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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 10 14
Rank change year-on-year -4 +4 -3
Contract jobs citing Python 4,781 3,580 3,550
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.59% 13.07% 10.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.95% 39.61% 32.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,161 2,475 2,653
10th Percentile £375 £363 £375
25th Percentile £438 £435 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.36% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £725
90th Percentile £750 £800 £850
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £565
% change year-on-year -0.94% -6.19% -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 60 100
10th Percentile £30.05 £29.82 £22.00
25th Percentile £42.50 £36.19 £41.06
Median hourly rate £57.50 £50.72 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.37% -23.15% +0.76%
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% -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 11,966 9,037 10,858
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.51% 32.98% 31.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,772 6,230 7,823
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £548
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -5.94% -0.45%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £651
90th Percentile £738 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 483 227 392
10th Percentile £34.01 £29.07 £33.16
25th Percentile £53.53 £38.38 £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 £82.00 £83.58 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £56.38 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.30% -13.27% +4.00%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 2,748 £566 -1.65% 1,574
North of England +4 777 £490 +3.16% 414
South East -11 440 £538 +7.50% 476
Yorkshire +2 414 £500 +1.75% 113
South West 0 292 £500 -6.98% 206
North West +3 286 £525 +10.53% 222
Midlands -15 259 £469 +4.22% 181
West Midlands -12 208 £465 +3.33% 102
East of England -14 138 £500 -0.50% 165
North East 0 88 £425 -2.86% 84
East Midlands -10 50 £488 +9.17% 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
1 257 (5.38%) Apache Spark
2 238 (4.98%) Apache Airflow
3 185 (3.87%) Apache
4 159 (3.33%) Confluence
5 49 (1.02%) 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 (0.33%) nginx
12 14 (0.29%) 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
1 107 (2.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (0.56%) Chatbot
3 24 (0.50%) 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 25 (0.52%) Aladdin
2 20 (0.42%) 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%) Endur
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%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 1,814 (37.94%) AWS
2 1,644 (34.39%) Azure
3 711 (14.87%) GCP
4 563 (11.78%) GitHub
5 451 (9.43%) Power Platform
6 400 (8.37%) Serverless
7 360 (7.53%) Azure DevOps
8 352 (7.36%) Amazon S3
9 325 (6.80%) GitHub Actions
10 299 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
11 244 (5.10%) Snowflake
12 221 (4.62%) Azure Data Factory
13 203 (4.25%) dbt
14 149 (3.12%) AWS CloudFormation
15 142 (2.97%) Amazon EKS
16 141 (2.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 141 (2.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 135 (2.82%) OpenShift
18 115 (2.41%) Entra ID
19 108 (2.26%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 240 (5.02%) Firewall
2 166 (3.47%) DNS
3 126 (2.64%) TCP/IP
4 113 (2.36%) BGP
5 105 (2.20%) WAN
6 104 (2.18%) VPN
7 94 (1.97%) Network Security
8 69 (1.44%) OSPF
9 59 (1.23%) DHCP
10 52 (1.09%) VLAN
11 50 (1.05%) SD-WAN
12 49 (1.02%) BIG-IP
13 46 (0.96%) VXLAN
14 43 (0.90%) HTTP
15 41 (0.86%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 38 (0.79%) SSL
17 37 (0.77%) MPLS
17 37 (0.77%) SNMP
18 36 (0.75%) SAN
19 35 (0.73%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 400 (8.37%) Power BI
2 291 (6.09%) PostgreSQL
3 283 (5.92%) Data Warehouse
4 208 (4.35%) SQL Server
5 183 (3.83%) Tableau
6 175 (3.66%) Data Lake
7 152 (3.18%) Metadata
7 152 (3.18%) NoSQL
8 150 (3.14%) Relational Database
9 141 (2.95%) BigQuery
10 121 (2.53%) Amazon Redshift
10 121 (2.53%) Big Data
11 114 (2.38%) Amazon Athena
12 110 (2.30%) Delta Lake
13 96 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
13 96 (2.01%) MongoDB
14 85 (1.78%) DynamoDB
15 62 (1.30%) Snowflake Schema
16 58 (1.21%) Redis
17 56 (1.17%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 562 (11.75%) Git
2 414 (8.66%) Jenkins
3 343 (7.17%) GitLab
4 270 (5.65%) JIRA
5 64 (1.34%) Selenium
6 59 (1.23%) MLflow
7 39 (0.82%) Bitbucket
8 36 (0.75%) Postman
9 30 (0.63%) JMeter
10 29 (0.61%) Artifactory
10 29 (0.61%) SonarQube
11 27 (0.56%) Cucumber
12 26 (0.54%) Cypress.io
13 24 (0.50%) Maven
14 23 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
15 22 (0.46%) REST Assured
16 21 (0.44%) Gatling
16 21 (0.44%) JUnit
17 17 (0.36%) Zephyr
18 16 (0.33%) Claude Code
General
1 1,053 (22.02%) Finance
2 1,041 (21.77%) Social Skills
3 694 (14.52%) Analytical Skills
4 483 (10.10%) Public Sector
5 376 (7.86%) Banking
6 192 (4.02%) Front Office
7 106 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
8 101 (2.11%) Investment Banking
9 91 (1.90%) Retail
10 89 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 75 (1.57%) Marketing
12 62 (1.30%) Telecoms
13 58 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
14 45 (0.94%) Legal
15 44 (0.92%) Financial Institution
16 43 (0.90%) Military
16 43 (0.90%) Publishing
17 37 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
18 31 (0.65%) Aerospace
19 30 (0.63%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 801 (16.75%) Developer
2 763 (15.96%) Senior
3 734 (15.35%) Data Engineer
4 413 (8.64%) Lead
5 407 (8.51%) Python Developer
6 280 (5.86%) DevOps Engineer
6 280 (5.86%) Python Engineer
7 274 (5.73%) Software Engineer
8 253 (5.29%) Analyst
8 253 (5.29%) Architect
9 219 (4.58%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 186 (3.89%) AWS Engineer
10 186 (3.89%) Data Scientist
11 153 (3.20%) Senior Developer
12 149 (3.12%) Platform Engineer
13 147 (3.07%) Senior Data Engineer
14 142 (2.97%) Azure Engineer
14 142 (2.97%) Cloud Engineer
15 132 (2.76%) Data Analyst
16 117 (2.45%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 360 (7.53%) REST
2 316 (6.61%) PySpark
3 315 (6.59%) React
4 314 (6.57%) Kafka
5 207 (4.33%) .NET
6 181 (3.79%) JSON
6 181 (3.79%) Node.js
7 170 (3.56%) Pandas
8 169 (3.53%) FastAPI
9 163 (3.41%) RESTful
10 153 (3.20%) Django
11 129 (2.70%) PyTorch
12 124 (2.59%) LangChain
13 100 (2.09%) NumPy
14 95 (1.99%) scikit-learn
15 94 (1.97%) Spring
16 93 (1.95%) Flask
17 91 (1.90%) OpenTelemetry
17 91 (1.90%) TensorFlow
17 91 (1.90%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 646 (13.51%) Cloud Native
2 275 (5.75%) Distributed Systems
3 174 (3.64%) Onboarding
4 172 (3.60%) AI Agents
5 144 (3.01%) Data Centre
6 129 (2.70%) Product Ownership
7 123 (2.57%) Algorithms
8 114 (2.38%) Data Structures
9 113 (2.36%) Hybrid Cloud
10 110 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
11 103 (2.15%) Derivative
11 103 (2.15%) Fixed Income
12 102 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
13 94 (1.97%) Equities
14 83 (1.74%) Management Information System
15 79 (1.65%) Security Posture
16 54 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
17 52 (1.09%) PKI
17 52 (1.09%) Public Cloud
17 52 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 587 (12.28%) Linux
2 291 (6.09%) Windows
3 181 (3.79%) Unix
4 114 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 64 (1.34%) Windows Server
6 39 (0.82%) Ubuntu
7 27 (0.56%) AIX
7 27 (0.56%) VMS
8 21 (0.44%) Android
9 14 (0.29%) Apple iOS
9 14 (0.29%) Solaris
10 13 (0.27%) CentOS
11 11 (0.23%) zOS
12 8 (0.17%) 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 1,813 (37.92%) CI/CD
2 1,355 (28.34%) DevOps
3 1,186 (24.81%) AI
4 1,077 (22.53%) Agile
5 1,027 (21.48%) Analytics
6 913 (19.10%) Infrastructure as Code
7 870 (18.20%) Data Pipeline
8 799 (16.71%) Problem-Solving
9 755 (15.79%) Machine Learning
10 720 (15.06%) Data Engineering
11 719 (15.04%) Software Engineering
12 654 (13.68%) Containerisation
13 646 (13.51%) Data Modelling
14 591 (12.36%) ETL
15 553 (11.57%) Data Science
16 543 (11.36%) Observability
17 482 (10.08%) Test Automation
18 472 (9.87%) Business Intelligence
19 459 (9.60%) Continuous Improvement
20 437 (9.14%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1,595 (33.36%) SQL
2 701 (14.66%) Java
3 626 (13.09%) PowerShell
4 615 (12.86%) Bash
5 373 (7.80%) JavaScript
6 343 (7.17%) TypeScript
7 278 (5.81%) C#
8 187 (3.91%) Go
9 143 (2.99%) R
10 111 (2.32%) C++
11 108 (2.26%) Scala
12 103 (2.15%) Shell Script
13 97 (2.03%) Bicep
14 55 (1.15%) Rust
15 52 (1.09%) PL/SQL
16 51 (1.07%) C
16 51 (1.07%) Groovy
17 50 (1.05%) Perl
18 48 (1.00%) Ruby
19 47 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1,066 (22.30%) Security Cleared
2 843 (17.63%) SC Cleared
3 379 (7.93%) Degree
4 176 (3.68%) DV Cleared
5 134 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 113 (2.36%) AWS Certification
7 112 (2.34%) Azure Certification
8 104 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
9 83 (1.74%) CISSP
10 78 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
11 69 (1.44%) Master's Degree
12 49 (1.02%) CCNP
13 39 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
13 39 (0.82%) PhD
14 35 (0.73%) CISM
15 33 (0.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 29 (0.61%) CCIE
17 28 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 24 (0.50%) DBS Check
19 21 (0.44%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 501 (10.48%) Data Quality
2 215 (4.50%) QA
3 112 (2.34%) GDPR
4 101 (2.11%) NIST
5 98 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 75 (1.57%) Accessibility
7 26 (0.54%) WCAG
8 25 (0.52%) SLA
9 22 (0.46%) 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 8 (0.17%) GRC
16 7 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
16 7 (0.15%) ISO 20022
17 6 (0.13%) PMO
18 5 (0.10%) NIST 800
System Software
1 783 (16.38%) Docker
2 136 (2.84%) Active Directory
3 108 (2.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 65 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
5 43 (0.90%) vSphere
6 36 (0.75%) VMware NSX
7 32 (0.67%) Hyper-V
8 29 (0.61%) Firmware
9 23 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
10 14 (0.29%) 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
15 6 (0.13%) PowerHA
16 5 (0.10%) SRDF
17 4 (0.084%) Ceph
17 4 (0.084%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1,088 (22.76%) Terraform
2 914 (19.12%) Kubernetes
3 527 (11.02%) Ansible
4 291 (6.09%) Grafana
5 233 (4.87%) Prometheus
6 74 (1.55%) Puppet
7 68 (1.42%) Argo
8 51 (1.07%) Progress Chef
9 38 (0.79%) vCenter Server
10 26 (0.54%) Istio
11 25 (0.52%) Control-M
11 25 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
12 23 (0.48%) Kibana
12 23 (0.48%) ZABBIX
13 22 (0.46%) Nagios
13 22 (0.46%) Nessus
14 21 (0.44%) vRealize
15 17 (0.36%) HAProxy
15 17 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
15 17 (0.36%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 564 (11.80%) Microsoft
2 480 (10.04%) Databricks
3 269 (5.63%) Google
4 205 (4.29%) Oracle
5 185 (3.87%) Splunk
6 140 (2.93%) VMware
7 128 (2.68%) Cisco
8 126 (2.64%) OpenAI
9 105 (2.20%) ServiceNow
10 90 (1.88%) Red Hat
11 87 (1.82%) F5
12 84 (1.76%) Palo Alto
13 82 (1.72%) Dynatrace
14 67 (1.40%) Fortinet
14 67 (1.40%) Informatica
15 66 (1.38%) IBM
16 64 (1.34%) CyberArk
17 59 (1.23%) Foundry
18 51 (1.07%) Arista
19 50 (1.05%) SAP