Python Contract Job Trends in Portsmouth

Python
Hampshire > Portsmouth

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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 25 22
Rank change year-on-year +12 -3 +17
Contract jobs citing Python 29 4 8
As % of all contract jobs in Portsmouth 8.31% 2.20% 5.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 59.18% 10.53% 23.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 1 3
10th Percentile £482 - £352
25th Percentile £524 £380 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £562 £384 £470
Median % change year-on-year +46.22% -18.30% +1.62%
75th Percentile £591 £389 £515
90th Percentile £646 - £536
Hampshire median daily rate £575 £550 £463
% change year-on-year +4.55% +18.92% -12.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
Hampshire median hourly rate £37.24 £57.50 £29.00
% change year-on-year -35.23% +98.28% -57.04%

All Programming Languages
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 49 38 34
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 14.04% 20.88% 21.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 21 9
10th Percentile £461 - £390
25th Percentile £502 £418 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 £515 £470
Median % change year-on-year +5.97% +9.57% -10.48%
75th Percentile £582 £550 £488
90th Percentile £646 - £566
Hampshire median daily rate £554 £525 £533
% change year-on-year +5.52% -1.41% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 13 18
10th Percentile - - £62.13
25th Percentile £55.00 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £50.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -28.57% +21.74%
75th Percentile £60.00 £55.00 -
90th Percentile - £58.50 £71.13
Hampshire median hourly rate £38.25 £52.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -27.14% -25.00% +19.47%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

Python job vacancy trend in Portsmouth

Python
Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing Python

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Portsmouth

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Portsmouth over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Python in Portsmouth

Python
Hourly Rate Trend in Portsmouth

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing Python.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing Python

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth 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 (17.24%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.45%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 18 (62.07%) AWS
2 12 (41.38%) Azure
3 3 (10.34%) GCP
4 2 (6.90%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.34%) Wireshark
2 1 (3.45%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (3.45%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (6.90%) Redis
2 1 (3.45%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (3.45%) GIS
Development Applications
1 7 (24.14%) GitLab
2 5 (17.24%) MLflow
3 3 (10.34%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (6.90%) Git
General
1 6 (20.69%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.34%) Military
2 3 (10.34%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 7 (24.14%) Platform Engineer
2 4 (13.79%) Operations Engineer
2 4 (13.79%) Senior
3 2 (6.90%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) GCP Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Analyst
4 1 (3.45%) Backend Developer
4 1 (3.45%) Developer
4 1 (3.45%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (3.45%) SOC Analyst
4 1 (3.45%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Test Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (37.93%) Kafka
2 6 (20.69%) Terraform
3 5 (17.24%) YAML
4 1 (3.45%) Celery
4 1 (3.45%) Django
4 1 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (3.45%) Keycloak
4 1 (3.45%) ModSecurity
4 1 (3.45%) pytest
4 1 (3.45%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.90%) Cloud Native
1 2 (6.90%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (6.90%) Onboarding
1 2 (6.90%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.45%) CSOC
2 1 (3.45%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (3.45%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (3.45%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (3.45%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 16 (55.17%) Linux
2 4 (13.79%) Windows
3 1 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (68.97%) CI/CD
2 15 (51.72%) DevSecOps
2 15 (51.72%) Machine Learning
3 14 (48.28%) Platform Engineering
4 13 (44.83%) Containerisation
5 11 (37.93%) AI
6 10 (34.48%) DevOps
7 7 (24.14%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (24.14%) Continuous Integration
7 7 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (24.14%) Use Case
8 6 (20.69%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (20.69%) MLOps
8 6 (20.69%) Technical Leadership
9 5 (17.24%) SFIA
10 4 (13.79%) Service Management
11 3 (10.34%) Physics
11 3 (10.34%) Requirements Engineering
11 3 (10.34%) Requirements Management
11 3 (10.34%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 14 (48.28%) Bash
2 9 (31.03%) PowerShell
3 5 (17.24%) Java
4 4 (13.79%) C
5 3 (10.34%) Lua
6 1 (3.45%) C++
6 1 (3.45%) MATLAB
6 1 (3.45%) Perl
6 1 (3.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (79.31%) Security Cleared
2 17 (58.62%) SC Cleared
3 4 (13.79%) DV Cleared
4 3 (10.34%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.45%) QA
1 1 (3.45%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 21 (72.41%) Docker
2 6 (20.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.45%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.45%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (3.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (62.07%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.34%) Ansible
3 2 (6.90%) Argo
3 2 (6.90%) Progress Chef
3 2 (6.90%) Puppet
4 1 (3.45%) Grafana
4 1 (3.45%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.45%) Rancher
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) Google
2 6 (20.69%) VMware
3 3 (10.34%) IBM
4 1 (3.45%) Citrix
4 1 (3.45%) Clearswift
4 1 (3.45%) ESRI
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.45%) SolarWinds
4 1 (3.45%) Splunk
4 1 (3.45%) Tanium
4 1 (3.45%) Trend Micro
4 1 (3.45%) Tripwire