Python Contract Job Trends in Hereford

Python
Herefordshire > Hereford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hereford requiring Python skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 5 -
Rank change year-on-year -5 - -
Contract jobs citing Python 5 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hereford 11.36% 10.00% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.71% 50.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £530 - -
25th Percentile £538 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% - -
75th Percentile £613 £538 -
90th Percentile £620 - -
Herefordshire median daily rate £550 £700 -
% change year-on-year -21.43% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.43 - -
Median hourly rate £63.14 - -
75th Percentile £67.84 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Herefordshire median hourly rate £63.14 - -

All Programming Languages
Hereford

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 Hereford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 14 2 8
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hereford 31.82% 20.00% 18.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 1 6
10th Percentile £513 - £531
25th Percentile £525 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £600 £538 -
90th Percentile £638 - -
Herefordshire median daily rate £550 £613 £550
% change year-on-year -10.20% +11.36% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.43 - -
Median hourly rate £63.14 - -
75th Percentile £67.84 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Herefordshire median hourly rate £63.14 - -

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Hereford

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

Python job vacancy trend in Hereford

Python
Daily Rate Trend in Hereford

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hereford citing Python

Python
Hourly Rate Trend in Hereford

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hereford citing Python

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hereford 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) GitHub
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) OpenShift
2 2 (40.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (40.00%) InfluxDB
1 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Site Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (60.00%) Information Security
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Problem Management
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 3 (60.00%) User Experience
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (40.00%) Observability
3 2 (40.00%) Service Management
3 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Bash
1 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (40.00%) Go
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) CCNA
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (60.00%) MCSE
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (60.00%) RHCA
2 3 (60.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
1 3 (60.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Ansible
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (60.00%) Podman
3 2 (40.00%) Grafana
3 2 (40.00%) Progress Chef
3 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Atlassian
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco
1 3 (60.00%) VMware