Python Contracts in Gloucestershire

Python
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Python skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Python over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 10 8
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 +19
Contract jobs citing Python 25 65 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 10.29% 13.77% 16.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 43.10% 42.21% 36.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 48 48
10th Percentile £184 £519 £448
25th Percentile £531 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £680 £678 £713
90th Percentile £768 £700 £783
South West median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 18
10th Percentile - - £44.18
25th Percentile - - £70.50
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year - -10.26% -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £81.60
South West median hourly rate £82.96 £70.00 £65.61
% change year-on-year +18.51% +6.70% +0.93%

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 58 154 221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 23.87% 32.63% 45.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 104 135
10th Percentile £184 £400 £375
25th Percentile £463 £484 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year +11.36% +0.92% +3.81%
75th Percentile £679 £630 £694
90th Percentile £775 £688 £738
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 18
10th Percentile £70.75 £30.00 £44.18
25th Percentile £71.88 £60.00 £70.50
Median hourly rate £75.00 £70.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.26% +33.69%
75th Percentile £75.63 - -
90th Percentile £76.75 £71.50 £81.60
South West median hourly rate £67.75 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -3.21% +7.69% +8.33%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python in Gloucestershire.

Daily rate trend for Python in Gloucestershire

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python in Gloucestershire

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python in Gloucestershire.

Hourly rate trend for Python in Gloucestershire

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 5 July 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 +1 10 £615 -1.60% 76
Gloucester -2 4 £658 +11.91% 81
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 1 (4.00%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (24.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (24.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 17 (68.00%) Azure
2 13 (52.00%) AWS
3 9 (36.00%) OpenShift
4 3 (12.00%) GCP
5 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (32.00%) DHCP
1 8 (32.00%) DNS
1 8 (32.00%) HTTP
1 8 (32.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.00%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (8.00%) Big Data
2 2 (8.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.00%) MS Access
3 1 (4.00%) MySQL
3 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Git
1 2 (8.00%) JIRA
2 1 (4.00%) GitLab
2 1 (4.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (20.00%) Legal
1 5 (20.00%) Local Government
2 2 (8.00%) Aerospace
3 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (16.00%) Developer
2 3 (12.00%) Automation Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) Senior
3 2 (8.00%) Data Scientist
3 2 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (8.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (8.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Data Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) Lead
4 1 (4.00%) Lead Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Lead Python Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Python Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Security Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) SIEM Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.00%) CSS
1 5 (20.00%) HTML
2 3 (12.00%) Node.js
2 3 (12.00%) React
3 2 (8.00%) PyTorch
3 2 (8.00%) RESTful
3 2 (8.00%) TensorFlow
4 1 (4.00%) .NET
4 1 (4.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.00%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (4.00%) ODBC
4 1 (4.00%) OpenCV
4 1 (4.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (8.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.00%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (4.00%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (4.00%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (4.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (36.00%) Linux
1 9 (36.00%) Windows
1 9 (36.00%) Windows Server
2 8 (32.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (40.00%) Containerisation
2 6 (24.00%) Service Management
3 5 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 5 (20.00%) Machine Learning
4 4 (16.00%) Agile
4 4 (16.00%) Data Science
4 4 (16.00%) DevOps
4 4 (16.00%) Incident Management
4 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (16.00%) Software Engineering
5 3 (12.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (12.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (8.00%) Analytics
6 2 (8.00%) API Design
6 2 (8.00%) API Development
6 2 (8.00%) Computer Vision
6 2 (8.00%) DevSecOps
6 2 (8.00%) SDLC
6 2 (8.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 12 (48.00%) Java
2 10 (40.00%) PowerShell
3 9 (36.00%) Bash
4 6 (24.00%) VBA
5 5 (20.00%) SQL
6 3 (12.00%) Go
6 3 (12.00%) JavaScript
7 2 (8.00%) TypeScript
8 1 (4.00%) C
8 1 (4.00%) C++
8 1 (4.00%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (4.00%) VB
8 1 (4.00%) VB.NET
8 1 (4.00%) VB6
Qualifications
1 17 (68.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (64.00%) DV Cleared
3 5 (20.00%) DBS Check
4 4 (16.00%) SC Cleared
5 2 (8.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.00%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (48.00%) Docker
2 8 (32.00%) Hyper-V
3 7 (28.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (48.00%) Kubernetes
2 11 (44.00%) Terraform
3 9 (36.00%) Ansible
4 8 (32.00%) Puppet
5 1 (4.00%) Podman
Vendors
1 8 (32.00%) Red Hat
1 8 (32.00%) VMware
2 7 (28.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (20.00%) Apple
4 1 (4.00%) Atlassian
4 1 (4.00%) Oracle