Python Contracts in Slough

Python
Berkshire > Slough

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Slough requiring Python skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Python over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 13 15
Rank change year-on-year -6 +2 +17
Contract jobs citing Python 2 2 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Slough 2.82% 2.63% 6.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.00% 28.57% 30.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 8
10th Percentile £558 - £318
25th Percentile £569 £363 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £375 £413
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £644 £388 £475
90th Percentile £663 - £629
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
Berkshire median hourly rate - £67.50 £41.03
% change year-on-year - +64.53% -

All Programming Languages
Slough

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 Slough.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 25 7 39
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Slough 35.21% 9.21% 19.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 6 32
10th Percentile £188 £453 £351
25th Percentile £284 £544 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £566 £485
Median % change year-on-year -20.53% +16.75% -3.00%
75th Percentile £538 £584 £588
90th Percentile £568 £584 £625
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £63.75 £61.60 £70.00
% change year-on-year +3.48% -12.00% -12.50%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Slough

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

Job vacancy trend for Python in Slough

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Slough

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

Daily rate trend for Python in Slough

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Slough

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

Hourly rate trend for Python in Slough

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Slough 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Power Automate
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) SOC Consultant
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Application Security
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (50.00%) Event Correlation
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) SOAR
2 1 (50.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) GCFA
1 1 (50.00%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk