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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 8 39
Rank change year-on-year -10 +31 -15
Contract jobs citing Python 63 60 20
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 6.70% 13.22% 3.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.00% 36.81% 14.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 31 16
10th Percentile £410 £450 £403
25th Percentile £464 £508 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £498
Median % change year-on-year - +10.55% -17.08%
75th Percentile - £613 £631
90th Percentile £676 £680 £700
East of England median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - +5.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 16 0
10th Percentile £48.20 - -
25th Percentile £60.81 £41.25 -
Median hourly rate £85.24 £54.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +57.85% - -
75th Percentile £92.11 £75.00 -
90th Percentile - £80.63 -
East of England median hourly rate £60.81 £54.00 £53.75
% change year-on-year +12.61% +0.47% -25.86%

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 210 163 142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 22.34% 35.90% 23.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 72 46
10th Percentile £363 £463 £325
25th Percentile £454 £500 £346
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £413
Median % change year-on-year - +33.33% -17.50%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £536
90th Percentile £713 £638 £625
East of England median daily rate £507 £525 £423
% change year-on-year -3.43% +24.26% -15.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 54 52
10th Percentile £62.00 £45.00 £60.00
25th Percentile £65.00 £61.38 £61.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - -7.14%
75th Percentile - £67.00 -
90th Percentile £86.05 £75.00 £85.00
East of England median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -5.80%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -18 24 £469 -10.71% 27
Hatfield +11 13 £507 -22.00% 6
Watford -3 10 £550 - 25
St Albans - 4 £550 - 3
Welwyn Garden City +1 3 £850 +3.03% 6
Hemel Hempstead -12 3 £450 -18.18% 8
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 7 (11.11%) IIS
2 5 (7.94%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.17%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (4.76%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 24 (38.10%) Azure
2 14 (22.22%) AWS
3 9 (14.29%) Azure AKS
4 6 (9.52%) Azure Service Bus
4 6 (9.52%) GitHub
4 6 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (9.52%) Serverless
5 5 (7.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (7.94%) Azure Monitor
5 5 (7.94%) Power Platform
6 4 (6.35%) Azure Functions
7 3 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (4.76%) GCP
7 3 (4.76%) Google Workspace
8 2 (3.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (3.17%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (3.17%) dbt
8 2 (3.17%) Power Automate
8 2 (3.17%) Snowflake
9 1 (1.59%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 8 (12.70%) HTTP
2 5 (7.94%) SNMP
3 1 (1.59%) DHCP
3 1 (1.59%) DNS
3 1 (1.59%) Firewall
3 1 (1.59%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.59%) Network Security
3 1 (1.59%) SpaceWire
3 1 (1.59%) SSL
3 1 (1.59%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.59%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.29%) Relational Database
2 5 (7.94%) InfluxDB
2 5 (7.94%) Power BI
3 3 (4.76%) BigQuery
3 3 (4.76%) Looker
3 3 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.17%) MySQL
4 2 (3.17%) Redis
4 2 (3.17%) TimescaleDB
5 1 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.59%) Metadata
5 1 (1.59%) Neo4j
5 1 (1.59%) Power Query
5 1 (1.59%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (1.59%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.59%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.59%) Star Schema
5 1 (1.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (14.29%) Git
2 4 (6.35%) Newman
2 4 (6.35%) Postman
3 3 (4.76%) JIRA
4 1 (1.59%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.59%) eggPlant
4 1 (1.59%) GitLab
4 1 (1.59%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 11 (17.46%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (14.29%) Law
4 6 (9.52%) Back Office
4 6 (9.52%) Public Sector
5 5 (7.94%) Aerospace
6 3 (4.76%) Retail
7 1 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.59%) Electronics
7 1 (1.59%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (33.33%) Python Engineer
2 8 (12.70%) Data Engineer
2 8 (12.70%) Security Engineer
3 7 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 5 (7.94%) Consultant
4 5 (7.94%) Developer
4 5 (7.94%) JavaScript Engineer
4 5 (7.94%) PowerShell Engineer
4 5 (7.94%) VMware Engineer
5 4 (6.35%) Senior
6 3 (4.76%) Applications Developer
6 3 (4.76%) Applications Specialist
6 3 (4.76%) Enterprise Consultant
6 3 (4.76%) Report Developer
6 3 (4.76%) Report Specialist
7 2 (3.17%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.17%) Quality Engineer
7 2 (3.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.17%) Test Engineer
7 2 (3.17%) Testing Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (17.46%) REST
2 9 (14.29%) Terraform
3 8 (12.70%) LDAP
4 7 (11.11%) JSON
4 7 (11.11%) Regular Expression
5 6 (9.52%) pytest
6 5 (7.94%) eBPF
6 5 (7.94%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (6.35%) FastAPI
7 4 (6.35%) Kafka
7 4 (6.35%) Pandas
7 4 (6.35%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (6.35%) XML
7 4 (6.35%) XML Schema
8 3 (4.76%) Great Expectations
8 3 (4.76%) OAuth
9 2 (3.17%) Django
9 2 (3.17%) JWT
9 2 (3.17%) React
9 2 (3.17%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (12.70%) Cloud Native
3 7 (11.11%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (4.76%) CMDB
4 3 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (4.76%) IoT
5 2 (3.17%) CSOC
5 2 (3.17%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (3.17%) Life Science
5 2 (3.17%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (3.17%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.59%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.59%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.59%) Device Driver
6 1 (1.59%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.59%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.59%) PKI
6 1 (1.59%) Robotics
6 1 (1.59%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 9 (14.29%) Windows
2 8 (12.70%) Linux
3 2 (3.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (3.17%) Ubuntu
3 2 (3.17%) Unix
3 2 (3.17%) VMS
4 1 (1.59%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (1.59%) Robot Operating System
4 1 (1.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (33.33%) Validation
2 20 (31.75%) CI/CD
3 19 (30.16%) Data Modelling
4 16 (25.40%) Data Pipeline
5 15 (23.81%) ETL
6 14 (22.22%) AI
6 14 (22.22%) DevOps
7 12 (19.05%) Root Cause Analysis
7 12 (19.05%) SIEM
8 11 (17.46%) Roadmaps
8 11 (17.46%) Test Automation
9 10 (15.87%) Machine Learning
10 9 (14.29%) Analytics
10 9 (14.29%) Event-Driven
10 9 (14.29%) Migration
11 8 (12.70%) ITSM
12 7 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
12 7 (11.11%) Dashboard Development
12 7 (11.11%) Data Validation
12 7 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 17 (26.98%) PowerShell
1 17 (26.98%) SQL
2 11 (17.46%) JavaScript
3 7 (11.11%) Bash
4 4 (6.35%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (4.76%) Google Apps Script
6 2 (3.17%) C
6 2 (3.17%) C#
6 2 (3.17%) C++
6 2 (3.17%) Java
6 2 (3.17%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.59%) Cypher
7 1 (1.59%) MATLAB
7 1 (1.59%) R
Qualifications
1 23 (36.51%) Security Cleared
2 19 (30.16%) SC Cleared
3 7 (11.11%) Degree
3 7 (11.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 5 (7.94%) DV Cleared
5 3 (4.76%) ISTQB
6 2 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.17%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.59%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (19.05%) Data Quality
2 10 (15.87%) QA
3 3 (4.76%) SLA
4 1 (1.59%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 12 (19.05%) Docker
2 9 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (12.70%) Active Directory
3 8 (12.70%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (11.11%) Hyper-V
4 7 (11.11%) NFS
Systems Management
1 12 (19.05%) Kubernetes
2 8 (12.70%) Ansible
3 7 (11.11%) vRealize
4 5 (7.94%) Grafana
4 5 (7.94%) Prometheus
5 3 (4.76%) HP ALM
6 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.59%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 15 (23.81%) VMware
2 6 (9.52%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.94%) Cribl.io
3 5 (7.94%) Databricks
3 5 (7.94%) Dynatrace
3 5 (7.94%) Splunk
4 4 (6.35%) Google
4 4 (6.35%) ServiceNow
5 3 (4.76%) HP
5 3 (4.76%) IBM
5 3 (4.76%) Remedy
6 1 (1.59%) Citrix
6 1 (1.59%) EMC
6 1 (1.59%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.59%) NVIDIA
6 1 (1.59%) Pega
6 1 (1.59%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.59%) SAP
6 1 (1.59%) Wyse