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 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 14 31
Rank change year-on-year -20 +17 +12
Contract jobs citing Python 35 34 46
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 4.20% 9.94% 5.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.33% 32.69% 23.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 26 27
10th Percentile £501 £446 £363
25th Percentile - £463 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £550 £430
Median % change year-on-year -7.82% +27.91% -21.82%
75th Percentile £550 £675 £531
90th Percentile £588 - £650
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £438
% change year-on-year - +14.29% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 1
10th Percentile £47.53 £40.91 -
25th Percentile £52.19 £47.56 £55.00
Median hourly rate £65.50 £53.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.86% -10.42% -16.08%
75th Percentile £75.94 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.13 - -
East of England median hourly rate £60.25 £52.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +14.76% -16.00% +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 202 104 192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 24.22% 30.41% 23.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 48 53
10th Percentile £350 £399 £363
25th Percentile £461 £454 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year +1.40% +17.65% -19.05%
75th Percentile £613 £658 £488
90th Percentile £713 £675 £650
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 44 106
10th Percentile £62.00 £51.78 £60.00
25th Percentile £65.00 £60.69 £61.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £66.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.87% +2.69% -
75th Percentile - £85.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £89.25 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £68.21 £66.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.35% +1.54% -

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 18 April 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 18 April 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 18 April 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 -9 11 - - 6
Hatfield - 7 £507 - 3
Watford - 6 £550 - 13
Hemel Hempstead - 3 £500 - 5
Royston - 3 - - 2
Welwyn Garden City - 1 £675 -
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 1 (2.86%) Apache
1 1 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.86%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 10 (28.57%) Azure
2 5 (14.29%) AWS
2 5 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (11.43%) Power Platform
4 3 (8.57%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (8.57%) Azure Service Bus
4 3 (8.57%) Entra ID
4 3 (8.57%) Google Workspace
4 3 (8.57%) Serverless
5 2 (5.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (5.71%) Azure AKS
5 2 (5.71%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (5.71%) Power Automate
5 2 (5.71%) SaaS
6 1 (2.86%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.86%) Azure Functions
6 1 (2.86%) dbt
6 1 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.86%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (22.86%) DNS
2 5 (14.29%) FTP
2 5 (14.29%) HTTP
2 5 (14.29%) Network Security
2 5 (14.29%) SMTP
2 5 (14.29%) SSL
3 3 (8.57%) DHCP
3 3 (8.57%) Firewall
3 3 (8.57%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.86%) Internet
4 1 (2.86%) SpaceWire
4 1 (2.86%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.43%) Power BI
2 3 (8.57%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.71%) InfluxDB
4 1 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.86%) Metadata
4 1 (2.86%) MS Access
4 1 (2.86%) Parquet
4 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.86%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (2.86%) Star Schema
4 1 (2.86%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Git
2 3 (8.57%) GitLab
3 1 (2.86%) Rational DOORS
General
1 12 (34.29%) Social Skills
2 8 (22.86%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (11.43%) Electronics
4 3 (8.57%) Aerospace
4 3 (8.57%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.71%) Law
5 2 (5.71%) Retail
6 1 (2.86%) Finance
6 1 (2.86%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.86%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 7 (20.00%) Analyst
2 6 (17.14%) Python Engineer
2 6 (17.14%) Software Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) JavaScript Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) PowerShell Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) SOC Analyst
3 5 (14.29%) VMware Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Senior
5 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Integration Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Data Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Embedded Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Lead
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Systems Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (20.00%) REST
2 6 (17.14%) LDAP
3 3 (8.57%) .NET
4 2 (5.71%) Flash
4 2 (5.71%) JSON
4 2 (5.71%) Node.js
4 2 (5.71%) SOAP
5 1 (2.86%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.86%) Middleware
5 1 (2.86%) OAuth
5 1 (2.86%) OAuth2
5 1 (2.86%) OpenID
5 1 (2.86%) RESTful
5 1 (2.86%) SAML
5 1 (2.86%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.86%) Cyber Threat
2 6 (17.14%) Analytical Mindset
2 6 (17.14%) Management Information System
3 5 (14.29%) CSOC
3 5 (14.29%) Cyberattack
3 5 (14.29%) Security Operations Centre
4 3 (8.57%) PKI
5 2 (5.71%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (5.71%) FPGA
5 2 (5.71%) Low-Code
5 2 (5.71%) VHDL
6 1 (2.86%) Device Driver
6 1 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.86%) IoT
6 1 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.86%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 9 (25.71%) Linux
2 4 (11.43%) Windows
3 3 (8.57%) VMS
3 3 (8.57%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.86%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (2.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (25.71%) AI
1 9 (25.71%) Analytics
2 8 (22.86%) CI/CD
2 8 (22.86%) DevOps
3 7 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 6 (17.14%) Machine Learning
5 5 (14.29%) Behavioural Analytics
5 5 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (14.29%) Data Modelling
5 5 (14.29%) Information Management
5 5 (14.29%) Information Security
5 5 (14.29%) Network Packet Capture
5 5 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
5 5 (14.29%) Runbook
5 5 (14.29%) Security Operations
5 5 (14.29%) SIEM
5 5 (14.29%) SOAR
5 5 (14.29%) Threat Detection
5 5 (14.29%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 13 (37.14%) PowerShell
2 8 (22.86%) C
2 8 (22.86%) JavaScript
3 7 (20.00%) C++
4 4 (11.43%) SQL
5 3 (8.57%) C#
5 3 (8.57%) Embedded C
6 2 (5.71%) Java
6 2 (5.71%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (2.86%) Bash
7 1 (2.86%) PHP
7 1 (2.86%) R
7 1 (2.86%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.86%) VB
Qualifications
1 12 (34.29%) Security Cleared
2 10 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 8 (22.86%) DV Cleared
4 5 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 4 (11.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (11.43%) Degree
6 1 (2.86%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) QA
2 1 (2.86%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 3 (8.57%) Active Directory
1 3 (8.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.71%) Docker
3 1 (2.86%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (14.29%) vRealize
2 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (8.57%) Terraform
2 3 (8.57%) vCenter Server
3 2 (5.71%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (22.86%) VMware
2 6 (17.14%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.57%) Citrix
3 3 (8.57%) Google
3 3 (8.57%) Wyse
4 2 (5.71%) MuleSoft
4 2 (5.71%) Pega
4 2 (5.71%) Salesforce
4 2 (5.71%) SAP
4 2 (5.71%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.86%) Adobe
5 1 (2.86%) EMC
5 1 (2.86%) New Relic
5 1 (2.86%) NVIDIA
5 1 (2.86%) Tealium
5 1 (2.86%) Workday