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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 11 14
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing Python 4,517 3,227 3,616
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.61% 13.19% 9.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.78% 38.76% 31.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,040 2,307 2,644
10th Percentile £363 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £449 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.65% -5.83%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £700
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
UK median daily rate £525 £537 £550
% change year-on-year -2.23% -2.36% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 45 99
10th Percentile £30.05 £26.79 £21.63
25th Percentile £43.81 £33.91 £46.22
Median hourly rate £55.00 £44.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.60% -31.54% -
75th Percentile £71.75 £55.00 £71.88
90th Percentile £84.88 £70.30 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £40.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year +31.25% -35.48% -4.15%

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 11,356 8,326 11,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.66% 34.03% 30.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,440 5,778 8,132
10th Percentile £358 £358 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £524 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -3.06% -4.00%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 522 198 478
10th Percentile £36.28 £28.18 £35.52
25th Percentile £55.00 £36.06 £49.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £58.88 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.40% -5.80% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £77.65
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 11 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 11 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 11 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 2,602 £550 -4.35% 934
North of England +11 763 £481 -1.03% 393
Yorkshire +2 428 £490 -2.00% 114
South East -4 406 £525 +4.48% 534
North West +4 261 £486 +2.24% 220
South West -1 258 £500 -11.11% 204
Midlands -16 229 £477 +6.00% 163
West Midlands -10 180 £476 +0.21% 88
East of England -9 124 £500 - 157
North East +11 86 £475 +8.57% 60
East Midlands -22 48 £495 +16.47% 74
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
1 247 (5.47%) Apache Spark
2 205 (4.54%) Apache Airflow
3 151 (3.34%) Apache
4 122 (2.70%) Confluence
5 46 (1.02%) Jupyter
6 43 (0.95%) SAS
7 40 (0.89%) SharePoint
8 17 (0.38%) OpenStack
9 16 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
10 13 (0.29%) IIS
10 13 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
11 11 (0.24%) nginx
12 9 (0.20%) Appian
12 9 (0.20%) ArcGIS
13 8 (0.18%) Apache Superset
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 Application Server
Applications
1 98 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (0.62%) Chatbot
3 21 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
4 18 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
5 17 (0.38%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.24%) CPLEX
7 3 (0.066%) LaTeX
7 3 (0.066%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.022%) OrCAD
8 1 (0.022%) SPSS
8 1 (0.022%) Weka
8 1 (0.022%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 22 (0.49%) Aladdin
2 19 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
4 7 (0.15%) SAP IBP
5 6 (0.13%) Fidessa
5 6 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.11%) BambooHR
7 4 (0.089%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.066%) Bloomberg AIM
8 3 (0.066%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.066%) SimCorp Dimension
9 2 (0.044%) Dynamics CRM
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%) Sage X3
9 2 (0.044%) Teamcenter
10 1 (0.022%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 1,721 (38.10%) AWS
2 1,534 (33.96%) Azure
3 663 (14.68%) GCP
4 542 (12.00%) GitHub
5 442 (9.79%) Power Platform
6 401 (8.88%) Serverless
7 338 (7.48%) Amazon S3
8 336 (7.44%) Azure DevOps
9 306 (6.77%) GitHub Actions
10 292 (6.46%) AWS Lambda
11 238 (5.27%) Azure Data Factory
12 210 (4.65%) Snowflake
13 171 (3.79%) dbt
14 149 (3.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 136 (3.01%) AWS CloudFormation
16 132 (2.92%) OpenShift
17 128 (2.83%) Amazon EKS
18 122 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 101 (2.24%) Amazon EC2
20 95 (2.10%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 182 (4.03%) Firewall
2 126 (2.79%) DNS
3 91 (2.01%) WAN
4 84 (1.86%) BGP
5 83 (1.84%) TCP/IP
6 81 (1.79%) Network Security
7 73 (1.62%) VPN
8 52 (1.15%) BIG-IP
9 51 (1.13%) OSPF
10 45 (1.00%) HTTP
11 43 (0.95%) SD-WAN
12 42 (0.93%) VXLAN
13 36 (0.80%) SSL
13 36 (0.80%) VLAN
14 32 (0.71%) Ethernet VPN
14 32 (0.71%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 32 (0.71%) SAN
15 30 (0.66%) DHCP
15 30 (0.66%) MPLS
15 30 (0.66%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 379 (8.39%) Power BI
2 290 (6.42%) PostgreSQL
3 255 (5.65%) Data Warehouse
4 241 (5.34%) SQL Server
5 204 (4.52%) Data Lake
6 171 (3.79%) Tableau
7 149 (3.30%) NoSQL
8 148 (3.28%) Relational Database
9 136 (3.01%) Metadata
10 122 (2.70%) Delta Lake
11 119 (2.63%) BigQuery
12 118 (2.61%) Amazon Athena
13 117 (2.59%) Big Data
14 108 (2.39%) Amazon Redshift
15 89 (1.97%) MongoDB
16 83 (1.84%) Amazon RDS
17 73 (1.62%) DynamoDB
18 64 (1.42%) MySQL
19 63 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
20 61 (1.35%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 516 (11.42%) Git
2 388 (8.59%) Jenkins
3 314 (6.95%) GitLab
4 242 (5.36%) JIRA
5 63 (1.39%) Selenium
6 62 (1.37%) MLflow
7 51 (1.13%) Postman
8 29 (0.64%) Cucumber
8 29 (0.64%) JMeter
9 27 (0.60%) Bitbucket
9 27 (0.60%) Cypress.io
10 26 (0.58%) Artifactory
10 26 (0.58%) SonarQube
11 22 (0.49%) Maven
11 22 (0.49%) REST Assured
12 19 (0.42%) Gatling
12 19 (0.42%) JUnit
12 19 (0.42%) Robot Framework
13 18 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
14 13 (0.29%) SpecFlow
General
1 991 (21.94%) Social Skills
2 974 (21.56%) Finance
3 628 (13.90%) Analytical Skills
4 413 (9.14%) Public Sector
5 347 (7.68%) Banking
6 182 (4.03%) Front Office
7 115 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
8 104 (2.30%) Investment Banking
9 74 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 68 (1.51%) Marketing
11 60 (1.33%) Retail
12 54 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
13 44 (0.97%) Telecoms
14 41 (0.91%) Legal
15 40 (0.89%) Publishing
16 36 (0.80%) Financial Institution
17 34 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
18 31 (0.69%) Military
19 27 (0.60%) Manufacturing
19 27 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 808 (17.89%) Developer
2 715 (15.83%) Data Engineer
3 667 (14.77%) Senior
4 400 (8.86%) Python Developer
5 332 (7.35%) Lead
6 287 (6.35%) Architect
7 246 (5.45%) DevOps Engineer
8 234 (5.18%) Analyst
9 232 (5.14%) Software Engineer
10 226 (5.00%) Python Engineer
11 207 (4.58%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 180 (3.98%) AWS Engineer
13 176 (3.90%) Data Scientist
14 153 (3.39%) Senior Developer
15 139 (3.08%) Senior Data Engineer
16 136 (3.01%) Azure Engineer
17 127 (2.81%) Data Analyst
18 124 (2.75%) Full-Stack Developer
19 115 (2.55%) Cloud Engineer
19 115 (2.55%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 351 (7.77%) REST
2 331 (7.33%) React
3 309 (6.84%) PySpark
4 288 (6.38%) Kafka
5 208 (4.60%) .NET
6 183 (4.05%) Node.js
7 180 (3.98%) Pandas
8 153 (3.39%) JSON
8 153 (3.39%) RESTful
9 149 (3.30%) FastAPI
10 144 (3.19%) PyTorch
11 122 (2.70%) Django
12 106 (2.35%) LangChain
13 105 (2.32%) TensorFlow
14 103 (2.28%) NumPy
15 101 (2.24%) scikit-learn
16 99 (2.19%) AngularJS
17 95 (2.10%) HTML
18 94 (2.08%) YAML
19 93 (2.06%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 569 (12.60%) Cloud Native
2 223 (4.94%) Distributed Systems
3 131 (2.90%) AI Agents
4 124 (2.75%) Data Centre
5 121 (2.68%) Onboarding
6 117 (2.59%) Algorithms
7 115 (2.55%) Product Ownership
8 104 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
9 103 (2.28%) Data Structures
10 101 (2.24%) Derivative
10 101 (2.24%) Equities
11 99 (2.19%) Fixed Income
12 95 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
13 90 (1.99%) Hybrid Cloud
14 87 (1.93%) Security Posture
15 85 (1.88%) Management Information System
16 78 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
17 52 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
17 52 (1.15%) Public Cloud
18 45 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 514 (11.38%) Linux
2 249 (5.51%) Windows
3 182 (4.03%) Unix
4 91 (2.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 63 (1.39%) Windows Server
6 38 (0.84%) Ubuntu
7 27 (0.60%) VMS
8 24 (0.53%) AIX
9 23 (0.51%) Android
10 22 (0.49%) Solaris
11 19 (0.42%) CentOS
12 16 (0.35%) Apple iOS
13 11 (0.24%) zOS
14 10 (0.22%) Mac OS
15 7 (0.15%) Debian
16 6 (0.13%) Rocky
17 5 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
17 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
18 3 (0.066%) Oracle Linux
18 3 (0.066%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,699 (37.61%) CI/CD
2 1,248 (27.63%) DevOps
3 1,111 (24.60%) AI
4 954 (21.12%) Analytics
5 952 (21.08%) Agile
6 813 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
7 803 (17.78%) Data Pipeline
8 793 (17.56%) Infrastructure as Code
9 690 (15.28%) Machine Learning
10 669 (14.81%) Data Engineering
11 621 (13.75%) Data Modelling
12 610 (13.50%) Containerisation
13 607 (13.44%) ETL
14 591 (13.08%) Software Engineering
15 519 (11.49%) Data Science
16 483 (10.69%) Observability
17 453 (10.03%) Test Automation
18 449 (9.94%) Business Intelligence
19 410 (9.08%) LLM
20 383 (8.48%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1,557 (34.47%) SQL
2 698 (15.45%) Java
3 559 (12.38%) PowerShell
4 496 (10.98%) Bash
5 396 (8.77%) JavaScript
6 325 (7.20%) TypeScript
7 303 (6.71%) C#
8 176 (3.90%) Go
9 145 (3.21%) R
10 114 (2.52%) Scala
11 113 (2.50%) C++
12 96 (2.13%) Shell Script
13 70 (1.55%) Bicep
14 57 (1.26%) PL/SQL
15 56 (1.24%) Ruby
16 51 (1.13%) Perl
17 50 (1.11%) C
17 50 (1.11%) T-SQL
18 47 (1.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 44 (0.97%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 990 (21.92%) Security Cleared
2 793 (17.56%) SC Cleared
3 352 (7.79%) Degree
4 148 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 133 (2.94%) DV Cleared
6 103 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
7 97 (2.15%) Azure Certification
8 86 (1.90%) AWS Certification
9 78 (1.73%) CISSP
10 60 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
11 59 (1.31%) Master's Degree
12 39 (0.86%) CCNP
13 37 (0.82%) CISM
14 32 (0.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 31 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
16 30 (0.66%) PhD
17 23 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 21 (0.46%) CCIE
18 21 (0.46%) ISTQB
19 18 (0.40%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 458 (10.14%) Data Quality
2 190 (4.21%) QA
3 130 (2.88%) GDPR
4 100 (2.21%) NIST
5 96 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 60 (1.33%) Accessibility
7 26 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 26 (0.58%) SLA
8 23 (0.51%) HIPAA
8 23 (0.51%) PCI DSS
9 21 (0.46%) WCAG
10 14 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
10 14 (0.31%) NCSC
11 11 (0.24%) SOC 2
12 10 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
13 9 (0.20%) ISO 20022
14 8 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 8 (0.18%) GRC
15 6 (0.13%) PSD2
16 5 (0.11%) PMO
System Software
1 710 (15.72%) Docker
2 140 (3.10%) Active Directory
3 85 (1.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 63 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
5 35 (0.77%) vSphere
6 33 (0.73%) VMware NSX
7 27 (0.60%) Firmware
8 20 (0.44%) Hyper-V
9 16 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
10 14 (0.31%) KVM
11 13 (0.29%) NFS
12 10 (0.22%) Squid
13 8 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
13 8 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
14 7 (0.15%) Postfix
15 6 (0.13%) HDFS
16 5 (0.11%) SRDF
17 4 (0.089%) Ceph
17 4 (0.089%) Slurm Workload Manager
17 4 (0.089%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 959 (21.23%) Terraform
2 817 (18.09%) Kubernetes
3 463 (10.25%) Ansible
4 260 (5.76%) Grafana
5 227 (5.03%) Prometheus
6 68 (1.51%) Puppet
7 53 (1.17%) Argo
8 36 (0.80%) Istio
8 36 (0.80%) Progress Chef
9 31 (0.69%) vCenter Server
10 27 (0.60%) Kibana
11 26 (0.58%) Control-M
12 24 (0.53%) Nessus
13 23 (0.51%) vRealize
14 21 (0.46%) Nagios
15 20 (0.44%) HAProxy
15 20 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
15 20 (0.44%) ZABBIX
16 17 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
16 17 (0.38%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 502 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 486 (10.76%) Databricks
3 227 (5.03%) Google
4 217 (4.80%) Oracle
5 184 (4.07%) Splunk
6 126 (2.79%) VMware
7 118 (2.61%) OpenAI
8 113 (2.50%) Red Hat
9 101 (2.24%) Cisco
10 91 (2.01%) ServiceNow
11 85 (1.88%) CyberArk
12 77 (1.70%) BeyondTrust
13 76 (1.68%) F5
14 72 (1.59%) Dynatrace
15 71 (1.57%) Palo Alto
16 58 (1.28%) IBM
17 56 (1.24%) Informatica
18 52 (1.15%) Foundry
19 47 (1.04%) Arista
20 46 (1.02%) SAP