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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 11 14
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing Python 4,529 3,222 3,630
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.62% 13.14% 9.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.81% 38.67% 31.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,044 2,297 2,664
10th Percentile £363 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £449 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £567
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -3.00% -5.50%
75th Percentile £626 £675 £700
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
UK median daily rate £524 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.51% -2.27% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 45 98
10th Percentile £30.05 £26.79 £21.59
25th Percentile £43.81 £33.91 £46.20
Median hourly rate £55.00 £44.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.60% -31.54% -
75th Percentile £71.75 £55.00 £71.72
90th Percentile £84.88 £70.30 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £40.00 £61.00
% change year-on-year +31.25% -34.43% -5.24%

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 11,377 8,332 11,358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.68% 33.98% 30.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,453 5,776 8,158
10th Percentile £358 £357 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £523 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.01% -3.15% -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 519 194 478
10th Percentile £36.25 £28.18 £35.52
25th Percentile £55.00 £35.25 £49.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -8.00% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.15 £85.00 £77.65
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% +2.97%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 2,612 £550 -4.35% 780
North of England +10 764 £481 +0.26% 347
Yorkshire +1 427 £490 -2.00% 107
South East -6 400 £525 +2.44% 523
North West +6 261 £486 +2.24% 187
South West 0 260 £500 -9.09% 151
Midlands -16 230 £477 +6.00% 150
West Midlands -12 182 £476 +0.21% 84
East of England -13 125 £500 - 135
North East +8 88 £469 +7.14% 54
East Midlands -19 47 £495 +16.47% 65
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 (5.45%) Apache Spark
2 207 (4.57%) Apache Airflow
3 152 (3.36%) Apache
4 124 (2.74%) Confluence
5 47 (1.04%) Jupyter
6 43 (0.95%) SAS
7 40 (0.88%) SharePoint
8 17 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
9 16 (0.35%) OpenStack
10 13 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
11 12 (0.26%) IIS
12 11 (0.24%) nginx
13 9 (0.20%) Appian
13 9 (0.20%) ArcGIS
14 8 (0.18%) Apache Superset
15 6 (0.13%) Camunda
15 6 (0.13%) CICS
15 6 (0.13%) CMS
15 6 (0.13%) Tomcat
16 5 (0.11%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 98 (2.16%) 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 18 (0.40%) 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 (0.088%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.088%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.066%) Bloomberg AIM
8 3 (0.066%) Dynamics CRM
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%) SAP APO
Cloud Services
1 1,732 (38.24%) AWS
2 1,543 (34.07%) Azure
3 667 (14.73%) GCP
4 548 (12.10%) GitHub
5 446 (9.85%) Power Platform
6 407 (8.99%) Serverless
7 343 (7.57%) Amazon S3
8 338 (7.46%) Azure DevOps
9 313 (6.91%) GitHub Actions
10 297 (6.56%) AWS Lambda
11 238 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
12 211 (4.66%) Snowflake
13 173 (3.82%) dbt
14 148 (3.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 137 (3.02%) AWS CloudFormation
16 132 (2.91%) OpenShift
17 129 (2.85%) Amazon EKS
18 127 (2.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 105 (2.32%) Amazon EC2
20 95 (2.10%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 184 (4.06%) Firewall
2 127 (2.80%) DNS
3 92 (2.03%) WAN
4 85 (1.88%) BGP
5 83 (1.83%) TCP/IP
6 81 (1.79%) Network Security
7 73 (1.61%) VPN
8 52 (1.15%) BIG-IP
9 51 (1.13%) OSPF
10 45 (0.99%) HTTP
11 43 (0.95%) SD-WAN
12 42 (0.93%) VXLAN
13 36 (0.79%) SSL
14 35 (0.77%) VLAN
15 32 (0.71%) Ethernet VPN
15 32 (0.71%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 32 (0.71%) SAN
16 30 (0.66%) DHCP
16 30 (0.66%) MPLS
16 30 (0.66%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 381 (8.41%) Power BI
2 293 (6.47%) PostgreSQL
3 260 (5.74%) Data Warehouse
4 238 (5.26%) SQL Server
5 202 (4.46%) Data Lake
6 172 (3.80%) Tableau
7 149 (3.29%) NoSQL
8 148 (3.27%) Relational Database
9 138 (3.05%) Metadata
10 122 (2.69%) Delta Lake
11 120 (2.65%) Amazon Athena
11 120 (2.65%) BigQuery
12 117 (2.58%) Big Data
13 113 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
14 90 (1.99%) MongoDB
15 83 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
16 73 (1.61%) DynamoDB
17 63 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
17 63 (1.39%) MySQL
18 60 (1.32%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 526 (11.61%) Git
2 393 (8.68%) Jenkins
3 323 (7.13%) GitLab
4 243 (5.37%) JIRA
5 63 (1.39%) Selenium
6 62 (1.37%) MLflow
7 49 (1.08%) Postman
8 29 (0.64%) Bitbucket
8 29 (0.64%) Cucumber
8 29 (0.64%) JMeter
9 27 (0.60%) Cypress.io
10 26 (0.57%) Artifactory
11 25 (0.55%) SonarQube
12 24 (0.53%) Maven
13 22 (0.49%) REST Assured
14 21 (0.46%) JUnit
15 19 (0.42%) Gatling
15 19 (0.42%) Robot Framework
16 18 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
17 13 (0.29%) SpecFlow
General
1 989 (21.84%) Social Skills
2 979 (21.62%) Finance
3 628 (13.87%) Analytical Skills
4 414 (9.14%) Public Sector
5 347 (7.66%) Banking
6 180 (3.97%) Front Office
7 116 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
8 101 (2.23%) Investment Banking
9 76 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 66 (1.46%) Marketing
11 64 (1.41%) Retail
12 54 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
13 45 (0.99%) Telecoms
14 41 (0.91%) Legal
15 40 (0.88%) Publishing
16 37 (0.82%) Financial Institution
17 33 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
18 31 (0.68%) Military
19 27 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
20 26 (0.57%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 811 (17.91%) Developer
2 720 (15.90%) Data Engineer
3 675 (14.90%) Senior
4 399 (8.81%) Python Developer
5 331 (7.31%) Lead
6 287 (6.34%) Architect
7 248 (5.48%) DevOps Engineer
8 234 (5.17%) Analyst
9 230 (5.08%) Software Engineer
10 227 (5.01%) Python Engineer
11 209 (4.61%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 180 (3.97%) AWS Engineer
13 175 (3.86%) Data Scientist
14 155 (3.42%) Senior Developer
15 142 (3.14%) Senior Data Engineer
16 135 (2.98%) Azure Engineer
17 127 (2.80%) Data Analyst
18 125 (2.76%) Full-Stack Developer
19 117 (2.58%) Cloud Engineer
19 117 (2.58%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 355 (7.84%) REST
2 333 (7.35%) React
3 312 (6.89%) PySpark
4 289 (6.38%) Kafka
5 209 (4.61%) .NET
6 181 (4.00%) Node.js
7 180 (3.97%) Pandas
8 157 (3.47%) JSON
9 155 (3.42%) RESTful
10 148 (3.27%) FastAPI
11 141 (3.11%) PyTorch
12 124 (2.74%) Django
13 106 (2.34%) LangChain
14 103 (2.27%) NumPy
15 102 (2.25%) scikit-learn
15 102 (2.25%) TensorFlow
16 98 (2.16%) AngularJS
17 95 (2.10%) HTML
17 95 (2.10%) YAML
18 93 (2.05%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 578 (12.76%) Cloud Native
2 225 (4.97%) Distributed Systems
3 131 (2.89%) AI Agents
4 125 (2.76%) Data Centre
4 125 (2.76%) Onboarding
5 118 (2.61%) Algorithms
6 114 (2.52%) Product Ownership
7 104 (2.30%) Data Structures
8 103 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
9 101 (2.23%) Derivative
10 100 (2.21%) Equities
11 98 (2.16%) Fixed Income
12 95 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
13 91 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
14 88 (1.94%) Security Posture
15 85 (1.88%) Management Information System
16 80 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
17 52 (1.15%) Public Cloud
18 51 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
19 46 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 515 (11.37%) Linux
2 247 (5.45%) Windows
3 182 (4.02%) Unix
4 94 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 63 (1.39%) Windows Server
6 41 (0.91%) Ubuntu
7 26 (0.57%) VMS
8 24 (0.53%) AIX
8 24 (0.53%) Android
9 22 (0.49%) Solaris
10 20 (0.44%) CentOS
11 16 (0.35%) Apple iOS
12 11 (0.24%) zOS
13 10 (0.22%) Mac OS
14 7 (0.15%) Debian
15 6 (0.13%) Rocky
15 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
16 5 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
17 3 (0.066%) Oracle Linux
17 3 (0.066%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,719 (37.96%) CI/CD
2 1,259 (27.80%) DevOps
3 1,120 (24.73%) AI
4 959 (21.17%) Agile
5 956 (21.11%) Analytics
6 813 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
7 807 (17.82%) Infrastructure as Code
8 806 (17.80%) Data Pipeline
9 691 (15.26%) Machine Learning
10 673 (14.86%) Data Engineering
11 624 (13.78%) Data Modelling
12 616 (13.60%) Containerisation
13 609 (13.45%) ETL
14 591 (13.05%) Software Engineering
15 518 (11.44%) Data Science
16 485 (10.71%) Observability
17 459 (10.13%) Test Automation
18 450 (9.94%) Business Intelligence
19 410 (9.05%) LLM
20 384 (8.48%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1,556 (34.36%) SQL
2 695 (15.35%) Java
3 554 (12.23%) PowerShell
4 498 (11.00%) Bash
5 392 (8.66%) JavaScript
6 325 (7.18%) TypeScript
7 299 (6.60%) C#
8 177 (3.91%) Go
9 145 (3.20%) R
10 112 (2.47%) Scala
11 111 (2.45%) C++
12 97 (2.14%) Shell Script
13 70 (1.55%) Bicep
14 57 (1.26%) PL/SQL
15 56 (1.24%) Ruby
16 51 (1.13%) T-SQL
17 50 (1.10%) C
17 50 (1.10%) Perl
18 47 (1.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 45 (0.99%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 989 (21.84%) Security Cleared
2 793 (17.51%) SC Cleared
3 349 (7.71%) Degree
4 144 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 135 (2.98%) DV Cleared
6 106 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
7 99 (2.19%) Azure Certification
8 90 (1.99%) AWS Certification
9 77 (1.70%) CISSP
10 60 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
11 58 (1.28%) Master's Degree
12 39 (0.86%) CCNP
13 37 (0.82%) CISM
14 32 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
15 31 (0.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
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
1 462 (10.20%) Data Quality
2 187 (4.13%) QA
3 129 (2.85%) GDPR
4 100 (2.21%) NIST
5 96 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 60 (1.32%) Accessibility
7 26 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 26 (0.57%) SLA
8 24 (0.53%) PCI DSS
9 23 (0.51%) HIPAA
10 21 (0.46%) WCAG
11 14 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
11 14 (0.31%) NCSC
12 12 (0.26%) SOC 2
13 10 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
14 9 (0.20%) ISO 20022
15 8 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 8 (0.18%) GRC
16 6 (0.13%) PSD2
17 5 (0.11%) PMO
System Software
1 719 (15.88%) Docker
2 138 (3.05%) Active Directory
3 85 (1.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 62 (1.37%) 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 13 (0.29%) KVM
10 13 (0.29%) NFS
11 10 (0.22%) Squid
12 8 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
12 8 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
13 7 (0.15%) Postfix
14 6 (0.13%) HDFS
15 5 (0.11%) SRDF
16 4 (0.088%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
16 4 (0.088%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 4 (0.088%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 973 (21.48%) Terraform
2 828 (18.28%) Kubernetes
3 468 (10.33%) Ansible
4 264 (5.83%) Grafana
5 231 (5.10%) Prometheus
6 70 (1.55%) Puppet
7 54 (1.19%) Argo
8 37 (0.82%) Istio
9 36 (0.79%) Progress Chef
10 31 (0.68%) vCenter Server
11 26 (0.57%) Control-M
11 26 (0.57%) Kibana
12 24 (0.53%) Nessus
13 22 (0.49%) 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
1 507 (11.19%) Microsoft
2 485 (10.71%) Databricks
3 230 (5.08%) Google
4 217 (4.79%) Oracle
5 187 (4.13%) Splunk
6 125 (2.76%) VMware
7 119 (2.63%) OpenAI
8 113 (2.50%) Red Hat
9 102 (2.25%) Cisco
10 93 (2.05%) ServiceNow
11 84 (1.85%) CyberArk
12 76 (1.68%) F5
13 75 (1.66%) BeyondTrust
14 74 (1.63%) Dynatrace
15 71 (1.57%) Palo Alto
16 59 (1.30%) Informatica
17 58 (1.28%) IBM
18 53 (1.17%) Foundry
19 47 (1.04%) Arista
20 44 (0.97%) SAP