Python Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Python
East of England > Hertfordshire

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

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 27 26
Rank change year-on-year +17 -1 -5
Contract jobs citing Python 56 22 52
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 11.18% 4.15% 6.97%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.36% 17.32% 22.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 17 36
10th Percentile £437 £404 £413
25th Percentile £502 £406 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £558
Median % change year-on-year - -1.48% -4.98%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £709
90th Percentile £680 £655 £738
East of England median daily rate £515 £495 £500
% change year-on-year +4.04% -1.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 0 10
10th Percentile £41.25 - £66.25
25th Percentile £45.00 - £70.31
Median hourly rate £54.00 - £72.50
75th Percentile £76.25 - £73.75
90th Percentile £80.50 - £73.88
East of England median hourly rate £54.00 £53.75 £72.50
% change year-on-year +0.47% -25.86% +31.82%

All Programming Languages
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 163 127 236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 32.53% 23.96% 31.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 43 102
10th Percentile £450 £315 £400
25th Percentile £479 £339 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £413 £500
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -17.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £581 £675
90th Percentile £645 £625 £725
East of England median daily rate £501 £420 £500
% change year-on-year +19.17% -16.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 41 90
10th Percentile £51.30 £60.00 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median hourly rate £66.00 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.54% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £69.06 - £88.59
90th Percentile £75.13 £95.00 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £69.00
% change year-on-year - -5.80% +20.00%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Python job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Python
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Python

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Python in Hertfordshire

Python
Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Python

Python
Hourly Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Python in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 19 October 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Python in Hertfordshire

Python
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 19 October 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
Stevenage +28 32 £525 - 23
Watford +3 6 £550 +67.94% 7
Hemel Hempstead -1 4 £525 -12.50% 4
Welwyn Garden City +3 3 £825 -
Letchworth -1 1 £500 -16.67% 1
Hatfield - 1 £650 - 2
Hoddesdon - 1 - -
Broxbourne - 1 - -
Harpenden - 1 - -
Python
East of England

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 5 (8.93%) Apache
1 5 (8.93%) IIS
1 5 (8.93%) WebSphere
2 3 (5.36%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.79%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.79%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (8.93%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 15 (26.79%) Azure
2 9 (16.07%) AWS
3 3 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (5.36%) dbt
3 3 (5.36%) GitHub
3 3 (5.36%) Snowflake
4 2 (3.57%) AWS Direct Connect
4 2 (3.57%) Entra ID
4 2 (3.57%) Power Platform
4 2 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (1.79%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (1.79%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (1.79%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (1.79%) GCP
5 1 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.79%) IaaS
5 1 (1.79%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (16.07%) DNS
1 9 (16.07%) Network Security
2 8 (14.29%) FTP
2 8 (14.29%) HTTP
2 8 (14.29%) SMTP
2 8 (14.29%) SSL
3 5 (8.93%) SpaceWire
4 4 (7.14%) RS-232
5 3 (5.36%) Firewall
5 3 (5.36%) VLAN
6 2 (3.57%) 3GPP
6 2 (3.57%) 4G
6 2 (3.57%) 5G
6 2 (3.57%) BGP
6 2 (3.57%) OSPF
6 2 (3.57%) VPN
6 2 (3.57%) Wireless
7 1 (1.79%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (1.79%) NAS
7 1 (1.79%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.93%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (8.93%) DB2
1 5 (8.93%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.14%) Big Data
2 4 (7.14%) Tableau
3 3 (5.36%) Hadoop
4 2 (3.57%) Power BI
5 1 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.79%) GIS
5 1 (1.79%) Metadata
5 1 (1.79%) Neo4j
5 1 (1.79%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.79%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Git
General
1 12 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
1 12 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 9 (16.07%) Electronics
3 4 (7.14%) Aerospace
3 4 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (5.36%) Law
4 3 (5.36%) Telecoms
5 2 (3.57%) Retail
6 1 (1.79%) Agriculture
6 1 (1.79%) Agrochemical
6 1 (1.79%) Finance
6 1 (1.79%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.79%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.79%) Marketing
6 1 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 9 (16.07%) Analyst
1 9 (16.07%) Developer
2 8 (14.29%) Design Engineer
2 8 (14.29%) Digital Design Engineer
2 8 (14.29%) SOC Analyst
3 5 (8.93%) Consultant
3 5 (8.93%) Lead
3 5 (8.93%) Maximo Consultant
4 4 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 4 (7.14%) Data Science Developer
4 4 (7.14%) Technical Leader
5 3 (5.36%) Data Modeller
5 3 (5.36%) Security Engineer
5 3 (5.36%) Senior
6 2 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (3.57%) Network Administrator
6 2 (3.57%) Network Engineer
6 2 (3.57%) Python Developer
6 2 (3.57%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (3.57%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.07%) Flash
2 8 (14.29%) LDAP
3 6 (10.71%) REST
4 5 (8.93%) SOAP
4 5 (8.93%) Web Services
4 5 (8.93%) XML
5 4 (7.14%) Matplotlib
5 4 (7.14%) PyTorch
5 4 (7.14%) scikit-learn
5 4 (7.14%) Seaborn
5 4 (7.14%) TensorFlow
6 3 (5.36%) NumPy
6 3 (5.36%) Pandas
6 3 (5.36%) RESTful
7 2 (3.57%) OpenAPI
7 2 (3.57%) React
7 2 (3.57%) Swagger
8 1 (1.79%) FastAPI
8 1 (1.79%) Jest
8 1 (1.79%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.07%) FPGA
1 9 (16.07%) VHDL
2 8 (14.29%) Cyberattack
3 7 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (12.50%) CSOC
3 7 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
3 7 (12.50%) Management Information System
3 7 (12.50%) Security Operations Centre
4 6 (10.71%) Analogue Electronics
5 4 (7.14%) CAN bus
6 3 (5.36%) Algorithms
7 2 (3.57%) Life Science
7 2 (3.57%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.79%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.79%) IoT
8 1 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.79%) Replication
8 1 (1.79%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 15 (26.79%) Linux
2 12 (21.43%) Windows
3 6 (10.71%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.57%) VMS
5 1 (1.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (32.14%) AI
2 14 (25.00%) Analytics
3 12 (21.43%) DevOps
4 11 (19.64%) CI/CD
4 11 (19.64%) Continuous Improvement
4 11 (19.64%) Machine Learning
4 11 (19.64%) SOAR
5 10 (17.86%) Cybersecurity
6 9 (16.07%) SIEM
6 9 (16.07%) Signal Processing
7 8 (14.29%) Containerisation
7 8 (14.29%) Information Security
7 8 (14.29%) Network Packet Capture
7 8 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
7 8 (14.29%) Runbook
7 8 (14.29%) Security Operations
7 8 (14.29%) Threat Modelling
8 7 (12.50%) Incident Response
8 7 (12.50%) Information Management
8 7 (12.50%) Sensor Fusion
Programming Languages
1 14 (25.00%) C
2 12 (21.43%) PowerShell
2 12 (21.43%) SQL
3 11 (19.64%) C++
4 9 (16.07%) Bash
5 8 (14.29%) Java
5 8 (14.29%) R
6 6 (10.71%) JavaScript
7 5 (8.93%) Tcl
7 5 (8.93%) VBA
8 2 (3.57%) Go
8 2 (3.57%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.79%) Bicep
9 1 (1.79%) C#
9 1 (1.79%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 15 (26.79%) Security Cleared
2 14 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.14%) Degree
3 4 (7.14%) DV Cleared
3 4 (7.14%) Master's Degree
3 4 (7.14%) PhD
4 2 (3.57%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.79%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.93%) QA
2 2 (3.57%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.79%) GDPR
3 1 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.79%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (14.29%) Docker
2 7 (12.50%) Firmware
3 2 (3.57%) Hyper-V
3 2 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.79%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.79%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 6 (10.71%) Kubernetes
2 4 (7.14%) Terraform
3 3 (5.36%) Ansible
4 1 (1.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (1.79%) Nagios
4 1 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.79%) vRealize
Vendors
1 8 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.93%) IBM
3 4 (7.14%) Databricks
4 3 (5.36%) VMware
5 2 (3.57%) Fortinet
5 2 (3.57%) Huawei
6 1 (1.79%) Aruba
6 1 (1.79%) Citrix
6 1 (1.79%) Cribl.io
6 1 (1.79%) HP
6 1 (1.79%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.79%) Veeam