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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 11 14
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing Python 4,561 3,263 3,674
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.58% 13.12% 9.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.69% 38.69% 32.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,055 2,323 2,692
10th Percentile £363 £375 £375
25th Percentile £426 £448 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £573
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -3.93% -4.58%
75th Percentile £625 £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 103 48 102
10th Percentile £28.80 £27.15 £21.76
25th Percentile £43.81 £33.91 £46.20
Median hourly rate £55.00 £47.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -26.92% -
75th Percentile £74.13 £55.00 £70.94
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.13 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £54.50 £44.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +22.47% -28.23% -0.86%

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 11,493 8,433 11,471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.66% 33.91% 30.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,513 5,862 8,192
10th Percentile £360 £356 £350
25th Percentile £421 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -3.35% -3.93%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £507 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -0.59% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 520 197 495
10th Percentile £36.25 £28.11 £35.52
25th Percentile £55.00 £35.00 £49.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.54% -9.20% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.55 £85.00 £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 19 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 19 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 19 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 2,622 £550 -4.35% 864
North of England +10 784 £488 +2.63% 384
Yorkshire +2 433 £500 - 119
South East -9 402 £525 +3.96% 569
North West +4 274 £490 +3.16% 209
South West -3 263 £500 -9.09% 179
Midlands -14 233 £479 +6.41% 174
West Midlands -15 185 £477 +0.42% 88
East of England -13 126 £500 - 182
North East +8 89 £450 +5.88% 59
East Midlands -16 47 £497 +16.82% 85
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
1 248 (5.44%) Apache Spark
2 214 (4.69%) Apache Airflow
3 155 (3.40%) Apache
4 131 (2.87%) Confluence
5 51 (1.12%) Jupyter
6 45 (0.99%) SAS
7 44 (0.96%) SharePoint
8 17 (0.37%) OpenStack
8 17 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
9 14 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
10 12 (0.26%) nginx
11 10 (0.22%) IIS
12 9 (0.20%) ArcGIS
13 8 (0.18%) Apache Superset
13 8 (0.18%) Appian
14 6 (0.13%) Camunda
14 6 (0.13%) CICS
14 6 (0.13%) CMS
14 6 (0.13%) Tomcat
15 5 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 99 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (0.64%) Chatbot
3 22 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
4 18 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.39%) MS Visio
4 18 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
5 14 (0.31%) CPLEX
6 3 (0.066%) LaTeX
6 3 (0.066%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.022%) OrCAD
7 1 (0.022%) SPSS
7 1 (0.022%) Weka
7 1 (0.022%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 22 (0.48%) Aladdin
2 19 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
4 7 (0.15%) SAP IBP
5 6 (0.13%) Fidessa
5 6 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.11%) BambooHR
6 5 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
7 4 (0.088%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.088%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.066%) Bloomberg AIM
8 3 (0.066%) Sage X3
8 3 (0.066%) 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%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 1,744 (38.24%) AWS
2 1,557 (34.14%) Azure
3 670 (14.69%) GCP
4 535 (11.73%) GitHub
5 453 (9.93%) Power Platform
6 416 (9.12%) Serverless
7 354 (7.76%) Amazon S3
8 340 (7.45%) Azure DevOps
9 307 (6.73%) AWS Lambda
10 303 (6.64%) GitHub Actions
11 229 (5.02%) Azure Data Factory
12 217 (4.76%) Snowflake
13 179 (3.92%) dbt
14 143 (3.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 133 (2.92%) AWS CloudFormation
16 130 (2.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 129 (2.83%) Amazon EKS
17 129 (2.83%) OpenShift
18 110 (2.41%) Amazon EC2
19 97 (2.13%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 194 (4.25%) Firewall
2 127 (2.78%) DNS
3 99 (2.17%) WAN
4 94 (2.06%) BGP
5 88 (1.93%) Network Security
6 85 (1.86%) TCP/IP
7 81 (1.78%) VPN
8 54 (1.18%) OSPF
9 53 (1.16%) BIG-IP
10 45 (0.99%) HTTP
10 45 (0.99%) SD-WAN
11 43 (0.94%) VXLAN
12 37 (0.81%) VLAN
13 36 (0.79%) SSL
14 34 (0.75%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 33 (0.72%) Ethernet VPN
16 32 (0.70%) LAN
16 32 (0.70%) MPLS
16 32 (0.70%) SAN
17 31 (0.68%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 391 (8.57%) Power BI
2 294 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
3 262 (5.74%) Data Warehouse
4 227 (4.98%) SQL Server
5 192 (4.21%) Data Lake
6 180 (3.95%) Tableau
7 151 (3.31%) NoSQL
8 150 (3.29%) Relational Database
9 137 (3.00%) Metadata
10 120 (2.63%) Amazon Athena
11 119 (2.61%) Amazon Redshift
11 119 (2.61%) BigQuery
12 117 (2.57%) Delta Lake
13 115 (2.52%) Big Data
14 91 (2.00%) MongoDB
15 87 (1.91%) Amazon RDS
16 76 (1.67%) DynamoDB
17 61 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
17 61 (1.34%) MySQL
17 61 (1.34%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 533 (11.69%) Git
2 397 (8.70%) Jenkins
3 327 (7.17%) GitLab
4 248 (5.44%) JIRA
5 60 (1.32%) MLflow
6 57 (1.25%) Selenium
7 44 (0.96%) Postman
8 30 (0.66%) Bitbucket
9 29 (0.64%) JMeter
10 28 (0.61%) Artifactory
11 27 (0.59%) Cypress.io
11 27 (0.59%) SonarQube
12 26 (0.57%) Cucumber
13 24 (0.53%) Maven
14 20 (0.44%) Gatling
14 20 (0.44%) JUnit
15 19 (0.42%) REST Assured
16 18 (0.39%) Robot Framework
16 18 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
17 13 (0.29%) SpecFlow
General
1 1,008 (22.10%) Finance
2 989 (21.68%) Social Skills
3 631 (13.83%) Analytical Skills
4 421 (9.23%) Public Sector
5 352 (7.72%) Banking
6 178 (3.90%) Front Office
7 114 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
8 101 (2.21%) Investment Banking
9 82 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 69 (1.51%) Retail
11 64 (1.40%) Marketing
12 55 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
13 47 (1.03%) Telecoms
14 41 (0.90%) Financial Institution
14 41 (0.90%) Legal
15 40 (0.88%) Publishing
16 33 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
17 32 (0.70%) Military
18 30 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
19 24 (0.53%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 811 (17.78%) Developer
2 729 (15.98%) Data Engineer
3 680 (14.91%) Senior
4 407 (8.92%) Python Developer
5 332 (7.28%) Lead
6 277 (6.07%) Architect
7 246 (5.39%) DevOps Engineer
8 240 (5.26%) Analyst
9 236 (5.17%) Python Engineer
10 229 (5.02%) Software Engineer
11 214 (4.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 182 (3.99%) AWS Engineer
13 174 (3.81%) Data Scientist
14 148 (3.24%) Senior Developer
15 143 (3.14%) Senior Data Engineer
16 140 (3.07%) Azure Engineer
17 128 (2.81%) Data Analyst
18 124 (2.72%) Full-Stack Developer
19 123 (2.70%) Cloud Engineer
20 121 (2.65%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 352 (7.72%) REST
2 337 (7.39%) React
3 316 (6.93%) PySpark
4 285 (6.25%) Kafka
5 206 (4.52%) .NET
6 183 (4.01%) Node.js
7 176 (3.86%) Pandas
8 164 (3.60%) RESTful
9 155 (3.40%) FastAPI
9 155 (3.40%) JSON
10 144 (3.16%) PyTorch
11 124 (2.72%) Django
12 113 (2.48%) LangChain
13 105 (2.30%) NumPy
14 102 (2.24%) scikit-learn
14 102 (2.24%) TensorFlow
15 97 (2.13%) Flask
16 94 (2.06%) AngularJS
17 93 (2.04%) YAML
18 92 (2.02%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 598 (13.11%) Cloud Native
2 233 (5.11%) Distributed Systems
3 137 (3.00%) AI Agents
4 132 (2.89%) Onboarding
5 128 (2.81%) Data Centre
6 120 (2.63%) Algorithms
6 120 (2.63%) Product Ownership
7 109 (2.39%) Data Structures
8 101 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
9 99 (2.17%) Derivative
10 98 (2.15%) Equities
10 98 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
11 97 (2.13%) Fixed Income
12 95 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
13 89 (1.95%) Management Information System
14 82 (1.80%) Security Posture
15 67 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
16 54 (1.18%) Public Cloud
17 52 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
18 47 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 516 (11.31%) Linux
2 249 (5.46%) Windows
3 180 (3.95%) Unix
4 96 (2.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 62 (1.36%) Windows Server
6 40 (0.88%) Ubuntu
7 29 (0.64%) VMS
8 24 (0.53%) 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 (0.066%) Alpine Linux
17 3 (0.066%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,727 (37.86%) CI/CD
2 1,272 (27.89%) DevOps
3 1,134 (24.86%) AI
4 984 (21.57%) Agile
5 968 (21.22%) Analytics
6 821 (18.00%) Data Pipeline
7 816 (17.89%) Infrastructure as Code
8 809 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
9 703 (15.41%) Machine Learning
10 680 (14.91%) Data Engineering
11 622 (13.64%) Containerisation
12 618 (13.55%) Data Modelling
13 604 (13.24%) Software Engineering
14 595 (13.05%) ETL
15 526 (11.53%) Data Science
16 479 (10.50%) Observability
17 461 (10.11%) Business Intelligence
18 460 (10.09%) Test Automation
19 425 (9.32%) LLM
20 393 (8.62%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1,554 (34.07%) SQL
2 688 (15.08%) Java
3 551 (12.08%) PowerShell
4 501 (10.98%) Bash
5 387 (8.48%) JavaScript
6 335 (7.34%) TypeScript
7 297 (6.51%) C#
8 176 (3.86%) Go
9 143 (3.14%) R
10 110 (2.41%) Scala
11 109 (2.39%) C++
12 94 (2.06%) Shell Script
13 72 (1.58%) Bicep
14 56 (1.23%) Ruby
15 52 (1.14%) Perl
16 51 (1.12%) C
17 50 (1.10%) PL/SQL
18 47 (1.03%) Rust
18 47 (1.03%) T-SQL
19 46 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 977 (21.42%) Security Cleared
2 780 (17.10%) SC Cleared
3 354 (7.76%) Degree
4 142 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 142 (3.11%) DV Cleared
5 103 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
6 98 (2.15%) Azure Certification
7 93 (2.04%) AWS Certification
8 84 (1.84%) CISSP
9 63 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
10 58 (1.27%) Master's Degree
11 41 (0.90%) CCNP
12 36 (0.79%) CISM
13 31 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
13 31 (0.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 30 (0.66%) PhD
15 24 (0.53%) CCIE
16 23 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 21 (0.46%) ISTQB
18 18 (0.39%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 468 (10.26%) Data Quality
2 183 (4.01%) QA
3 125 (2.74%) GDPR
4 100 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 99 (2.17%) NIST
6 63 (1.38%) 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 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 8 (0.18%) GRC
12 8 (0.18%) ISO 20022
13 5 (0.11%) MiFID
13 5 (0.11%) PMO
System Software
1 730 (16.01%) Docker
2 131 (2.87%) Active Directory
3 86 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 66 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
5 35 (0.77%) 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 (0.29%) KVM
10 13 (0.29%) NFS
11 9 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
11 9 (0.20%) Squid
12 8 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
13 7 (0.15%) Postfix
14 6 (0.13%) HDFS
15 5 (0.11%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
15 5 (0.11%) SRDF
16 4 (0.088%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 4 (0.088%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 990 (21.71%) Terraform
2 832 (18.24%) Kubernetes
3 476 (10.44%) Ansible
4 257 (5.63%) Grafana
5 228 (5.00%) Prometheus
6 71 (1.56%) 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 (0.53%) Nessus
14 22 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
14 22 (0.48%) vRealize
15 21 (0.46%) Nagios
15 21 (0.46%) ZABBIX
16 20 (0.44%) HAProxy
17 18 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
18 17 (0.37%) IBM Guardium
Vendors
1 515 (11.29%) Microsoft
2 485 (10.63%) Databricks
3 236 (5.17%) Google
4 210 (4.60%) Oracle
5 181 (3.97%) Splunk
6 124 (2.72%) OpenAI
7 121 (2.65%) VMware
8 108 (2.37%) Cisco
8 108 (2.37%) Red Hat
9 92 (2.02%) ServiceNow
10 79 (1.73%) CyberArk
11 77 (1.69%) F5
12 75 (1.64%) Palo Alto
13 73 (1.60%) Dynatrace
14 65 (1.43%) BeyondTrust
15 60 (1.32%) IBM
15 60 (1.32%) Informatica
16 54 (1.18%) Foundry
17 50 (1.10%) Arista
17 50 (1.10%) Fortinet