Python Contract Job Trends in Gloucester

Python
Gloucestershire > Gloucester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucester requiring Python skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 16 8
Rank change year-on-year 0 -8 +1
Contract jobs citing Python 16 5 32
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucester 12.80% 6.10% 26.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.10% 20.00% 51.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 5 24
10th Percentile £378 - £510
25th Percentile £600 £460 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £470 £600
Median % change year-on-year +38.30% -21.67% -11.11%
75th Percentile £675 £588 £701
90th Percentile £750 £603 £775
Gloucestershire median daily rate £650 £630 £650
% change year-on-year +3.17% -3.08% +1.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
75th Percentile - - £87.00
90th Percentile - - £90.00
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £36.00 £70.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year -48.57% -10.26% +24.80%

All Programming Languages
Gloucester

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 Gloucester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 42 25 62
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucester 33.60% 30.49% 50.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 17 45
10th Percentile £346 £420 £405
25th Percentile £409 £460 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% -10.20%
75th Percentile £650 £734 £675
90th Percentile £745 - £740
Gloucestershire median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
75th Percentile - - £87.00
90th Percentile - - £90.00
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £68.00 £70.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year -2.86% -10.26% +33.69%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucester

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

Python job vacancy trend in Gloucester

Python
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucester citing Python

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Gloucester over the 6 months to 15 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python in Gloucester

Python
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucester

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucester citing Python

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucester 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:

Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 15 (93.75%) Azure
2 11 (68.75%) GitHub
3 10 (62.50%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (43.75%) Azure Key Vault
5 7 (43.75%) Serverless
6 3 (18.75%) AWS
6 3 (18.75%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (6.25%) AWS CodeBuild
8 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (62.50%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (43.75%) Redis
3 5 (31.25%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (6.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Git
2 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Backend Developer
1 7 (43.75%) Developer
1 7 (43.75%) Python Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) Data Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Senior
2 3 (18.75%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Automation Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Security Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Service Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) SIEM Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) SOC Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Data Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (56.25%) REST
2 7 (43.75%) FastAPI
2 7 (43.75%) Flask
2 7 (43.75%) GraphQL
2 7 (43.75%) gRPC
2 7 (43.75%) WebSockets
3 3 (18.75%) Kafka
3 3 (18.75%) Keycloak
4 2 (12.50%) AngularJS
4 2 (12.50%) Bootstrap
4 2 (12.50%) CSS
4 2 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (12.50%) HTML
4 2 (12.50%) JSON
4 2 (12.50%) SOAP
4 2 (12.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Cloud Native
2 3 (18.75%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (12.50%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (81.25%) DevOps
2 10 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 10 (62.50%) Containerisation
3 7 (43.75%) Microservices
4 3 (18.75%) Batch Processing
4 3 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (18.75%) Data Architecture
4 3 (18.75%) Data Engineering
4 3 (18.75%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (18.75%) DataOps
4 3 (18.75%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (18.75%) ETL
4 3 (18.75%) Validation
5 2 (12.50%) Agile
5 2 (12.50%) CAD
5 2 (12.50%) Change Management
5 2 (12.50%) ITSM
5 2 (12.50%) Scrum
5 2 (12.50%) Service Delivery
5 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) Go
2 8 (50.00%) SQL
3 3 (18.75%) Bash
4 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (93.75%) SC Cleared
1 15 (93.75%) Security Cleared
2 9 (56.25%) DV Cleared
3 3 (18.75%) Azure Certification
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (6.25%) GDPR
1 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (62.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (68.75%) Kubernetes
2 7 (43.75%) Grafana
2 7 (43.75%) Prometheus
3 2 (12.50%) Kibana
3 2 (12.50%) logstash
4 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) ServiceNow