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 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 8 47
Rank change year-on-year -16 +39 -19
Contract jobs citing Python 47 61 20
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 5.70% 14.42% 2.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 26.11% 37.65% 12.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 35 17
10th Percentile £425 £419 -
25th Percentile £504 £465 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -14.63%
75th Percentile - £613 £650
90th Percentile £588 £675 £705
East of England median daily rate £500 £503 £500
% change year-on-year -0.50% +0.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 14 0
10th Percentile £23.80 £45.00 -
25th Percentile £28.38 £51.44 -
Median hourly rate £37.00 £54.25 -
Median % change year-on-year -31.80% - -
75th Percentile £45.88 £70.25 -
90th Percentile £50.60 £82.00 -
East of England median hourly rate £52.75 £54.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year -2.76% -5.65% -4.17%

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 180 162 162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 21.84% 38.30% 21.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 74 53
10th Percentile £350 £431 £325
25th Percentile £453 £484 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +29.41% -19.05%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £575
90th Percentile £691 £669 £648
East of England median daily rate £505 £500 £465
% change year-on-year +1.00% +7.53% -2.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 55 86
10th Percentile £62.00 £47.50 £58.75
25th Percentile - £55.00 £61.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.76%
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £74.00 £76.25 £85.00
East of England median hourly rate £68.21 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.94% - -

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 26 July 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 26 July 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 26 July 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
Hatfield - 13 £507 - 2
Watford -1 10 £550 - 9
Stevenage -21 8 £450 -14.29% 5
Hemel Hempstead -10 4 £500 -4.76%
St Albans - 4 £550 -
Royston - 3 - - 4
Welwyn Garden City +1 2 £850 - 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 (10.64%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.26%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 25 (53.19%) Azure
2 11 (23.40%) AWS
3 9 (19.15%) Azure AKS
4 7 (14.89%) Azure Service Bus
4 7 (14.89%) Serverless
5 6 (12.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 6 (12.77%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (10.64%) GitHub
6 5 (10.64%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (8.51%) Azure Functions
8 3 (6.38%) Power Platform
9 2 (4.26%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (4.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (4.26%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (4.26%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (4.26%) dbt
9 2 (4.26%) Power Automate
9 2 (4.26%) Snowflake
10 1 (2.13%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.64%) SNMP
2 1 (2.13%) DHCP
2 1 (2.13%) DNS
2 1 (2.13%) Firewall
2 1 (2.13%) HTTP
2 1 (2.13%) HTTPS
2 1 (2.13%) Network Security
2 1 (2.13%) SpaceWire
2 1 (2.13%) SSL
2 1 (2.13%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.64%) Relational Database
2 4 (8.51%) InfluxDB
3 3 (6.38%) Power BI
4 2 (4.26%) MySQL
4 2 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (4.26%) Redis
5 1 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.13%) Metadata
5 1 (2.13%) MS Access
5 1 (2.13%) Neo4j
5 1 (2.13%) Power Query
5 1 (2.13%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (2.13%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (2.13%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.13%) Star Schema
5 1 (2.13%) Tableau
5 1 (2.13%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 7 (14.89%) Git
2 4 (8.51%) Newman
2 4 (8.51%) Postman
3 1 (2.13%) GitLab
General
1 9 (19.15%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.38%) Law
3 3 (6.38%) Retail
4 2 (4.26%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.13%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.13%) Electronics
5 1 (2.13%) Finance
5 1 (2.13%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 17 (36.17%) Python Engineer
2 6 (12.77%) JavaScript Engineer
2 6 (12.77%) PowerShell Engineer
2 6 (12.77%) VMware Engineer
3 5 (10.64%) Consultant
3 5 (10.64%) Data Engineer
4 4 (8.51%) Senior
4 4 (8.51%) Software Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) Enterprise Consultant
6 2 (4.26%) Analyst
6 2 (4.26%) Data Analyst
6 2 (4.26%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Lead
6 2 (4.26%) Lead Data Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (4.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Systems Engineer
7 1 (2.13%) Azure Data Engineer
7 1 (2.13%) Azure Specialist
7 1 (2.13%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.77%) REST
2 5 (10.64%) eBPF
2 5 (10.64%) OpenTelemetry
3 4 (8.51%) Pandas
3 4 (8.51%) pytest
3 4 (8.51%) XML
3 4 (8.51%) XML Schema
4 3 (6.38%) Great Expectations
4 3 (6.38%) OAuth
5 2 (4.26%) .NET
5 2 (4.26%) Celery
5 2 (4.26%) Django
5 2 (4.26%) FastAPI
5 2 (4.26%) JWT
5 2 (4.26%) Kafka
5 2 (4.26%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (4.26%) React
5 2 (4.26%) Vue
5 2 (4.26%) XSD
6 1 (2.13%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.02%) Cloud Native
2 7 (14.89%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (6.38%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (6.38%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (4.26%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (4.26%) IoT
4 2 (4.26%) Life Science
4 2 (4.26%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.13%) Device Driver
5 1 (2.13%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.13%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.13%) PKI
5 1 (2.13%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.13%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 11 (23.40%) Linux
2 2 (4.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (4.26%) Ubuntu
2 2 (4.26%) Unix
2 2 (4.26%) VMS
2 2 (4.26%) Windows
3 1 (2.13%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (2.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (36.17%) CI/CD
2 13 (27.66%) DevOps
3 12 (25.53%) Data Pipeline
4 9 (19.15%) Validation
5 8 (17.02%) ETL
5 8 (17.02%) Test Automation
6 7 (14.89%) Data Modelling
6 7 (14.89%) Event-Driven
6 7 (14.89%) Observability
6 7 (14.89%) Software Engineering
7 6 (12.77%) Analytics
7 6 (12.77%) Data Validation
7 6 (12.77%) Performance Optimisation
7 6 (12.77%) Platform Engineering
7 6 (12.77%) Use Case
7 6 (12.77%) User Experience
8 5 (10.64%) Dashboard Development
8 5 (10.64%) Data Ingestion
8 5 (10.64%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 5 (10.64%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 11 (23.40%) SQL
2 9 (19.15%) PowerShell
3 8 (17.02%) JavaScript
4 7 (14.89%) Bash
5 5 (10.64%) C
6 4 (8.51%) C++
6 4 (8.51%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (6.38%) Embedded C
8 2 (4.26%) C#
9 1 (2.13%) Cypher
9 1 (2.13%) Java
9 1 (2.13%) R
9 1 (2.13%) Shell Script
9 1 (2.13%) VB
Qualifications
1 14 (29.79%) Security Cleared
2 11 (23.40%) SC Cleared
3 7 (14.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 3 (6.38%) Degree
4 3 (6.38%) DV Cleared
5 2 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.13%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.89%) Data Quality
2 6 (12.77%) QA
3 1 (2.13%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 9 (19.15%) Docker
2 2 (4.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.13%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (19.15%) Kubernetes
1 9 (19.15%) Terraform
2 8 (17.02%) Ansible
3 7 (14.89%) vRealize
4 5 (10.64%) Grafana
4 5 (10.64%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (17.02%) VMware
2 5 (10.64%) Cribl.io
2 5 (10.64%) Databricks
2 5 (10.64%) Dynatrace
2 5 (10.64%) Splunk
3 4 (8.51%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.13%) Citrix
4 1 (2.13%) EMC
4 1 (2.13%) Google
4 1 (2.13%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.13%) New Relic
4 1 (2.13%) NVIDIA
4 1 (2.13%) Pega
4 1 (2.13%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.13%) SAP
4 1 (2.13%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.13%) Workday
4 1 (2.13%) Wyse