Python Contract Job Trends in Luton

Python
Bedfordshire > Luton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Luton requiring Python skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 21 32
Rank change year-on-year -8 +11 -12
Contract jobs citing Python 2 4 3
As % of all contract jobs in Luton 1.31% 4.88% 1.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.25% 50.00% 17.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 3
10th Percentile - - £418
25th Percentile - - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% -7.32%
75th Percentile - £575 £506
90th Percentile - £590 £510
Bedfordshire median daily rate £625 £550 £425
% change year-on-year +13.64% +29.41% -17.07%

All Programming Languages
Luton

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 Luton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 32 8 17
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Luton 20.92% 9.76% 8.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 3 13
10th Percentile £483 - £363
25th Percentile £500 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% +10.00% -4.31%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £550
90th Percentile - £590 -
Bedfordshire median daily rate £600 £550 £475
% change year-on-year +9.09% +15.79% -6.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 0
10th Percentile - £57.36 -
25th Percentile £62.97 £61.35 -
Median hourly rate £68.21 £68.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +0.31% - -
75th Percentile £77.50 £74.00 -
90th Percentile £81.00 £77.60 -
Bedfordshire median hourly rate £68.21 £68.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +0.31% +29.52% +14.13%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Luton

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Python relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Luton.

Python job vacancy trend in Luton

Python
Daily Rate Trend in Luton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Luton citing Python.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Luton citing Python

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Luton 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Storage
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Application Security
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Programming
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft