Python Contracts in the Thames Valley

Python
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 30 20
Rank change year-on-year +10 -10 +16
Contract jobs citing Python 150 144 231
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.35% 5.40% 7.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.32% 27.48% 34.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 107 166
10th Percentile £350 £348 £338
25th Percentile £414 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.15% -7.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £558 £611 £638
90th Percentile £600 £650 £750
South East median daily rate £500 £511 £550
% change year-on-year -2.15% -7.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 3
10th Percentile - £55.63 £14.73
25th Percentile - - £17.33
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £23.30
Median % change year-on-year - +178.97% -
75th Percentile - - £42.79
90th Percentile - £71.25 £53.49
South East median hourly rate £56.25 £65.00 £24.46
% change year-on-year -13.46% +165.74% +28.74%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 437 524 676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 27.24% 19.66% 22.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 264 362 499
10th Percentile £341 £363 £325
25th Percentile £413 £425 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £601
90th Percentile £684 £650 £700
South East median daily rate £501 £506 £525
% change year-on-year -1.09% -3.62% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 27 16
10th Percentile £23.67 £41.98 £23.87
25th Percentile £27.90 £46.25 £32.30
Median hourly rate £42.00 £58.49 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year -28.19% +8.82% -18.78%
75th Percentile £59.61 £65.00 £72.30
90th Percentile £70.16 £72.81 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £54.88 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -12.20% +13.64% +15.79%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Python in the Thames Valley

Python
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Python in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Python in the Thames Valley

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Python in the Thames Valley

Python
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Python in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Python in the Thames Valley

Python
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 5 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
Berkshire +20 122 £500 - 384
Buckinghamshire +1 23 £425 -21.66% 131
Oxfordshire -10 7 £419 -16.25% 166
Python
South East

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 9 (6.00%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.33%) OpenStack
3 4 (2.67%) Apache
4 3 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.33%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (1.33%) Confluence
6 1 (0.67%) CMS
6 1 (0.67%) IBM Domino
6 1 (0.67%) nginx
6 1 (0.67%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.67%) Smallworld
Applications
1 3 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.33%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.67%) CATIA
3 1 (0.67%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Oracle BPM
1 1 (0.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (0.67%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 66 (44.00%) Azure
2 54 (36.00%) AWS
3 28 (18.67%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (16.00%) GCP
5 19 (12.67%) GitHub
6 12 (8.00%) Serverless
7 11 (7.33%) Power Platform
8 10 (6.67%) Azure AKS
9 9 (6.00%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (5.33%) Amazon S3
11 6 (4.00%) AWS Step Functions
11 6 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (4.00%) Snowflake
12 5 (3.33%) Amazon Bedrock
12 5 (3.33%) Amazon SageMaker
12 5 (3.33%) ChatGPT
12 5 (3.33%) IaaS
12 5 (3.33%) PaaS
13 4 (2.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.33%) Firewall
1 11 (7.33%) TCP/IP
2 8 (5.33%) BGP
2 8 (5.33%) Network Security
3 7 (4.67%) OSPF
3 7 (4.67%) VPN
4 6 (4.00%) VLAN
5 5 (3.33%) SAN
6 2 (1.33%) Ethernet VPN
6 2 (1.33%) HTTP
7 1 (0.67%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.67%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (0.67%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.67%) EIGRP
7 1 (0.67%) GPON
7 1 (0.67%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.67%) Junos
7 1 (0.67%) RIP
7 1 (0.67%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.67%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.00%) Big Data
2 13 (8.67%) MongoDB
2 13 (8.67%) Relational Database
3 12 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (7.33%) Power BI
5 10 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (6.00%) NoSQL
7 8 (5.33%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (5.33%) Data Lake
7 8 (5.33%) Tableau
8 7 (4.67%) MySQL
9 5 (3.33%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (3.33%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 4 (2.67%) Hadoop
10 4 (2.67%) Spark SQL
11 3 (2.00%) SQL Server
12 2 (1.33%) Apache Hive
12 2 (1.33%) GIS
12 2 (1.33%) Metadata
12 2 (1.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 25 (16.67%) Git
2 13 (8.67%) Selenium
3 12 (8.00%) JIRA
4 8 (5.33%) Jenkins
5 7 (4.67%) GitLab
6 2 (1.33%) JMeter
6 2 (1.33%) JUnit
6 2 (1.33%) Mockito
7 1 (0.67%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.67%) CMake
7 1 (0.67%) Metasploit
7 1 (0.67%) MLflow
7 1 (0.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 39 (26.00%) Social Skills
2 29 (19.33%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (16.67%) Telecoms
4 16 (10.67%) Public Sector
5 15 (10.00%) Finance
6 5 (3.33%) Electronics
6 5 (3.33%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.33%) Marketing
7 3 (2.00%) Legal
8 2 (1.33%) Retail
8 2 (1.33%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.67%) Automotive
9 1 (0.67%) Games
9 1 (0.67%) Local Government
9 1 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 32 (21.33%) Developer
2 18 (12.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 18 (12.00%) Python Developer
3 15 (10.00%) Senior
4 13 (8.67%) Azure Engineer
4 13 (8.67%) Data Engineer
5 11 (7.33%) Analyst
5 11 (7.33%) Architect
5 11 (7.33%) Senior Developer
6 10 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
6 10 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
7 9 (6.00%) Data Scientist
8 7 (4.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 7 (4.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 7 (4.67%) Security Architect
9 6 (4.00%) Consultant
9 6 (4.00%) Data Analyst
9 6 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (4.00%) Python Engineer
9 6 (4.00%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.00%) scikit-learn
2 11 (7.33%) FastAPI
2 11 (7.33%) PyTorch
2 11 (7.33%) REST
3 8 (5.33%) JSON
3 8 (5.33%) NumPy
3 8 (5.33%) Pandas
3 8 (5.33%) PySpark
4 7 (4.67%) React
4 7 (4.67%) RESTful
4 7 (4.67%) TensorFlow
5 6 (4.00%) Hugging Face
5 6 (4.00%) OAuth
6 5 (3.33%) Django
6 5 (3.33%) Web Services
7 4 (2.67%) .NET
7 4 (2.67%) ADO
7 4 (2.67%) ARM Templates
7 4 (2.67%) Google JAX
7 4 (2.67%) Prophet
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.00%) Algorithms
2 13 (8.67%) Cloud Native
3 10 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (4.67%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.33%) Security Posture
6 4 (2.67%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (2.00%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.33%) CMDB
8 2 (1.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 2 (1.33%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.33%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.33%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.33%) Replication
8 2 (1.33%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 28 (18.67%) Windows
2 23 (15.33%) Linux
3 14 (9.33%) Windows Server
4 10 (6.67%) Ubuntu
5 7 (4.67%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (3.33%) Debian
7 2 (1.33%) Unix
8 1 (0.67%) Android
8 1 (0.67%) CentOS
8 1 (0.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (37.33%) DevOps
2 51 (34.00%) CI/CD
3 50 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (17.33%) Agile
5 24 (16.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 22 (14.67%) Data Modelling
7 21 (14.00%) Data Engineering
7 21 (14.00%) Machine Learning
8 19 (12.67%) Data Science
9 18 (12.00%) Test Automation
10 17 (11.33%) Business Intelligence
11 16 (10.67%) Configuration Management
11 16 (10.67%) Continuous Integration
11 16 (10.67%) Data Pipeline
11 16 (10.67%) LLM
12 15 (10.00%) High Availability
12 15 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
12 15 (10.00%) Migration
13 14 (9.33%) Incident Response
13 14 (9.33%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 51 (34.00%) SQL
2 35 (23.33%) PowerShell
3 26 (17.33%) Java
4 25 (16.67%) Bash
5 14 (9.33%) JavaScript
6 11 (7.33%) R
7 10 (6.67%) Bicep
8 9 (6.00%) C#
9 7 (4.67%) C++
10 5 (3.33%) TypeScript
11 4 (2.67%) C
11 4 (2.67%) Ruby
12 2 (1.33%) Korn
12 2 (1.33%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.67%) Magik
13 1 (0.67%) Scala
13 1 (0.67%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.67%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 19 (12.67%) Security Cleared
2 12 (8.00%) Degree
2 12 (8.00%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.33%) Master's Degree
4 8 (5.33%) CCNP
4 8 (5.33%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (5.33%) CISSP
5 7 (4.67%) GCIH
6 6 (4.00%) CCSA
6 6 (4.00%) CCSE
6 6 (4.00%) Check Point Certification
6 6 (4.00%) GCFA
7 5 (3.33%) AWS Certification
7 5 (3.33%) GCIA
8 4 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (2.00%) Azure Certification
9 3 (2.00%) CEH
9 3 (2.00%) CFCE
9 3 (2.00%) DV Cleared
9 3 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (14.00%) GDPR
2 16 (10.67%) QA
3 10 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (6.00%) HIPAA
5 8 (5.33%) Data Quality
6 5 (3.33%) NIST
7 4 (2.67%) EU AI Act
8 2 (1.33%) Accessibility
8 2 (1.33%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (1.33%) GRC
8 2 (1.33%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.67%) HL7
9 1 (0.67%) SLA
9 1 (0.67%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 15 (10.00%) Docker
2 6 (4.00%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.33%) vSphere
4 2 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 26 (17.33%) Kubernetes
2 24 (16.00%) Ansible
3 19 (12.67%) Terraform
4 5 (3.33%) Puppet
5 4 (2.67%) Grafana
5 4 (2.67%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.33%) Kibana
6 2 (1.33%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.67%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 1 (0.67%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 29 (19.33%) Microsoft
2 18 (12.00%) Databricks
3 11 (7.33%) Virgin Media
4 10 (6.67%) Cisco
5 9 (6.00%) Splunk
6 7 (4.67%) Google
6 7 (4.67%) SAP
7 6 (4.00%) CheckPoint
7 6 (4.00%) Palo Alto
7 6 (4.00%) VMware
8 5 (3.33%) Red Hat
9 4 (2.67%) Foundry
9 4 (2.67%) Palantir
10 3 (2.00%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (2.00%) Sage
11 2 (1.33%) Ab Initio
11 2 (1.33%) Dynatrace
11 2 (1.33%) IBM
11 2 (1.33%) LogRhythm
11 2 (1.33%) ServiceNow