Python Contract Job Trends in Farnborough

Python
Hampshire > Farnborough

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Farnborough requiring Python skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 25 19
Rank change year-on-year +20 -6 +4
Contract jobs citing Python 33 2 7
As % of all contract jobs in Farnborough 22.30% 1.87% 5.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 50.77% 10.00% 20.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 1 6
10th Percentile £320 - £516
25th Percentile £380 £525 £545
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £550 £620
Median % change year-on-year -8.64% -11.29% +24.00%
75th Percentile £612 £575 £670
90th Percentile £630 - £733
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% -3.64%

All Programming Languages
Farnborough

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 Farnborough.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 65 20 34
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Farnborough 43.92% 18.69% 25.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 14 23
10th Percentile £313 £433 £503
25th Percentile £361 £466 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £462 £530 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.92% -7.83% +15.00%
75th Percentile £525 £622 £641
90th Percentile £619 £625 £668
Hampshire median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.22%
75th Percentile - - £58.13
90th Percentile - - £58.50
Hampshire median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -24.00% +4.17% -4.00%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Farnborough

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Python relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Farnborough.

Python job vacancy trend in Farnborough

Python
Daily Rate Trend in Farnborough

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing Python.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing Python

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Farnborough

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Farnborough over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python in Farnborough

Python
Hourly Rate Trend in Farnborough

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing Python.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing Python

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Farnborough 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 4 (12.12%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 13 (39.39%) Azure
2 9 (27.27%) OpenShift
3 7 (21.21%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (6.06%) AWS
4 2 (6.06%) Azure Machine Learning
4 2 (6.06%) Vertex AI
5 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.03%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.09%) BGP
1 3 (9.09%) Firewall
1 3 (9.09%) MPLS
1 3 (9.09%) OSPF
1 3 (9.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.06%) Pinecone
1 2 (6.06%) Weaviate
2 1 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (39.39%) Jenkins
2 6 (18.18%) GitLab
3 5 (15.15%) Gatling
3 5 (15.15%) JMeter
3 5 (15.15%) LoadRunner
3 5 (15.15%) Selenium
4 4 (12.12%) Bitbucket
4 4 (12.12%) Cucumber
4 4 (12.12%) JIRA
4 4 (12.12%) REST Assured
General
1 5 (15.15%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.12%) Finance
3 3 (9.09%) Automotive
4 1 (3.03%) Aerospace
4 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (27.27%) Platform Engineer
2 6 (18.18%) Automation Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) Automation Tester
3 4 (12.12%) Selenium Automation Tester
3 4 (12.12%) Selenium Tester
3 4 (12.12%) Tester
4 3 (9.09%) Analyst
4 3 (9.09%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) IP Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) IP Network Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Network Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Performance Analyst
4 3 (9.09%) Testing Analyst
5 2 (6.06%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Gen AI Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) VMware Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Database Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.21%) Middleware
1 7 (21.21%) React
2 6 (18.18%) RESTful
3 5 (15.15%) REST
3 5 (15.15%) Swagger
4 4 (12.12%) .NET
4 4 (12.12%) SOAP
5 2 (6.06%) Faiss
5 2 (6.06%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 11 (33.33%) Private Cloud
2 1 (3.03%) Client/Server
2 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.03%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.03%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.18%) Windows
2 5 (15.15%) Linux
3 1 (3.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (72.73%) CI/CD
2 14 (42.42%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (30.30%) Platform Engineering
4 9 (27.27%) High Availability
4 9 (27.27%) Migration
5 8 (24.24%) Configuration Management
6 7 (21.21%) Agile
6 7 (21.21%) Test Automation
7 6 (18.18%) Containerisation
7 6 (18.18%) Deployment Automation
7 6 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 6 (18.18%) Task Automation
8 5 (15.15%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (15.15%) Incident Response
8 5 (15.15%) Open Source
8 5 (15.15%) Performance Metrics
8 5 (15.15%) Performance Testing
8 5 (15.15%) Performance Tuning
8 5 (15.15%) Test Strategy
8 5 (15.15%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 15 (45.45%) PowerShell
2 14 (42.42%) SQL
3 13 (39.39%) JavaScript
4 12 (36.36%) Java
5 11 (33.33%) C#
6 6 (18.18%) Bash
7 3 (9.09%) Go
Qualifications
1 23 (69.70%) Security Cleared
2 18 (54.55%) SC Cleared
3 9 (27.27%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 4 (12.12%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (66.67%) Ansible
2 12 (36.36%) Terraform
3 11 (33.33%) Kubernetes
4 7 (21.21%) Grafana
4 7 (21.21%) Prometheus
5 4 (12.12%) Rundeck
6 3 (9.09%) Proxmox
6 3 (9.09%) Salt
6 3 (9.09%) vRealize
7 2 (6.06%) Kibana
8 1 (3.03%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 7 (21.21%) Red Hat
2 6 (18.18%) VMware
3 5 (15.15%) Microsoft
4 3 (9.09%) Cisco
4 3 (9.09%) Nokia
4 3 (9.09%) Palo Alto
5 2 (6.06%) Oracle