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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 11 14
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing Python 4,586 3,264 3,675
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.62% 13.11% 9.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.73% 38.65% 32.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,073 2,320 2,692
10th Percentile £363 £375 £375
25th Percentile £428 £448 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £569
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -3.30% -5.21%
75th Percentile £626 £675 £700
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 48 103
10th Percentile £28.50 £27.15 £21.78
25th Percentile £43.34 £33.91 £46.22
Median hourly rate £55.00 £47.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -26.92% -
75th Percentile £74.07 £55.00 £71.56
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.13 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £53.25 £44.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +19.66% -28.23% +2.14%

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 11,542 8,446 11,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.72% 33.92% 30.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,549 5,868 8,200
10th Percentile £360 £356 £350
25th Percentile £423 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -3.35% -3.93%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £510 £510 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 521 196 497
10th Percentile £36.25 £28.09 £35.52
25th Percentile £55.00 £35.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.88 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.33% -10.60% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £85.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% +3.22%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 2,638 £550 -4.35% 921
North of England +10 789 £488 +2.63% 401
Yorkshire +2 433 £500 - 121
South East -8 406 £525 +3.19% 577
North West +4 278 £490 +3.16% 221
South West -4 262 £500 -9.09% 201
Midlands -16 234 £481 +6.83% 162
West Midlands -14 187 £477 +0.42% 84
East of England -13 126 £500 - 176
North East +7 90 £450 +5.88% 62
East Midlands -16 46 £497 +13.88% 78
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
1 249 (5.43%) Apache Spark
2 218 (4.75%) Apache Airflow
3 158 (3.45%) Apache
4 131 (2.86%) Confluence
5 51 (1.11%) Jupyter
6 45 (0.98%) SAS
6 45 (0.98%) SharePoint
7 17 (0.37%) OpenStack
7 17 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
8 14 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
9 12 (0.26%) nginx
10 10 (0.22%) IIS
11 9 (0.20%) ArcGIS
12 8 (0.17%) Apache Superset
12 8 (0.17%) Appian
13 6 (0.13%) Camunda
13 6 (0.13%) CICS
13 6 (0.13%) CMS
13 6 (0.13%) Tomcat
14 5 (0.11%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 101 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (0.63%) Chatbot
3 23 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
4 19 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 18 (0.39%) MS Visio
5 18 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
6 14 (0.31%) CPLEX
7 4 (0.087%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.065%) LaTeX
9 1 (0.022%) OrCAD
9 1 (0.022%) SPSS
9 1 (0.022%) Weka
9 1 (0.022%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 23 (0.50%) Aladdin
2 20 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
4 7 (0.15%) SAP IBP
5 6 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.13%) Fidessa
5 6 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.11%) BambooHR
7 4 (0.087%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.087%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.065%) Bloomberg AIM
8 3 (0.065%) Sage X3
8 3 (0.065%) SimCorp Dimension
9 2 (0.044%) Endur
9 2 (0.044%) Front Arena
9 2 (0.044%) Global One
9 2 (0.044%) Oracle Assets
9 2 (0.044%) Orchestrade
9 2 (0.044%) Teamcenter
10 1 (0.022%) SAP APO
Cloud Services
1 1,752 (38.20%) AWS
2 1,567 (34.17%) Azure
3 673 (14.68%) GCP
4 539 (11.75%) GitHub
5 459 (10.01%) Power Platform
6 420 (9.16%) Serverless
7 357 (7.78%) Amazon S3
8 340 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
9 311 (6.78%) AWS Lambda
10 303 (6.61%) GitHub Actions
11 228 (4.97%) Azure Data Factory
12 220 (4.80%) Snowflake
13 182 (3.97%) dbt
14 143 (3.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 134 (2.92%) AWS CloudFormation
16 130 (2.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 130 (2.83%) Amazon EKS
17 129 (2.81%) OpenShift
18 110 (2.40%) Amazon EC2
19 97 (2.12%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 199 (4.34%) Firewall
2 128 (2.79%) DNS
3 99 (2.16%) WAN
4 95 (2.07%) BGP
5 88 (1.92%) Network Security
6 87 (1.90%) TCP/IP
7 82 (1.79%) VPN
8 55 (1.20%) OSPF
9 53 (1.16%) BIG-IP
10 45 (0.98%) HTTP
10 45 (0.98%) SD-WAN
11 43 (0.94%) VXLAN
12 38 (0.83%) VLAN
13 36 (0.78%) SSL
14 35 (0.76%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 33 (0.72%) DHCP
15 33 (0.72%) Ethernet VPN
16 32 (0.70%) LAN
16 32 (0.70%) MPLS
16 32 (0.70%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 397 (8.66%) Power BI
2 295 (6.43%) PostgreSQL
3 266 (5.80%) Data Warehouse
4 228 (4.97%) SQL Server
5 191 (4.16%) Data Lake
6 182 (3.97%) Tableau
7 153 (3.34%) Relational Database
8 152 (3.31%) NoSQL
9 139 (3.03%) Metadata
10 123 (2.68%) Amazon Athena
11 121 (2.64%) BigQuery
12 120 (2.62%) Amazon Redshift
13 118 (2.57%) Delta Lake
14 114 (2.49%) Big Data
15 92 (2.01%) MongoDB
16 87 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
17 77 (1.68%) DynamoDB
18 62 (1.35%) Snowflake Schema
19 61 (1.33%) MySQL
20 59 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 533 (11.62%) Git
2 397 (8.66%) Jenkins
3 330 (7.20%) GitLab
4 250 (5.45%) JIRA
5 62 (1.35%) MLflow
6 57 (1.24%) Selenium
7 44 (0.96%) Postman
8 30 (0.65%) Bitbucket
9 29 (0.63%) JMeter
10 28 (0.61%) Artifactory
11 27 (0.59%) Cypress.io
11 27 (0.59%) SonarQube
12 26 (0.57%) Cucumber
13 24 (0.52%) Maven
14 20 (0.44%) Gatling
14 20 (0.44%) JUnit
15 19 (0.41%) REST Assured
16 18 (0.39%) Robot Framework
16 18 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
17 13 (0.28%) SpecFlow
General
1 1,015 (22.13%) Finance
2 1,000 (21.81%) Social Skills
3 640 (13.96%) Analytical Skills
4 427 (9.31%) Public Sector
5 353 (7.70%) Banking
6 180 (3.92%) Front Office
7 116 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
8 101 (2.20%) Investment Banking
9 82 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 72 (1.57%) Retail
11 66 (1.44%) Marketing
12 55 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
13 47 (1.02%) Telecoms
14 41 (0.89%) Financial Institution
14 41 (0.89%) Legal
14 41 (0.89%) Publishing
15 33 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
16 32 (0.70%) Military
17 31 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
18 25 (0.55%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 815 (17.77%) Developer
2 732 (15.96%) Data Engineer
3 684 (14.91%) Senior
4 410 (8.94%) Python Developer
5 340 (7.41%) Lead
6 281 (6.13%) Architect
7 246 (5.36%) DevOps Engineer
8 240 (5.23%) Analyst
9 239 (5.21%) Python Engineer
10 235 (5.12%) Software Engineer
11 216 (4.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 182 (3.97%) AWS Engineer
13 176 (3.84%) Data Scientist
14 149 (3.25%) Senior Developer
15 144 (3.14%) Senior Data Engineer
16 140 (3.05%) Azure Engineer
17 128 (2.79%) Data Analyst
18 125 (2.73%) Cloud Engineer
18 125 (2.73%) Full-Stack Developer
19 121 (2.64%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 350 (7.63%) REST
2 337 (7.35%) React
3 318 (6.93%) PySpark
4 287 (6.26%) Kafka
5 203 (4.43%) .NET
6 182 (3.97%) Node.js
7 176 (3.84%) Pandas
8 164 (3.58%) RESTful
9 157 (3.42%) FastAPI
10 156 (3.40%) JSON
11 145 (3.16%) PyTorch
12 132 (2.88%) Django
13 117 (2.55%) LangChain
14 105 (2.29%) NumPy
15 104 (2.27%) scikit-learn
16 101 (2.20%) TensorFlow
17 98 (2.14%) Flask
18 95 (2.07%) YAML
19 94 (2.05%) AngularJS
20 91 (1.98%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 600 (13.08%) Cloud Native
2 232 (5.06%) Distributed Systems
3 137 (2.99%) AI Agents
4 132 (2.88%) Onboarding
5 129 (2.81%) Data Centre
6 121 (2.64%) Algorithms
6 121 (2.64%) Product Ownership
7 110 (2.40%) Data Structures
8 101 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
9 99 (2.16%) Derivative
10 98 (2.14%) Equities
10 98 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
11 97 (2.12%) Fixed Income
12 96 (2.09%) Hybrid Cloud
13 90 (1.96%) Management Information System
14 82 (1.79%) Security Posture
15 63 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
16 54 (1.18%) Public Cloud
17 52 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
18 47 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 519 (11.32%) Linux
2 252 (5.49%) Windows
3 180 (3.92%) Unix
4 96 (2.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 62 (1.35%) Windows Server
6 40 (0.87%) Ubuntu
7 29 (0.63%) VMS
8 24 (0.52%) AIX
9 23 (0.50%) Android
10 20 (0.44%) CentOS
10 20 (0.44%) Solaris
11 16 (0.35%) Apple iOS
12 11 (0.24%) zOS
13 9 (0.20%) Mac OS
14 7 (0.15%) Debian
14 7 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
15 6 (0.13%) Rocky
16 5 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
17 3 (0.065%) Oracle Linux
17 3 (0.065%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,738 (37.90%) CI/CD
2 1,276 (27.82%) DevOps
3 1,142 (24.90%) AI
4 997 (21.74%) Agile
5 979 (21.35%) Analytics
6 828 (18.05%) Data Pipeline
7 817 (17.82%) Infrastructure as Code
8 814 (17.75%) Problem-Solving
9 710 (15.48%) Machine Learning
10 685 (14.94%) Data Engineering
11 625 (13.63%) Containerisation
12 623 (13.58%) Data Modelling
13 613 (13.37%) Software Engineering
14 598 (13.04%) ETL
15 532 (11.60%) Data Science
16 479 (10.44%) Observability
17 469 (10.23%) Business Intelligence
18 460 (10.03%) Test Automation
19 429 (9.35%) LLM
20 397 (8.66%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1,560 (34.02%) SQL
2 688 (15.00%) Java
3 550 (11.99%) PowerShell
4 504 (10.99%) Bash
5 388 (8.46%) JavaScript
6 337 (7.35%) TypeScript
7 294 (6.41%) C#
8 177 (3.86%) Go
9 141 (3.07%) R
10 109 (2.38%) C++
10 109 (2.38%) Scala
11 94 (2.05%) Shell Script
12 71 (1.55%) Bicep
13 55 (1.20%) Ruby
14 52 (1.13%) Perl
15 51 (1.11%) C
16 49 (1.07%) PL/SQL
17 47 (1.02%) Rust
17 47 (1.02%) T-SQL
18 46 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 981 (21.39%) Security Cleared
2 784 (17.10%) SC Cleared
3 361 (7.87%) Degree
4 147 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 143 (3.12%) DV Cleared
6 103 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
7 97 (2.12%) Azure Certification
8 93 (2.03%) AWS Certification
9 86 (1.88%) CISSP
10 64 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
11 59 (1.29%) Master's Degree
12 41 (0.89%) CCNP
13 37 (0.81%) CISM
14 32 (0.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 31 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
16 30 (0.65%) PhD
17 24 (0.52%) CCIE
18 23 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 21 (0.46%) ISTQB
20 18 (0.39%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 473 (10.31%) Data Quality
2 183 (3.99%) QA
3 125 (2.73%) GDPR
4 101 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 100 (2.18%) NIST
6 62 (1.35%) Accessibility
7 25 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 23 (0.50%) HIPAA
8 23 (0.50%) PCI DSS
8 23 (0.50%) SLA
8 23 (0.50%) WCAG
9 15 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
10 12 (0.26%) NCSC
10 12 (0.26%) SOC 2
11 10 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 8 (0.17%) GRC
12 8 (0.17%) ISO 20022
13 5 (0.11%) MiFID
13 5 (0.11%) PMO
System Software
1 732 (15.96%) Docker
2 129 (2.81%) Active Directory
3 87 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 66 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
5 35 (0.76%) vSphere
6 32 (0.70%) VMware NSX
7 28 (0.61%) Firmware
8 21 (0.46%) Hyper-V
9 16 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
10 13 (0.28%) KVM
10 13 (0.28%) NFS
11 9 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
11 9 (0.20%) 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 (0.087%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 4 (0.087%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 996 (21.72%) Terraform
2 836 (18.23%) Kubernetes
3 478 (10.42%) Ansible
4 257 (5.60%) Grafana
5 227 (4.95%) Prometheus
6 71 (1.55%) Puppet
7 48 (1.05%) Argo
8 37 (0.81%) Progress Chef
9 33 (0.72%) Istio
10 31 (0.68%) vCenter Server
11 26 (0.57%) Control-M
12 25 (0.55%) Kibana
13 24 (0.52%) Nessus
14 23 (0.50%) vRealize
15 22 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
16 21 (0.46%) Nagios
16 21 (0.46%) ZABBIX
17 20 (0.44%) HAProxy
18 17 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
18 17 (0.37%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 520 (11.34%) Microsoft
2 483 (10.53%) Databricks
3 241 (5.26%) Google
4 209 (4.56%) Oracle
5 180 (3.92%) Splunk
6 125 (2.73%) OpenAI
7 122 (2.66%) VMware
8 109 (2.38%) Cisco
9 108 (2.35%) Red Hat
10 92 (2.01%) ServiceNow
11 78 (1.70%) F5
12 77 (1.68%) CyberArk
13 76 (1.66%) Palo Alto
14 72 (1.57%) Dynatrace
15 63 (1.37%) BeyondTrust
16 62 (1.35%) Informatica
17 60 (1.31%) IBM
18 54 (1.18%) Foundry
19 51 (1.11%) Fortinet
20 50 (1.09%) Arista