -2 +4 -2
Contract jobs citing Python 4,662 3,441 3,686
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.62% 13.19% 9.86%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.76% 39.15% 32.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,117 2,411 2,699
10th Percentile £367 £370 £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 £631 £675 £711
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £555
% change year-on-year -2.33% -3.15% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 53 106
10th Percentile £28.50 £27.64 £21.87
25th Percentile £42.53 £34.75 £46.20
Median hourly rate £55.50 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.00% -23.08% -0.38%
75th Percentile £75.26 £55.00 £71.88
90th Percentile £85.60 £63.65 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £54.25 £45.00 £62.25
% change year-on-year +20.56% -27.71% -4.23%

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 11,725 8,789 11,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.70% 33.68% 30.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,633 6,064 8,224
10th Percentile £360 £352 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £520 £540
Median % change year-on-year -0.16% -3.70% -2.70%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £510 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -0.26% -2.60% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 506 216 481
10th Percentile £35.25 £28.18 £35.52
25th Percentile £55.84 £36.19 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.38 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.30% -13.27% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.88 £81.48 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% -

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 -3 2,680 £550 -4.35% 1,708
North of England +8 781 £488 +2.63% 448
South East -6 437 £525 +3.96% 641
Yorkshire +1 427 £500 +0.73% 133
North West +3 277 £500 +5.26% 241
South West -3 264 £500 -9.09% 274
Midlands -15 243 £476 +3.70% 208
West Midlands -16 195 £472 -0.63% 104
East of England -15 130 £500 -0.25% 220
North East +7 89 £438 - 78
East Midlands -10 47 £495 +10.74% 104
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
1 247 (5.30%) Apache Spark
2 225 (4.83%) Apache Airflow
3 163 (3.50%) Apache
4 146 (3.13%) Confluence
5 49 (1.05%) Jupyter
6 47 (1.01%) SAS
7 46 (0.99%) SharePoint
8 20 (0.43%) OpenStack
9 19 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
10 15 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
11 13 (0.28%) ArcGIS
12 12 (0.26%) nginx
13 11 (0.24%) IIS
14 8 (0.17%) Apache Superset
14 8 (0.17%) CMS
15 6 (0.13%) Appian
15 6 (0.13%) Camunda
15 6 (0.13%) CICS
15 6 (0.13%) Tomcat
16 5 (0.11%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 101 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (0.62%) Chatbot
3 26 (0.56%) 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 3 (0.064%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.021%) LaTeX
9 1 (0.021%) OrCAD
9 1 (0.021%) SPSS
9 1 (0.021%) Weka
9 1 (0.021%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 22 (0.47%) 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
5 6 (0.13%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.11%) BambooHR
6 5 (0.11%) Sage X3
7 4 (0.086%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.064%) Bloomberg AIM
8 3 (0.064%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.064%) 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%) Remedy AR System
9 2 (0.043%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,775 (38.07%) AWS
2 1,614 (34.62%) Azure
3 696 (14.93%) GCP
4 543 (11.65%) GitHub
5 448 (9.61%) Power Platform
6 400 (8.58%) Serverless
7 356 (7.64%) Amazon S3
8 345 (7.40%) Azure DevOps
9 310 (6.65%) GitHub Actions
10 297 (6.37%) AWS Lambda
11 230 (4.93%) Snowflake
12 225 (4.83%) Azure Data Factory
13 190 (4.08%) dbt
14 143 (3.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 140 (3.00%) AWS CloudFormation
16 135 (2.90%) Amazon EKS
17 133 (2.85%) OpenShift
18 131 (2.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 108 (2.32%) Amazon EC2
20 99 (2.12%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 212 (4.55%) Firewall
2 139 (2.98%) DNS
3 109 (2.34%) WAN
4 105 (2.25%) BGP
5 99 (2.12%) TCP/IP
6 98 (2.10%) Network Security
7 92 (1.97%) VPN
8 62 (1.33%) OSPF
9 53 (1.14%) BIG-IP
10 51 (1.09%) SD-WAN
11 43 (0.92%) VXLAN
12 42 (0.90%) HTTP
13 41 (0.88%) VLAN
14 40 (0.86%) DHCP
15 38 (0.82%) LAN
16 37 (0.79%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 37 (0.79%) MPLS
17 36 (0.77%) SSL
18 33 (0.71%) Ethernet VPN
18 33 (0.71%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 391 (8.39%) Power BI
2 303 (6.50%) PostgreSQL
3 279 (5.98%) Data Warehouse
4 229 (4.91%) SQL Server
5 181 (3.88%) Tableau
6 177 (3.80%) Data Lake
7 149 (3.20%) NoSQL
8 148 (3.17%) Relational Database
9 135 (2.90%) Metadata
10 127 (2.72%) BigQuery
11 123 (2.64%) Amazon Redshift
12 119 (2.55%) Delta Lake
13 117 (2.51%) Amazon Athena
14 113 (2.42%) Big Data
15 95 (2.04%) MongoDB
16 87 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
17 79 (1.69%) DynamoDB
18 65 (1.39%) MySQL
19 64 (1.37%) Snowflake Schema
20 56 (1.20%) Redis
Development Applications
1 545 (11.69%) Git
2 408 (8.75%) Jenkins
3 339 (7.27%) GitLab
4 267 (5.73%) JIRA
5 63 (1.35%) MLflow
6 62 (1.33%) Selenium
7 45 (0.97%) Postman
8 33 (0.71%) JMeter
9 31 (0.66%) Bitbucket
10 29 (0.62%) Artifactory
11 28 (0.60%) Cypress.io
12 27 (0.58%) SonarQube
13 26 (0.56%) Cucumber
14 25 (0.54%) Maven
15 24 (0.51%) Gatling
16 22 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
17 20 (0.43%) JUnit
18 19 (0.41%) REST Assured
19 17 (0.36%) Robot Framework
20 16 (0.34%) Zephyr
General
1 1,029 (22.07%) Finance
2 1,020 (21.88%) Social Skills
3 648 (13.90%) Analytical Skills
4 445 (9.55%) Public Sector
5 370 (7.94%) Banking
6 185 (3.97%) Front Office
7 110 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
8 106 (2.27%) Investment Banking
9 84 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 80 (1.72%) Retail
11 71 (1.52%) Marketing
12 55 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
13 53 (1.14%) Telecoms
14 44 (0.94%) Financial Institution
14 44 (0.94%) Legal
15 41 (0.88%) Publishing
16 35 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
17 33 (0.71%) Military
18 29 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
19 27 (0.58%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 804 (17.25%) Developer
2 736 (15.79%) Data Engineer
3 704 (15.10%) Senior
4 407 (8.73%) Python Developer
5 372 (7.98%) Lead
6 271 (5.81%) Architect
7 263 (5.64%) DevOps Engineer
8 254 (5.45%) Python Engineer
9 248 (5.32%) Software Engineer
10 240 (5.15%) Analyst
11 213 (4.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 184 (3.95%) Data Scientist
13 182 (3.90%) AWS Engineer
14 147 (3.15%) Senior Data Engineer
15 145 (3.11%) Senior Developer
16 141 (3.02%) Azure Engineer
17 132 (2.83%) Platform Engineer
18 129 (2.77%) Cloud Engineer
19 121 (2.60%) Data Analyst
20 115 (2.47%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 344 (7.38%) REST
2 322 (6.91%) PySpark
3 316 (6.78%) React
4 302 (6.48%) Kafka
5 211 (4.53%) .NET
6 177 (3.80%) Node.js
7 173 (3.71%) Pandas
8 167 (3.58%) RESTful
9 165 (3.54%) JSON
10 155 (3.32%) FastAPI
11 142 (3.05%) Django
12 139 (2.98%) PyTorch
13 115 (2.47%) LangChain
14 104 (2.23%) NumPy
14 104 (2.23%) scikit-learn
15 98 (2.10%) TensorFlow
16 92 (1.97%) OpenTelemetry
16 92 (1.97%) Spring
17 89 (1.91%) Flask
18 88 (1.89%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 625 (13.41%) Cloud Native
2 252 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
3 146 (3.13%) Onboarding
4 143 (3.07%) AI Agents
5 130 (2.79%) Data Centre
6 123 (2.64%) Product Ownership
7 119 (2.55%) Algorithms
8 105 (2.25%) Data Structures
8 105 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
9 103 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
10 102 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
11 99 (2.12%) Derivative
12 97 (2.08%) Fixed Income
13 95 (2.04%) Equities
14 87 (1.87%) Management Information System
15 75 (1.61%) Security Posture
16 58 (1.24%) Public Cloud
17 51 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
18 50 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
19 49 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 543 (11.65%) Linux
2 264 (5.66%) Windows
3 184 (3.95%) Unix
4 96 (2.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 62 (1.33%) Windows Server
6 37 (0.79%) Ubuntu
7 27 (0.58%) VMS
8 24 (0.51%) AIX
9 23 (0.49%) Android
10 16 (0.34%) Apple iOS
11 15 (0.32%) Solaris
12 14 (0.30%) CentOS
13 11 (0.24%) zOS
14 9 (0.19%) Mac OS
15 7 (0.15%) Debian
15 7 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
16 6 (0.13%) Rocky
17 5 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
18 3 (0.064%) Oracle Linux
18 3 (0.064%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,765 (37.86%) CI/CD
2 1,302 (27.93%) DevOps
3 1,154 (24.75%) AI
4 1,029 (22.07%) Agile
5 993 (21.30%) Analytics
6 850 (18.23%) Infrastructure as Code
7 841 (18.04%) Data Pipeline
8 793 (17.01%) Problem-Solving
9 728 (15.62%) Machine Learning
10 697 (14.95%) Data Engineering
11 640 (13.73%) Software Engineering
12 638 (13.69%) Containerisation
13 621 (13.32%) Data Modelling
14 596 (12.78%) ETL
15 538 (11.54%) Data Science
16 508 (10.90%) Observability
17 474 (10.17%) Test Automation
18 460 (9.87%) Business Intelligence
19 423 (9.07%) LLM
20 407 (8.73%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1,575 (33.78%) SQL
2 703 (15.08%) Java
3 569 (12.21%) PowerShell
4 554 (11.88%) Bash
5 377 (8.09%) JavaScript
6 340 (7.29%) TypeScript
7 295 (6.33%) C#
8 187 (4.01%) Go
9 143 (3.07%) R
10 116 (2.49%) Scala
11 106 (2.27%) C++
12 99 (2.12%) Shell Script
13 77 (1.65%) Bicep
14 52 (1.12%) PL/SQL
15 50 (1.07%) Rust
16 49 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 49 (1.05%) Groovy
17 48 (1.03%) Ruby
18 47 (1.01%) C
19 46 (0.99%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,016 (21.79%) Security Cleared
2 810 (17.37%) SC Cleared
3 371 (7.96%) Degree
4 148 (3.17%) DV Cleared
5 144 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 110 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
7 97 (2.08%) Azure Certification
8 95 (2.04%) AWS Certification
9 87 (1.87%) CISSP
10 74 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
11 64 (1.37%) Master's Degree
12 46 (0.99%) CCNP
13 35 (0.75%) CISM
14 32 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
14 32 (0.69%) PhD
14 32 (0.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 29 (0.62%) CCIE
16 23 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 20 (0.43%) ISTQB
18 19 (0.41%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 471 (10.10%) Data Quality
2 195 (4.18%) QA
3 121 (2.60%) GDPR
4 104 (2.23%) NIST
5 101 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 66 (1.42%) Accessibility
7 25 (0.54%) SLA
7 25 (0.54%) WCAG
8 24 (0.51%) PCI DSS
9 23 (0.49%) HIPAA
10 21 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 16 (0.34%) NCSC
12 13 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
12 13 (0.28%) SOC 2
13 9 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 9 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
13 9 (0.19%) GRC
14 7 (0.15%) ISO 20022
15 5 (0.11%) MiFID
15 5 (0.11%) PSD2
System Software
1 754 (16.17%) Docker
2 112 (2.40%) Active Directory
3 87 (1.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 68 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
5 34 (0.73%) vSphere
6 30 (0.64%) VMware NSX
7 25 (0.54%) Firmware
8 20 (0.43%) Hyper-V
9 19 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
10 14 (0.30%) NFS
11 12 (0.26%) KVM
12 9 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
12 9 (0.19%) Squid
13 8 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
14 7 (0.15%) Postfix
15 5 (0.11%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
15 5 (0.11%) HDFS
15 5 (0.11%) SRDF
16 4 (0.086%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 4 (0.086%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1,034 (22.18%) Terraform
2 874 (18.75%) Kubernetes
3 496 (10.64%) Ansible
4 281 (6.03%) Grafana
5 232 (4.98%) Prometheus
6 67 (1.44%) Puppet
7 58 (1.24%) Argo
8 39 (0.84%) Progress Chef
9 34 (0.73%) vCenter Server
10 29 (0.62%) Istio
11 28 (0.60%) Kibana
12 27 (0.58%) Control-M
13 25 (0.54%) Nessus
14 23 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
14 23 (0.49%) Nagios
14 23 (0.49%) vRealize
15 22 (0.47%) ZABBIX
16 20 (0.43%) HAProxy
17 18 (0.39%) IBM Guardium
18 17 (0.36%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 546 (11.71%) Microsoft
2 490 (10.51%) Databricks
3 262 (5.62%) Google
4 218 (4.68%) Oracle
5 186 (3.99%) Splunk
6 123 (2.64%) OpenAI
7 120 (2.57%) VMware
8 119 (2.55%) Cisco
9 103 (2.21%) ServiceNow
10 91 (1.95%) Red Hat
11 82 (1.76%) F5
12 80 (1.72%) Palo Alto
13 77 (1.65%) Dynatrace
14 66 (1.42%) Informatica
15 63 (1.35%) CyberArk
16 60 (1.29%) IBM
17 59 (1.27%) Fortinet
18 55 (1.18%) Foundry
19 51 (1.09%) Arista
20 48 (1.03%) BeyondTrust