Python Contracts in the South West

Python
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 23 16
Rank change year-on-year +7 -7 +8
Contract jobs citing Python 160 216 301
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 9.03% 6.59% 8.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.10% 30.00% 32.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 133 189
10th Percentile £311 £393 £388
25th Percentile £444 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £688 £675
90th Percentile £675 £700 £738
England median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 37 53
10th Percentile £79.55 £68.50 £49.74
25th Percentile £80.83 - £60.70
Median hourly rate £82.96 £70.00 £65.61
Median % change year-on-year +18.51% +6.70% +0.93%
75th Percentile £88.98 £74.44 £75.50
90th Percentile £92.59 £85.00 £78.00
England median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £65.25
% change year-on-year -23.08% -0.38% +18.64%

All Programming Languages
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 420 720 924
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 23.72% 21.95% 26.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 456 633
10th Percentile £345 £338 £363
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £603 £613 £625
90th Percentile £652 £700 £713
England median daily rate £520 £543 £555
% change year-on-year -4.15% -2.25% +0.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 119 89
10th Percentile £61.70 £52.00 £49.94
25th Percentile £65.00 £64.38 £59.80
Median hourly rate £68.00 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 - £70.30
90th Percentile £76.00 £75.50 £78.00
England median hourly rate £56.75 £64.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -12.02% +3.20% +19.05%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Python in the South West

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Python in the South West

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in the South West over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python in the South West

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Python in the South West

Python
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Python in the South West over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Python in the South West

Python
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the South West region over the 6 months to 1 July 2025. 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
Bristol -1 48 £447 -14.86% 362
Wiltshire +38 40 £593 -15.36% 102
Gloucestershire -1 25 £615 +2.50% 387
Somerset +13 16 £463 -2.63% 173
Dorset +2 14 £550 +22.22% 125
Devon +9 10 £405 -32.50% 182
Python
England

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 17 (10.63%) Confluence
2 3 (1.88%) Apache
3 2 (1.25%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.25%) Oracle Application Server
3 2 (1.25%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.63%) nginx
4 1 (0.63%) Tomcat
Applications
1 14 (8.75%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (4.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.25%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 64 (40.00%) AWS
2 41 (25.63%) Azure
3 13 (8.13%) Serverless
4 11 (6.88%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (6.25%) GCP
5 10 (6.25%) OpenShift
6 8 (5.00%) GitHub
6 8 (5.00%) Power Platform
7 7 (4.38%) Amazon S3
8 5 (3.13%) Snowflake
9 3 (1.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (1.88%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.88%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.88%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.88%) Matillion
9 3 (1.88%) SaaS
10 2 (1.25%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (1.25%) Amazon EventBridge
10 2 (1.25%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (1.25%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 23 (14.38%) DNS
2 10 (6.25%) TCP/IP
3 9 (5.63%) DHCP
3 9 (5.63%) HTTP
3 9 (5.63%) VPN
4 7 (4.38%) BGP
4 7 (4.38%) IPsec
4 7 (4.38%) MPLS
4 7 (4.38%) Unified Communications
5 5 (3.13%) Firewall
6 3 (1.88%) Cisco ISE
6 3 (1.88%) Network Security
7 1 (0.63%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.63%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.63%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (5.00%) Power BI
3 7 (4.38%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (3.75%) MySQL
5 5 (3.13%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (3.13%) Geospatial Data
6 4 (2.50%) Big Data
6 4 (2.50%) GIS
6 4 (2.50%) Hadoop
6 4 (2.50%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.50%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.50%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.88%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.88%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.88%) Tableau
8 2 (1.25%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (1.25%) CockroachDB
8 2 (1.25%) Oracle ODI
8 2 (1.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 33 (20.63%) Git
2 21 (13.13%) Jenkins
3 19 (11.88%) JIRA
4 18 (11.25%) Bitbucket
5 15 (9.38%) GitLab
6 2 (1.25%) DBeaver
6 2 (1.25%) Selenium
6 2 (1.25%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.25%) Subversion
7 1 (0.63%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.63%) Code Climate
7 1 (0.63%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.63%) Gatling
7 1 (0.63%) JMeter
7 1 (0.63%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.63%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.63%) Snyk
7 1 (0.63%) Visual Studio
General
1 37 (23.13%) Social Skills
2 25 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 7 (4.38%) Legal
5 5 (3.13%) Local Government
6 4 (2.50%) Finance
6 4 (2.50%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.88%) Aerospace
7 3 (1.88%) Marketing
8 2 (1.25%) Military
8 2 (1.25%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.63%) Aviation
9 1 (0.63%) Banking
9 1 (0.63%) Electronics
9 1 (0.63%) Games
9 1 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.63%) Retail
9 1 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (19.38%) Developer
2 15 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 12 (7.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (7.50%) Senior
4 11 (6.88%) Lead
5 10 (6.25%) Analyst
5 10 (6.25%) Data Engineer
6 9 (5.63%) Automation Engineer
7 8 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
7 8 (5.00%) Python Developer
7 8 (5.00%) Software Engineer
8 7 (4.38%) Network Engineer
9 6 (3.75%) Data Analyst
9 6 (3.75%) Data Scientist
9 6 (3.75%) Linux Engineer
9 6 (3.75%) Python Engineer
9 6 (3.75%) Software Developer
10 5 (3.13%) Backend Developer
11 4 (2.50%) Data Migration Lead
11 4 (2.50%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (9.38%) REST
2 13 (8.13%) Node.js
3 11 (6.88%) SOAP
4 9 (5.63%) CSS
5 8 (5.00%) HTML
6 7 (4.38%) Elastic Stack
6 7 (4.38%) FastAPI
6 7 (4.38%) NETCONF
6 7 (4.38%) OpenID
6 7 (4.38%) RESTCONF
7 6 (3.75%) React
8 5 (3.13%) Django
9 4 (2.50%) Hugging Face
9 4 (2.50%) PyTorch
10 3 (1.88%) .NET
10 3 (1.88%) AngularJS
10 3 (1.88%) Apache NiFi
10 3 (1.88%) NumPy
10 3 (1.88%) PostGIS
10 3 (1.88%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.38%) Algorithms
1 7 (4.38%) Onboarding
1 7 (4.38%) PKI
2 6 (3.75%) Product Ownership
3 3 (1.88%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (1.88%) Data Centre
3 3 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (1.88%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (1.88%) Replication
3 3 (1.88%) Robotics
3 3 (1.88%) Security Posture
4 2 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.25%) Data Fabric
4 2 (1.25%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.25%) FPGA
4 2 (1.25%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.25%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (1.25%) VHDL
5 1 (0.63%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.63%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 48 (30.00%) Linux
2 38 (23.75%) Windows
3 19 (11.88%) Windows Server
4 10 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.25%) Unix
6 1 (0.63%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (23.75%) Agile
1 38 (23.75%) Problem-Solving
2 37 (23.13%) CI/CD
3 36 (22.50%) Containerisation
4 35 (21.88%) DevOps
5 26 (16.25%) Service Management
5 26 (16.25%) Software Engineering
6 25 (15.63%) Configuration Management
6 25 (15.63%) NsoIT
7 20 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
7 20 (12.50%) Validation
8 19 (11.88%) Artificial Intelligence
8 19 (11.88%) ETL
9 18 (11.25%) Machine Learning
10 17 (10.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 17 (10.63%) System Testing
11 15 (9.38%) Analytics
12 13 (8.13%) Deployment Automation
13 12 (7.50%) Data Science
13 12 (7.50%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 43 (26.88%) Bash
2 40 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 38 (23.75%) SQL
4 22 (13.75%) Java
5 12 (7.50%) C#
6 8 (5.00%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.75%) Perl
7 6 (3.75%) VBA
8 5 (3.13%) C++
8 5 (3.13%) R
9 4 (2.50%) Go
9 4 (2.50%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.88%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (1.88%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.25%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.25%) Tcl
12 1 (0.63%) C
12 1 (0.63%) Groovy
12 1 (0.63%) VB
12 1 (0.63%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 90 (56.25%) Security Cleared
2 67 (41.88%) SC Cleared
3 28 (17.50%) DV Cleared
4 18 (11.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 17 (10.63%) CCNP
5 17 (10.63%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (8.75%) Degree
7 11 (6.88%) OCA
7 11 (6.88%) Oracle Certification
7 11 (6.88%) RHCE
8 10 (6.25%) RHCA
9 5 (3.13%) DBS Check
10 4 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.88%) CISSP
11 3 (1.88%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (1.25%) AWS Certification
12 2 (1.25%) CEH
13 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.63%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.38%) QA
3 3 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.88%) NIST
4 2 (1.25%) GDPR
5 1 (0.63%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 41 (25.63%) Docker
2 30 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (5.63%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (5.00%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.88%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.63%) NFS
6 1 (0.63%) Samba
6 1 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 57 (35.63%) Ansible
2 41 (25.63%) Terraform
3 36 (22.50%) Kubernetes
4 29 (18.13%) Puppet
5 11 (6.88%) Progress Chef
5 11 (6.88%) vCenter Server
6 10 (6.25%) Grafana
7 7 (4.38%) MIIS
7 7 (4.38%) Prometheus
8 3 (1.88%) Automic
9 1 (0.63%) Kibana
9 1 (0.63%) logstash
9 1 (0.63%) Nagios
9 1 (0.63%) Podman
9 1 (0.63%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.63%) SELinux
9 1 (0.63%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 42 (26.25%) VMware
2 24 (15.00%) Oracle
3 20 (12.50%) Cisco
4 16 (10.00%) Atlassian
5 14 (8.75%) Red Hat
6 13 (8.13%) Microsoft
7 5 (3.13%) Apple
8 4 (2.50%) Splunk
9 3 (1.88%) ESRI
9 3 (1.88%) F5
9 3 (1.88%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.25%) NetApp
10 2 (1.25%) NVIDIA
10 2 (1.25%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.25%) Talend
11 1 (0.63%) Citrix
11 1 (0.63%) Dell
11 1 (0.63%) Genesys
11 1 (0.63%) IBM
11 1 (0.63%) SAP