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 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 7 41
Rank change year-on-year -6 +34 -16
Contract jobs citing Python 60 57 21
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 7.14% 12.69% 3.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.09% 34.34% 14.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 31 16
10th Percentile £410 £400 £403
25th Percentile £459 £470 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £423
Median % change year-on-year - +30.18% -29.58%
75th Percentile - £585 £628
90th Percentile £552 £675 £675
East of England median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 15 0
10th Percentile £42.10 £41.25 -
25th Percentile £58.42 £43.13 -
Median hourly rate £72.91 £54.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +35.01% - -
75th Percentile £92.11 £65.50 -
90th Percentile - £81.00 -
East of England median hourly rate £55.50 £54.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +2.78% -6.09% -11.54%

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 193 166 144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 22.98% 36.97% 22.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 73 50
10th Percentile £350 £463 £325
25th Percentile £453 £500 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £413
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +33.33% -21.43%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £519
90th Percentile £693 £633 £625
East of England median daily rate £505 £505 £420
% change year-on-year - +20.24% -13.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 58 57
10th Percentile £62.00 £41.25 £60.00
25th Percentile £65.00 £55.00 £61.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - -7.14%
75th Percentile - £73.75 -
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.50 £85.00
East of England median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -

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 4 September 2026.

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 4 September 2026.

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 4 September 2026. 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 -10 19 £450 -18.18% 39
Hatfield - 13 £507 - 4
Watford 0 10 £550 - 18
Hemel Hempstead -12 4 £500 -4.76% 1
St Albans - 4 £550 - 1
Welwyn Garden City +1 3 £850 +3.03% 10
Royston - 1 - - 7
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 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (8.33%) IIS
2 2 (3.33%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 25 (41.67%) Azure
2 15 (25.00%) AWS
3 9 (15.00%) Azure AKS
4 7 (11.67%) Azure Service Bus
4 7 (11.67%) Serverless
5 6 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 6 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
5 6 (10.00%) GitHub
5 6 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (6.67%) Azure Functions
7 3 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (3.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (3.33%) dbt
8 2 (3.33%) Power Automate
8 2 (3.33%) Power Platform
8 2 (3.33%) Snowflake
9 1 (1.67%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.00%) HTTP
2 5 (8.33%) SNMP
3 1 (1.67%) DHCP
3 1 (1.67%) DNS
3 1 (1.67%) Firewall
3 1 (1.67%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.67%) Network Security
3 1 (1.67%) SpaceWire
3 1 (1.67%) SSL
3 1 (1.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.00%) Relational Database
2 5 (8.33%) InfluxDB
3 3 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.33%) MySQL
4 2 (3.33%) Power BI
4 2 (3.33%) Redis
4 2 (3.33%) TimescaleDB
5 1 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.67%) Metadata
5 1 (1.67%) Neo4j
5 1 (1.67%) Power Query
5 1 (1.67%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (1.67%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.67%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.67%) Star Schema
5 1 (1.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (15.00%) Git
2 4 (6.67%) Newman
2 4 (6.67%) Postman
3 3 (5.00%) JIRA
4 1 (1.67%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.67%) eggPlant
4 1 (1.67%) GitLab
4 1 (1.67%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 9 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (15.00%) Law
3 6 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.67%) Back Office
5 3 (5.00%) Aerospace
5 3 (5.00%) Retail
6 1 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Electronics
6 1 (1.67%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (36.67%) Python Engineer
2 8 (13.33%) Data Engineer
3 6 (10.00%) JavaScript Engineer
3 6 (10.00%) PowerShell Engineer
3 6 (10.00%) Security Engineer
3 6 (10.00%) VMware Engineer
4 5 (8.33%) Consultant
4 5 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 4 (6.67%) Senior
6 3 (5.00%) Enterprise Consultant
7 2 (3.33%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (3.33%) Developer
7 2 (3.33%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.33%) Quality Engineer
7 2 (3.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.33%) Software Engineer
7 2 (3.33%) Software Testing Engineer
7 2 (3.33%) Systems Engineer
7 2 (3.33%) Test Engineer
7 2 (3.33%) Testing Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (15.00%) REST
1 9 (15.00%) Terraform
2 6 (10.00%) JSON
2 6 (10.00%) LDAP
2 6 (10.00%) pytest
3 5 (8.33%) eBPF
3 5 (8.33%) OpenTelemetry
3 5 (8.33%) Regular Expression
4 4 (6.67%) FastAPI
4 4 (6.67%) Kafka
4 4 (6.67%) Pandas
4 4 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (6.67%) XML
4 4 (6.67%) XML Schema
5 3 (5.00%) Great Expectations
5 3 (5.00%) OAuth
6 2 (3.33%) Celery
6 2 (3.33%) JWT
6 2 (3.33%) React
6 2 (3.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.00%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (13.33%) Cloud Native
3 6 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (5.00%) IoT
5 2 (3.33%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (3.33%) Life Science
5 2 (3.33%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.67%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.67%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.67%) Device Driver
6 1 (1.67%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.67%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.67%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.67%) PKI
6 1 (1.67%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.67%) Robotics
6 1 (1.67%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 9 (15.00%) Linux
2 7 (11.67%) Windows
3 2 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (3.33%) Ubuntu
3 2 (3.33%) Unix
3 2 (3.33%) VMS
4 1 (1.67%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (1.67%) Robot Operating System
4 1 (1.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 19 (31.67%) Validation
3 16 (26.67%) Data Pipeline
4 14 (23.33%) Data Modelling
4 14 (23.33%) DevOps
5 13 (21.67%) AI
6 12 (20.00%) ETL
7 11 (18.33%) Test Automation
8 10 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
8 10 (16.67%) SIEM
9 9 (15.00%) Event-Driven
9 9 (15.00%) Migration
9 9 (15.00%) Roadmaps
10 8 (13.33%) Machine Learning
11 7 (11.67%) Analytics
11 7 (11.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 7 (11.67%) Observability
11 7 (11.67%) Platform Engineering
12 6 (10.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 6 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 15 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 14 (23.33%) SQL
3 8 (13.33%) JavaScript
4 7 (11.67%) Bash
5 4 (6.67%) Kusto Query Language
6 3 (5.00%) C
6 3 (5.00%) C++
7 2 (3.33%) C#
7 2 (3.33%) Java
7 2 (3.33%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.67%) Cypher
8 1 (1.67%) Embedded C
8 1 (1.67%) MATLAB
8 1 (1.67%) R
Qualifications
1 21 (35.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (28.33%) SC Cleared
3 7 (11.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 6 (10.00%) Degree
5 5 (8.33%) DV Cleared
6 3 (5.00%) ISTQB
7 2 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (3.33%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (1.67%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (18.33%) Data Quality
2 10 (16.67%) QA
3 1 (1.67%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 12 (20.00%) Docker
2 7 (11.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (10.00%) Active Directory
3 6 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (8.33%) Hyper-V
4 5 (8.33%) NFS
Systems Management
1 12 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (13.33%) Ansible
3 7 (11.67%) vRealize
4 5 (8.33%) Grafana
4 5 (8.33%) Prometheus
5 3 (5.00%) HP ALM
6 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 13 (21.67%) VMware
2 5 (8.33%) Cribl.io
2 5 (8.33%) Databricks
2 5 (8.33%) Dynatrace
2 5 (8.33%) Splunk
3 3 (5.00%) HP
3 3 (5.00%) IBM
3 3 (5.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.67%) Citrix
4 1 (1.67%) EMC
4 1 (1.67%) Google
4 1 (1.67%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.67%) New Relic
4 1 (1.67%) NVIDIA
4 1 (1.67%) Pega
4 1 (1.67%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.67%) SAP
4 1 (1.67%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.67%) Workday
4 1 (1.67%) Wyse