Python Contracts in Reading

Python
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for Python skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Python over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 22 30
Rank change year-on-year -6 +8 -7
Contract jobs citing Python 69 87 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 5.82% 8.41% 6.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.96% 31.64% 26.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 69 54
10th Percentile £370 £413 £390
25th Percentile £444 £500 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £507
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +16.86% +20.71%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £625
90th Percentile £679 £767 £729
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Median hourly rate £67.50 £75.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.60% - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £67.50 £41.03 -
% change year-on-year +64.53% - -

All Programming Languages
Reading

Python is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 288 275 322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 24.30% 26.60% 23.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 216 254
10th Percentile £363 £369 £353
25th Percentile £425 £461 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £659 £613
90th Percentile £688 £709 £654
Berkshire median daily rate £538 £525 £493
% change year-on-year +2.38% +6.60% +9.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 0
10th Percentile £54.13 £63.00 -
25th Percentile £56.65 £72.63 -
Median hourly rate £59.22 £79.19 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.22% - -
75th Percentile £66.03 - -
90th Percentile £67.63 £80.06 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.60 £70.00 £72.95
% change year-on-year -12.00% -4.04% +88.26%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Python in Reading

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Python in Reading

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in Reading over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Python in Reading

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for Python in Reading

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (15.94%) Apache
1 11 (15.94%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.45%) Appian
2 1 (1.45%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.45%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 35 (50.72%) Azure
2 19 (27.54%) Azure Data Factory
3 18 (26.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 16 (23.19%) Entra ID
5 15 (21.74%) Azure Monitor
6 13 (18.84%) Serverless
7 11 (15.94%) Azure Functions
8 8 (11.59%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (11.59%) Power Platform
9 5 (7.25%) Power Automate
10 4 (5.80%) Azure AKS
11 3 (4.35%) AWS
12 1 (1.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (1.45%) Amazon EC2
12 1 (1.45%) Amazon ECS
12 1 (1.45%) Amazon EKS
12 1 (1.45%) Amazon S3
12 1 (1.45%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (1.45%) Cloud Computing
12 1 (1.45%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 11 (15.94%) BGP
1 11 (15.94%) Ethernet VPN
1 11 (15.94%) MPLS
1 11 (15.94%) Radio Access Network
1 11 (15.94%) VPN
2 1 (1.45%) Firewall
2 1 (1.45%) HTTP
2 1 (1.45%) Internet
2 1 (1.45%) Junos
2 1 (1.45%) Network Security
2 1 (1.45%) RNC
2 1 (1.45%) SGSN
2 1 (1.45%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (39.13%) NoSQL
2 18 (26.09%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (18.84%) MongoDB
4 7 (10.14%) GIS
5 4 (5.80%) Redis
6 3 (4.35%) Big Data
6 3 (4.35%) Power BI
7 2 (2.90%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.90%) Data Mining
7 2 (2.90%) Oracle Database
7 2 (2.90%) PowerPivot
8 1 (1.45%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.45%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.45%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.45%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.45%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 19 (27.54%) Git
2 14 (20.29%) Robot Framework
3 13 (18.84%) GitLab
4 11 (15.94%) JIRA
4 11 (15.94%) TestRail
5 7 (10.14%) Selenium
6 1 (1.45%) CMake
6 1 (1.45%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.45%) JMeter
6 1 (1.45%) JUnit
6 1 (1.45%) Mockito
6 1 (1.45%) Visual Studio
General
1 18 (26.09%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (8.70%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.25%) Finance
3 5 (7.25%) Pharmaceutical
3 5 (7.25%) Telecoms
4 4 (5.80%) Local Government
5 1 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 30 (43.48%) Developer
2 20 (28.99%) Full Stack Developer
3 15 (21.74%) Azure Developer
4 11 (15.94%) Network Engineer
4 11 (15.94%) Python Developer
4 11 (15.94%) Test Engineer
5 6 (8.70%) Analyst
5 6 (8.70%) Full Stack Python Developer
6 4 (5.80%) Applications Developer
6 4 (5.80%) Data Engineer
6 4 (5.80%) GIS Developer
6 4 (5.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (5.80%) Power Apps Developer
6 4 (5.80%) Senior
6 4 (5.80%) Solutions Analyst
7 3 (4.35%) Automation Developer
7 3 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (2.90%) Data Analyst
8 2 (2.90%) Platform Engineer
8 2 (2.90%) Senior Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (27.54%) React
2 12 (17.39%) REST
3 11 (15.94%) NETCONF
3 11 (15.94%) RESTCONF
3 11 (15.94%) SOAP
3 11 (15.94%) YANG
4 5 (7.25%) Django
4 5 (7.25%) OpenLayers
5 4 (5.80%) Celery
5 4 (5.80%) GeoPandas
5 4 (5.80%) PostGIS
6 3 (4.35%) CSS
6 3 (4.35%) HTML
6 3 (4.35%) Node.js
7 2 (2.90%) AngularJS
7 2 (2.90%) Flask
7 2 (2.90%) PyTorch
7 2 (2.90%) TensorFlow
8 1 (1.45%) Hugging Face
8 1 (1.45%) OpenVINO
Miscellaneous
1 13 (18.84%) Product Ownership
2 7 (10.14%) Client/Server
3 3 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.90%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.90%) NHS
5 1 (1.45%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.45%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.45%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.45%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 12 (17.39%) Linux
2 11 (15.94%) Windows
3 9 (13.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (11.59%) Windows Server
5 3 (4.35%) Unix
6 2 (2.90%) VMS
7 1 (1.45%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (43.48%) Agile
1 30 (43.48%) CI/CD
2 26 (37.68%) DevOps
3 22 (31.88%) Full Stack Development
4 20 (28.99%) Unit Testing
5 18 (26.09%) Microservices
5 18 (26.09%) Test Automation
6 15 (21.74%) Scrum
6 15 (21.74%) SDLC
7 13 (18.84%) Containerisation
7 13 (18.84%) Product Backlog
7 13 (18.84%) Workflow
8 12 (17.39%) Security Testing
9 11 (15.94%) Integration Testing
9 11 (15.94%) Performance Testing
9 11 (15.94%) Regression Testing
10 10 (14.49%) Change Management
11 9 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (11.59%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 7 (10.14%) Application Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 18 (26.09%) SQL
2 11 (15.94%) PowerShell
3 8 (11.59%) Java
4 7 (10.14%) VBScript
5 4 (5.80%) Bash
5 4 (5.80%) JavaScript
5 4 (5.80%) Shell Script
6 2 (2.90%) C
7 1 (1.45%) C++
7 1 (1.45%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (1.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (14.49%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.14%) DV Cleared
3 3 (4.35%) Degree
3 3 (4.35%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.45%) CEH
4 1 (1.45%) CISSP
4 1 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.45%) HP ASE
4 1 (1.45%) JNCIE
4 1 (1.45%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 16 (23.19%) Active Directory
2 13 (18.84%) Docker
3 10 (14.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.90%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.90%) vSphere
5 1 (1.45%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (7.25%) Ansible
1 5 (7.25%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.90%) Packer
2 2 (2.90%) Terraform
2 2 (2.90%) vRealize
3 1 (1.45%) Kibana
3 1 (1.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (14.49%) VMware
2 4 (5.80%) Databricks
3 3 (4.35%) Oracle
4 2 (2.90%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.90%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.45%) Cisco
5 1 (1.45%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.45%) Ericsson
5 1 (1.45%) IBM
5 1 (1.45%) Juniper
5 1 (1.45%) Mapinfo
5 1 (1.45%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.45%) Nokia
5 1 (1.45%) Splunk
5 1 (1.45%) TIBCO