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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 10 14
Rank change year-on-year -2 +4 -2
Contract jobs citing Python 4,707 3,502 3,671
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.61% 13.18% 9.87%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.79% 39.26% 31.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,142 2,449 2,691
10th Percentile £366 £370 £375
25th Percentile £431 £446 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £710
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 100 54 107
10th Percentile £28.50 £27.70 £21.89
25th Percentile £40.94 £34.81 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.25 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.50% -23.08% -0.38%
75th Percentile £74.76 £55.75 £71.88
90th Percentile £85.30 £63.60 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £45.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year +20.00% -27.42% -4.62%

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 11,829 8,921 11,491
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.66% 33.57% 30.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,700 6,151 8,217
10th Percentile £360 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £520 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -3.70% -1.82%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £726 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £512 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.14% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 500 219 479
10th Percentile £34.91 £28.18 £35.52
25th Percentile £55.00 £36.25 £49.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.54% -12.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.55 £80.00 £76.50
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 7 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 7 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 7 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 2,707 £550 -4.35% 1,354
North of England +8 787 £488 +2.63% 443
South East -6 443 £527 +5.45% 613
Yorkshire +2 430 £500 +1.44% 140
North West +5 280 £500 +5.26% 232
South West -3 265 £500 -9.09% 286
Midlands -13 251 £477 +3.92% 219
West Midlands -15 202 £475 - 107
East of England -17 130 £500 -0.25% 214
North East +6 89 £425 -2.86% 75
East Midlands -11 48 £497 +11.07% 112
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
1 250 (5.31%) Apache Spark
2 227 (4.82%) Apache Airflow
3 167 (3.55%) Apache
4 148 (3.14%) Confluence
5 49 (1.04%) Jupyter
6 47 (1.00%) SAS
7 45 (0.96%) SharePoint
8 20 (0.42%) OpenStack
9 19 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
10 15 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
11 13 (0.28%) ArcGIS
11 13 (0.28%) nginx
12 11 (0.23%) IIS
13 8 (0.17%) Apache Superset
13 8 (0.17%) CMS
14 6 (0.13%) Appian
14 6 (0.13%) Camunda
14 6 (0.13%) CICS
14 6 (0.13%) Tomcat
15 5 (0.11%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 103 (2.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (0.62%) Chatbot
3 26 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
4 21 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 20 (0.42%) MS Visio
6 18 (0.38%) 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%) Simulink
9 1 (0.021%) SPSS
9 1 (0.021%) Weka
9 1 (0.021%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 24 (0.51%) Aladdin
2 20 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
4 7 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (0.15%) SAP IBP
5 6 (0.13%) Fidessa
5 6 (0.13%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.11%) BambooHR
6 5 (0.11%) Sage X3
7 4 (0.085%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.064%) Bloomberg AIM
8 3 (0.064%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.064%) SimCorp Dimension
9 2 (0.042%) Front Arena
9 2 (0.042%) Global One
9 2 (0.042%) Oracle Assets
9 2 (0.042%) Orchestrade
9 2 (0.042%) Remedy AR System
9 2 (0.042%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,781 (37.84%) AWS
2 1,624 (34.50%) Azure
3 697 (14.81%) GCP
4 552 (11.73%) GitHub
5 450 (9.56%) Power Platform
6 403 (8.56%) Serverless
7 362 (7.69%) Amazon S3
8 346 (7.35%) Azure DevOps
9 318 (6.76%) GitHub Actions
10 301 (6.39%) AWS Lambda
11 234 (4.97%) Snowflake
12 226 (4.80%) Azure Data Factory
13 192 (4.08%) dbt
14 145 (3.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 140 (2.97%) AWS CloudFormation
16 138 (2.93%) Amazon EKS
17 136 (2.89%) OpenShift
18 132 (2.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 110 (2.34%) Amazon EC2
20 101 (2.15%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 214 (4.55%) Firewall
2 141 (3.00%) DNS
3 109 (2.32%) WAN
4 107 (2.27%) BGP
5 100 (2.12%) TCP/IP
6 98 (2.08%) Network Security
7 94 (2.00%) VPN
8 64 (1.36%) OSPF
9 53 (1.13%) BIG-IP
10 51 (1.08%) SD-WAN
11 44 (0.93%) VXLAN
12 43 (0.91%) VLAN
13 42 (0.89%) HTTP
14 41 (0.87%) DHCP
15 38 (0.81%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 38 (0.81%) LAN
15 38 (0.81%) MPLS
16 36 (0.76%) SSL
17 34 (0.72%) Ethernet VPN
18 33 (0.70%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 394 (8.37%) Power BI
2 302 (6.42%) PostgreSQL
3 281 (5.97%) Data Warehouse
4 228 (4.84%) SQL Server
5 184 (3.91%) Tableau
6 178 (3.78%) Data Lake
7 149 (3.17%) Relational Database
8 147 (3.12%) NoSQL
9 140 (2.97%) Metadata
10 127 (2.70%) BigQuery
11 123 (2.61%) Amazon Redshift
12 120 (2.55%) Delta Lake
13 118 (2.51%) Amazon Athena
14 115 (2.44%) Big Data
15 95 (2.02%) MongoDB
16 92 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
17 79 (1.68%) DynamoDB
18 66 (1.40%) MySQL
19 64 (1.36%) Snowflake Schema
20 56 (1.19%) Redis
Development Applications
1 547 (11.62%) Git
2 410 (8.71%) Jenkins
3 342 (7.27%) GitLab
4 271 (5.76%) JIRA
5 64 (1.36%) Selenium
6 63 (1.34%) MLflow
7 45 (0.96%) Postman
8 34 (0.72%) Bitbucket
9 33 (0.70%) JMeter
10 29 (0.62%) Artifactory
11 27 (0.57%) Cucumber
11 27 (0.57%) Cypress.io
11 27 (0.57%) SonarQube
12 25 (0.53%) Maven
13 24 (0.51%) Gatling
14 23 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
15 20 (0.42%) JUnit
15 20 (0.42%) REST Assured
16 17 (0.36%) Robot Framework
17 16 (0.34%) Zephyr
General
1 1,039 (22.07%) Finance
2 1,029 (21.86%) Social Skills
3 653 (13.87%) Analytical Skills
4 455 (9.67%) Public Sector
5 372 (7.90%) Banking
6 188 (3.99%) Front Office
7 110 (2.34%) Documentation Skills
8 106 (2.25%) Investment Banking
9 85 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 82 (1.74%) Retail
11 71 (1.51%) Marketing
12 55 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
13 53 (1.13%) Telecoms
14 46 (0.98%) Legal
15 44 (0.93%) Financial Institution
16 41 (0.87%) Publishing
17 37 (0.79%) Military
18 35 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
19 29 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
20 28 (0.59%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 815 (17.31%) Developer
2 748 (15.89%) Data Engineer
3 718 (15.25%) Senior
4 416 (8.84%) Python Developer
5 381 (8.09%) Lead
6 266 (5.65%) Architect
7 264 (5.61%) DevOps Engineer
8 255 (5.42%) Python Engineer
9 254 (5.40%) Software Engineer
10 245 (5.21%) Analyst
11 212 (4.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 184 (3.91%) Data Scientist
13 183 (3.89%) AWS Engineer
14 154 (3.27%) Senior Data Engineer
15 149 (3.17%) Senior Developer
16 144 (3.06%) Azure Engineer
17 132 (2.80%) Platform Engineer
18 130 (2.76%) Cloud Engineer
19 124 (2.63%) Data Analyst
20 114 (2.42%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 341 (7.24%) REST
2 321 (6.82%) PySpark
3 315 (6.69%) React
4 303 (6.44%) Kafka
5 209 (4.44%) .NET
6 179 (3.80%) Node.js
7 173 (3.68%) Pandas
8 166 (3.53%) JSON
8 166 (3.53%) RESTful
9 156 (3.31%) FastAPI
10 146 (3.10%) Django
11 141 (3.00%) PyTorch
12 116 (2.46%) LangChain
13 104 (2.21%) scikit-learn
14 103 (2.19%) NumPy
15 100 (2.12%) TensorFlow
16 92 (1.95%) OpenTelemetry
16 92 (1.95%) Spring
17 89 (1.89%) Flask
18 88 (1.87%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 628 (13.34%) Cloud Native
2 257 (5.46%) Distributed Systems
3 149 (3.17%) Onboarding
4 145 (3.08%) AI Agents
5 131 (2.78%) Data Centre
6 123 (2.61%) Product Ownership
7 118 (2.51%) Algorithms
8 106 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
9 104 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
10 103 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
10 103 (2.19%) Data Structures
11 99 (2.10%) Derivative
11 99 (2.10%) Fixed Income
12 96 (2.04%) Equities
13 87 (1.85%) Management Information System
14 73 (1.55%) Security Posture
15 58 (1.23%) Public Cloud
16 51 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
17 49 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
18 47 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 549 (11.66%) Linux
2 266 (5.65%) Windows
3 184 (3.91%) Unix
4 98 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 62 (1.32%) Windows Server
6 37 (0.79%) Ubuntu
7 27 (0.57%) 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 (0.23%) 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%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
18 3 (0.064%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,781 (37.84%) CI/CD
2 1,307 (27.77%) DevOps
3 1,159 (24.62%) AI
4 1,041 (22.12%) Agile
5 1,003 (21.31%) Analytics
6 855 (18.16%) Infrastructure as Code
7 852 (18.10%) Data Pipeline
8 796 (16.91%) Problem-Solving
9 736 (15.64%) Machine Learning
10 707 (15.02%) Data Engineering
11 651 (13.83%) Software Engineering
12 642 (13.64%) Containerisation
13 631 (13.41%) Data Modelling
14 604 (12.83%) ETL
15 542 (11.51%) Data Science
16 511 (10.86%) Observability
17 480 (10.20%) Test Automation
18 464 (9.86%) Business Intelligence
19 426 (9.05%) LLM
20 415 (8.82%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1,591 (33.80%) SQL
2 708 (15.04%) Java
3 573 (12.17%) PowerShell
4 561 (11.92%) Bash
5 374 (7.95%) JavaScript
6 340 (7.22%) TypeScript
7 293 (6.22%) C#
8 192 (4.08%) Go
9 145 (3.08%) R
10 118 (2.51%) Scala
11 108 (2.29%) C++
12 99 (2.10%) Shell Script
13 79 (1.68%) Bicep
14 52 (1.10%) PL/SQL
15 51 (1.08%) C
16 49 (1.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 49 (1.04%) Groovy
16 49 (1.04%) Rust
17 48 (1.02%) Ruby
18 46 (0.98%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,026 (21.80%) Security Cleared
2 815 (17.31%) SC Cleared
3 375 (7.97%) Degree
4 153 (3.25%) DV Cleared
5 147 (3.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 112 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
7 98 (2.08%) Azure Certification
8 95 (2.02%) AWS Certification
9 87 (1.85%) CISSP
10 74 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
11 67 (1.42%) Master's Degree
12 46 (0.98%) CCNP
13 35 (0.74%) CISM
14 32 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
14 32 (0.68%) PhD
14 32 (0.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 29 (0.62%) CCIE
16 23 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 20 (0.42%) ISTQB
18 19 (0.40%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 476 (10.11%) Data Quality
2 198 (4.21%) QA
3 121 (2.57%) GDPR
4 106 (2.25%) NIST
5 102 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 68 (1.44%) Accessibility
7 25 (0.53%) SLA
7 25 (0.53%) WCAG
8 24 (0.51%) PCI DSS
9 23 (0.49%) HIPAA
10 21 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 18 (0.38%) 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%) GRC
14 8 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
15 7 (0.15%) ISO 20022
16 5 (0.11%) HL7
16 5 (0.11%) MiFID
System Software
1 761 (16.17%) Docker
2 111 (2.36%) Active Directory
3 88 (1.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 68 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
5 34 (0.72%) vSphere
6 30 (0.64%) VMware NSX
7 25 (0.53%) Firmware
8 20 (0.42%) Hyper-V
8 20 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
9 14 (0.30%) NFS
10 12 (0.25%) KVM
11 9 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
11 9 (0.19%) Squid
12 8 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
13 7 (0.15%) Postfix
14 5 (0.11%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
14 5 (0.11%) HDFS
14 5 (0.11%) SRDF
15 4 (0.085%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 4 (0.085%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1,041 (22.12%) Terraform
2 881 (18.72%) Kubernetes
3 502 (10.66%) Ansible
4 284 (6.03%) Grafana
5 234 (4.97%) Prometheus
6 69 (1.47%) Puppet
7 60 (1.27%) Argo
8 41 (0.87%) Progress Chef
9 35 (0.74%) vCenter Server
10 29 (0.62%) Istio
11 28 (0.59%) Kibana
12 27 (0.57%) Control-M
13 25 (0.53%) Nessus
14 23 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
14 23 (0.49%) Nagios
14 23 (0.49%) vRealize
15 22 (0.47%) ZABBIX
16 20 (0.42%) HAProxy
17 18 (0.38%) IBM Guardium
18 17 (0.36%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 548 (11.64%) Microsoft
2 491 (10.43%) Databricks
3 261 (5.54%) Google
4 220 (4.67%) Oracle
5 189 (4.02%) Splunk
6 123 (2.61%) OpenAI
7 122 (2.59%) VMware
8 121 (2.57%) Cisco
9 105 (2.23%) ServiceNow
10 91 (1.93%) Red Hat
11 84 (1.78%) F5
12 81 (1.72%) Palo Alto
13 77 (1.64%) Dynatrace
14 66 (1.40%) Informatica
15 62 (1.32%) IBM
16 60 (1.27%) CyberArk
16 60 (1.27%) Fortinet
17 55 (1.17%) Foundry
18 51 (1.08%) Arista
19 46 (0.98%) SAP