Python Contract Job Trends in Southampton

Python
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Southampton 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 15 15 20
Rank change year-on-year 0 +5 -4
Contract jobs citing Python 12 6 3
As % of all contract jobs in Southampton 8.70% 4.32% 1.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.33% 30.00% 11.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 3
10th Percentile - £493 £565
25th Percentile £400 £500 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +20.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £705 - £645
Hampshire median daily rate £575 £550 £463
% change year-on-year +4.55% +18.92% -12.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £37.24 - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £37.24 £57.50 £29.00
% change year-on-year -35.23% +98.28% -57.04%

All Programming Languages
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 36 20 26
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 26.09% 14.39% 16.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 16 18
10th Percentile £380 £246 £350
25th Percentile £400 £463 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £410
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +21.95% -25.45%
75th Percentile £688 £541 £616
90th Percentile £706 £600 £660
Hampshire median daily rate £554 £525 £533
% change year-on-year +5.52% -1.41% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile £21.25 - -
25th Percentile £29.25 £56.75 -
Median hourly rate £37.24 £58.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -36.34% - -
75th Percentile £49.87 £60.25 -
90th Percentile £63.90 - -
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 Southampton

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

Python job vacancy trend in Southampton

Python
Daily Rate Trend in Southampton

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Python

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in Southampton

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

Daily rate histogram for Python in Southampton

Python
Hourly Rate Trend in Southampton

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Python

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton 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 3 (25.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (16.67%) Apache
3 1 (8.33%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 9 (75.00%) Azure
2 6 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (50.00%) Entra ID
3 5 (41.67%) Azure Batch
4 4 (33.33%) Azure Databricks
5 3 (25.00%) AWS
5 3 (25.00%) GCP
6 2 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (8.33%) Azure AKS
7 1 (8.33%) Cloudflare
7 1 (8.33%) GitHub
7 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (8.33%) Serverless
7 1 (8.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) MQTT
1 1 (8.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Big Data
1 1 (8.33%) BigQuery
1 1 (8.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (8.33%) Geospatial Data
1 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
1 1 (8.33%) Spark SQL
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (8.33%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) GitLab
2 1 (8.33%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Military
2 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Marketing
3 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Databricks Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Data Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Data Scientist
4 1 (8.33%) Digital Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Security Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) PySpark
1 2 (16.67%) Terraform
2 1 (8.33%) AngularJS
2 1 (8.33%) gRPC
2 1 (8.33%) Kafka
2 1 (8.33%) Keycloak
2 1 (8.33%) Protocol Buffers
2 1 (8.33%) React
2 1 (8.33%) REST
2 1 (8.33%) RESTful
2 1 (8.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Algorithms
1 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
1 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Agile
1 7 (58.33%) Data Pipeline
1 7 (58.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (50.00%) DevOps
2 6 (50.00%) DevSecOps
3 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (25.00%) Data Engineering
3 3 (25.00%) Data Science
3 3 (25.00%) Security Management
3 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (16.67%) Analytics
4 2 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
4 2 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
5 1 (8.33%) A/B Testing
5 1 (8.33%) Exploratory Analysis
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 6 (50.00%) Bicep
3 5 (41.67%) Scala
4 2 (16.67%) SQL
5 1 (8.33%) Bash
5 1 (8.33%) C#
5 1 (8.33%) Groovy
5 1 (8.33%) Java
5 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
5 1 (8.33%) R
5 1 (8.33%) Rust
5 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) Degree
3 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (8.33%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (16.67%) Ansible
2 2 (16.67%) Grafana
2 2 (16.67%) Prometheus
3 1 (8.33%) Podman
3 1 (8.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) Databricks
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) NVIDIA
2 1 (8.33%) Qualys
2 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (8.33%) Tenable