Python Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Python
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Python skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 17 29
Rank change year-on-year -5 +12 -7
Contract jobs citing Python 255 160 134
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 7.87% 9.60% 5.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.80% 35.63% 26.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 96 101
10th Percentile £349 £350 £363
25th Percentile £402 £431 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £501
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -0.20% -8.91%
75th Percentile £603 £575 £623
90th Percentile £675 £600 £650
South East median daily rate £537 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +7.40% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 0 6
10th Percentile £42.22 - £55.63
25th Percentile £43.81 - -
Median hourly rate £53.75 - £65.00
75th Percentile £80.90 - -
90th Percentile £83.88 - £71.25
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £56.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year -2.22% -13.46% +80.66%

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 610 449 510
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 18.83% 26.95% 19.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 414 274 354
10th Percentile £311 £350 £363
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £608
90th Percentile £650 £675 £650
South East median daily rate £513 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +2.50% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 3 22
10th Percentile £27.45 £22.73 £46.25
25th Percentile £43.81 £25.55 £48.75
Median hourly rate £52.50 £31.50 £60.05
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -47.54% +26.41%
75th Percentile £82.25 £43.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.75 £49.55 £76.72
South East median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +23.81% -19.23% +18.18%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Python job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Python
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Python.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Python

Python
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Python in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 17 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Python in the Thames Valley

Python
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Python.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Python

Python
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Python in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 17 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 17 July 2026. 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 -8 164 £500 - 27
Oxfordshire +10 49 £592 +39.29% 36
Buckinghamshire -17 42 £525 +23.53% 14
Python
South East

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 15 (5.88%) OpenStack
2 4 (1.57%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.57%) WebSphere
2 4 (1.57%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (0.78%) ArcGIS
3 2 (0.78%) IBM HTTP Server
3 2 (0.78%) JBoss
3 2 (0.78%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 2 (0.78%) WebSphere Portal
4 1 (0.39%) Apache
4 1 (0.39%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (3.53%) CPLEX
2 5 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.57%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 120 (47.06%) Azure
2 89 (34.90%) AWS
3 46 (18.04%) GCP
4 27 (10.59%) Entra ID
5 18 (7.06%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (5.49%) OpenShift
7 12 (4.71%) GitHub
8 10 (3.92%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (3.53%) Azure Monitor
9 9 (3.53%) Power Platform
10 8 (3.14%) SaaS
11 7 (2.75%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (2.35%) Azure Key Vault
12 6 (2.35%) Azure Machine Learning
12 6 (2.35%) Route 53
12 6 (2.35%) Serverless
13 5 (1.96%) Amazon S3
14 4 (1.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 4 (1.57%) Azure Data Factory
14 4 (1.57%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.06%) BGP
2 15 (5.88%) Firewall
2 15 (5.88%) MPLS
2 15 (5.88%) TCP/IP
2 15 (5.88%) WAN
3 13 (5.10%) DNS
4 12 (4.71%) LAN
5 8 (3.14%) Network Security
6 7 (2.75%) Wireshark
7 6 (2.35%) 5G
7 6 (2.35%) Diameter Protocol
7 6 (2.35%) DNSSEC
7 6 (2.35%) LTE
7 6 (2.35%) Radio Access Network
7 6 (2.35%) SNMP
7 6 (2.35%) SSH
7 6 (2.35%) VoLTE
7 6 (2.35%) VoWiFi
8 5 (1.96%) DHCP
8 5 (1.96%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (11.76%) SQL Server
2 21 (8.24%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (6.67%) NoSQL
4 10 (3.92%) MongoDB
4 10 (3.92%) Relational Database
5 9 (3.53%) Power BI
6 8 (3.14%) MySQL
7 7 (2.75%) Big Data
7 7 (2.75%) Tableau
8 6 (2.35%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.57%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.18%) Parquet
12 2 (0.78%) Amazon Athena
12 2 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.78%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.78%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.78%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.78%) Redis
Development Applications
1 29 (11.37%) Git
2 13 (5.10%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.75%) GitLab
4 6 (2.35%) JIRA
5 4 (1.57%) Jaeger
6 3 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.78%) Introscope
7 2 (0.78%) MLflow
8 1 (0.39%) JMeter
8 1 (0.39%) JUnit
8 1 (0.39%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.39%) NeoLoad
8 1 (0.39%) Oracle Developer 2000
8 1 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.39%) Storybook
General
1 76 (29.80%) Social Skills
2 45 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
2 45 (17.65%) Public Sector
3 40 (15.69%) Documentation Skills
4 12 (4.71%) Telecoms
5 9 (3.53%) Aerospace
6 5 (1.96%) Military
7 3 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (0.78%) Advertising
8 2 (0.78%) Finance
8 2 (0.78%) Marketing
8 2 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.39%) Banking
Job Titles
1 42 (16.47%) Senior
2 40 (15.69%) Developer
3 31 (12.16%) Python Developer
4 22 (8.63%) Architect
5 21 (8.24%) Data Engineer
6 13 (5.10%) SIEM Engineer
7 12 (4.71%) IAM Specialist
8 11 (4.31%) Network Architect
9 10 (3.92%) Platform Engineer
10 9 (3.53%) Analyst
10 9 (3.53%) Data Scientist
10 9 (3.53%) Senior Data Engineer
10 9 (3.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 8 (3.14%) Senior Developer
11 8 (3.14%) Site Engineer
12 7 (2.75%) DBA
13 6 (2.35%) Cloud Engineer
13 6 (2.35%) Consultant
13 6 (2.35%) IP Architect
14 5 (1.96%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (9.02%) RESTful
2 22 (8.63%) LDAP
3 19 (7.45%) .NET
4 16 (6.27%) OAuth
5 15 (5.88%) FastAPI
5 15 (5.88%) REST
6 14 (5.49%) OAuth2
6 14 (5.49%) SailPoint
7 13 (5.10%) Kafka
7 13 (5.10%) OpenID
7 13 (5.10%) SAML
7 13 (5.10%) Web Services
8 11 (4.31%) Flask
8 11 (4.31%) NETCONF
8 11 (4.31%) YANG
9 10 (3.92%) OpenAPI
9 10 (3.92%) Pandas
9 10 (3.92%) RabbitMQ
9 10 (3.92%) Swagger
10 9 (3.53%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 39 (15.29%) Onboarding
2 28 (10.98%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (9.41%) Cloud Native
3 24 (9.41%) Hybrid Cloud
4 19 (7.45%) Algorithms
5 13 (5.10%) Management Information System
6 9 (3.53%) Data Structures
7 7 (2.75%) Data Centre
7 7 (2.75%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 6 (2.35%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.96%) Clustering
9 5 (1.96%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.96%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.57%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.57%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.18%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 61 (23.92%) Linux
2 43 (16.86%) Windows
3 34 (13.33%) Unix
4 13 (5.10%) Windows Server
5 10 (3.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.78%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (0.78%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.39%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.39%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (28.24%) DevOps
2 69 (27.06%) CI/CD
3 66 (25.88%) Problem-Solving
4 56 (21.96%) Analytics
5 52 (20.39%) SIEM
6 47 (18.43%) Runbook
7 39 (15.29%) Agile
8 36 (14.12%) Computer Science
9 35 (13.73%) ITSM
10 33 (12.94%) Change Control
11 32 (12.55%) Cybersecurity
12 29 (11.37%) Infrastructure as Code
12 29 (11.37%) Machine Learning
13 28 (10.98%) Data Science
14 27 (10.59%) High Availability
15 26 (10.20%) AI
16 25 (9.80%) Data Pipeline
17 24 (9.41%) Information Security
18 23 (9.02%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 22 (8.63%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 105 (41.18%) PowerShell
2 47 (18.43%) SQL
3 43 (16.86%) Bash
4 27 (10.59%) Go
5 16 (6.27%) Java
6 14 (5.49%) C#
7 12 (4.71%) Kusto Query Language
8 10 (3.92%) JavaScript
9 6 (2.35%) Perl
10 5 (1.96%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.96%) T-SQL
10 5 (1.96%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.18%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.18%) R
12 2 (0.78%) Bicep
12 2 (0.78%) Jython
12 2 (0.78%) Scala
13 1 (0.39%) Groovy
13 1 (0.39%) PHP
Qualifications
1 127 (49.80%) Security Cleared
2 107 (41.96%) SC Cleared
3 40 (15.69%) Degree
4 18 (7.06%) Cisco Certification
4 18 (7.06%) CISSP
5 14 (5.49%) CCIE
5 14 (5.49%) DV Cleared
6 12 (4.71%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (4.31%) Azure Certification
7 11 (4.31%) JNCIE
8 10 (3.92%) AWS Certification
8 10 (3.92%) CISM
9 9 (3.53%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (2.75%) RHCE
11 4 (1.57%) CCNP
11 4 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.18%) CCNA
12 3 (1.18%) CEH
12 3 (1.18%) GIAC
12 3 (1.18%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (18.82%) NIST
2 47 (18.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (7.06%) Data Quality
4 15 (5.88%) GDPR
5 7 (2.75%) QA
6 6 (2.35%) SLA
7 5 (1.96%) PCI DSS
8 4 (1.57%) GRC
9 3 (1.18%) NCSC
10 1 (0.39%) JTAG
System Software
1 51 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 21 (8.24%) Docker
3 2 (0.78%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 2 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.78%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.39%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 47 (18.43%) Kubernetes
2 33 (12.94%) Terraform
3 30 (11.76%) Ansible
4 10 (3.92%) Grafana
4 10 (3.92%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.35%) Rancher
6 5 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.57%) Argo
7 4 (1.57%) Istio
7 4 (1.57%) Progress Chef
7 4 (1.57%) Puppet
8 3 (1.18%) CASB
8 3 (1.18%) Kibana
8 3 (1.18%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.78%) CA Wily
9 2 (0.78%) Nessus
9 2 (0.78%) OpenVAS
9 2 (0.78%) Tivoli
10 1 (0.39%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.39%) SCOM
Vendors
1 51 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 34 (13.33%) CyberArk
3 33 (12.94%) BeyondTrust
4 21 (8.24%) Oracle
5 17 (6.67%) Databricks
6 11 (4.31%) Google
6 11 (4.31%) Red Hat
7 10 (3.92%) Cisco
8 8 (3.14%) Nokia
9 7 (2.75%) F5
10 6 (2.35%) BT
10 6 (2.35%) Ericsson
10 6 (2.35%) Huawei
10 6 (2.35%) Infoblox
10 6 (2.35%) Juniper
10 6 (2.35%) VMware
11 5 (1.96%) Fortinet
11 5 (1.96%) Splunk
11 5 (1.96%) Tanium
12 4 (1.57%) OpenAI