Python Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Python
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Python skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 8 5
Rank change year-on-year -15 -3 +12
Contract jobs citing Python 21 71 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 6.77% 15.92% 19.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.43% 45.81% 43.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 39 61
10th Percentile - £462 £488
25th Percentile £184 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% +2.97%
75th Percentile £650 £676 £701
90th Percentile £658 £681 £775
South West median daily rate £525 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 19
10th Percentile - - £60.95
25th Percentile - - £74.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £70.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.57% -10.26% -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £80.40
South West median hourly rate £90.00 £70.00 £70.33
% change year-on-year +28.57% -0.46% +7.37%

All Programming Languages
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 69 155 218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 22.26% 34.75% 44.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 89 131
10th Percentile £226 £460 £400
25th Percentile £411 £488 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -2.17% +2.22%
75th Percentile £605 £638 £700
90th Percentile £663 £692 £775
South West median daily rate £475 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -11.63% +2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 20
10th Percentile £48.80 - £65.48
25th Percentile £68.00 £30.00 £73.88
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year - -10.26% +33.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile - - £85.50
South West median hourly rate £68.00 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -2.86% +7.69% -

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

Job vacancy trend for Python in Gloucestershire

Python
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Python

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python in Gloucestershire

Python
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Python

Python
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 19 September 2025. 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
Cheltenham -3 10 £650 +3.17% 23
Gloucester -8 6 £625 +8.70% 27
Python
South West

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (9.52%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (28.57%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (61.90%) Azure
2 5 (23.81%) AWS
3 3 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (14.29%) Azure Key Vault
3 3 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (14.29%) GitHub
3 3 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (14.29%) Serverless
4 2 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (9.52%) GCP
4 2 (9.52%) OpenShift
5 1 (4.76%) dbt
5 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.76%) Pulumi
5 1 (4.76%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (14.29%) Redis
3 2 (9.52%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (9.52%) MongoDB
4 1 (4.76%) MS Access
4 1 (4.76%) MySQL
4 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.76%) Power BI
4 1 (4.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Git
1 1 (4.76%) GitLab
1 1 (4.76%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (23.81%) Legal
1 5 (23.81%) Local Government
2 2 (9.52%) Aerospace
2 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) Developer
2 6 (28.57%) Backend Developer
3 4 (19.05%) Python Developer
4 3 (14.29%) Security Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) SIEM Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) SOC Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Software Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Applications Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Data Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Lead
6 1 (4.76%) Lead Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Lead Python Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Python Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Research Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Research Software Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior
6 1 (4.76%) Vulnerability Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (23.81%) CSS
1 5 (23.81%) HTML
2 3 (14.29%) FastAPI
2 3 (14.29%) Flask
2 3 (14.29%) GraphQL
2 3 (14.29%) gRPC
2 3 (14.29%) REST
2 3 (14.29%) WebSockets
3 2 (9.52%) AngularJS
3 2 (9.52%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (9.52%) Node.js
3 2 (9.52%) React
3 2 (9.52%) Vue
4 1 (4.76%) .NET
4 1 (4.76%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (4.76%) ODBC
4 1 (4.76%) PyTorch
4 1 (4.76%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.76%) Algorithms
2 1 (4.76%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (4.76%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (4.76%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (4.76%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (4.76%) Windows
2 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 5 (23.81%) CI/CD
2 5 (23.81%) Computer Science
3 3 (14.29%) Agile
3 3 (14.29%) Analytics
3 3 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (14.29%) DevOps
3 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (14.29%) Microservices
3 3 (14.29%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 3 (14.29%) SIEM
3 3 (14.29%) Software Engineering
4 2 (9.52%) Case Management
4 2 (9.52%) Cloud Security
4 2 (9.52%) Data Science
4 2 (9.52%) Incident Response
4 2 (9.52%) Machine Learning
4 2 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (9.52%) Validation
5 1 (4.76%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 7 (33.33%) SQL
2 6 (28.57%) VBA
3 5 (23.81%) Go
4 4 (19.05%) Bash
4 4 (19.05%) Java
5 3 (14.29%) C
5 3 (14.29%) C++
5 3 (14.29%) PowerShell
6 2 (9.52%) JavaScript
7 1 (4.76%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (4.76%) VB
7 1 (4.76%) VB.NET
7 1 (4.76%) VB6
Qualifications
1 12 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 11 (52.38%) DV Cleared
3 6 (28.57%) SC Cleared
4 5 (23.81%) DBS Check
5 2 (9.52%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (4.76%) GDPR
2 1 (4.76%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 4 (19.05%) Terraform
3 3 (14.29%) Grafana
3 3 (14.29%) Prometheus
4 2 (9.52%) Ansible
4 2 (9.52%) Kibana
4 2 (9.52%) logstash
4 2 (9.52%) Podman
Vendors
1 11 (52.38%) Microsoft
2 5 (23.81%) Apple
3 1 (4.76%) Atlassian
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle