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 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 17 32
Rank change year-on-year -7 +15 -9
Contract jobs citing Python 245 157 133
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 7.47% 9.44% 5.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.50% 36.18% 26.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 94 100
10th Percentile £349 £350 £363
25th Percentile £404 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £518
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.47% -5.82%
75th Percentile £608 £542 £638
90th Percentile £688 £600 £651
South East median daily rate £538 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +7.50% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 0 6
10th Percentile £43.81 - £46.38
25th Percentile £45.67 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £65.00
75th Percentile £79.53 - -
90th Percentile £83.75 - £71.25
South East median hourly rate £58.74 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +2.15% -11.54% +33.33%

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 605 434 494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 18.46% 26.10% 20.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 403 259 339
10th Percentile £319 £335 £363
25th Percentile £400 £409 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £590 £575 £608
90th Percentile £650 £653 £650
South East median daily rate £513 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +2.50% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 3 15
10th Percentile £28.46 £22.73 £43.85
25th Percentile £41.28 £25.55 £58.49
Median hourly rate £53.75 £31.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +70.63% -51.54% +30.71%
75th Percentile £82.25 £43.25 £69.22
90th Percentile £83.68 £49.55 £83.50
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £52.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +14.29% -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 31 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 31 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 31 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 -4 155 £525 +5.00% 61
Oxfordshire +8 49 £592 +39.29% 62
Buckinghamshire -21 41 £525 +23.53% 20
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 13 (5.31%) OpenStack
2 6 (2.45%) Confluence
3 4 (1.63%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.63%) WebSphere
3 4 (1.63%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (0.82%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.82%) IBM HTTP Server
4 2 (0.82%) JBoss
4 2 (0.82%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 2 (0.82%) WebSphere Portal
5 1 (0.41%) Apache
Applications
1 9 (3.67%) CPLEX
2 5 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 118 (48.16%) Azure
2 78 (31.84%) AWS
3 37 (15.10%) GCP
4 34 (13.88%) Entra ID
5 24 (9.80%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (5.71%) Azure Monitor
7 12 (4.90%) GitHub
7 12 (4.90%) OpenShift
8 11 (4.49%) Azure Key Vault
9 10 (4.08%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (3.67%) Azure AKS
10 9 (3.67%) Power Platform
10 9 (3.67%) SaaS
11 8 (3.27%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (3.27%) Azure App Service
12 6 (2.45%) Azure Machine Learning
12 6 (2.45%) PaaS
12 6 (2.45%) Route 53
12 6 (2.45%) Serverless
13 5 (2.04%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.53%) BGP
1 16 (6.53%) Firewall
1 16 (6.53%) TCP/IP
2 14 (5.71%) DNS
3 13 (5.31%) MPLS
3 13 (5.31%) WAN
4 10 (4.08%) LAN
5 7 (2.86%) SSH
5 7 (2.86%) Wireshark
6 6 (2.45%) 5G
6 6 (2.45%) DHCP
6 6 (2.45%) Diameter Protocol
6 6 (2.45%) DNSSEC
6 6 (2.45%) LTE
6 6 (2.45%) Radio Access Network
6 6 (2.45%) SNMP
6 6 (2.45%) VoLTE
6 6 (2.45%) VoWiFi
6 6 (2.45%) VPN
7 5 (2.04%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (12.65%) SQL Server
2 22 (8.98%) NoSQL
3 20 (8.16%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (4.49%) Azure SQL Database
5 10 (4.08%) MongoDB
6 9 (3.67%) Power BI
7 8 (3.27%) Relational Database
8 7 (2.86%) Big Data
8 7 (2.86%) MySQL
8 7 (2.86%) Tableau
9 5 (2.04%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.63%) Hadoop
10 4 (1.63%) Parquet
11 2 (0.82%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.82%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.82%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.82%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.82%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 32 (13.06%) Git
2 13 (5.31%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.27%) GitLab
4 7 (2.86%) JIRA
5 4 (1.63%) Jaeger
6 3 (1.22%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.82%) Introscope
7 2 (0.82%) MLflow
8 1 (0.41%) JMeter
8 1 (0.41%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.41%) NeoLoad
8 1 (0.41%) Oracle Developer 2000
8 1 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
General
1 67 (27.35%) Social Skills
2 44 (17.96%) Analytical Skills
2 44 (17.96%) Public Sector
3 39 (15.92%) Documentation Skills
4 12 (4.90%) Telecoms
5 11 (4.49%) Aerospace
6 9 (3.67%) Military
7 4 (1.63%) Finance
8 3 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.22%) Marketing
8 3 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.41%) Advertising
10 1 (0.41%) Banking
Job Titles
1 44 (17.96%) Developer
2 43 (17.55%) Senior
3 31 (12.65%) Python Developer
4 23 (9.39%) Data Engineer
5 21 (8.57%) Architect
6 13 (5.31%) IAM Specialist
7 10 (4.08%) Analyst
7 10 (4.08%) Data Scientist
7 10 (4.08%) Network Architect
7 10 (4.08%) Platform Engineer
7 10 (4.08%) Senior Data Engineer
8 9 (3.67%) Full-Stack Developer
9 8 (3.27%) Senior Developer
9 8 (3.27%) SIEM Engineer
9 8 (3.27%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 7 (2.86%) DBA
10 7 (2.86%) Site Engineer
11 6 (2.45%) Cloud Engineer
12 5 (2.04%) DevOps Engineer
12 5 (2.04%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (10.61%) RESTful
2 24 (9.80%) .NET
3 22 (8.98%) OAuth
4 20 (8.16%) LDAP
5 19 (7.76%) OpenID
5 19 (7.76%) SAML
6 18 (7.35%) REST
7 15 (6.12%) FastAPI
7 15 (6.12%) OAuth2
7 15 (6.12%) SailPoint
8 14 (5.71%) Web Services
9 13 (5.31%) Kafka
10 11 (4.49%) Flask
10 11 (4.49%) PySpark
11 10 (4.08%) OpenAPI
11 10 (4.08%) Pandas
11 10 (4.08%) RabbitMQ
11 10 (4.08%) Swagger
12 9 (3.67%) NETCONF
12 9 (3.67%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 40 (16.33%) Onboarding
2 23 (9.39%) Cloud Native
2 23 (9.39%) Distributed Systems
2 23 (9.39%) Hybrid Cloud
3 19 (7.76%) Algorithms
4 15 (6.12%) Management Information System
5 9 (3.67%) Data Structures
6 7 (2.86%) Data Centre
6 7 (2.86%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 6 (2.45%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (2.04%) Clustering
8 5 (2.04%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.04%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.63%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.22%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 60 (24.49%) Linux
2 43 (17.55%) Windows
3 34 (13.88%) Unix
4 15 (6.12%) Windows Server
5 10 (4.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.82%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (0.82%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.41%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (29.80%) DevOps
2 68 (27.76%) CI/CD
3 64 (26.12%) Analytics
4 61 (24.90%) Problem-Solving
5 49 (20.00%) Runbook
6 46 (18.78%) SIEM
7 37 (15.10%) Computer Science
7 37 (15.10%) ITSM
8 35 (14.29%) Agile
8 35 (14.29%) Change Control
9 30 (12.24%) Data Science
10 29 (11.84%) Machine Learning
11 28 (11.43%) Infrastructure as Code
12 27 (11.02%) Cybersecurity
13 26 (10.61%) Data Pipeline
13 26 (10.61%) Information Security
14 25 (10.20%) High Availability
15 23 (9.39%) Data Engineering
15 23 (9.39%) Privileged Access Management
15 23 (9.39%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 103 (42.04%) PowerShell
2 54 (22.04%) SQL
3 42 (17.14%) Bash
4 25 (10.20%) Go
5 19 (7.76%) C#
6 12 (4.90%) Java
7 9 (3.67%) Kusto Query Language
8 7 (2.86%) Bicep
9 6 (2.45%) JavaScript
10 5 (2.04%) Perl
10 5 (2.04%) Shell Script
10 5 (2.04%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.22%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.22%) R
12 2 (0.82%) Jython
12 2 (0.82%) Scala
12 2 (0.82%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.41%) Groovy
13 1 (0.41%) PHP
Qualifications
1 120 (48.98%) Security Cleared
2 102 (41.63%) SC Cleared
3 41 (16.73%) Degree
4 17 (6.94%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (6.12%) Azure Certification
6 14 (5.71%) DV Cleared
7 13 (5.31%) CISSP
8 12 (4.90%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (4.90%) CCIE
9 10 (4.08%) AWS Certification
9 10 (4.08%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (3.67%) JNCIE
11 7 (2.86%) CISM
11 7 (2.86%) RHCE
12 4 (1.63%) CCNP
13 3 (1.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (1.22%) CCNA
13 3 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (1.22%) Master's Degree
13 3 (1.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (19.18%) NIST
2 46 (18.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (8.57%) Data Quality
4 12 (4.90%) GDPR
5 7 (2.86%) QA
6 6 (2.45%) SLA
7 5 (2.04%) PCI DSS
8 4 (1.63%) GRC
8 4 (1.63%) NCSC
9 1 (0.41%) JTAG
System Software
1 55 (22.45%) Active Directory
2 20 (8.16%) Docker
3 3 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.82%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.82%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 2 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.82%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 44 (17.96%) Kubernetes
2 38 (15.51%) Terraform
3 30 (12.24%) Ansible
4 7 (2.86%) Grafana
4 7 (2.86%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.45%) Rancher
5 6 (2.45%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (2.04%) Istio
7 4 (1.63%) Progress Chef
7 4 (1.63%) Puppet
8 3 (1.22%) CASB
9 2 (0.82%) CA Wily
9 2 (0.82%) Tivoli
10 1 (0.41%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.41%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.41%) Nessus
10 1 (0.41%) OpenVAS
10 1 (0.41%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.41%) SCOM
Vendors
1 56 (22.86%) Microsoft
2 32 (13.06%) CyberArk
3 31 (12.65%) BeyondTrust
4 21 (8.57%) Oracle
5 20 (8.16%) Databricks
6 12 (4.90%) Google
6 12 (4.90%) Red Hat
7 10 (4.08%) Cisco
8 8 (3.27%) Nokia
9 7 (2.86%) F5
9 7 (2.86%) VMware
10 6 (2.45%) BT
10 6 (2.45%) Ericsson
10 6 (2.45%) Huawei
10 6 (2.45%) Infoblox
10 6 (2.45%) Juniper
11 5 (2.04%) Fortinet
11 5 (2.04%) Splunk
12 4 (1.63%) Arista
12 4 (1.63%) OpenAI