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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 11 14
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 -1
Contract jobs citing Python 4,411 3,163 3,566
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.58% 13.21% 9.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.74% 38.81% 32.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,984 2,274 2,609
10th Percentile £363 £381 £380
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.65% -5.83%
75th Percentile £625 £677 £700
90th Percentile £750 £825 £840
UK median daily rate £520 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -3.70% -1.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 43 95
10th Percentile £29.70 £26.56 £21.44
25th Percentile £43.81 £33.91 £41.88
Median hourly rate £55.00 £44.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.60% -28.80% -3.85%
75th Percentile £74.00 £55.00 £71.88
90th Percentile £84.00 £72.65 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £54.50 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +36.25% -33.33% -7.69%

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 11,099 8,150 11,133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.62% 34.04% 30.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,296 5,656 8,040
10th Percentile £358 £360 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £543
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -3.23% -3.64%
75th Percentile £613 £640 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 527 195 471
10th Percentile £36.95 £28.27 £35.50
25th Percentile £55.00 £35.50 £48.84
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.84% -0.80% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.85 £85.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -7.26% -0.80%

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 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 3 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 3 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 2,534 £550 -4.35% 1,758
North of England +10 742 £479 -1.49% 477
Yorkshire +2 415 £488 -2.50% 127
South East -6 393 £525 +5.00% 610
North West +5 256 £481 +1.32% 265
South West -1 248 £500 -13.04% 259
Midlands -13 233 £488 +8.33% 201
West Midlands -15 181 £481 +6.94% 95
East of England -10 127 £500 - 220
North East +9 83 £475 +5.56% 87
East Midlands -17 51 £495 +13.53% 105
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
1 245 (5.55%) Apache Spark
2 197 (4.47%) Apache Airflow
3 150 (3.40%) Apache
4 120 (2.72%) Confluence
5 41 (0.93%) Jupyter
6 40 (0.91%) SAS
7 38 (0.86%) SharePoint
8 15 (0.34%) OpenStack
8 15 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
9 14 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
10 12 (0.27%) IIS
11 11 (0.25%) nginx
12 10 (0.23%) Appian
13 8 (0.18%) Apache Superset
13 8 (0.18%) ArcGIS
14 7 (0.16%) Camunda
14 7 (0.16%) CMS
15 6 (0.14%) CICS
15 6 (0.14%) Tomcat
16 5 (0.11%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 100 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (0.61%) Chatbot
3 21 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
4 18 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
5 17 (0.39%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.16%) CPLEX
7 4 (0.091%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.068%) LaTeX
9 1 (0.023%) OrCAD
9 1 (0.023%) SPSS
9 1 (0.023%) Weka
9 1 (0.023%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 23 (0.52%) Aladdin
2 17 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
3 7 (0.16%) SAP IBP
4 6 (0.14%) Fidessa
4 6 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (0.11%) BambooHR
6 3 (0.068%) Bloomberg AIM
6 3 (0.068%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.068%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.045%) Front Arena
7 2 (0.045%) Global One
7 2 (0.045%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.045%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.045%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.045%) Orchestrade
7 2 (0.045%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.023%) Cloudability
8 1 (0.023%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 1 (0.023%) OneSumX
Cloud Services
1 1,675 (37.97%) AWS
2 1,513 (34.30%) Azure
3 656 (14.87%) GCP
4 530 (12.02%) GitHub
5 440 (9.98%) Power Platform
6 375 (8.50%) Serverless
7 327 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
8 320 (7.25%) Amazon S3
9 296 (6.71%) GitHub Actions
10 274 (6.21%) AWS Lambda
11 239 (5.42%) Azure Data Factory
12 205 (4.65%) Snowflake
13 165 (3.74%) dbt
14 150 (3.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 134 (3.04%) OpenShift
16 131 (2.97%) AWS CloudFormation
17 120 (2.72%) Amazon EKS
18 117 (2.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 103 (2.34%) Amazon EC2
20 90 (2.04%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 178 (4.04%) Firewall
2 129 (2.92%) DNS
3 94 (2.13%) Network Security
4 88 (2.00%) WAN
5 81 (1.84%) BGP
5 81 (1.84%) TCP/IP
6 72 (1.63%) VPN
7 50 (1.13%) OSPF
8 49 (1.11%) BIG-IP
8 49 (1.11%) HTTP
9 41 (0.93%) SD-WAN
10 40 (0.91%) VXLAN
11 37 (0.84%) SSL
12 32 (0.73%) SAN
13 31 (0.70%) DHCP
13 31 (0.70%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 31 (0.70%) MPLS
13 31 (0.70%) VLAN
14 30 (0.68%) Ethernet VPN
14 30 (0.68%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 377 (8.55%) Power BI
2 276 (6.26%) PostgreSQL
3 244 (5.53%) Data Warehouse
4 233 (5.28%) SQL Server
5 195 (4.42%) Data Lake
6 169 (3.83%) Tableau
7 151 (3.42%) NoSQL
8 144 (3.26%) Relational Database
9 131 (2.97%) Metadata
10 123 (2.79%) Delta Lake
11 118 (2.68%) BigQuery
12 112 (2.54%) Big Data
13 105 (2.38%) Amazon Athena
14 96 (2.18%) Amazon Redshift
15 81 (1.84%) MongoDB
16 78 (1.77%) Amazon RDS
17 69 (1.56%) DynamoDB
18 68 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
19 63 (1.43%) MySQL
20 58 (1.31%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 506 (11.47%) Git
2 385 (8.73%) Jenkins
3 314 (7.12%) GitLab
4 233 (5.28%) JIRA
5 64 (1.45%) Selenium
6 63 (1.43%) MLflow
7 52 (1.18%) Postman
8 32 (0.73%) Cucumber
9 29 (0.66%) Artifactory
9 29 (0.66%) Cypress.io
9 29 (0.66%) JMeter
10 27 (0.61%) Bitbucket
11 24 (0.54%) SonarQube
12 21 (0.48%) REST Assured
12 21 (0.48%) Robot Framework
13 20 (0.45%) JUnit
13 20 (0.45%) Maven
14 19 (0.43%) Gatling
14 19 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
15 15 (0.34%) SpecFlow
General
1 964 (21.85%) Social Skills
2 951 (21.56%) Finance
3 612 (13.87%) Analytical Skills
4 382 (8.66%) Public Sector
5 332 (7.53%) Banking
6 179 (4.06%) Front Office
7 111 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
8 99 (2.24%) Investment Banking
9 68 (1.54%) Marketing
10 64 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 55 (1.25%) Retail
12 54 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
13 42 (0.95%) Telecoms
14 41 (0.93%) Legal
15 36 (0.82%) Financial Institution
16 35 (0.79%) Publishing
17 34 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
18 28 (0.63%) Manufacturing
19 26 (0.59%) Military
19 26 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 783 (17.75%) Developer
2 694 (15.73%) Data Engineer
3 637 (14.44%) Senior
4 390 (8.84%) Python Developer
5 316 (7.16%) Lead
6 289 (6.55%) Architect
7 241 (5.46%) DevOps Engineer
8 231 (5.24%) Analyst
8 231 (5.24%) Software Engineer
9 221 (5.01%) Python Engineer
10 198 (4.49%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 179 (4.06%) Data Scientist
12 172 (3.90%) AWS Engineer
13 140 (3.17%) Senior Developer
14 136 (3.08%) Azure Engineer
14 136 (3.08%) Senior Data Engineer
15 126 (2.86%) Data Analyst
16 119 (2.70%) Security Engineer
17 117 (2.65%) Full-Stack Developer
18 110 (2.49%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 333 (7.55%) REST
2 318 (7.21%) React
3 307 (6.96%) PySpark
4 276 (6.26%) Kafka
5 196 (4.44%) .NET
6 182 (4.13%) Node.js
6 182 (4.13%) Pandas
7 155 (3.51%) JSON
8 147 (3.33%) PyTorch
9 141 (3.20%) RESTful
10 138 (3.13%) FastAPI
11 113 (2.56%) Django
12 109 (2.47%) TensorFlow
13 104 (2.36%) LangChain
13 104 (2.36%) scikit-learn
14 103 (2.34%) NumPy
15 97 (2.20%) AngularJS
16 96 (2.18%) YAML
17 92 (2.09%) LDAP
18 91 (2.06%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 523 (11.86%) Cloud Native
2 198 (4.49%) Distributed Systems
3 120 (2.72%) AI Agents
4 118 (2.68%) Data Centre
5 116 (2.63%) Algorithms
6 115 (2.61%) Product Ownership
7 110 (2.49%) Onboarding
8 105 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
9 103 (2.34%) Equities
10 102 (2.31%) Derivative
11 99 (2.24%) Data Structures
12 97 (2.20%) Fixed Income
13 87 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
13 87 (1.97%) Security Posture
14 85 (1.93%) Hybrid Cloud
14 85 (1.93%) Management Information System
15 80 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
16 52 (1.18%) Public Cloud
17 48 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
18 43 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 514 (11.65%) Linux
2 244 (5.53%) Windows
3 175 (3.97%) Unix
4 90 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 59 (1.34%) Windows Server
6 39 (0.88%) Ubuntu
7 26 (0.59%) VMS
8 24 (0.54%) AIX
8 24 (0.54%) Android
9 22 (0.50%) Solaris
10 20 (0.45%) CentOS
11 16 (0.36%) Apple iOS
12 12 (0.27%) zOS
13 10 (0.23%) Mac OS
14 7 (0.16%) Debian
15 6 (0.14%) Rocky
15 6 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
16 5 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
17 4 (0.091%) Embedded Linux
18 3 (0.068%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,639 (37.16%) CI/CD
2 1,215 (27.54%) DevOps
3 1,050 (23.80%) AI
4 930 (21.08%) Agile
5 920 (20.86%) Analytics
6 788 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
7 768 (17.41%) Data Pipeline
8 760 (17.23%) Infrastructure as Code
9 672 (15.23%) Machine Learning
10 636 (14.42%) Data Engineering
11 609 (13.81%) Data Modelling
12 595 (13.49%) ETL
13 589 (13.35%) Containerisation
14 563 (12.76%) Software Engineering
15 507 (11.49%) Data Science
16 450 (10.20%) Observability
16 450 (10.20%) Test Automation
17 433 (9.82%) Business Intelligence
18 386 (8.75%) LLM
19 369 (8.37%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1,528 (34.64%) SQL
2 682 (15.46%) Java
3 563 (12.76%) PowerShell
4 487 (11.04%) Bash
5 391 (8.86%) JavaScript
6 302 (6.85%) TypeScript
7 292 (6.62%) C#
8 176 (3.99%) Go
9 141 (3.20%) R
10 117 (2.65%) Scala
11 115 (2.61%) C++
12 96 (2.18%) Shell Script
13 68 (1.54%) Bicep
14 57 (1.29%) Ruby
15 54 (1.22%) PL/SQL
16 51 (1.16%) C
17 50 (1.13%) Perl
18 48 (1.09%) T-SQL
19 46 (1.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 43 (0.97%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 971 (22.01%) Security Cleared
2 781 (17.71%) SC Cleared
3 350 (7.93%) Degree
4 151 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 129 (2.92%) DV Cleared
6 96 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
7 95 (2.15%) Azure Certification
8 82 (1.86%) CISSP
9 79 (1.79%) AWS Certification
10 61 (1.38%) Master's Degree
11 60 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
12 40 (0.91%) CCNP
13 36 (0.82%) CISM
14 33 (0.75%) PhD
15 30 (0.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 24 (0.54%) ISTQB
16 24 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
17 20 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 20 (0.45%) CCIE
18 17 (0.39%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 443 (10.04%) Data Quality
2 188 (4.26%) QA
3 133 (3.02%) GDPR
4 90 (2.04%) NIST
5 85 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 53 (1.20%) Accessibility
7 27 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 27 (0.61%) SLA
8 23 (0.52%) HIPAA
8 23 (0.52%) PCI DSS
9 15 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
9 15 (0.34%) WCAG
10 11 (0.25%) NCSC
10 11 (0.25%) SOC 2
11 10 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
12 9 (0.20%) ISO 20022
13 8 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 7 (0.16%) GRC
15 6 (0.14%) PSD2
16 5 (0.11%) PMO
System Software
1 697 (15.80%) Docker
2 136 (3.08%) Active Directory
3 80 (1.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 63 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
5 35 (0.79%) vSphere
6 32 (0.73%) VMware NSX
7 27 (0.61%) Firmware
8 19 (0.43%) Hyper-V
9 16 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
10 14 (0.32%) KVM
11 13 (0.29%) NFS
12 10 (0.23%) Squid
13 8 (0.18%) HDFS
13 8 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
14 7 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
14 7 (0.16%) Postfix
15 5 (0.11%) SRDF
16 4 (0.091%) Ceph
16 4 (0.091%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 4 (0.091%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 918 (20.81%) Terraform
2 798 (18.09%) Kubernetes
3 458 (10.38%) Ansible
4 255 (5.78%) Grafana
5 224 (5.08%) Prometheus
6 66 (1.50%) Puppet
7 50 (1.13%) Argo
8 36 (0.82%) Istio
9 35 (0.79%) Progress Chef
10 31 (0.70%) Kibana
10 31 (0.70%) vCenter Server
11 26 (0.59%) Control-M
12 24 (0.54%) Nessus
13 21 (0.48%) Nagios
13 21 (0.48%) vRealize
14 20 (0.45%) HAProxy
14 20 (0.45%) ZABBIX
15 17 (0.39%) IBM Guardium
15 17 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
15 17 (0.39%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 503 (11.40%) Microsoft
2 477 (10.81%) Databricks
3 228 (5.17%) Google
4 212 (4.81%) Oracle
5 187 (4.24%) Splunk
6 126 (2.86%) VMware
7 119 (2.70%) Red Hat
8 110 (2.49%) OpenAI
9 99 (2.24%) Cisco
10 87 (1.97%) ServiceNow
11 83 (1.88%) CyberArk
12 75 (1.70%) F5
13 74 (1.68%) BeyondTrust
14 70 (1.59%) Palo Alto
15 68 (1.54%) Dynatrace
16 57 (1.29%) IBM
17 54 (1.22%) Informatica
18 49 (1.11%) Foundry
19 45 (1.02%) Arista
19 45 (1.02%) SAP