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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 41 25
Rank change year-on-year +33 -16 -5
Contract jobs citing Python 60 18 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 13.13% 2.96% 6.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.50% 12.86% 22.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 14 37
10th Percentile £400 £402 £415
25th Percentile £488 £406 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £416 £600
Median % change year-on-year +32.13% -30.63% -
75th Percentile £604 £625 £725
90th Percentile £680 £685 £738
East of England median daily rate £525 £500 £490
% change year-on-year +5.00% +2.04% -10.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 0 10
10th Percentile - - £66.25
25th Percentile £41.25 - £70.31
Median hourly rate £54.00 - £72.50
75th Percentile £60.75 - £73.75
90th Percentile £80.00 - £73.88
East of England median hourly rate £54.00 £53.75 £70.00
% change year-on-year +0.47% -23.21% +25.00%

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 169 140 232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 36.98% 22.99% 30.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 47 105
10th Percentile £451 £325 £384
25th Percentile £495 £348 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £413 £525
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -21.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £490 £688
90th Percentile £635 £625 £733
East of England median daily rate £504 £420 £500
% change year-on-year +19.94% -16.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 54 87
10th Percentile £41.25 £60.00 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £61.25 £65.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% +21.74%
75th Percentile £68.69 - £87.50
90th Percentile £75.88 £85.00 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £69.00
% change year-on-year - -5.80% +21.05%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Python 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 16 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
Stevenage - 31 £525 - 29
Watford +3 5 £550 +37.50% 12
Welwyn Garden City +2 3 £825 - 1
Hemel Hempstead +2 2 £525 -12.50% 16
Hoddesdon - 1 - -
Letchworth - 1 £500 - 2
Broxbourne - 1 - -
Harpenden - 1 - - 1
Python
East of England

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 7 (11.67%) Apache Spark
2 6 (10.00%) Apache
3 5 (8.33%) IIS
3 5 (8.33%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.67%) SAS
4 1 (1.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (8.33%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 20 (33.33%) Azure
2 12 (20.00%) AWS
3 3 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (5.00%) GCP
4 2 (3.33%) AWS Direct Connect
4 2 (3.33%) GitHub
4 2 (3.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (1.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (1.67%) dbt
5 1 (1.67%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.67%) IaaS
5 1 (1.67%) PaaS
5 1 (1.67%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (15.00%) DNS
1 9 (15.00%) Network Security
2 8 (13.33%) FTP
2 8 (13.33%) HTTP
2 8 (13.33%) SMTP
2 8 (13.33%) SSL
3 7 (11.67%) SpaceWire
4 5 (8.33%) RS-232
5 4 (6.67%) Wireless
6 3 (5.00%) Firewall
6 3 (5.00%) VLAN
7 2 (3.33%) 3GPP
7 2 (3.33%) 4G
7 2 (3.33%) 5G
7 2 (3.33%) BGP
7 2 (3.33%) OSPF
7 2 (3.33%) VPN
8 1 (1.67%) SAN
8 1 (1.67%) TCP/IP
8 1 (1.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.67%) Tableau
2 8 (13.33%) Big Data
3 7 (11.67%) Hadoop
4 5 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (8.33%) DB2
4 5 (8.33%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.67%) Flink
5 1 (1.67%) GIS
5 1 (1.67%) Metadata
5 1 (1.67%) Neo4j
5 1 (1.67%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.67%) Power BI
5 1 (1.67%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Git
General
1 14 (23.33%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 5 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (8.33%) Electronics
3 5 (8.33%) Telecoms
4 2 (3.33%) Aerospace
4 2 (3.33%) Law
4 2 (3.33%) Retail
5 1 (1.67%) Agriculture
5 1 (1.67%) Agrochemical
5 1 (1.67%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.67%) Marketing
5 1 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 16 (26.67%) Developer
2 9 (15.00%) Analyst
3 8 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 8 (13.33%) Data Science Developer
3 8 (13.33%) SOC Analyst
4 5 (8.33%) Consultant
4 5 (8.33%) Design Engineer
4 5 (8.33%) Digital Design Engineer
4 5 (8.33%) Maximo Consultant
5 4 (6.67%) Lead
5 4 (6.67%) Technical Leader
6 3 (5.00%) Python Developer
6 3 (5.00%) Senior
7 2 (3.33%) Data Modeller
7 2 (3.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (3.33%) Network Administrator
7 2 (3.33%) Network Engineer
7 2 (3.33%) Security Engineer
7 2 (3.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (3.33%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.67%) Matplotlib
1 10 (16.67%) PyTorch
1 10 (16.67%) scikit-learn
1 10 (16.67%) Seaborn
1 10 (16.67%) TensorFlow
2 9 (15.00%) NumPy
2 9 (15.00%) Pandas
3 8 (13.33%) LDAP
4 5 (8.33%) Flash
4 5 (8.33%) REST
4 5 (8.33%) SOAP
4 5 (8.33%) Web Services
4 5 (8.33%) XML
5 3 (5.00%) React
5 3 (5.00%) RESTful
6 2 (3.33%) OpenAPI
6 2 (3.33%) Swagger
7 1 (1.67%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.67%) FastAPI
7 1 (1.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.00%) Algorithms
2 8 (13.33%) Cyberattack
3 7 (11.67%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (11.67%) CSOC
3 7 (11.67%) Cyber Threat
3 7 (11.67%) Management Information System
3 7 (11.67%) Security Operations Centre
4 5 (8.33%) Analogue Electronics
4 5 (8.33%) CAN bus
4 5 (8.33%) FPGA
4 5 (8.33%) VHDL
5 2 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.33%) Life Science
5 2 (3.33%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.67%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.67%) IoT
6 1 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.67%) Replication
6 1 (1.67%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 17 (28.33%) Linux
2 13 (21.67%) Windows
3 6 (10.00%) Windows Server
4 3 (5.00%) Unix
5 2 (3.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (38.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 17 (28.33%) Analytics
2 17 (28.33%) Machine Learning
3 13 (21.67%) Data Science
4 12 (20.00%) DevOps
5 11 (18.33%) Visualisation
6 10 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
6 10 (16.67%) Data Analysis
6 10 (16.67%) Data Munging
6 10 (16.67%) Generative AI
6 10 (16.67%) SOAR
7 9 (15.00%) CI/CD
7 9 (15.00%) Containerisation
7 9 (15.00%) LLM
8 8 (13.33%) Information Security
8 8 (13.33%) Network Packet Capture
8 8 (13.33%) Root Cause Analysis
8 8 (13.33%) Runbook
8 8 (13.33%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 14 (23.33%) R
2 12 (20.00%) C
3 11 (18.33%) PowerShell
4 10 (16.67%) Bash
4 10 (16.67%) SQL
5 9 (15.00%) Java
6 7 (11.67%) C++
6 7 (11.67%) JavaScript
6 7 (11.67%) Tcl
7 6 (10.00%) VBA
8 2 (3.33%) Go
8 2 (3.33%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.67%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 17 (28.33%) Security Cleared
2 15 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (11.67%) Degree
4 6 (10.00%) Master's Degree
4 6 (10.00%) PhD
5 5 (8.33%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.67%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.33%) Data Quality
2 5 (8.33%) QA
3 1 (1.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (15.00%) Docker
2 5 (8.33%) Firmware
3 2 (3.33%) Hyper-V
3 2 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.67%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 7 (11.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.00%) Ansible
2 3 (5.00%) Terraform
3 1 (1.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (1.67%) Nagios
3 1 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.67%) vRealize
Vendors
1 8 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.33%) IBM
3 4 (6.67%) Databricks
4 3 (5.00%) VMware
5 2 (3.33%) Fortinet
5 2 (3.33%) Huawei
6 1 (1.67%) Aruba
6 1 (1.67%) Citrix
6 1 (1.67%) HP
6 1 (1.67%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.67%) Veeam